Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-02-08
FROM the Rochester Union, Jan. 80
Dance House Victims.


From the Rochester Union, Jan 80.
Dance House Victims. s
The low dances held nightly In different parts of
the city are destructive to the morals of the
Young, especially females than any other single
temptation that presents itself to lure the unsus-
pecting to ruin fla young girl comes to the city,
aud her parents have to suspect that she is
deviating from the path of rectitude, they have
only to send the Police to some of the low dances,
and they are sure to find her there If their suspi-
cions are well founded. In the course Of our duties
police reporter, we have noticed hundreds of
instances Of this sort.
A most painful and deplorable case came to no
tice this morning at the Police Office A couple of
Young females-one less than l6, the other not
2o--were arraigned prostitutes and sent to the
Work-house. Their history is BRIEF and may as
well be told a warning to parents, If not to
youth. These girls were daughters Of clergy
man named Ballard, who resided, previous to his
decease, in Bergen, Genesee county. After his
DEATH the eldest daughter, Louisa, married young
man named Treadwell, who died soon after. The
widow came to this city and engaged as a cook, or
something worse, on canal boat. When the nav-
cation closed last fall, she took up her residence
with woman named Lovelle, who keeps house
of bad reputation
The ruin Of Louisa was now complete. She had
sunk to the lowest degree offemae degradation All
this time her younger sister, less than sixteen
years Of age, was residing with her mother at
Bergen. She was doomed to fall, and that, too, by
the wies of her sister, who, having lost her own
honor, deemed that Of her tender sister no Jewell
The young girl left her home without permission
and came to this city. Her ruin was speedy In
few days after her arrival she was the mistress of
a miserable vagabond and thief, and nightly re-
sorted with her eldest sister to the low dances and
scenes of revelry, into which she had been 80
speedily initiated. The mother came to the city a
few days since to search for the younger daughter
but did not find her. She left word with the po-
lice to search for her. and if found to retain her in
custody.
Last night the Chief of Police, having descrip-
ton Of the girl, discovered her in dance in the
old Rochester House Block. She was with her
sister, and both were taken to the station house,
The eldest was this morning fully committed to the
work house dsorderly person, and the Younger
sent up to await the orders of her mother. These
girls wept bitterly as they were taken from the
court to the prison. May their tears prove to be
tokens of repentance, and kind hearts of their own
assist them to regain the path they have lost.
"CUr LOOSE AGAIN, MIsTER.n-A friend of ours.
who was most accomplished salesman, and who
is kept very busy in one of the uptown dry goods
houses, was complimented not long since in man
ner and form as follows:
He had countryman in the store, and was show
ing him a very handsome piece of ladies' dress
goods not with great hope Of selling it still there
was some slight chance and besides, it is neces-
sary, SO our friend AYERS, to keep constantly in
practice. So he dashed ahead in fine STYLE praised
the richness Of the pattern extolled the excellence
of the fabric held itup to favorable light vouched
for it's fashionabeness and, in short, let loose a
torrent Of eloquence, in which it was difficult to
distinguish which was more fattered, the taste of
the admiring rustic, or the quality of the magni6
c mt mousseine.
pumpkins eye flashed with gratifed pride at the
complimentary alusion to himself, and unconcealed
establishment at the development of beauty in the
goods, and hueucy in the salesman. Catching our
friend by the arm, he exclaimed, "Stop right here
one minutel" and dashed out of the store with two
or three bounds Grodenap stood little bother
cd, holding the bolt of goods across both hands,
Just as though he had frozen" in the attitude in
which he had so thoroughly impressed the rural
gentleman. Meantime this aforementioned individ-
ual whisked two bouncing girls out of a carryall
which stood IN front Of the store, and half pulling
half pushing them, brought them in front of him
of the fluent tongue
"Gals! stand there-,right there Sally and
now, mister cut loose again! ] just want the gals
to hear you!n
1t is almost needless to say, in view of the pecu-
liarity of the circumstances, that our friend was
overwhelmed with his emotions, and for once
stopped in his utterance-to the great disappoint-
ment of the father and both daughters Mont
gon,ery, Alabama, Nail
HooPs vs. INFLArIoN.-Hoops already begin to
give way, and initiation is now O Ia mode The
manner of doing the thing is thus described by a
Paris writer:
"An invention has lately been made to super
sede hoops, which converts crenoline petticoat
into balloon; the garment can be swelled out or
reduced to its natural volume, according to the
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caoutchouc machine is attached to the petticoat !;
this little piece of mechanism is furnished with
souspipe and piston.
III you wish to be seated in a carriage or box
at a theatre, you open the sousppe and the air
disperses, leaving your dimensions such as win en-
able you to occupy moderate space. But il you
intend to display your toilette on the Champs
Elysees, or to enter ball room where hoops and
trains reign triumphant, you press the piston, the
air fills tho tissue and the crenone swells out ma
jestically. hope soon to be able 10 tell your
readers where these valuable articles can be pro-
cured. With the present style of dress IL IL near
y impossible for two ladies' in full toilette 10 oc-
cupy the same carriage
DELueE IN THE PLANET SATURN.--In recent
work, entitled The New Theory, of Creation and
Deluge," among other startling predictions il is
stated that 1t Is probable the rings which surround
Saturn are composed of water, snow or ice. which
ut some future time may descend and deluge the
planet, as ours was deluged in the days Of Noah.
II now appears that this event is likely to take
place little sooner than was anticipated, for Sir
David Brewster says:
Mr.. Otto Strive and Mr. Bond have lately stu
died with the great Munich telescope at the OBJ
servatory Of Pulkoway, the third ring Of saturn
which MIR. Lassels and Mr.. Bond discovered to be
fluid. These astronomers are Of the opinion that
this fluid ring is not of very recent formation, and
that it is not subject to rapid change and they
have come to the extraordinary conclusion that
The inner border Of the ring has, since the time Of
Huygens, been gradually approaching the body Of