Satterlee appears to have taken up the business of collecting, for he brought in two hundred and six dollars in a lump, all of which was paid out the same day, for the families of soldiers, or to the military committee for expenses of recruiting. The balance sunk, by the 7th of July, to seventeen dollars and ninety cents, the payments made being in small sums to wives or parents of soldiers, on a weekly allowance, scaled according to the number of mouths to feed. The low state of the fund seems to have started the committee to work again raising subscriptions, for, on the 8th, the balance rose to two hundred dollars, brought in by members of the committee. During the rest of the month the debit side of the treasurer's cash account is empty, while the drafts for families are unceasing till the 20th of July, from which time to the 23d there was a stream of subscriptions, attesting the way in which the news of the disaster at Bull Run (July 21st) had waked up Port Chester. The end of the month left the balance, in spite of the same drafts as usual, $333.63, which was increased, on the 11th of August, by fifty dollars from George Cornell and five dollars from William P. Abendroth. John Palmer is credited, August 20th, with fifty dollars ; September 12th, John A. Merritt gave a hundred dojlars ; but these are the only items worthy of particular notice, and the aspect of the account was by no means encouraging -- the givers being few, while the wives of soldiers, on the other side of the page, increased in number, as the weeks went on and the war progressed. By the 25th of September the balance sunk to sixty-six dollars. All the efforts of the committee to increase the subscriptions seem to have been useless, for the debit side of" cash " continued to grow smaller and smaller, till, by the 5th of October, 1861, it sunk to its lowest point during the war, seven dollars and eighty -nine cents.