The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1860., [Electronic resource], Idlers.

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Idlers.

--There are now confined in the city jail, for various offences — most of them misdemeanors--eighty-one prisoners. Of this number, nineteen are abandoned white females, who have been committed for drunkenness and disorderly conduct in the streets. If the city had any means of employing these unfortunate creatures, their confinement might be advantageous; but to keep them huddled together in idleness, is but to confirm their vicious habits. Of the males, some few are mere lads, who hourly grow worse by their constant contact with older criminals, who seem to take pleasure in corrupting and debasing their young associates.

The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1860. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. November 14, 1860. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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