The various wards are well ventilated, and nearly all of them kept very cleanly. The high and open ground admits of a free circulation of air through the buildings, and does much towards improving the health of the inmates. The number of nurses employed is not sufficient to attend to the wants of all; and we would suggest to those having care of the sick that kind words and tender care is not the least thing requisite to ensure recovery. Sick men are naturally impatient and exacting, and it is the first requisite of a good nurse to be patient as well as attentive. We are of opinion that the thousands of lazy negroes, of both sexes, lounging about the streets might be made very useful, if employed as nurses and laborers, under the vigilant eyes of the ward-masters. We make these remarks in no spirit of fault finding, but simply for the purpose of bringing the subject to the notice of those having charge of the brave and suffering soldiers, who feel the need of the tender nursing of their friends at home.