Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-05-12
RUTLAND HERALD.
SATURDAY, MAY I, 1884.
Prom the Frons.

,l.H.' From the Front.
A dispatch received at this office yes
terday says 1t is reported in Washing
ton that a strong column under Gems.
Conch and Sigel are marching up the
IS Shenandoah valley as cooperating col
umn, destined eventually to cut the Vir-
giuia g. Tennessee railroad, while Gen,
Buffers force strikes the other railroad,
RI near Petersburg, thus severing all the
railroads between Richmond and the
south. Gen, Butler took the field in
person at the head of the army on the
Peninsula, with Gems W K. Smith, Gill
more. Terry, Godfrey and Weitzel,
A dispatch from Gen. Grant to one of
the generals in Washington says that
AZ hours would determine whether he
was to have battle on the Rapidan
or under the works around Richmond
Gen. Grants dispatch was written on
Wednesday,
A special dispatch TO the New York
World says no doubt that Lee entirely
abandoned his line on the Rapidan, and
that with his army, he has taken the
roads running from south of that stream
to Orange Springs and Growers Bridge,
west of Mine Run, destined either for
the entertainments at Richmond or for
a position at Hanover Court House.
Passengers who arrived in Washington
from Baltimore Thursday evening say
that Gen. w F. Smith, with very large
army, has disembarked on the south side
of James River not far from Fort OAR
Darling. ra- M .He
The dispatch further says that Cul-
pepper is being strongly fortified and
will be used as depot for stores.
Patriotic MovE.-Every dollar of
gold that goes out of the country to pay
for imported luxuries, tends to increase
the depreciation of our currency Not
withstanding the consequent necessity
for economy in the use of foreign fabrics,
the imports have been on scale of rapid
increase since the outbreak of the rebel
lion, while the exports exclusive of spe-
Gle, are on the decrease. This has be-
come one of the most alarming phases of
the financial situation, and is the more
deplorable because these importations
are chiefly of articles of luxury which
could as well be dispensed with entirely;
or if otherwise, many of them could as
well be manufactured here under proper
encouragement, and the gold kept at
home. For this reason Congress deter
mined to increase the duties on imports
But here step forward the patriotic
women If they are not generally given
to the study of political economy, they
know something of the cost of foreign
silks satins, laces and jewelry, and they
who have achieved such noble and mu-
nificent results for the benefit of the sick
and wounded soldiers of the Union, are
not backward in initiating any reform
touching themselves which may seem
called for by the national crisis. A La
dies National Covenant" has been form
ed in Washington by the wives of con-
gressmen, government officers and others
who for three years, or the war, pledge
themselves to purchase no imported ar.
ticles of apparel" These ladies have
issued an address asking for earnest and
immediate action by the loyal women of 4
every city, town and village within the
federal lines, who are invited to form
auxiliary societies. Committees from
twenty nine states and territories were
appointed to aid in carrying forward the
movement. The ladies ofNew York city Z
are working to a similar purpose, circu-
lating pledge to purchase no more i'm 4
ported goods during the war, and pub
Lie meeting is soon expected to be held.
If the ladies will only persevere and
make this movement general and effect,
i've, as there is, no doubt they can, they
will deprive themselves of no article Of
necessity or even of comfort, while an
untold amount Of benefit will accrue to
the cause to which they have already so
nobly and periodically given up their
husbands and sons. 500 iu eraEsss s.'s
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