The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-07-16
MARCH 10, 1853.
A Truthful Picture.
N, the Cincinnati Daily Commercial.

From, the Cincinnati Daily Commercial.
Miserable houses in unsuitable portions of the
town are usually the sites of abodes of degrade
ton and wo. Children grow up breathing foul
air, drinking filthy water, and surrounded by a.
pestilent moral atmosphere. In the country the
condition of drunkard's family is not SO horrible.
There is the fresh atmosphere, the pure water,
the loneliness of nature, and the absence of the
leprous contamination that pervades the haunts of
abect poverty and wretched crime in the metro
polls. Poverty is not the drearest that over
shadows the drunkard's wife and children; there
is the sickening want of aspirations, the annili-
lation of hope, the lack of confidence in loved
one, and for the wife perhaps the memory of
bright and happy days out-stinging the scorpion
We passed one of these homes few DAVIS since
in the moment to witness scene that deeply inn
pressed itself upon our memory. The tenement
was small, dirty, dilapidated frame A glance
at the narrow room into which the street door
opened revealed confused heaps of filthy rags for
beds, and a meagre supply of old and broken fur
niture. The room seemed to serve for all the
cooking, eating, and sleeping that was done by
the family. Half dozen children, lean and pale,
wearing only few uncean rags, were scattered
about, and looked if they had never smiled, or
had thought of the beautiful world about, or the
sky above them. The mother was tall, thin, and
clothed in ragged calico, and her sr,nken eyes
glared an expression, that seemed to be habitual
of complete hopelessness. The father, at the mo-
ment our eye caught the group, had entered the
apartment stultifed with liquor, but with the fe
rocity of wild beast depicted OH his bloatcd and
discolored features. For some foolish cause, no
doubt, he was enragcd at one of his children, and
while it crouched like helpless pup in a corner,
the monster was endeavoring to throw what had
been chair at it; and was only prevented by the
weak hand of his wife desperately grasping his
wrist from executing his devilish purpose. We
paused, and, he happening to see us, the chair
was lowered, and we passed on sick at heart.
How many such scenes, and more terrible ones
are daily and nightly Witnessed only by the all
seeing One in this great town; Not on earth will
that question be answered. Do young men who
riot in dissipation, and rejoice to be esteemed
fast, !" reflect that their habits foreshadow Drnnk
ards Homes for themselves and posterty?
DISSOLUTION OF BRocKs MoNumrNr Ar
QuEENsrowN.-This celebrated Trademark an
Queenstown Heights, erected in memory of Sir
Isaac Brock, who fell on that field October IA.
1872 was on the 9th instant felled to the ground
An Intellectual attempt had been made to blow it
up the day before. 1t was found necessary to use
second blnst, which sIvered the shaft into
atoms 1T was not done by hostile hands, but by
direction OF the British government, who will
erect new and beautiful monument in ;ts place
The remains Of General Brock were first inferred
at Fort George, with those of his aid do can,n
Captain Mcdonald, October 10Th. 1910 md
placed in the vault of the Hamilton family. ~
Queenstown, and will be removed to the new
monument when ready.-Rochester american, ION