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New England "Civilization."

--We copy the following paragraph from a Yankee paper:

"A man in Connecticut, troubled with an insane daughter, built a sort of shed some seven or eight feet in the rear of his stable, and connecting with it by a little yard, into which all the offal of the stable is thrown. In this shanty the poor creature has lain, in her own filth, during the severe cold of the present winter without any fire whatever. A physician and a citizen residing in the neighborhood recently paid her a visit. They found her in a state of perfect nudity, lying on a mattress of straw, with no covering whatever but some coarse coffee sacks and a piece of old sail. The poor creature is so emaciated that she looks almost like a skeleton."

The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1865. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. January 24, 1865. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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