Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-07-19

Deferred Matter.
Mrs. WHEELERs LETTERS written to friends
in Austnburg, from Washington, where she
resides, and is engaged as an angel of mercy in
mnistering to the wants Of the sick and wound
el Ohio Soldiers, lying in the hospitals OF the
Capital. are ofabsorbing interest, aud as is nat
ural are producing no little sensation. She has
appealed to her aequaintances here, and the
fleet has been TO tdrn the contributions Of our
ladies iuto a new channel, by sending them d.
recily TO her that the distributions may be made
with her own hands, aud by one whom we know
whose assurances that they have been faithfully
and gratefully disposed of according to the in
tention Of the donors admit of DO question. A
box was to be forwarded on Thursday of this
week by an impromptu movement OF some OF
the ladies' of this place without reference to any
particular organization. We understand that
another is to be forwarded Immediately by one oil
the societies of the village.
Since the above was in tyl e we learn that the
ladies have dispatched three barre's to Mrs w.
filed with all those things which we understand
to be so needrul for our sick and wounded sol
ders. A small amount of money has also been
sent.
We copy tse following from the Sentinel:
WASHINGTON, june 9th, 1862.
shall not leave this city until after The
fearful battle which must soon come off al
Richmond. Gen Burnside, il is rumored,i lis
coming to support Mcclellan; and my own
poor boy may be brought 10 my very
door
Oil l am so glad you have been doing
such glorious good work in A. Your wo
men have never done hetter act or nobler
one, than making up that box for our poor
Ohio boys 1t will be TO them perfect
God sent /; nd l thank you thousand times
for them. | will take the box and distrib-
ute its contents; and can promise you, from
what l have seen here, that when told that
such ard such thing came from good old
a. or the Western Reserve, sent by the
women there, more than one article will be
moistened with tears of gratitude from poor
home.sick ones. OIL / wish | could talk
with you for one no r, instead of trying
teebly to describe with my pen. | wish for
one day you could go with me through the
wounded and aick wards Government
provides shelter; good comfortable buildings
in some instances, and tents in others
They have beds aud bedding-so they say
but in the judiciary Square hospital
have seen patients, patients lying sick with
Typhoid fever and the sheets unchanged
for two weeksl and | have known in two
instances, of poor fellows dying, being re-
moved, and new arrivals, sick with then
diseases, brought in and placed in those
very sheets, unchanged, unwashed! And
yet, you will read long fulsome newspaper
articles telling you chow cleauly and uce
those hospitals are, and how well our sol
diers are cared for" Our wounded boys
have the same "rations" served out 10 them
in the hospital as served them iu camp, and
rarely any exceptions. Bread and meat
once a day, with water it is boiled in for
soup; no vegetables at all not particle Of
butleE L went to the Ohio Association
meeting, aud gave them the experience Of
my eyes a0d ears, and it resulted in a fur
theF Investigation which proves that rebe
prisoners are loaded down with luxuries-
but furnished by outsiders-not 10y govern
nent. Still, insist this does not lesse
tue iOhS 10 q ChiSh
actually has TO fight 10 order to get an.
aelieacies to our men; aud secession womeI
hy scores, are pouring in to visit the rebels
One woman is worth fify men. TO go thro
the hospitals aud spy Out the iuiquity con
htaDtly perpetrated. Shall tell you wha
did with the two dollars you seat in you
last letter? | bought eight quarts of new
milk. eggs, sugar, and nutmeg, and mad
eustaFd to fil Two six quart pals, then go
materials and made a hundred plain cook
ies, and bad them carried TO ClfOurn hos
pltnl; cav the surgeon in charge, and nfte
using all the eloqaence l was mistress oi
finally obtained permission to distribute 4
such as the sisters-nnrses- coulC
take it with inpunity The idea that mel
who could eat g chunk Of grizzly meat once
a day, could be hurt on custardi ] asked
Dr. Billings If any objections would have
been made, had proposed to carrying il
into the rebel wards. II was partaken by
men from Colebrook, Jefferson, Geneva,
Ashtabula aud other parts Of the State.
cannot confne myself. in such matter, to
OhiS boys alone Scattered through The
ward, ihere will b. from Pennsylvania. In
diana and other States, poor wounded OF
SICK. eager looking fellows, following me
with big hollow EYES. aud you must tell the
ladies', although ! invariably hunt up our
Ohio boys, mu give to others who seem
% ueed Il, as We a0ald wish others to care
Cor our poor boy, They have all split The ]
blood alike, anG ,.ould be cared for alike