A FRrGHTFUL PICTURE,
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A correspondent of the New York Evening
Gazette gives this representation of the state
of morals in that city. The picture, we ina
CINE, is not overdrawn; let it be warning to
youth of other places: n


The daily newspapers announce shocking
and alarming increase of incendiarism, burgla.
ries, and larcenies. The expenses of our courts
have marvellously increased. Our prisons are
full to repletion. Personal safety is ieopar-
died. The crowds of loafers and rowdies who
parade the streets at night, shouting and at
tackng private citizens, have compelled hun
dreds, in self.defence. to carry arms for their
protection. The number of grog- shops kept
open to late hour, are greatly increased. The
aggregate OF RIGHTEOUSNESS in the lower classes
is open, undisguised, and gross. The morals
Of the city are hourly getting worse the whole
community are becoming affected. There are
over two thousand idle, vicious boys in the city,
without trade, without control, and in summer
without home, sleeping in open yards, or in
the public buildings and Park. They gradual
ly, as they advance in age, become thieves, rob-
bers, burglars, incendiaries, and prisoners in
Sing Sing and Auburn.


Attend some of the places of public amuse-
ment, and see there a sight unparalleled in the
word-six hundred boys, who nightly attend
exhibitions OF doubtful morality, until eleven
and twelve o'clock, and then herding together
for plumber or mischief; see this, gentlemen,
and judge for yourselves; this is no fiction.
tits terrible reality.


Look at the hundreds Of young girls who
walk the streets till twelve o'clock at night
many of them under fifteen years of age-and
say if some prompt, energetic measures are not
necessary to save the city from the fate of
Sodom and Gomorrah.