herds  made  a  proposition  to  him  to  hire  his  house  for  one
month,  to  October  1,  for  daily  prayer  meetings,  and  such  ar-
rangement was,  after  some  discussion,  perfected.  For  the  use
of  the  rooms  it  is  known  that  a  check  for  three  hundred  and
fifty  dollars  was  passed  to  Allen,  last  week,  by  a  party  control-
ling the  movement,  and  the  house  is  now  in  legal  possession  of
the  drawer  of  the  check.  Allen's  prayers,  songs,  and  exhor-
tations, with  which  he  interested  the  praying  dupes  who
gathered  to  his  house,  were  assuredly  bogus,  and,  after  being
continued  for  two  or  three  days,  they  were  abandoned,  and
thereafter,  in  drunken  obliviousness  or  cunning  reticence,  the
'  wickedest  man '  passed  his  time,  avoiding  visitors,  and  talk-
ing only  when  compelled  to  do  so.  "What  he  purposes  to  do
hereafter  will  be  learned  in  the  course  of  this  article.  So
much  for  Allen's  falsely  reputed  conversion !

"  As  for  the  other  men's  reformation,  that  is  as  absolutely
a  piece  of  humbuggery  as  Allen's.  Tommy  Hadden  is  play
ing  the  pious  with  the  hope  of  being  secured  from  trial  before
the  Court  of  General  Sessions  for  having  recently  '  shang-
haed  a  Brooklynite,  and  also  in  consideration  of  a  handsome  ~
moneyed  arrangement  with  his  employers — similar  to  that
with  Allen.  '  Kit '  Burn's  rat-pit  will  also  be  opened  for
religious  services  on  Monday  next ;  but  the  public  need  not
be  deceived  in  the  matter  of  bis  reformation.  His  motive,
like  that  of  the  others,  is  to  make  money,  and,  be  it  known,
that  he  is  to  receive  at  the  rate  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  dol-
lars per  month,. for  the  use  of  his  pit  an  hour  every  day
Slocum  desired  prayers  at  the  Howard  Mission,  on  Sunday
last,  but  it  is  understood  that  be  is  not  to  be  lionized,  be-
cause the  missionaries  are  not  willing .  to  pay  him  a  high
enough  rental  for  his  hall.  As  for  the  general  movement
carried  on  in  Water  street,  under  the  false  pretence  that  tbese


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men  have  voluntarily,  and  from  purely  religious  motives,
offered  their  saloons  for  public  worship,  and  have,  them-
selves, determined  to  reform,  very  little  more  need  be  said.
