REPORT OF THE PATRIOT DAUGHTERS. To those interested in the operations of this Society, a slight sketch of its efforts, during the four years of its existence, may not be uninteresting. It was organized under the direction of Rev. J. I. Mombert, April 22, 1861, nine days after the fall of Fort Sumpter, and has the honor of having been one of the very first societies organized for the aid of our Union Soldiers. They began with only $100 in their treasury. Their first efforts were directed to the relief of the Ohio volunteers, who were, for a time, quartered near this city. These poor fellows had left home at a moment's warning, and not finding the government prepared to give them clothing, were sadly in need. They were supplied with overcoats and blankets. After they left, their places were filled by the 14th and 15th Pennsylvania volunteers. The Society supplied the hospital connected with that camp, with shirts, bedding, and many luxuries the men could not command. They also gave a dinner to the men, 2,000 in number, which elicited from them their warmest thanks. Havelocks and prayer-books were also distributed, the latter being obtained through the agency of their friend, Mr. Mombert. To the volunteers leaving our own city the Society was not neglectful. They furnished four companies with rations, one entire company with blankets and haversacks and a whole regiment with flannel shirts. During their four years' labor they forwarded to different hospitals 1,061 boxes, barrels, etc. Among these stores were the following items: Hospital shirts, 5,219; flannel shirts, including those given at home, 2,187; drawers, 2,612; slippers, 94 pairs; socks, 5,769 pairs; sheets, 129; comforts, 28; quilts, 30; mittens, 2,600; wrappers, 296; pillows, 1003; pillow cases, 891; half worn shirts, 9,080; towels, 4,256; handkerchiefs, 1,700; blankets, 120; gum blankets, 12; fans, 20 dozen; farina, 972 papers; oranges and lemons, 872 dozen; preserves and pickles, 1,401 cans; apple butter, 1,801 gallons; wines, 43 dozen; apples, 15 barrels; vegetables, 43 barrels; dried fruit, 63 bushels; bread and rusk, 62 boxes; tea, 18 pounds; sugar 245 pounds; beef and hams, 9 barrels; soap, 415 pounds; castile soap, 59 pounds; cheese, 5 boxes; turkies, 89; chickens, 301 pairs; crutches, 158; bandages, 66 pieces of muslin; eggs, 41 barrels; brandy, 6 dozen; Madeira wine, 7 dozen; whisky, 3 barrels; pickled slaw, 5 barrels; cologne, 16 gallons; stationery, $72.00; buckets, 6 dozens; basins, 18; butter, 1,020 pounds; donated to Children's Home, one piece of muslin, one piece of calico, one piece of de Laine, 24 pillows and cases; to West Philadelphia Hospital, 36 rocking chairs; to Fair for Soldiers' Home, $300; groceries for soldiers' families and others in need, $790.92; coal for soldiers' families, $107.80; shoes for soldiers, $67.55; clothing for soldiers and families, $381.4); meat for soldiers' families, $87.61; room rent for one year. $85; sewing and knitting, $105.10; to disabled soldiers' funeral expenses, etc., $363.04; total amount of expenses in making the hospital clothing and other stores, in paying their freight, in buying provisions, and in paying the expenses of nurses, etc., $12,193.88; total amount of receipts of the society, $14,500.60; total amount of expenses, including the above bills, $14,482.30; Balance on hand, $18.30. ROSINA HUBLEY, President. M. M. KENDIG, Treasurer. A. C. SLAYMAKER, Secretary. -From Daily Evening Express, May 5, 1866. DIVISION II. TOPOGRAPHICAL. At the time of its separation from Chester county, the boundaries of Lancaster county comprised "all the province lying to the Northward of Octoraro Creek and Westward of a line of marked trees running from the North branch of the said Octoraro Creek, Northeasterly to the river Schuylkill." Having been gradually reduced to its present limits by the erection into separate counties of York, Cumberland, Berks, Northumberland, Dauphin and Lebanon, it is now bounded North by the counties of Dauphin, Lebanon and Berks, East by Chester county, South by Cecil county in Maryland, and Southwest by the Susquehanna River. Length 33 miles, breadth 28; area 928 miles; central lat. 40 3' N.; long 0 40′ E. from W. C. It is, perhaps, the wealthiest county of the State, in natural advantages, having a fine navigable river, which washes its western shore for more than 40 miles, a great diversity of surface and soil, abundantly watered by mill streams; many and excellent roads, the principal of which are paved with stone; a large city, and many fine towns and villages, and a population alike enterprising, patient and industrious, and consequently all powerful in compelling the earth to yield her most precious fruits. The great geological feature of the county is its division between the secondary and transition formations; a broad vein of secondary limestone, underlying the southern half, whilst a nearly equal belt of transition red sandstone covers the northern. The former affords abundant supplies for building and manure, and superior marble for architectural ornament. This portion of the country also produces large quantities of the oxide of chrome, or chromate of iron, and abundance of magnesite, from which a Baltimore firm have taken several hundred tons per annum, and from which they manufacture 1,500,000 lbs. of sulphate of magnesia (epsom salts) annually, supplying the country with these two articles, at a price far less than they can be imported. Iron ore is also abundant in this region, and is found in the hills on the northern boundary. Good roofing slate is quarried on both sides of the Susquehanna near Peach Bottom ferry. Anthracite coal is said to have been discovered near Reamstown, but neither in quality nor quantity worthy of attention. Three ranges of hills run through the county from S. E. to N. W., the southernmost, chiefly in Martic, Bart and Sadsbury townships, includes Mine Ridge, and is notable for iron and copper ore, and other valuable minerals. The second range, more broken and less continuous, and of small elevation, commences at and about Columbia, and includes the Ephrata ridge; and the third, the highest and most connected, is the Conewago or South mountain. Crossing the county from E. to W., S. of the parallel of Lancaster, we have Octoraro creek, which separates it from Chester, the N. and W. branches of that stream, the Conewingo creek, Fishing creek, Muddy creek, Tucquean creek, the Pequea, which runs S. W. over the county, receiving Beaver creek, and Little Beaver creek, and many smaller streams. The Conestoga creek, which, rising in Berks county, flows by a western course into Warwick township, and thence S. W. by the city of Lancaster to the Susquehanna river, being the recipient of many excellent streams which increase its |