New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-09-05

THE LONG ISLAND MURDERER The perpe-
traitor of the revolving murder of Mr. and Mrs
Wickham, at the village Of Catalogue, Long Is
land, will soon be arraigned before the legal
authorities of Suffolk county, to answer the
awful crime with which he is charged :.
Since the details of the occurrence we're pub
lished in the Times several weeks ago, the muir
derer, Nicholas Beheenan, has been confined in
o. strong cell at the Riyerhead Jail, and close
watch has been kept upon him, in order to avoid
ell possibility of an escape The Jail was daily
visited by persons from various parts of Long
Island, for nearly two weeks subsequent to the
capture The visitors beseged Mr. Edwards
1.-THE keeper to let them see Nick as the fell
| low is usually called by the Long Islanders.
The desire If many Of these visitors was graft
fed by the jailor, until the applications for adj
mission within the prison walls became too
numerous, and he was compelled to curtail them
| During the summer travel to the watering
places on the Island, delegations of ladies and
| gentlemen have frequently proceeded to River
| head, and were permitted to view the murderer
| through the iron bars of his cell door, in pre-
sence Of the Warden or his Assistant
| The culprit has changed but little in appear
ance Except growing more feshy) since the day
he was first lodged in the county prison by the
Sheriff He acts IN the same pompous manner
| as he did when the key was turned upon him,
and yet attempts to deny antPrepudate the con-
fession he made to DR.. Carpenter and others in
the barn, a few hours after he was caught in the
| swamp, near the town of Hermitage. This
braggadocio air, however, will avail but little,
as the main particulars of the villains own
voluntary statement will eventually be substan-
tiated by sworn testimony when the trial takes
place, which will be in a few weeks.
In order to prevent the prisoner from COM
hitting suicide, there is nothing allowed in his
cell, except wooden bunk, bed, bedding, table
and a variety Of religious books. Another pre-
caution is taken by Mr.. Edwards, the keeper
He is not permitted to have knife, fork, spoon
or piece of crockery in his cell; and the daily
rations are placed in tin platters and cups, and
passed into the cell throug the slide of the nnerh
door. Lastly, and most important, all persons
are strictly prohibited from entering the cell Of
the culprit. Hence he can receive no incen-
diary ideas, nor have any opportunity to destroy
) himself.
The culprit yet entertains hope of being
able to prove an abb by his Irish friends of the
house in Greenpont, where he slept on the
night of the commission of the shocking deed
but this is beyond all possibility. The unfor-
tunate man has repeatedly remarked that if he
gets clear he will marry the girl Ellen, with
whom he was in love
The negro boy "steye' has entirely recov.
cred from the effects of the terrible wounds in
:. fiicted on his head, by club In the hands Of
Beheehan, on the same night and now lives
with District Attorney Wickham, at the SAINT
| residence where the fearful tragedy was enacted
, New York Times, Goth.
II ALARMING IMPROVEMENT. Il had last week
4 the pleasure of witnessing, at one of the frs
boarding schools in Paris, an exhibition of pri
vate theatricals. The language spoken wa
French, and the performers were, four fifths o
them, American girls. The performance wal
9 not the object aimed at so much as the study
4 | and application necessary to divest the pupils
Y utterance Of its natural foreign accent Beyont
e | a certain age, the most infallibe means-per
haps the only means-is to follow a course 0
/. defamation, and break the mouth down witt
/ versifcation of Moliere and the hexameters o
# Racine. Mile. Bardet, a pleasant enthusiast il
n her profession is a speciality in this apartment
e of instruction, and parents coming to Paris 70
e the education of their children will do well t
= remember her name She fills the pupils moutl
a with small India rubber balls to begin with
n these are called Obstacles and answer precisel
!, the same as the pebbles of Demosthenes. For
time they impede the utterance, but finally los
q this effect; when removed, the student finds tina
If her words flow with wonderful ease and gibness
e The RS begin to roll, the twang begins to per
II wade the delivery, the final consonant is unoon
: scously carried to the succeeding vowel. [Co1
l. N Y. Times.
III The Emperor Nicholas is getting ugly on til
hands of the allies. He is reported to hay
lie said, in reference to the English
l. s'They may repel me from the Danube; the
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