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Office of "THE SOLDIER'S FRIEND," No. 12 Centre Street, NEW YORK, April 15, 1865. The undersigned would respectfully call your attention to "THE SOLDIER'S FRIEND," copies of which have been mailed monthly to the address of your Society. It is designed to promote the interests of our soldiers and sailors, their families, and those dependent on them for support. It is also intended as an advocate of the claims of our Aid Societies, and kindred associations for the benefit of the Army and Navy. An examination of the paper will show not only its purposes, but the long list of eminent writers who contribute to its columns. The paper is universally welcomed wherever it is received, and there is a constant demand for supplies of copies for distribution among our brave men. In order to furnish these papers to the Army and Navy, contributions are necessary from the friends of the cause. Your attention is called to the Letters from Chaplains, and from the army, showing how much it is desired. If each Aid Society in the country would subscribe $10 for twenty copies, the Army and Navy could be liberally supplied. The members of the Aid Societies could also contribute largely to its success by obtaining subscribers for the paper. The MAY number will contain a beautiful and stirring original tale, entitled "MOSES CRANT'S REPENTANCE," written in behalf of Soldiers' Aid Societies. I will send one hundred copies of the May number, containing this tale, to the address of any Aid Society, prepaid, on receipt of four dollars ; two hundred for eight dollars. Please send orders for this number at the earliest possible day. Although the war is apparently at an end, there will remain a great and responsible work to be done for the coming year ; and our efforts cannot be too earnest or devoted on behalf of the cause. The destruction of the military power of the Confederacy will throw upon our hands a vast work of love and Christian duty in the South. Let no one relax effort or surrender his post of labor. Very respectfully, WM. OLAND BOURNE, Editor and Publisher of the Soldier's Friend. N. B. - Please inform me whether the paper has been received. To the President and Members of the Steuben Aid Society.