Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-06-01

body of noble son, and opened widely
the flooded gates to her soul Not word
came from her convulsed lips, simply sobs
of intensest agony Sturdy fellows, all
a.coyered with honorable scars and
wounds. and Injured to thorough iudif-
ference to tears, raised their sore bodies
upon their arms, and wondering. also
aoept! The scene beggars my descrip-
ton: I will no longer inAict upon you
my essay. Would that woman's tears
might further cease to flow, by reason of
this internecine strife
left the stricken one, at the side of
the dead hero, and proceeded on my round.
Everywhere | observed the utmost neat
ness and system. Indeed, the general
cleanliness and abundance which charac-
terized the ministrations of the nurses,
surprised me. And never more ardently
have my thanks for the United States
Sanitary Commission, with their great
fairs, and the good hearts that have con-
tributed to its treasury, found utterance
in words than when upon this visit among
the sick and manned. But few of the
willing hands, are conscious of the almost
incalculable good they have wrought in
the establishment and support of this be-
nign agency. Were it possible for the
blessed women and generous men who
have labored so assiduously during the
past winter to fatten the resources of the
Sanitary Commission, to see what your
younger eyes saw-the dispensation of all
those palatable delicacies which cheer,
and, after all. seem to do more for the re-
suscitation of the enfeebled bodies than
the heavier drugs and the kindly atten-
tions which are, at all times, exhibited on
behalf of our brave defenders-then
would they rejoice the more, and perhaps
toll the longer, and with greater self-ab-
negation in their sublimely noble under.
taking. 1t is feared that the number of
our hospital inmates will still be larger,
in Gen. Grants persistent resolve to throt-
tie the mother of our national ills; and
should this be SO, then will there still be
further need of unrelaxed effort and more
liberal contribution of moneys. God
bless, then, our Sanitary Commission
Every soldier repeats the exclamation.
Every humane heart joins in the bencdic-
ton.
THE "Capitol City" never was so
stuffed with dead and living men. Faith
e!s and brothers, mothers and wives, hav-
ing read or been apprized of the death of.
or injury to. some Of their friends or kin,
have repaired hither in all haste, in order
to ascertain more fully their calamity,
and, if possible, lear thc shattered corpse,
or the limbless Que still in life, back to
the cherished home for interment, or to
the fostering care of loving hands. !
met noble Vermont mother (and read
er of the Journal by.the-by, as | after
wards learned) leading her darling" as
she called her son, whose eyelids opened
stark wide. and did not wink He had
been made blind from the fiery passage Of
a MIME ball Spartan mother ! she told
me of her two other Jewels" and con-
stituting the whole of her family and
support, who had each been sacrificed up
on the battle-pyre. Would that our cause
had more of such god-like Cornelius /;
then would we clutch success before it
were possible to flee us !
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THERE'S MAN IN IT"-The conf.
dence reposed in Lieut.. Gen. Grant by
President Lincoln, and the cordiality
which exists between these distinguished
men, were happily illustrated by char
acteristic anecdote related recently by the
president in the course of familiar conver-
sation with personal friend. Inreply to a
question in regard to the present military
nrnsnect Mr. Lincoln. with that nennliar