New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-17
THE RLOODY DARKROOM.


The horror which the murder perpetrsted by
DR.. Graham in the st. Nicholas Hotel excited
had scarcely subsidized, when we are again reused
10 disgust BY another of those brutal ARRAYS
which make us doubt live in the Nineteenth
Century, or whether we still move in the
dark midd age, where those were admired
most Who committed murder with the great.
est coolress. Upon the details of this as
ssssirat on-for of Captain Wrights recovery
there is no bope-which is even more premedi'
tattd than the last, we do not desire to offer
c, mmsnt. The law will, we doubt not assert
itself But Of those bar rooms, aud the carry
ipp Of knives, which give incentive and faclll-
tie. to crime, we would speak. These wretched
men. DR.. Graham and Mr.. Dean, are but the
victims.
1t is to US a matter of most special wonder how
gentlemen of resptctability and elevation of mind
can permit their wives and daughters to dwell in
places where they are within reach of the ring Of
the rb,ld barroom and drunken brawl often to q
late hour of the night; where they are liable to
catch in every passage the belching brutality of
the rioting rcwdy, and where all the gentle feel
ipQs of woman must be wounded and shocked, by
bayirg within the house which they inhabit that
which is most sacred to bumanity-human life-so
recklessy assaulted and, as in the two cases which
have now followed each other within a few months,
sometimes taken away. Surely it is not tit that
they sh 1uld be left an hour in spot stained with
human blood, aud with the mark Of murder on its
front We may regret that particular individuals
should, perhaps, more by accident than other
wise, pay the penalties of the system. But
20 it mus. be in all reforms. We have with
unceasing voice held up these bar. rooms as dens
of ipfomy and nurseries of vice; and in TIE ST.
Nicholas there is no excuse for retaining this
filthy excIetcencs. We saw its natural result in
the Graham murder, where sn unOfiendng
Granger, who staid there upon the suPposltion
Of its being respectable house, bad his family
disturbed and himself murdered by man whose
reason was smothered and whose passion was
fred by drink. This hotel can amply maintain IT.
self, as does tire Clarendon, the Un'On-place,
Bixby's, and many others, without setting aside
room as an assienati IN house for murder. What
will be thought Of the character of our city and
ito people1 Is there any expression OF loathlng
which We shall not merit, when 1t is told that
at a hotel which aspires to peculiar fashion,
two butche1ies have been perpetrated with n a
few months If such crimes had been commit
ted at Clsreudon's and Mvart's in London, or
the Hotel de Douvres or Meurices at Paris,
the proprietor might on tie following morning
close bis doors. We would urge, then, on all
" ho value the ssnctty of ~oman's feelings to at
least save them from the contact of murderers
and gamblers and robbers aud rovdes, and take
them only to hotels xhere no bar-rooms are kfPt.
BY doing this they will not only protect their
ears from coarse and immOdest sound, but they
will do service stronger than all words OF ours
10 the cause of humanity by making it the in
terest of hotel prOpIietors to remove from their
premises those prolific hotbeds of misery and
crime.
With respect to carrying knives, an Act should
at once be passed and carried out, prohibiting
under the severest penalties the wearing OF these
and oil such murderOus weapons. In Europe
they are not only prevented from being worn by
the sternest legal prohibitions but still more by
the stigma of public opinion, which brands as
coward and a ruiiian the wretch from whose
craven bosom CLEANS the stesl,hy steel. II such
a scene as was enacted In the st. Nicholas bar
room had taken place there, there would have
been Io occasion for police. Tho lrSt glance
Il tho Lniio would have been the signal for tear.
ipg LIMB from limb tho wretch Who bore this in.
atiumrLt OF prcmcditaoi murder We arc tho
de AcsLdahia of EnpliAhlnon. While No Discard
What Ia corrupt aud ialso IN their institutions.
Let va holor aud initiate thoir individual virtues.
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