New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-05-14
TEE SANITARY COMMISSION IN
VIRGINIA AND GEOBt'sA.

The work being done by tho Sanitary Com
mission in the campaigns now progressing ID
OF an extent and character to which words can
do but feeble justice more especially IN the pres
ent feversh state of the public mind and WIN
such pressure of war news on our space as We
are now suffering. Suffice ii to say that The
Commission has with each Of our army corps III
| Virginia and the Southwest o complete ana
thoroughly experienced stall, embracing sur
geons, superintendent, an ambulance anu
stretcher corps, nurses, dresoers, commissar1es
of hospital supplies, aud vast depots IN the rea'
of each army corps containing all the m"ter't'
necessary to supplement the regular army sup
pliss for the use of our sick aud wounded. AT
Alexandria. Fredericksburg, Aquia Creek, City
Point Yorktown. Fortress Monroe, Chatta-
nooga, &c, &C., the Commission have cStab-
lished immense lodges" for tho temporary re-
lief of wounded soldiers, and both by steamers,
specially hired and fitted up, and by special hos
pital ears on all the railroads leading from the
scenes of conflict, the agents of tho Commits
sion, in the saving of life and the relief of SUI
fering, have done and are doing the nohlcSt of
all noble works.
The popular impression that the Sanitary
Commission has received all the money collect
ed in the Sanitary Fairs held in various parts Of
the country, is an error. The Fairs held Mt
Cleveland Chicago aud Cincinnati, have not
transmitted dollar TO the United States SAM
tary Commission, the funds thus raised being
mainly devoted TO the relief of soldiers belong
ing to the States of Ohio, Illinois and the North
West now serving under Generals Sherman,
Hooker, Thomas, Rosecnns, Steele and others
in the South West ard down the valley Of the
Mississippi. OF the funds raised by other SAM
tary Fairs, only portions have found their way
into the treasury OF the Sanitary Commission,
the balance being either devoted to local h0spi-
tails connected with the army, or used for the
purchase of materials, such as nannels, linens,
trusscs, artificial limbs, congresses, articles Of
clothing, and so forth, now in process of being
made up and forwarded TO the various dcpots of
the Commission.
These things are mentioned to countervail
the erroneous impression that the SANITARY
Commission has attained plethora OF re-
sources requiring no further cxertions or contri-
buttons on the part of the humane and patri-
otto. The Commission is now, and must be for
some months, AT vast expenses Tor the purchase
and hiring of extra hospital trains and steam
boats the maintenance Of an immense medical
ambulance and strctcher corps, the purchase Of
fresh vegetables and other nccesSarics for the
wounded, and the supply of the numerous
homes, lodges, and hospitals which arr either
It's own entirely, or in which it is permitted TO
supplement the regular supplies Of the army.
OF these operations and expenditures Ne arr
promised that an exhibit will he published inn
mediately on the close OF the present deadly
strife in Virginia and Georgia and We already
know enough 10 foretell that the exhibit viii be
both grateful aud amazing revelation 10 the
many thousand, who have contributed either IN
money or material TO the Treasury aud re-
sources of the Commission