Shelby Volunteer, Volume 19, Number 17, Shelbville, Shelby County, 1 January 1863 — Page 1

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VOL. XIX.-NO. 17. SHELBY VILLE, IND. JANUARY 1, 1863. WHOLE NO. 954

ME SHELBY VOLUNTEER

! pvkllatol trery Thursday tnominf at Shottiulx, l&hclby Couuty, Indiana, kj REUBEN SPICER. TERMS: 01.5 0 .1 YE.lRi IMVARIABF.Y IX ADVANCE. If mt paid until theex;iratM,a cf 6 months, If paid until tlir expira i r of the year lJThe lernu will be rigidly adh-rwl to. j 75 2,oo RATES OF ADVERTISING: tt " Tm line Nunparkl or iu eqaitalcnt in jpare con CtatM a aquara. li m s i ljr'r S-MH) ' 10.00 S(UH "iiV.ito 7o.on liai.are. I tO.75 1 .'2S I ?:U"U ( I auitrei. 1.00 .MX) 4.1)6" column, J column. Mlmn. l'.trnj I J 'p Mtic in tV wial noti-e column will be chargc.1 ptr cent, in addition to the alxive rates. Tr7 All tranient advertisements must lie paid for In adnata. I Ji " lfal adrertiserrents must he paid for in advnnce, or (it rponiVle person irnnranti the payment of the ame M tTpiratiu. LaitM advertisements will be charged fifty ttati square far each insertion. TS i Announcenr.U of marriatres and d-nths prxtis. galar adrertiiipg rates will be charged for all obituary mark. TTf Announcing candidates for office $2 always In aduic. ""?" A discretionary liVrality will be extended to all Mora of a religious and charitable nature. Advertisers will be restricted to their legitimate raiineM. JOB PKINTING! The special attention of business men, and all others ra triag any sjxicies of Job Printing, such as Cards, Cii'culixi's, Handbills, Posters, Blanks oTnll Uiiicls, Xnmplilots, &c9 is cntlol to the fact that the VOLUNTEER JOB OFFICE hjw been refitted with a Full and Complete assortment of Plain and Fancy Job Type, Borders, d'C, f the Latest ami Mot Approved St vies, which, in the hinds f competent workmen, enable me to execute any variety of loh l'rintinjr the cmmiumty mty -k yhi;i-' l ori,"". ,n a Itjrla unsurpasd for neatness, on short notice, and at prices Jtfyirijr comp'jt;tion. A trial is respectfully solici'eil. An ample assortment of Cards, Cap, Letltr, and colored aper always on hand. BUSINESS J)IJIECT0KV. MISCELLANEOUS. Shelby Co. Auctioneer. HAVING taken out a license under the National Kxclso Law as Auctioiier for Shelby County, 1 aui prepared to attend to all business in that line, and hereby n..tity all perton selling at public outcry without license, except as provided in Slid U,t!i;it they lay themselves liable to a penalty of SGO. Address JF.UUY WEAKLKY. Hhclbyville. Dec. 4, 1?