Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-11-30

&uC3 The MashbuEt1n treaty Ot lS40 hau
waved jointly with uuRown over the island of
San Juan, was hauled down, In difference 10
the decision of King VI illam. The United
States authorities are now in sole possession OF
the Island
tB-TnE NEW NonK TIMES of November
l9 says ii is a note worthy fact that The leading
papers OF the republican party throughout the
country have united in urging on congress
prompt attention TO civil service reform, and
10 the consideration of questions of admins
trative Improvement generally Oar amiable
friends OF the opposition profess 10 see in this
confession thut their course iu the recent cam.
paigt. was justified. We hope their feelings
on this subject will be strong enough TO lead
them TO lend all the aid they can TO the re-
forms retired 10. The people have decided
not TO trust them exclusively to democratic
hands, but they have no desire 10 prevent
democrats from partially helping them. Next
to the importance ofa heavy sou thern vote
for national candidate, which We have just
had, would be the hearty cooperation of the
democrats in civil service ofOrm.
CONCERT SALooNs-Ihe Tribune gives the
following account of these dens of inIamy be-
coming SO common, in the more public portions
OF the City of New York, and which are
brought into special notice at this time, by the
efforts of the public aud The polio. 10 sup
press and Grcak them up. ........
~ recent census places of resort for dissolule
men and women were in full and. defiant OPP
Grafton. In these were nightly employed $40
/ dcpravcd women. Despite the abhorive aud
ostcntatiOns periodical raids of the police,
these sinks OF lniquiy continue unsurpassed,
and have indeed increGs Il. In some OF them
the abandoned women in attendance yield par
tial compliance 10 the demands of decency, by
wca. Ing clothing Of comparatively respectable
amplitude, but their wanlon actions and foul
ness Of speech silIl aOundinlly testify TO their
hdcpraviy. In II majority Of cases, however,
there is no protcnse Of modesty. The number
Of women employed in each ranges from three
to 30, or an average Of about seven TO each
/ The weekly expenses Of some of these dens of
iniamy nggrcnlc $1,000 aud even $1,000,
while their respective nightly receipts vary
from 9loo to 900, or more. The nightly avcr-
age, us near rs can be wVig estimated is from
! Sl5a to. $3.50, or, in round numbers, an ms.
founding total Of from S;!.5oo,Doo 10 $3,5oo,
900 annually.
In front % al are flaming lights and glazing
signs announcing the names OF the places,
Free admittancc, the number of scmi-nude
women in Attendance, and the other so-cnIIrd
attractions to be luund within, while GONE dis
play .pacards, bearing the legenu. mo Lady
adnbtcd ulless accompanied by gentleman
Some appropriately silrinks into deep, subler-
ranedn Easements, but others usUrp the places
formerly occupied ly legitimate mercantile
business, on the first and second apors OF de-
sirlble buildings. On halfa dozen blocks of
Broadway there are full score olthcse gilded
haunts Of sin, while another full score are in
| Chatham ST. aud the Bowcry The remainder
ure in different side Streets but all in much Ire
qlentcd local irs. On the single block Of
| Broadway, between Houston and Blccckcr
sis. are situated five ol the largest and most
infamous Of nll, which will doubtless b. per-
sislenlly kept open until the police and po.
lice justices unite TO punish nll captured there
| Daring the late warm weather the doors and
windows of these places Were thlown opon ;
and. while their bands, loudly playing differ
cnt tunus al The some Time, filled the nir with
discordant din, bachanalian shouts and ri
| baldry, startled and shocked refined men and
women while passing. Crowds of foul
mOuthcd ruiliIns and drunken loultrs thrOng-
ed about the entrances, Ohstrucling the side
walks, and insulting women OF respectable.
| ity, even thoIyh attended by husbands or 9th
er male escort. RemOnsirancc was only met
a. Al,
personal voiolcncr, In short, none were tX-
empl from attack, ana the outrage became 70
serious and tlagrint that additional policemen
were found necessary for the preservation Of
even II sembl,nge Of order. Since then, thc
advent Of cool weather has resulted in The
closing of doors and windows, which com
bincd with the latent efforts ofthe police has
produced n salutary eff Ct, though immunity
from insult IS far from entire ana This brlnl-
Cd locality Is still one to be carefully avoided.
LUMBER TrADE-Fcw persons nrc aware
how immense the Lumber trade of the United
States really l., and how rapidly increasing,
MOI only is this the case in the Atlantic States
and in the North but even on the LMcfc coast
the demand, both for home consumption and
for export, is very great. From Puget Sound
alone thc shipments Of fir wcrc in the year
1869, nearly 1871 coo eco feet and this year
viii he 100000 This timber goes almost
over the world. Ii is shipped according TO
the Custom, House records, To Callao, Tahiti,
London, Mckee, Australia, Russia, New
York China, Valparaiso, llonoluln, Panama,
Calcutta, an Victoria.
CuMMrNes rATlaT RUnpER IHyIETIoN,
which most of our Dentists are paying for The
privilege Of using, came to grief recently in
one case at least. when tau bluod-le