The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1854-07-28
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE
AsTOR HOUSE
New York, June eth 1854,

DEAR FRTENDs:-
The other day accompanied By some pious
ladies who are alive to every good impulse
and work, visited what has recently be.
come classic ground in the Newgate litera-
ture Of the day--the famous or rather infa-
nous old Five points Of New York. It is
not more than thirty minutes walk from the
Astor House. You go up Broadway to the
right u lie Park Gil you come to Centre
street, then down that q few yards and you
come to a three cornered public square with
old houses and grog shops on two sides and
The old Brewery, the present Methodist
Mission House and Mr. Pease's House Of
Industry on the other Il looks just like
any other dirty squalid part Of this great
Babel, and alltbe caYerns and underground
passages into which thieves and burglars
used to hide to.evade the policemen exist
only in the imagination of Scion
Robinson and other writer's Of the same Tx!
We expected that we were going to some
thing little better than the regions where i.
never freezes and so fortified our hearts
with courage and our pockets with coppers,
and looked to find the inscription that
Dante put over the entrance Of his INFERNO.
who enters here leaves hope behind"
AS We passed along this Ultima Thule of
all the decencies of honest life, held on to
my purse of coppers and looked sharply
about me. All seemed perfectly harmless.
The women and children had curious look
as much as to say. eve have history. .
There were few men to be seen--they were
no doubt all about their Yocations, stealing,
begging and drinking rum. I did think as
I passed along, that if the worthy Mayor
and his august Council would turn the Gro
ion through that locality for day or so. it
would probably improve the natural almost
phere almost as much as the Rev. Nj. Pease's
sermons have purified the moral What
Mr. Greedy and Scion Robinson Or anybody
else should get up public demonstrations Of
sympathy about den Of pick pockets and
drunkards for. is hard to conjecture. Their
motives. to say the least Of them, are Of
doubtful purity.
We knocked at the main entrance Of The
House Of Industry and we're shown "a By
man without a coat. No doubt lie found
..Joraon ahard road to travel in this place
ana had therefore obeyed the injunction Of
the popular song and pulled Of lis coat and
rolled up his sleeves Mr. Pease was not
at home, bat his sub Or agent who IS q very
polite and seemingly i zealously pious chris
tiaG showed Us through the establishment.
There we're old men and maidens, young
men and children all at work, some making
shoes. some shirts and some bags 70 send to
California to gather gold ii. lnone room
was al infant school where some twenty
babies wers being taught to sing and count
and tell who made them and who IS PRESS
dent Of the United States. They were told
70 sing and they al struck Up
Il want to be an angel
And with the angels stand
a crown upon my forehead,
s harp within ny hand,
to tie tune 81 tie Watchers
One Of ny friends asked thes gentlena Az
where Wild Maggie vas. end Re SAID she
was II boarding school ii etockb1idge
EIe said that hey had e send her away. |
that tie publication IS those sketches il Gle
Tribune AID elsewhere bad made people /
osll for heI So much they were afraid i
would spoil he1 found chat Posse
and lhs Directors to ly disappfoye et The
publis ion 81 those bit could not