North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-06-28

usu.-ovr Srrs IN THE STREETS. A person who
walks the streets of New York with his eys and ears
omen. sees and hears many strange and dreadfut
-,h;ngs Beggary, sickness, want, crime, wretched-
ness. ar d folly him at every turn and if he has
heart TO feel that heart must be o(tenwrung to agony
bv the shocking things that he encounters.
: We were walking up Broadway last week during
the :. rainy season. picking way as best we
could through the mud and wet, when we heard the
crv of an infan!-suoh pieous wailing made the
blood creep in veins and caused us Involuntary
TO look around to SEQ whence the sound proceeded
then sight met our eyes that we trust in God tney
NAV never know again. woman almost naked
one of those poor creatures that famine and opPres-
sion have driven from their home asylum in this
land of plenty. +Ftse
She was haggard-eyed, squalid, and diry-the very
picture of hopeless despair. Her dress consisted OF
an old petticoat, chemise, and shawl scanty IN
its proportions, and thing of shreds and
paches.'' She Carried in her infant just as
it came into this breathing world, entirely nakeo
and unwashed, its little eyes tightly closed to shut
ont the i0ht il better had never seem We stood for
a moment riveed to the spot. We could not believe
that it not some horrid vision, conjured up by
our imag nalion; but the cries of the poor little one
proved the dreadful reality The woman was proceed.
ing unconscious of all that passing around
her, her eyes fixed vacancy, and expression In
her face that plainly showed that hope was thing
she knew not--thdt her cup of human misery was
FULL and that she rocked where she went or what
became of her.
We advanced and spoke to her. She gazed at US
with stupid, stolid look, and made no reply. "Eow
"About an hour she replied.
"Where was it born %
Yonder sure, under them boards,'' she answ cred
and about to continue her walk onward. The
thought of asking for charity did not occur to her
that foorn hope she had tried often unsuccessful
If llfe.p S'"'p'' 0s'0'' '''' anu '''''AN u "
Hurriedy searching in or pockets, we gave her
what money we had about us-a very small sum,
but nine of wealth her-and told her to 60 and
buy food for herself and covering for the child
When placed the money in her withered hand,
she gazed at it with look of wonder for moment,
pressed it her face if to convince herself that it
was reaty-then turning look upon that we shall
not forget, she uttered only the words /" God
bless you !"-not such benediction as beggars of
came yelling up from her poor, broken heart--a fer
vent prayer for good and happiness. that had we
given world purchase it, should not have held
dear.
She passed her way-God kRows where, we
hope to world where such misery hers is not
too known.
The above is true, every word Of it, and we ask
those rich and pampered and daughters OF luXu-
~ to stop they deny it and say it is i'm
possible such things should exist here in New York.
You little know the and the wretchedness,
the dreadful that is crushing the life out of
thousand hearts around you every side, or how
many you could make happy with hundredth par,
of what you squander every day.
You do know the depth of happiness that thrills
through the heart when it hears a benedicton such
as received, that, in that simple sc God bless
you, there is to stir the blood, bring the teal
into the eye and the qnver the lip than in all the
transitory pleasures your lives spent in seeking
~. Y. Day Book.