Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-04-11
THE AUCTI0SEERINC OF MAsSA-
CHISEFES GIRES IN WASHING
TON TERRITORY.

| From the Lacrosse (Wis) Democrat
A Pacific coast orator protests against
MERGERS project of shipping Yankee girls
to that region, and desires the press east OF
the Rocky Mountains to speak out and
| put stop TO this business" He says
" Let no moreunprotected females be exposed
TO the perils of these shores"
People have wondered at the sense of this
Massachusetts abolition philanthropy for
some time tits much like the olden style of
dealing with the handsome girls of Caucasia,
when hundreds of their school marms'
were huddled together and shipped off to
parts unknown for the pleasure of harem-
searem Turks. We suppose the mode of
disposing of these Yankee girls on their
arrival at the Pacific coast is something like
this:
The ship has arrived in port. Notice
has been sent to the long-haired miners and
rough bachelors of that auriferous section.
The girls have been bathed by squads,
platoons and brigades in the mouth of some
waterfall" from the mountains; their best
raiment has been put on. Standing on the
poop deck the charged affairs with hair
pushed back from his receding forehead and
a sharp nasal twang, thus holds forth:
"Now, yeou pesky wild beasts of this ere
Pacific strand, I've brought you a whole
passel of genuing ladies, right nice and
fresh from Bosting and along shore. have
picked lot of gals, fresh as a daisy and
lively as butterflies! / won't sell the entire
lot to one man, for that would be too much
of good thing, but I'll sell each of you a
little charmer, warranted not to cut in the
eye, big enough for the taliest miner, and
small enough for the least there is among
you! Walk up, fellows. Stand up to the
tafirail, gals. No crowding on the housier
Get eout your dust and select your gal.
THE first Pll offer, fellers, is a freckled
face school marin, named Betsy Jane.
Tother name amt no matter. You can gin
her yeourn! She is nineteen years old by
the Bible, has good teeth, twenty-seven III
ches round the waist, and is warranted kind
in harness. How much for Betsy? Sold to
Jack LOngboard for five hundred dollars.
Good by, Bet
'The next gal, ladies and gentlemen, l
mean fellers, is a sly puss, named Phinda
Malura She is a choice gal, raised in
Bosting-good but honest parents-early
Injured to the gospel and additions, and
warranted perfect as far as heard from She
can darn a stocking or make pumpin pie
IN the twinkling of an eve, and she can
heave sigh, you bet! She is going on
twenty years-has cheek like spitzenberg,
the sweetest lips ard most dainty breath you
have ever tasted-all for-six hundred,
make it nine, and down she goes to Captain
Bull of the Wood for nine hundred
"The next animile-oh! sweetheart fellers,
is blue-eyed Yankee gal, named Jerusha
Jane-never mind her other name. She is
a Dustin gal. Knows all her letters-has
constitution like tea kettle, which is good
after the nose is knocked off for all it will
fetch, and is an ornament to her sex or any
other man. She is twenty-five years old
amt so by -ly handsome, but sheis heavy
on the hug, and is warranted to last life
time, if she don't die first. How much for
her? Come, wake up, you fellers! Massa-
chusetts wants to enlighten you! Here is
the best chance for happiness-only few
more left! Sold to daredevil Tom for fifty
ounces Of dust!
"NOw, fellers, stand up close. Here is a
sumner. Tabitha Marier, as was her m other
before her, also her grandmother. She is
nineteen years old, poor but honest parents,
eats but little; pine-gum lunch will last her
a week. Sold for no fault, but Massachu-
sets has no further use for her, and takes
this means to pay her war tax. Come up
and feel of this lot. She never scOlds except
in anger, and like George Washington, never
chopped a tree with her little Ratchet. She
is warranted genuine, and if not sold will be
thrown ashore for you fellers to play with
and over she goes, for it's all chance you
know -