Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1838-09-19


Boz in Peticoats"
THE REGULAR PROFESSIONALS IN AMERICA.
Truth /, .tange-strxnger than fiction;
This is no fancy's sketch, but stern reality"
THE TRANSFORMATIONS AcTREssEs.-There is
great cruelty in trepannng, as 1t were young and mex
perienced actresses TO the woods and wids Of America
under the spccous promises of professional fame and
immense profit A number of these poor creatures
annually shipped off to that much talked of world
and afterwards seen, and scarcely heard of
by either friends relations; if they survive and
letter by chance should escape the interceptng hands
Of the managers and reach the anxious of their
youthful days is but to solicit pecunary remittance
and complain of the falsely coored representations
that lured them from the enjoyments-however humble
they might have been-of merry Eng lard, their dear
native home. am of the few star actresses
who having lived TO return, write Of The affair as
II really is.
will first speak Of the system of decoying There
have been for many years resident in London
who the decoys-er agents, they, suppose. term
themselves the traKsportion OF the poverty stricken
daughters of Thaa and her sister TO the swamps
and SHOWS Of that loud rumpet.d land Of liberty-a
land where slavery, CALLING slavery exists in all its
grades, and in all lis horrors.
As il is mere matter of agency business with the
aforesaid decoys ithey obta teir stipulated fee they,
of course, reckless # the consequences to the
happy victims. They argue in most business like
manner, thus: " If these wreched woman perish, all
the peter for another cargo will then be wanted,
we shall receive agency fees, and ship them off;
chdcun metieryou die that may lire, the wolf
said 10 the lamb he selected for his dinner"
Some time since cargo of living female misery
was shipped off to the pestientia swamps Of New Or
leans-the Sierra Leone, as Is APPLY termed OF the
United States. An eyewitness this shipment Of un
happy histriones informed that heartrending
scene was scarcely to be conceived the lamentations
were not loud but deep, yet
"The grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'verfraUghl ksart, and BIDS il break"
THE SACRIFICED FANNY.
There was among the wretched many VII
case would have moved the heart Of even Mr.. LANG
the tender Hatton garden magistrate the reader will
naturally say, then the must be extreme one
indeed"
Miss Frances G. 80 : was highly educated and &C
complished woman, of most respectable family In the
year of the great mercantile panic in England all had
gone wrong with that family-they were comparatively
beggared.
Byrons Eve
Fair as The first that fell Of womsnkind
While on the dread but lively serpent smiliag'-
she had been aiasced in her early teens; the faace
a worldly minded man. and
"whea the blight DER her houses fortuae,"
he refused 10 wed dowerless BRIDE After hard
struggle, with many heartwruRg sigh, Peor Fanny
gave the winds the mercenary wretch, and sought
profession in which, by her exertion, mental and
corporeal, she might support herself and her aged
father.
On the boards OF provincial theatre she evinced
talent sufficient induce the agents for the American
market TO select her for transportation She fill
Of the vacancies which Dealk had made
in his annual externnatng visit les corps drama
tignss the banks of the mighty and swift flowing
Aississppi. But her fa~y's mislortuses and above
all, the dcecons ofhe handsome but heartless wretch
who had won her girlish love, had left csnker in
her bosom