(52. 31. alIIS A: SO, calem In Prujrs. Medicine, Paints. OiN, Class, Fancy j.Oools, Iye Stu'Ts. rerfnmery, Books, Stationary, Wall Pler. Brushes, Teas, Coneentrated Lye, Toliaeeo, Cisars. lie. North side 1'ublic Suare. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. MARTIN M.KAY. TUO'S W. WOOLEN. Shelby ville, In 1. Franklin, Ind. RAY &. WOOLEN, QVttovncijs at Cavo, W1LLPRACTICK IN FEUKKAL AND STATE COURTS. One or the othi cf th-m will always V fouhd at their ffice.Nos. 10 & 11 New 4c TalbotCs Uuildin, South of Tost Oilice. " Nov.fi-ly Attorn) at Law, Aotary Tublic, AM) GZXKXAL C0LLLVTI.YG AG EXT. Office OTer Forls Store, rear of Mayor's Office, S1IELBYVILLK, IND. n. v. i.ovr, ATTOKXEY AT LAW, Ofice North-West coriwr Tullic Square, ovr Forbs' Store, SUELBYYllLE, IND. Prompt attention piven to the ciUe-tion of claims, inclu 41 B Soldiers claims ljr llounty Money and r.nsious. XI. S. DAVIS, ATTORNEY AT LA AY, WASHIS(.IOX, 1. c. Will prosecuta reusions. Bounty Lands, and all other Claims aminst the vioverument. OFFICE, No. SO, LOUISIANA AVENUE. Ririaia.xcc Hon. C B. Smith. Secretary cf the Interior. no's a. M'rRHD. J. towisis mo tgomcrt. 7trAULA'D Ac 'TIO.TGO'tIi:u V, A T T 0 R XE Y S A T L A W . If ill practice in the 4th and 5th Judibial Circuits, and Comnon Fle.u Courts therwf, also in the Suprcxe an 1 Fe-1-eral Court. Special attention piTen to the collection of iaitns. Oihce over Dr. Robin' Drug Store, Shellyrille Indiana. M&KTIN N. RAT, KAY Ac DAVIS, BE.X. r. PAVI5, ATTORNEYS AT LAW; CfT.ce in Ray Hou, Shelbyville. IT7 Prompt atcention given to the collection of claims. JA-tins iiarui$o., ATTORNEY AT LAW Office over Forbes' Store, SHELRY VILLE, IND. E. II. STOCKTOX, 31. D., Ha rnr.inently 1-ateU Id Shelbyville, in the pracUce of .nr.DICIXK AMD Sl'llUERY, 0.1 s an4 Romletsce on Vashincton street, between I tz C Kit. Depot an-1 Public sn,ir.. Persons laboring under any form of Chronic Disease will find it tv thir advantage to giemeaeU. asmnin:iun. .10 cuarge ljr 1 I f" AH persons indebted tome. wh seaccoui !hi!M r.nniRj one year or over, will please call anlser t;e. KICHARD NORMS, County Surveyor, FAimAXDi SnCLOT CO.,D. F - A4dnaa T tt fatrUad, or Whs trdtn atth &e

