Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1845-04-03

subterraneous Scenes i'm New York.

H.
"Ireneus," in the last New York Observer.
quotes from the notes of friend the following sad
accounts of recent exploration of one of the lv-
ing hells in that city, which corroborates the re-
ports heretofore made by Dickens:
1T was midnight We had made an appoint
ment with officer of the city police, one of the
oldest and trues of that department. to meet us at
the --- House, and we were all ready. The
neighborhood we proposed to visit, was unsafe for
any man 10 enter in the night unless we'll protect
ed, and we had therefore taken such precautions
as the first law of nature dictates in such cases.
Turning down l. to c. ST., we came to a
large white-washed door at which the officer tap
ped as if giving signal to be understood within.
The door was cautiously opened and we stood en-
veloped in darkness, but the sound Of distant mu-
sic broke upon our ears. We CROPPED our way to
flight of stairs d0,on which we marched, the Of
6cer being at the head till we came to another
door guarded by porter, who proved to be the
presiding genius OF the establishment He knew
the officer at glance, and was as complaisant as
if new customer had come; and on being in
formed that we were on pleasure excursion
through his domnons, he threw open his Internal
ball room door, and there, as sure as life, was
sight such as the dsordered brain of a mailman
might conjure, but which we had never ventured
to believe was one of nightly similar scenes in this
christian city A motley multitude of men and
women, yellow and white, black and dingy, old
and young, ugly and -- no not handsome :
God forbid that beauty should ever bloom in such
hot-bed as this--but there they were, set of
male and female Bacchanale dancing to the tam
BOURNE and fiddle; giggling and laughing in a
style peculiar to the remote descendants Of Ham,
and making might hideous" with their lascivious
orgies. Talk of the degradation of the heathen,
of savage pow-wows, and pagan carnivals; and
stir up sympathy for the slaves of sin in the depths
of Africa or Asia Here we were within stones
throw of the City Hall, in the centre of the first
city in the most christian country on the earth,
and here was a sight to make the heart sicken and
bleed On one side of the room was bar, tend
ed by arascally looking wretch who dealt out the
liquors to the frequent calls of his customers, and
as the drinking and fddling went on, the fury
waxed fiercer, until the scene was as unreal and
bewildering as FIVE had been suddenly ushered
into the revelng hall of the Prince Of darkness.
Wandering through this horrid group was
young man whom we recognized as of respecta-
bic family but his bloated face and bloody eyes,
and the loose familiarity with which he addressed
the company, showed that he was at home among
them, and was already near the napir point of his
downward career. We thought of the mother that
l,~% Ioor h.,
with agony at the ruin of her son, were she not
one of the many mothers in the ranks Of fashion
and pride, perhaps this moment Haunting at more
splendid ball, yielding to the vouptuous blahdish
ments of elegant vine, and listening to the latter
ing tongue that will lure her to meet her lost boy
at the door of lower hell.
That gaudy girl, (said the officer,) decked With
so much fnery, makes it her profession to G.ecoy
men into houses kept for the purpose, and there
she robs them. Many men from the country,
prompted by curiosity, follow such Persons as you
see her to be, and before they arr aware of their
danger they are in snare from which escape is
impossible. Resistance is useless, and to COM
plain to the Police is attended with an exposure
worse than the loss of money. In fact the rob-
berry of their victims is the chef pursuit of the
class of women Of whom that girl is one of the
queens
Hut we were glad to emerge from this den and
breathe again the pure air of heaven. A bright
full moon poured on us flood of light as we
gained the upper regions, and what contrast to
the murky atmosphere from which we had just es-
capped. Itwas beautiful night! The mild moon
sailed in glory over US, and the stars whose PURr
TY and DISTANCE make them FAIR" danced like
celestial virgins " in the blue ethereal sky" and
we could scarcely believe that, under such can
opy, there could be such scenes as we had just
left"
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