Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-06-08

Der of 10000 are guarded ; also the for.
tifcations belonging to the United States
and which. command the place, with the
Star Spangled Banner still waving over
them.
The Point .apers out into beautiful
narrow bank of naked wife sand. We
are just on the line from the g Point" to
tue opposite Point on the Virginia shore
across which we pass from the Potomac
to the Chesapeak Bay. To our left, we
can see no land for miles; and have a
firm breeze from the south.
The reason Of my being at this place,
is, that am in company of twenty five
others, Delegates of the Christian Com
mission, on our way to the white House, y
to attend upon the wounded of General
Grants army, now within II miles Of
Richmond. We anticipate holding OF
joining in very interesting 4th of July
Celebration in Richmond, unless we find
it impracticable, owing to possibility
that Jeff and Lee, will monopolize the
privilege of so doing.
Our commission has been very earnest
ly at work since the battles of the Will
dcrness," in attending upon the wounded
who have been moving from the scene Of
strife to Fredericksburgh, and by way Of
Belle Island, and Acquia Creek to Wash
ington. How utterly impossible it is for
one to realize the intense and large
amount Of suffering bravely endured by
our dear soldiers. who has not been an
eye witness of their bitter grief. 1t seems
bad enough for them to be wounded on
the field, but when we add to that. lying
there from one to four days without at
tention, then taken, limbs amputated,
sore stiff and swollen wounds dressed, car
ried miles in ambulances over rough
roads, huddled together in rooms and on
boats; their wounds maggotty, and a
stencil so strong as tv sicken we'll persons |;
yet soldier must remain in his stencil
and pain day after day. With such scenes
before us. we arc led to enquire is there
not cause?
Imagine the satisfaction it gives US, to
be present and ready with stores of cor
dials to apply to their wounds and parch-
ed lips. sent here by the benevolence and
prayers of our christian friends. To see
them revive, made happy, comforted. and
to pour into their hearts the consultations
of the Gospel, and hear them express their
gratitude to US and their benefactors all
over the land. We realize that it is lit
orally "more blessed to give than to re-
ceive." Let all the people, hereby know
that the Christian Commission is becom-
ing deservedly. moro and more popular,
as an agency of good to the soldiers. In
a call we made upon the President the
other day, he said, he had never heard
one thing detrimental to the Christian
Commission, which, said he. is much
to say of any body of mon in these times
of villainy."
Without introducing any comparison
here between the Christian and Sanitary
Commissions, suffice it to say, that while
the Sanitary attends to the bodies of the
soldiers, the Christian attends to the bod
ses and souls of the soldiers. Let me
make an appeal to the Ladies', especially
of New England, to continue as they have
nobly done already, to pour in their aid
to the needy soldiers. A more worthy
example of diligent doing need not be de.
sired, than that of Mrs. Portus Baxter,
now in Washington.
r., M. MERRIMAN.