The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1862-07-19
CORRESPONDENCE.
SENEcA Falls, tNEw York,
G,sl,, 11ek 1910

.CJuly llth, 1862. 81
DEAR D.-After Eve weeks of journeying
and visiting by the way, have at length
reached the old home. and am now visiting
among the friends with whom We mingled
ID former days. came here just in time
to be present at q Festival got mp for the
benefit of sick and wounded soldiers and
pleasant it was to me, as you can we'll i'm
agine, to see such gathering Of familiar
faces of years ago, in that Same old Con-
cert Hall, whore We were wont to gather on
public occasions during the many years We
sojourned in this beautiful, thriving village.
The Hall was, on this occasion, handsome,
y decorated with festooned Aags, in the
midst Of which were hung portraits Of
Washington and Mcclellan. The tables
were beautifully loaded with the substan-
tialsand the Injuries Of life, and decorated
With magnificent boquets. All looked in.
viting, but nothing so much so as the heap
ing dishes of large and luscious strawber-
ries and cherries-and did so wish that
could express to tho friends at home q bas.
ket Of these delicious fruits. But they
would not bear the transportation, and SO
ysu must wait for them 'till they can be
grown upon our own soil. af a#aa fa3
The festival was great success-the
proceeds amounting to about two hundred
and 6fty dollars. The ladies here are ear.
nest workers in the cause; they organised
. Soldiers Aid Society last fall BY the
election of proper officers, and they have
sipcs then gone steadily forward, doing
what they could in the good work to which
they then set their hands. On the 4th, af.
ter the Grafton, . collection for the benefit
Of the hospitals, was taken in the Church,
which amounted to handsome sum and
Apsel Bsscom, Esq, on the same occasion,
in a brief speech, presented to the Aid So.
ciety, for the benefit of wounded soldiers,
that elegant silver pitcher which was pre-
secuted to him many years ago, BY eighty
gentlemen, a. q token Of their Appreciation
Of his services in the cause Of legal reform.
The cost Of the pitcher was eighty dollars,
In Geneva festival was recently held
three EVENING" 10 suceess,on, for the bened,
q army hospitals, the receipts amounting
70 about, six hundred .dollars. At Xenia.
Ohio, the ladies held afestival for the same
object, the evening previous to my arrival
there, At which over hundred dollars we're
taken in. Aud in many other places all
over the country, 1sieilaf efforts are being
made 10 behalf Of our poor suffering sol
diers. a7a5ss s.a y go .ss..1... -.-
AT Xenia, X Has told that many Of the
most wealthy and Influential ladies Of the
place, visited BY turns, the hospitals at
Camp Dennison, sixty miles below, near
Cincinnati, supplying the sick and wounded
whs are brought there, With things neces-
sarys 70 their comfort, washing them and
combipg their hair, and doing al in their
power to sase their suasrings. Al Clsvs-
land the ladies hsvs Society similar toshs
ous'6t Keokok. Societies all over Nor
thsra Ohio. sontribpts TO The Society ct
QlsvslapS, asA ths laAser sees that the sup.
plies srsa foswsDos1ato the hospitals. !
~ told By Frances D. Gage that the Clsve-
lapd, Society bad chartered steamboat at
Qseianasi, 10 ruuEhsawssa that city ard the
Tssssssis hsspitsis, which they furnished
setifsay With hospinf supplies and nurses.
This Society has ! most. perfect systsn Of
opsratioas.z They have IN sikos, asd CON.
potent Clerks, sna : sscordis kept Of every
article that passes through their hands, and
net : dimes worth Of Al thay have rsesiv-
ed has ever been lost or nisapplied. al
4 6Ssld rotate ~ you many interesting In
ddsStf of ~ Journey, did time and spacs
rarmit-ausns them tie meeting With John
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