New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-17

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Coroners jury, there is prospect of some talk
to rowdies in quite another vein from Button s.
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COURTING BY CORRESPONDENCE.
In the late Romance Of Fashionable Life
which has appeared in the newspapers, we ore
informed that G., the man who deserted his
family for perfectly promiscuous love-making
"went to Canada where, by means of matrlmo'
NAL advertisements, he opened correspondence
with several ladies'" As general rule, man
who offers by advertisement or otherwise,
"with view to matrimony," to establish a
correspondence with women unknown to him,
is designing scamp, with whom it is perfectly
safe for virtuous females, who desire to remain
So to have nothing whatever to do We do not
see how any woman with the slightest self-re-
spect and q reasonable share Of common sense,
can be inveigled into such a compromising
and dangerous proceeding; but it is fair
to consider how little experience many
women, especially in the country-towns,
have of the countless devices of the
wicked; how many women are seeking to better
a condition which sadly needs lettering; how
many women are desperately DESTROYS OF being
marfied-for which we do not blame them--be-
cause every woman should be married; how
many are thoughtless and enter into the affair
lust for the fun of it," To the latter class we
have simply to say that their fun" may prove
sad and serious business. Let any girl who is
inclined to begin correspondence such as we
have described, ask her brother what he thinks
oft, and she will probably get an answer which
will srighten her, by revealing the peril to
which this apparently innocent temptation has
exposed her. Or let such one ask herself if a
high.minded, honorable and true-hearted man,
really DESTROYS of wife worthy of his aifec-
ton, and fit to be the mother of bis
children, would be likely to advertise for the
article as he would advertise for clerk or for a
grooml We do not say that happy and pros
porous union might not grow out of such ne
collation.; but we positively aver that the
chances are ten thousand to one against it. 1t
is more dubious than Ben Woods Lottery, or
Swndle a. Co.'S last Great Gift Enterprise.
There is very little chance Of marriage at all
as the end of these disreputable beginnings,
and still less Of happy one, should marriage
be the result.
We are informed that epistolary gallantry Of
a questionable character, has been among the
layorite amusements of not few ungentlemanly
officers during the war. We use the word I'M
gentlemanly with perfect consciousness
of its meaning. No soldier who respects
himself, or the honor Of the service, would
DO guilty Of befooling credulots and
inexperienced girls into writing letters
TO be roared over at the mess-table, or
into sending photographs to be handed about
and made the theme Of ribald jests. We are by
no means the advocates of private revenges;
but if ever q poltroon deserved ignomnious
chastisement it is he who dupes woman into
writing TO him confidential letters. and then
exhibits them 10 his comrades. But for this,
should it occur, the woman has partly herself
to blame. Her best instincts should have saved
her from running such risk.
There are fellows, not in the army, who adj
vertise that women are wanted as teachers -
or as "governesses,' or as "housekeepers. -
Those who answer their letters are requested
to send their photographs. This is a
more cruel jest than the other; because those
who reply to such advertisements may reason.
ably suppose that their services are really re-
quired in the capacities indicated and as there
are thousands of women who are in pressing
need of employment by which they can earn
their daily bread, these rascals, no doubt, re.
ceive many replies and many pictures. A man
who was required to send his photograph with
his application, would smell swindle at once
but beside priding themselves upon their per
sonal attractions, and fancying them of more
value than they really are, women are artles:
and unsophisticated and too easily dcluded.
man who can thus trifle with their credulty is
such an ingrained and unmitigated BLACKBOARD
that remonstrancc with him would be pains
wasted. We satisfy ourselves with this word
of caution to those who may be his dupes.
The Fortress Monroe correspondent of The
Philadelphia Inquirer says that JEFF. Davis and
c. c. Clay are permitted to read an occasional