Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-10-12

A Cargo of COurtesaBs Em barked "a
tho Crescent CiLy-The vessel Lost.

A C0rgO of COurtesans Em barked f0;
the Crescent CiLyTThe vessel Lost.
There is q melancholy interest attached
to the following. The Evening Star has
been shipwrecked and nearly all on boar
perished .--EDIToRs STATESMAN r 9a .
[From the New York News, Oct 81 POD
On Saturday the steamship Evening Star
sailed from this port for New Orleans,
bearing hence eighty-seven prostitutes. 1t
Is a custom among The matrOns of the large
assignation houses OF Havana, New Orleans
and other Southern cities, at the opening
of the fall season,to visit the Northern States
and spend a month or six weeks in seeking
and selecting the most fascinating beauty
| that may be found inhouses Of prostitu-
tion in New York, Boston and Philadel-
phia, and these they consign to their bag
MOS in the South. .....,,.
Last month Blanca Robbins, Jennie
King, Flora Bedell, Susan Kingsley and
several other well-known keepers Of FASH
iOnable mansions of pollution in New Or
leans, arrived in this city, and at once, com
menced their search for a supply Of fresh
victims to fill the places OF those of,whom
they had beea relieved by removal or death.
After weeks they succeeded in procuring
the Number requisite to fill their almost de-
serted harems; and, on this OCCASION, the
number who embarked on board the Even
ing Star was, as we have already said, eighty
seven, some of them the most accomplish
ed, handsomest and Inscriptions lorettes
to be found in the gilded brothels Of this
city. ..''|' -4 u.. - H-
Every available state room on the Even
ing Star which could be procured had been
engaged in advance OF the hour of sailing,
and into these were packed two or three
girls to each room. So sudden had been
this arrangement that passu .Ge who were
bound to the Crescent Cily OH business
found themselves deprived of the ordinary
accommodations by this remarkable cargo
of the lost. . .. f-... .i,.. o. -
Blanca Robbins, well known throughout
the South as the mistress OF the most ele-
giant and costly houses in New Orleans, Sc
cured accommodations for and shipped
twenty. Jennie King, of almost equally eN-
tensive reputation, managed Tor the trans
portatiOn oftwenty; while Flora Bedell and
Susan Kingsley provided for fifteen and ten
girls respectively, and the remainder were
secured by other mistresses, who provided
for groups of from three to five, making an
aggregate of eighty-seven.
The steamer was advertised to sail at 3
O'Clock precisely, aud long before that hour
a succession of hacks had discharged their
inmates on the pier, and immense trunks,
bearing i'll emblaZoned letters the romantic
names of Ella Livingstone. Rose Standsh.
Julia Mortimer, Neil Maynard, Georgiana
De We're, Pauline Sinclair, Hortense DE Lau-
nay, Clara Winterton, Madaline Walters.
lay pileI in utter confusion by the gang
way of the ship, while the anxious ,les-
DANES and gay daughters of the devil fit
ted hither and thither among the molly
concourse which had gathered to witness
their departure. Leavetakings were in
dulged in, and many girl wiped the tears
| from the corners of her eyes with her en-
| brOidered handkerchief as she took fond
farewell of the pampered pimp who had
ciceroned her and taken care of her lug
gage. And luXuriously dressed swells
strutted pompouSly about whiting theiI
cigars and commenting on the scenes before
them, while the stalWart seamen of the
steamer visibly grinned. The scene was
one of excitement. and confusion, which
was heightened by the appearance of a
body of civil marshals, bearing in their
hands number Of wrts of detainer, which
had been granted for the detention OF
the luggage of absconding debtors, and
who Immediately; commenced an active
search emOng the trunks for the property
of various females who had forgotten to
| pay their landladies or their shOemakers.--
Protests and entreaties were of no avail /;
the officers of the law were ineXOrable,
until the Southern matrons came to the
rescue, and by the payment of the claims
| released the trunks and bandboXes from
| seizure and restored them to their owners.