The Tipton advertiser., 1875-12-09

ana al tnat, out little ID known Ol
the number of conversions, and in &C
short time, nothing of what change
has really been wrought in the lives
of the new professors. 1t is. said in
Brooklyn, that their efforts are bu,
the beginning of series Of such, and
that during the winter marvellous do.
ings may be looked for in the church
es. Let us hope 90, and bid God
speed to all efforts by whomevel
made to lead the race to better liv-
ing. 1t might be said here that Rev.
DR.. Storrs, who has been greatly
tempted by offers from . rich church
in New York, has finally decided to
remain with the Church Of the Pill.
grims In Brooklyn, whose pulpit be
has filed now for thirty years.
sUs. PER COL.
It has been said that the worse use
to put man to is to hang him; but
that can't possibly be true in this
city. 1t now and then happens that
. criminal is promptly hunted down,
fairly and promptly tried, and if his
offense is ! capital one, promptly sus.
per col. And he was never worth so
much in his life as in his death, for
he bangles from the gibbet, . terror
to his kind, and life is safe, for good
while after. 1t is not q pleasant
thought that . man may meet on the
streets Of New York in an evenings
promenade hundred men, who, il
they had q good chance, would cut
his throat for two dollars and half,
or some such matter; but it is true,
nevertheless, and nothing keeps their
hands down but the shadow of the
gallows tree-a bonny tree for this
locality. Nov, here is . substantial
fact: up to the time of the swift con-
viction and sentence of Mr.. Noe, .
month ago, crime was on the advance
in this city. Since, it has fallen off,
as it that righteous death sentence
had palsied the hand of violence.
l propose, in future letters, to give
some account of the dangerous class
es Of this city, their ways of acting
and living, including some curious
facts, the result of my own observa-
tions. 1t seems = queer sort Of thing
that man should carry on burglary
rs trade during long life and die
at last peacefully in his bed, and yet
scores Of rascals do it, and many Of
them are we'll known to the authori-
ties, and are on good enough terms
with the detectives, and have q sort
of social status of their own, in which
they rank Is . sort of heroes and
good fellows.
SAILORS AFLoAT AND ASHORE.
There's . sweet little cherub that sits
up aloft,
To keep watch for the life OF poor Jack"
So runs the stout old English sea
song of Thomas Dibden, but surely
that attitudinous watcher is sadly
remiss of his duties, for the records
show that 800 sailors annually lose
their lives by falling from masts and
spars Of ships At sea. Think we vel
housed landsmen, of going aloft in
darkness of a winter storm far out at
sea, up shrouds, and along rigging
and spars slippery with ice, when to
miss grasp OF = frozen rope, or a
false step, is certain death. Very
few pe's sons know much or care much
about the sailor. His life is the life
of = dog; no slave was ever the vic
tim of such wrong as he endures.
His life lies SO apart from that Of or
dinary humanity, that the advance oi
civilization hardly includes him; he
is lett in a condition Of barbarism
Let me try to convey to your readers,
some notion of the way he is treated
in this city, one of the grea, seaports
of the world, it being the same every
where. Imagine sailor just landed
from voyage. Suppose him to have
been q sailor for twenty-five wears,
and to be forty years old. He has
got his wages in his pocket, he knows
no such word as home or family, he
has not a friend in the world, the
strict discipline aud narrow life on
ship, have so degraded and imbruted
him that he has almost lost the gift
Of speech, and only retains few
terms of the sea. He has only one
notion Of enjoyment, and that is OF
the lowest forms of animalism. The
land sharks are waiting for him, and
although he has been devoured by
them thousand times in all the
ports of the world. he rushes into
their jaws again. He is led unresist-
ingly into one OF the many vile dens
in Water on a similar street, piled
with poisoned liquor until he is out Of
his mind; handed over to . wretched
female companion, whose business j,
is TO see that he does not leave the
premises, nor is allowed to get sober
Then, when his money is all spent
and it takes only few days to do j,
and bill run up equal to his ad-
vance wages, the proprietor Of the
devils hole where he il wallowing
ships him through an agent on any
vessel about to sail-for vessels are
always short of men, and all sorts oi
infamous tricks are put into use to
get them-and Jack comes to his
senses some morning to find himself
in the forecastle of an outward bound
ship, which is being towed down the
bay, and out through the narrow,
where she is cast off by the tug boat
and must hoist sail and away. HI
has no knowledge Of how he go'
there He was dragged on boaro
drunk. He was drunk when he sign
cd his name, or made his mark, te
the ships papers; drunk when he
signed an order for his landlord te
obtain his advance pay, and is nov
slowly and stupidity coming to con
sciousness. The FIRST mate now en-
tiers the fofecastle. He is armed
with brass knuckles or = marlin spike
The second mate 10 with him, ais.
armed, and so is the steward and per
haps the captain. Then ensues {
scene the like of which is hardly seel
now that the horrors of the slave shil
has been abolished by indignan
Christendom. These poor drunkel
sailors, stupi6ed, and helpless from
their long debauch, are driven alof
with horrible curses and blows, an,