The New York herald., 1874-10-01

Being about twice what you allow for New York.
aithoueh the latter contains vastly greater ana
been guilty OF SO grossly misstating the facts III
regard to this matter IS mystery, particularly as
the truth could have been ascertalned without
very great difficulty From the lact tnat YOU, al
though protesting to be u -iong democrat" I"
IAN earnest supporter OF Silas Wright. Samuel
Young anu Michael hoffman," should speak OF my
having "iow beglnning" and OF ''my class, y
That you cannot distinguish between an at
tempt to punish Police Commissioners who
nave violated the election law and made a per-
sohal attack upon yourself ana from yonr general
extraordinary conduct whle III ONCE, J should
Judge tnat your MIND must be somewhat Il cted.
Yet your letter shows such ability III collecting
anu distortihg facts, and asserting 1asenoods
that am unaple to accrlpe TO you even this poor
excuse, ana can only account Tor IL TO q COM
blnation O lnallgnty, sell conceit ana bad advice
CONVICTIONS rom the police courts (which are In
cuded under the head ot ''returns from the spec
lal sessions" as above stately placed the pro-
portion Vi females, as regards mans, and OF Irisn
III respect TO natives OF other countries. mucn
higher than | did IN my returns Of convictions
from Courts OF Record, and give as reason tnat
"manuactured the statistics" the assertion being
made with the particular view 10 inlure
me IN the estimation OF the race from which
pretend tnat there were no sucE names and no
such CONVICTIONS, is 1t not evident that | would
have been particular to make the fraudulent re-
turns conIOrm closely to the genuine, ana Is not
the variance between them III Itself proof OF
their being cGrrects But, without arguing the
matter 1t IS enough to say that iii tins particular
as III every other assertion contained III your let
Ter, you udllClOuSty ASSERT Wltu& uuu ucllDcTulc
untruth. chef magistrate OF city ike New
York, even although he considers II beneath MS
dignity to read the newspapers, should surely
know that females are seldom guilty OF the higher
grades of crimes sucn aS are tried in Courts Of
Record, but that III large cities the number ol
females convicted OF the various description or
MINOR oienses coming under the definition of
''dlsorderiy conduct and vagrancy,n and which
are disposed OF III Police Courts, Is, unhappily,
very large.
THE IRISH BIRTH QUESTION.
The same Is the case as to the crimes committed
by those Ol Irish birth. Impuslye ana passionate,
they are apt TO be guilty OF dsorderly conduct and
to De brought before police court; out the
crimes that involve dishonesty OR moral turpt-
tude, ana which are heard before the higher
courts. are much more rare among them. linus,
In the relort 3f the Board oi Police for the year
ending October 81. 1858, when ! was not Sherlr,
the total arrests were given aS--lnAles, AZ, S91
females 1S,564. Total, 6l,455.
Males. Fsaees
Disorderly conduct. $50 BIAS
lntox.ca,ion and dsorderly conduct. 5,sl7 1852
VagrancY l,N4 l,65.
And out OF 75,373 persons arrested In that year
in New York, aud the preceding nine months IN
Brooklyn, 44,587 are reported AS born In Ireland.
AS Il lurthe: instance to the same effect, by the
report oi the commissioners OF Charities II APP
pears that the total commitments to the tnstitu-
tons under their charge during 1857 were Al. l33
OF Which 1850 were males ana II, 606 females, and
2l,079 were OF Irish birth. The following table,
taken from the oftcial reports OF the secretary Of
State, shows that the same rule applies TO the
county OF Kings