The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1864-03-12

pay iot 2 services ana no money except FOR
her expenses and money 10 pay oyera to
other persons appeinted BY the Cover
mo-, and p pay rent. DC. Gas.ssoae
has paid her since Gov. Kirkwood went sss
oas OF Office $l.5s0 for hfteen and one
half months service, sfiich Il ali she has
received for service sinoe the war began.
Her expenses during that time we're
VI. OBJ, SO, and this includes stationery
and postage. And during that time she
has ieen obliged 70 write over. two thou.
sand letters. The whole anosant of her
expenses for seventeen and one-half
months Is 81 150. This, with her salary.
IS ailshe has received from the State for
herself. Other money has passed thro,
her hands to pay other persons appointed
by the Governor, and for other purposes.
Now what has she done. and yhat is
she capable Of doing? Mrs. Wittenmser
was in the service about eighteen months
before she went into the employ Of the
State. For this time she has never r..
ceived any Pay for services. Her first
Trip to the army was at her can expense.
Shehrst wentinto the employ of the State
Aug. 1st, 1869. Previous to that time
her influences and usefulness were 80
great THAT the Secretary of War under
his oVn hand issued an order to permit
her. :" to pass with, such goods as she
may, have in charge to and within. the
tines y Of oil the western armies, and
further ordered ''ouar:ermasters will
furnish trans portatipn for herself and
stores, and commissioners will pnsyide
her with subsistence. 1t is.also specis liy
enjoined upon. all officers to afford her
every facility in carrying out Der charita-
hle purpose" All the telegraph lines in
the country had extended to her = free
Transmission Of her messages on all occa,
Sions. And Messrs. Partridge & Bro. of
St Louis. did all her commission agency
without charge, and the Government had
given her free transportation of all her,
Sanitary Stores. These are privileges
which were extended to no ether person IN
Tie .Stute at that time. And all Of these
With eighteen months experience, and
nm extensive acquaintance she brought
with her to the use of the State.
Mrs. w. has received from Sanitary so
cieties 2723 packages, and. disposed of
them among the soldiers, or turned them
over to other Sanitary missions as ordered.
The Sanitary stores received by her were
valued at Sl0S, ,910, and she received in
cash S3,77692. which she expended for
the benefit of the soldiers. The Govern
mont has also given her over S. 900 worth
of cotton for which she received 50. .00o.18
in cash, and the balance with the cash
WAS applied to the benefit of the soldiers.
She has transacted business to the amount
of Sis, ,s76 03. and travelled over 10000
miles in doing it. Where can we find
anybsdy, man or woman, in or aWt OF the
State, who can bring to the use of the
State this knowledge.. experience, ac-
quaintance, capacity, influence and con-
troll of means of transportation and per-
sonaI rights and privileges. which Mrs.
Wittenmyer brought to the nse Of the
State, and noo holds and will sssry aaOay
with her; if driven of by this most un-
generous and unkind Treatment? These
rights and privileges, her acquaintance,
sherexperience, and the respect which is
due to her, and which skeraeires when out
Of Iowa, are not in the naturs Of things
transmissable. They belong to HER. By
employing her the State obtained all
these. BY listening to the cowardly lies
of disloyai newspapers, the State eaa Iosss
them Can it affordsode itf =.
Srrarr guAxpfR. FEB. 2T. H. c.