The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-12

nave houses, nOIeu de- Tic CtAlcIo
about which the diplomatic corps
cluster, that are saved, not from
shame, but open abuse, only by the
courtesy and refinement Of the men
who are given the freedom Of such
houses.
This is so well known in Europe
that within the last hundred years
a distinguished European states
man, finding a lady on his hands to
be provided for, sent her to the
court of the Yankee Doodles, as
the only one where she would be
received. Our readers in Washing
ton are well aware that this pre-
sentation of the case Is not over
drawn. As we have said, the dip
donates are not to blame. Accus-
toned to a social order where girls
at least are guarded with jealous
care-have, III fact, no social exist
ence until marriage llberates them
from family guardianship they
cannot understand a system where
social life is given over to hall
hedged girls and veally young men
whose only amusement is IN toot-
horns and heels, and whose only
excitement is in flirting. They
find after a time hat the girls so
free in their n are horest
enough, but this discovery takes
time, and when made leaves a faint
on the mind of the first impress
sion."-- Washington Capital.
MORE SCANDAL.
Admiral Porter is in the tolls OF
scandal, a suit having been COM
menced against him by A. S. Wet
more, formerly Il Lieutenant under
the Admiral, who is charged with
too great an intimacy with Wet
more's wife, resulting in the latter's
getting a divorce. Some time later
Admiral Porter secured a clerkshlp
for the Lieutenant, he having left
the army, out of whose salary, it
seems, a certain amount was re-
tanned for his divorced wife each
north, and this at the instigation
of the patron of the separated
couple. Mr.. Wetmore sues for
81, 600, the amount thus, he says,
unjustlY withheld, and to which he
has tamely submitted long enough.
Suspicion, temper and wealth give
the foundation for another ru-
mored unhappy affair more exclt-
ing than the above, of which vague
hints have been circulated for some
time. But the case
of Mrs. Laura f. Mitchell, for
m%ournful pathos and terrible wrongs
surpasses all. Fourteen years ago,
a young girl of rare sens.bllitles and
mental endowments, she married
r. w. G.. Mitchell, a promising
young journalist. He became dis
sipated and treacherous, violating
the fidelity of his marriage VOWS,
till the sorrows and trials of his
wife were those of a martyr. Finally
that he might join himself to an
other woman, he hired a perjurer
to prefer false charges against his
wife, to aid him to "a divorce, sup
posing the forgiving, long-suffer-
ing, noble woman would submit to
even these wrongs. She filed a
cross-bill, with overwhelming evil
dence; proving him to be the vilest
of the vile /; himself a cess-pool Of
rottenness who would have made
the mother of his children a harlot,
pleading with her to offer her vir-
tue to Congressman and Senators to
get money for him, and the like
terrible indignities. In his at
tempts to blacken her name, she
turned upon him, obtained a d.
vorce. and has now ventilated his
crimes. This man is Secretary
Schurz's private secretary, who was
recently married to a Mississippi
lady.
From scandal Washington turned
to the contemplation of an attempt
ed horrible crime, wherein the de-
mon, sensuality in man, seems to
have dethroned reason, and fitted a
God-given mind for the perpetra-
ton of the most inhuman deed
! upon d~efenceless innocence. A
) young lady, in the blushing JOY OF
| seventeen bright years, all alone
| n morning, was summoned by &
ring of the bell to the door; a neat
genteel-looking man of about fort,
t years wished to know if her father
was at home. Finding he was not
he then asked whether any of heI
e brothers or sisters were, to which
/, she answered in the negative. III,
e then requested permission to stel
| in to write a card to her father
which was granted. When fairl,
|, in, he suddenly turned upon AM
+ struck her down. Hastily closin!
a the door, he dragged her across tn