The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-03-23
THE NEW TEMPLE OF FAME.


1t is surprising how many discoveries and inventions
every day announced The spirit of the age certainly
making prodgious strides towards the millennium and
If the world is crushed under railroad train or blown
up by steamboat explosion, may reasonably antie
pate state Of perfection which will place all teetoallers
phanthropists and Others hors de combat by leaving
them nothing reform except themselves job they
seldom undertake it said either is
ny or impraccabe Among the discoveries recently made
an entire path the temple of fame which has this
great beset by those thorns and
brars which have heretofore lain in the way those who
asped to distinguish themselves from the Of their m
nominous fellow-creatures
Some persons, whose opinions well deserving OF at
tentou deny however that this short the temple Of
fame is modern discovery and in support of their theo
~ instance the renowned thief Caeus whose
familiar the classical reader that of the hero ercu
les who slew him. Thus too the worthless who figure in
that famous British chronicle called the Newgae Calen-
dar are as they affirm well known and respectable
divers of those recorded in certain biographical dicona
res But be this it may the path to the temple of
fame lately discovered is principally through what is called
Rowpylsa in the fashionable parlance Of the day The
sect-if it may be called-is principally composed Of
young aspiranis whose ambition to become distinguished
Juan and the Corsair or BY banqueting the hgh-sca
soned dishes Eugene Sue Alexandra Dumas and other
mminares of the French school of romance whose hero
ism consists in outrages the laws violations OF the de-
corum of society Drawing the public authorities disturb
ing the repose Of the night insulting and outragng de
fenceess women or the last resort for of other
food for their heroic ardor belaboring, mutilang and
numbering each other
These worthless seldom fail of gaining niche in the
temple of fame which has in great measure superseded
the State prison. the bdewel and the penitenary They
figure full length in the police reports which
fully taken down by that industrious class of literary
scavengers which may be called the only privileged order
in this country since they pay neither scot lot at the
theatres concerts operas and public exhibitions have
prescriptve right go everywhere and everything
neither pay scores at fares railroads
aud whose good word is ten times better than their
bond These flourish and grow fat by sweeping To-
gether all the filth aud corrupiions of society.
midnight tavern street roW especially IL it ends in
murder the rape seduction Of an innocent girl the
adultery of guilty wife; parricide fratricide murder in
its most revolving atureseyery crime that backens the
face Of nature outsges the Of God is borne bophs
TO these picures who fill whole columns Of newspapers
from day to day with long catalogues Of deprayy and
crime until turn with loathing from the which
presents nothing but wide Of sin and misery or
what still worse become accustomed the con
temptation 80 miliarzed its revolving features that
they 10 excite adherence, and instead Of
warning rather operate as examples
We have been led into these reflections by late tragi
cal event which occurred recently in the city Of New
York, and which has il is said in sereotyped phrase
acrea'ed an intense excitement though one unhappy
ordinary in most Of great cities most es
pecaly since the inauguration Of the order OF row
dies We refer 70 the celebrated L PooLr who not hav
ing far know followed the fashion Of many other
WORTHLESS by perpetrating autobiography seems to
merit passing tribute 70 his memory
Bin, il appears what generally called an election
eering pzehghte Of great prowess and II not actually
at the head stood high in the ranks Of rowdysm He fig
ured conspcuousiy at ward meetings and election polls
where he was exceedingly potential in preserving the
peace BY knocking men, especially Irisbmen down.
then bidding them stand STILL and by his singular dexer