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Show A Word With the Petersburg "Index." Eti:ort of the Herald: Many years aco, when a student at Princeton college, New Jersey, it wa3 my pleisuffl to bo familiarly ac quainted with what I have uuder-I uuder-I stood to bo tho present editor of the Petersburg (Va.) Index, and though only yesterday I read the ravi-igs- of the same identical lunatic we had at that school, I cannot forbear to warn a generous public of his idiosynera-cies. idiosynera-cies. I have read with great regret his peculiar fancies of J'ucrdtary Taf;'s order, and I am ted to believe that his mind is as weak ai ever-Poor ever-Poor Index, If there is an asylum within the state of Virginia, I do hope he may rind a resting placu and never more conjure up such phantoms phan-toms as the hideous carpet -Iwgera appear to him lo be, but in his re tiremenl discover mat he is equally a monster as thr-y; and call to his mind the time when he and I, under the teachings of a far more wonhy doctrine than he now follows, w re fully impressed with its truthtu!oi;.s Como home, Index, and do not attempt at-tempt lo fire the southern heart with another rebellion. J. P. T. |