The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-22

all your children p "Only one; the other two lads
who are buDdling mint are not mine. l have but
orphans, whose parents died with the cholera; and
they have lived here ever since for promised their
mother to look after them" And in all her degrade
ton and poverty she had sheltered these orphans in
when he went into tie county to gather herbs and
assisted him to prepare them for sale; and in this
wayth family was supported.
now expostulated with her on her vicious course
OF iife. How could she, mother, with three such
very interesting children growing up around her, 80
debase berseff She replied, that she had no de-
cent clothes or they would have been married. The
man contradicting her, said that not the case,
ior ne had been willing several times to be married,
but she would GO on spree, and then he would not
have her. He added, that if she only would keep
sober she was as respectable as any lady in New
York suggested, and then urged, that she should
sign the pledge, and If she remained sober till after
the Fourth OF July and they still of the opinion
that 1t would contribute to their happiness to be
married that suitable clothing should be provided,
and the ceremony should take place in the mis-
sion room. She took the pledge and kept
sober and ON the evening of the 5th of july 1850,
they stood respectfully arrayed in front of the altar
IN our mission room, while the missionary performed
the marriage ceremony with great soemnity, and at
the close gave them an instructive exhortaton to be
on their guard against the evils of intemperancc.
They promised, as they returned home with lighter
and happier hearts than they had known Tor many
.. day. A comfortable room was then procured for
them it was neatly whitewashed and furnished
with the luxuries of bedsteads bedding chairs and
table. A place was found for tho man in coal
!aid, ana the elder boy, Joseph, was placed at
trade, the younger children at school and the orphan
boys at trades.
After some months the watchful oversight OF the
woman was thought to be no longer necessary, and
she broke her pledge. Nothing discouraged, how
ever, the missionary and myself besought her again
to sign 1t; and to our surprise, she not only con-
sened to do so, but said with strength Of resolu
ton, Il shall now sign it as ought; | feared my
rvx,l,n 4 I..rr~
therefore allowed y0u to write my name while put
my cross under il | feared would break 1t, but
now, with the help Of the Lord, think l can keep
u, and shc wrote her name as good as we could
have written 1t for her; and though two years have
nearly elapsed since, yet she maintains her integrity
and has never tasted anything that could intoxicate
The husband has never broken his pledge at all,
but Is considered strictly m honest sober man. and
still retains his place in the coal yard. Joseph by
his strict attention to evening school, has learned to
read and write, and bis employer entrusts him with
every valuable article in his store, and believes him
to be worthy Of unlimited confidence. And as we
visit them from time to time in their altered home
they show us with great satisfaction some addition
to its comfortsa clock, bureau, and few pictures,
&C.. which their savings have enabled them to pur
chase--and II even new dress coat is purchased
they wish us TO see it, even before is worn know
ing how fully we rejoice in all their prosperity. At
the last Thanksgiving suppcr, when seven hundred
OF the locality were fed in the mammoth tent, we in
vited them to be present, but Joseph replied:-"We
are out of the Five Points now, and do not wish to
eat with them''-thus proving that when sefrespect
is gained they will not desire to live among the de-
graded.
This is but one Of the families rescued from deep
degradation through the instrumentality Of the La
dies Hcmc Missionary Society and there are still
innocent young faces pleading for their neglected
childhood, ther miserable homes, and their aban-
doned parents. VIII not the citizens of New York,
by their liberal gifts enable this society to carry out
their plans to satisfactory issues? Tic mission has
public good in view, and it looks for public SYM
<D1n, t.oAr
poral condition otthese poor iorlorn ones long
cared for, hut il also aims to throw the Christian
element among these degraded masses, with the
strong faith that il will even here attest its divine
origin ard its woodworking powcr--that the little
leayen win leavcn the whole lump.
Mexico and Santa Anna Iu a French Point Of
View.
Tie French journal LII Pcfric, gves in It's issue
of the fourth May translation OF General Santa
Annals manifesto to the Mexican nation, made on
the day after his arrival at Vera Cruz and accom-
panies ii with the following remarks-
After having read, over and over again, will the
greatest attention, the preceding manifesto, lave
still to find in it the appearan of any political PRO-
gramme whatever. We read in it the protestaiions
usual in such cases in favor Of liberty aud order of
which all ambitious men prodigal, with promises
no less vague of moral and material amcliorations,
the execution Of which may be Indefinitely expected.
But apart from these commonplaces, the manifesto
is all that can be imagined OF the most meaningless
and empty.
And now if, as VIC arc strongly incliued to be-
lieve, Santa Anna is at this moment the only man
OF any worth that Mexico can reckon on, we are
forced to admit that this impossibty-a Mexican
REPUBLICANS arrived at the critical movement of o
definite disappearance oroi radical transformation.
1t is absolutely necessary either that Mexico find
Immediately man of genius native or foreign as
chief or that she solicit annexation to the United
States. But as Santa Anna has not the stuff Of
man Of genius, the annexation of Mexico TO the
American Union is the only issue to the embarrass-
ments Of every kind under which the Mexican con-
federation succumbs. This annexation can hence
forth only be matter Of time; and il might be very
possible that the insatiabe avidity Of the Yankees
and the st increasing distress of Mexico, being
granted this time is not very far distant.
News f,Cm Fort Laramie.