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A ScEsI IN BRoADwAy AT NIaHr.-One ofthose
real scenes Of deeper tragedy, and more Impressive
moral, than any witnessed on the stage, and
which made up but one trivial incident IN the sad
drama of the daily life of crowded city, occurred III
Broadway last night II appears that the watch
men have recently he'd orders to apprehend and
carry to the /" Tombs," the miserable female out
casts, who throng that great thoroughfarei and as
we passed Park place, we saw one OF them seized,
and dragged away by two of those vgant guardians
of the night The poor creature struggled hard to
escape from the rude grasp of the officers, and much
of her gaudy apparel was literally torn into shreds
in the effort, revealing charms, rarely equalled a.
mongst the most favored of her sex. A crowd col


ected but no friendly accents OF sympathy fell up
on the ear of the victim, and amid the derision oil
the heartless, and the jeers of the vile, she was
dragged away. We can imagine but not describe
the agony of that terrible degradation. The work
of the Destroyer was complete. In imagination We
followed the poor wretch to her gloomy cell. What
visions of the past-what even more agonzing VI
sions of the future, must have hurried through the
waking dreams Of that long, awful night!


We can appreciate the motives which have pro-
duced this effort at the removal of terrible evil,
but we do not the proprlety or justice OF the
means adopted to carry it out: The seizure Of
these wretched outcasts on the streets-the drag
ging of them away to the "Tombs" by brutal men
the sending of them to the Pententary to be
driven to still lower depths OF selfdegradation and
crime-oh this is not the way to free us from the.
terrible evil of prostitution. Why is it that the
city authorities cannot be brought to suppress the
houses of illfame--the chief source OF this desc
lating evil There are hundreds of these dens o
vice and crime well known TO the police author-
ties, and yet they continue open-night after
night and day after day, inviting and wooing hun
dreds to perditon. These houses must be all sup
pressed-and they can be easily suppressed
before one step is taken in the eradication
of this evil. And instead of dragging the miseia-
bic beings who inhabit them to prison cell, let an
asylum be opened for them, to which they will be
conducted by the hand OF mercy and love, and
where they will be treated in the spirit of the be-
nevoent Redeemer of men, who said to the treni-
bling penitent that washed his feet with her tears
$50 and sin no more 20