Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 20, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 November 1872 — Page 1

THE MAIL.

Office, 3 South 5th Street.

Town-Talk*

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I THJS SOCIAL EVIL.

T. T. has some little knowledge of the dark ways of the world, or the ways of the world in the dark. As the old plug of a horse goes Jogging about tho streets, the tall and stately form In tho

bock-board seems to casual obsorvers to be innocence personified. So far as experience in ways that are dark Is concerned, T. T. is all that he seems. But habits of close observation, business relations which make him somewhat familiar with courts of justice and police affairs, have given him more knowledge of such matters than, for the sake of tho honor of human nature, ho could wish. Yot ho was not prepared for the assertion made in Tho Mail of last week that there wore ten rooms occupied by prostitutes over business houses on Main street, between fourth and Sixth streets. And as T. T. hits wherever he sees a head, that is if the hoads which need hitting do not come too thick, and as he occupies that high and mighty position of independence in which ho is just as roady to hit the editor of The Mail as any other man, he started out for facts with which to stir up lutornal strifo within these ordinarily peaceful columns. In a word, T. T. didn't believe what was said, and, for tbe sake of tho good namo of the city, and the roputation of leading citizens owning the business houses in tho locality named, and tho families residing tharo, bo set out in search of facts with which to disprove the story, lie now proposes, "with malico toward none and with charity towards all," to net down what ho found. T. T. first 'interviewed, in his skillful way, one 'who'has too good reason to know all about such things, and was utterly asHounded by his prompt "That's so."

Next T. T. adroitly turned the conversation upon Tho Mail's story, in tho prosenco of two or three young fellows, ami, in tho midst of tho conversation, ^incidentally said ho did not btfliove it, **On© of thom said carolossly, ••Well, I

don't know whether thero aro ton or not, but I do know of eight myself." T. T. soon camo to tho conclusion that ^lt would not do to tackle tho editor of iTho Mall on tho question of the fact.

With that groat and good man Artemus Ward, T. T. said, "Troo, too troo, scandorlus fact." And Just as this conclusion was foroed upon T. T. there oame "the sad account of one of these frail s&and wrotchod ones attempting to tako hor own lire, and that of hor cbildreu.

And T. T. romembored only last spring -Htroro was a successful effort mado to commit suicide In ouo of those houses.

Both occurrod on Main street, within tho torritory named by Tho Mail. But while tho facts cannot be denlod,thorje (1* another side to this question. ***?.!!!!

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IWNOCENT

aro inndo to suffer. It uiay not bo a fact generally knowu to tho frequenters of Main street that in the socond and ithird stories of a largo portion of the -business houses on this stroot there are families living. Almost all of these 5 families aro as respectable as any which bo found on any other street of the city. They aro tho families of merchants doing business below, and the 6 familes of sewing womon, aud of many others. The ordiuary passer on tho igtreet below has no idoa of the nntnber «of pleasant homes there aroabovo him, •wnor out of how many nicely curtained windows and richly furnished rooms aro looking down upon him the 4eye* of Innccent children, pure maid•'•ens, sud loving and happy wives and irooihors. T. T. was surprised at the ^number of snch which he found by inquiry, and by his skillful interviewing. -These lunocent one* suffer in consesqueneo of tho story in Tho Mall, and .that the story is truo only makes it the worse (tor tbern. Naturally they have a prida In the locality in which they livo, aud do not like it to have a bad «namo. Hiey also claim that publishing the fact subject* them to annoyances from strangers seeking the haunts of tho bad. The editer of The Mall inqforma T. T. that this complaint has been made to him coupled with the demand that the places where the guilty are to be found, be named, that the 4homes of the innocent be not invaded.

