AID FOR THE SICK AND WOUNDED OF THE ARMY AND NAVT.

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            Sanitary Commission, Washington, D. C,
                               Treasury Building, July 3, 1861.

  The following  articles, which  cannot be provided at present by
Government, are immediately needed for the volunteers in hospital:
  Cotton Bed-shirts, one-and-a-half yards long; two breadths of un-
bleached muslin, one yard wide ; open one-half yard at bottom; length
of sleeve, three fourths yard ; length of arm-hole, twelve inches ; length
of collar, twenty inches; length of slit  in  front, one yard;  fastened
with four tapes.
  Loose Drawers, one-and-a-quarter yards long, with a breadth of one
yard wide muslin in each leg, with a hem and  drawing-string round
the waist and the  bottom of each leg; length from waist to crotch on
the back, twenty-two inches; and in the front, eighteen inches, with
three buttons and three button-holes.
  Soft slippers of different sizes.
  Light Flannel  Dressing-gowns, of different sizes.
  Towels and Handkerchiefs.
  Abdominal or Body Bandages : Material,  thick flannel; length,
one-and-a-half to one-and-three-quarter yards;  to  overlap in front;
width, ten to thirteen inches, with narrow gores at the hips ; three-and-
a-half inches high,  and two inches wide at bottom, with three broad
tapes on each side, attached upon or above the gores.
  The articles, if conveyed free of charge to this office, will be acknowl-
edged and accounted for, and used  where the need for them is most
pressing.
  Direct to  the  "Sanitary  Commission,  Treasury Building, Wash-
ington."
                                FRED.  LAW OLMSTED,
                                            Resident Secretary.


  Editors of newspapers are respectfully requested  to  lay the above
announcement before their readers  without delay.