Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1837-09-15
From The New York Sun.
SUFFERING AMONG CHILDREN IN
NEW YORK.

No nerson. not conversant with the scenes
of suffering and restitution, in its worst forms,
among the lower grades of our dense popuia,,
ton, and particularly among the young ana
HELPLESS children Of depraved and Vicious pa
rents. which are daily presented at the police
and aims house establishments, can have any
ADEQUATE idea Of their extent and poignancy.--,
At The institutions above named, scenes OF
soualid poverty, gnawing starvation, and les
terinp disease, which have been brought upon
their HELPLESS offspring by wicked and abandon
ed parents, that would move to tears the hearts
of our most savage aborigines, are of daily oc-
currence We have witnessed many, very
many such spectacles; but never any winch
more awfuIy portrayed the sulierings of help
less innocence for the sins of those who unfor-
tunately gave them being, than two that have
occurred since Saturday morning. And, what
adds to the horror of these cases, the shining
parent 10 each Of them was the mother! On
Saturday forenoon officer Madden brought up
to the police fine, sprghty little boy, not
more than three years of age, who had been
confined alone in a room, without food or
drink, for forty eight hotrsl Early on Thurs
day morning his mother left him in that sltaa-
ton, locked the door, went out, and being
found lying drunk in the street, was taken TO
bridewell on a cart, and there locked up; and
with no friend who knew his situation, or to
look 10 his protection, the little sufferer remain
ed alone and starving, till Saturday morning,
when his cries attracted the attention OF the
peiqhbors, who forced open the door, and
fund him in the situation we have stated
His future welfare was taken in charge by the
commissioners of the aims house; and If the
police authorities fulfil their duty toward the in
human mother, she will never have another OPP
portunity to sacrifice the life of her offspring to
the qualification of her beastial appetite. The
other case was one of an actual attempt at
murder! In the course Of Saturday night, a
demon in human form, named Ross Midway,
was brought Ia the watch house by number
Of citizens who alleged against her that in a
fit of drunken frenzy she threw her little infant
out ofthe window on the tagging, for the a
vowed purpose of destroying i'll Whether she
accomplished the murder, or whether the at
tempt resulted in only manning or bruising
Of the pitiable child, the rough chronicle of the
watch house did not disclose;--ihe brutal
wretch was however, committed 10 bridewell
for further investigation of the affair, which
was put off till to-day.
Occurrences of the above nature, though
perhaps seldom ofso aggravated aud appalling
character, are matters of almost hourly oc-
currence in those sections of the city IN which
thousands of the most destitute and abandoned
may be found crowded together in a space
scarcely sufficient for the comfortable subsis-
tcnce Of one twentieth of them. We are moi
aware that any direct attention has ever been
paid, either by the municipal authorities or by
any ofour numerous associations ofctizens fol
benevolent purposes, 10 the suffering and most
leplorable situation Of the almost countless liz.
tie children cast by hard lot into those
crowded sinks Of misery, restitution and vice
Certain we are, there is no field in which phi.
lanthropy can find more prolific harvest for il.
labors, OF common humanity wider range fol
/ its benevolent exertions.