The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-06-02
PHILADELPHIA NEWS-JUNE |

There are over sixty newsbows in PHILADELPHIA
and of these it is probable that more than one-hrd
have neither home nor parents, and of those who
have the latter there is very small proportion
who would not be as well or even better off if they
entirely free from their evil influences These
boys, without any fault of their own, have been
thrown upon their own resources, at very tender
age and they are forced to earn their own bread
or subsist by charity. The half-vagabond life thew
lead is not favorable to the fostering of habits of
morality, and the young news vendors have ION
looked upon as almost savages, and too often they
have been treated though they were really such
This morning, the boys who have ayailed them
selves OF the advantages of the new Home, ap-
peared in the streets with clean faces and neat
y copbed 1 hair; The first great point of clean
lness has thus been attained already and there
is scarcely a doubt that the other humanizing
influences of the new enterprise will speedily fol-
low The boys are shrewd enough to know who
their real friends are, and when they find that there
Is an interest taken in them they will gladly avail
themselves OF the kind intentions of their bene-
factors.
For several weeks past the officers at the Central
Police Station have been in the receipt of letters
from the interior of this well other States in
curing as to the reliability and honesty OF certain
persons, protesting to be engaged in the book bust
ness in this city. The writer alleged that thev
''had forwarded money to purchase books, but had
never received any in return" Nothing could be
done by the officers until yesterday, when Elijah S.
Anthony, of Easton, Washington county, n. Y,
one OF the victims, was before the Recorder, and
caused the arrest of the parties implicated in this
matter. The Recorder held the accused in $500 to
await further hearing.
The debut of Musard in Philadelphia attracted
last evening very large and intelligent audience
TO the Academy of Music. and was success of the
most gratifying kind Nothing could have been
more effective than the arrangement of the stage
Tor the orchestra presenting, it did, the perfect
imitation OF hadsOme saloon with ceiling, inches
&C., and the performers arranged with their vari-
Gus instruments upon successive terraces rising
from the front to the rear wall of the simulated
apartment Musard stood upon an elevated pedes-
tai in the centre between the footghts and the or
chestra As regards the performance of the latter
III was up to all the requirements of the most fas-
tidious taste. ..
During the month of May 1868 children, IT'S horses
wagons, / dray and mules, were recovered to
their owners by the police telegraph. The coroner
was notified 43 times and insane females and in
sane males were restored to their friends officers
notified to attend court, &C., &C.; Fire Marshal no
tined, .; notices of new countereits 6; prize fight
stopped, l; miscellaneous messages sent. 2, 3S3.-
There were % fires during the past month"; for which
the State house bell rung thirteen times
All is hustle and activity at the Navy Yard
There has not been any increase of the mechanical
or laborng force since our last visit, it being about
twelve hundred in all. No special orders have been
received in reference to the frigate Congress- but
her repairs are being pushed rapidly forward. and
orders for her stores have been given. Considera-
bic OF the planking of the sloop-owar Lancaster is
completed, but it is thought she will not be ready
for launching before the latter part of August or
the beginning of September.
Among the latest inventions for raising money by
street operations is that of Frenchman, who pre-
ambulates the principal thoroughfares, with a tin
can upon his back and block tin cups upon his
shoulder, selling what is termed "Parisan Lemon
AIDE, ON the Raspail System" The novelty of the
thing charmed the boys, and large number of
them invested their spare pennies in glass of the
new Partisan beverage.
The crowd at the Mayors office, yesterday, ex
ceeded that of any day since the Inauguration of
Mayor Henry. The reception room and the avenues
leading to it were not only thronged but the entire
pavement in front of the office so blocked up
that 1t was almost impossible to push through it,
which females as well as males were required to do,
or cross the street to avoid it.
Yesterday, John Walls, aged fifteen years. had
his right hand taken off by circular saw, at the
mill at Swanson and Washington streets The I'M
fortunate lad was playing about the saw at the
time, not being employed in the MILL He was
taken to the Hospital. Amputation of the injured
limb will, it is thought, be necessary.