The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-07-02

A New York paper draws the follow
ing picture of life in the American me-
tropolis:
"Sixteen murders have been perpe
trated in this city since the 1st of April,
about which time Mayor Wood began to
develop his programme of violent resist
ance to the laws, and the whole army of
grog-sellers bid defiance to any legal
interference in their desolating traffic
There have been at least twice sixteen
attempts at murder, beside violent as
saults and rum.hole fights without pre-
cedent. Ten thousand hardened and
hopeless female outcasts swarm the street
at night, two thousand children, under
the guise of pedlars, from the ages of
ten to sixteen, penetrate every public
building, store and Office in the city, to
beg, steal, spy for burglars, and on their
own account to practice those vices which
cannot be named in respectable language;
five thousand great and small gamblers
prey upon the credulous and the infatua-
ted, standing all day at the doors Of their
dens in Broadway, as we'll known in per-
son and profession as the Mayor himself
ten thousand, lazy, drunken, thieving.
short boys, swill boys, killers, roughs
and rowdies of other names, lounge or
the rum-cursed corners Of the street, ma
king day disgusting, night. hideous, ane
travel dangerous to all who can be sus
pected of having responsibility or money
thousands of emigrant swindlers, mocl
auctioneers, lottery dealers, policy y-back
; ers, pick pockets, hall-thieves. burglars
wharf-rats, area-sneaks, pimps and vam
pyres, practice their knaveries as openly
and with as little fear of punishment al
though they were engaged in the mos
) virtuous and legitimate of human pur
suits.
The swell mob of London, flying from
the .argus-eyes of a real police, and th
uncomfortable felons of San Francisco, ex
patriated by the bullet and the hemp c
the Vigilance Committee, are receives
here with open arms. parade our street
under not only the toleratien but the pro
lection and personal friendship of th
police, carry our primary elections, an
fill high places on our nominating com
! mittees. On every hand we have vic
e and crime. and splendor; crime, vice
e rum and beggary. Here, in the mos
fashionable faubourg, is the Crockford
of New York /; there, between the pala
= tial residences of a millionaire and d
vine, is the naison de joie of woman
|, whose dress is the most brilliant, who's
Q equipage the most costly, whose appear
ance the most stunning, of any of the ga
butterflies, virtuous or vicious, who's
. beauty and wealth add glitter to the ope
u ra or sunshine in the promenade. With
i in bow shot Of these palaces, is the 9th
J. er side of the world /; for brocade. rags
! for diamonds, dirt; for Johannisberge
whiskey: for millionaires, beggars; fo
: divines, devils; for Aspasias, drabs wit
S. here and there some poor, starvin
le wretch, painfully enacting the "Song
IF the Shirt" her besieged virtue Gimme
: ing in the misery of this tangible hel
y like the tabled jewel in dunghill. An,
.. over all, we have set of men called ri
"a lers, wrangling like hungry dogs for tt
public purse lying and cheating for a,
vancement; plotting to overthrow &
=. law, that they may rob the people al
- in their influence upon our vast Grimm
v population, recklessly faring their ince
l. diary torches in cur moral powder hous