The Soldiers' Journal from Alexandria, Virginia • Page 8

WEDNESDAY MQRNINQ, JUNE 21, 1865. THOB. V. COGPBB, Editor and Publisher. AMY BRADLEY, Proprietor.

DEDICATED TO SOLDIERS' CgIIBBEH. QTTR VOLUNTEER AGENTS. The following persons are announced as our aprents I the places standing in connection with their names, and are authorized to receive subscriptions and con- tributions for The Soldiers' Journal, Miss Amy M. Homans, East Vassalboro', Maine. Miss Mary P.

Locke, Charlestown, Mass. We still invite the co-operation of onr friends everywhere, to increase the circulation and influence of ovir Contributions, intended for publication, must be accompanied by the name of the author to insure in- limited amount of advertising inserted at five lor the first and three cents a line for each subsequent publication. The cash must accompany all orders. AU Communications, and other mail matter, lndteued for The Soldiers' Journal, (except such as I Is prepared in this camp) should be addressed to. 244, Street, U-C No notice taken of communications unaccompanied by the name of the author.

The question of a restoration of the Union like that of the recovery of one who has been ill for a long time, requires time, patience and. care. will come out all right in the end. We hay passed the and are not likely to have a relapse. We agree with one of our ablest writers and statesmen, that our object should be to sound the depths of the question of by creating, as far as we can, a healthy and righteous American sentiment.

And to do this, it would be well to Imitate the wise surgeon in his treatment of a fractured Let the paTts be cleaned of all morbid surroundings; let the general system be soothed and allayed and freed from febrile symptoms; let the diet be of peace and fraternity; place the broken portions in connection; direct ell, our skill and nursing to their cure, and Nature will soon accomplish the good work. Who can doubt it who surveys our country, far and wide, and understands the character of our people? We must not be in a hurry, or over-anxious. We must wait and labor. A Noble is now living in Charleston, Miss Ramsey. She is a granddaughter of Henry Laurens, and is connected with the Pinckney and Rutledge families.

This lady is the owner of the table on which the Declaration of Indepemdenoewas signed. When the ordinance of secession was passed in Charleston, by the State of South Carolina, every effort was made to obtain this table on which to sign that foul and fatal deed. Miss Ramsey not only indignantly refused to have it taken from her house, but threatened to shoot, with her own band, the miscreant who should attempt to remove it. Wo told these facts by a gentleman on whose voracity we most fully rely. About five hundred Sioux Indians, in camp fifteen miles west of Fort Mitchell, and supposed to be friendly, on tho I4th attacked a guard of a hundred wen under Capt.

Fouks of the nth Ohio Veteran Cavalry, killing Fouks and four men and wounding seven. Anumber were killed. The Indians crossed over to tbe north side of the Platte The telegram of May 30, from the Adjutant Goneral's Office, applies only to men who were at its date returned prisoners of wan Men who have been prisoners of war and returned to duty with their commands before the 30th of May are Included in the order for immediate discharge. accept our thanks. It is replete with statistics, historical and political, and other interesting and reliable reading matter, together with the usual subjects treated of in Almanacs, the weather, moon's phases, eclipses, and we most cheerfully commend it to the perusal and favorable consideration of our readers and the public generally.

The "Slaveholders' Rebellion, and Chronicle of the War," which we this week commence the publication of, is a fair sample of and is alone worth the price of copies, 13, cents; fl per per hundred. Tribune is also before us, filled with the choicest reading matter culled Daily, as well as original reading in the choice tales, sketches, dec. It contains orialsonthe great events transpiring and altogether one of the best coneeklies in the world. copy, I address, The Tribune, ar Department has instructed departfimanders to reduce at once their batvolunteer light artillery to the number required under existing circumstanair The companies thus will be sent to Washington, LouisviUe as may be roost convenient for final and mustering out. M.

Botts has defined his opposed to the division of the Statelof regards F. H. Pierpont as the lawful accepts the abolition of Slavery, he validity of the Alexandria Constitu-1 asserts that Gen. Patrick has appointed men id Ofhcu in Richmond, and dteapns able Nightin-10 is considered the supreme court in all janitary, writes to Earl Stanley: "The srished idea as to the necessity of ardent or the British soldier is thoroughly ex- A man who drinks tea or coffee will do ork than a dram-drinker, though he may idered sober." Paymaster-General has taken steps to the soldiers' money from falling into the pretended claim agents and other swin- Robel prisoners at Point Lookout are as rapidly as possible. Many of aye reached Washington sick and desticonditioi.

stated that the Ford Theater property has isposed of to an association of Congregaits, and that it will be speedily converted ot worship. Twenty-third Corps now in North Carolibeing mostly raustered out and sent avoid mistakes in the addresses, and amounts received from subscribers, we shall hereafter publish received each week, in order that any may be detected by the party in ion notifying us of the fact the necessary ion will' be made upon our books. The ng have recently subscribed: zzie O. Bancroft, South Danvers. six months, 81 00 lliott.

Custom House, N. 1 year, 2.00 The following extract is fiom a kind notice of our paper, which appeared in the Virginia State Journal, the official daily of Alexandria "The Soldiers' ably' conducted, spirited and well printed Journal issued at Augur General Hospital near this city, devoted to the interests of soldiers, and the receipts of which are dedicated to soldiers' children, haa progressed well into its second "The Soldiers' have received a copy of a neat publication under the above title, issued from the Augur General Hospital, D. C. Two attachees of the Sanitary Commission publish Miss Amy M. Bradley being proprietor, and Thos.

V. editor. The main object of this enterprise is to. raise a fund for the founding a Home and School for orphans. Tbe whole amount realized is to be devoted to this purpose, and all sons favoring the project are solicited to become I subscribers.

We recommend it to the patriotic and City (Pa.) Dispatch. the last meeting of the American Statistical Association, at Boston, on motion it was Voted, That thanks be presented to our learned and accomplished associate, E. B. Elliott, for the able manner in which he represented this association as its delegate to the International Statistical Congress at of which we have abundant evidence in the valuable paper laid before that body by him on the Military Statistics of the United States of America;" a printed copy of which has been presented to the Asso- On motion of J. Wingate Thornton, It Voted, That Mr.

Elliott be requested to pre; pare a I b'" observations of matters per-1 taining to the progress of Statistical Science in Europe, to be read before the Association at such time as he may choose. 11 would say to the members of the R. N. C. that the badges of the Circle will be manufactured immediately.

By sending the price, 50 to the Treasurer, Wm. P. Griffith, at this ofl.ee, the members will receive the badges in. the return mail. i The report that the Bull Run monuments have been defaced and demolished is contradie- The United States Sanitary Commission is indefatigable in its good work hero.

Over $260,000 worth of stores, vegetables, have been, distributed to the troops around the city within the past few weeks. ATJO-IIR REPORT. FOR THE WEEK ENDING JUNE 16, 1865. No. oX beds, fJJ admitted during the week, returned toduty, transferred; on furlough, J' discharged IB desertea, 2 iiiiiii "REMAINING IN HOSPITAL.

From hospitals tn Alexandria and the 568 laM'L B. WAED, AssL Surg. U. S. Executive OfHcer.

POST OFFICE REPORT, FOR THE WEEK ENDING JUNE 17, 1865. Number of letters forwarded, 15J1 papers and packages IN fetters W6. papers and packages dead letters sent, N. W. CAMP, Chaplain U.

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