eave when they please. There is no force used, but every moral
influence that can be brought to bear upon them is exerted to induce them
to remain. The preference is given to applicants who are very young.
Those seeking the Mission are provided with refreshments, and are drawn
into conversation. They are given such advice as they seem to need, and
are induced to remain until the hour for prayers. Those who remain and
show a genuine desire to reform are provided with work, and are given
one-half of their earnings for their own use.

The Midnight Mission is a noble institution, and is doing a noble work,
but it is sorely in need of funds.

[Picture: SCENE IN THE MAGDALEN ASYLUM.]

The other institutions for the reformation of fallen women are the "House
of the Good Shepherd," on the East River, at Ninetieth street, the "House
of Mercy," on the North River, at Eighty-sixth street, and the "New York
Magdalen and Benevolent Society," at the intersection of the Fifth avenue
and Eighty-eighth street. These are all correctional establishments, and
more or less force is employed in the treatment of those who are
refractory. Many of the inmates are sent here by the courts of the city.
The "House of the Good Shepherd" is a Roman Catholic institution, and is
in charge of the Sisters of the order of "Our Lady of Charity of the Good
Shepherd." The other two are Protestant institutions. The "House of
Mercy" is conducted by the Protestant Episcopal Church. The Magdalen
Society is not sectarian. All are doing a good work. The statistics of
the "House of the Good Shepherd" give a total of about 2900 inmates in
twenty-two years. How many of these were reformed, it is impossible to
say. The statistics of the "House of Mercy" are not available, but its
inmates are said to number about one hundred annually. The "Magdalen
Society" has a noble record of its thirty-five years of usefulness. It
is as follows: Total number of inmates, 2000; placed in private families,
600; restored to relatives, 400; left the Asylum at their own request,
400; left without permission, 300; expelled, 100; transferred temporarily
to the hospital, 300; died, 41; received into evangelical churches, 24;
legally married, 20.

L. CHILD MURDER.

On the 26th of August, 1871, at three o'clock in the afternoon, a truck
drove up to the baggage-room of the Hudson River Railway depot, in
Thirtieth street, and deposited on the sidewal