Other innocent parties suffering are tho men owning buildings on Main street. Mostof them are too honorable to rent their property for soch purposes. But T. T. found that two or three men very prominent in social and public life here have buildings with rooms rented lor this purpose. Of course it cannot be proved that snch is the flict, beoause these are things difficult to prove by direct testimony. Yet the .fact is well known on the street. If any one deaires the names of the parties reft red to, let him aak any ten men «doing business on Main street within the limits named, and It nine ont of

Uio ten do not name the t«mr parties

T. T. will give the questioner his old plug and buck-board. But the honorable owners of property are hereby thrown under saspioion also. The wives of some of these, whllo they havo all confidence in their husbands, cannot keep from the mind the fearful question, "can it bo that my husband would do such a thing Suspicion in the public mind these men can bear easily enough, but suspicion in the family circlo is worse. So it Is that this report has caused pure womon and honorable men to suffer.

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THE RRMKDY?

How can these families be protected from intruders? How can unjust suspicion be removed from those whom money cannot hire ti have a house of ill-fame trpon their premises As th*» story has been made publicsome remedy needs to be found. T. T. has thought much of this during tho week. Ho seog it would not do to publish the exact localitios, because while the fact mlgtrt be known to handred people, It very likely would bo impossible to prove it before a court of justice. And T..T.'has no desire to havo Tho Mail compelled to maintain a defence in a suit for libel. Tho same difficulty in the "way of absolute proof lies in tho way of effective cleaning out by tho polico. They may know every place and not be able to justify un arrest. Besides if the present occupants were driven out in this way, very likely new ones would come in to fill their places at onco. T. T. is of theopiniou that the only romedy is to make it too hot for the landlords. Those prostitutes care nothing for publio opinion. They expect scorn and reproach. If they could bo surprised by a little kindness now and then it might do them good. Rat these men who rent buildings for such purposes need to fool tho flames of an Indignant publio opinion. When they pass along the street they should be pointed out as the men who, for Ave or ten dollars per month, turn their houses into dens of gambling or prostitution. As they rise to speak in public meetings they should bo made conscious of tho fact that they are detostod because for a few dollars they permit their buildings to be turned into bousos of ill-famo. As they enter the parlor and offer tho hand to pure women, they should be spurned even as such would spurn tho oiler ofasocial greeting from one of tho womon plying this dreadful calling iu their houses. The mau who knowingly rents his building to prostilutos is no moro entitled to respect or social recognition than the prostitute herself. It will not do to publish a list of these placos, but T. T. lias an Idea, an inspiration isu't it How would it do, after careful inquiry, to publish a list of all the houses on Main stroet, betwoen Fourth and Sixth, with the names of tho owners whero there is nothing of the kind? That would protect the Innocent. That Is an idea worth thinking about. T. T. will think of it for a week.

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The Republican party has achieved a great victory. Tho movement which at one time assumed a magnitudo sufficient to cause the result to seem doubtful collapsed, in the end, like a bag of wind. Wo see now, as we look back over the campaign, that there was no stability about the Liberal movement— no life, no meaning, no purpose in it. It was, in fact, without principles. The old Democratic party, which favored slavery and opposed the war, and resisted bitterly every successive step in the elevation of the black men of the country, had no now principles to offer. It was a party from which all the vitality had been abstracted all that was left of it was negative. It was the crotchety, querulous age of complaint and opposition which succeeded to the youth ef fervent hope and deop determination. It resisted, but it had resisted so long that its resistance came to be considered more the outgrowth of a chronic peevishness than an honest solicitude for the right. There was nothing affirmative in It. With manifest unwillingness it tardily acknowledged that it had beeu wrong for half a century, but it advanced no new principles in the place of the old ones it was compelled to cast aside after they had become the laughingstock of civilization.

