Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-18

RosINE AssooIATIoN.-The Press, in MOTTO
ing recent meeting of this Association,
which was addressed by Rev. Mrs. Antonette
Brown, and other ladies, says
For the information of the reader, we NAV
state that the association above named is pre-
eminently female Notwithstanding for its
humane object the securing from vice and de-
graduation a class of women who have forfeit.
ed their claims to the respect of the virtuous
to prepare and maintain for them an asy-
lum, which, by its system of religious instruc
tion, shall elevate their moral nature teach
them how to gain an honest living "by the
work of their own hands" and eventually to
render them useful members of the communi.
ty, the entire management of the institution
being also in the hands of the gentler SEX
The first business of the evening was the
reading of the annual report of the secretary,
which, to the credit of its author, we will
say was one of the best written documents of
the kind we have ever heard and we will
say, moreover, that its reading by the fair
secretary, Miss Anna Shoemaker, was q no
less creditable performance
From the report we learned among other
interesting facts, that more than two-thirds of
the inmates of the Rosine House have been
orphans at an early age, or left with only
one parent, whose circumstances nave been
so depressed that they have had to struggle
under many difficulties to obtain the means
of subsistence, and that the associations of
their poverty have been such that the nobler
attributes Of their nature have been crushed,
SO that their offspring have grown to maturi-
ty devoid of those elevating influences which
happier circumstances might have elected.
A case was stated of young girl, now in
their charge, whose father was a drunkard,
and whose mother lived in 2 garret, where
she received and partially lived upon the wa
ges of her daughters shame.
Since the organization of the association.
eighteen of the girls in their charge have been
respectfully married, O which number, it is
said, may be far exceeded, as many have gone
to the country, where they have no opportu.
nifty of learning their condition and circum-
stances. During the present year 26 have
gone to situations as domestics, four being 10
Gated in different branches of the family of
one of the managers One who has been un.
der their care for some time has now over
three hundred dollars in the saving fund, ac
cumulated by her industry and economy
One case was related where father former
ly) would not permit his unfortunate daugh.
ter to enter his door or speak to him, but
who IN the chang of few years had been
led a pentent to the altar of a Christian
church, by the hand of that daughter reform.
ed. One who was formerly the mistress of a
house OF immoral character was year or
more in the Rosine some months after she
LETT there, she married and became a church
member, and was now engaged in home
mission association herself, laboring for the
reformation Of those who were formerly her
companions in revelry and dissipation.
OF the five hundred and thrty-one women
who have been under the care of the assoca.
ton, more than two-thirds were not 25 wears
OF age, and some even who numbered from
l3 to 10 years, had evinced q shocking fami-
liarity with vice
But the lnadequacy of the present quarters
Tor the demand made upon them was a seri.
GUS barrier to their usefulness.
The various contributions made by private
individuals were gratefully referred to in the
report. Of the societies to which they were
indebted for generous donations, the Sons of
Malta were named. In their closing appeal
for help to carry on their beneficent work. it
was urged that as the Rosne Association was
instituted to prevent and remedy the crimes
OF hcentousness and drunkenness. and as il
was at once better and cheaper to reform than
to punish, our civil authorities should lend n
helping hand, as well as our citizens gener.
ally.
In confirmation of what was here inferred.
attention was invited to the difference be.
tween the women who have served their an
pointed time in the prison, and in the Rosine
While the former was bowed down in hone
less degradation, too often prone to return
again to sin as her only heritage, the latter
felt that she had risen in the scale of humani
ty-that she had friends upon whom she
could rely, and that by the exercise of virtue
honesty, and industry, she may grasp tho
highest position she is qualified to fiji