Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-06-19

IMMORTALITY OF PARIs.-An American lady
writes from Paris to the Home Journal
AN atmosphere Of evil hovers over all
things in Paris, and under its Influence there
spring to light horrors from which modesty and
innocence can neither veil their faces nor avert
their eyes. Let the careful mother, if she will
confne her daily walks to such elegant and
freuuented places of resort as the Boulevards,
Rue de la Paix, the Rue de Rivoli, or the
Palais Royal yet shall she not escape from the
vileness which surrounds her like sea. Acts
of the grossest indecency, perpetrated by the
we'll dressed strollers on the asphalte, or by the
elegantly dressed children that frequent the
gardens of the Tuileries and the Palais Royal,
will assai her gaze. Let her strive to take re-
fuge from such sights by turning to the win
dows of fashionable print-shop, and her eyes
will rest upon pictures of indescrlbable indell.
cacy, dainty engraved and colored pictorial
double entendres, and many where the enten-
DIRE is not double at all, but where the purport
of the pictured scene is perfectly unquestlon-
able
'She flies for escape to the photographers
attire beftting their characters are the leading
attractions of the window. The image shop
across the way looks innocent enough, and she
turns to that, only to bohod the mmodcsty of
print and photograph surpassed 10 the marve-
lousy executed little groups of clay figures
which stand side by side with statuettes of the
Virgin and our Saviour. She enters book
store and purchases some of the works of the
leading novel-wrtcrs of France, and she sees
upon the title page the names OF such large
and wel-kuown publishing houses as Hachette
or Michael Levy; but on opening the pages she
finds herself seeking for amusement and in
struction by perusing minute descriptions of
scenes of atrocious vice, if indeed, the story
does not surn upon the preparation of some
crime too horrible for her even to have imagi-
ned its existence.
She goes to the theater and from her box at
the Gymnase or the Coincide Franchise she be
holds unfolded before her scenes of unbrdled
and unpublished proflgacy, from which is to be
learned the moral lesson that to be virtuous is
to be stupid and uninteresting, and that to be
vicious is to be brilliant, charming, and success
full In socty. She takes up newspaper-the
Figaro, for instance-and the anecdotes which
crowd its columns will bring searching bushes
to her already burning cheeks. The trail of
the serpent is over everything. The vice
which 10 other large cities is like an ulcerous
sore on an otherwiser healthy body IS here like
a scrofulous faint, pervading the entire system.
MONEY FOR ELECTION PURPOSES. 1t has
already been announced that Hon. E. D. Nor
gan, of New York, has been appointed chair
man of the Republican National Committee,
but it is not so we'll known that it was deter
mined on as soon as Mr. Wilson was nominated
for the Vice Presidency, and that it was then
stated that he would be elected because he was
pledged to raise all the money that should be
required for the campaign. The determination
was that the committee should be made as
strong financially as possible, because it was ex-
pected that vast amount of money would be
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