New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-04


equality the greotest AZ the tendencies 10 these OK
tremes generated by too great concentration OF
labor IL Our ces the Corrective found IN ia better or
gsnzaton ana diu ION should 20 far a. Practicable be
spilled and for this, our country With ~ millions OF
unoccUped ceres, tiords admirable facilities. Wnen
these however csnnot BE- made available, Il = the part
OF Christian benehcenee BY aneiofaing the condition
OF labor remove the causes Of arrangement and lis
trust unite in harmonious social renrons those
whom Providence has bound together, IN mutual tes
and dependencies.
"Of educated and even accomplished females. OF
whom there hundreds in the city who have been re-
duced from comfortable perhaps suent circumstances
to dependence and are without the ability OF earn
ing their subsistence They unfortunately. answer to
the description o. those who cannot dig, AMI TO beg
ashamed" Many of them hsve been mentally AMI
morally cultivated, bit are physically feeble because
too decately reared and beng unlnstructed IN any
useful art employment; because labor was consider
ed degrading now find, that though willing aud anxious
for some honorable means OF earning livelihood, have
neither strength skill to engage IN remunera'lYe oc-
equations They are, in short the victims OF mistaken
education and by life Of humiliation and want, are sui
ferng the severe penalties Of parental pnde and ioy
How many aas are thus brought to eat the ocr bread
OF dependence perhaps Of dishonor, who by more
rational training might, OF fortune, have
turned their attsinments good account and beSou,e
blessing instead OF burden to themselves and other
ut may be preliminary remarked, that most Of the
destiution is among foreigners If the relieved were
divided into eight parts, can be estimated
neous, and one part American
"Ii divided according to religion. it would be found
that least treefOuts Of those asking aid are Roman
Cafhoics while the remainder mostly Indifferent 20
the claims of the gospel and Income ted wis any
Protestant religious society II also deserves nouce,
tia, while the of mortality ia generally ess among
the comparatively rich than the poor u greatest among
the Irish being according TO recent estimates as CON-
pared with the German, nearly az two 70 one.
1.-The Board would be inexcusable in emitting among
the couse oil poverty the mention OF one 80 prominent
Il elvn
vice which the poor here so much exposed IL be-
yend oil others productive Of want and suffering. 10
show how widespread and fearful are its rsvage% we
need neither refer 10 statistics number ts Victims
for TIE suerngs from this the constant bar
den of Visitors reports. lntemperance IL peculiar
in THE 1t is both moral and phy-cal malsdy whose
necessary and nseparsDe effects are to mpoverh ana
debase Most other Of indulgence are incidental
end outward and leave energy and integrity uninpan
ed nay their very pressure may nerve me oppressed
TO successful sistancc But inemperance itself vice.
il the grand nstgaior ally OF other vices AMI ener
Yates while il pOute-. Producing, moreover idleaess
recklessness and imp evidence what hope there Tor s
infatuated victim VINO not only dig for themselves the
Dit which ingU them but fear uly multiply want and
wretcbedness by dragging down their families into IKE
inl Nor their condition the les deporaoe because
Of their producing. We would not exclude from
the broad circle Of benevoence the weakest or wicked
Get human being yet philanthropy itself must despair OF
the moral and ply steal elevation OF the nebrate except
by first recovering him from the vice which the cause
OF his debssenent and poverty.
but there is another aspect of the subject which
deeply concerns this Association and the public, that
should not be overlooked 1t has been shown that more
than 81 900 eingranis either needy or depraycd, are
now duartered on this City with little hope while they
live of er renewal and il be feared TIA. the pre-
sent number under the existing laws, will materially IN
cresse OF tue 04 2js foreigners who srryed ~ thus
port during the FIVE years preceding the oh OF May, 1872
until the end Of that period NOT could become pub
lie charge because Of their claims on the Emisr
Department But the first fye years Of the law hm
iason OF relie from that source have terminated th'
destitute viii heDcefoth be thrown upon the pubic ana
gradual increase OF the dependent may Do daily ex
peced What that increase viii be- Is, nj present. prop
lemacal but, with the comparatively trihng amount
of immigration, previous 70 1877 the statslcs erlioh
$4,000 foreigners in this City who chiefly pauper.
or criminals, depending on public support appears
within the range of probability, that in future years At
no legal preventive Is applied, they VIII augment In a
ratio corresponding with the recent Immense nhux OF
immigrants In that case, who estimate the pay
sical and moral evils that will be entaed upon the Chyt
Other thingsbeing equal, taxes viii increase properly
depreciae industry be robbed Of its ri fs, AMI lille
mess. with her prolific progeny OF mlschies, outnnm-
bering the workers. may be expected 10 oyerrun tde
community with vice and pronigacy
AMERICAN IssTIruTE-Monihiy Melting
meeting Of this Institute was held Thursday even
ing Vice President Lovett in the chair and quorum
of members The minutes of the previous meeting
were reod and approved n members were ad-
miued.
The Managers Of the 9th Annual Fair made report
in part
Total receipts of the Fair including 1866 81 at the
Cattle Show. 2oiOl W
Expenses paid up to Dec. l, lS52 ...-.... 1881 ~
Balsnce .................... .sl3507 o.
The Managers report the expenses of the Fair at
sl6.40O.
The Society decided to invest $4,000 to meet the
mortgage on their property, which makes $4,000 they
will have invested to meet their indebtedness Of $4,000
II is b be invested by the Finance Committee in pro
perry in NcwYork Brooklyn worth twice the amount
loaned.
Mr. A. Nash moved that certain resolutions offered by
him at previous meeting he taken up. These resolu
tons proposed the adoption of amendments 70 the By
Laws so that the monthly meetings be devoted 10 scen
tfc AGRICULTURAL mechanical aud other subjects of i'm
proveinents to DO considered more in literary than
business manner; and that quarterly meetings he held
for busness that the Trustees transact the business OF
the Institute during the time between meetings; and
proposing other changes in the management Of the
institute They were voted down, and the meeting
| adjourned