A Traitor Rebuked
Journal tella the following story of a rebuke htely ndministered to the rebel General Puckner. TLa truth of the atory is said to h'i uiulonbted : Buckner, it necnis, raskit:; tlio otncr day the rounds of (he sectiou Lo lma reduocd to tubini.-?ion for tho moment, called at a house whero n loyal young Iaiíy of tlie nclgliborhood éliaiicéd to bo paj'ing a visit Hafing bcea u3ked prvately, y a eentleiilan who afeompanied í Buekner, to iillow the Confedérate Gcneral to be introducid to her, the fair I Unionist peremptorily declioed. In iug from oce room to nnMhcr, howevrr, beins very near sighted slyo vecident;üly cniin; upon ]}uckner and li coniparif, wlien tbs géiitlemiin aforo, meutioned, th.flfcing pcrfinps, that tbe tact and gallantry of Buékner would extric.ite hoth of them froïH the situation of, possiWr without thinking at all. stepped forward, Mjing : "Miss , perimt me to intro duce you to General Buokner." The ! General bowcd graciomdy, and, in all th? eonñdence of irresistible smtion, extended ' his baad. " I never,'" said the prud girl, bowing with theboldness of scorn ; " take the hand of a traitor,'' and pj-sed out of the room, leuving Buckner snd lis Lntroducer standing in gpecGbles shamo and ghagrin.
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