Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-03-06

CONGRESS This body brought lis labors to
a close at noon "Wednesday. No Congress
ever assembled under such peculiar and trying
circumstances as did this, or had more impor-
tant duties to perform. And, 10 their credit
be it said, they proved equal to the emergen-
CT, and discharged their duty to tie country in
"a manner emitting them 10 the hearty thanks
and gratitude Of every loyal citizen. In the
of session, when so mach business is crowd
ed into short space Of time, it is difficult to
say precisely how cel(ain measures we're dis
posed of, though it is stated that but few i'm
portaat bills failed to be finally disposed
of before the hour of adjournment arrived.
On the 4th the President issued his procla-
nation, converting the Senate in special ses-
sion for the transaction of Executive business.
SANITARY SToREs.-C Considerable feeling
was produced some weeks since by the publ
cation in the State Journal of eommunica-
tion over the signature of " Mack written
from Murfreesboro, in which it was sharged
that the hospital supplies contributed for the
benefit OF the sick and wounded soldiers by
the Aid Societies of the loyal States, never
reached the persons for whom they were de-
signed, but were appropriated and consumed
by the surgeons and nurses attached to the
hospitals M T. D. Howard, connected
with the hospitals referred to, in communiea-
tion to the same paper, denied the truth Of
the charges made, bat " Mack" in response TO
his communication reiterated them. To set
the matter straight Mr.. Howard has published
in the Cieueland Leader three solid columns
of Dames of inmates Of the hospitals referred
TO, with the regiment ard company TO which
they belong, which are attached to the follow
ing statement
"We the undersigned, sick and wounded
Federal soldiers in hospitals, hereby testify
that we have individually received from the
United States Sanitary Commission articles
i'Of bedding, clothing, dressings, food, fruits,
deli eacies, &C., and that the same have con-
tributed TO our health and comfort, and that
the statements that the Sanitary stores are all
consumed by officers and hospital officials and
do not reach the soldiers at all are untrue
Mr.. HOWARD, whose respectability and re-
liability are vouched for by the Leader, says
The author of the slanderous communication
Ia discharged soldier had acknowledged TO a
brother soldier, whose name will be given if
necessary, that g he was drunk when he wrote
it and regretted it." Mr.. c. closes his COM
munication accompanying the list of names as
| follows:
The names appended to this paper have
been in every case put there by the voluntary
conseut of the men. the signatures being actu-
ally made by the individuals except when
wounds or sickness made it necessary for an
other TO write at their dictaticu and let me
state that ererH patient to whom this paper
has been presented, has not only signed it,,
but signed it willingly and gladly The list
comprises oil the the patients now in hospitals
| here and on the battle Geld with the exception
/ Of few whom cannot reach without delay
| ing the publication which is demanded nca0.
I hope that every editor in the North, who
has at heart the interest of our brave men,
sick and wounded in the common cause, as
well as the vindication Of truth and justice
will publish this list and thereby sustain and
stimulate the thousands whose phianthropic
efforts are Tagging under the discouraging in
fluence of statements made by irresponsible
and reckless men, who, like Mack" do Eot
hesitate 10 villify holy cause 10 gratify a
Dettv sDite or the drunken hunOr Of diSaD-
pointed selfshness."