New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-23
CITY ITEMS


would give up. 1t may take long time to reach
his manhood, but he is not a brute. Think it is
Charles Dickens who says, "Away up a great
many pairs of stairs in very remote corner easily
passed by there Is door and on that door IL writ
ten, Woman" And SO in the heart OF the wheat
outcast, away up great many pairs Of stairs, in
remote corner, easily passed by there IL ooOr upon
which is written, Man."
Here is our bsiness-to find that door. 1t may
take a long time; but begin aud knock. Don't get
tired; but remember Gods long suffering for u.s. and
keep knocking long time if need be. Don't get
weary if there is no answer; remember Hin whose
locks were wet with the dew Knock on ust try
tToU try IT. and just so sure, by and by, will tho
quiyering lip and starting tear tell you you have
been knocking at the heart of man, and not Of u
BRUTE 1t is because these poor wretches are men,
and not brutes that we have hopes OF them.
! / once picked up a man in the market place.
/ They said, " He is brute-let him alone" took
] him home with me- and kept the 4" brute" fourteen
days and nights through his delirium, and be nearly
frightened my wife out Of her VIE, one night chas
ing her al about the house with boot In bis hand
But she recovered her wits, and he recovered bis.
! He said to me: You wouldn't think l had
wife and child would your
Dwell, L shouldn't"
81 have, and-God bless her little heart-my lit
tie Mary is pretty little thing as ever stepped
said the 60 brute"
| asked Where do you live y
1.-TWO miles from here
! "When did you see them last T.
1.-TWO years ago."
Then he told me his sad story. said, " Yoa
must 20 back again."
/ can't 90 back Nv wife is better without ms
! have struck her, and kicked her, and abused her.
Can go back again 2"
went with him to his house. l. knocked at tbs
door, and his wife opened it.
/ /" Is this Mrs. Richardson r.
eyes, Sir
| "Well, that is Mr. Richardson; and, Mr.. Rich
son, this is Mrs. Richardson. Now come into tina
house."
They went in. The wife sat on one side Of the
room and tie "brute" on the other. waited 70
see who would speak first. and il was the woman.
But before she spoke she tidgeted a good deal She
pulled up her apron till che got hold Of hem, and
then she pulled II adj down again. Then che foidea
it up close and erked it ont through her fingers an
inch at q time, and then she spread 1t all down
again: aud then she looked all about the room, and
sad Wen, William"
/ Tie "brute' said, "Well, Mary"
| He had large handkerchief around bis neck, and
his wife said, " You had better take the handker-
chief off, Wi liam; you Ii need II when you go out
| lie began 70 tumble about il; the knot was large
enough he could have united it if he liked; but ma
said, " VIII you unite it, MaryP
/ She worked away at II, but her fingers were too
clumsy, too, and she could not get it OIL
While thus occupied their eyes met. The love.
light was not all quenched. She opened her arms
gently and he fell into them.
Ii YOU had those white arms ciasped about his
neck, and no sobbing her breast, and the child
looking in wonder inst at and then at the other,
YOU would have said Z" 1t is not a brute, but a
man. with groat big, warm heart In his BOSOM
CHARTTABLE FEsTWAL.-The fifth annual festival
and fair OF the Society of St. Vincent de Paul was
opened on Monday of the City Assembly Rooms, and
will be continued until Thursday. The society maka
a srecial appeal in behalf Of the charity to which
hey IRE devoted. They say, rs to the increase OF
rne under the seourgo Of the present calamity
il were hardly necessary, IL practicable, 70 make an
estimate Of its actual, far less of its prospective
amount. II is sufficient TO know that dark and
stern Winter will soon draw to US with its at
tendant hunger, and cold and nakedness and storm,
and whatever may be tho issue Of the national con-
test the battle of necesstous life must still be fought,
and often without human aid, even to the bitter
end
The following is a summary of the socety's oper-
atoms during the last Is months:
During the year endsg Dec 81 1860 the Society Visited
and relieved families. comprising 6s persons, to WHOM,
there made % ,253 visits.
It's receipts were. sos %
It.
FOR The sI month, ending June 90 1861 Il visited Gar
families numbering o1O persons to whom wore made ''ss
is receipt. were, including baance.....sl2so2 ss
Is expenditures were....'..'...'......''" H~'H
Sous or TEMPERASSE.-The annual meeting of
the Grand Division of Eastern New-York will DO
held to-day at and u o'clock p M, in the lodge
room at No lS7 Bowery. From John Davies, esq,
the Grand Scribe, we derive the information that Ia
the Division mentioned there thirty Societies now
in iourishing order, and numbering 3,4OO members,
Of whom half are ladies. In some of the Societies.
especially in the country, than half Of the menu
beers have gone away TO the war, and are heard
from "a doing much good among their fellowsodiers
by holding informal Division meetings and keeping
up temperance spirit. Two or three local Divis-
ions have succumbed to the pressure of war time
and been given up. The limitations during the quar-
ter past were so males and 100 females. At2p. IN.
to-day the Grand Worthy Patriarch will make his
report and the Grand Scribe will follow in detailing
what is above stated. At o'clock an election will
be held.
THr RECEIPT or TAxEs.-Our taxpayers are no
lapcards this year, as will be seen by the subjoined
table of receipts at the Office of Mr. James Kelly.
Tax Receiver since the opening of the books on the
Both Of September. The sum total is much larger
than has been paid in during the same period for
many years previous:
AMOUNT COLLECTED 1861.
\ Tax. Croton.
/ September 30..........$2s9,591 IS
October l'.''''''''''. 2 2ssd3s % % 80.
October 3............. 6l46S IS
October 4............. 1861 IS
October 5..........,... $685. W 800
| October l............. lLfltZ ~
October 6............. SZ,oo5 % 800
October 9.....'..,'.... 1857 - s-:'sa