Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-01-15

as well as almost painful intellectually.
He is the Rev. William Henry Charming,
Boston transcendcntalist. Yet his brain
never bears him so far away into the ether
but that he uses his hands and heart for
all lowly and tender charities. He is an
elegant scholar, poetic aud suggestive
thinker reformer, or he would not be
Claiming; q good man. If his theories
could become realities, tomorrow morning
we should wake to find the war ended and
the millennium fairly begun. He intro
duces to the delighted I" boys" our " En-
chantress' who had glided through the
halls of the old National for the last six
weeks, winning the esteem and admiration
of all by the proud, yet gentle reticence of
her bearing. She is graceful girl, with
dropping shoulders, Classic head and
features, large black eyes, which can blaze
with the fire of genius, and a profusion of
black curls, shading perfectly colorless
cheeks lis Caroline Richings, the young
American prima donna, who every night
sings to immense audiences. Now she sits
down at the piano, and sings to the SOL
d.ers with intense expression, and exquis-
ite voice: "Our Union right or wrong"
The soldiers cheer and 60 into ectaces.
4 Then Senator Lane of Indiana rises to
talk to them,-a tall spare man who in
repose does not look particularly clover,
but lights up and grows inspired with his
own eloquence. He is perhaps, the most
spontaneously eloquent member of the
Senate. What is better, he is an incor-
ruptable patriot, man who cannot be
bought in these days of universal con-
tracts when so many in power are eager to
fatten their fortunes on the blood of their
countrymen. Miss Richings gives us the
" Star Spangled Banner after it comes
} Gen. Farnsworth of the 9th Illinois cav
airy, who next March will leave his sad
} die and resume his old seat in Congress.
He is one of our most dashing and gal
J liant cavalry officers, man Of magnificent
presence, with a pair of eyes quite like
another pair which sometimes haunt the
sanctuary of The Republican Block Ma
: ture intended this man for one of her no.
blemen; she made him for chivalric deeds
. and the loftiest soul of honor. I'oes he
fall shart of these? If he does, he is
false to his birthright.
This is Campbell hospital-the new
, model hospital, gay with flags and flow.
ers. A large basket of the rarest and
most odorous exotics stands on the table,
a gift from lady to Dr. Baxter, the sur
: geon in charge. Besides the flowers, here
> are beautiful women, smiling soldiers and
sumptous dinner. The dinner is eaten,
toasts are drank, the band plays "sweet
, home," hail to the chief" and the "red
white and blue" and when all is over, SO
many of the boys as are fortunate enough
! to have two feet left, join in the dance.
, Last Summer DR.. Baxter fought and am
| putated down on the Peninsula, till one
July day his father, Hon. Portus Baxter
of Vermont, brought him here young
) old man, dragged to the very door of the
, grave by fever. But this Christmas day,
| the Chickahominy yellow is lost in Yer.
/ mont bloom, and the doctor looks mortify.
! ingly young, when he considers that his
assistant surgeons are old enough to be
his father. don't want to discourage
you, DR.. Baxter, but it is no use trying
to look old you will look like a boy these
ten years yet and there will be a boyish
laugh in your eye, for twenty more
) Mrs. Baxter, the doctors mother, clad in
deep mourning, goes from couch to couch
: with q mothers tender greeting for every
one. One rare golden day last September
the light of her life went out. The bud
Of her household, its one, bright, blossom
! ing girl, closed her beautiful eyes, and fa-
ded away from the vision Of the father
and mother and brothers, who lived fol
her. The music of that home was sud
! denly hushed forever. OH hard to lay
in the dust your darling, though you knew
/. that she was taken away from the evil tt