The Senate and Its Caucuses.

"Another Senatorial caucus," is heared on the wires from Washington, as if the announcement should startle all men ; anl no one seems to have the audacity to inquire : "Well, what of it ?" If the President cared as little about Senatorial caucusing as the people, we imagine there would to mnch less tribulation at one end i of Pennsylvania Avenue as to what trail ; spires at the other. The solemn Sena tors (those of coarse, exclusively, who belong to the Administration party) went. we are told, "in a secret room," and it comes out that they have been exceeding bold, and talked of the necessity of anew Cabinet ''or a new President." Did it never occur to any of them that the thing needful might be a new Senate ? ho of them has not as large a share of respon sibility for the disaster of Fivdricksbnnr as Secretary Sewaid or Chase ? The President intrusted Gen. Burnside with the command of the Armv of the Potomac. The Senators who are now most noisy preferred him to McCIellan. lie fought an unsuccessful battle. Forthwith there is a tempest in the Senatorial tea-pot. The Senators are dissatirled with the conduct of the war. What have they done for their country during the war ? Where are the landmarks of their statesmanship? They have indulged in debates, for the most part disgustingly stale, on the slavery question spinning out essays by the weary day. Call they that serving their country ? They denounce the President as a weak man. Who of them has shown his strength? Thy Lave been very fond of a "vigorous prosecution of the war," and they have, as a general thing, confounded the meaning of "vigor" with "nigger;" and thus they have contributed a very large share to the public dissatil'action with the war that prevails. The few of them who have had the grace to lift their eyes beyond the African horizon are not, we presume, those who are now most rampant in caucus. Several of them have want ed, above all things, "a proclamation of freedom," and have assured us, with all the force of expression they could command, that the President had hut to write his name to a document declaring the emancipation of the slaves of rebels, to crush the elements of rebellion. What is the matter now, on the eve of the issue of the proclamoiion ; that they talk of a "new President?" Won't the paper fulaiination do the essential thing ? If not, why not? They don't like Burnside's position on the Rappahannock. Whose influence, whose public sentiment, whose madness, drove him there ? Who made the most unseemly clamor about the Peninsula route to Richmond ? Senator Chandler,' who confounds vociferation with achievment, in times of trouble, may remember, and if he does not, ought to have his own speech on the Peninsula campaign read to him, by way of refreshing his memory. That speech needs ex amination in the light of the historv of the war, made since it was spoken. Upon the whole, we think we are safe in making the observation that the general judgment of the country pronounced upon the caucusing Senators is that the best thing they could do would be to mind their own business ; that they have enough to do in the Senate Chamber and Committee Rooms, if they can be brought to change their habits so far as to give it their vigilant attention, to occupy all their time ami intellect. The deputations of Senators that go up from thtdr secret places to the White House, to insist upon it that the President must do certain things, like most other deputations that have waited upon him since the commencement of his Administration, with the axes of their self-righteousness to grind, have teased him to do very foolish things often, usually, the very worst things he could do under the circumstances. It is not surprising or alarming, but rather satisfactory, lhat he should treat them with a gocd-natured obstinacy that they find dreadfully provoking, and that they withdraw in a mood of maledictions. If the President cares to be held in public estimation as a man of firmness, rather than of unavailable amiability, he will take measures to reduce the dimensions, frequency and pretensions of the Committees Senatoiial, Clerical, and of whatever sort that visit him, the object of whoso importunity is to bring such personal pressure upon him as will induce action he would not be likely to take simply at the suggestion of the public interes. The President's mind should of course, be informed hy his visitors, on matters not likely to be discussed without unQicial interposition, and it may be well that his attention, as to some of the details of his duties, should be quickened, and we by no means consider that he should be inaccessible to his fellow-citizens, but the incessant calling upon him of mere boring committees has become an annoyance to him and a nuisance to the nation. Congressmen of all sorts bounce Upon the President in committees, and j labor with him, each as if it wer esseni in cKotn that tlm nccm n,.nn i:. K i "FX' mm snouKi oe neavier io me square men than any other deputation might inflict. Mr. Sumner and a parcel of the Radicals rusn up to see tne I'resi ieni, ana urge him in the name of all the antique heroes and all the modern beatitudes, to stand by his "proclamation ;" Mr. Crittenden, with a tail of Conservatives, calls, and tells a very different story, ind begs that