If such was the status of the Demoocracy, what had the Liberal Republicans, the other ingredientof tbe anomalous Liberal mixture, to offer? Disrupted from the victorious opposition of the Democracy, from causes which I do not care here to examine, they claimed to stand by the old faith and be true to the old watchword. Tbey were no less Republican*, they said, because they bad temporarily joined hands with the Democrat*, and yet they were willing to ooncede something, too. In order that a coalition might be formed. These m«n cavs to the Liberal move* isf&t what liule 0: TllaiiV i: c:-~ liar?

possessed*'- They brought with thom the old principles for which they had battled and which their Democratic allies had opposed but thoy brought them mutilated and disfigured, and as it were apologetically, because it was necessary to have a platform, and so something of which to make iu But the attempted fraternization was cold and uncongenial. There was no heartiness, no enthusiasm about it. Tho Democrat felt that he was debasing himself, he scarcely knew for what, and the Liberal thought he was going backward

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be ought to go forward. Tho mixture was of the consistency of oil aud water.

In the face of such an opposition, distrustful, suspicious and without enthusiasm, the Republican party came on strong, earnest and unitod, and with tho prestige of victory drawing tli esiUting to their standard. Against the negations cf their broken and spiritless onemy they placed the strong affirmations for which they had lived and fought against defeat they placed victory against disheartening failure, vivifying success. They offered all theiT enemies did and from a boundless store what their enemies offered was indeed but stolen goods. It was natural that their victory should be as triumphant as the rout of the enemy was utter and overwhelming.

But what of the future Is the Democratic party truly extiuct, and shall the Republican party continue to live? No and yes may be heard along the two party lines, in answer to these interrogatories. But partisan answers count for very little what does reason say?

I am no believer in the popular theory that parties must rise, flourish and pass away, just as systems of government havo done. There is no law In nature making such a change inevitable. Everything dies when it becomes useless. The government which refuses to be better than it has been is supplanted by anothor tho party which fails to move forward as fast as tho people do, is bound to be loft behind. Like a wornout garment, it is thrown aside to make room for a new one. But tho government which grows better and hotter as tho years pass has a perpetual loaso on life and tho party which plants its flag on dvery foot of ground won by the wiser and better thought of the people will no more dio than the peoplo themselvos. It may be defeated now and then because it has moved faster than tho masses have moved, but they aro suro to overtake it sooner or later and carry it on to victory. But the party which falls behind the masses of the people can never be overtaken, for the people do not go back to look it up. The Stanleys of tho political world always go to the front to find its Livingstones, never to tho roar.

Tho Democratic party has fallen behind in tho inarch of thought. How very far in tho rear it is, can be seen from the late election. Only a few straggling States are with it the great body of the people are far ahead. It will hardly overtake the advance guard again. It seems to bo very much fatigued and altogether hopeless. It hss no spirit left. It seems to be in a dream and not to know why it is so far behind or how it got there it has no heart to arouse itself and push on.

But if the Democratic party is to be left In the desert, anew ono will rise out of its ashes or rather will be born of the wiud which sweeps over it. If the question of slavery and its cognate interests is settled, tho pooplo of those States will cease thinking about it and proceed to take up some new snbject. It may be the enfranchisement of women, or minority representation, or civil service reform, or some other thing, but it will be something^ snd if It is right or noedrul It will be obtained. The party of the future will be the party which puts itself forward as the champion of these new ideas and challenges the opposition to battle. If the Republican party does so, promptly and emphatically, the Republican party will win again as it has won in the past. But let it not attempt to fight over the old battles the same victory is never twice Won. A triumph and a defeat is the end of ono battle the conquering army mUat tlieu march forward.

Nor let Republicans think they will be remembered for their past achievements the good accomplished will not answer for the good desired what has been gained in the past has only opened tho way for something needed in the present, snd which probably would not have been needed but for the results of the past. Wise partisans will sweep the political horizon with their telescope and be on the lookout for every new movement that arises. If it be good they will make baste to go to its assistance and become its champions. Tbey will not wait until it has another protector and number them with its •oemies, but he prompt and emphatic in their action. Whether the Republican party is doomed to die, or whether It remains tho dominant party of the fotnre, *111 depend on how It treats the new Issues In politics which the coming years will develop, ,,,

EVENING, NOVEMBER 16,1872.

People and Things.

