Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-10-31
Mem York, October 26.
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The seduction of female purity and in.
nocence inlo the alluring paths of vice,
has ever been marked as an offence against
human society, of cast surprising almost
every other. The assassin's'istab sends
bis victim to his long account and for
aught we cansay, full. often to a better and
a happier world. But the murder, of souI
and body of which the seducer's con-
science stands arraigned, adds damnation
TO the premature death OF his wfetched
victim, as it is too shock ngly evineed IN
the common exit of abandoned women
Let him who can, in the hour of cool re-
Election, endure the sense of such deed
This train of reflection has been awakened
by development made yesterday at the
Police Office and which, for the best rea.
sons, deserves to be publicly noticed.
Yesterday morning, at an early hour. a
little girl, of about Ia, apparently much
distressed, and IN trepidaiion which al
most stihed her speech, briefly commune
cated to the high constable, whom she was
particularly led TO inquire for, from his
we'll known station, the following facts.
which were Immediately, of course. refer
red by him TO the magistrates, and who
acted thereon with the accustomed vigor
and promptiude, which gives so deserved
~ to the Police of New-York its superior
character TO, probably, any other similar
tribunal in the world.
An abandoned woman, 4 keeper OF one
of those warehouses Of iniamy,' living 10
White street, had been endeavoring, and
but too successfully, tor some weeks past,
to sed,ice, and assemble in her family, a
humber of interesting young girls, with
intent to take them all down 10 Savannah
for the winter. for the purpose of her infa-
snous traffic. One OF the compliments
own sisters, grill not yet Is years old,
was one, she feared, OF number she had
seduced, and by flattery, AMI high promi.
ses OF what money could be made, and
what fine gentlemen were 10 be found
there, &c. sc. had induced her to agree
to go, and that she was then on the point
of sailing.
One of the magistrates, with Hays and
Raymond, immediately proceeded to the
place. The vessel was just sailing
Eight interesting little girls, from IA to Is,
and most of them by ruinous arts, led by
the old deceiver, into The paths of vice
within month or two past, were all pre-
pared,s and waiting to 60 on shlp-board
passages all paid. and every accommoda-
ton provided. The distracted mother OF
the complainant's sister; poor widow wo'
man, fearing some evil from her irregular
habits, had been again and again to the
house of the old wretch and made inquiries
for her but all in vain. Sometimes she
was directed ina weary walk down into
distant part of the town, where such girl
had been heard of, and might, perhaps, be
found and sometimes dispatched from
the door with cruel SCOTS and insolence,
when her poor lost child was all the while
secreted W thin. On one occasion she inqui.
red at certain suspicious house in Church
street, and not being satisfied by mere IN
quiry. was allowed to search tn house, but
her child was not there Returning to
White street, she desired the same per-
mission, but was promptly and brutalIy
refused. aas
The details of the whole are sufficient
for book for regular tale. A single
specimen Of the modes adopted Of practi-
sing upon the feelings of young girls, and