From tHE "Nortu-Cumva DALY NEWS" or JANUARY 13, 1869
A correspondent asserts—we can hardly believe his statement—that 50 to 80 beggars were arrested yesterday by the police, and shipped off to Pootung. If this be true—and we repeat we can hardly believe it—the proceeding is we trust sufficiently heartless to meet the views of even the correspondent who Geplores the prevailing sentimentality of the community, over the signature "A long suffering resident" and it is as shortsighted as it is heartless. The weak and sickly will probably die from exposure and want; but the stronger—re precisely the non-deserving will all straggle back again, curse of a very few days.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.