the proclamation be revoked ; aud each

has the infallible remedy lor the rebellion, and the President is bedeviled by one to hang the dog, and by the other to choke him to death with butter. Clergymen of various creeds and calibers, gentlemen of missionary proclivities, transcendental humanitarians, call upon him, spilling over with special revelations of the will of God, and the circumstantial interest taken by Divine Providence in Abraham Lincoln, claiming, in effect; to be the announced agents of the heaveuly powers to command the President's attention to such temporal things as combine the greatest degree of perplexity with the least possibility of profit. The President aught to know that the very persistency of the boring committies is painfully felt by the observant people, to imply that he is not, to use a pugilistic phrase, as "stiff on his pins" as it would be well to be. If this implication were shown, by a vigorous Presidential policy, in kicking out the borers, to be unfound ed, there would be a service of importance rendered the country. The Sufferings of our Soldiers. An inevitable consequence of war is that soldiers suffer terribly from priva tion, wounds and disease. It is also true. perhaps to an extent no greater at the present time than is usual under like cir cumstances, that the families of soldiers suffer for want of the pay to which they are entitled. We hear of instances of privation from this cause which appeal piteously to the hearts of all humane perSJ tl a . sons. Where this is unavoidable, the trial is easier to be borne, but from the testimony being received through private letters and by personal observations in the army camps, there is reason to believe that our soldiers are often the victims of a culpable remissaness on the part of the agents of the government. In the Connecticut Legislature, last week, very startling facts were elicited pending a discussion upon a resolution to appoint a joint committee to investigate the condition of volunteers from that State. Mr. Scranton said he did not hope for a full investigation of this important sub ject, at the present session. But he felt strongly, and as an eye-witness he would say that the condition of the troops referred to was far from wdiat was generally supposed. It was a disgrace to human ity. lie knew not where the blame lay, but he knew that somebody was grievously at fault, lie could not feel that he had discharged his whole duty, after seeing with his own eyes the sons of Connecticut suffering privations, the very thought of which made the heart sick, if he did not make an etfoit for their relief. He saw one of our regiments ordered to march to the front, in which many of the men were without shoes to cover their feet, while the mud was ankle deep, and soon snow came upon them. One regiment he visited had not hail a change of shirts since early in September, and they were in the disgusting condition which such a state of things would naturally produce. They had been obliged to do without shirts and stockings, while the only ones they had could be taken to the Potomac and washed. One regiment, which left Chain Bridge three months ngo, had not to-day received its knapsacks, which were snugly stowed away in Washington. They had passed through this inclement weather with nothing in addition to the blouse they wore from Connecticut, but a single blanket. For fifty days they were without blankets or overcoats, and had never had a change of shirts or stockings. In reply to an inquiry, he said the knapsacks were finally sent forward, but the regiment was ordered off as they were on the point of receiving f hem, and then, the wagons being wanted, they were put into a barn, where they were pillaged of everything worth carrying away. Their sick he found lying on the ground, under little shelter tents, and the surgeons averred that it was impossible to get to them to properly examine and minister to their wants. He said the 14th and 16th Regiments were in this lamentable condition, and he had been informed tha others were also suffering in the same way. Rev. Mr. Rockwell, of New Britain, could affirm this was all true. He had himselfseen the sufferings of these men. He had visited the camp at Harper's Ferry, to remove a sick boy, and had slept with the men, and witnessed the heartrending privations to which they were forced to submit. He knew not where the fault was, but there should bo an inquiry, and the guilt should be placed where it belonged. He knew that our men had been without their knapsacks since leaving Washington, in September, and since the battle of Antietam, where they lost much of their clothing, they had been without overcoats or blankets. Indeed, they had no tents, except thoso dug from where they were buried by the troop under Col. Miles. These things could have been had if a proper officer had been detailed to forwartTtkem. The men generally attributad the fault to the Quartermaster's Department at Washington. though some blamed the commander of the corps.

Gen. Pratt said the fault was with the field officers of the regiments. They had ought to refuse to march their men to battle until they were properly supplied. Mr. Bnshnell said the Quartermasters and Brigadier General would hear of this resolution, and he believed "some of them deserved to stretch hemp. He had seen them carousing at Willard's, when they should have been attending to their duties. He was quite sure, however, that neither Gen. Meigs nor anybody else at Washington was in fault, for Gen. Meigs had sworn that everything had beeu provided in abundance. Mr. Peck, of New Haven, thought the committee should be given power to bring to account those guilty of this shameful ueglect. He earnestly denounced the official abuse that had caused so much

