Hillsdale Whig standard. (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1846-1851, 1851-01-21
HILLSDALE, JAN. 81, 1851.

( procure a bed or a comfoi able meal. an
willing TO work but can get no employs yment
! What 10 do now know moi. Often have
walked the sire cts through the whole Of
cold night for want of a shilling 10 obtain
a lodging. / have been for two days in this
city without a morsel Of food. And 10 this
state have | brought myself entirely by in
diligence In the passion for lottery gsmb-
Iing.''
4 The gentleman who gave US this nara =
tive is Of fine personal appearance, of excel
lent education and prepossessing manners,
and with natural taien,s sufficient to ado
any station in society. He Is now turned Of
fifty years Of age. bat with slavlsh subjec-
ton To the iyranl passion which has been
his destroyer, has no prospect but OF sill
more wreIched old age, unless saved from
that misery by death.
Another incident we will give from our
own observation. A few weeks since we
were standing NEAR the door Of one Of the
most fashionable lottery Offices in Ann-st.-
A woman mesnly clad, with an infant 10 her
arms, approached the Office. The babe
was screaming TO the top Of ITS voice. but
the mOIher appeared wholly Unconscious Of
its cries. Her face was flushed with the
hope that she should hear the success Of her
fsvotite numbers. BuI she was doomed TO
dIsappointm menr. On entering the Office, she
was tolJ that the figures she had ct upon
were unsuccessful. We never saw such a
change OF expression 10 so short time
As she escaped the threshold Of The office,
her couuienance was palhd, her whole as
pect bore the marks OF deepest anguish. -
The cries Of her child nov first seemed TO
attract her notice. But every other emo
~. .k.A ka &
The loss OF her adventure. We we've aux
iOus TO know her condition and followed her |
home. Ii was in he basement of a misers-
Bile tenement IN Pearl 81. She had four 9TH
er chilcien, the eldest ot whom was not
more than eight years Of age. They were
almost naked. They had nulhing to sleep
on bat one wreiched straw bed, and few
old rags. No; a spark Of fire was in the
room. There was no food, but scant sup
ply of cold fragments, turuIshed by family
that lIvec Ia the next room, and which they
were deVOurlng with the voracIIy OF starving
pigs. The mother, we touod on inquiry, To
be hand working woman, Of temperate nab
lis, and addicted 10 no wee but her fatal
TO lottery gambling. The father
was intempeiae. aud spent all his earnings
IoT rum. We left Inis scene OF squalId
misery, with fresh sense Of the untold evils,
which emansIe from he iashlonahle sources
10 which we have alluded And are they to
emaiu IN the high places Of Uur city, Ia de
nance Of the law vi the land, IN contempt vi
public morality, IN outrage oi the. dearest
charities vi private life. with no attempt To
elleve our social stale of the intolerahIe
lulsancei Mnsl the reekiOg moaih of the
.o!!omless 20 pM be % %dsin'ly concealed Win
ng The horrible realty in all its naked aud
osIhsome ghastliness! Forbid il, We grs-
ious Heavens! Have mercy on the paugs
4 the orphan. the tears Of the widow. aud
he agony OF want, aud close up the sluices
f corruption aud RUN which send their
stream through the heA, ol our ,
population. X L. L. .