New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-11-22

pcrs "a a Door glr, finding life hard enough at
.be best Compelled while so msny Of her sisters are
living in luxury and boundless leisure. to daily toll
for ea,ly bread. Prem daylight TO DARK. toiling
painfully hr small wage, yet PerhsPs dreaming 81
better ard happier days TO come. OF oil "ho 1--we
ia this tuuuluous inyolui on which we call society.
surely this was one 10 b. telped to be- guided. and
10 be guarded. Ala for our Christianity! Alas!
for our civilization, This pati'nt toier cannot,
after 70 many hours q hard. morotonous work
porhsps in some poisoned atmosphere-waik urdsr
the pure .kes to breathe tie blss"d aid untaiuted
air, without encoun'tring half dozen Of devils,
without losing her only wealth, without succumo-
ing TO iDdigtities the memory Of which must be to
htrs bitter tcrnen, through all her earthly years
We have an ARM Of p"licemen. regiment OF
pel.preacbers, a hundred cburetes-and all
could not sa'e poor Mary Galloway from this! We
! talk sometimes in b somewhat lotty tone OF our
civilization Perhaps il will DO n better tsste IT
We lower it iUst note VI two.
! The simple truth is-and the scorer We look it
| in the face the better-thst there is not in the
! whole world beastlier animal than the hew-iOrk
"rowdy." There is the f4ct--LOt p pleasant one
| coItainly--but there il tie fact We believe ttI
an upproteetsd woman woud be safer among the
savage tribes Of America or Africa than in the
streets Of Etw-YoIk. Compared with thorough.
paced New YoIk =" rove y," the Digger Indian rises
into celestial attitudes o. refinement, courtesy and
humanity. II is al very vel to talk u reforming
such fellows as Patrick Gu lnDg or Archibald
e. han
man breaks lis head, You Can trePan it-when he
fractures his bones, you can set tbeu-Wben lie is
sick, you can give mmedicine. But whena hcman
being is absolutely aud completely rotten, there is
Oh end Of him, and the lie is shufied under-
ground the better. Such boys a. these; such boys
as rayished poor Teresa spi'zein few months ago
--huve reached maturity Of wickedness ia their
teens which seems to defy kindness eypostu'a'lons,
appeals to pride or appeals to pity. lou might as
well reason with bulldog. Indeed, you bad much
better. All this il sad very cad udeed but all this
is nevertheless true. Very humili.ting-it is quito
n stunning refutaton Of theories too numerous to
mention and not worth mentioning if they were
fewer. Probably, crying, however is not the
remedy. Some time or other there may penetrate
through toe sscred robes Of May ors through Alder
manic adipose, through the bide bound heads OF
Counc;lneD, some little conviction Of the truth,
that if you all but galize broheIs If you substan
italy egalze rum-shops, it is Of very little use TO
build meeting houses and school houses.
We have not allowed any false pride to deter US
from speaking thus plainly. 1t is, indeed, pleasant
and consolatory to compute the infinite resources
of reform which We have here, could we only. for
once onestly make up our minds to employ them.
For here ia no lack OF benevoience, no deficiency OF
means-a plenty of money aud plenty of intelli-
gence. And thus, with relief to be had for the
asking. we will not ash; with decoruU, safety and
equity within our reach, we will not even stretch
out our hands to secure them. This is not as we
have ssid, pleasant 1t is not creditabe. Itis-not
to put too fine apoint upon it-intolerable. VIII
not those who have undertaken with such incredible
rashness to govern this City Of New-iork. please
10 remember that the duty of public officer is not
limited to drawing his payl that being, as we
think, the predominating opinion about this time.
Hidden under CARLOADS Of rubbish Of the political
sort there must BE- remedies. We do not believe
that the good government even Of this City Is mpos
slble The people Of New iork lack the will rather
than the power.