New-York daily tribune., 1859-02-09

pOft nlidc tAO lrblS ago lO lNc rs III HuFu
simlir atr,c ties set forth, aui WHICH, far
we can learn, have never been corrected Let them
aDsw'r tbis # they Gao:
REPORT MADE TO THE GOVERNORS TWO
YEARS AGO.
Mr.. President ASD GENfLENES GovERNoRs;
We appear before you in the character Of individual
citizens as the representatives Of 70 association or
body but TO present 70 you our individual uerauces.
ActBsted by the simple desire, We uus 20 benefit the
helpless and frendess over whom You have jurisd'c-
ton, We crave the privilege courLeonsly to eommuni
este 10 your body the results oi investigations
VIC have made IN connection with the pagper infants %
Il is city; and sso to be allowed to make lew sng
gestiOls growing out of these Investigations. We are
before you in spii Of dictaon or CONSCIOUSNESS
ard pray ycN not 10 Tegad us Gs medders IN the bus-
ness belonging to the Department ulfer y)af con-
troll.
On application, we were kindly furnished by yo1r
worthy sgelt, M. Kellogg, with what We suppose 70
be oDplete list OF s the pauper lLitnts az board IN
ction with the Department, with the design on
part 20 make general visitation, to ascerta!l
their condition, &c. This We have to considerable
extent, accomplished, end, with your PERMISSION VIII
proceed 10 state some facts or points developed by
these visits.
And, first as Il reg ards their care and general con-
dition We found very wide diferspce. Some few;
though perhaps in very common ten.men's, We found
in a re slly comfortable situation; cleany neat and
With comparative order IN the surroundings. One
oi the most prasewortby cases we desire TO MENTION
that of a Mrs. Mary UhnnOn, in common tndnty, on
the ire of Forty second street, between Fist aud Sec
ord avenues, Eho has two babes nur pretty
children, vel fed clearly and nea, Tas Is one OF the
os. gfaiif ng cases we have eye. met with. Inere
ere all the eradltoIs corceyable between this hsppy
STATE Of things TO that of th aud the gro,sest neglect
Among other cases, We made come Investigations
II regard 10 q woman by the n.me Of McCabe who
had had children in her charge at No. 81 Lsw.s street.
The children UNDERSTOOD were taken from her be-
c5use the neghbors or others, had entered compliant
Of their treatment. pleasant old lady residing in
the house with her, who seemed To have good deal
Of pity for Mrs Nee abe and thought her AeiClency
was owing 70 her husbands conduct, said that the
children suffered dreadully from simple neglect They
were left unwashed ,iter day; Mrs. McCabe often
going out leaving them behLd IN the house for hours
Thai lying in wet places the bed she you'd go in
and remove them to dry places, and tha. from these
negects they became sore, and even in almost rotten
state. McCabe had been boarder at Blackgells
Isand and when at home, was not over kind TO wife
or the pauper children.
Mrs Colbert in the vicinity of Forty-thir1 street
and Third avenue, found after long search, in
miserable sbanty in hollow some ten feet below the
level OF the urr0undng streets Access 70 the shany
had only through mud docks Ot fowls hogs goats,
eats and dogs. The apartments consisted OF two rooms
the bscroom hardly wide enough to admit the bed
steats lei gtLH Sc; the 9th possibly twelve feet
square. Dit lay piled on the floor; several pals OF
swl collected by the children were standing around
sid from which you0g goat, dog atd cat were
helping themselves, selecting s1ch portions as we're
most palatable TO them; at the same time large
black COW weighing some 900 pounds was roofing
at the door 10 obtain admittance, attracted,
undoubtedly, by the odors of the unarioto-
cratic viaDds on which the insiders were
regaliDg themselves. The piggery Of the estab-
lshment was separated from the principal do
pertinent by only single board partition, through
which daylight could hnd admittance without quarrel.
Ig. THIS shanty vas unp.astered There were In
the rOom u addition to the inventory already given,
Mrs. c. three Children OF her own the eldest girl of
II years and prOtege Of the Ten Governors in the
shape Of little urohin y years old, RAINING
round the roOm with no earthly covering than an in
conveniently short shirt, his har sticking every way
for Sunday, ike pOrcupines quLls with almost dirt
enough his little hide 10 set 20 stoe. H. and to cap
tie climax, the skin peeled oil his mouth AID nose by
butt be tad received from the young goat. We pre-
feT 10 charge CT cruesy or unkIndness against this
woman; We have no doubt she reared her own brood
very much after the sort.
Another family that OF Mrs. jenkins, No. 2l3 Gen.
tre street husband is shoemakeT works at his bench
in tee room where they live, coos, eat and sleep.
Their apartment Is reached by q way tina. renders
lsutern almost essential at noon DAY. Mrs. j. has
three Children Of her own ind three Of the paupsr
iIfsls ole Of the paupers s 10 months old aud with
one OF her Of about the same age, wss era Wing
around the OOr in their filth, aod e! not
well Laked fer they seemed h have but one garment
Oh ami that in such condition. that they crawled
around, their bodies were rext the h1or Tue others
were musings, one asleep in chair; the other che
snatched fIom the floor and put to the breast as we
entered the room. The whole appearance heie-rOom,
persons md stmosphere-weIe filthy and disgusting in
tue eN reIne.
A Mrs. Fres, ar English widow, 20 yesrs Old No.
% West Tgeniy-seYenth street, has two children
from tie Aims House Oae Of these, i months Old,
che says she has had five months that when it came
10 Der Il was mere skeleton; coud Zap It's skin
around your finger and acted ss though il had been
starved and seeing loaf Of bread, woui appear a.
L oct frentic 10 obtain il.
Mfs Post No. go West TEeuty-eishth street, hs.
fouI children fom the Ams-IIouse. One Of them had
b, sn ,iken from another woman for Lnkini treatmn;
Appeared Is If il had been starved.
Ms. DAILY, No. lis East Forty.secord street, has
four Children Of her own, ard two poor, scrawny
tIircs from tie A.ms-House. Her youngest child Is