The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-08-07


Decline Of Waiggery-1ne Knoo .Not&fl
ConDention-G Great Increase Of Property
n .Neso Bedford and NeU6uryport- Gar
yisoaian Celebration of the LIST of august
mfr. Banks -drnsOry Speech--.teto Books
---Maekeret-.d Big Bass Bagged.
The weather, which bad been quite comfort
able for day or two, to-day, is as hot and
i1isagreeable as anything that Lazarus would
Ae pleased to see Dives enjoying We are
IN for an August roast, venture to guess.
The gentleman who has brought suits against
several eminent civilians and military men
for damages alleged to have been received at
The rendition Of Burns, is Mr.. William a. Ella.
of Roxbury. A military friend informs me
chat the orders under which the military acted
On the I'd of June have never been made pub
Lie, and that the discussions that have been had
on the subject, having been carried on in igno-
race OF those orders, are necessarily full Of
nonsense.
Mr.. Thomas Casey has been "cast for
DEATH" He has been rated 80 low in the sc ale
Of humanity that it was thought he would not
he banged, but our present State government
b as much tickled with getting somebody to
hang as the butchers boy was with q lamb to
. stick;n and therefore no convict has chance
with them. / shall not say that Casey doesn't
deserve to be hanged any more than sh al
question that such disposition of many mem
hers of the government would be just one
but it is obvious, from the great increase o.
crime during the last seven or eight MONTHS
That the restoration Of the gallows TO its pri5
tine glory is not pr, cisely the way to get our
State converted into Utopia. There never
was a time when crime was SO abundant in
Massachusetts, as now. There are several per-
sons in Jail awaiting their trial on capital
charges Rapes are quite common, or attempts
to commit them. Men liam" their wives
every day Pickpockets are SO numerous as to
afford ground for the belief that they will soon
have up candidate for Governor. Drunken
ness, The parent of crime innumerable, is twice
rs common as it ever was before. There is
more rowdyism, greater numbsr of breaches
OF the peace. than we have had any previous
period OF our history Yet the galtows with
its issue cord'' to carry off bad social hu-
mors, and the Maine law are vigorous as ever.
They do say that the ''cholera," which broke
out so suddenly in our State prison last week.
and which ragged SO fnrieusly for day or two
within the limits vi that charming retreat
from the cares and troubles of an ungrateml
world was of domestic origin. and quite as eff
fective as the imported article. 1t is added,
that it had its origin in the same way that some
OF the maladies that prevailed at DothebOy's
Hall came to disturb the studies Of the youth
there dedicated" Mr.. Sqaeers, you will re-
collect had so tender heart that he could not
think Of an animal being slaughtered, and SO
o1xoca hot nod tk,,
valley Of the shadow of death in the natural
way. SO, according to report, are the public
servants occasionally "grubbed" at the State
prison; and report adds that the rations Of last
week were largely composed of what is termed
'sick cow" an article for which you will look
in vain. on the table of either the Astor or the
Revere, for it is a luxury no where out OF pri-
Sons and poor houses. person whose COW
had f. lien into the gertrude OF death disposed Of
her to ,he prison people for halt less than the
psice of beef on the hoof, probably because she
was off the hoo, and could not stand up to
be knocked down. The temptation was
too great, .free trade" prevailed, and cheap
beef was the order of the day, and cho-
lera Of the night. The poor animal
was avenged. Her names were appeased
by the groans and sufferings of hundred poor
devils, who were frightened at the thought of
dying in precise proportion to the length OF
their terms of service. Thus, the man who is |
n for life thought il hard that he should be cut
off In the prime of his usefulaess-tO the State;
and the man who has fifteen or twenty years to
serve was OF opinion that his cause was pecu-
iarfy distressing one, his prospects Of coming
ont were so very excellent. l cannot agree
with those who assert that the cow was bought
deliberately, they adducing the crowded state
of the prison as an evidence that the authori-
ties may have meant something outof the gene
raj by their unphilosophical transaction in beef.
x,.1 he G., 20 hon hat
NO more of Asiatic cholera in the prison than
there is of Asiatic hashish In the prisoners
food.
From the State prison and the cholera to
politics the step is brief as that from the SUBJ
lime to the ridiculous. The wings held a meet
ing at Cocbituate Hall, on Thursday evening,
and chose two hundred and twenty delegates to
their State convention, which will meet here
On the 10th. The meeting was but thinly
attended by the people, and not one Of
the great men Of the party was present. NJ.
Sampson presided; aud bis name does not rep
resent his strength. The speakers were Messfs.
Cooley, NJ. III. Smith, and Holmes, clever
men no doubt, but not quite equal to Everett,
Winthrop and Choate. These speakers weSe
dead against fusion, Us dead, indeed, as the
whig party itself cannot imagine party
30 silly as to desire to enter into such Mezen-
tian alliance as would be that of wedding itself
to such corpse as Massachusetts whiggery
which does not know how to govern when in,
power or to behave decently when in opposi-
tIon. Weak, factious, illiberal, cowardly, and
holding temporary power only through the
insanity of its opponents, the wing party is
quite as low as the dem ocracy in the political
scale, and has not the consciousness, like the
latter of being portion OF the organization
that governs the Union, taking Cuba nd the
Pacific groups and mines of Mexico, with gold
or iron, to say nothing of holding the offices.
Some of the speakers INDUCED in the dry
waggery of talking about their party's pros
poets Of success, which is as if man were to
Il ok down long avenue and rejoice over the
gallows at its end, Oh which he was to be
banged. These gentlemen are Tapleyites.
with heads in which the organ of hope must be
'argely developed. II the great men were not
present, they were not forgotten, for most of