From the July 6, 1868 Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

“The steamboat Allison, yesterday at three o’clock, left for the Coney Island from Fulton Ferry with as large a load of thieves, gamblers, strikers, pimps, roughs and prostitutes, as it were ever the misfortune for one boat to carry. Scarcely had the boat left the wharf, when the thieves commenced to sing vulgar and obscene songs in the ladies’ cabins. Captain Wilson, who was in command of the boat, ordered them to stop, whereupon they commenced to assault and maltreat him.”