Year: 1869




his limited course of reading to call cad


ventures" He believes, in his Ohio sim


plicity, that he will meet with beautiful


and rich young lady in New York, who


struck with his rural graces and charms


will at once accept his hand and farm


Well, he takes a look at the ''Black Crook,


or "White Fawn,'' or "Genevieve de Bra.


bant," and returning late to his downtown
hotel is struck by the beauty and grace Of
a female form that glides before him on his
way down town. Pretty soon she makes a
signal to him that cannot be mistaken, and
our Ohio friend, rather astonished at the
freedom of the aristocratic and well-bred
ladies OF the metropolis, but nothing 10th,
hastens to her side, and accompanies her to
her richly voluptuous mansion in Bleecker,
Green, Mercer or Crosby streets. In the
watches of the ght he awakens to find the
aristocratic lady fastened ON his throat, and
a male friend of hers, with vilainous
countenance, poising knife for plunge
in his neck. The work is done quickly, a
barrel well packed, or furniture chest,
placed in a carriage at night, can be taken
up the Hudson river road and there drop
ped in the river, and after a day or so the
head Of another dead man will be found
eddying and floating around the rolling
piers near the battery, his face q pulp and
no longer recognizable. The sun shines
down on the FLASHING waters, but the eyes
are sightless, and never another sun can
dim their brilliancy or splendor. 1t is only
another missing man without watch, pock-
book or money on his person.


MISERY, SHAME AND DEATH.


Another missing instance. A beautiful
girl, born in q village on the Sound, where
the waters of that inland sea beat and play
around the sandy pebbles of land-locked d
inlet, is reared in innocence and virtue un-
til she reaches her seventeenth year. At
seventeen she visits New York for the first
eventful time in her life, She is dazzled
with its theatres, its balls, its Central Park,
the Broadway confuses and intoxicates her,
but opera has divine charms for her musi-
cal ear, and she is escorted night after night
by man with pleasing face and ready
tongue. She is yet white as the undriven
Sdo"' oAO dlSHC SllC ltlhCS IL ulIuul0nI
sleigh ride on the road, and they stop at
fashionable looking restaurant in Harlem
Lane on the road She is persuaded to take
glass Of champagne. She is finally per-
suaded to drink an entire bottle of cham
pagne. That night the world is torn from
under her feet. She has tasted the Apple
OF Death. She returns to her peaceful
home on the Sound dishonored woman.


TO hide her shame she returns to New
York, but her destroyer has gone - she
knows not whittier. Then the struggle be-
gins for existence and bread. She is
seamstress, a dry goods clerk, but her
shame finds her out when an infant is born
to her unnamed. One night, hungry and
torn with the struggle of lost hope, she
rushes into the streets and seeks the river.
On lone pier she seeks refuge from her
" lost life The night watchman, anxious
about the cotton and resin confded to his
charge, does not hear the cry of 6 Mother
from q dnsnairine girl or the nlunoe into
the gloomy, silent river below. She is not
found for several days after, and then her
once fair face is gnawed threadbare with
the incisors Of crabs, and the once white
neck, rounded as pillar Of glory is mere
greenish mass of fostering corruption. She
is not recognized, and thus fills the page de-
voted to missing people.


Then there are the class Of girls who dis
York, and descend into the brothels, where
they find rich raiment, rich food merry
and unceasing round of gaity; champagne
and lovers, which they could never hope
for where they came from. These girls
leave home very often through sensuality
or laziness-for girls are lazy as we'll as
boys-and when missing are generally found
in brothels, which as a general thing they
will not leave for their parents. Then there
are husbands and wives who quarrel fool
ishly and separate to yex each other, and
are missing for years, to finally be forced
into other illegal ties. And there is case
OF young man, twenty, married and rich,
who leaves his wife, is gone for twelve
months, and is found in New Orleans, when
he tells those who find him that he has
been very sick, and was forced to leave his
happy home.


There is also, as it is we'll known, a great
number of infamous houses in this city
where abortion is openly practiced, and
where whole hecatombs of innocent child
rem are slaughtered to hide the shame of
their guilty mothers. How many wealthy
and refined girls are to be found in these
aughter-houses, concealed there to hide
the evidence Of their indiscretion, by their
parents or relatives, whose social position
would be lost did the consequences of such
indiscretion show themselves. The moth
ers are left to die in agony, again and again,
and there is no coroner's inquest Or public
burial, for are there not scores Of obliging
physicians to hush the matter up?


And then again our private lunatic asyl-
ums. How many men aud women are
spirited away to these tombs of living men,
where remonstrance or clamor is useless un-
less the public press tracks the injury, as
in the case of we'll known naval officer
who was most unjustly confined, as the in
vestigation proved.


The son of Joshua Sears, of Boston,
who died ten years ago, is IA years of age,
and one of the richest young men in the
United States. The father, whose proper
tv was valued at 81 900 OOO aftar no.