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octrine 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 was "because she had a consist that he was the devil, believing that she was haunted entirely by spirits of avail, and she thought it no more than decent to tell the ould boy to go the place where he belonged" It seemed likely that Nelly had been misled by a Jack with a lantern — at least the Assistant Provost Marshal, with amiable sympathy for her weakness, was disposed to put this construction on the matter. She was therefore discharged, without verbal rebuke or pecuniary pena