The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-07-27

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DIsrRsss II Nav YoRk-Ttrri6le Scenes
s~s"s ths Eomiltes Of Volumtsers.-We
copy the suhjoined from the Naw York
Herald, Of the 21st instant. The Her
aid. be 1t remembered, is one of the most
asrse war journals in New York, and
has been one of the chief instruments in pro.
ducinx the state Of things it describes:
A rush Of hungry Office seekers at Wash
inaton, when new President takes up his
abode ~ the White House, can in no manner
bs compared to the scene which was portray
Cd at the distributing office of our Union
Dsfsnss Committee, Nos ii and Is, Fourth
avenue, all day yesterday. As poorly clad and
miserable looking crowd of humapitv gen
orally speaking, could not be found amid the
sen neiss OF London or the lowest por-
witbstandipE that, the main portion of the
crowd possessed ungry aud poor appearance
yet there was that air Of res pects BILE poverty
among them which one will invariably find
In the deserving class of our poverty-stricken
population. For several hours previous TO
the opening OF the doors the immediate sur
roundings to the office were occupied by seve-
raj hundred women, who gessiculated and
wept alternately, relating in pitiful accent IS
to one anothsr the peculiar sufferings of each
and the chances he OF she possessed of again
sehoidisg the dear ones who had gone to
fight the battles Of the Union while his 1.-THE
volun tesrs) only relative was knocking a the
door OF charity in the metropolis of the Uni
ted States fer the means Of subsistence.
As the doors were opened, q brilliant ad-
vance movement was made by the party, and
then there ems usd a scene of struggling, moan.
ing, weeping, &c, of which to give a true
description is utterly impossible. Women
clu tched each other in frantic efforts In order
to be the frst on hand to obtain relief, fearful
lest they might b. neglected if left for the last
Mothers were there with their children,
whose little voices sent up quite a piteous
chorus, swelling the murmurs Of distress
which were uttered from the throats of over
two thousand starving women. One to gaze
upon ths scene, could scarcely credit the
evidence Of his senses that, in q city pos sessed
Of such vast wealth, there. could exist for a
moment such intense bodily suffering on
the part of the relatives of those who
are pouring out their blood-nay, their very
livss-in the defence and security of
common cosntry and a common Government
Each female WAS provided with card of ad-
mission, without which it was impossible to
obtain entrance, Rs Cerberus, dressed in blue
coat and brass buttons, carefully guarded the
door There ara two rooms com posing the
distributing departments, and both of these
were erammed to excess, while an anxious
crowd waited and murmured outside the
building. Several hundred tickets We're re-
jscted on account of having been furnishes by
parties not Au thOrized to do 50 One thou
sand OF those tickets, which, if paid by the
Dafancs Committee, would amount to over
"a 100, were detected by the police as coming
from in posters.
A woman named Alice Doyer, was taken in
charge BY the police yesterday on the ground
that she was seeking TO obtain relief under
false pretenGss 1t appears that she has TWO
illsEitlnate children by volunteer, and now
seeks to obtain an allowance for them as the
sotdier's wife, which latter person was also
the resi- pieut Of aid from the committee. She
was locked up fer exam nation
On Friday nearly eighteen hundred persons
received aid la amounts varying from 81 to
~, and yesterday ever two thousand must
have been to the office