Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-31
FROM NEW YORK.
Correspondence of the Ohio Statesman

New YORK, July %, 1868.
Night editors breathe lightly this morn |
ing, because Congress has adjourned, and |
for month or so no Congressional speeches |
written on greasy manifold paper will |
come to vex the sleepy eye or worry the |
tired brain. No "Act in Addition to an
Act amending an Act supplementary to an |
Act entitled an Act'' will appear in the
dead waist and middle of the night to rob
the fagged-out-drudge of his first good |
nap, and keep him bent over his desk |
straining against nope to make the verbose
document readable. Nothing now but the
usual daily murders, the usual Jail delive-
ries, the usual robberies, and once in a
while an unusual story, to work up for the
delectation of our 10000 readers. Glory
Have you any idea as to the amount OF
crime committed in this great, overgrown1
city in the course of year? Have you
ever tried to keep record of the murders
as reported in the papers? Have you at
tempted to reckon the sum total of those
committed but never brought to light?-
Have you counted the suicides, the bur-
assaults without intent, the highway rob-
berries, the gambling den robberes, the
rapes and all the other outrages which in
their hideousness in the 10Th century, are
fully as barbarous as any of its predeces-
sors? You would hardly believe the asser-
tion that during the past year 176 infants
were picked up by the police-poor little
hrot of bxyfh fh<air
or to be cared for by strangers. In 1866 there
were 149, and in the previous year 153. 1
have enumerated only the liUing waifs.-t
Who shall tell how great has been the
slaughter of the innocents in those three
years? Physicians tell US that
never before in the history of the
world has abortion been practised to great
er extent than now. 1t is openly asserted by
medical gentlemen of great reputation for
knowledge and integrity, that in the city
of New York the ratio of children born to
the number which under natural circum-
stances should be born, is as to 3-or in
other words that the struggle between nat
ural love on the one hand, and poverty,
vice, shame and fashion on the other, re-
suits In the destructi on of two children
out of every three before birth.
In 1857 there were 2l,775 deaths; 1,53S
! were recorded as still births. Ten years
later, in 1867, the number of deaths had
increased only 1,S00, while the 'still births"
had risen to a total of APIS, just 81 per
cent. of the whole number of deaths re-
corded. Is not this pleasant to contem-
template? .
In this city there are seventy people
known to the police and Board of Health
whose regular business is fesicide. They
advertise in the Herald and the Sunday Mer-
curry. They manufacture and sell pills
French. "Golden," "Portuguese"-war-
ranted to take the unborn life in from one
to five days. They practice their hellish
trade in so-called hospitals, and it is sup
posed, as it has been more than once
charged, that they burn the bodies of their
victims, as they can receive no burial per-
mits from the Board of Health. The Regis
trar OF Vital Statistics, DIR. Harris, is of
opinion that the number of still births reg
istered represents but about one-third
the human embryos destroyed, and that
one-half the still births reported are actual in
fdnticides. This leaves the thinking man to
infer that there are in New York alone
two thousand women who destroy their
children. -
A shooting affray occurred last night at
No. $50 Spring street, corner of Thomson
street, during which policeman named
Richard d. Scholes was seriously, and John
Flynn, keeper of saloon at that number,
slightly wounded. The perpetrator of the
deed was John Hodnett, former bar keep
er of Flynn's, who alleged that Flynn
owed him some wages, and demanded pay
ment. High words occurred, pistols were
fired, and the poor policeman, hearing the
noise, arrived just in time to receive half
ounce of lead in his leg. The victims were
sent to the New York Hospital, and Hod-
nett locked up. 30 r
1t is announced that the new route be-
tween New York and Montreal via Boston,
is shorter by Ga miles than any other, and
that 1t saves five hours in time.
H.