The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-01-29
Our New York Correspondence.

ing a CHy-Pduperism, Crime, and
Edacation-T Teachers and Policeman
--P0pitS and Rogues- What il costs
apiece TO furnish Nw York scoun>
drels-L Liquor Shops-1heir profits
Immense Sums expended for liquor
-IVhO pays it-.Omr floating popu-
lation-- The 'ooJ Country Merchants,
and other strangers, Jehaoe when they
get 10 Nco York, Set &c.
NEw YoRK, Jan. 25th, 1851.
My DEAR B..
As you are a matter of. fact man,
and as Vermonters are generally prac-
teal people, renowned for good sensc,
shrcwdncss, and all those qualities that
orpeilAn 10 physical matters, and which
ensure success in life, write you a
matter-oi-lact, physical, and statistical
letter, in which l will enumcraie
some interesting facts concerning our
city, lis government, its expenses, It's en-
lcrp,ise, lis mortality, lis increase OF
population, and many other things.
will begin with the annual expense
of our city government, which, for the
year 1851, is set down, by those in aus
lhority, at the snug little sum of 3d.
SCI ,507 money enough to carry on
our general government; for year, if the
Army, Nary, Custom Houses, and all
other useless sources Of expenditure,
were Topped off, as ihey will be, before
your eldest grandson will arrive at the
age of lwenty-onc years. know you,
and nearly every body else in Vermont,
90 for protective tariff" but am
inclined the other way-half the time at
any rate.
But to return to city affairs: OF
the sum above mentioned, S53l 600, is
appropriated to defray the expenses of
our Public Schools, and 500. coo to
support tie Aims Houses, aud the POI
lice Department. Thus, as YOU will
perceive, Pauperism and Crime swallow
up nearly a million of dollars, while Ed
ucation receives but lnle more than
halls that sum, notwithstanding the uni
versnlly admitted fact that Ignorance is
the hot-bed in which nearly all Poverty
and Vice are generated.
We have seven hundred Public Schnol
Tcachors, and l5UD Policemen some
1880 pupils attend the schools, and
nearly the same number OF scoundrels
Of every hue, and grade, and sex, and
aye, prowl about oar ci;J. Our Educa-
tional and Police departments ere thus
very nearly balanced
Besides the 1909 Policemen, mention
ed above, we have a Chief of Police.
and host Of deputy sheriIs and con,
stables; yet, notwithstanding this i'm
mcnse force, the most ilhcraut crimes
are constantly perpc,raed in oar midst,
AMI but a comparatively small portion of
tie de r dat Rs are ever brought 10
punishment. During the last year, ,429
men, 90 women, 1919 boys, and 4 girls
were scul Ia The City Prison, House Of
Rcinge, Pehteu,iary, and other places
Of confinement, making in all ,Sl5
criminal, detected and punished for their
crimes, during the year. This would be
abou, oae case each far car Policemen
and Con>t0bies ; and the expense OF
bringing these men, women, and child>
ron cup to the Scratch" must have av-
cra,. ID something like 5000 for each Of
fender.
There are i ~ licensed dram shops
in the city, and as many more uul'-
censeI, making about ~ OOO places
where liquor is sold at retail We rev
cnac derived BY the city, from this traihL,
during the past year, was $40, l40. How
mich The traffic cost the city, in the way
Of bcggary aud crime, directly and in
directly produced by it, there is no
meaus Of asccrlaning. 1t could not be
less than SI50.000.
Many OF the liquor shops take as much
as $500 daily, for drinks few, if
any, take less than $40 day :; while
some Of the pet saloons and crack hotels
not unlrequently receive $500, and up,
wards, in one day, for their choice wines
and liquors. Suppose put the sales all
round at $40 day, for each place,
(Which is very lov), This will give the
appalling product Of 100000 PER diem,
or 1876, 800, 900, per- aanum, paid on, in
this city for " distilled damnation."
A great proportion of the liquor sold
in New York is drank by strangers
merchants. ysrers, pleasure hunters, and
travellers of all kinds. The resident pop.
ulalion Of New York is $50 900 the
floating population is not less than l5.-
000, 900. This last statement will prob
ably asionsh you and everybody else
that eyerinvestigaled the subject. What
| mean is that, there are not less than
-, geo, 600 Of GrriaGis in this city in
the course of year. a great many
in fact nearly all strangers visiting the
city come huhcr determined to see the
Gotham Ele, 'haut, and experience some
of the realities OF A" life in New York u"
and, in order TO observe it in all its pha-
ses, II is necessary frequently to see it
by gas hight, and occasionally at in the
morning. OF course considerable prov
ender" is required TO "propel these
gentlemen through by daylight and, as
they are lar from home, unknown, sur,
rounded by boon companions. and freed
iom all fear of detection, they generally
" 60 ii with viuciclve rush, " and ex-
pend their money with the utmost prod,
lgdliiy. 1t is fact pretty well under>
stood 10y those who take note of such
things, that all our places Of amusement,
houses OF ill.iame. etc, ETC., are mainly
supported by strangers-almost as uni,
lorml so MS are our hotels. But | have
arrived nearly at the end of my letter,
and hive only innched ON Nn,v York |