New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-29

his alleged completely in the Brotheton frauds.
LIT ruE Coon WORK Go ON.-Withia short
time past the police have been very active and encr-
tetic in breaking up disorderly houses and IN many
cases they have been succesiu In every portion oil
the city may be found principally in Easements, low
rmsh ops which places OF constant resort Tor the
vicous and depraved. During the daytime these
saloons generally empty, few thieves dropping IN
now ard then to concoct their plans for the Dght.
hbou, or 10 o'clock at night the places begin to oil
up and often before midnight there may be found AS
sembed together from fifty to two hundred Of the vest
characters. Frequent potations Of bsd rum render
many Of the party qusrelsome, and it often happens
that the police are called upon 70 suppress the conse
auent Disturbances. At one end Of the saloon is the
bar while at the other end seated two or three mu
eciaDa who perform airs for every variety of dancing
The majority CT those who make these dens place OF
nightly resort are of tender years and it is here they
Learn al sorts Of vllany, and are taught by those OF
m9iurc sge the practices which the Groundwork
for every crime in the calendar. Here may be fosnd
he hsld-working mechanic boy, who, having been
led into the place by some designing person, piled
with maddepipg decoctiops, and while undeS taeir
fleet s Induced TO take part in bnrgaries and Tobbe-
res. Should the scheme prove successful, he
becomes ested and giving up his honest work,
enters upon a of crime. The mechanics
daughter, persuaded by some sounded to
visit the place Just for a daoce, is treated to
drugged cordals and becomes lost to all sense OK
shame and virtue. Whenever she can escape the oye
Of her parents she hsstens away to pass hours and
hours in debsuchery. The propretos Of these houses
are shrowd men, themselves bold in crime, and not a
stone do they leave ununed TO into their dens
the youth of the city.
The Mayor hss commenced the work of breaking up
these vile resOs 1t has a'o been taken up by several
Of our Criminal Magistrates and is TO be hoped that
the Judges Of the higher Courts, before whom many
Of the proprietors inmates of these dens may be
brought will lend helping hand in the good cause.
About - O'Clock on Saturday night Capt. Carpenter
Of the Sixteenth Precinct, in company with Sergeant
Caffly end forty men, made descent upon, the
premises No. 301 We-. Seventeenth-street kept by
one james Hickey as dance-house and cockpit, add
constant resort for thieves burg lars, pickpockets,
prostitutes and offenders OF almost every grade and
description. The house having been surrounded 20
that none of the inmates could escape, Capt Carpen'
ter with the majority OF his command, entered the
interior which, at the time, was pretty well hled.
The CONSERVATION Of the inmates can be imagined
Numbers ran to the windows and doors IN the
hope Of escaping, but they had no sooner effected
their exit than they nabbed by that portion OF the
force on the outside The alarm consequent upon the
entry of the police having subsidized several 81 the most
notorious characters in the place undertook to DIVE
them cut and made onslaught upon the force, usiog
a. wenpons lumber bottles decaners and other dan
perous mis-iles Officer Barbalet received severe
cut w &c biz left eye from broken turnbler hurled oy
one Of the nfians. This riotous feeling vas soon
queed and the disorderes brought to terms by ffee
applica: crs Of locust clubs. Every ono found On
tie premises was srerted and taken to the station
ho,se, where the entire party WIS locked up IN INC
ceDs.
SHORTLY before the arrival Of the police, come twenty
or thirty dsreputsbe femaes, who had been attending
the dance eft for Their respective homes thereby e.
Gaming the fate which awaited the other participants in
the lights debauch.
lis ssd that the descent BY the police caused TO DO
indefinitely postponed dog fight AID cock fight that
were 20 have come OF between IL and O'Clock.
For come time past frequent complaints have been
made as to The disordery character Of this place and
Cxtan Carpenter he's eneeavored TO procure the s6-
dGys Of respectable citizens Hho have been annoyed
by the iiupkeu brawis, that the might be pre-
.pted to the Grand Jury, but all Seemed afraid 10 yo
Their evidence in the matter, and the police finally
took tie burden upon their own shoulders.
The prisooers were yesterday morning conveyed be-
FIRE Justice Kelly, at the Jefferson Market Police
Govt followed by upward Of two thousand people,
nsoy OF wtcm personal friesds Of those in ous'
tody.
Ire accused were oil committed fer ersussst.ss.
DrIins tho DAY some bal doses vsrs bs;ied'
b.: the msjosny d tam go. the dAy u Prsss-
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