The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-11-22

1866.
advertisement their offers 10 white laborers
are thus set forth
| RATES or HIRE or WHITE LABOR.
Men, per year. S!oO
Women per year. W.
Children Of II or II years OF age. per year ... 90
House servants per month. 10
Payable al the end OF tho year .
They contract year. 70 do the same work as the
negro live the same cabins, aud on the same ratons
clothe themselves and pay their own Doctors bills
Time lost BY sickness deducted from wages
One in every six of Germans agree 10 speak Englsh
Cost OF transportation SIS per head, TO accompany
orders but 10 DO deducted from wages
An order will be forwarded 10 New York Saturday,
the 1lth inst.
zone hundred and fifty dollars, payable at
the end OF the year." to an able-bodied white
man, in the cotton Aeld, "tO do the same work
a. the negro, live In the same cabins and on
the same rations," &c. This Is step In the
way OF "equal rights" to whites and blacks;
but at the rates proposed we guess that billiard,
McMinn Co. will not for some time be bur-
dened with surplus Germans.
Startling increase or Crime-Dangerous
Tendency OF tho Theatres.
Police district, particularly in regard to burg
laries and desperate assaults on the person, is
sufficient 70 awaken the most serious alarm and
apprehension among those who have an into
rest in the good order and well being Of society.
II those in authority refuse to afford citizens
proper protection when they have the power to
do 80, the people themselves must take the
matter in hand and apply an effective cor
rective. So frequent and daring are the burg
laries in one district the Eastern or Williams
burg portion of Brooklyn that the question
among residents in the morning is not "Whose
house was robbed last nightw but "Whose
house was mott" The utter insuficiency in
numbers Of the police in this district has long
been subject of complaint, but no heed is paid
by the authorities to the repeated appeals of
the citizens The secret of this may be thus
briefly traced. The payment of the police in
Brooklyn is matter ntrusted to the Board of
Supervisors of Kings county, and although the
Legislature has authorized them to increase the
force the Board refuse to vote the money, be-
cause If the force be augmented the strength
of their political opponents will be corre-
spondingly enhanced. To this shameful
cause is to be attributed the present insecurity
Of life and property in only one district under
the Metropolitan Police system. To the same
cause is also to be attributed the encourage
ment to vice and crime among the youths of
our city and vicinity. H is a notorious fact
that the most daring and audacious burglars
are found among class of young men scarce
ly twenty years of age. In the absence of
moral culture and example these youths, before
they enter their career of crime, find their
evenings recreation in the pits and galleries
of our theatres. Most of these theatres are
managed by bankrupt and broken down Eng
lishmen from the purlieus Of London. Having
lastly received their patronage from the classic
| region of ST. Giles-superi0r in nastiness, vice
| and crime to the dens of Ann street in its
palmiest days-and having finally been repu-
dated by even this class of patrons, these beg
carly fellows come TO America to escape Fleet
street and find somebody here foolish or igno-
rant enough to give them the management Of
some theatre. New York has, unfortunately
for the rising generation, been generally
adopted by them as q convenient place to
locate in-its laws and municipal regulations
being more liberal than In most other Ameri-
| can cities. ~'
Now, then, come the sensation drama, the
| voluptuous ballet and the immoral comedy.
The Bowery leads of with its attractions to the
youths of that locality. The managers, prone
to follow their English instincts, poison the
minds Of our youth with such insidious and
corrupting representations as Jack Sheppard,
! Dick Turpin, Claude Duval, the Bold
| Highwayman, and others of like charac-
ter, all the productions Of some putrid
and vicious English brain. The price
| of admission is cheap. Ten to fifteen
| cents procure admission to some of the most
eligible parts of the house, and if the urchin
who desires to go cannot get the entrance fee
| legitimately he is tempted to purloin it. Here
| he finds bis first degree in crime excused, his
offence represented In the most agreeable
colors, and the biggest thief or burglar or
highwayman in the play turns out veritable
hero. Is this not enough to corrupt the minds
of the youth of any community And as these
youths grow up, II their fancies and impulses
are not properly guarded and directed, is it
any wonder that burglaries and assassinations
of police officers nightly occurs
| Then look at the arrangements on the Broad
sway side of the town. Mostly English. In one
| you will find the comedies Of q past age-but
offensive TO decency and modesty in this
represented with all the attractiveness that
superior American performers can impart to
them. In another you will observe lascvious
tableaux that corrupt the imagination of our
young men. In another, under the cloak Of a
moral drama, you will find place Of amuse-
ment that is but little short of house Of assig-
nation In which the unWary of both sexea are