Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-11-04

ers, wives and sisters who have cheerfully
placed their dearest treasures upon the
altar of their country. Florence Night
ingale whose conduct at the Crimea was
living witness to the singular purity of
her motives, will not hesitate to share the
historic page that we so gladly awarded
to her, with the scores and hundreds of
our brave women who have so kindly and
tendorly ministered to our sick and woun-
ded soldiers at our countless camps and
hospitals. But for this war we should
always have pointed to Sparta for fem
mime heroism and to England for woman's
philanthropy, not dreaming that the same
elements of strength and tenderness were
ing only for the baptism of suffering to
appear as earnest workers and unhinch-
ing patriots. We are thankful for these
new and rich. developments. We are proud
CT than ever of our nationality. We
rejoice that our mothers and our sisters
have done so much to ennoble our coun-
try, to exalt our race Nor have these
efforts been spasmodic and uncertain, but
persistent and regular. Every new de-
mand for effort and for sacrifice has been
generously and nobly met, and however
long the war may last, there is no occa-
sion to fear that we shall exhaust the
patriotism of our ladies. Defeat and dis
aster only make them stronger, and the
more claims there are upon their benevo-
lence, the easier do they arise to an apprc-
citation of their duties. So long as loyal
men are suffering from disease and wounds,
so long will loyal women delight in Pc
slowing upon them their care and attcn-
ton; so long as the sanitary commission
continues to so wisely expend the dona-
tons received, so long will the women
aid it by individual and united effort.
For months past the ladies of Chicago,
and indeed Of the whole Northwest, have
been making preparations for mammoth
fair, to be held at Chicago, for the assis-
lance of the sanitary commission. They
have gone into the matter with great
earnestness, have solicited articles of mer-
chandise and contributions of money from
! individuals towns and cities, and their
efforts have everywhere met with most
generous response. No fair that ever
assembled for charitable purpose ever
presented so great variety of articles for
sale, or furnished such an extensive pro.
gram of entertainment They have re-
ceived donations of laul, horses, cattle,
carriages, pianocs sewing machines, and
every sort and species of product and
!, manufacture that the earth can proluco
or the mind of man invent. The fair
commenced on Tuesday with grand pro-
ccssion, three miles in length, consisting
of vast number of military and civic
companies and associations and the APP
pearance presented was very imposing.
Tableaux, concerts, promenade concerts,
lectures. &c, are to occupy the different
evenings, and the German ladies will
close the two weeks entertainment by a
grand ball November 7. We notice as a
rare and pleasing feature of the fair, tina,
the ladies have decided to ask no more
than the usual prices for the articles off.
cred for sale, and every transaction will
DC conducted upon fair business principles
Let it rebound to the credit of the North
western ladies, that they have made such
gigantic efforts in behalf of their soldier
boys. The' loyal men of the West will
see to it that their pecuniary success is
in some measure correlativc to the sanct
ity of the cause and the grandeur of thi.
undertaking. -SprinatfeM Republican,
ia r.,