Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-06-03

In view of the large number of fresh
troops brought into the field, and the
increasing demand made upon the
Christian Commission for reading mat
ter and all kinds of Sanitary stores,
they are compelled to call upon their
Christian friends and the friends of hui
manity to aid them in their generous
work. Relying, as they do, mainly up
on the llberality of the churches, they
urge upon their ministerial brethren the
Importance of bringing this matter at
once before their congregations, that the
hundreds and thousands of soldiers who,
in distress and need, come to the Chris
tian Commission for aid and sympathy,
may not be turned away empty.
1t is hoped that the Christian men and
women of the land will show lofty pa
triotism and becoming zeal in this
matter, and that auxiliary branches of
the Commission will be organized in
every town and neighborhood, and the
great work of the Christian Commission
enlarged and extended, till its benign
influence is felt by every soldier in the
field. '8
Besides large number of delegates in
the army who make personal distribu-
tlons of the supplies furnished-placing
their stores in the hands of the soldiers
with words of Christian counsel and
sympathy-they are establishing a sys-
tenn of Special Diet Kitchens in con-
nection with all the large military hos
pitfalls in the West, which will secure to
those who are in need of delicate food
the proper kind Of diet, prepared in the
best possible manner-thus bringing
your gifts to the very bedsides of the
languishing soldiers. ...
Cultivated, earnest, Christian women
are placed in charge of these Kitchens,
who are extending the tender care and
Christian sympathy so essential to the
recovery and well-being of the sick.
The Kitchens already in operation
prepare special diet for over seventeen
hundred low class patients, and still the
work is being extended.
Mrs. Anna Wittenmyer, an earnest
Christian lady of large experience in
hospital matters, has been placed in
charge of this branch of the Christian
Commission service.
Discerning the signs of the times"
"let US, as faithful stewards of the man.
fold grace of God" "WOrk while it is
called to-day, for the night of Death
cometh wherein no man can work. y
And may it be said of us in the Last
Day: II was. an hungered and We gave
me meat, thirsty and We gave me drink,
naked and ye clothed me, sick and We
visited me, in prison and We came unto
me-" "Inasmuch as he have done it
to one of these my brethren, we have
done it unto me. IH.
All kinds of supplies are needed. For
the Diet Kitchens, all kinds of delica-
cies. especially fresh butter and eggs,
soda crackers, toasted rusk, fine corn
11.ao1 Hriod horrioc 6rio6 nd
fruit, domestic wines, picked onions,
horse-radish, tomato catsup, and all
kinds of condiments and extracts for
flavoring; shirts, drawers, socks, slip
pers, and reading matter; potatoes,
onions, krout and pickles of all kinds,
are desired.
Goods should be carefully packed and
distinctly marked with fluid, "U. S.
Christian Commission, st. Louis, Mo.u
Money will be'sent to Edwin Ticknor,
Esq, Treasurer, and all correspondence
addressed to-J. III. Parsons, Correspond
ing Secretary, U. S. Christian Commits
sion, st. Louis.
Invoices, Bills of Lading or Railroad
Receipts of Stores sent to our Chairman.
Chairman of the st. Louis Branch of the e. s.
Christian Commission.
Rooms U. s. Christian Commission, 9Th Street
and Washington Avenue, under Lindell Hotel.
st. Louis, Mo-, April 20, 1864.
The New York Dry Goods Dealers and the
Ladies'.
From the New York Independent, May 0.
Dealers do not put faith in the resolves
of the ladies to refuse to wear foreign |
goods. Many imported fabrics are be- |
ing sold as domestics, to relieve the con-
science of lady purchasers. Heretofore,
many an American delain and print |
has been sold to pass for foreign. The
article is named to please the buyer.
and the question of production is
lodged. 10 os II 49, 80 !