suffering among the lad; of Connecticut who had been sent to aid the Government. It was damnable that such a state of things should be suffered to exist, and somebody should be punished. Mr. Hyde, of Tolland, was satisfied the facts stated were true, in their largest latitude. He pal spent weeks in urging men to enlist ; but if he had supposed they were to suffer as they have, since leav ing the State if he had supposed they were to be treated like dogs he never would have asked a man to volunteer, and he never would ask another, if this state of things was to continuer. He knew of many officers men of small means who had never received a penny from any source since they entered the service, and the Government not only neglected to pay them, but refused to trust them for their rations, and they were subsisting on charity. We all know the commander of that army was removed because he would not order his army forward to Richmond without supplies, and tho regiments of whoso sufferings we have heard to-day were in that army. He was not fast en ough for the men at Washington, who said that everything was provided ; but here are these Connecticut regiments still suffering from official neglect, because whose duty it is to provide for them are occupied with politics, and the welfare of other classes of people. When Gen. Halleck reported that everything was right, Connecticut men were absolutely lying of neglect lying on the ground, without proper clothing or tents to pro tect them. Mr. Chapman, of Hartford, regarded this a matter of great importance. It is a disgrace to the country and to humanity, that such a state of things should be permitted to exist for a single day. W hen Connecticut was called on, she came promptly to the rescue, and con tributed without measure or tint of her men and means. He, in common with many others of thoso who, when it was fashionable, were suspected of disloyalty, hail done what he could to encourage those men to enlist ; but he would not have done it he covld not have conscien tiously done it, if-he had known they were to be treated in this shameful manner. They had not only not been furnished with supplies, but had not been paid the doleful pittance which is the soldier's due. He read a letter from an officer of the 22nd regiment, confirming what ho had stated. He proceeded to remark at length upon the state of things brought to light. There was no disguising the fact ; our sons and brothers have not only been butchered by the rebels, but they have been murdered by their own government. ' Murdered by the Government" is a pretty strong expression, but making all allowances, it is evident the authorities at Washington shanld bo aroused to the necessity of caring for the soldiers of the army. The means of the Government are adequate to supply these men with clothing and food. There is no reason why whole regiments should be exposed at this inclement season "fifty days without blankets or overcoats," or a change of underclothing, or even their tents, while others are "without shoes, to their feet." No wonder that these poor fellows suffer "hcart-ronding privations." Let the calls of the country bo loud and strong, till relief is given. Master and Scholar. When I was a boy,' said an old man, we had a schoolmaster who had an odd way of catching idle boys One day he called out to us: Boys, I must have closer attention to your books. The first one of you that sees another boy idle, I want you to inform me, aud I will attend to the case. Ah,' thought I to myself, 'there is a Joe Simpson that I don't like. I'll watch him, and if I see him look off his book I'll tell. It was not long before I 6aw Joe look off his book, and iniineadtately I informed the master. 'Indeed,' said he, 'how do you know he was idle? 'I saw him,' said I. You did; and were yonr eyes on your book when you saw him?' I was caught, and never watched for idle boys again. If we are sufficiently watchful over our own conduct, we shall have no time to find fault with the conduct of others.

Froia Mevlary's Columbus Criaia.

