Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-19


, there was little squall every once in
while, but the business of the hour was,
for the most part, conducted with order
and ability. These meetings of the
association are becoming quite popular
! with the gallant representatives of the
morning dailies and as the best looking
of them are always assigned the duty OF
reporting the proceedings, the ladies' are
never annoyed at their presence. The
city editors of the aforesaid Journals
complain, however, that on the meeting
nights it is very late before these gentle
men return to the Office, and the printers
grumble little because they are kept
waiting for copy. This is somewhat odd,
too, for the meetings always adjourn at
ten o'clock, and copy is not imperativeiy
demanded before midnight.
Yesterday morning about half past two
o'clock, brutal assault was made upon
one of the Sun editors as he was return
ing home from his Office The three
ruffians who made the attack seemed to
have no design upon the pockets Of the
editor, but simply desired to punish p"
him for fun; but this desire was not
gratifed.- The quill.driver took good hold
of one of the wretches, and pounded him
so that his mother would not know him I;
and one of the Office boys, who happened
to come up in the nick of time, grappied
with another, and punished him severely.
The third man was about to enter into the
dispute, when a policeman appeared,
and be took to his heels, but was subse-
quently captured. The other two were
not arrested, as the guardian of the city g
peace was not sure that they were to
blame.
Among the novelties introduced since
J my last letter are the two-wheeled veleci-
pede, or Licyce, and female Profess
sor of the Art of Cooking" The first is
a novel vehicle with its two wheels on
| line with each other, tandem as it were,
aud is propelled by means OF foot-cranks
attached to the forward wheel. The
rider sits in q saddle on the bar or rod
connecting the wheels with his feet, just
as if he were walking, and steers by
means of q simple apparatus which
serves also as balance-pole. The
velocipede is destined to become very
popular, and is already manufac-
tured in large numbers by two or three
firms here. A velocipede race was one
of the features of the exhibition of the
Athletic and Caledonia Clubs, at the i'm
mense new skating park on Third avenue
the other night, and was watched with
the greatest interest. The other novelty,
the Professor of Cookery, is Miss Julia
Coleman, who proposes to assume the
mantle of Prof Blot, and teach the wo-
men of the country how to get up good
dinners. This is branch of female
education sadly neglected, and if Miss
Coleman succeeds in improving our
housewives in their knowledge OF what
is good to eat, and how to cookNand
dress it so that every ounce of the food
may not, as now, give US pound OF
nightmare on the chest at night, and
hundred weight of dyspepsia en- the
stomach in daytime, then will she de-
serve the thanks of every good Ameri-
can, and /, for one, will agree to build
her monument before she passes away
from us forever. May the time Sc far
distant.
Last night the demi-monde held their
orgies at the Central Park Garden. The
place was crowded with splendidly
dressed people-women of easy virtue,
who live in splendid rooms in Fourteenth
street and Twenty-third, and Lexington
Place. women, whose husbands wot little
of the whereabouts of their ohildren's
mothers; women outwardly refined and
pure, but inwardly as corrupt as Clodius
or Fulvia the wives of honest men; the
sisters and daughters of honest men; the
mothers of honest mems children; and
with them men about town-men with no
visible means of support; men of
remarkable form most wonderfully ar
rayed by the eredulous tailor in
garments never to be paid for, or paid
from the ill-gotten gains of mistress;
men with patient wives awaiting their re-
turn to the freside at home; in short,
men to whom shame, decency and honor
are known and remembered but as ghosts
of the long buried past. The music was
good, the wines were good, and the
dancing just such as makes the Mobile
fanious, aud its dancers, among good
people, infamous. Never in the history
Of the city has there been a more lascivi-
Gus display; and if the reputation of the
Central Park Garden-hitherto 30 good
can survive the disgrace, your CORE
spondent sadly errs in bis estimate OF the
respectable psrtion of the New. York
nublic. &C.