New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-08-22
THURSDAY MORNING. AUGUST 22, 1861.

orifice Of entrance" The mssile had struck OBJ.
Iquely, and, gancing, ran up under the bone IL
it had gone hall an inch further, 1t would nave
come out at the lower angle Of the scapua. In
the same ward, and walking about the room, is a
notwithstanding Yankee with his face bandaged:
il you opened bis mouth you wond detect g. small
oriice communicating with the hollow chaInber,ot OF
the cheek bone. Inside of that chamber bullet
is rolling about; if you try to seize it with the for
ceps, the lead canoes away like a cork When you
try to fish it out Of narrow -neCked bottle with
two sticks After he has enjoyed the luxury of
lord"
Thus, one passes from bed to bed through
the many wards and reads the awful moral Of the
unhnly var in the saddcst illustrations which the
vices and passions Of men can furnish. And yet,
through all this gloom and suffering, geam OF
light shoots like golden thread funeral pail.
nave too you how clean and neat the rooms are,
and how comfortably the patients look. And the
secret OF the pleasant fact lies in that woman Hit
ting across TIE corridor, with her gray serge dress
end tidy hlue apron from chin to toe, and bonnet
t{dtlc, whose wide laps, white a snow drift and
| stiff with starch wave over her shoulders like a
pair OF wings She is one OF that devoted band of
| g0oG women, known all over the Christian world
| Wbcraear there is sorrow to be assuagod, or pain
| relieved, o. comfort administered, whom We name
! I" sisters o. ClaTity,H cut WHO could be called the
Angels OF the Eirth.' Her step is swltt-paced
and noiseless her hand light and soft her and
attention devoted unobtrusve, intelligent, gentle
!
thoughtful surgeons lean, TO support and carry ont
all their directions for the sjci anG these miser-
| able lnen to tighten the burden Of their pain and
| captivity. If biscuit or mattress, cup OF
water. clean pillow OF f.csE LED, or bodr clothes
! a wanted the universal demand which satiaties
every desire ig, '' Call Sitter . Day and night,
| with tiveiess patience kind. coEsideIate and
| oDtging to 81! alike asking rcComFeuse and
accepting no reward, their ekfiitul miA strat!ous
| are bestowed on these wounded enemies, whose
malignant hate and unspeafehle purposes OF
| rapine anG violence to their sex {had victory
! crowned their arms) they ale now repaFinc With
| care and gentleness ' mild as any mother S to q
sick child. With such reality before Us, We
| may well pass by with contempt and scuTn tue
foul charges oi cruelty which the = ortherE. press
has falsely laid upon Us, and retort upon tLelH
| their own inhumanity AID uncllrstian ueElcc; II
neither tending their wounded nor securing decent
burial for their dead.
| The St. Charles Hospital is On Main street Tle
building formerly hotelI Bylt after the LATHE
of Manassas, tie charitable citizens OF tbs cit!
fitted it up for its pleseEt purpose, ano continue tt
bear The entire expense ol the institution. one
! but our OWE men are carried here and Of theSl
almost universally tended in private far,!lic.. Il
this benevolent work the only Struggle here is, wiz
can clair- and will he cl.owed the Privilege.
Cut Of some fOCr hundred patient. who have bee
| treated here, only four have died thus far. 4
present there ae about $50 under the medi. a. car
Of very intelligent and experienced stal1. The
| hygienc arrangements are good, the nursing exec
lent, and the diet thoroEgA'y arrauged. A tev
cases OF typhoid fever present Themselves. but th
| ma i0rty Ct the men are not seriously sick, and
saw very large number Of cOnvalescents eijoyin:
hearty breakfast on my second visit I'r. Jack
son, one Of the physicians, informed me tlat hi
stock Of medicines was almost exhausted: tina
many necessary articles could not be procured
and that he had recently sent to Charleston fcT
supply. sincerely trust that our druggists Will t.
able TO fill his order.