Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-02-18
Financial Statement of the L. s. Sanitary
Commission from June, 1851, to
October-1, 1864. 6

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! Some time ago a committee consistingof c.
fStilfe, C. R. Agnew, j. H. Wolcott, George T.
4 Strong and J. F. Jenkins, were appointedte to pre-
pare financial statement of the condition of the
I [. S. Sanitary Commission. The report has just
been printed in the Sanitary Commission Bulletin,
from which the following has been condensed
The total receipts of the Commission from its or
ganization, June, 1861, to October |, 1864, were
SO ,0s3, ia 5S, and the expenditures during the
same period were 81, ,467 1888 50, leaving balance
in the hands of the Treasurer, October l, 1864,
of S6l5, ,1G6 03. The work of the Commission
is divided into six departments, which classi-
fed follows:
/. The Supply Department, which has for its
object the collecting, storing, forwarding and
distributing of the supplies sent by the people
to the soldiers. Inseparably connected with this
department is large amount of relief service
rendered to the sick and wounded, which great
Is augments the cost of distribution. and the
ratio of the same 10 the value of the supplies
distributed The work of distributing these
supplies aud administering the general relief so
/ intimately connected with it, has required on
average the labor OF permanent corps OF 200
men.
q The Department of Medical Inspection,
Inquiry and Advice, which is to discover the va
rious conditions of camp and hospital life unfa-
vorabe to the health of the soldiers and to sug-
gest remedies for the evils found. Thousands of
lives have been saved by this service.
g. The Special Relief Department, for guard
ing, sheltering feeding. and helping ont of
trouble all sick, discharged, or disabled soldiers,
including the maintenance of Houses, Lodges.
Relief Stations near battle-felds, Claim Agen-
cies Pension Offices, nurses to accompany the
feeble to their houses visit hospital, collect the
back pay of soldiers, etc. This agency aids and
protects in various ways: $500 men daily.
4 The Hospital Directory, for the convenience
of the soldiers relatives and friends. Nearly
l03O, 900 names of hospital patients have been
entered in this directory with their address, etc,
and many thousand anxious inquiries answered.
s. The Statistical Department for gathering up
and tabuarizing the material collected by the
Medical Inspectors of the Commission, so as to
make it available for the prevention of disease
in the army.
g. The Department of Publication which fur
nishes gratuitously to the army surgeons valuable
medical monographs, prepared by the ahest men
in the country This is often the only book of
reference which the surgeons carry with them
into the field, and probably has been of great
use to them in saving life and aleyiating suffer
ing.
The report gives the details Of each of the
above departments from June, 1861, to October,
1854. and the miscellaneous items connected
with them. The figures show that the cost Of
distributing the supplies purchased and gratuit-
ously received was per centum of their value.
Previous to July lst, 1864, the cost of distrbu-
tion was 4.56 per centum of the value Of the
supplies distributed. The increased cost for the
transportation of supplies has made the increased
difference during the last quarter.
The Committee state that there are - special
relief stations in the North and West aud at the
single one in Washington l21, 049 nights lodg-
ings have been given to soldiers beside $50: / 6
meals.
JUDICIAL ELEcrIoy.-We believe presentsys-
TEN of choosing judicial officers to bea unmiga-
ted humbug. The only thing gained is addition
al expense incurred by holding two separate cleo
tions through the State, while no corresponding
benefit has resulted The design of the advo-
Gates of a separate Judicial Election was to sepa-
rate the judiciary from the political influence
which are attached to the other State and coun-
ty Offices but the enactment has totally failed to
accomplish the object Political conventions
nominate the different officers, Executive and
Judicial at the same session, and the people vote
! for them as the ticket happens to be headed,
without pausing to make many inquiries as 10
/ the qualifications OF the candidates presented
! And again. it not unfrequently happens that when
elections are divided in the manner in which
! they are now, and become shorn of the local
/ interest which is otherwise attached to them,
they fail to draw oGt the full strength of the pop
ular vote This would matter but little if that
vote was cast by the better class of citizens. but
4 this, unfortunately, is not always the The
men who look most to the capacity of candi-
date, and split their ticket to secure the cleo
/ tinn nf uualifipd th Az hO interest
themselves least in politics, while bitter parti-
! sans who look only to the name of n ticket and
vote it straight the ones who arc sure to
vote on every occasion.
JAIL DELIvERY.-A telegram from lreka, on the