New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-08-16


vi,,s worthy family, Tow in extreme dss:iEu,ion.
She says;
Wife mounting tie stairs Leading to their room
| hesId What wss evidently intended ~ an a
tempt as singing BAT which 70 ne sounded more
lac cr,iEg snd on entering, found TOO gIrls the
eldest Of Vbom, about Is years Of age, was oasi'y
engaged in binding shoes while the youoger was
weeping the Hoor. 4" ls your mother AZ homel'
ssaed. "Yes msam, bot she Is lying down was
the re Ply ard While the yosoger vent to oAlhsrI
tssed some quest'ors Ct the elder Ia your mother
Iick T. % Yes mAsu, no masm, not exactly sick,
At east cont think Ihe would be sick fis wasn't
for her trouble answered the poor girl on whose
cheek noz observed traces 0. teArs- g. What 10
yoo1 get for binding those shoes p " -Four cents
pair, ms'am" And how much can you earn
week y when we feel pretty well We make
about dollar and 4 half" "And whas rent dn
you psyT Three dollars month ms IAN. We
had nice large room and bedroom before we
moved, but that was g. month and mother had
TO take lower rent" ,sid the girl Just then the
mother entered and from her heard, wha, in
| deed bad already learned. that she mad three
children, ths youngest a boy, lane 10 bis feet that
| her husband, who Rad always neglected her, mad
leit her about year ago, and was probably
employed at bis trade in distant city; bustna'P-e
vi Us 10 bis departure he hsd offerei marriage %
! yourg gii in NewYorb. 10 whom he had written
regularly ever since while TO the wife ne had writ
| ten but seldom. The girl, however, having heard
that he was married mao, had sought olg tns
wife end brought to her his letters, and ia colir
nation of this, saw his letters, both % the wife
and 20 the SRI, as also one from his employees 3
the wife, reply ing TO queries OF hers res je:t
ing him, and speaking well of him es a wOrknsn
Sic further told me that she had been c)mpslcd to
sell or pawn all her furniture piece by piece, 5ill
she had only table, iev chairs, straw bed, and
one ,h,d len | say that she col scarcely re-
strain Der tears aud the two girls wept outright
] / a. bar
exc aimed, when | hear the church bells, feel
as il | should Gy-as II could not stay away, but
have neither hat shoes nor dress, end so cant
go" Have you any bread in the house :" 10
quired. mo maam,' eagerly interPosed the lit,le
lame boy. "Have yoa had any breakfast" No,
nssD,' ssid the child. Upon which the mother
explained that she had received her "shoe money
the night before but on paying her rent. had bus
25 cents left and vss already owing Tor at the gro
Gerry. Immediately sent for loaf and some mils,
ard as beheld the eagerness with which Il was
hailed, could not help thinking. could sone Of our
good farmers witness this scene, they would surely
remember il when they gather in their harvest
and by sending Of their abundance, enable US
| The Home 10 meet suoh cases with a more efec-
-lusl aid.
On another occasion she visited a woman who
had, a day or two previous, applied as beggar for
bread;
Today | have found her, very much as she dc
scTibed, AID have seen but few more degraded and
deporable looking places than the little attic room
where herself and five children fad shelter, for ls
! cannot be called a home Not regular b)lse-
keeping uteDsl was 10 be seen; two or three parts OF
chairs an old table, dirty straw bed, without bed
ding or pillow seemed 10 be the worldly all Of these
six human beings. The stairs and passag way lead
ing to the may not be described, foe seldom has
any thing revolving met the eye Of the visitor
! And yet, the poor woman was oontented with
ar al ~ f.r her ia nj ~
10. able TO keep their children with them" And
how do you manage 10 employ your chil1ren-you
keep them either a. work or al school. suppose"
"Well ms'sm, the eldest, agirl OF sixteen, 'ews
! with me for the shops down town. It's bat hide We
get, bat il pays our rent, and provides us I.se
food and enables me, now and thea, 10 get rag OF
clothing for the children. The second has been .
live out, but she is a. home at present. The naxs
two, WHO are boys tried to keep 10 school, ous the
boys pat upon them for their shabby clothes and
tuld not ge. them 20 90, 30 they go about picking
chips, aud gathering such fire wood rs they can
ind The youngest, girl Of six is weakly add
cripple, poor child" Bat do you feel saEsiieJ 20
have your little boys out the street. instead 81
going 10 school don't you think they will be likely
to grow up wicked, aud come to the House Of Ret
uge or State Prison" well ma su, it is ha'd to
part them, but believe ii would be better iors1oaa"
After some more conversation she consented TO have
places found for tao Of her children, and We cannot
bet hope that some OF them will be saved from beg
gary and ruin
How many hundreds OF similar pictures OF want
ard wretchedness might be found in ,his great
City Who can wonder where the aims house
and the prison find their tenants. when chi!dFea
are raised in wreichedneE and ignorance, the worry
recital Of which makes one shadder with hoTor7
The cTSsus.
MIssRs EDITORS: Having heard great deal
IN h. Asais ant
Marshsls to perform their duties, we had made
great calculations upon being very minute and par
ticuar in our answers, &c supposing the thing was
to be cone up in very strict manner. Some tea
or twelve days ago the Assistants called, took the
items" Of four Of who happened TO DO in, IN re-
gsrd 10 birth age meme ard residence. and then
left, stating that they bad another boarding house
ID street 10 yist on the next day and thai they
would call sgsin 10 morrow, and In the mean time,
we were 10 get the Names &c Of the rest Of our
resdents who amounted 10 rone twenty odd. We
were wonderfully Jealous 10 our Inquiries OF all
parties as 10 birth, residence &c aud parElca ally
a. - the sge Of the ladies' which in come c2ses,
YOU cay be aware israther h2rd % obtain blg We
succeed admirably and got every thing prepared 10
proper order for the call OF toe Assistants next
day since which time we have been waiting very
patiently, anxious 10 exhibit Our Abofs ~ the care
ful Assistants, whose duties we supposed were 40
rerg particularly strict, bu. We have been denied
that pleasure and been forced 10 the conviction tha.
COR ~ FAR efforts 10 assist the Government, have
not met WITH their true reward
Nov We would se TO inq1ire, whether toe other
Assistants Of OGr metropolis are as careful ald
Minute in their dqties as those we hal the honor Of
receiving, AID II 30, what will be pretty far gue1
as to the population Of our lizzie town II yoa can
give US some Light i, viii no doub: ease tho minis Oh
some residents Of - STREET
RELIEF FOR BROADWAY
To rgy Enron oy TEE TAlBUsE Sr-Niny
sugge,,ioas have appeared Of a'e ia 'n' P1oi
PROT, for relieving Broadway Of some Of Us 'raao'
in. do no, think have seer aay mention male
c,sf~tsd Win London are aware tlat one Of 10 /
erea,est-indee5 the greasest-thOfOa5hare ron |
lie West Ead. fl5hiona5le part - tas C'ty' |