Delaware Democrat. (Wilmington, Del.) 1857-1858, 1857-09-05

gell--Jxsgs Conrad WiIrmot--Ab oiitionism,
&C. &C.
pzas Dssccs,r,--Thern are 30 many subjects
presenting themselves 10 your correspondent that
he feels az loss whore to begin. Politics "
subjsct--The pulpit too sombre for hglr readers,
poetry NO acecuat: not like mechanics, hard and
dry, while places of assessment, can havo but lii.
&c interest ~ith yu@r readers. who enjoy life real,
no. ss we do, artificial. However, life animated
exists everyvhere---it is here. there. in, around
und about w.
The Increase Of lcwd women, their advent in
the streets. psrading the ,hcrough infssiing
public squares, fauiring in tho smile and snn-
sA'ne Of last young men. presents most alarm
ing state Of things
There are houses in .tiis city kcp, by women
81 Tho most degraded class. and who are protect.
cd BY high ofhci4ls- These women collect around
them company of young girls. who arc initiated
s''h deeper into the mysteries Of crime. Their
ages vary from eleven to twenty years.
Tho PArerss of these children, are Of thai ciAss
OF foreigners who are thrust upon the shores from
the vile abortions Of tho worst schools Of Europe.
These youthful minds became imbued with tho
grossncss surrounding them there, and they grow
Sp the rank weeds Of our city,
Many Of them arc taught in their very infancy
tie art of bcgging--this leads to theii---lhet TO
prison. and from the prison to the seenc Of pros.
tuition. Thus they grow up. aad like the tabled
Cpss. but no longer a fable In its application,
spread their poisonous influence ovrr the city. 1t
'nay be asked of your readers IL such things ex.
lat Why 1t is, that Crahstiek, who psates about
them in these letters, does not endeaycr 10 bring
the matter Immediately before the public in Phia-
delphis Tho question 10 natural, and Just
ono, and it affords him. (Crabstck,) an .pportuni-
y OF stating that he has, on many occasions en-
aearoyed to call public attention to these uniortu.
nates, but what awaited it. Tho very men whose
duty tits 10 see the laws eniorced and thore chris.
iian men who pray and look sancifed. are umong
the very hrst TO turn their backs on snch scenes
and disclaim against the abuses Of society and lis
ammorality. But they use no effort to suppress,
alleviate, relieve and arrest A few years ago the
WRITER Of this attempted To do some good toward
thus olars, and stated the fact that there were some
two hundred girls of this description parading
Market and Front Streets alone. We annex the
following extract from DIR article, "a il will tell
tale OF city life calculated 10 make our country
friends shndder. We brought their situation be.
fore tbs hsxns missionary Society. and reported to
the proper authorities their dreadful moral condi.
ton, and the career Of crime into which they had
embarked; mark the result:
The hr.t paid huie or no attention to the appeal
h obJret was 10 collect money and uAe II as they
thouxht NJ TO give the wfetehed food, &c. This was
w<c but while feeding lbs body making At for crime
ssy never thought Of the mind. Now, what has been
tae fat: Of t4t least grs pprtion OF these grls In
he dark dens q infamy, the vile haunis OF crime Il,
aAk aleH and lanes In the low dance houses In the
thifa ter Of thrstres, and in the House of efge at
iehsi one half Of these poor wretched girls are 10 be
f1una. This we know; and where ara the boys Co
ask the Alderman 20 ask the Mayor 20 the Judges
your criminal eourts-fhey will tell you; but ii You
y. ~ DC VIII ,nion You tina, the church
PIE REQUIRE all his attention. Religion, in modern
",s aed Ia sfs,oerasy and fashion. In the pur
MeIsunE poverty blended with crime, and Of such
e. 10 call forlh the sympathies Of the million
Hno tns obssrssiions of police Idleness too fre
qaenily the result Of improper edurson or no eduea
Won az az produces many Of the ills and evils which
now stst IN our midst. In many of the dark ALLEYS
IN the lower part OF the city blacks and whites live TO-
xethef promiseuously. Dirt, filth, misery wretched
n.os, eursing snd swesring--these with their Rand
saaids intoxieatien and murder make up the eomnrr
.ea'nle q tnis great scene Of life In our city he
Or ,sr, % mi, seen ~ onF some twenty
On ttAw-sleePingi aye II that Gao be- called sleep
einls va m,ae uP ssreams yans and Wells
her three wrelrhed sguRlid. half stsrsed children
sinsias 70 hsr IL trsmbliag s4r partly the result Of
s,o " . -aa ssex aif ~ ~ ads
shis Ne ssssssioa A ); y, mn q
essd philanthropsts TO the scene their reply
there. can there be- IN hrIshcn land spot ~ susb
.esRei can the imagination eoniure ons Up on the
banfs Of the Gauges. OF - 'A'
From oreenlana's icy mountains.
