The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-01-26

amendments, then, which We propose are - fol- |
lows:-
First-To shut Up every house Of il-isme IN this
city. These number about three thousand.
Second-Te close all the gambling houses. These
number five hundred and over.
Third-To cose the secre. lottery offices, nun
bering two hundred and over.
Fourth-To prohibit every theatre, opera house,
and o.her place Of public amusement, including
Barnums Museum. The waste OF money upon
these lie es ated at 500 900 per day, and the num-
hers attending them from 10000 to 10000 persons.
Now is by attendance at these places that ODE
rate drinking begins; and where moderate drinking
ends every teetotaller knows who has ever heard
Father Mathew or any Of the temperance lecturers
To be consistent, the efore, the reformers IS. be-
gin at the root Of the evil, and make clean sweep
Unless they 10 this il will he charged az aims. them
that they
Compound for sins they are inclined TO-
BY dsnning those they have nc mind TO
We learn from the report Of the Chief Of Police,
tina. out of lS0 coo arrests during the last elk years
and half there were upwards of 10000 for Of
fences arising out Of the free ofalcohoc drinks
But the hotbeds Of vice. where intemperance begins
are the houses of III fame, the gam bling houses, the
lottery Offices, and the theatres These, therefore,
support Of the clergy Of all denominaions the pho-
sophers Of progress, and other moral social and
religious teachers, in the npersnc, movement, is
TO propose assist them sbolishing these ns OF
iniamy, and moral pest houses, ard they. il return
WI, lend their aid in the suppression Of he grog
shops BY this com binstion Of forces-this holy ALI
arce, offensive and detensive-the great moral rar
may be speedily brought TO successful iss1s.
There would then oe vacant
urog snops Ivy
hcuses OF III lame = opv
Gambling houses .....,.,.....,.. eoo
Secret lottery Offices neutrality-suspicious., -o
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. s,eeJ
Thus, ght thousand houses would De vacated THE
city, besides the the And the iestion arises
What lie to be done with them This is a point
which it would be well for the Convention at Albany
to take up. But, meantime, we would sugsest TIA:
they ought to be converted, some OF the m into
churches {for we sadly in need ofchu-ch accom-
mediation for the poor, and the remainder INFO shops
Of moral reform aod industrial progress, 10 Tea n
humanity, socialism, and spiritual manifesto
tons" II will not do merely TO shut these build
iDgs ainst sin. They must be opened for moraliy
new morality-social moralily-progressive mo-
rali.y 1t is not enough to eradicate the weeds o.
We've must SOW the seeds of virtue, and care.
faIly cultivate their growth till they arrive az per-
felton, and bring forth the fruits Of rgh.eousness
piety, and social progress. The State Legislature
ought to be called upon to make an appropriation
to pay the rent of these buildings, to isray the ex
penses Of lectures, and to en3ow professionally Of
moral and spiritual reform. When all this il &C.
comrlished, Gotham will then be thoroughly
pursed, and viii not suffer by comparison even with
the New Jerusalem Of the Mormons, in the G,est
Valley of the Salt Lake. Verify, the ne v social
world is at hand-the good time is coming.
CURIOUS DolNes OF THE RRcENT GRAND JvRY-
THE ART UNION, AND THE HEsA-D.-We under
stand that the Grand Jury, which closed its session
last week, found bill OF Indictment against the
New YORK ERALp, on account Of some article
on the Fine Arts, which appeared II the columns Of
this Journal censuring the Art Union, for bad
criticisms Encouragement, and violating its
pledges to the public. by rostpcaing its day OF
drawing. This is very queer proceeding of the
Grad Jury, snd viii pu! the Art Union il more
awkward tx than it has ever yet reached The
whole country viii no wa.:h is very iunay pro-
ceedirgs.
Inie Grand Jury must have been special one
rare one |. seems it entirely overlooked 1he
seven or eight hundred Illegal greg shops which
exist in towr, as wei as the two three thousand
houses Of i'll fame, to say nothing 0. the five
hundred gam bling houses-all engaged in manu-
featuring inmates for the Sttte prisons. Al
these sad pisces were entirely omitted, f..so'ts1
Ignored, ~ this Grand Jar5: bat they finished
pp their business in frss rate styls, b.
ud sting the Nav loEE HEeALD, To- COM
neotirg On he Fine Arts in general and IN ths
Art Union menagen NJ in particular. Wen,
ic asp Of N lyaueing "a fpr III gt.e