The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-11-19

With the self same round of duties
Filling each busy day,
1t comes to my spirit swcetly,
With the grace Of a thought divine,
" You are living and toiling tor loves sake,
And the loving should never repine.
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OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
| Donations for t1le Heathen-How the Poor
are Cared For~ Where the Money Goes
New York Thieves and How They Work
The Countryman's Safety Insurance
| Protection for Unprotected F. Femnles-The
Way to See Sights Politics In New York
and Brooklyn, Etc.
! New YORK, November Ia, 1851.
EDITOR CHIEF: ....
A popular morning paper this week
gave all extended account Of the bcquest
of u benevolent widow who died in this
| city ten days ago The Board of Foreign
Missions came in for the munitcent sum
Of $lO, 900; the American Tract Society
for as much more; some organization for
the salvation and conversion of the be-
nighted hcathen in Terra del Fncgo got
4 good round slice; special mention was
made OF tho regeneration Of tho Chinese,
and nn ample provision was made for
the effort; the poor jews of Palestine
were not forgotten, and ton thousand
were appropriated t" bring these refrac-
tory sinners into the Gospel fold. 1Inme
diutely under the paragraph making this
announcement was All account Of Il poor
womaE who had been put out Of her mis-
cradle lodgings for the non payment of
rent, and for two nights she and her un
fortunate children actually slept in the
street having no covering Except Il few
tattcrc,l rags), but Ill. SKY. 1t is Il re-
markable fact that the poolest of our
people, as 4 general thing, A!e tho most
prolific; families of six, seven, elgh,,
ness Of many a llod-carrier, while Il half
score Of millionaries, within my ken,
have hron compelled to adopt other mens
children iii ortor to have some little,
VI ipNt iacrS aDbtib IntlT AoaFt FtnStoneS.
But why, in Il city which A..s SO much to
give away, should Mrs. Icnuc5sey and
her children be- two whole days under
tho sky? 1t is not because the people
have not made ample provision for them,
but because thieves have stolen the
money. The total assessment for 1882 is
S3l, ,lO5, making tho actual expense
Of governing this tax-curscd city of over
thirty dollars apiece, ler unnum, for ev
cry man, womai and child upon the
Island Of Manhattan. A million and Il
half il paid out for public charities,
whilo two millions eight hundred and
thirty three thou .nd are consumed by
the police, the courts where criminals
are tried, and the asy lums aud leforma
tories attached to tho city or, in other
words, four million five hundred thous-
and dollars are consumed by tho poor
and the criminal classes, the latter taking
thB hons share. Ii this vast sum rid us
Of the poor and the vile it might be we'll |
but it does not. Poverty,
bitter, biting, calling, ragged and gaunt
meets you at every turn, and, notwith-
our rigid school laws, unkcmpt !
waits puff the stumps of old cigars right
under the noses Of the police, or supple.
with al old oyster can, they secure the
DRAWINGS Of lager beer kegs and then
sleep off the effect Of their booze in an
empty hogshead on the wharf. In pop
ulation Of u little over a million there is
IN army Of thirty thousand recognized
criminals living outside the pale of the
aw. The law takes cognizance OF them:
it acknowledges the fact of their exist
,nce, but it waits till the thief is caught
stealing at your door before it attempts
o protects you. l came down from the
street depot the other night
III a Fourth avenue Car. The front and
md back platforms were alive with
5llieves; three well-known pickpockcts
stood i'll the body of the car. The con-
lucior knew them as we'll as he knew
lis horses. The presumption is that they
rad ridden on his car every night for
months, for they always choose tue cars
hat connect with incoming trains. One
nan struggled in from the front platform,
Ill pale and trembling. He had had a
desperate encounter, and in the melee
lad parted with his watch and breast
lin, and by the time the alarm was given
he thieves had jumped off and escaped.
The man was stranger, and had the
hieves been taken on his complaint, un-
ess he could have furnished bail, he
would have been locked up as witness
Il the House of Detention, while the
hleves, who always find plenty of bail,
would have been set AZ liberty to ply ;
heir cation unharlneu An associa-
ion is about being formed here to insure
trang rs against dangers. For a small
re any person coming to New York will ;
e taken in charge on his arrival, and
fter he has seen the elephant .rDs, his
runk to his tail, they will place him Oh