New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-26

| Mr. Peter Dawson. a son Of the Emerald I.le,
is thrifty and Influential citizen Of the Fourth
Wsrd-a portion of our City which contains soms
good, respectable people, but which is in good part
| devoted to sailor boarding houses, and kindred
establishments devoted to the wants of our sea-
is!ing popul,tion. Probably more than half the
| population of the Ward are Irish and their lmue
diAre descs udan's, and they are not as whole q
| people Of whom the Green Isle ha, any ressen
| to be particularly proud OF the residue, at least
half are also Of foreign birth or the children Of
| SUCH leaving but one fourth essentially American.
Being predomlnaDtly all hi.h Ward, it will be al-
lowsbe rhetoric to observe Of it, that most OF the
dwellings are grogshops-or worse. IL is OF course
al eminen!ly AID inyiI cibly Democratic Ward,
having given Buchanan ,Ise votes to 256 for
Fremont, and Fillmore 2l5 and, if the Election
had occurred on a long instead of short day, so
that the sovere;eDs could have voted only once
more around they would have added at Least 800
to the msjority. They last Fall gave Fernando
Wood Gle votes to 52J FOR Mayor Tiemsnn,
though the latter received nearly 100 &" Dem
ocIatic " votes.
Of this FouTth-Wsrd population, Mr.. Peter
Dawson is q representative man, and has long eeen
SORT Of Warwick among its asprsnts for place and
pelf. So shrewd and fortunate is be in business,
that he is understood to have Amassed, BY the help
of tho, oushy cougeDia and equally capable help
meet fortune tf about $NO, 600 in tie course OF
tire past eight ten years-for he is still young
man, hardly more then thirty-whie the capital be
brought hiiher from Ireland prOb,bly did not eI
ceeo pair Of well. worn shoes aud the broth Of q
boy that stood IN them. In short, Peter has been
greatly prospered among us, ard has good reason
for bis inte nse devotion to the American Eagle and
BIS iath in Manifest De,tpy.
We cane near saying that Peter had done good
BUSH ess, but We recalled 1t, for it was not true.
His business was Just the worst that YOU could sup
pc,e man or eevil 10 be engaged in. His establish
ment was osteDsibly grogshop, and dou 'tless wn
favored last yesr with $50 license by those legal
,uppIesseIs of lntemperance, Aessrs. Kerr, las
ket aHd iIolmtf: if it Was not * was only because
frugal Peter cid Dot choose TO ;oOl away $50 upon
them. But the grosshop was but the vestbule to
this sailor Paradife. Up stairs, it was den OF
prostitution OF the cOarsest, ylest, most revolving
character. There some twenty or thirty female
| outcasts weIe kept imprisoned until no longer
available for their horrid business, when their
wretch, Tt mains were packed of to the City hos
pta for the repair at public cost Of such damaged
merchandise, OF 10 paurer graves aud medical dis
sectpg rooms, as the case might be. These wretch
es were not allowed personally to receive the wsges
of their pollution-sll that WAS paid in at the bar,
ard passed directly into thrifty Peters TILL and as
he Kept all the accounts and charged each hag what
ever be fit for her board, her liquor, and what
ever lie chose to let her wear, she was OF course
alws,s IN his debt, and could be imprisoned BY him
Tor steslpg Der clothes, if she ever attempted
fight. A., hswtver, che could only escape through
the par.room where Peter and bis male ASSISTANTS
we're constantly on the watch, and as no one is
likely 10 have voluntarily entered such den who
was OF already in l)w stage Of degradation, it IS
probable that the attempt wss seldom made
| Success breeds envy. Peters establishment had
been N full tide for years, perfectly We'll Snown 70
| tie Aldermen aid Councilman whom 10 annually
leed to elect well as to the Ward Police, whom
be possibly Was constrained at intervals 10 bribe
with something better than the accustomed run Of
the house Ii was probably neither better nor
worse, morally, than a hundred others IN that Ward
and five hundred more N yarou, parts Of the City,
though il Was probably more systematic and busi.
pess-hke, therefore mole profitable, than most OF
| them. But al last, through envious rivalry, as
| Peter, with much plau,iblIty, asserts, formal
| complaint was nsde 10 Mayor Temsnn, whose
Srecisl roiice pourced upon him ODE recea. night
when bis concern was 10 i1l blast, and broke him
up. Peter. after 50 many yeas OF placid prosper
ty Was obliged 10 lace the aw ul iroNus o. offended
Justice And as there Was no denyios the charges
on which le Was prosecu.edas the nlaln i,cis were
Lpown 10 a; least i've hundred rtsdy witne. ses-as
be- had been csuGht in The manner aod could not
even invent pallisnon-Peter borrowed q hint
from CAPT. SCOTS coon, and came down. He put
| in plea Of gully md swaite, tie pleasure OF the
Court.
That Court consisted Of Police Justices Connolly.
Steers ard Kelly, very fortunately for Peter-two
of them We believe, natives of the zane :" Jim Of
=. the Say with himself, and majority of them
fellow apostles with him Of that political creed
which shirns that The world Is governed too
much" The beat government. il that which
governs lesst"-and which reprobates Pr,hb.
i,ory Liquor Laws and al such State interference
with the inherent liberty Of every man to do whs,
ever he sees st. long - he breaks no other man
head srd absolutely picks no pocket. According
t0 the inpdsu sa'al principles Of "DeEc:ney." q.