The court loungers, who know something of the peculiar politics of the Fourth Ward, here laughed immoderately. _Justice_.--'You go to the captain, and tell him all about it.' _Allen_.--'I won't vote at all if I am let go. I always keep in with the police.' (Laughter.) _Justice_.--'That's right.' _Allen_.--'Only for the kindness of the police, I never could have kept my place so many years. They have always been my friends.' (Laughter.) _Justice_.--'How long is it since you have had any prayer meetings in your house?' _Allen_.--'About eight days.' _Justice_.--'You have got through with them, then, have you?' _Allen_.--'Well, yes, they are not held in my house any more, but they do be held at Jim Miller's, next door, all the same.' _Justice_.--'I believe those praying fellows are the most disorderly persons in Water street. Captain, if you would arrest them, some time, and charge them with disorderly conduct, I think you would be doing good service to the community, for their religious gatherings have been a farce.' Margaret Ware was committed for trial, and John Allen was held on three hundred dollars bail to answer at the Special Sessions. Daniel Creedon, lodging-house keeper, who represents ten thousand dollars in real estate, became John Allen's bondsman. John says that Oliver Dyer caused his arrest and that the whole thing was a 'put up job.' THE RESULT. We grant, without hesitation, that those who originated and carried on the Water street revivals, were influenced by worthy motives; but, having given both sides of the case, we maintain that the whole affair was a grave mistake. There was no genuine conversion of the principal characters, and this fact was soon made evident. The public became disgusted with the sham. The class for whose benefit the movement was designed, has been morally injured by it. Good people are made chary of engaging in schemes for the conversion of bad characters, lest they should be drawn into another "John Allen affair," and the wretches who were to have been saved, having been quick to detect the deceit practiced in the matter, denounce all the efforts and declarations of the actors in this affair as hypocrisy and cant, and will for a long time hold aloof from them. On the whole, therefore, we can but regard the cause of religion as more injured than benefited by the mistaken zeal of those who conducted the Water street revivals. The men themselves are above reproach. Their motives, no candid person will impugn, but their wisdom and good sense are open to the gravest criticism. CHAPTER XXXVII. CHEAP LODGING HOUSES.