From indis's coral straad,
where Affic's sunny fountains,
&oai down their golden sand,
~ o. ss,s pei y, sonlsfe up scene such
tHh We Imagine, where the ~
"spisy srcsres
Blow son on Jaya's Isle.
Though every prospect piekses"
that man is debssed So him we have ho..
READER thls 10 one OF the pictures Of city life,
You who live in the country you who gaze out
and upon the broad mountains, and vast lands.
gfe4ning beneath the riches of the Lord...yo,,
who see the Ann rise and set, you who hear free
b.fds sing their wild songs in the eroycs--vou
who watch the opening bloom Of fiower.--ncyer
iink Of city liie--liye--and die in the country
and DO buried in the old graveyard of your "a.
then--~aear toths pi.in village church. Such i
tas ADVICE OF one Uhase long experience entities
nan 70 become your mentor--if you want 10 es.
chew vice, sschew city life. 1t is corrupt---the
exceptions are dwindling down 10 the few who
hsd from The cities Of old when the carse Of God
came down upon them. Sedan and Gomerah
ie ps,ns Jug up, and ITS crimes live again in mo.
ueon Times. - - o
One of those strange uncertainties Of the law,
o. what may be termed circumstantiaI evidence
'''''~c- N--%f wy Was al tIG part the victim.
y man ieit silver watch of no great value, with
Matchmaker in the lower par, Of our c;ty N h.
repaired. The price of which was 70 bavs heen
Hafiy'seyen and half cents. He stated n I i, |
was probable he would not be able 10 come b;r,'
feiF for II, and he would send for il. The ,.tcb.
maker having some busincss TO attend ia let, hs
aore in charge of his wife, and telling her tha, Il
the man sent Tor the watch the urice was ,h;r,v.
seven cents. He had not been rom, i,, Lr-y
cnsall boy, one of Tint numerous class Of der.
who abound in our city. came along. and seeing
rouethirg in the window stepped in, and poiutin9
IN the direction Of thr watch, asked the price tbs
woinsns mind running on The watch. nd being
under the impression thu the man had sent tbe
boy fbr the watch, took 1t down and h.naino /,
iowsss lsiin sid the Hlee was nthirty.seveu ana
half CENTS" The lad was auopishcd a, il,e
caosPness OF whaf appeared sssi watch. thonght
he could not invest that amount 10 much better
advantage, sc be paid the money and went on Ills
way rejoicing. Not long afierward The owner of
The watch arrived and the watch max or having re.
turned home, was astonished when the former
asked for his watch.
"Why sir, you sent for it,
"No such thing, | have come for it,
"Ny vie delivered Il 70 boy who called for
y sent no boy. ] want my watch"
80 you say You know nothing of the hoy,-
"Soshirg vt nli--I will have my watch"
ftere was 60 the watch maker had evidently
heen tone for, he therefore proposed that il the
man would go before magistrate and swear that
he knew nothing Of The boy, nor had he sent for
the watch, he would give him another in its plaee
or lite equivalent. This he did-got another
watch, and he weut on his way rejoicing.