The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-25 00:00:00

Month.

Dols.

April 437 26,997 76 124,206 95
May

June

424 26,813 57 233;577 80

July
August 3OB 22,076 69 60,538 86
September 2BO 20;000 44 46,152 66

Totals .

2,265 148,297 10 670,433 18

From a document just issued by the commission we
gather the following report of the Treasurer, which
shows the

RECEIPTS OF THE COMMISSION,

from June 27, 1861, to July 1, 1865, at which time the
active work of the organisation ceased, to be four million
eight hundred and thirteen dollars as follows:

Dols.
Maine
New Hampshire 1,926 84
Vermont

Massachusetts 15,511 35
Massachusetts, through Boston Branch 77,689 51
Rhode Island
Connecticut 8,418 55
New England (States not designated)
New York
Now Jersey 20,241 24
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland 5,910 95

District of Columbia 12,124 53
Virginia
Ohio

Indiana 1,264 15

Illinois
Michigan

4,342 50
691 30

Wisconsin
lowa • • l3 50
Minnesota

Kentucky

California..

6,508 05

1,219,112 51

Louisiana ..,

North Carolina

3,177 25

8 00

Nevada 106,301 96
Oregon 78,482 26

Washington Territory 20,918 02
Idaho

Colorado .

Nebraska
Vancouver's Island

Sandwich Island..

Santiago de Chili ....

1,025 00

10 50
2,195 61

15,878 15

3,688 84

Peru 2,002 00
Buenos Ayres 13,412 85

Cuba

23 00

Costa Rica
Canada 441 48

Newfoundland

150 00

England

11,080 33

Scotland
France 8,550 00
European Branch (Paris) 13,372 72
London Branch 36,690 42

Belgium
Germany
Italy 5O 00

Turkey
China
• •
Japan
U. S. Army 1,738 30
U. S. Navy
Boston and New England Fair 50,000 00
Yonkers Fair, N. Y 12,000 00
Flushing Fair, Long Island, N. Y.
Brooklyn and Long Island Fair, Long Island,
N. Y.
Schuyler County Fair, N. Y.
Albany Fair, N. Y. BO,OOO 00
Metropolitan Fair, Now York city
Warwick, Orange County Fair, N. Y 1,432 73
Poughkeepsie Fair, N. Y 16,192 27

llornellsville Fair, N. Y. BOO 00
South Adams Fair, Mass 3,087 01
Maryland State Fair, Baltimore, Md. 40,234 54
Wheeling Fair, Va. 2,500 00
Great Central Fair, Philadelphia, Pa.
Unknown Sources
Interest on U. S. Certificates 31,892 60
Interest on Deposits in Nassau Bank . 1,923 63
Interest on Deposits in Fourth National
Bank
Receipts from advertisements iu Sanitary
Bulletin
Receipts from subscriptions for Sanitary
Bulletin
Contributions to Medal Fund
Proceeds of sales of furniture, surplus
stores, &c

2,388 5G

191 80
197 00

32,402 95

Total Receipts

Of this enormous sum the

DISBURSEMENTS

of the Commission during the same time amounted to four
millions five hundred and thirty thousand dollars, leaving
a balance in the Treasury of two hundred and eighty-two
thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars and sixty-
nine cents.

The amount of claims collected from March 16, 1863, to
October 31, 1865, was :
For pensions _ _ . $115,925 74

_ .. .
For arrears of pay and bounty 304752 77
For prize money
For miscellaneous

Total 9628,105 23

Estimated value of claims remaining un_

settled .

$1,760,397 17

Iu addition to making direct application for pensions,
arrears of pay, bounty and prize money, general informa-
tion and advice has been given relative to military and
naval matters. No charges have been made for these ser-
vices, thus saving to the widows and representatives of
the soldiers the usual fees of claim agents, amounting to
at least $238,850 24. Probably no more villainous set of
men exist among us than the lower and sharper class of
"claim agents," whose retaining fee is ten per cent., and
whose charges are abominably extortionate. From these
sharpers the commission has already extricated the all of
many a widow and orphan. It will cease to receive
claims on the Ist of January, 1866, and thenceforth devote
itself to the

CLOSING UP

of its great work. One of the principal and obvious duties
with which the commission is charged, is the compilation,
and preparation for future reference, of the vast statistical
and scientific material at its command.

For tho information of the public, Mr. Blatchford has
prepared the following explanatory

CIRCULAR, LETTER :

To the Branches and Aid Socities of the United States

Sanitary Commission :

The Sanitary Commission has in view the preparation
of a complete history of its work. This history is in-
tended to embrace the origin, progress, methods, and re-
sults of the great enterprise in which we have been engaged.
Its object is not merely to do justice to that spirit of
patriotism and self-denying zeal which has characterised
those who have co-operated in the work, but also to pre-
sent a clear account of the methods by which its success
has been achieved, so as to afford aid to future generations
should an emergency ariso similar to that which gave birth
to this commission.

For the accomplishment of this object an historical
bureau has been organised. A competent gentleman has
been appointed to prepare a general history of the opera-
tions of the commission, while others will write full
accounts of special departments. It is proposed to collect
and arrange, in an orderly manner, all the material suitable
for this purpose.
The archives of the central office at Washington have
already been transferred to this bureau, and it is now de-
cided to secure a similar disposition of the documents of
the several branches and aid societies.

While the primary object of this collection is to obtain
authentic material for the preparation of this history,
another and scarcely less important end is the permanent
preservation of these valuable documents themselves.
The cordial co-operation of our branches and aid socie-
ties is essential to the successful accomplishment of the
work of this bureau ; for without the papers which they
can furnish the proposed history will necessarily be incom-
plete.

- This gathering together of all the archives of the com-
mission into one complete collection, in which the contri-
bution of each society will be preserved in its integrity
and be distinctly designated, will constitute the permanent
memorial of the commission and will for ever remain an
object of national interest, while the material of which it
is composed will possess a value and interest far greater
than can possibly belong to it while existing in detached
and isolated parts.

Relying upon your cordial co-operation in furtherance of
the objects thus briefly indicated, and inviting your aid in
the preparation of a national record and memorial, we
hope to receive at the earliest day practical tho archives
of each of our branches and aid societies.
All documents should be carefully encf,sed, each package