New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-09-25


omseves with advertising ard elegtphins per north $50
Freight bills, en- the stores Forwarded al low es per
mouth. 20
incidental per 9o
ssary Of Assistant See $50
a-1 Of nine Inspectors % sta Per month 9O
Oce expenses " sshiIEion; clerk hire per schedule
Boa snS travelling expenses Of fourteen Conia,IiOns
monthly SIo
Total ''..',......''''.Sabso
These expenses are likely rather 10 increase than TO
diminish, as the Commission is already finding itself
compelled to furnish quinine and other very expensive
medicines to the surgeons, who canno! wait for the
slow processes Of the routine.
BARRIERS, lamdrefses, aud other aids In relief Of
pressing wants in she hosf ta often put the Commits
sion to considerable expenEe and with abundant funds
which certain 70 be conscentiousy used, an ever
charging Geld Of usefulness opens before it. 1t will
at once appear that monthly income Of 5000 is the
very least the Commission proceed upon with irm-
ness and the best effect. Sixty thousand dollars eI-
pended this year in the Commission will be the most
economical investment tho public beDefeence can ind.
We~have endcavored TO obtain the names Of the
persons in the paid employ of the Commission, and
think the following list il nearly correct:
FsEDsRIcK Law oLSsIsD Chief Secretary.
AITxEp j. BLOOR, Assiasnt Secretary.
Dr. JiSxix. Associate secreisyin CHEF II the Department
Dr. TosEs' Inspector on right bank Of Potomac.
ROgRhr CoLLs EE, Iaspeets! o. le esnk Of Potomac
Dr. DrsS1Ss Inspector Fortress MOnreo and in adjacent
bT DoueI, As,osias Secretary the Middle Department
d.. Wisuow. With Gen. DI's column.
Prof STRIsE With Gen Bsuks column.
d. EEwBrRr Associate Secretary In the Western Depart
p,' BrEt S. LSgis. and West Of the Mississippi
Dr. ARGNEI, Cairo sud tlong Illinois Central
DR.. GRIsvoLD Western Virginia, and Department Of NE
Ills important aud extensive system Of voluntary
operations-which has now The extent and efficiency
Of an independent Bureau Of the Governmeut-isa
remarkable product OF the volunteer system-which,
indeed, would be fsted to rlia without such
iliary body The public will understand the import
snce Of lending the most efficient support Of public
sentiment to body whose very breath 10 the conf
denes and pecuniary bershty Of the thoughtful and
pubhc-spirited and fsroongof the kind women, the
sober Christians the enlightened guides and wealthy
fathers Of the Republic.
The range Of inquiries and the variety Of measures
which have occupied and tasksd the Sanitary Commits
sion are 50 great and important to bear only rapid
enumeration Of the more considerable. The proper anu
humane reception Of troops Washington was one of
the first suggestions It urged on Government, and il
pursued that obset under many dscOuragcmeDs until
il was attained.
Tho allotment system and the issue Of small Treas
ury Notes. to facilitate the Transmission by soldiers of
thoi, wage. to their families at home was early and
earnest suggestion Of theirs now accomplished, al.
though not yet adequately brought into
They earnestly urged the employment OF an enlisted
cook in each regiment aud illustrated s importance by
experiments III several regiments; measure not aban-
doned, but not yet carried
They sought, with effect to secure more vsric-
ty and some increase in tie soldiers rstions
On camp-police increase Of hospital accommodations
Improvement in hospital stores and supplies, comfort
and recreation Of hospital inmates the furnishing Of
letter paper stamps and writing tables for the conva-
Ieseensi additions to surgical appliances for the hosp-
tails. on propbylactic and their urgent Importance
ia the present malsra exposure Of the troops on the
Potonsc-the Commission have exerted systematic
efforts which continue ye, Ia operation. The Commits
sion have devised and set in operation Government
System Of Registration Of deaths Tn interments,"
that the time and place of the death and burial Of every
volunteer dying In the hospital Of the army will be
noted, and easiy brought to tho knowledge Of their
friends.
The Commission have circulated vast body OF
sanitary Documents IN the field both among officers
and soldiers.
They furnished the public an elaborately prepared
list of available graduates from West Point, which
proved widely useful. They have organized q sys-
tenaiic scheme for alizing the spontaneous bensyo-
lence Of the public and brought the scattered and often
wasted energies Of the industry Of The charitable in
behalf Of the soldiers to an efficient point, 50 that
vast Sorehonse Of comforts il accommodating Ia their
hands, ard every hour Of every day drawn on by the
sick or naked desoate and which in the future will
be still more largely employed.
The best Of all their services however IL the con-
slant stimulus they giving TO the sanitary interests
Of the army through their remonsrancss their con-
tinual visitation Of camps and medical men, and their
generous rivalry with the Medical Bureau which feels
that wstchfu though friendly eye upon it, doings
Gossip.
From an occsIienai Correspondent.
WAsHrSGroE, Sept 10, 1861.
"war thoughts have left their places vacant" for
lay or two, and the crowds Of gosspen and ioungen
hat block the passages st Willards are greatly al
GAS for ioDics A rood round boOd-chiilnQ rlmor