New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-12

The respectaolDty OIL community Jhe tnaV VI
an iudividusl 10 an element which no material
prosperity or iocial influence, should ignore or
abolish. A good nsue 10 city, as to person
is priceless jewel. How far the unworshiness
Of an obfrusye and clamorOus minor tg 40 iDjure
the fame of metropolis, was tested to the NJ
most Yesterday. A notorious fighting character,
who Kept drinking and gambling house, whose
associates were Of the veTs dregs of society, men
who live BIZ corruption violence, dicing Grabbing
and crimes that might make angels seep-sbis
maL-murdered by foul mpsnons-received the
ovation OF a great pubic funeral. No philaDthro-
pist, genius, bero-no one whose career b ad been
spent in utteripg divine thoughts in divine words
Or in minaserirg to the poor, the Oppressed,
the broken heArts0, the wouu led. the sick or the
dying, or whOse hal owed fceozes of soul had
struck out Dev1k1o fir the enchantment aud re-
demption N na,ioD,-coud have received a more
public demonstration, 70 say the least than did the
jgDob dead one ef yesterday. Men of respectable
appearance, dressed.n the btoadclO.h to which
in Europe the peasant asprss not, banded to-
gether in what should be the decent sfinites Of
association for benevolent purposes were assem-.
bed to the number of up ward of two thousand,
to testify to their mourning for the deceased. In
all the gaud of demons,rative sorrow-led by
pulsatile and sonor0us military music making the
air lyric with funebral voice-with hears, dsoor-
ated, and heroes of darkness and profanity around
it-with line of mourning cosches-with craped
flags, borne by affiliated bodes-tte procession
streaped down Broadway, while untold thousands
lined the sidewalks as loobers.On.
There aye several reasons for this demOnstra-
ton. The first is a rude worship of physical
strength and courage, regardless of the direction
given to it, whether for good or evil. The next
the affinity Oftbe tavern aud gambling house rab
Bile of a great city. The third is the nil nisi
bonrm princip le-the hOlowest Of lies, babbled in
the mouths of the weak gnded aud the bad
hearted. But most of all, tne motive to the dis
play was the fact that POoe wac fouliy murdered
by gang of ruifians, led on by au lrishman, he
being an American, representing the lower strata
of the technical American feeling of the day; and
when the nation boils the scum will rise.
The deluded men land we trust that all are not
perfectly lost who took part in the griefs OF the
occasion) should bear in mind, that community
can only live by wo.k. By the sweat of the brow
alone can man earn his bread. AL avoidance of
this-by such courses as DULLES, gamblers, bar
keepers and dO-nothi0gs, follow, measure pre-
cisely the decay of Empires. But tbs demon
straton of yesterday was an invitation to thou
sards whose associations are not religious. or
whose fresides genial, TO prefer idlensss, rio:,
vice, crime, to labor steadlness, respectability
and vrtue-tO turn their backs on Heaven and
rush to the lowest deep of depravity amid such
applause as greeted the fallen Son of The Mora.
ing. 1t was indeed mourDful commentary on
this metropolis--on what q vast plain for the
lover of msn, and the preacher of Gods truth,
there lies at our feet for light and redemption,
without seeking the strange and the distant
Our city has surely been wounded in her good
name BY this solecism in the hOnors due the dead;
but if we are to be freed from the controlling in
spiratons of the pandemonium politicians, GER
tainly an awful monitor for civic reform rose over
the hushed dead and the crcumambient living of
the scene