Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-21

The New York TldsPeadenf, ofrecent date,
contained letter from gentleman Of New
Haven which gave some startling statistics.
pertaining to the churches in Connecticut.
II was stated in that letter that there were
over seventy vacant pulpits in that State,
having neither pastors nor stated preachers.
The columns of other newspapers are
crowded with accounts of every conceivable
crime, which would make humanity blush.
The poisoning of husbands the murder of
wives, children and parents; instances of di-
voree, rape, abduction and seduction have
become commonplace.
The publication of the statistics of juve-
nile crime in Boston has started discussion
in the newspapers Of that city as to the most
effectual means Of suppressing ii. There
are thirty-six thousand children in that city
attending the various public and private
Schools and eighteen hundred at least who
have no one 10 look after their morals or
their education. The statistics show that
it is mainly from the latter class that juve-,
nile criminals come, and it is concluded that
if these children were provided with homes,
sent to school, or apprenticed b regular
trades, precocious crimes would measurably
cease ~ - a.Srsa~* -efH
And yet Boston. and all New England
would have US believe they are in tears over
the demoralized condition of their colored
brethren at the South. They have no bowels
Of compassion for their own starving poor
no fear for the rapid increase of crime in
their own midst-but must electrify the
world with their humanity in supplying mis-
sionaries for the South. Can history afford
parallel to such brazen, unblushing, I'M
feeling effrontery? .
Apropos to this subject, we append the
following from recent New York letter to
the Louisville Democrat:
People are beginning to roll up their eyes at the
appalling increase Of infantiede in this great city
Some OF them are at last really getting it through
their hair that, while we are spending some hun
dreds of thousands Of dollars annually TO Chris
tianize the Hlndoo women, who drown their off
away, it wouldn't be a bad idea TO try and do
something tOimpose some sort of restraint on like
dOings on the banks Of the Hudson. The police
report no Jeloer than tl1entB lire murders Of this
kind during the past three months. call them
muir 1ers. but the crime is come to be so COM
mon that the correctness Of that Classification is
scarcely admitted. Some of the processes whereby
these infants are put out of existence too are
quite novel. This very day the papers tell of one
who, just afterit was born, was taken by man ~,
placed upon fire, and there roasted to death,
almost within view of its mother, who is said to
have been quite complacently looking on. Hardly
a day passes that one or more of these hapless
waits are not fshed up out of the dark tell-no-
tales waters Of the North and East rivers Ifthese
| deyilish doings were located in the South, of
| course nobody would wonder, as that part of the
country has none of the 9 civilization" none of
| the christianity and but little of the
humanity" even, which center here. according
to Beecher and the Yankee parson /: but as it is,
| guess the parsons had better let up little on
| the Hindoo women and the Southern Niger, for
| the sake of the little innocents Of home, ltr