Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1849-06-21
VOL. XXVII.--vO. 90.
TIE GIVE POINTS,

The New York correspondent Of the Union states
that this infamous neghborhood is the only portion OF
New York which has been visited by the cholera; and
that the advent of the disease has again caused the
project to be agitated Of tearing down the whole OF
that quarter of the city, laying out the streets differ
emily, and rebuilding with comnddous and modern
mansions The wonder has been that it has been
done BEFORE yet the correspondent expresses the fear
that it will still be very long before it is doneand gives
the reason why this horrible ulcer still testers in the
very heart Of New York. We extract this portion OF
his communication, with description Of the most
abominable he'll on this continent:
The press of this city, it strikes me, fail to apprec
ate the cause of keeping that Fart OF New York at n.
stand still! as to improvements which is, because the
holders OF the property aware that it now paysa
higher rate of interest than it would yield ifimproyed,
modernzed and inhabited by respectable business pco
pie. lndeed,l whether question any part of Broad
way pays much interest the value OF the lots and
houses many localities the Points All the
rumhoes there (where poison is sold for three cents
per glass; are likewise houses of ilame, with dam
cinSroom attached. The police say, that from Top.
NJ. until or 3 clock in the morning are the hours
when hekeepers of these dens make most of their
shameful gains There some five or six hundred
such shops in that quarter, with here and there junk
shop secondhand clothing crib kept by Jews,who
the rest of their brethren in tho city just what
the Christians ( residing the Points to Christ.
iaRs living in reputable quarters of Gotham. presume
that nine tenths Of the houses the Points
ceptacles of stolen goods Youths and vicious men,
sailors, &c, from all quarters Of the tyrequent these
places for &. spree, well the thieves and pros
flutes WHO live there. There is also considerable
pauper population the Points which for the most
part furnishes its annual supply If young thieves and
prostitutes They nestle in some Of the buildings from
twenty to thirty in room lying straw like pigs in
pen. Somehow other, these miserable creatures
manage to pay higher rent Gnerest on the value OF
the land and budings) than is yielded by the lest
stand for business in Broadway, and gradually the
Points property has fallen into the hands Of persons
who take thought Of any thing but making money
They therefore, the strenuous opponents OF the
scheme for roofing the vicious out OF that quarter OF
the cty and yet, there no law to compel them to
pull down their old tenemens and put up new ones,
which, if any thing can, will alone have the effect of
driving the present denaens Of the Points elsewhere
1t is proposed TO commence widening the streets
on the outskirts OF this quarter some plan which
shall have for its aim their entire rearrangement.-
This be ordered by vote Of the corporations and
if persons of wealth. disposed to change the character
Of the pace,wil buy up the property the outskirts,
and erect we'll finished tenements the authorities
tear down the old ones the improvements desira-
bic may gradually be effectedi Scattering this popu-
lation would save in twenty years. in the way Of de
creased police and almshOuse expenditures, a huge
sum- sufficient pay every dollar Of the cost of thus
improving every street known as part Of fhe
Points
an old times this particular quarter was the bed Of
lake or agoonn places fifty feet deep (of wat
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New York (by Fitch) piled upsn this sheet of water
Your readers, presume, have often heard of the Old
Brewery the most famous building on the Points
which, as vile hole as it is to this day. formerly
much worse, as within the last ten years or more
policemen regularly stationed on the premises.
Nightly from two to six hunderd poor wretches sleep
it, paying the owner (who keeps grocery and dram
shopin the lower story about l2l cents week each
person for the privilege Of sleeping straw in room
crowded with human beings, pigs, and filth