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The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Lines, &c. (search)
Jack with a lantern. --We do not subscribe to the assertion of Dr. Samuel Johnson, that "the man who killed fat beeves should be fat himself," but we do hold to the partially analogous doctrine that the lady who washes clothes should herself be clean — yet the appearance of Mrs. Nelly McNell, laundress by profession, who came before the Assistant Provost Marshal on Sunday morning, was strikingly at variance with this maxim,--for Nelly was "one cake of mud " from the peak of her bonnet to the sole of her slipper. Mrs. McNell had, in the hours of repose on Saturday night, been picked out from a clay-pit in a brick-yard on the south side of Main street, in the Eastern District--the guard, with unpardonable lack of courtesy to the sex, mistaking her at first for a hog, but attempting to rouse her with the exclamation--"Sue" and a touch of his foot, he was made aware that it was a rational and reflective being, by being desired to "go to h--," and offered certain humorous advice resp