Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1853-09-29

live with MIR. Pease at the Home. had rathe
live where Tom is, .or Tom is good to me
Young loves first happy dream! But we wen
on, and held my head down, and felt very bad
By.and-by heard my mother say, here she is an
| looked up little, and saw two gentlemen, lha
is, they were dressed like gentlemen, and drect
one spoke to the other-I say. Jim. she will do
give the old woman the money and let US take he
up to Hates Mercy on me, that voice. l fel
that sore spot in my breast more and more pa in
iui; looked up: 1t the man that kicked me
the other was the one that put the tobacco in m,
mouth
What did you do
: stood little behind my mother while sh,
held out her hand for the money, and when the
eyes were turned run. qply heard them say
why, damn her, she is gone Yes, was gone
and here am. Oh l am so sick and 80 faint -
do let me lay down. and don. let these men have
me- Oh, dear, the thought of it will Kill me-
So it did. A cruel blow had fallen on tender
plant The beggar girl might no, have felt it,
The little seamstress did. A taste of virtue civil
zation, christianity friendship, love- had given the
food OF sin and shame a hatred taste Sold by a
mother 10 libidimous brute-to miserable rum
selins-worse than rum m-drinking-wretch, who
wears gentlemanly garments who kicks, burns
and gags little beggar girls. 1t was far too much
for human nature 10 bear, and it sunk under the
las, blow, worse than the first
| Madalina went TO bed with raging fever-a
nervous prostration. We did, said he, all we cod
but what could We do for the body when the hear.
was sick?
Next morning her mother came and insisted
that she should go home. They begged, plead and
promised in vain go she must.
Never mind. said the little sufferer, i, will be
only Tor short, short time. | shall be well-at
least all will be well with me in few DAYS can't
endure this pain in my breast You will come
and see me. Good bye. Tom, you will II was
an honest manly tear that Tom turned away to
hide. Poor fellow, he need not have been asham-
ed of it. Such is nature
She is worse, SIR said Tom the next morning,
| and no wonder. l wish you would go and see
her, she wants TO you once more Such
place to be sick in, OH dear! how did ever sIeep
there! l wish you would go with me tonight at
! ten oclock, when they are all in You will see
lite as it is
Very well, Tom. will go. Call for me at 10,
or when you ready.
1t was fortune to drop in upon that very
evening and form one of the COMPANY to that a.
bode of misery and home of the city poor, so that
we are able TO describe it in our own language
The place where Madalina lived is well known
Five Points locality, called Cow Bay. AS you
go up that great Broadway of wealth, fashion, lux
ury and extravaganza OF this great city from the
Park and its marble halls of justice you will pass
another great marble frout-it is the palace Of
trade, where the rich clothed every day in fine
linens, when they go shopping at Stewarts'-
Further along are great marts where velvet COW
erings for the floor sold for there are some
who have never trodden on bare boards You
need rot look down Duane street. unless you have
the curiosity to see the spot where a miserable
mother would sell the virtue of her child TO a
wretch whose trade is seduction Don't look into
that little old wooden shanty at the corner of Pearl
street, II Is family grocery. The little ragged
girl you see coming out with rusty tin coffee pot
has not been there for milk for her sick mother
her father is in the hospital on the opposite side
of the way-his arm was broken in family
quarrel You will pass the Broadway theater
before you come to the next corner, with its sur
roundings of fashionable saloons into any of which
you may 60 without fear of losing caste among
genteel brandy -smashers and Wine bibbers
Perhaps you will be amused with small play,
such as burning, kicking, or vomiting little beg
gar girl; for nice young men are fond of theatri-
al
fashionable resort, the theatre if it is hot eve
ming, for II is ventilated than the black hole
of Calcutta; and if the ferld air does not breed
fever ii will breed feverish thirst, which will
tempt you to quench II IN potations of poison
Probably that is why it thus built.
A few steps beyond is Anthony ST. Stop mo-
ment here and look up and down the great thor
oughfare of New York before you leave it, A
hundred pedestrians pass you every minute, almost
without an exception, every one of them richly
dressed men and women, smiling in JOY and hap
piness. Here certainly is exception A
man in poverty's garb, with bundle of broken
boards and old timbers, from demolished build
ing, that would be load for packhorse. She
IS followed by two little boys with each bundle,
crushing their early years into early decreptude.
They have brought their heavy loads all the long
way from Murray street. They turn down An,ho-
ny look where they 60 If they live in that street,
it cannot be far, for there in plain view stands
large frame house, cornerwise towards you right
in the street. No, il only looks so, it is beyoud
the end of it. Yet look, note it well, the corner
of that house plain in view, pointing toward
you, is one of the worldwide known Five Points
of New York. What! not SO near Broad way?
Right in plain sight of all who wear silks and
broadcloth, and go up and down that street every
day. Surely that is not the place where all those
bad, miserable, poor ou,cas,s live that the news
apers talk so much about
The very spot, my dear lady
Really. this must be looked to. 1t is quite TOO
bad 10 think that this place is so near fashion
able street, and in sigh, too. | thought it was
away off somewhere the other side of the town
II | thought ii would do any good | would let Pc
ter take few dollars I'D some old cloths, and 90