Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-07-14

ING-rHE FUTURE OF WILMINGTON N-IuIY "AaIusE-
MENrs IN THE CITY.
Special Correspondence Of ne co'nmerc'a.
PHILADELPHIA july Z.
1our reaaers may remember my reiefrine III
these letters to that unparalleled fraud, Dr.Lan-
dis and how he was hardened and released from
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jan "iieh .iio neh'eoo ~ iau peoi, 'o iiaii W
ilict upon hlm was scarcely tmrd expired. AT
all events they remembered the fact that he was
% ,o,lo,.a II ,no af ,l,a tl;,,,, t,,ot o,o not
~ pa''osa :. 70 ~ VI ". .','o -,
hich written about, pht wmch people ieei a
very deep interest in. In privacy, parents talk
of the doing of this rascal and how thev can hest
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pio.oo' 'ioi oiiiiiioi'' anu III
is in not caring particularly who hear them ex-
cept their lady friepds-men are heard to use
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$50 80 - ee
lar, III nearly every instance tiat can 10 ihihu'
as to counsel so summary and conclusive pun
isbment AS wonld induce this medical practicioner
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W piaoeoo III ho'iS ionioe from iiiii''eipi'i".
1t may very well be that the COMMERCIAL does
not feel itself called on to give DR.. Iands anv
f,aa .d,or,s;no II, ,hot oasa u lao las boord
,oo II ''ia. e"so ~ i''' S"a .''@iu -
Mr. Greey once say to iis aildience-ineahing,it
said audience did not relish his remarks it could
,o ont ;ts romel,, n c.r mt mo ont ~ T am
o. ~ ~ - ~.
teulous' OF IL oHenu propriety. oh the other
hand, if this free notice of DR.. Landis
nasses tl,e editor's EARLE Eve. 7 sba1l-conclude
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'na' AN iiei'her .euios ''of ii'ioial oo'siuer
then, the enormity of this creature Iands Of
fense, and the wretched supineness of our ali-
thorities We all know for what he was con-
victed upon that point nothing need be said.
He brought to trial after great difficulty, and
the verdict was universally approved, and the
sentence, as universally, was pronounced not q
tenth part as severe as ii should have been. BY
some wicked piece of Juggling or bribery Lands
was set free few months after, whereupon he
at once returned to his old haunts and practices.
Church and doctors office were opened as be-
fore, and the hall on Girard avenue became yet
again, under the garb of science and religion,
a place of the yilest resort. Now, his advertise
ments insnf respectable women as wantonly az
ever i'm short. the doctor was never so pros
porous. That three months imprisonment was
the luekiest thing that ever happened to him,
and il it were not for risk he might run of find
ing sometime his field occupied, when he return
ed, by an enterprising graduate of the college,
he might more than afford to have himself put
in dlirance for tlmee months ont of every
twelve. The shameful hook he was si,ccessfully
sued for publishing was formerly sold by him
for 25 cents a copy ;-he now asks u dollar for
it, and sells as many of them as
he can print. With admirable
assurance he terms this nasty thing "trl1e For
DltlQen BOOK, ami lOtleS TIE pubic tllnt IL Is
going OFF like :. hot cakes" Doubtless ii is but
/ want to know and | believe that many WHO
read this will want to know. il community has
no protection against such degraded sarpers as
this Dr. Landiss 1t almost passes belief that
such things can be permitted in decent COM
muntv 10 the MANY departments of,his college
and church Landis has lafterly added still another
called the matrimonialn department. Young
men and women are invited to come together at
the-Doggerv II know no better ternil and
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diton as suit them best The Doctor stands
ready to tie such nuptial knots as one might
expect to come from such fingers, is afterwards
handy to render whatever services may
be required, and finally for he is LAWYER as
well as doctor and preacler) is invaluable in oh
| tanning speedy divorces. Some may say that
there is a dash of extravaganza in this. Not so.
| tell Won that if the whole dark history of that
| Girard Avenue Hell could be told the readin.;
world would stand aghast | have suggested
| enough surely-that Is all | dare to do. But
does not all this show that the poet (whoeyer he
was one cannot remember eyerything) was
wrong when he said it. and that . Vice is soi
| always
"a creature Of such fearful mien,
That to be hated needs but to be seem"
| The city presents Just now a toleraby fair
| picture of a g deserted yillage.n Not so mark
| edly as it will few weeks Hence probably but
| still enough so TO pain those people WHO think
that cities arc the finest things in nature There
II
| went into the country except under protest. and
used to talk of the j sweet security OF Streets
| Old "Tim Iinkinwater,n in Nich6ias Nic6lti,y,
| thonght the dingv court, where tile Cheeryblc
| Bro. i warehouse stood. Il finer spot than Wind
| sor Forrest OF course. too YOU read every few
| months of that venerable clerk attached TO one
| of our hanks for n half century or sp who has
never been ont of the old city limits that il ia
say from the Delaware to Broad street aud from
| South In Vine streats nyI Il il srarrniy uecos-
sarv to observe. .Naltl,ongll ii il an imyariable
! part of the narrative. wlo las never ridden
| behind n LOCOMOTIVES or oil A steamboat in His
| life. Yes. there NAV be n t,pr sucl people but
| thank goodness thcv ara i,t few. The preat
majority like to take their holiday. and do take
| it. and are ali the better for taking Il
And 80 the streets arc leson,inr deserted.
| Early Closupsv preyuiI Nv tiyn o'clopk
| in the afternoon the wholesale
| business streets il not exactly
| howlinp wlderuesses nre Mt least
| hare nilnnv and silent Nerelinnt and e,stome,
aiiLe are dsnortinp tbcmselves in some bigh.
toned resort anl the clark Il IN, m, his daily yov-
are n bs down mr. III, ,,vcr ho,rliug Mace ME
| amornta Of fh;s lvi,,, ont Of tn4n Las hear
much increasn.r of late wears and this summer
IL larger tl,an Il boa ova,, haon II has n,nved N
| he SO very sensible n nofion, that yorions river
towns and railway settlements have sp,mna nm
almost bv marie within easy renchinp distance
Of the city Srho clerl, viii +io0 a montl, has
found flat ho can talsa ,yfa NH babv far thc hot
n,n,,ths tn sn,,o frasi, .at ,haro ~; an5 hroa1,
nan cn,oe and lat IL ca,, reach tha citv a.
ea,,,, asnno1 he ond "et bonn ~ soon NJ be ,,,sei
10 ,.ha be iivoi in 4 i;tla atreSt IND, f G;rsrf
| Golia,ea -anJ iii ;".l,1ntr I'm, In, exnense
for tIc same money In l,ni tn unv III. liyin,. Al
s,,n,n,o,. IL, IL ,.;t,, w ~ .r,at,,rn M
halt and il il bard to rot new IDEAS wall into th'
haa,i IN Ts,amai, irwin, t ,,a,', n.',a y i,a
;dc, of %oin,a ,iiyers miles 10 n,I frnm busincss
nverv V% =, doS S III et tn HIM " @ ha ,,aI Elan,
and thn rnsh to ,,et n,av i i. wat ~, vas th'
ostarly inactivity which formerly kant nennlf
| swelterlnB III town. The summer boarding ten
dency is one that has been observed ~ New iorl
for even longer time than here. New Yorker
business men VINO come 70 thc city every day
think nothing OF llvlilg ~, ~ and even 5o miles
up the north River or away upon the Sound