A lawyer was recently baptised at Polla, Iowa. Sims Reeves, the tenor howls with rheumatism."

Theodore Tilton is very sorry he wroto that romanco of Victoria Woodhull.

A blacksmith cannot only shoe a horse himself, but he can make a horseshoe.

A facetious man introduced Hume onco as a "gentleman Hume you should know.

It Is said of Horace Greelv that on his recent tour he came West to grow up with the country.

The San Francisco Bulletin speaks of John Chinaman as "a crowning domestic disappointment."

Froude says "There aje but three ways of living possible in this world, by working, robbing and begging."

Mr. Morrow, formerly proprietor 6f the Ashley House, at Bloomington, Illinois, has purchased Forepaugh's 7 I' r* I 1 circus*

Anxious correspondent—You are correct. The man who ran for the Presidency against Gen. Grant is Horace Greeley.

In Louisuillo* .isn't admitted into the higher social circles until he has invested in at least half a dozen lottery ticket.

Mrs. John Baggs, of Omaha, left Mr. John Baggs, taking the money bags, and leaving John to hold the littlo empty Baggs.

A man who had a paw-to-paw contact with an enraged torn cat tho othor night, complained the next morning that ho wasn't feline well.

Apples can be purchased for four cents per bushel in some parts of Illinois, and several editors have purchased half a bushel for winter UEO.

The poor man has at least one lot of great value—the bal-lot. The late election has proved though that notwithstanding its great value its often bought at a very low figure.

In view of the revelations that aro being mado concerning the cruelties practiced on patients in lunatic asylums, thoro is very littlo encouragement for a person to go crazy.

A new set of religious sectarians havo adopted a spocial form of worship, and assumed the title of "Christadelphians." They believe the world is to be destroyed year nfter.ncxt.

At Kalamazoo, Mich., on Thursday of last week, Col. Curtonins introduced Mr. Colfax to tho people as "the President of the United States, yet to be," creating great enthusiasm.

A student who has been afflicted with a sermon an hour and a half long, gru 111 bliugly says that these professors study so much about eternity that they havo no conception of time.'

The editor who was such a fool as to publish a newspaper that mado nobody angry at him was obliged to abandon business. He is now engaged in tho more congenial labor of peddling skimmed milk.

Cal. Jones, of this city, can tie his luxurious moustache over his ears.— Memphis papor. That's nothing. Lots of fellows over at Terre Hauto can tie their ears over their moustache. Just think of that!—[Ind. Mirror.

Lawrence Barrett narrowly escaped death while playing a recent engagement in Pittsburg. A heavy iron weight fell from a height above tho stage and struck tho floor close by bis side. Stage "waits" are never very pleasant, particularly a weight of that Kind.

A joke is told about a county official in one of the southern counties which is too good to be lost. A gentleman went Into his office snd found him in his not unusal state of intoxioation, and unable to transact business. "How did they ever oome," said the gentleman, "to elect such damn fools as you to office?" ••Why," replied the official, "we got the (hie) majority."

The laziest man in Indiana lives in Harrison county. TheCorydon Democrat says ho is too lazy to earn a meal and too mean to enjoy one. He was never generous but once, and that was when he gave his brother the itch. So much for his goodness of heart. Of his industry, the public may judge, when we state that the only day he ever worked was the day when he mistook castor oil for honey.

This is George Francis Train's last (we hope)descriptlon of himself: "Spotless in character and courage, despising the hypocrisy of the Christian, I wrap my pagan cloak about me as the stormy petrel of the skeptical ocean. This sounds Impressive, though a trifle Incomprehensible. But the worst of it is that the "stormy petrel" threatens to flsps his wings tor four score years and tep, OY«t the "»k*ptical ^wan,"

iFeminitems..

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,.u- ,, A CELTIC DEVICE. 1 She wore a monstrous chignon— The gurl In front of me,

And b«dad 'twas not transparent, And the stage I couldn't see. So I said: Me dear you uk lady,

With the gineroua bunch of liair, It's falling off, me darling. And It's looking mighty square.

