give many dollars, but cannot pay for or bal
ance the comfort and good they did that man
and thousands of others like him. And such
scenes as this I witnessed constantly during
the four days and nights I remained there.
“The agents and employees of tho Commis
sion rendered most efficient and faithful service
the whole time.
“I saw the same thing again at the battle of
Fredericksburg. The Commission was there
again, long ahead of the (iovernment, with all
their plenteous bounty, bestowing it with a
liberal hand on all who needed it.
“Again at Gettysburg I saw the same class
of incidents. I there went to a hospital, where
I was informed that some of the Fourteenth
Regiment wounded were lying, and I found on
the ground floor of a small house seventeen
men connected with that regiment, every man
with an arm or leg off, lying upon straw. The
surgeon was kind, and did all he could, but
they were, as I have said, lying upon straw,
and all as they were picked up off the field,
grimy, bloody, and dirty. I went through the
town trying to buy seventeen clean shirts for
them, but could not get them for love or
money. lat length went to the quarters of
the association, and told Ur. Bellows, whom I
found there, of my need of shirts, bed-ticks,
and sheets. “ Knock open that box, John,”
called the Doctor to an assistant, and in a few
moments I had all 1 wanted. And if you had
seen me then in Gettysburg, you would have
seen a man not very fond of carrying bundles,
by the testimony of his wife, perfectly happy
in tho possession of an immense bundle of all
those poor fellows needed. llow their coun
tenances lit up with,joy when they saw what
was then more to them than houses or lands !
Why, the $35,0011 you raised the other day did
not pay for those seventeen shirts, bed-ticks,
etc. Mr. Beecher says he wants Brooklyn to
be very near the head of the roll. I want her
away up head, and I think we will get there
if this same spirit lasts.”
The Academy of Music was selected as the
principal place of exhibition, but it became
necessary to erect two temporary structures,
one of which was occupied by the restaurant,
and called Knickerbocker Ilall, and the other
by a hall of manufactures and tho Now Eng
land Kitchen. Seven-eighths of the articles
consumed at the restaurant were furnished
gratuitously, by means of an arrangement by
which certain churches in the city agreed to
provide for certain days. The net profits of
this department to the treasury of the Fair
was nearly §24,000. The most novel and cu
rious feature of the Brooklyn Fair was the
New England Kitchen, an attempt to re-pro
duce the- ancient manners and mode of living
of the Puritans. There was, of course, a fire
place of huge dimensions, in whose capacious
mouth an ox might have been roasted with
ease. The tables were covered with old
fashioned china, and the guests returned, un
der the rigid rule of the place, to the ante
silver-fork period, and had to content them
selves with two-tined steel. White sugar was
religiously ignored, and “modern improve
ments” generally were at a discount. The
idea was to live in the Past, and the Present
was ignominiously banished.
Otjb zD-a-ilit Fabe.
Many before leaving the New England Kit
chen, howsoever well satisfied with the new
ways about us, were fain to conclude “the old
is better.” On the tables were bountiful sup
plies of toothsome viands—pork and beans,
cider apple-sauce, Boston brown bread, pitchers
of cider, pumpkin, mince and apple pies,
doughnuts, and all the savory and delicate
wealth of the New England larder. The guests
were waited upon by damsels with curious
names and quaint attire. Just such New Eng
land girls as spread the cloths and cut the
loaves of a century ago, were the neat-handed
waitresses of the New England Kitchen of the
Brooklyn and Long Island Fair.
The proceeds of tho Brooklyn Fair were
about §400,000, of which the treasury of the
Sanitary Commission received §300,000, the
balance being retained by the Societies in
Brooklyn to purchase material for making up
into articles for the soldier. This was the
first money received by the treasury of the
Commission from any of the Fairs popularly
called Sanitary, except a sum of §50,000 ap
propriated to it by the Managers of tho Boston
Fair.
SERGEANT HILLER ON THE SANITARY.
To the Editor of tho Daly Fare.
Respected Sir. Esquare.
After the Evence Dctaled in my
last letter I was destined that afternoon to
annothcr Friendly Surprise like as the
Buzzerd sayil wen the Crow promist to show
Him a iled Cat witch turned out to be a
deceest Cow. For low and behold All my
Union nabers who had herd of my sacrifisc
and of my perposed vissit to the Meetropoles
of our Stait cairn marchin in Festiv perccs
hen Too by too to do me Honor. 1
herd frum afar the gay Peel of ther voises as
they sung in corns that wild and marshle Lay:
I bought a chickn for fifty gents
Hurra!
I bought a chickn for fifty Bunts
And the darnud ole thong flew over the fense.
And wele all think stoan blind,
Wen Johnny cums marchen hoain!
In Sixty One the War begun
Hurra!
In Sixty One tho War begun,
In Sixty Two we put her thru,
In Sixty Three the Niggers was fro,
In Sixty Fore the War ‘ll be ore,
And Johnny cum marchin hoam.
As sum imperfect and gorbcllyd accounts of
this grate event witch startled the Groaves of
Huckleberry may have reeched your eres
I deain it proper to deserib the perccssion
as it reely was in all its gloary. Furst of all
Den Major sei Jim,
(Playing his fiddel.)
[This is an oald wite heded darkey his
master, the Major, has been ded and berried
this fifty ycer.]
Sim Detweileb and llis too Suns,
Baring a baner with the words
Some is Brave, 1
Some is (1 incrous ! \
And i
SOME IS BOTH ! ! |
[I nede not say this delicat. allusion to
me as 1 Some ’ drew teers to my ize.]
Tiie Applejack Fitin Family (of 28),
(Too by Too.)
[Five of these has been wounded in the ar
my. Sense they return they bev distinguished
thcirselves by permiscus war on all the Secesli
cners round here.]
TIIE BAUMBEItQERS,
( too by too.)
[These thre brethrin obtaneil immortle glo
ary in the Rade of 1803 by cnticin ten Rebel
soldiers into ther smawl Logg Hut with a plate
of Spreadings after witch they tide a roap
arownd the liowse upsett it with a hickory
beem and roaled it down hil oaver and
oaver, a ful mile, into a Fedral camp.]
BILL GROAVER.
in ful uniform.
[He is a 2d Lieutenant, at home on Fur
low. Ginerally considerd to be the hansomest
man on the Line.]
EL SMITH.
[Editer of the Huckleberry Basket. One of
our moast prominent citizens.]
THE COON HOLLOW CROWD.
[A liily intelligent set of able yung men.]
After these came a lott of my tutf an harty
freinds down frum the Mountins hurrain
and clieerin like all posest sumtimes for the
good oald Union sumtimes for Ginral
Grant mingeld with grones as they pasd
the liowses of noated Seceshcs witch must
licve Pennytrated to the very back seller wlier
they hidil ther trembln, traterus Forms
Pawsing at lenth befoar the liowse, wliense i
addvaned an thus adresd them:
“My Freinds the mcening of this testy
moniel would be plane even to the def and
Blind how mutch moar so to me Who
have oanly lost an arm. (Loud cheres and
crize of ‘ good ,’ and ‘Go ahead!’) If our grate
Governr Andy Curtin could feal grattyfide att
being caivld down from his native mountains
to serve his Stait what shall i say, to whom
many of you have cum doun hil yourselvs
Some of you 8 and 10 miles to do me honer!
( Sensashun.)
“But my freinds what am i com
pared to that which you honor in me i
meen the Sannitcrry witch itself in turn
meens the good old Union in its form of charity
and benevolents God bles em all! You