Litchfield enquirer., 1856-04-10
. New York Correspondence

New York CorIespondenees.zs
 NEw YORK, April 5th, 1856.
 The great powers of the. earth are Ssbont to; have rest from the game of Kings, and the " one horsen governments will probably com. mence playing their role of popgun war; Central America will soon be the field of glory, and the swash .backlefs of all =lanis can gather, there to find fortune or the fever. There is, doubtless, asburied Empire there an Empire of light and gold and beauty, such as only the Tropics car. parade. Some low-born sYaskee, Aladdins will yet find the wonderful lampn of their destiny among those central volcanoes, and send their names and their good luck down to the story-tellers of the future. s @
 The Buakums of the New York Legisla- ture have been lately getting up investigations into tue construction and management of the the tenant houses of the poor. We would hiut to them that g world of romance, and positive benefit to the community might be realized by extending their probosess into the entrances ard exits. and the interior history of our restauraat- hotels. The bad ventilation, the narrow en- frances, the dark corridors, the black -mail, the "ladies sin-waiting," and the inevitable widows, watching for flies. of these great human cara Eanserais, would supply useful statistics for the phiianthropist and legislator The former Irv- ing House is in process of demolition, with the promise of more enduring succession of stores on its foundations. This building was the scene of the murder of Adams. It never seemed to recover from the haunting spirit of that tragedy. So of Stanwix Hal, the arena of the death of Poole. It is now about to be buried away from human sight. How the memory and the stain of violence seems to cling to the theatre oi It's action. There are some spots in this city which crime and its punishment have so desecratcd, that years will pass before holicr purposes shall reclaim them. One hundred years since, the gibbet and the stake of Man. hattan were located on the borders of the Col lect Pond, near the present Five Points. On the same spot HOW stands the Tonbs where crime is fettered, and legal death is still intlict- ed. Here were enacted those horrible scenes of hanging and burning which marked l74l- a gloomy year of New York history. It has almost passed from the memory of men, and by many would scacely be credited that from May to August of that year, twenty three negroes and four white persons were hung and sixteen negroes were burnt at the stdke, while nearly one hundred were transported Among the number who were hung was supposed Roman Catholic priest. These persons were convicted upon the evidence. principally. of one woman, who received one hundred pounds for her dis. closures. The magistrates of that day i'm prisoned nearly two hundred persons on suspic- ion, and by the offer of pardon on the one hand, and the certainly of death in case of a refusal to confess. most of them gave their tes- timony, in connection with the woman, against the sufferers. There is strong reason to sup pose that many who were innocent were sacri- hced, but the dangers which threatened the infant English Colony, from the negroes on one
 
 side, and the French and Spanish on the other. to some e2tent palliates the panic which perva- ded the then remote settlement This was the famous negro and Jacobin plot, the history of which is well known, but the fearful punish, ments of which have been to great extent yelled from the public. We lrc, now, in hap pier times when plots are not so readily formed and when evidence is more carefully siited.
 Our police records do not show much ip,- proved state of public virtue 1.-the burglaries and robbcrios on the books of the chiefs cice for the past six mouths were fully published, it l would startle the land, to read so large an ac- count of daily crime, and to know that so few of it's perpetrators are even arrested If the 1 legislature do not immediately re-organize the l police system of New York, the citizens will, l in self defspce, be obliged to inaugurate con- mittees of public safety. THE DASBURYCADErs, from Danbury, visited New York, on Friday, and were received at hn Nnr,.l