New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-18

II would not be amss if some clever, con-
fcientious and pains. taking man would FOR tie
crime of New-YOrk what the Brothers Mayhem
have done for the crime Of London, aud show it to
us as it is, statistically, morally phosophically
ind historically. As matters nov stand the reveal
lions of the newspapers are merely fragmentary
and give us the effect rather than the cause. Our
figures are guess work. We know how many con-
yictiops there have been in the lower Courts, but
we are all abroad when we attempt to cipher how
any convictions there will be. There has been q
rough estimate of the number Of grog.shOps in this
city, but how macy sober men know anything Of
the swelteripg squalidity of these dens' To how
many intelligent and pitying eyes have been re-
yealed the degradation Of garrets and Of cellars
the biyed hellishness of the low tenant houses
the ipdgnities of woman the torture of children,
the swift progress of boyhood into rotten, not ri
pened, brutality Where is there fair and inteli
gent effort making, in any quarter, at least upon
adv extended scale, to render employment certain
snd eouitably remune rative Has it come to this,
that we must read reports of murder, suicide, in.
fsnticde, child desertOn, stabbing, burglary, riot,
and highway robbery, not, Of course, without emo
ton and regret but if these things were iuevita-
be- Can no steps be taken to remedy what every
honest nan regrets, and every sisteriy woman
wteps over!
What we want most is information, graphically
AID vet ,ravely conveyed. There is sympathy
enough. and moral strength enough, and benevolent
spirit enough in this city, to do great deal toward
the regeneration of our population if we could only
bring cur reformstory forces to bear. But we are
wonted TO sin. We are callous to crime. IL has
kept up its saturnala unchecked, howling and hiss
ing ard hooting in our ears, until We have grown
accustomed 10 the mad and moving discords. Men
believe, and we sorry to say have always De-
Ieyed, that they must have not only the poor al
ways with them, but also the shameless, the stoiid'
and the sinful Those who dwell in broad avenues,
within marble walls, and under the shelter oil lofty
roofs take it for granted that there must be mar
row and Beiaome alleys, crowded with all that
pains the eye the ear and the nostrs -fuu OF lost
men and shameless women ald hopeless children,
with hunger and nakedness and filth Too generally,
those who are favored Of fortune Cor think that
they are know only by report Of the fate OF their
LEES prosperous brothers and sisters. The gutter
reyer sends up its e1uvia to disturb their nice no.
bility. The coarse oath seldom falls upon their
ears polite. The futterng tatterdemaEon Of either
sex rarely crosses their path, to strike terror Into
their cOpplacent eyes. They think Of charity
when the hired canyasser calls, or when the Plate
is plesditg ely thrust over the pew door. They
give-certsinly, they give-we all know that they
give Alas the business Of building up this worlfr
and Of reeenerating its inhabitants, by the inter
position of gold ard silver, has not always proved
q solvent one.
There is nothing like little ocular demon''ra-
,ion. There is nothing Ike stroll through tue
Five Points, and similar localities, to show one
how low ner tumble into the pitfal OF sensuail'y
and slo,hfuness. The sensible man who walks
about New-YoIk IN other than the iasnionaoe
thorouskfsres, and keeps bis eyes vide open' WIZ
come to be very tolerable peilanfnroP'''' ha!
we be permitted TO refer 70 scene which was WIZ
messed by mNy last Sunday e'tOIOe' Near one
Of the East R.,es sips, AID stard.ns upoa doof'
| .tep uss bsi u1d,ltaten % .ac:Tre re"7 T.!