“My dear friend, as business prevents me from seeing you in the day-time, I take this method to express my thanks for the noble and generous mention made of me in your remarks before the Association; which remarks were as pleasant and exciting to me, as they were unexpected.  I need scarcely assure you, my kind and generous friend, (generous not only to so humble an individual as myself, but to all your fellow creatures,) that it is out of my power to find words to thank you adequately, or to express my feelings on that occasion.  I was the more gratified because my dear wife was present with me, and also my brother-in-law.  Oh, what a noble work the Society is engaged in.  My most fervent prayer is that your name may remain on its list for many years to come.  Then indeed should I have no fears for those poor unfortunates, whose first unthinking error places them unconditionally within the miasma of vice and crime.  That you may enjoy a very merry Christmas, and many happy New-Years, is the sincere desire of my wife and myself.”

T.B., who has been for several years in the employ of the Association, was raised by their aid from the lowest depths of intemperance, and has become a highly respectable and useful citizen.

J.M., who was in Sing Sing Prison four years, for grand larceny, was aided by the Association at various times, and always repaid the money precisely at the appointed day.  His industry and skilful management excited envy and jealousy in some, who had less faculty for business.  They taunted him with having been a convict, and threw all manner of obstacles in the way of his making an honest living.

Among other persecutions, a suit at law was instituted against him, which cost him seventy-five dollars.  The charge was entirely without foundation, and when brought before the court, was promptly dismissed.  It is now about six years since J.M. resolved to retrieve his character, and he still perseveres in the right course.

Ann W. was an illegitimate child, and early left an orphan.  She went to live with an aunt, who kept a boarding-house in Albany.  According to her own account, she was harshly treated, and frequently taunted with the circumstances of her birth.  At the early age of fourteen, one of the boarders offered to marry her, and induced her to leave the house with him.  She lived with him some time, always urging the fulfilment of his promise; and at last he pacified her by going to a person, who performed the marriage-ceremony.  She was strongly attached to him, and being a capable, industrious girl, she kept everything nice and bright about their lodgings.  He pretended to have a great deal of business in New-York; but in fact his frequent visits to that city were for purposes of gambling.  On one of those occasions, when he had been absent much longer than usual, she followed him, and found him living with another woman.  He very coolly informed her that the marriage-ceremony