Horrible Disclosures in Kelation of Camp Chaso Prison How they Treat Prisoners Tho Camp Overflowing with Vermin A Han Mur dered. From what we learn of our own Ohio citizens who have teen incarcerated in the prison at Camp Chaso for what the Abolitionists are pleased to call olilical offenses, we have become satisfied that it is due the honor of the btate to at once demand a reformation there. If the history of that prison is ever written, it will cast a reproach upon Ohio and her citi zens which they ouhgt at once to repudiate. The Democratic party, especially, should not let its burning barbarities. crimes, and even tortnres, rest upon its shoulders. We and our paper were lonir since excluded from even a peep into that bloody Bastile, and we arc, therefore, not responsible for its crimes, iniquities and barbarities. We probably never should have known or heard of it, had not several of our own citizens been there to bring forth the horrid tale of woo and suffering. W speak wholly of the political prison, the prison of state, as we know nothing whatever of what occurs iu the prison where "rebels taken in arm" are kept, that is, "the prisoners of war." It must not be forgotten that there has been from six to seven hundred political prisoners at Camp Chase at. a time ; and although several hundred have been lately discharged without trial, there are yet there some four hundred one or two hundred of these have arrived there within a few days past from Kentucky and Westeen Virginia. These men are taken from their homes, some from their beds at night, some from their houses in daytime, and a great many of them are picked up in their fields at work, and never suffered to see their families before being spirited off to Ohio and incarcerated in this celebrated Bastile, which will soon be as famous as Olmutz itself. Our Ohioans are put into the same prison with these men from other States, and from them wo have learned soruo facts which the people of O lio ought ti know. Many of these men have been kept in this prison for over one year, a great many for five, six, seven and eight months, without even seeing ont.-dde, or being allowed to communicate personally with any one, not even wife, child, father, mother, or stranger. fi'i e ?..! ,s xuey are iurnisnca wun noininjr out a single blanket, even these cold nights, unless they are able to pui chase addition al comforts with money they may be able to command. Many are poor men, and unable to purchase ; they were not permitted to bring along a change of clothing, and many had on when seized nothing but summer wear, and that has become filthy, worn out, and scarcely hangs upon their backs. They have no bedding, and are, therefore, compelled to sleep on the bare boards. They have not enough wood furnished to keep fires up all night, and hence the sulfering is intensified by the cold weather. If thev attempt, after night, to walk out in the yard to take off the chills of the dreary night, they are instantly threatened to be shot by the guards, as ordered by those in command. Dr. Allen, of Columbiana county, Ohio, said ho laid on a bare board until his hips were black and blue. The wood furnished them is four foot long, and they are compelled, each mess, to chop it up for themselves, and, the provisions being furnished raw, they have to cook it for themselves. Recollect, always, that these are the political prisoners, against whom no one appears as accuser, and no trial is permitted. The prison has become filthy awfully so and the rats are in droves. If the prisoners attempt to killone of these rats, they are forbidden, and threatened with being shot instantly. Recollect, always, as we said above, th'ere are political prisoners, against whom some malicious negro worshipers has created asuspicion oi uisioyaity, but wiiosa name it kept secret, and heuce there can be no trial. The prison is perfectly alive with lice, and no chance is given to escape the living vermin. A dead man, one of the prisoners, was the other day carried out to the dead yard, and laid there over night, and when visited in the morning by the other prisoners, who heard there was a dead man there, they found the hair on his head stiff with lice and nits the lico creeping into his eyes in great numbers, and, as he lay with his month open, the lice were tkick crawling ia and out of his open mouth. Not long since two of the prisoners got into a scufRe in tiying their strength, and finally into a fight, as was supposed, and several other prisoners rushed to part them, when the guards from the lookout above fired on them, killing an old man by the name of Jones, from Western Virginia, and a ball grazing the skull of another, he fell, and it was supposed at first he was killed also; another of the balls passed through a board at the hea 1 of a sick man in the hospital, and only escaped him by a few inches. The two men in the sculHo were not hurt. We might go further, but God knows this is enough for once. It is enough to mako one's blood run cold to think cf it. Now if any one doubt this if the authorities at camp or at the State Honse

donbt it, if the Legislature when it wests will raise a committee, we promise t name the witness who, if tent for, will, under oath, prove all this, an 1 at ir.sch more, some of which is too indecently print in a a newspaper for the putlic car. We do not briug these tLins to liLt for any other pui puse than an act of humanity, of iecct for the fir fame of Ohio, and to direct public attention to them that the brutal authjiitics f that camp may have justice tone them. Hot Commandant ot the camp i hims?lf a member of the Ohio House cf R?j icscntatives. He will no doubt appear oa thj first Monday of January to take hii eat. Let him answer to bis peeisou that oor let him answer to hi. constituent who elected him let him answer to the whcJo people of Ohio, if he dare, whether theso things are so or not. Heaven bj blescd it any modification can I eput upon theso transactions any excuse cf the mct t rival nature, by which th fame of OLi maybe vindicated from the ciime anl stigma whitdi otherwise must go down " to all time upon the pages of our Li-

