The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-10

From Our O,sn Correspondent
NEW YORK, Jan. 10, 1870.
Juveniles.

NEW DIRK, Jan. lU lolU'
6;in-SOnkcd Juveniles.
go Youth and Innocencel . Milk and
Water I" sang Byron once. 30 Gin and Juvc
niles o Boys and Burglary he might sing
were he living now and about to relate what
am. James Martin and Larry Smith are the
names of two boys who have not yet completed
their tenth year. Some months ago they we're
discovered Ivy the police in Greenwich street
store, which they had forcibly entered by means
of burglars tools in the night time. After
mild and affectonate reprimand by the mags-
trate before whom they were takcn they were
discharged. A few days after, in company with
another interesting gdn,in named John Flynn,
they were ferreted out under similar
circumstances in o Leonard street store, helping
themselves iudiscriminately to cigars, tobacco,
and whisky of which they had consumed and
were about to carry away with them one hun
dred dollars worth. For this ofense they were
committed to Randall's Island; but like many
an older criminal of far deeper dye, were re-
leased and cast adrift long before the term of their
expatriation was completed. On Saturday Mar
tin and Smith, the two youngest of the trio,
we're again discovered in the antepenultimate
stages of intoXication. Cause ten cents worth
of gin. These young victims of the bottle were
handed over to the Commissioners of Charities
and Corrections. / presume, like other celc-
6rated drunkists, they will develop into tempe
rance lecturers, and we shall have n batch of re-
formed juvenile inebriates descanting upon the
temptations of the decanter, with Illustrations
from memory
Reporters and Police justices.
One of the privileges which the reporters Of
New York from time immemorial have en-
joyed, is admission behind the judicial desk,
where they are allowed to examine the magis-
trates' minutes, and are furnished with every
facility for obtaining all the information they
desire. This has been the rule at Yorkville, at
Jefferson and Essex Market, and at the Tombs
Police Courts, with all of the justices of which
tribunals they have been on the best of terms.
A turning has been found in the long lane, how
ever, and jefferson Police Court is the scene
where it occurs. An ambitious youth who has
just jumped from q Special Sessions advocate to
clerkshp in this court, boasts that he is going
to have the reporters henceforth barred out, and
that he don't care o continental for
the result. This looks very much as if
the police justices were afraid of the
free access which they have hitherto been
furnishing TO their documents, and were anxious
to effect change in the most gradual and unsus-
picious manner possible. 1t is likewise behaving
very ungratefully to the reporters, to whom the
police justices owe many good turn. Heaven
knows how many n neat judicial puff has been
scrimmaged into police report through the
ingenuity OF the Bohemian who made it, At
the best the reporters have no easy time in the
transaction of their business The Investigations
before the magistrates are conducted i'll so low n
tone-as though Justice were smuggling through
something she were ashamed of-that it is i'm
possible for the attendant Bohemlans to catch
the names and the circumstances without an
infinite amount of eavesdropping and neck
stretching; and if one of their reports happens
TO be substantially incorrect when it appears in
next mornings paper, he is liable to be frowned
down by the judge whose name figures in it for
the rest Of his natural existence
Artistic Begging.
To beg well it is necessary to begin early in
life, and to see begging in all its forms it is i'm
peratiye that you visit Printing House Square
with your eyes wide open. Is is the great head
quarters for alms-asking in New York. Every
variety of the beggar is there or thereabouts,
from the armless artist who whittes sticks with
knife held between his toes, to the dilapdated
mother with twins at her breast and the inevita-
BILE penny-song or shoe-lacers in her hands.
Within the past week, however, appeared new
beggar who threatens to cast all the others into
the shade. During these first few days of his
engagement, so to speak, he has drawn in the
nickels to surprising extent. Every
lover OF the curious gives him
penny or two, and the boot-blacks and
newsboys, in body have contributed largesse
not to be despised. What is this beggars pecu
liarity? Let me tell you He has glass eye,
which he is in the habit Of taking out at stated
intervals and handing around for the inspection
of the surrounding crowd. The eye itself is a
remarkable one, being in striking contrast to
his one natural eye in size and color. The
effect, when ne has it in, is of course weirdly
striking, and the effect when he has it ou
hardly less SO. 1t is extremely large, so enor
nous that You wonder how human socket car
comfortably contain it. The iris is crimson ir
color, and the white is brilliantly glazed. Nc
other bcggar stands chance when this one il
by If Lazarus had had glass eye, he woul(
have had no occasion to gobble up the crumbs
which the CANNES refused, or TO long for Abra
hams bosom. ALI BABA.