The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-06-12
Neral Condition Of New York.

The New Orleans P.cayune contains an ar
ticle under the head Of Tho uoms Heathen,"
from which we extract tho folio wing:
A recently received Northern journal con.
taiDs an address delivered before the New
York Young Mems Christian Association
This association, says the address, ''stauds
pledged to attempt tho mental, moral and so
cial Improvement Of the Is 900 young men
who are exposed to the temptations and be-
setmeats of this great city" l. is An ''as-
tempt" which might we'll appaif any one &C.
quainied with the temptations and beset-
monts" of that city II any forejgn journal or
Southern newspaper were to utter one tenth
part Of the statements contained ia the ad.
dress, or expose p,Olety even OF tho misery
and rank IOttennsss in which tue sub eociety
OF New York fairly stewa, thoro would be one
universal burst Of Indignation from Central
Park 10 the Battery that the fame Of the me-
tropOlis should be 80 blOtted and belied
Nevertheless, a Nav York young Christian,
addreGalng his associates, speaks OF 1.-The sur
passing sinfuiness Of the city, not so much to
feed curiosity as to stimulate missionary yea" /"
and, with the same lauiabte motive we note
a few Of the fields for nlissio aary labor pre-
sented in tho address aud existing in the city.
Aud here is the directory Ia Il resident
population of nearly 800 600 souls land bodiee)
there were received last year iutO the charita.
bie aud correctional Institutions Of the city 81
93i persons; Al ,299 persons were cohmit'e
to prison for ninety special offences; there are
&c 00G liquor dealers in the city; lo0,U00 (the
address says) German intidei,; 800, ,0OO souls
voluntarily destitute of the true Means of
grace - "l3 900 families without Blbie,' tO, :
600 children who lever attended school; d.
900 children classed as homeless ones, who
prey upon the community, either As bag
gars, thieves, or vagabonds, and waO are
growing up, unchecked aud unrsstraiaed,
iuto the next generation Of burglars, pick
pockets, and prostitutes; "0bscene BOOKS
and prints published, imported, aud sold ID our
streets, at our whafvee, and IN some .! our
as respects immoral teachings and lnhlpAce -
Of 80 2:32 arrests last year, three founhs weio o
directly on account Of intoxicasion and m'eds
maanois arising thereffom m'-nlna theatres
"six Of which permit the pre3encs ol prosti
tutes'-AMusements "gradulted go as - siAsi-
fy every class, however degraded, aud every
taste, however depraved model artist OK
hibi.ions, free colcsrt saloons, lance hoasss'
dov fights, and other such spectaclas, attract
ing Gro wds every nieht-'twenty tive tiou-
sand abandoned women, Of ali grades, and
twsuty i've hundred bgotaeis" broadway
II Anked for more than mile, on either side,
by streets whose vesy names are fyno
nJms of dsbauchery;' while 1t is notora
Qua that the great thOTOughfare has scarcely Il
block above Canal street which is not DIS
vracsd by AN assignalion house or a disrepu-
table hotel" 'More than half the population
dwelling in crowded tenement houses, erected
and arranged TO hive from four to one hundred
and twenty i've families Of five persons each
IAN underground population" acs9rding to D'
Francis, Of 25 900 psrsOns-and With this emu
meratioD, of which we have giyel q sketch
merely emitting much of the worst, the address
defe1s the consideration Of gambling, lottery
policies, desecration OF the Sabbath, the reck
iesa disregard Of sanitary rules, the inc. easing
riotous character Of city politics, aud tho va
graucy, ignorance, aud panperism, 90 preva
lsnt in our community" Surely, subject mat
ter sufficient for another address, If not for
volume.
We have read Of an astist monk who paintes
q picture of Pargatory. 20 frishtfui ia Its Dc
tails that he went mad over his own work
and Of yet another, who drew the dewitt in sucl
q horrible form that it killed him outright On
young Christian has simply photographed
Christian city in the year Of grace, 1861, am
the picture il one which may well siagges on
faith in the civilization Of this century.