Show washington the tle details by pony confirmatory of the general dispatches furnish additional evl evidence of the extensive and gigantic operation of both the confederate states and united states for war and its contingencies calculating upon casualties and J the be necessary demand of attendance upon the sick the secretary dfwar has addressed a letter to the surgeon general in which he tle recommends the employment in future of ladies instead of men ile he says during the present war the forces being made raade up chiefly ef ct volunteers public sentiment and the humanity of the age requires that the services of women as nurses should be made available in the general hospitals where except in a very humble capacity they have hf heretofore reto fore been excluded As many careful carefully ly sele selected acted women are in training in various cities of the loyal states it is the order and wish of the department that women be adopted or substituted for men now in the general hob hos hospitals atals whenever it can be effected effiec ted and that only onty such women as have received previous training for this purpose ba accepted as nurses except when these can no longer be had bad and it is ordered that none be received except those who have presented their applications to a lady appointed ap tte tie hinted by the department part ment to pres pros de over the volunteer women nurses and who shall have sole authority to select and accept nurses requiring their age to be above thirty with certificates of character and capacity miss dix di x has been appointed superintendent of the women nurses with the exclusive authority to accept such as she may deem properly fitted for the service bervice the transportation subsistence and waged wages of such nurses as may be accepted here are to be paid from such moneys that would be expended in the wages and support of men nurses or are derived from the usual resources of hospital services I 1 the ladies of washington washing ton are enthus enthusiastically iati lati engaged r in making havelocke have locks to supply all the troops as they arrive there assistant surgeons glisan and williams both of maryland had bad resigned A recent general order of the W war wan ar department is as follows second lieutenant IV mccreery Me Creery having tendered his resignation when in face atthe ei rebels his name will be stricken from the rolls of tile army signed L THOMAS gen 21 |