tudes of countrymen visit the city to see a friend. On Sabbath evening they usually return. While it in many cases is true that they come to see a friend, it at the same time is equally true that that plea is the cloak many put on to hide the visiting of another friend, of more than dubious character. They come in steamboats,in stages, and in other ways, from villages and less populous places, and spend the Sabbath in New York in riotous living. And if a person rebukes them in those houses, they immediately, in most cases, charge him with an attempt to unite church and state, to stop the Sunday mail, to infringe on their liberty, to promote priestcraft, and ten thousand other things, so current in the cant of infidel vituperation, as to be beneath a record. This fact, that countrymen visit these haunts of criminality, will explain the reason why so many persons return from the city without a dollar in their pocket. For in these places men often drink liquor that is poisoned by a drug; and then, being deranged for a time, they are robbed, and are then kicked into the street, under the charge of having attempted to abuse or to slander some one. Sometimes it happens that men fare worse. The following is an instance taken from the New York Gazette, of Friday morning, October 21.

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POLICE, OCT. 20.—A young man from the country was enticed into one of the notorious dens of iniquity, in the vicinity of the "Five Points," yesterday. The landlord took his money, $300, for safe keeping, as he pretended. He (the young man) was discovered by a friend, who endeavored to get him away, but was prevented by the keeper of the house, who put him in a back room and locked the door. The friend of the young man got alarmed at the situation the latter was in, and repaired to the police office and related all the circumstances to the police officers, who repaired to the place, and found the young man had lost all his money except about thirty dollars. The officers promptly took the keeper of the house into custody-also all his vagrant inmates. The keeper of the house was committed to answer the charge of keeping the house, at the next court of sessions, and the inmates were sent to the penitentiary as vagrants."

Wherefore, let youth take a wise king's advice:-My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to mine understanding; that thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honey comb, and her mouth is smoother than oil; but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house; lest thou give thine honor unto others, and thy years unto the cruel; lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and thy labors be in the house of a stranger; and thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and body are consumed, and say, how have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof, and have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! I was almost in all evil, in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. Let them be only thine own, and not strangers with thee. Let thy fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Let her be as the loving hind, and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love. And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and 'embrace the bosom of a stranger? For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings. His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. He shall die without instruction, and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

No. 9.

THE ORPHAN-THE NEWBURGH GIRL.

Sin is a disgrace to any people.

It is disgraceful to wink at sin, and to cover iniquity.

E. H., an orphan female, aged nineteen years and eleven months, a few days since died in the almshouse hospital, at Bellevue. She was born in Newburgh, in this state, and came to the city at the age of ten, when her father went to sea, and her mother opened a boarding house in New York. In her fifteenth year she was humbled by a boarder, who left the house on the following day. Suffused with shame, and conscious of demerit, she listened to the voice of a procuress, and entered a house of ill repute. After the lapse of several months, she sought and obtained honest employment, as a domestic in a respectable family, where she resided for a long time. At length, being discovered and visited by some of her former associates, she feared detection, listened to the procuress again, and soon after found herself mingling with the dregs of prisons and hospitals. The curse of the Lord early arrested her immoral career. She became a nuisance in the very market of impurity, and was turned into the street by her procuress, who retained the wages of her crimes and sufferings. She found shelter in a dark filthy cellar, kept by a negro for the vilest purposes.

In this situation, destitute of the means of a support, the girl suffered for weeks, while her seducer could "smile, and smile, and be a villain still;" and shrug his shoulders, and wink his eyes, and speak with his fingers, and devise mischief and sudden calamity for some other poor widow's child. And the procuress was engaged in her traffic, and had no time or inclination to aid her. She was holding out her baits for some other ignorant girl. Christians avoided even the street where she was, and many of them looked on the condition of these women as hopeless, and some even assented to the libertine's doctrine, that this class of suffering women was 66 a necessary evil." And where were the philanthropists? Where was there a Magdalen asylum? There she lay in pain, and the municipal authorities had no knowledge of it. And who was to inform

them? The tenant of the apartment was afraid to do it; for he kept a disorderly house, liable to indictment. The licentious seldom have sympathy enough for this class of women to be guilty of so much humanity. There, wasting by disease, without medical attention, in the month of October, 1830, in a tenebrious abode of Satan, the Newburgh orphan was discovered and sent to the Bellevue hospital. There she remained eight months, and was then received into the New York Magdalen asylum, an institution recently got up by a few benevolent persons. Her residence in the asylum was short. The funds of that charitable concern being the voluntary donations of but a few persons, and of course very limited, and her health requiring daily medical attention, she was returned to the hospital, and died there of a consumption induced by a profligate life, fulfilling that scripture, "The wicked shall not live out half their days." Thus she fell in less than five years.

I shall never forget her appearance in that abode of wo where I first saw her. She lay on a pallet of straw, and was unable to turn. The paleness of her countenance was like that of a corpse. Her eyes were full, and of a deep blue; her forehead was smooth, and rose high above her brows; her cheeks were fallen; her hair was a dark olive, her stature small, and her figure good. In her features there were remaining traces of intelligence and beauty. While standing at her bed side, and looking on her, a tear had imperceptibly stolen down my cheek, and lighted on my sleeve, ere I was aware of it; and, on reflection, I found that my mind had been musing thus:-What if this was my sister! Shall some base villain steal her affections, clothe her in disgrace, bury her in such a den as this, far from father, mother, brother and friend? Or shall some procuress lure her by such false, though specious baits, as caught this friendless, poor, diseased, starving, dying orphan? My reflection at this moment was interrupted by her piercing shriek, and deeper than usual writhings and languor of countenance. What is the matter with you, madam? was the question I proposed to her. "Oh," said the girl, “I was trying to turn, but I cannot. When I try to turn, pains like needles run through me.'

