Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-03-06

sional cases of loveliness. l have seen only
two cases of women who are loyal and both
of these are among what might lie called the
clover walks" of social life. One OF these was
a bare armed, bareheaded female that issued
from a shanty on the bluffs as We passed along
the front of the city, and commenced waving
her hands wildly up and down, at the same
time tetering violently on her toes, like some
devotee before the altar OF an Aztec idol. She
continued this demoustTative but original vel
come till a couple of other females issued from
the same shanty, ami iorcibly carried her in
doors 1t may be suspected that her loyal
recognition sprang rather from whiskey than
patriotlsm-a suspicion that my own mind is
not altogether free from, as l have carefully
reflected upon this singular and almost isolated
case OF Union feeling.
The other case was also that OF an Irish
lady, and seemed more the result of genuine
loyalty than of stimuants. AS Gen. Grant
and staff were riding through the city, wo-
man rushed out from house and throwing
up her hands in the style adopted by cruel pa
rents when they say BLESS you, my chill
dren," in fitteen-cent novels, exclaimed, "God
bless ye, gintlemen Success go wild We
Arrah, git in there, We thaie, aud don't be bod.
erin the life out O. me ~ This last remark,
may say, was accompanied By resembling
slap, and was addressed to a dirty, faced Cos
soon that thrust his unkempt head beyond the
doorway-and not, as may be surmised, to the
Illinoisian hero. The youth set up Que Of
those vigorous howls so peculiar TO offended
Juvenility, and amid chorus of slaps, bless
lngs, and the roars OF the suffering infant, the
general turned a corner and disappeared.
little further, and the party passed slowly
by costly carriage, out OF one of whose win.
dows was thrust the head of an elegantly
dressed lady. She was giving some directions
to the liveried darkey that held the reins but
looking up as the party passed, she caught
sight of the federal uniforms. With a 'baugh!
as if she had swallowed toad, she spat to.
ward the ground, and with contemptuous
and expressive grimace of disgust upon her
features. drew in her head, and threw herself
back In her carriage. Quite possibly such
movements are the very height OF southern
breedng,-further north, in the land of Yam
KEGS and wooden clocks, woman who would
perpetrate an act of the kind, under similar
circumstances, would be regarded, well, to
use convenient every day expression, as mo
better than she should be'-a somebody close
AKIN TO, if not the identical scarlet feminine
spoken of in Revelations
Occasionally l met other specimens of Nash
Vile ladies, who, in many cases supposing me
TO be soldier, from the possession of a blue
overcOat, described upon meeting wide semi
circle of avoidance, swinging, as they did so,
their redundant skirts with a contemptuous
f1lrt lar out, as if the very touch of blue coat
would be contamination. And then the ang lie
at which the noses Of the naughty darlngs
went up, and the extent to which their lips
and eyes went down, were not the least inter
estng portion of these little by plays and as
sisted materially in showing the exquisite
breeding of these amiable demoiselles.
1t is mt probable that our soldiers will allow
these evidences of disdain to affect them to
any great extent. At present, there are but
few ladies in town; hundreds have fled in
horror from the approach OF tue ruthless Hes.
slams of the north others, unable to leave,
have put triple bars before their doors and win
dows, and hide at once their fears and beauty
behind these projections. In view of these
facts, those who now wander through the
| streets are not formidable as to number, and
they will, doubtless. soon become, to some ex
| tent, civilized"