The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-17

the Southern people TO take as their model.
The Police Reports Of Boston make no better
showing
| We observe that movement is making IN
| New York by the different organizations which
the Tribune has aided so much in perfeeting 20
make Horace Greely Mayor of that city. fsuc-
sessful, he viii have full opportunity TO exercise
all that benevolence which hitherto has busted
itself so much with imaginary suferings of a
different color altogether--at distance. Hav-
| ing performed the part of the Pharisee 50 long,
| il is full time to practise the Samaritan
POLICE InTELLIe ENcE.-Er tensire Business
Before Justice Osborn, on Sunday morning, one
hundred and sixteen prisoners were arraigned for
| Judgment, and the scene exhibited in the court
room Of the hudded together mixture ofwhite,
black and yellow human beings of the most de-
PRAYED character, was revolving Some with
black eyes, Others with cut faces, with tattered
garments, and hair dsordered, hanging over their
shoulders. Others, again, with bloated faces,
swollen out of shape by the effects of rum,
while others again were apparently nearly dead
with consumption, caused by dissipation. In
fact, the scene of wretchedness exhibited cannot
be described with any degree of truthfulness,
that would possibly give the reader an idea of
the terrible state of depravity and destitution
Of this motley group of Five Point residents
The atmosphere generated by this diseased and
dissipated crowd of prisoners, made the Police
Court insufierable, and we really wonder that
some OF ourmagstrates or clerks are not brought
to a bed OF sickness in consequence. The pO-
lice of the Sixth ward secured all the prisoners
from the Five Points, charged with being thieves,
prostitutes and Migrants. The magistrate, on
examining each case, selected out eighty-fve of
the most abandoned characters, and summarily
disposed of them to the penitentary for six
months each. A number Of other persons were
charged with assaults and batteries, &c, and
We're either dismissed on bail or committed to
answer, thus making considerable amount Of
business, Ii the police continue in this way,
the Five Points will be but merely a name here
after-Ne,o York Herald
DEcoy-D UcK-IsM--A small and select portion
of the legal profession in this city--the dregs
or the scum, whichever you pleasc--has recently
struck out a new path to wealth, which is at the
same time a short cut to infamy. As all new
tangled systems Of novelty are tailed off with an
"ism," we will call this novelty in law and ethics
decOy-duck-ism 1t is a very simple process,
when the right sort of subjects are selected
Two lawyers, a courteZan and a rich and amo-
rous old fool compose the entire d,dmdtis per-
sonae. The lawyers contrive that the female
confederate shall have an interview with the in
tended victim, and she manages by her blandish-
ments to entrap the old sinner into the tolls.
The twain are bounced upon at the most in
opportunc and perpleXing moment; threats are
made of a family advertisement; an injured hus-
band and an action for Grim. con. are talked of,
and finally the frightened dupe pays round
sum--yaying from $500 TO ss3000---to the con-
sprators, as the price of secrecy The lawyers
take the lions share, the female jackal receives
"A handsome present, new quarry is marked
down, and the hunt recommenccs. A very
beautiful series of disclosures, now in progress
in of our courts, is laying bare all the moves
of this delicate game One lawyer in this city,
who has figured prominently in two cases of the
kind, is said to have realized 100000 by the aid
of his female decoy ducks.-N Y. Morning
| Star. B
~ The New York Morning iSar, whose
editor is himself connected with the Custom
House in that city, thus discourses on the trib-
ulations and tcrrors of the officials connected
| Herewith.
FLUTTERINGs AND SeuIRMINGs.-Wh at futter
lngs OF the heart, what nervous squrmlngs, what
|
sideways, there are Just now in the Custom House,
| and the purlieus thereof. In that spacious man
sion are gentleman of many oplnions--whlgs,
aboitionists, old-hunlers, Clay-men, Seward
men, Van Buren-men, and Cass-men. Stop, we
should have used the past, not the present tense
such men there were. AT present there is only
one class in the establishment, and at the corners
where expectants most do congregate. The cleo
trio current which proclaimed the death of General
Taylor, transformed them in instant to Fill
more men. Not that the ajority Of them know
precisely whether MIR. Fillmore is conservative
or barnburner, or an ultra whig or moderate
WING, but whatever he is, they are prepared to
be-whatever he may say, they are prepared to
swear to. 1 ,,fs,F
They are bothered too about the Collector. it
is not safe to give him the cold shoulder, for he
may be confrmed nor wise to g cotton" to him,
for he may be rejected. "Vot a diemmy!'' In
the meantime the business of laying pipe and get
ting out anchors to windward is prosecuted with
laudable assduity. sU# ttH
The Secretary Of the Treasury has sent on or
ders that officer shall leave his post, command
that has spoiled sundry contemplated summer ex-
curslons, and created a very uneasy feeling
among certain parties who for some time past
have been supposed be changing on by the
eyelids.'
The old clerks who have been fixtures in the
establishment for years, and who, in fact, cannot
be dispensed with, are cool as cucumbers.
ding with politics; and they quietly and steadily
pursue their work, while the greenhorns are bor-
ing every body whom they imagine to have infu-
ence at Washington to say good word for them,
and are in such n state OF nervous trepida-
ton that they don't know an entry from an in
voice.
Keep cool, boys, keep cool; if you are to be cut
off in the flower of your youth by the scythe of
prescription, bear it like men.
4
IMPORTANT DIscoyERY-The London Giro
no Thernalist for June, announces the discove-
ry Of substitute for the sulphate of Quininc,
which is represented as being better medicine,
and can be bought for one-tcnth the price. If
we remember rightly, the French Academy has
offered reward for such a discovery.
Cheering from the Old Dominion
Er,ract Of letter just received from distin-
gtished citizen OF Eastern Virginia, ,rho k1o,rs as
much Of paptic sentiment in that section, aay