Litchfield enquirer., 1851-10-16
The New York ROwdieS,

| .t 5ANNW AOiA 10 ldtuOuS IUT US kOuOtl Boys" and other gangs of Rowdies. Il is getting to be famous for its Captain Rynders. The following sketch is from the New York Tribune, and was occa. stoned by observations at political eau GUS in the Sixth Ward. one evening last week:
 Arrived nt the Sixth Ward Hotel, We found a crowd of several hundreds in the most chaotic uproar. indoors and out The outsiders were chiefly Kelly men and thelr mood of mind was not the pleasantest, because the battle was evi, dcntly going against them. We crowd. ed in the doorway of the Hotel, and dis covered that the room was closely pack ed with a crowd composed mainly oi young men from l6 to 25 years of age.
 These fellows are worth description and we will give brief outline of theil character and habits. The class of which these were a fraction, numbers in this city probably a thousand they are chief ly the neglected children of unworthy parents, and have grown up in ignorance and indolence, and verged naturally into slothfulness and crime. They may gen. orally be known by their peculiar appear: ance, always by their peculiar habits. Al present they keep close shaven faces. wear fancy neckerchiefs, brown Bowery trowers, close fitting shabby coats, and small cloth caps. They drink freely of the worst sort of three cent rum and smoke most yillainous cigars. Their b. cation is generally the nearest groggery to some notorious house of prostitution, and their journeys are mainly confined to the shortest route from these houses to the gambling hells and the shameless dance saloons of the most abandoned sec> tions of the Fifth and Sixth Wards.
 The means of living of these diaboli. cal wretches are peculiar to the class. First, the b'hoy learns all the low tricks of gambling; then he takes lessons in tistcuffs until he is able to knock down a stranger with perfect science all the while learning the art of rum drinking; then he fixes himself like a grave yard vam- pire upon some wicked and miserable prostitute, and from her unholy earnings he draws the means of his subsistence. Instances are Eotolious where these ex- ecrable scoundrels levy regular capi- tation tax upon the members of house of ill.fame, and upon the least rebellion among these wretched slaves, they go in and smash their furniture and increase to the utmost of their power the horrors of the dens under their surveillance. The frequently bruised faces of the females, are the surest evidence of such forays.
 The expression of face of these infa nous villains is entirely characteristic They wear the sullen hang dog look, which is conclusive evidence of black and uneasy soul. They shun the open inquiring gaze of an honest eye as the devil shuns holy things; they look as if no kindly feeling, TO sentiment of pity, no conception of love, no idea of justice, no thought of right. no symptom of de- cency. no hope of happiness ever entered their hearts. M.rally base, mentally wretched, physically degraded, political ly marketable, they live among us the most lively incarnatlons of demonology that are suffered to blight and degrade the earth. Such is brief and faint sketch of the moral monstrosities who fatlcn from the foul wages of prostitution and robbery, and are hired by reckless demagogues to control our primary cleo tions.
 But to the Sixth Ward. This crowd had possession of the room. and were mounted on chairs. barrels of rum, the rum counter, and in all available places They were mainly for Mat. Brennan and for some time not a ticket was allowed tO go into the box unless favorable to him We had hardly got to the door, when a Kelly man came spinning out of the room. impc!led by the boots of these wretches and followed by bootings that fairly smelt ulphury, so hot were they from the bot lomless pit" -. a.