, 1873-11-17
A Run Through tho Slums---Pic
turcs in tho By-Pinccs.
From Our G),r,t Correspondent.
wAsn1Naros, nov IL 1873.
q Yos,'' said

"Why even d little roliof-say that which
comos from stopping arbltrnry ratoa, SUCH aa aro
put up or down many per cont In day-would
:bo somothing. Some understanding must bo
hnd, or tho country will look olsowhoro than to
politics for tho way out"
>, "And as to Finance ?"
: swell, tho restriction Of tho banks as to pay
ing interest on their deposits La ono Of tho things
ncedfu1 to be tlono.'
It did not, therefore, appear to me that Mr..
John A. Kasson had my deeper viows than moro
expedlency on subasratum question. He Is =
bluo.oyod man, Of courtly md goldfish address,
with woll-1tting clothes on mediocre limbs aud
cheRt, and sidc-whskers. 7 put him down aa the
average Congressman. ,,.....,-,..-
Lately have bocn looking at tho
uNpEns1DE or, WASHINGTON,
Including Its criminal classes aud police. To-day
I sond you an inBtsllment.
Right under the dome Of the Capitol, on the
broad avenue which leads to tho Long Bridge,
:is brick mansion, quito superior to tho small
tcnonlents around 1t, and which ladies, driving
past ovor tho woodou-paved Htroots, never liz
qu1re about, nor mon look toward. This has
boon known beyond the memory Of tho present
'.MAnY uA11'a."
Its social aecluHion has protected 1t from genor-
occasions. pulled tho occupants aud fined tho
matron. Mote thnn thirty years ago, throe aia-
ters, fallen from vlrtues md OF tho ordinary 3D.
a caste o 9 such tp to wa
Tiny Hall. the juniors, were attractive enough
to d coarso caste Of men to go into privacy un-
dor protection in the plantation-days. Mary
Hall retained possoaBion OF this bagnso until
some years past, when she bought farm on the
Virginia side Of the Potomac, which afterwards
got ! place in the history ot tho nebollion as
Halls Hill. There she resides to this day, sere,
this Taustinian ahamb]e, which Ia controlled by
ono Of tho uoro commercially ahrewd OF hor
boarders, Molly Davis. T1eao women, however,
Te4s s clue To.ts to thif iaopsss Ggs i nde'd W., il
many @ names, na bright Il tue aDoa' pagos ''og 81
Tho atatcamanahip of tho country, have, in
here; but those belonged to the classical era of
our politics. Nowadays very conspicuous pub
lie man would fear tie watchful censorship Of
r9mor and the pI,ess too much to repent visits
which - and - were not debarrcd from
making evon In tho height OF famo. The oroct
old manBion seema to havo once known moro
domestic proprietorehip, but It has long ,becn
give it soraglio-hke, endungeoned look. Tho
venerable market-place Of youthful shame, folly,
Or despair, 1t will not long rstaiu its priority.
These graceful pavements. renovated streets,
and sodton alleys already doom it to bo rocoy
cred to its former family sunshine, and plucked
from the great whito presence of tho dome Of
the Capitol, whero enthronod Freedom turns hor
back upon it, and 1idoH it with her Hhicld.
To carry a list Of this kind to greater lengths,
Is unnecessary, as al vice Of this kind is nonot-
onous, aud without any elements Of wondor, or
even suggestion. Lads beguilod by carly ten
drink, ,ruflanH seeking to inspire love in tho
loathed for tho sake ct tho prof1ts thoy may re-
;ceiye: What is duller than tho page OF vice3 =
A prominent police-authority told me that
ONE HUNDRED PORTALS,
high and low, dedicated to lewdnoBs Of tho kind
recited, In Washington City. Besides, there
Of % Which, and peraps tue most protentious ss o1e Is
within sight Of tho Post-Of}iee Department.
Thrce others, notable amongst tho police, arc On
Eleventh street. on Second street near tho
depot. and on Z street. Such places arc fre-
..quentod By errant girls who board at home. aud
whoae parents lot them sRunter freely around
tho Capitol or attond the balls and excursions i
nften, also, BY work-gi1la in tho largo printing
city, and tho necessities Of some Of tho lodging
house ladies' being dependent upon it, often
leads to i'idi1ereneas na 10 the morality Of the
occupants, aud thus the proprietress gradually
.aeaconta to DO procuress. A woman On Four
!eenth etrcot. near tho Foundry Church, got into
tha habit Of giving place to calloss and The other
day an adyentuzesas,, was brought there who
turcss tho police developed the inndlady, who
thus lost hor disguise rs she had already lost ler
rhnractor.
"TLs worst enomy to the virtue Of young
private auppses-rooms which aro springing up on
Seventh md some othor atreeta. Thoy look to
be mere oonfectioners' places, but thoy arc gon-
orally kept BY the lowest mercenaries, aud often
loose girls lie there in wait for accidental gonte-
mon. In theBa abandoned placoH, with fair out
eidoB. men take bold daIneB or thoughtless
maids. and labor to induce them to drink glass
of vino. Tho liquor, tho surroundings, the In
f1ta MI
affords to the Heducer, lead ms to hope that va
nests Of vice."
i put the question to several porsons, as to
whether lasciviouBnesa
IN TIIB oArITAL CTY
*as not In oxcess Of the same sadness In other
"Yce," was tho answor "and you can SEQ
TINT 1t is 90 by the fact of tho reduced working
hours, which gives more leisure for idleneeH to
rlerkH, and by tho exoeRa OF numbers OF females
Here arc s plenty Of grg working in the Depart
knd lodgings. Hore are young men and lads who
10 to work at Q and stop al 3. Many OF them
have no mental occupation besldea. i ia not
pf tho females In tho Departments to 500 that
associations are looBor here than elsewhere. In
philadslphia," added tho narrator, "whero a
larger proportion Of womon are employed In
Iho increase Of aoclal vice, confessodly all
Familiarity. and not opportunity. lesda tho
gill oyer the limo, And reception'ilfe, With ite
aressing and bold converse, equally indicates
the poets bad heroine who said OF the drink
which put the guards to s1oep:
fhat which hath made thom drink hath made mo
bold
Even loose lie is often humdrum and retro
cadlng, however, IL we can see IN the case OF
puxom Mistrcsa Luey Cobb, ono Of the daily
morning visitors whilom at tho White HonHo.
Exporonco has satsiiod Aor that lifo ia boet lod
In tho ways Of induatry. and she is dressmaAor
. Tho very spot |
Whore onee ahe won ler trfun,pbs n foroot
There are
TnnEE QUARTERS OF wAsu1NaToN CITY
which, Dy, suction or affinity, draw nearly tho |
whole Of tho outlaw olAss into tloir preoinctH,
These arc Murdor-nay Division" q swam- |
POODLE" and - Hollis Bottom" Tie former is |
tho groat central Alsetia mud sanctuary for out
laws OF all races, blsck, yellow and wto rusty |