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Sing Sing Prison. Ii appears from letter to
the New York Evening Post, that there were in
Sing Sing Prison, New York, on the first of
January last, s69 convicts Of this number there
81 under IL years of age; 149 between II
and FL years old; 374 between FL and 80 years
old 200 between so and 40 years old; and 126
above 40 years of age. Nine were under sem
t,nce for life, eight for over twenty years, thirty
for ten and twenty years, ninety-one for ten
years, and the balance for from two to nine years.


On the 9th of August there were confined in
this Prison oO6 convicts-of whom 1875 were
blacks. Here we see the degraded and melancho-
ly condition to which the free blacks of N York
are reduced. New York contains about twelve
thousand Of these unfortunate persons, and ont Of
phese we find in prison, at spot, hundred
AMI ninety-fve! North Carolina contains more
than two hundred and fifty thousand slaves and
free persons Of color and yet doubt whether, out
ofal these, as many 1875 are convicted of crimes
10 year. Such facts speak for themselves


The New York Express, speaking of the
whole number of convcts and Of the causes of
crime, says: L" We doubt There is this mum Der,
but if there are, the cause for this great number,
'Iu lhuceu tot nedIIy lhIee IouItnS vi TIC "HoI0
number, is to be found in the amount of intem-
perance Of this city, especially. The chaplain of
the prison gives a sad evidence of the moral rava-
ges of Intemperance. He states that, upon
careful inquiry, he ascertained that seventy out of
every one hundred men sent to the State prison,
were led into the commission Of crime from hab


its Of intoxication, and that ninety-six-one hun
dreths had not attended Sabbath school for any
length of time during their lives. Another curl
Gus fact ascertaincd by The Chaplain, is that one
half the persons who leave the prison become
honest and respectable members of the communi-
ty. He says, that whenever he visits the city he
meets some of those men who are pursuing an
honest calling, and that when he breaches in the
city. he is sure TO find six or seven of these per-
sons outside the church waiting to speak to him
when the congregation has left" .. -