tory. A Hejected Bachelor's Kcvcngc. "Matilda," sail I, "I am sorely temp ted to say something in ell fiaukneh" I paused. "Well," murmerel Matilda, in th lowest of voices, after a silence of tevcial minutes. "A burnt child dreaJU the fire," I re plied. "To be refused twice by the tarn s woman would be a desperate wound to a man's vanity. Have you forgotten, Matilda, here ia this very room, two year ago, how you replied to my o.i'ci? 1 ismember your very words: 'You a;e iucb a muff!' " "!I never said that. Oh, no! At least, surely suiely, I never could Lava said anything so rude. Weil, yes I believe I recollect 1 did so, but" . She laid her hand onmy arm with a jesture full of co jueteiy, and shot a glanco at me from under her Ion:? cvtdashes which she intended and prbally believed to be irresistible, as slu aided, I tetrad them; you are no longer the same man. ou are quite t hanged, you. oa aie not a muff now!" 'You are riht, I- replied, 'I am no longer the sains man. Will you liat'-a to me without laughing?' There w little need for this request. Matilda's manner presented a very decided con ti est to her demeanor of two year ago. Her shoulders did not now shako with suppressed mirth. She- sat like a statute ; all affection, all conventionality for tho time forgotten, utterly absorbed 'in ths words which fell from my lips. 'Mis Mansbane, two years ago, when I was pure and good, you rejected the noblest offer w hich, can be bo ma lc to a woman the offer of a siucere, faithful heart.You were not satisfied with simply re jecting you treated me with ridicule and scorn. 1 was then ves, I sav it invself a man whom a virtuious woman m:irht have been proud to accept, 1 was unpoluted, and I loved you'. I belie cd in, you! I would have cheri-hed you! I saw my type of excellence iu you. lou were right. I was indeo-d 'a muu ti.en. What am I now? I have sown my w ii l oats, as the world call it. Do you know what that impiies? It means that I hava degraded myself in mv own esteem, lost my robe of parity, and with it my b.-a-ui-iui ltiusiona respecting your sex. Now I can re-echo Bvron's lament Xo mrj no mire oh ! ntrrr mora oa rr. TLe tic4iitt of li-e hei.i riil till l..e iie. But the dissipation into which men ara permitted to plungs with impuuity is a fitting a necessary preparation to ena ble us to hink to that depravity of tha mind and heart which can make us worship women like you. Slaitnot. I hava sullied my soul, and society Instead of spurning, opens her arms and welcomes the roue. It is such wooien as yon, who, wearing the mask of hypocritical picdery. are the ruin of men; win hold out a, premium to sin, who admire us for our errors. But you shall not have the satisfaction of finding that you have utterly ruined me. 1 loathe and depie a ocioty which careses me l?cau-e I forfeited my own self-esteem. Hcncefoith I quit old associations, and return to a rational lifePerhaps some day I may become worthy of the love of a good woman. Mis Mansbane, I wish you a good morning. Matilda Jane regarded me with a look of rag, in which all feminine dignity, cunning and grace, were forgotten. "For once 1 saw her without artifice, and heard her speak with sinccrty as she hissed out the wcrds, You have behaved shamefully, and I hato yon' Thank yon,' I replied; I shall quit this room with a mnch better opinion of myself than I had when I entered it And I withdrew. Whether Matilda Jano appeciate 1 tha practical lesson I had given her whether it was her pride r.ione which was wounded, or if h?r conri-nce had Leeu touched, I know net. Women haee tha power of concealing their sentiments better than men. I dr not think my ol 1 tlame will coquette any biy cUe in a hnrry. X5T "Have you Goldsmith's Greece asked a gentlhman, on euteiing a lookstore."No, sir ; but they hnve.soma I excellent bear's oil in th cex: door' rep'ied tha counter boy.