Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1847-02-13

PopuiaVon OF New York, and they mostly Tor.
e'gners. No wonder that the city has to pay
eight hundred thousand dollars annually to
support her poor and defrsy the expenses Of
her police! No wonder that murders and .ui.
cides abound! No wonder that upwards Of six
hundred sudden deaths require the expense Of
a Coroner's Inquest in single year. No won
der FIFTY pRuNxAnps are arrested every day.
and Thousand dollars paid in year for carting
helpless drunkards TO prison! ...... .
LOOK AT THE CRIME.
Equally intimate is the relation between 10.
temperance and crime. Our prisons are FULL
and still the cry is that offenders escape unpun.
ished. 1t has been established by statistical da.
ia. furnished BY the records Of jsils, penitenta.
ries. courts, and police Offices. that at len.t four
ffths ofthe crimes that become the subject OF
legal irquistion, at the public expense, are in.
stigatcd by the intoxicating cup. ..........
Very recently, the public mind hss been out
rsged by number of murders. Of peculiar afro.
city, committed under the influence Of strong
drink. The Lancaster tragedy should long b.
remembered as a warning 10 drunksrds and
lesson to liquor sellcrs. The manglcd eorp.es
Of Fordney and his vito, their blood and brains
scattered over the floor and walls end the writh
ing infant with the brains oosing from its cleft
scull, should be held in the face Of every man
in the Commonwes ,h who sells or drink. the
poison that narves the arm of the murderer.
EXPOSURE OF CHILDREN
In the district of Southwark, a little girl eight
years old, was found at midnight sleeping out
Of doors. under the stems of a house in Beck
street When reused. she cried at the thought
Of being taken home. for her mother was drunk
and had whipped her ont Of the house! This
child had been in the street, und spending the
, whole night alone beneath the steps
Thousands and tens of thousands Of children
throughout our State, sre commencing their
lives in similar circumstance. Worse than
this, they arc trained 10 falshood and TO theft
Children are employed in large numbers by the
propretors ofs cer,sin class Of grog.shops to ca
from door to door, with piteous tale Of suffer.
ing at home begging ole clothes or cold vic.
,uals, which ore carried every hour in bundles
or baske,fulls to the haun.s Of drunkenness and
prostitution, to which those children. in the ten
! der years Of their existence, become bot too ia
tally fnmiliarized. Boys not five years old are
sent out with lie on their lips, TO leg pen
nies, and if they return with less than Ger
tain number they are whipped by their parent,
and driven again into the street to complete
their days work. A drunken father has heer
known 10 follow his child under these circum
Stances. and take from it the pennies as the,
were begged in the street, to be spent forthwith
in the grog,shop! So prevalent is this wretch
ed system, that when crust ofbread 10 bestow
ed on a beggar, i, is highly probable, unless
be eaten at the moment, that il will be exchan
ged for whiskey at some miserable ,brothe
From these considerations, the hand Of Chart
is often para,yxed. snd the innocent and deser
wing poor are allowed to suffer, lest the a,temr
to relieved them be diverted into premium o
ialschood and vice. .r........-
4 LOOK AT THE DOMESTIC SUFFERING
There were three hundred and fifty thre
divorces in the single county OF Providence
Rhode Island, in the space Of ten years =
Nearly four hundred men were found impr
soned at one time in the jails Of the Stale {
New York, tor whipping their wives and abu
sing their families There is no REASONABLE
doubt that sirong drink was the principle csus
OF oil this mischief. The newspapers ,eer
with accounts of assaults and murders cornmi,
ted by drunken husbands on their wives. !
number Of aggravated cases have recently trar
spred. In one case, a tarern.kesper in Phils
delphia attempted to kill his wifi. and the
lcsped from window and destroyed himsel
In second man in New York while intos
icu,ed. butchered bis wife. In a third, a ina
in Philadelphia murdered both hi. wife an
himself. In q 4,h q nan in Kentucky, kille
his VIII. and Ave children, set FIRE to the hour.
sno inflicted mortal wound on his own bod,
aud fell on the funeral pile ,.t.a s.. l...l
No class Of society j. exempt iron the lal,
scourge. The newspapers inform us that th
grsrjsou Of the immortal Hancock wss arraigr
Cd, within few wyesrs before a criminal coul
in Boston, snd sentenced to the house Of co
rec,iOn as a common drunksrd /! His parent
had knowingly sbandoned him to that fat,
The shafts ofthe destroyer often seek the srigl
/. test marks. Our young men Of genius and ed,
, cation ere cut down in the morning Of liz
' Membsrs oioUr national legislature are sweI
of every year Tho nanes Of our honored Al