Weekly Trinity journal., 1864-01-09
On the other side, look at the following
CoDDerhead Pyramid


find two letters, one from n soldier in of the
California regiments in New Mexico to lady of
San Jose, to whom he had been engaged to be
married, but whom he left very unceremonous-
ly, enlisted in the army, and never sent word or
note to his affanceb for two long years. The
lady is now, according to the Mercury, resident
of Sacramento. Her answer, with mere chanr e
of name, is as follows;
!! I" Sin /: In your letter, just received by me
after you have been more than two years absent,
you say Il would have written to you sooner,
but we have been marching day and night since
we left therefore, you must excuse me for de-
laying it so long A day-and-night march of
two years duration is performance of such ex-
traordinary magnitude that you will not think
me unreasonable if, before excusing you, | re-
quire a certificate of the flct from your
handing officer. You congratulate yourself that
your ambition to 60 to the war makes up for
King your promise of marriage to me. The
pure patriotism of a Union soldier is laudable,
Indeed but man who can be false to woman
is not very likely in my opinion, to be true to his
country therefore, mistrust that when you en-
listedin the army you were actuated by quite
| other motives than a ladable ambition to assist
the Government
r l suspect that you have been playing the hyp-
ocrite in the army, as you did in your courtship;
and it is only owing to the fact that your regl-
ment has been kept among the Apaches that you
have not showed your true colors before this.
l expect that soon as the opportunity occurs
you will desert to the rebels, with such army
secrets as you can take with you man mean
| enough to desert a woman, whom he has cajoed
into loving him. is quite fit to divuge the love-
secrets that were sacred to her he deceived so,
too, you carry to the rebels (who will dcspise
you for your baseness) the secrets learned while
pretending to love and protect your afflicted
country.
Your offer to send me four or FIVE hundred
dollars, ito keep me until your return, is prob
ably as sincere as your offer of marriage, made
so many years ago. What do you suppose has
kept me during the long time that has elapsed
since your desertion? But need not ask this
Notwithstanding that to such as you it must
be a matter of indifference whether the orphan
girl, you promised to marry, has earned scanty
living by drudgery, or, made desperate by neg
lect and want, sought her bread by life of
shame. Don't offer money to me, you hypOcrite !;
use it instead to pay your passage back to Ohio,
where, for your pas sake, | trust you will soon
return, "a wiser, if not happier man.
JENNIE c. BARRON
p. S.-You perceive by the signature that
am married. Your two years silence does not
indicate much anxiety concerning my welfare
yet, while | writing, I may as well add that
am not only married, but have baby, the
father of which is so kind husband, so true to
me, and in every way so worthy of my respect
and affection, that | cannot think of him and
you in connection without devoutly thanking
God that my baby is not your baby" J. c B.
GOSSIP IN HIGH LIFE.-In England the great
subject of excitement at present is the divorce
suit of Shane against his wife and the Prime
Minister of England--the Viscount Palmerston.
1t seems the Prime Minister is one of the respon-
dents, by some practice of the English Law,
which, of course, is not familiar to US. The
amount of the complaint is, that Shane; who
is clergyman has applied for divorce upon
the ground that his wife has been guilty of adul-
terry with Lord Palmerston. There has been also
added, that the Premier had compromised by
paying 5000 sterling. This. however, is de-
MED and the suit goes These matters
not in English history. The father-in-law
of Lord Pamerston Lord Melbourne, also Prime
Minister, arrayed for similar offense but
was acquitted, was also his alleged paramour,
the well known Mrs. Norton There are other
cases of Prime Ministers who have been charged
with similar offences. Lord Chancelors have
not always been chaste. The great Lord Thur
low lived with his mistress by whom he had
several children, but he was never married.
The Prime Minister, Palmersto is now, if we
remember correctly about 10 years of age and
not, it would SEEM personally, very attractive
to young and handsome woman. We make
this remark without authority, for though the
photograph OF the lady has been extensively cir
culated in England, we have not seen any de-
scription of her person or charms. The theater
of the crime is alleged to be in London, and the
friends of the Premier say it is merely an effort
to extort money, and perhaps it may be SO. The
rake of 10 reminds of those rather indecent
lines of Moore, whose poetry was always vacila-
ting between pious aspirations and sensual ap-
petites
IL once heard of letcherous youth
Who caught in grandmofher's bed
But / own had meier such liquorish tooth
As to wish to be there in his stead"
.-3f0utcrey G1,etp