New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-24

as any In the yards Some Of the brokers declare that
they cannot cell their best bullocks at cents net and
get an estimate Of weight within one-fourth to half
cat Of what the animals will actually weigh. Some
who hoped that the business would improve toward
night now give up and are trying to get off all that
they can induce buyers TO take at any hing ike rea-
sonsble offers hey fear t,s prospect of tomorrow
II lie certain that large number viii BIO LEFT over, In
cuoing fir share Of good quality, and that if some
droves that have been detained by high water on the
Erie road should in, the owners viii meet the
harde st market of the season.
| A NEW MISSIONARY TO THE ROWDT CLASSES
great question: we told in all the religious papers,
for the mssses IT, BOW shall the Goapsl be preached
| to them7" But when plain rough man. without
csssock or bands attempts in g staumeriDg way but
with heart full, 10 preach " Temperance and Right
eouspess" to his old comrades in sin there very
few found to bold hin Up.
Three years ago, when the religious revival swept
this city, and many young men OF vicious hao-
| s and wild lives turned ehort corner, and began
new coursss i. was common sheer or objection, that
time would soon show the holowness of the excite
usnt ard these reformed sinners would be found st
hsir old ways again. Thus far, tine has only proved
that TIE best Of all refomaons s that brought about
by the power of Christian truth and the men from our
lowest clssses who began new lives in the Revival,
give pens Of holding out long any class of con-
| verts.
Among tn, most marked instances of change at that
tina was that of notorious ruff IN and prize gh'er
badly known in Police Courts and portsr-houses az
| Awful Gardrer," or Orville Gardner. If ever the
superb stursl power OF Christianity is manifested, it
vas In tire rene al and entire reformation of that man,
His yjcss and ofs1ses are 30 we'll kno IN IN this
mulity that is hardly worth while TO speak ofthsn,
but Of hs subsequent career probably much less is
known /. appears that hs quietly settled IN busi
ness Doing vel, in neighboriDg town, when c)n-
mittse Of gentlemen applied TO him. and Induced h1,
t. lake part In ne Temperance movement for The
most abandoned quaitsr Of New-York-tbe Fonrth
Ward. They had opened Coffee aud Reading Room
for workinemen in that district aud both they aud be
felt that be wbs proviieDtiay missionary to
Just the 81 lss for whom the was designed Every
| enc knows how difficult it was for a refined aud
educated man TO approach " the roughs OF orr
| city, TIE prssc cheers and missionaries ara generally
entirely unfit b. education aud habf, Tor dung any
good to the class TIE churches are too respectable
for Them even Il ley cared TO go. Then. taess men
| are sbiewd aud when they hear gentle, amisb'e
ip5ividus in piee bl,ck clotbes who has 8oatsd easily
| "a
Obligation of resisting temptation and of the beauty of
aess they very apt 10 say or feel What 10
Won know Mr. Tbeocgian, of temptation, and poverty,
and circumstances sweeping 10 evil like torrent, and
of pstsiops that rage like tempess. E's all very well
for you, with your bsnd-box ways 10 be good bat
what of me- who have had legion of devils after ms
ever since was born 2"
| But here YVES man. with the dirt OF the foulost
VICES ON Tim, who has kno IN poverty aud ain, and
fierce desire ard uncomfortable appetite, and who has
az tb 80 men count success, suecseied ia his deysh
career and yet could leave s tbia and break from hs
habits and choose a smsl honest income iAstesd OF
LARGE eaips and Grt devote himself tho god Of such
| or no was bimfef
Whsu he arose and told them of the pleasure of being
free man from tte tyranny Of drunkenness and lust
and when with sismuerug tongue he spoke - them OF
tbAt mysterious aud heavenly power which alona had
elptd hm 10 break loose from mis- passions sven tue
power of Ctrist-how could they help hearing? How
could they tep believing and showing wha but Di-
vie powercoud save that man.
The rtsult justified tue action Of the Committee IN
putting Nc. Gardner into his present position lie ias
become an apostle Of temPerau,e and righteousness %
the vicious of that whole quarter. We doubt whether
all tho Temp eran,e Societies and many of tho mssi 'ns
Of Nsw-York have done 50 much substantial good the
lat year as this man and his res6ing-room.
TIE loom (which is AZ NJ. % New Bowery) lie free,
and being furnished with pictures and newspapers and
| g. library nombsrs of men come in to get a erp o.
coffee OF smoke cigar and read 1t has bee 'ms TOO
kind Of ce atsl poin, for 81 disspaed or rundown
men who wait u r,fJrm. The Committee, finding IN
the beginning thai Mr. Gardner with the generosity
If HE class, Yves giving away all hs own clo9ss to
these poor creatures appealed 10 the puoiic and se-
| cured means 10 telp them.
We learn that from 900 to 900 men, during the last
fifteen mouths, have been started 10 sober habits AID
progided With honest employment through ma agency
Of THE iGsiitaii9n and manga sorro@ios family or
teabroEen wife he's been gaddened by the rs'urn Of
broth or hubbard or son 10 sober lie. Members OF
there abandoned nen have also begun on ne life OF
religious service and seem truly regeneratsd. the
y. cusr religious views of mr.. GARNER (Meihod SIN
| 1T hin, without doubt Tor this work emcng the
massee.
And yet, with all that /, being done by this simple
plsn apo tfs earnest.mIded man. there is not at all
suficieDt support fer the enterprise. Not topg ar
eocefasticsl mission the churches do not supper! ii
and the public are not sulic,ay aware OF its sziat
ence TO give il much assistance.
We underetsnd that Gsrdces whole paary ia Only
$500 per snnum and yet that Is difficult to raise ere
that. IL may strike New.Yotker1 as somsLhns no
10 hesr that this man has refused offer Of 5000 pei