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Hhe crimsoned like a cherry, And she quickly left her sjite, **, And thns I was enabled

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To view Morlacchi's fait.-*?* ,i' For, begora, I paid me money' For a place in the parquet, And though love the laydies, 1 was bound to see the play. They're a comfort in our sickness^

But in our hours of aiae— As Scott once wisely mlntioned— They're mighty apt to taise. Miss Buchanan does the personals dn' tho Chicago Post.

A Vassar College girl has been suspended for flirting. i.i- ,, -M It is said Vlnnie Ream, the sculptress, will bust Ilenry Ward Boecher. Woodhull tried it, and has come to grief.

An ignorant young lady is defined to be one who does not know how many dresses all her acquaintances have.

A premium is offered at a California fair to the vouug woman who shall prepare the best dinner at the smallest cost.

According to Theodore Tilton, Vic. Woodhull is a noble, pure and muchabused woman but that was written months ago. jr•

A poor but honost young lady, who earns a living (working on hoop skirts, in reply to an inquiry, stated that she had spent tho

Bummer

"at tho

springs." Miss 1011a Garrettson and Miss Nannie Butler, of Muscatine, Iowa, have gone on a tour through Europe, unembarrassed and unaccompanied by tho bipod man.

Says the Woman's Journal: If half tho jury had been w«.raen, in accordance with the spirit of the law, Mrs. Fair would most probably have beon convicted."

Eastern laities on their way to California, stop at Omaha to kiss their cousins. The one who tried it on Sunday last kissed tho wrong "dear Charley" at tho depot, without asking to havo the mistake rectified.. /.

Tho women have gained a point In New Hampshire. By a recent law, divorced women can assume their maiden names. The point mado is that in assuming tho maiden names thoy become maidens. Which is very gratifying to all who will beliove It.

Tho "beautiful Circassian girl," which one sees occasionally at sido shows Is tho daughter of two exceedingly colored pooplo of Greene county, New York. We always did think the story of this "beautiful Circassian" a littlo highly colored.

They have the most accomodating set of females in Omaha that ever were invented. A man went into a house of ill-repute there, and said he was tired of life, and asked if any of the young lacjics would do him tho favor to blow his brains out. He said that ho was a man that didn't often ask for such a favor, but if any one would blow the top of his head off, he should always cherish the act in his memory as an oasis in his bleak lifo. Flora Clinton, an accomplished and versatile young woman, took a pistol and accommodated him, and ho was buried on the banks of the muddy Missouri. Miss Clinton thinks of entering tho lecture field, as the "Champion Brain Blower." Hardly any of these female lecturers can show such a record as she

Fashion's Fancies.

Engagement bracelets" now distinguish fettered hearts. 8triped shawls will be all the go with the ladles this Winter.

Thero is plenty of room now in the watering place hotels. Monkey fur is the last furore In fnrrih' parts, and New York is expected to ape the fashion this winter.—[World.

Clean shirts have been decided to be quite becoming and will be generally worn by all who can get credit of tbe washerwoman.

A programme of tbe weddings to occur are now posted in fashionable churches, with a full cast of characters, incidents, costumes and scenic effects.

Bows are worn more than ever now, and she is an object of pity that cannot afford one for the bair, the throat, each slipper, and afresh one for each Sunday night.

Tobacco pooches of squirrel skin are the latest novelty. The bead and tail of tbe animal are retained as ornaments, and a pink silk or satin lining adds materially to tbe pretty appearance of tho nick-nack.

A man has patented a bustle which for bouyancy is all that ooald be desired. It never flattens like newspapers, sprawls like springs, or spills its contents like sawdost-stnffed ones, but floats gracefully in the sir, giving tbe wearer the airy lightness of boundLog g^sciie.

Price Five Cents

Connubialities.*

ADOON THE LANE.