I visited her in the hospital, and presented to her a Testament, given to me for that purpose by the president of the Magdalen society. She often perused it with delight. In the asylum she spent the most of her time in reading the sacred scriptures, and other religious books. She indulged a hope in the mercy of God, and died, as those persons present in her last moments say, in the triumphs of faith. She is dead, and is receiving her reward-either a crown of life and glory in heaven, through a Redeemer's obedience and blood, or a just inheritance in torment, in hell, there awaiting the arrival of that portion of her paramors who shall die in their sins.

Should the eyes of a seducer light on this narrative, it may suggest to him the consequences of his criminal conduct. If he is a boarder, it may teach him to revere the virgin purity and domestic happiness of the family in which he resides.

Should the eye of a philanthropist, who loves to lessen human misery, peruse this story, the aggregate of pain, wretchedness and crime this solitary vice causes among hundreds of thousands on

earth, will arouse him to a serious contemplation of the results of licentiousness.

The Christian reader will rejoice that she gave some evidence of being justified by faith, and hope that thousands now in the situation she was in in 1830, may die with prospects as fair for heaven. Nay, he will seriously inquire, Lord, can I be instrumental in plucking one of these sinners from hell? And he will seriously awake to the performance of his duty.

The widow, particularly if she is one who keeps boarders, will feel many an anxious thought pressing heavily on her heart, when she remembers the orphan, and looks at her beloved daughters, destitute of a father's protecting care. And then she will look to Him whose eye never slumbers or sleeps, for divine assistance, relying on his promise to be a husband to the widow, and a father to the fatherless, of all those confiding in the truth of his word.

Should the female orphan honor this tale with a reading, it will teach her that chastity is a jewel of which froward and false men may despoil her, under the hypocritical profession of ardent attachment. Let her learn, therefore, that it is not safe to tempt men to exceed the bounds of decorum. She may be sociable, yet modest and retiring. Ever distrustful of her native strength, let her continually cherish a flaming love of purity in her affections, and a burning hatred of vicious thoughts and actions. As on earth, so in the invisible world, purity is inseparably connected with pleasure, and impurity with misery. This is a fixed principle in morals, and is supported by observation and fact.

Moreover, let her be cautious in admitting to her friendship females whose character she does not know to be honorable, no matter what their apparent or real rank in society may be, lust some imp of a procuress, robed as an angel of light, spread an enchanting net, that will secure to her, in the end, the fate of the Newburgh orphan.

No. 10.

From the Boston Education Reporter.

CITY VICES-THE ESCAPE.

We have intimated that people resident in the country have an interest in knowing what is done in the city. This is true not only of those young persons who are coming to seek their fortune among us, or those who are sending their children hither, but of those who abide at home. The danger may come to their own door; the snares of the wicked may be spread for them at their own fireside.

Some years ago, there were two gentlemen of Boston who lived in the frequent indulgence of illicit pleasures. Being able to command a choice of places and companions, they took whatever their hearts desired. One of them by some means had cast his eyes— "eyes full of adultery, which could not cease from sin"-on a young and handsome girl, belonging to a quiet village within twenty miles of town; and he formed in his heart the base purpose of making her his prey. She was the daughter of poor parents, who, as well as herNo. I. JAN. 1832.

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self, knew not how desperately wicked they can be who are sold to sin. The discovery which one had made was communicated to the other, and "hand joined in hand," to accomplish a deed of villany, the relation of which will make every ear to tingle.

They procured the assistance of the keeper of a certain house-a woman with the heart of a fiend-and gave her their commission. Elegantly dressed, and assuming every appearance of a lady of fortune, she rode to the quiet village, sought the poor man's house, and ingratiated herself with the family. She was in search of some female as a companion. She was rich, lived rather retired and solitary, and should take great satisfaction in the company of some pleasant and trusty girl, as an inmate of her family. She was pleased with the appearance of their daughter; and if she could obtain her, would cheerfully give her clothing and board, merely for the sake of her society. She wanted neither cook nor chambermaid, nor waiter --but a friend, to sit with herself in the parlor, and ride with her when she went abroad. The artless girl was captivated with the proposal, and wished to go; the mother thought it a rare chance indeed for her daughter; and the matter was soon arranged, that the child should go with the lady. The vulture returned to its haunt, bearing off its prey, and exulting in its victory.

For some days, nothing occurred to alarm the fears of unsuspecting innocence. At length, gentlemen visit at the house, and become acquainted with the young and beautiful stranger. They are very condescending and agreeable, and pay great attention to the lady's new associate. Ere long, one gentleman is left alone with her, and a regular assault is made upon her virtue, by all the hellish arts which such gentlemen know how to employ. He could not succeed in his purpose, and gave over in despair for that time. He retired; and immediately his partner in mischief entered the room, to renew the assault! He also was baffled, and went away.

They then advised that a young gentleman should be introduced, who possibly might succeed better. It was done. The girl still resisted, remonstrated, and pleaded with her destroyer. She begged him to have pity upon her, and rescue her from that dreadful place. She could welcome poverty, but intreated that her virtue might be spared. The heart of the young transgressor was not all marble, and the seducer was overcome. The spoiler relented before his trembling victim, begged pardon for his wickedness, and solemnly promised to procure her release, and convey her home.

It now became necessary to deceive the old sorceress in whose house they were imprisoned. The young man pretended to her that things were going on well, and that he wished to take a short ride with her friend, to which she readily assented. They did not return; he fulfilled his promise, and carried home the heroine to her parents. O with what emphasis and rapture must she have sung, “Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given me as a prey to their teeth. My soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and I have escaped. My help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth."