New-York tribune., 1841-09-25
.NoroRErY1 IN CITES.
From The wsrii Of Loa.on,' in Blaek~ood fo


From 'The Wetlf OF l.on.on in Black~ood for Sept.
WIEN Sam Fstch. the American, hanged h.ua-
self by way OF lark upon Waterloo Bridge. {by
the way, what, may sc ask, became the inquiry
whether or the directors sanctioned that dis
gusting exhibition happened to have occa-
sion to walk up the Waterloo Road about ten MN
u<es after the un;oward event; the crowd rad al
ready dispersed, but some stray sentences dropped
by the passcrs-by induced imagine something
Interesting might haze occurred. Laying down
sixpence TO pay our toll while awaiting the caange'
We took occasion to inquire OF the gate-Neei'-l
what was the matter. Only YANKEE dl'ei
banged himself on the bridge .ir-aH Ilgnt:
piled the functionary; whether the Gil f's"t
Grred to the propriety OF Sam fa'cA acting
own hangman on this occasion, or to the co, -
ness Of the change rendered me- by the sate-Ee'
or, I cannot saw however that may be, couo MOI
bcl, cen.,rre the fol;y of Sam Patch IN executing
himself in London. where not mcrSiS the manner
Of his death but his previous existence, was Tor
COTTON in some second, less than i've minutes:
yhereas. had he only taken the trouble to stransu-
hate himself in Edinburgh or Dublin, ne would
have been talked Of for week and remembered
for a fortnight. Songs would have been sung, and
sermons made about Iir; public meetings would
have been called 20 petition Parliament against
capital punishrnents. Patch would have become
household word, and his cfiigy would haze been
seen in every shop hanging in rnezzotinto; we
,veud have had the Scrn Patch quadriiles, and the
Sam Patch magic strop, and the Sam Patch era
watts; in short, if Sam had any sense he might
have been not only notorious in himself, but The
cause Of notoriety 10 others.
1t is therefore, sheer folly in intending suicides
10 think Of creating sensation by performing
their antics in London Rhadamanthus Wahley,
sitting in judgement on half score OF corpses Il
day, or thereahouis cannot confer upon all an I'M
mortality; ,umbBg from the monument even
has lost it, novelty, and is bow considered by the
town very slow way OF cutting ONES self OIL
No. suicide, therefore, who cannot strike out
new line Of bold, dashing and original tefo DIR &c,
hos the chance of seeing his inquest headed
Suicide Extraordinary We therefore recon-
mend all daring spirits, ambitious of immortality
by hanging or otherwise, 10 take themselves OF 10
TIE country, where sensation Is worth any me-
new, and where they will have twelve columns of
inquest in the country papers.
There is no to,rn's tolt in London; there IS TO
use in coming to star it in our milky way, where
len thousand million ncbuIe lost and contound-
ed in general brightness You, lion Is here y very
tame beast, and must roar as gently as sucking
dove, nay, as tweIe a ycry nightingale; let HIM
roar loud, soul will think more OF his
roaring than Of the rumbljng Of q cart. Though
hear him, what shall he have where all men are
busy blowing their own trumpcts like mountebanks
in "a fair Though he cry out like wisdom in the
Streets he will have the auditory of wisdom, no
man regarding him.
In the provinces YOUR lin must 70 roar; he is
sure to find IN echo; periratetic philosopher,
purblind, his hair depending from the back Of his
neck like the tcuacula OF acuttlc-iish, with bun
die OF manuscript lectures, a box of apparatus
and three letters Of Introduction, Is a made man,
n lion in his glory; provincial philosophers abuse
him, provincial ladies' adore him; ne Is talked OF
for a month or six weeks and is hardly forgotten
when the caravan Of wild beasts introduces ano-
tiler lion, equally renowned and remarkable.
Provincial folks i've hons; like the ocean.
the country receives all fallen stats, which Iurn
gu, after all to be mere mulluscouS animals; every
adventurer is welcome to country town, an
advenuIcr of their town; HIM, ii he be sue
oessfu the inhabitants down, ridiculc aud
hate with u hatred surprising the hate OF women
They discover that when he Went away, twenty
FIVE years ago, his father was in the wor.-hou-c
and his mother got her living washcrwoman
shcy hear he made his money by usury, or in the
slave trade. The gentry of the neighbe!hood
combine To cYt him. because he has money
than they with the additional honor of having
curRed IL: he is q stranger in his own land,
prophet without iOnoT IN MS o"U II, on
the other hand her buie'ed by the sol
fate, poor and unfortunate he is worse Than ha-
ted; 5ity his portion and pity is half-brother to
couiempt:-hiS best friends have bad story TO
Tell of him. he was always, they recoAect well,
dull boy at school, and once in trouble for rob,
bling an orchard he went bail fer his brother,
who ran away. and served him right: he married
when he was young and no better could be- cx-
pected of him: he lavishcl his money on worth
less characters under pretence of relieving the
unfortunate he Inns seedy habilments and shock
ing hat, and although thcy think him an honest
poor fellow enough their wives have commanded
them not 10 be with him, and their daughters
wonder Ut his mpudencc when he ventures tim
idly to salute them: in word, he Is the victim OF
The universal cons piracy OF respectable against
the unprospctous.
Itincrant ncvcuturcrS, the contrary. are never
sn,re at home than when from home. or, properly
speaking, never NJ home but when away. corn
law lecturer tragedy queen, prize bull. philanthro
mic Qunkeress. wandering Jew Bap,is, missionary
collecting money with view TO his conversion To
Christiauity Notieutot Venus, flower show. march
ing regiment. live lord or crocodile. man IN the
stocks, floc, OF turkeys Radical mccrns, bu!'-
bait. scientific association. or learned pis-one
and ALL or each after the other, take YOU; country
ownbv the ear any boar the Jwcntylour filing all
ears, mouths paragraphs, and tablets OF the bTalG,
to the utter exclusion for she time of baser mat
ter There is nolhi.g Of the bind in London: 10
spou;cr VIII be listened To save IN streets ard then
he is listened only 10 he aiughed at; m com
law lecturer viii receive Jingle gran OF attrn-
tion:-,he htl.e blacAgua;d boys have discarded
Mir. Ferguson, of 'ycu don't 'oigc here no'orie
", and nov CRY nothing bu; re LOAF: PlnAn-
thropic OuaAcre->t> vyIll De let where INTO
the House OF Correction: Baptist missionary
gets what he can and spends wsa, he gets, and