Mr. GRIMES. This is a case that I have personally examined, and I think Ican give the Senfrom Oregon a little information on the subject. Of Miss Barton I never knew anything until my attention was directed to her after the adjournment of the last Congress when I saw her namementioned in the newspapers as being engaged in the work of discoverin the whereabouts of missing soldiers. When I came here at this session, at the instance of a friend I examined the merits of this claim and examined the vouchers, and I can assure the Senator that she has a great abundance of them, proving that her work has been most laborious and most valuable to the cause of humanity and the country. It seems that Miss Barton was connected with the Sanitary Commission and was stationed at Annapolis. While she was there, a great many persons came to Anna polis in great grief and trouble in search of their friends, expecting them to be on board of the ship that brought our returned prisoners from elle Isle and andersonville. A few of them were successful in finding their friends, but a large portion of them did not. They were unable to ascertain whether they were dead or whether they might expect. them on any other transport ship, and there was no system devised by the War Dept or by the Sanitary Commission or by anyone else by which the facts in regard to those missing soldiers could be obtained. Miss Barton devised a scheme herself, and undertook to perform that labor. Whenever the missing soldiers name was handed to her, she obtained the number of his regiment and comanv, the State he was from and if possible is birthplace, and all the facts in connection with him. She then published lists of missing soldiers, 1st beginning in a small way, as she was able to write them herself or procure the assistance of others, and posting them upon barraelr doors and the most conspicuous places about Annapolis, so as to attractthe attention of our returned prisoners from Belle Isle, An dersonville, and Salisbury. The work greatly enlarged until it was impossible to post them all upon the barraek doors in this way. It was soon learned that she was in search of these missing soldiers and letters began to pour in upon her from all sections of the country. am told (I did not count them, but I should judge the statement must be true from what I saw) that slichas at this time unanswered nearly 6,000letters from the parents, wives, and relatives in one degree or another of missing soldiers. Her means are exhausted and the question arose among the people who were. interested in the prosecution of this work, what is the best way to carry it forward? Every body admitted that thus far Miss Barton had succeeded mostadmirably and accomplished a most humane and desirable purpose. For one, when I was consulted by the chairman of the ComMilAffrs as to what my opinion was, I thought it would be better to enlarge this appropriation a few 1,000 dollars, and let Miss arton O on in her own wa precisely as she has been doing heretofore. think it is the sentiment of everybody who has examined into the labor of Miss Barton in this connection that she deserves well of Congress, and that she has accomplished a most humane and excellent work.