The Philadelphia
Enquirer publishes a statement of society in
Richmond, from a "loyal lady" who is said to have recently reached that city from the rebel capital, and who gives a fearful account of the dissolute manners of the metropolis.
We are so accustomed to slanders that the present would not attract notice, but that, for the first time our women, than whom nobler and purer beings never lived, are made the objects of detraction.
Who is this loyal
lady? We have never heard of half a dozen ladies in
Richmond, deserving the name, who sympathized with the
Yankees, and none of them were capable of such monstrous falsehoods against their own sex as the mendacious woman whom the
Enquire chooses to call a lady.
