The Donaldsonville chief., 1882-02-11
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

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OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Down in the Depths Romance of q Young
Mana Woman's Devotion-Talmage's
Temperance Reyival-Perils of New York
Bar-rooms-A Contractor Among Detec-
tives-iEsthetic Tramps-A Peep at the
Artists-Two Great yertlicts. Etc.
NEW foRK, February 4, 1882.
EDITOR CHIEF:
Ten years ago, in front Of one Of the
most fashionable hat storesin the city, q
handsome looking man might frequently
be seen, and this was Charles Burroughs,
the proprietor, enc oF the most popular
business men in Brooklyn. For ten years
he stood in the very front rank of our
snterprising citizens, and many were the
prophecies Of lis unquestionab bic SUCCESS.
He was blessed with Il most a,niable and
excellent wife and was the father Of two
beautiful children. Honored and enyied
by all who were fortunate enough to en-
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more promising than his. in HI evil
hour the wine lured him, and last
week he stood ut the bar Of the police
court, one of the most wretcllcd, misera-
bic, ragged, vagabond tramps that can
possibly be conceived. His business
went to wreck; old friends got tired Of
picking him out Of the gutter, and in the
end when every thing. was gone and his
family reduced to the direst destitution,
he became such an incorrigible sot that
his usual lodging places were barns or
put-honses when he got turned out Of tho
police stations. One bitter night five
years ago he was found in the streets
llrunls, with both Of his hands SO frozen
that they had to be amputated. His
wife, who had lost sight Of him for years,
discovered him in the hospital and sup
piled him with little luxuries from out of
her scanty store. When he recovered he
disappeared, and after an absence of
nearly five years he appeared at the bar
Of the police court to answer the .c4arge|
Of bigamy. Manned, ragged and hope
Jess drunkartl, he had succeeded il in
weighing handsome young girl to marry
him. On the original complaint she
swore she was married to him. He then
appealed to her SO powerfully that she
swore she had perjured herself in the
first trial, and that she was not his wife.
So she goes to State prison for perjury,
to save the man who ruined her. There
are not many cases Of woman's devotion
OH record to exceed this; and when we
consider that the object of this affection
was drunken tramp, it is little less
than u miracle.
Speaking of drunken tramps reminds
me that we are going to have q regular
gun in the right place the Brooklyn
Tabernacle-and Brother Talmago never
does any thing by halves. On Sunday
night Brother Talmage made his first
assault this winter on the devil, in the
shape Of whiskey; not that he is not
after the devil with q long stick rs a
usnal thing, but on Sunday night lie
gave him an extra lick.
III New York and Brooklyn are many
thousands Of drinking dens where liquid
lightning is retailed to whoever chooses
10. buy. Boys and girls, children and
women, may he seen going in and ont of
them at all hours of the day and night.
by statute law they should be closed at
midnight, bnt nine-tenths of these hells
are oatside the pale of the law, and many
of them have not even the shadow of a
license. All along the Bowery, and
through Bleeker street and up the Sixth
Avenue, there are plenty Of places, we'll
known to the police, where Il mans life
would be safer among a band of savage
Eomanches than in these denss Night
after night men are inveigled in from
the streets and robbed, and when they
the officers of th1 law are the aiders and
abettors of the crime.
The Herald this week tells the story of
Billy McGlory. Biliy's place is on He's
ter street, not far from Oweny Goliegan's
and is regarded as one Of the most des-
perate deus in New York. A contractor
named Lee yentured in there to take a
drink. In an unlucky moment he dis
played a roll Of bank bills, when Billy
McGlory knocked him in the head and
robbed him. A police otficial-who was
supposed to he in HE pgy of MoGlory-
lnterfered TO save him from State prison.
To do this it was necessary to send some
one else there; SO this precious set of
fascals got vagabond strcet-walker to
swear that Lee was robbed by fellow
named Hicks. and but for the testimony
OF Lee himself, poor Hicks would have
tared badly. The exposure of the infamy
oi these places shows the imperative ne
cessity OF 4 more thorough effort on be-
half of the temperance people; and it is
t" this end that Brother Talmase is now
directing his efforts. He started with a
heavy team on Sunday night, and the
devil must have felt exceedingly uncom-
'oftable about the time the meeting was
over. Coy. st. Joha from Kansas,
opened the ball, and GnlnuitL sc G..nreri,