several weeks ago, are not so intent upon 'teaching the young ideas
how to shoot,' as upon flirting with the officers, in a manner not
entirely consistent with morality. General Hunter is going to send
some of the misbehaving misses home.'

If there is a loathsome, cowardly, infamous phrase, it is that of _on
dit_, 'they say,' 'it is said,' when used to assail the virtue of
women--above all, of women engaged in such a cause as that in question.
We believe in our heart, this whole story to be a slander of the meanest
description possible--a piece of as dirty innuendo as ever disgraced a
Democratic paper. The spirit of the viper is apparent in every line of
it. Yet it is in perfect keeping with the storm of abuse and falsehood
which has been heaped on these 'contraband' missionaries, teachers, and
nurses, since they went their way. They have been accused of pilfering,
of lying, of doing nothing, of corrupting the blacks, of going out only
to speculate, and, as might have been expected, we have at last the
unfailing resort of the lying coward--a dirty hint as to breaking the
seventh commandment--all according to the devilish old Jesuit precept of,
'_Calumniare fortiter aliquis koerebit_'--'Slander boldly, something will
be sure to stick.' And to such a depth of degradation--to the hinting
away the characters of young ladies because they try to teach the poor
contrabands--can _men_ descend 'for the sake of the _party'!_

* * * * *

Of late years, those soundest of philanthropists, the men of
common-sense who labor unweariedly to facilitate exchanges between
civilized nations, have endeavored to promote in every possible manner
the adoption of the same system of currency, weights and measures among
civilized nations. It has been accepted as a rule beyond all debate,
that if such mediums of business could be adopted--nay, if a common
language even were in use, industry would receive an incalculable
impulse, and the production of capital be enormously increased.

Not so, however, thinks John M. Vernon, of New-Orleans, who, stimulated
by the purest secession sentiments, and urged by the most legitimate
secession and 'State rights' logic, has developed a new principle of
exclusiveness by devising a new system of decimal currency, which he
thus recommends to the rebel Congress:

'We are a separate and distinct people, influenced by different
interests and sentiments fro