Upon nne stormy Sunday, Cooling adoon the lane, Were a score of bonny lances—

And the sweetest I maintain, Was Caddie, -That I took beneath mypladdiq

To shield her from the rain.

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She said the daisies blushed For tne kiss that I had ta'en: I wadda hae thought the lassie

Wad sa of a kiss complain. Now, lnddle! 5 winnfe stay under your pladdle,

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If I gang haiue in the rani!"

But on ane after Snnday, When cloud there was not ane, This self-same winsomo lassie—

We chanced to meet In the lane— Maid Caddie, Why dins ye wear yonr pladdle?

Who kens bul it may rain T"

Ring-bolts—Divorces. -t/~: Domestic mails—Married mon.j. A sealed proposal—Tho engagement kiss.'-

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Meet me at the gato, love," has been changed to "Meet me at the grate." The Creciau ladies counted their ago from their marriage, not their birth.

Hudibras calls matrimony a perverse fever, boginniug with heat aud ending with frost.

If you court a young woman, and you aro won and she is won, yon will both bo ono.

A Stonington woman speaks of her husband as her $2,000 darling, that being the amount of his policy.

A Boston wife who dosertod her home and husband, prudently returned and ropontod when hor inonoy was gone.

Tho latest Indiana divoroo lias bfeeii obtained by a husband on tho ground that his wife eoerced him into matrimony. •:r'

Miss Throckmortou married the Baron Lemme in New York. They wanted her to marry some one olse, but she said, "Lemmo alone."

A young man wanted to presont his girl with a volume of poetry. He asked hor who was hor preference. Sho said sho would have Tupper nothing.

A young lady, rich and lovely, has fallen iu love with a handsome young Iiebrow bartender in Chicago. Sho was probably captivated by his ju-lips.

An exchange says: "Silver weddings are going out of fashion." This is probably owing to the that so few people remain married to tbe same ono for tho necessary twenty-live years. "Thero is but one good wMfo in this town!" said a clergyman in tho,course of his sormon—the congregation looked expectant—"and every married man thinks he's got her," added tho minister.

A man in this city intends setting his fertile gonitis af work during tho long Wintor months to concoivo a patent gato bingo that will boar tho weight of. cooing young couples without straining tho gate, or tho young people, 'f

A country youth inquired at ono pf our drug stores yesterday for ton cents' worth of "love powders something that wouldn't stir her up much, but make her dream of him of nights." Tho urbane druggist's clerk put up somo magnesia, and cautioned the purchaser not to give bis victim too much atatimo, but rather win her affection by degrees.

A Western paper has the following: "A lady writes to know if it is proper —that is, if it is lady-like—to retaliate by squeezing back when a man squeezes her hand. Well, you might squeeze easy, just enough to let him know yon are not disposed to be moan abont it. But don't turn round and uk him, "How is that for high or ho might think you too forward."

One of the fashionable churches in N»w York has adopted an expedient for attracting the curious of i!s congregation to church which, costing nothing, might perhaps be adopted with profit elsewhere. At the rear of tbe church is kept banging a slate bearing upon it a list of weddings to be celebrated, which, it is found, proves effectual in increasing the attendance of young ladies in divine service.

A young married lady in New York wears a peculiar breast-pin, wbich has excited admiration. It is apparontly a beautiful carving in some ciUrrk, glossy stone, of a lion's bead heavily set in red gold. In reality it is tbe front of a favorite meerschaum belonging to her bnsband. He was an Inveterate smoker, but to please her gave up the habit, and she wears this peculiar ornament as atrophy of her victory.

Donn Piatt writes about popping the question on borse-back as though ho had been thore. He says "Don't do it it's tbe most infernally .awkward placo to p^p in theVorld. If you're rejected you can't get away if you are accepted, you can't embrace. Horses don't understand that, and by the time yon get yonr arms round her tho cussed animals poll you apart and if yon attempt to kiss yon are joggled np and down all over the wbolo mnntenence, kissing the nose snd chin more than I AAJ OUMT PLMFLB'1