New-York daily tribune., 1865-10-19

Massachusetts assumed and discharged the grateful
duty Of furnishing the dinner to all the soldiers in the
Washington hospitals seventeen thousand in number.
without regard to state lines and this in addition 10
supplying the Boston forts and stations. and beside
aking part in the New York subscription the armies
Adams Express carried sixty tuns Of Thanksgiving
supplies 10 the soldiers from BostUD The citizens OF
Name, informed that regiment Of cavalry from tina,
State stationed at Barrancas Pensacola, were threat
ened with scurvy and Kindred Affections resolved that
they too should have Thanksgiving dinner, aud that
IL should be anti scOrbuc, II its festive quale.
were somewhat diminished thereby. Thirteen hundI ed
packages were soon on their way to Pensacola. Tbs
camps and hospitas about Pittsburgh were supplied by
the Subsistence Committee aud the brauch ofthe Chris
tian Commission IN that city. Among their purchases
were two hundred barrels Of apples, ten barrels o.
canned fruit and mince emeat for six thousand pies
The church collections Of the day were for the benefit
the Christian Commission. two Of them giving over
s. 100. The troops stationed at Nashville were pro
yided with their dinner by the people Of Pittsburgh
In the Philadelphia hospitals the soldiers were enabled
10 celebrate ChlistnGs by the generosity Of Ms Dr.
Egbert who placed S. GO in The hands Of gentleman
Tor that purpose; and the distribution made among
thirteen hospitasseyeral. being well supplied already
cOurteOusiy declining
Tnc Army Thanksgiving dinner Of 1864 cost the peo
pie somewhat over quarter Of million OF dollars.
This would have been large sum ~ spend IN turkeys
fnd cranberry sance IT, the money spent and the iur.
keys eaen the end the grers had in view had been IT.
tued But the soldiers p lied the attention more than
the gift; and doubtless ths revived memories Of home,
and the renewed assurances OF sympathy and support
were pIecOns 10 them than all tho poultry IN the
North. We can purchase fot turkeys for 30 much a
round; but If these turkeys sent certain distance at
certain season. can be made 10 bear messages that
Other fowl not even the carrier pigeon. can bear as
well and deliver them with elOqueDCo that belongs
not to eith0r fish 1esh-ii. In short ID has been
agreed that turkey gobber shall be looked upon by
thc receiver though ii may have lost s freshness
on the way, an expression Of the goodwill aud the
good wishes of the gver then the question of cost be-
trivial indeed; for whatever the sum, the
return will bc a hundred fold.
Here is a lively account Of soIne pleasant meth
DDS that were adopted for the promotion Of the
good cause;
The women Of the conntyy-and especially those OF
The Orth western pOrtOn-baye rendered other sow
ices chan those lave chroBcled; tho battlefield Is
not the only field in which they have wrought bearing
me heat and burden Of the day Tie wife wlO ia the
Summer OF 1861, wIOte the following lines doubtless
Kept her promise or If not thousands Kept FOX ler
Don't stop moment TO think, John,
Your country CALI, then 30;
D.ut think Of me n fh0 childfen John
III care iOI them, you know.
leeF6 The CON upon the stalks, John,
PUtatoes in tho ifIli
And tlso pun pkins On the vines John,
III gather them with a will. Bon.
50 take yonr gnn nnd 20, John,
Take ygur gOn gnd no.
FOf Huth eau drive the oxen, John
Aud can uEe the hoe.
Women IN the field were no unrgual sight IN lf62:
Mrs Jane ATbicit. seventy years Of cge living In Han
Ock County indian9, having sent two sous u the or
BY sOWcd ten acres or wheat with her own hands The
ext year-fhc Absorption OF by tho Hiny having
0nElGntly inoieQGed-arge tracts Of country were al
lOst eXcufiyely TILED by women. Mrs Ly ermOre has
veh account Of her experience and colyersation
D tie midst Of scenes thus cultivated; We found
gOmen every where IN the field, she writes. "drlying
he rcapers, and binding, shocking and loading The
rail- Rl unusual sight to our eyn At dJBt w vcse