The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-11-07
& Frightful Picrure.

There have been Of late some fearful revelations Of
the moral dcgencracy of the " lower orders in Eng
land but picture more appalling chan yha presented
to US of the of things in Liverpool It is hardly
possible to conceive. An inquiry was short time
back instituted by the town ceHRol into the cause Of
the excessive mortality in that town. and the report OF
the commissioners draws picture at vi cii humanity
must shudder The following eXttct fron5 London
paper, will give some idea Of th4 Slough Of Des
pond into which that celebrated emporium has been
converted:
For four years has an epidemic Of typhus ragged with
increasing yirulence among the working population of
Liverpool Let cholera take old Of these masses
Of fallen humanity and it can scarcely be expected to
leave them until it has sucked the lifGDloOd from
thousands. Children so drunk to s.hoOl-ragged
schools Of course Women, from love IF lyink, sell
every stitch they wear, saving usG the LAST shred Of
linen and then-heaven help the 'sretches-they sell
their hair This is the evidence ff the Rev. Father
Nugeut, who speaks of one wo nan, The mother OF
serop children, who sold her haj to a barber for
quart of beer Women have been 8" hal up for
drunkenness IA times and more.i IN enc court the
women were discovered " all druil one Sunday at
ternoon The children club Their pence together on
Saturday night have spree? and GET gIorlousy
ipehriated like their seniors. The master Dt the Hi
be1nan school says You might NcIl'attempt to
empty the Mersey with bucket a to appig Christian
instruction while this food Of intfmpcranlG IS over
wbelming US Chaos has COMP over the people.
There seems to be neither law4 order, I:or dcccncy
among them Children die which are never born
saws Father Nugent Rents 90 unpaid for the land
lord fears to be pressing lest lis tenants should pull
the houses down " - have lour houses in Hendcr-
son street." says an agent "anH there i not piece
Of timber left in them They the occutiers) will
take away the cupboars the sarcase', and the very
states off the roof and we cannot catch them. We
5ust quote one more horror. A, tradcsman and his
wife ruined themselves by drink. The woman fell i'll,
and lay in indescribable filth Jon her SICK bed for
months On Saturday she died and reInained IN
touched till Thursday. The httband that day OBJ
tanned los to secure the necessary attendance, but in
stead of devoing the money t. its proEer purpose,
went and got drunk with it. He went home III that
state and slept with the corpse on Friday some per
sons sent hearse to take away D. body But when the
7en saw no person TO 70 with Il! funeral " they took
7er out and threw her down in DE room again. where
she lay Gill the pecc had her III led on the following
Saturday" As sequel We are told, Ar old woman,
WHO lived underneath, m tch shocked that she
died the same night" Such j. the account which
Liverpool gives Of itself
And all this under the ari focrafc rule Of which
tie upper classes" Of English society arc wont to
boast so loudly, and of whose ceeuceS they so
prone to vaunt as presenting parked contrast the
vices of domestic government.