The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-05-10

which il was bestowed. The women. in This
sweet, rural spot, were thin and haggard-the
children squalid, the cottages dirty. And, as
il TO heghten the contrast, there, right against
the brow If a finely wooded hill, stood state.
ly mansion-it was the landlord'si Some
miles down the valley, close by stagnant, pu.
trid ditch, stood glaring brick edfce-it was
the Union House, which opened is dismal
doors TO receive the rustic swain, the village
belle, the humble field Iaborer, the hungry.
wrinkled wife, and children that never were
rosy, to pinch, slarve, snub, crush, and dehu.
manise.
The ghastly panorama that extended TO one
of those hives OF industry which have made
Freeland famous through hout the universe
The sky was obscured by the smoke of hun.
dreds Of small chimneys and vast edi6ces
stretching in lines, for miles and miles. The
latter were crowded with women and children,
young in years, but wthered in form and fea.
ture. The countenances of the men we're as
colorless as the white fabric in their LOOMS
Their eyes sparkled with intelligence, but it
was chiefly the intelligence of suffering, of pri.
vation, keen sense of wrong, of inability to
be better, of ofrankling hatred against existing
institutions, and turtive wish that some hide
Gus calamity would bury them all in one com.
mon, undistinguishable ruin.
"Are these the peopie?" groaneG the queen,
as the cold damp of more than mortal agony
moistened her marble fore head.
''Not all of them ~ sounded the voice in her
ear so sharply that her majesty looked up
eagerly, and saw written, in letters of fire, on
the palace wall:-
l EVERY TWELFTH PERSON IN YOUR DoNI-
MONS Is fAUPER, DAILY RECEIVING PARo.
CHIAL RELIEF.
2. EVERY TWENTIETH PERSON IN YOUR Do
W. Mo
ROOF BUT THE sKY-No HOME But A PRISON.
They ARE THE lsHMAELITEs OF MODERN So
CIETY EVERY ONES HAND is AGAINST THEM,
AND THEIR HANDS ARE AGAINST EVERY ONE.
3. THERE ARE IN FREELAND 10743 747
FEMALES DIVIDE THAT NUMBER BY 10000,
AND You WILL FIND THAT NEARLY EVERY
TWENTIETH WOMAN IN YOUR DoMINIoNs IS
OH HORROR, PILED ON HORROR A HAIR
LOT
At this moment thrilling episode occurred
in the royal vision. The noblest of the rivers
Of Freeland, dotted with vessels from every
cline, and spanned by bridges of magnificent
proportions, came slow on the scene. On
one of the most splendid of the bridges at the
dead hour of midnight, fair girl stood with
her white face turned upwards to the sky. Shs
was very beautiful, but there was a slime in
her loveliness her once glowing cheeks were
pale, and her eyes dim and lustreless. One
prayer, one convulsive sob of regret for the
past, and
Sheer DER the battlements
she hurled herself into the muddy depths be.
low. But little time had the sovereign for wo-
manly sympathy, or to ask
Who was her fatheri
Who was her methers
for the solemn drama before her widened and
deepened in horror Behind the gorgeous
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were the abOdes of privaton, fostering depra.
witty and crime. Mists and fogs crept upon the
scene, but they wreathed themselves into ae.
palling shapes. There was ignorance, lump.
ish, stolid, and stupid, but active for evil
There were fever and pestilence swathing up
the homes of the industrious in clouds of blen.
ded red and black. Death hung on their rear,
rat,ling his bones and
Grinnins CHASTITY horrible smile;
while deeper, darker, blacker, more hellish
than all Vice chucked and skunk, drank and
thieved, leered and wallowed, and in its frantic
abomination, so dabbled and padded in filth,
that mercifui angel let fall curtain and the
monster was hidden from the queenly gaze.
"Gracious lady," spid the Director of the
vision, in solemn, touching accents, ''it was
was womanly and noble in the ladies' of your
court TO weep over the wrongs of the negro
human armament; but | must warn you that
such sympathy is dimmed in the light of an all
ruling Providence, when, in your own land,
LIBERTY, the absence of which in another is
deplored,i is, in its most God-like Developments,
but name-unless that may be termed liber
ty, which, practically, is but vulgar license
license to work from rosy morn TO dark mid
night for the most scanty pittances license to
store up wealth in the hands and for the bene-
Sc 80 sho fam halI
val politicians; license to send children TO
ragged schools; license to sot in the ale
house; license to grow lumpish and brutal ;
license to neglect the Offices of religion, to
swear, to lie, to blaspheme license TO steal
to panGeT, unchecked TO the cOarsest appeltes,
TO fawn and SLAYER over the little great ones of
the earth license to creep like a worm thro'
life, or bound through it like wild beast; and
last and most precious of all-for it is untaxed
-licease TO starye, to rot, to die, and be buried
in toetid pauper's grave, on which the sweet
smelling flowers sent TO strew the pathway OF
man and woman with beauty, love and hope,
will refuse to grow, much less bloOm.'
A JUDICIAL DRAMA.-Four persons have re-
Gently been tried in the Department of the
Gironde in France as actors and accomplices
in a robbery and murder. Jean Gourgues was
EMPLOYED as a servant by Mr.. and Mrs. Mano.
He and one Despin and SAINT blarc broke INTO
MIR. Mano's house one night that the owner
was absent and carried off a considerable sum
in gold. Saint Marc and his wife kept a small,
out of the way cabaret. The money was dv.
ded there among the guilty persons, who ap-
pear to have acted throughout with business
like GOODNESS and method. A servant girl " ho
waited on them and who knew of the robbery
and their agency in it, speedily disappeared.
Finally, The officers of the law got hold of the
matter, and it then turned out that these four
people, fearing this girl, had murdered her in
the cabaret or inn, cut her flesh up in small
pieces and given it TO the hogs about the place,
and then burned the bones. The little son of
Saint Marc.and his wife revealed the terrible
affair, and man whom Despin had attempted
TO make one of the party at the robbery testi-
fed 10 that deed. The medical men were
brought in, and after long and minute exam.
isation, declared the remains of calcined bones,
found in the inn, TO be those Of an adult person
and not those of a man or married woman.
Further Developments took place, which en-
ded in the conviction of the four accused. Be.
fore the sentence was read TO them, Gourgues
wasimpassibe, Despin hid bis face in his hand.
kerchef and sobbed, and the Saint Mares were
calmer, but wept also.
ALI -four were condemned TO twenty years
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