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AFFECTING ScENE--Four lads were brought before
the Mayor yesterday for dsordery conduct front of
the Arch street theatre the evening previous Af
ter hearing the statement Of the watchman, the May
or inquired of each of them where he lived and what
employment or business lie pursued. One OF them,
who thus questioned, said that his mother was
dead, that he not apprentice, but was hired
and 10 the inquiry to his age he said he was hr-
teen His appearance indicating that he was older,
his honor asked what year be born in, when he
replied that he did not know. Here the tears came
in his eyes, and to the farther inquiries whether he
could read whether he had ever gone to school, his
answers were in the negative, accompanied with a
profuon of tears and with sobs that almost choked
his utterance The lad was doubt 10 or IL years
of age and his manner that OF one possessing
heart well disposed keeny sensitive to the deporable
dark and unintellgent state of mind which was his
unfortunate lot. His case is a sad commentary upon
the state of youthful classes In many parts OF oui
CITY and county, and thai cannot fail to excite
sympathy for him, and others IN like condition.
Philadelphia American.


6TThe fate of this poor boy might have been yer,
different, if the whg authorities of Philadelphia, II
conjunction with Nicholas Bddle had not squandered
misapplied and perhaps in part stolen, the prince.
beouest of Stephen Girard, which was made for tn
especial benefit of poor orphan children fjustice
meted ont TO such criminals hereafter, as 1t surel
ought to be, they will beneld responsible for the de
oradation and viciousness above pictured; which
without doubt, is but one of thousands OF simila
cases.