Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-09-05
Hence. These Tears.


Hence, These Tears.
There ia one fact, however, that is mourniul
and incontrovertibIe. Lots-and We probably
haven't heard the worst yet-lots OF tho very
incest girls, whom one has firted with 10 town
and always expects 10 see here, arc broad, and
making arrangements to remain there perma.
nenty, too. Herein are bitterness and gall
enough to cast an abiding gloom on Newport
manhood. Whatever the cause may bs, the
fact remains that this year our English cousins
have had great pull over US in securing cur
choicest matrimonial prizes 10 truth had
o,rtain set OF New York people organized
themselves into great American gilt enter
priso and matrimonial lottery scheme with
headquarters 10 London and Paris, the rcsa!ts
could not have been more narrowing to the
feelings OF tho jeunesss dore of "tbe States.
We send our daughters and sisters and sweet
hearts over to see the Exposition, the sights
in general. to patronzo Worth little. and do
all that is natural and proper for an American
girl to do. What is the resut2 The wonders
of the old 7orld are dismissed in a s,ntenca.
and their letters team with Lady B's ball.
Lord; As coach to Hurliugham. MIR. Cs
launch at Henley, etc., etc. Then three or
four engagements are announced. others are
hinted at and we see that the whole lot have
gone crazy over London eociety. What is the
charm? Our girls have generally stood only on
the brnk, and been content to gazo into the
whirlpool halt frightened and fully awed. ls
the fact that ono or two American girls have
made good matches going to worry others into
an effort to do likewise? Or is it the novelty
of possible handshake with royalty itself, or
tho charm Of being made love to by lardy.
darby guardsmau who can also kill eighty
pigeons 10 hundred, and take the long odds
at Ascot with heroic desperation? At all
cvonts, howevcrmuch We American gentlemen
initiate these sturdy athletes and gamesters 10
VIC run iu debt, or risk our ivos at polo aud
hunting, VIC arc bound to admit that We do
not exercise tho same charm. charm We never
so wiseIy.-Neuport Letter to the Ne,o York
Tribune.
MEMPHIS. The King of Terrors continues
to snatch victims with fearful rapdity. Ono
by one those who remain 10 the city and are
liable to tho monster malady are taken down,
and the question is asked by those yet on their
feet, "Who will be the next to faIl?" But
three short weeks ago our city was aotivo with
business of all classes, our people were happy
and prosperous, and the cutiro business com.
munity was in cheerful temper over tho pros
pect of heavy and lucrative fall trade. Now
our streets are deserted, our stores aud resi-
dences empty. and out Of a population Ct more
than 50, coo barely 5000 remain, and OF these
nearly 500 are in the grave, and perhaps double
that number lie suffering with racking pains
and burning levers. But three weeks have
passed since the lever. broke out among Us, and
from six to eight weeks must yet elapso before
relief can be cxtcadcd and tho fever checked
BY the appearance of fcoat. The scenes about
the aid contros remind one of the days OF war
Particularly does tho waiting crowd or basket
holding people about tho Commissary Depart.
ment awaken in the writer memory the daystol-
lowing tho capture Of the city of Savannah, whom
tho pepole Of starved town, many the members
of families of the first social position, went daily
to take their place 10 long line and draw the
ratious which tho generous people of the cities OF
the North had sent 10 great ship loads to the
suffering Southern port. Hero the crowd Is
N ade up of negroes, who sit on tho cnrblDg. SIT
on tho pavement OF the street beyond the rail-
ing of the C0mmissary Depot, and cutchIng
their baskets and the orders from ward commit
toes, watch intontly the large door and listen
long in vain to hear their own names pronounced
by tho black crier, mouated on tho box upon
tho windows ledge. The crowd is four or five
hundred 10 number during the liveong day.
The system OF giving ratons, as worked by the
Relief Committee, il as cautious, as proof
agniost imposition, probably as it is possible to
make it, All applications of tho moody are
made to ward committeeman, whose duty 1t ls
to look into tho justice Of tho claims made to
them, and then to give draft on Commlssary
Maccabe for ito number Of ratlons aud thu
pumber of days. This draft is presented, and
the holders namo aud time for drawing aud
number of rations are entered 10 large lndexed
book. From this book they are fed in turn az
long az their drafts call for. Over thirty
thousand rations have been issued 80 tar, aud
the demand is increasing daily 10 proportion. to
the rapidIy growing want and utter destltution
amoog the coored people. The books OF the
/ Commissery are admirably kept, showing every
ounce of food received through any source, ano
Sshowing clearly its disposition. on.-Aoalanchc
| CuEATERs AT CARDs.-One of the heads OF
the French police dc surete told me the o'nef
dav that he had list Of 5000 cheaters at ca1os,
nho l;vo bv nothing else. Some or them carry
on their trade singy, but most of tnem ID cotnt u
b;,ot,on These combinations generally consls.
oftwo professors Of s!eight OF hand and OF
4 sovoral rettievers, who are called 10 frencn
sIanr margcurs The mangeurs never play
A themselves, but they pick up pigeons oecome
Intimate with them, and then Introduce 20 then,
thc professors, who pluck them. The edltor OF
oro cf tho nrincipal New York newspapers Waa
raeontlv cheated out Of large sum OF money DS
| 100 men, who are at present 10 England. d.-Lon'
don Irsh.
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