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Title of Applicants. -- No restriction appears to be exercised respecting applicants, other than that of honorable discharge and deserving need. The building does not admit of more than one hundred and twenty inmates at one time, and yet has never been full. Their ordinary number, I think, is about seventy.

General Results. -- In the month of May, 1863, they received seventy-four and dismissed sixty-five. One of these was sent away because he was cured and well. With this exception, sixty-four went voluntarily; two-thirds of them to go to work, one-third to go to friends who had written for them and were ready to receive them, in places where there was no such charity as this to take them in hand. -These statements are from a letter of Rev. E. E. Hale to Mr. Knapp, unpublished.-

The cases at the discharged Soldiers' Home may be said to be the worst cases of all. It appears, then, that after treatment there, two-thirds of the men who had been discharged, as disabled soldiers, were able to support themselves, and one-third were cared for. There is absolutely but one black sheep -- who was sent away because he was well -- left of that month's troop to become applicants for general charity (and he asserted that he was going to work). Yet the discharges for this month amount to sixty-five seventy-fourths of the number received for the same month.

I have set down a few statistics of the Discharged Soldiers1 Home in an accompanying table.

I. -- Classification of Cases relieved by the Massachusetts Soldiers' Fund, from April, 1861, to July, 1863.

II. Receipts and Disbursements Massachusetts Soldiers' Fund

RECEIPTS.

* Of the amount here stated, $60,630 71 was raised within three months, and the balance shortly after.

DISBURSEMENTS.