Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-11-21

---~@- nil EEita, again Efter the ar O..
rival of the Clara Bell. Yours, trurv.
Ia. WARRINER.
The same representations ara made in
private letter from DR.. S. A. Arier, FUR
geon in charge Of the Third Division Hos
pital, Fourteenth Army Corps, Chatta-
nooga, November 18TH, from which We are
permitted to make these extracts:
al have written to you before of the la
mentable condition of our sick, we're it not
for the Sanitary Commission, God only
knows what would become Of them. We
ara beginning to get vegetables pretty free
ly nov from that source, and hope from
this lime we shall be furnished by them
with what we need for our sick. But TO
many, very many Of our poor boys, these
vegetables come too late. Since the weather
has become cold many of our cases Of
ehranie disrrhee run down and die. There
is q wonderful amount efseurvey among
the soldiers, showing itself in various
ways. 1t touches and eontaminates with
its poisoned finger every disease that be-
falls the luekless soldier rendering the
cases far more intricate than they would
haYe been under proper hygsnic influences.
Use sll your influence to urge the people
at home to think of these things. Think
while they are indulging inthe use Of all
kinds Of vegetables there are thousands Of
our country's purest and most devoted pa
triots perishing for want Of them. 0h
could you, could the people of the North,
see the many forms in which death ap
prosches the soldier, 6H from the Bant Of
q vegetable diet, your hearts and you
hands would be more vigorously employed
than ever before il behalf of those whose
breasts are made wall to shield you and
liberty from the desperate, fendish as
saulta Of the Southern tyrants. l ana
not ignorant Of the fact that the
women of my own beloved State have
done as much as all the rest of the
Western States, still they can d. more
Our boys can plant small patch of pola.
toes and onions for the soldier and this
one boy may do more than the parent who
gives a son, for the vegetables may save
the lives Of several sons. Though Ohio has
done SO much 1 want to zee greater eff
fort made, and rest assured you will not
lose your reward. How often since the
late battle have heard the God bless the
women of Ohio" from the poor sufferers
who have passed through this hospital.
May they continue TO have reason to bless
you.
In the Sanitary Balletin we find letter
we'll worthy of transfer to our columns;
EXTRACT PROM LETTER FROM DR.. GEO. A.
BLAKE, INSPECTOR ATEEW ORLEANS, La.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct Is, 1868.
The other day supplied defcien-
cies Occasioned by the neglect of seme Of
fcer, that could be supplied from no other
source. The medical department decided
TO try an experimept-s sea-voysge for
convslescents. One hundred and twenty
five soldiers we're selected to make a trip
to New York and return, on the Evening
Star. The officers of these men left them
ct COnvslescsnt Camp, without their de-
scriptive rolls, and that being the basis of
every issue, no Quartermaster would
furnish them even the necessaries of life,
much less its comforts. Colonel Beckwith,
c. S. A., commanding defences Of New
Orleans, asked me to furnish the men with
whatever articles were Indispensable for
their health and comfort. Accordingly,
visited the barracks-the man were par
AIDED, an inspection made, and their sevei-
al wants ascertained. 1 delivered storeI
to the officer In command, which were dis
tributed to themen aboard ship. The mem
generally were in sad plight, without
shirts, cocks, or blankets: and with thor
oughly ventilated pants Had there been
no United States Sanitary Commission to
o;va than thana aIthsFenfiol oor,forfa
wooden shirtg, drawers, socks, quilts,
blankets, pants, &c, I believe the expert
ment of sending feeble, shiveriDg conva-
lescents to northern latitune, at this sea-
son OF the year, would have been less pro-
ductive Of good. -
Two days ago 1 received a telegram
from the Medical Director of the 10Th
Army Corps, at New Iberia, La, to for.