Posted on 10/08/2021 7:18:43 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Monday, Oct. 7.
The following are the official reports of the numbers in the several hospitals on the week ending Sept. 27: E-street, Washington, 99; Seminary, Georgetown, 156; Union, Georgetown, 184; Columbian College, 218; Alexandria, 170; eruptive diseases, 52. Total, 879. This is a slight de- crease from the total of the previous week.
The Paymaster-General has promulgated an order from the War Department, that hereafter no payments shall be made to discharged from the volunteer service on account of being minors. Many persons have obtained their discharge for this reason, and then presented claims for bounty money and back pay. In future, such claims will be disallowed.
The publication in the Herald of the removal of Gen. FREMONT has brought out a number of indignant remonstrances. Generally, these come from those deeply imbued with the sentiments of religion and philanthropy. One of the Cabinet officers to-day received a letter from an influential clergyman, from which I am permitted to make the following extract:
"God gave David the power to kill Goliath, with a single smooth stone, taken from a brook. God will enable FREMONT, hampered and stripped by the Government, to overcome the enemies of freedom. Like David, he will make him the avenger of his wrongs; and the barrenness of the means which have been given him will, with His help, only the more signalize his victory."
The Government is daily receiving thousands of letters showing that FREMONT's proclamation found an echo in the public heart, and that all else is forgotten in the one great response to the declaration that we are fighting rebels, and that rebel property must pay the penalty.
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