New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-11-30
Crime In New York.
The New York Times Of the goth has I'll

The New York Times of the 10th has the following:
Yesterday was day memorable for its outrages
and crime. Early in the morning, In one OF those
loathsome dance-houses, with which Water street
abouns and whose liberation in the city is disgrace
to our municipal authorities, four persons were 50
seriously stabbed by visitors there that one man
died instantly and two men and one woman were
serously-two of them perhaps fatally wounded.
nameless outrage was perpetrated upon two young
girls, who were returning from dance house, at the
corner of Thirtyseventh street and Broadway, early
yesterday morning. a,a74 '.ys
A gang of Bowery boys, at late hour Wednesday
night, commenced smashing the furniture OF the BIZ
lizard saloon attached to the Yolks Garten, in the
Bowery when the proprietor, Mr.. Benin, interfered,
and was dangerously stabbed in the back.
Under the caption of "Thugism Rampant the
Times has an editorial article, from which extract
the following:
Assassins are having their saturnaa. Every night
now brings Its murder, eachm revolving and more
daring than the other. Neither age nor sex nor po-
stion seems to afford any security and no place is
sacred Old women in cellars, fast young men in
supper rooms, tavern keepers behind their own coun
ters workingmen walking the street with their wives
all seem to fare alike at the hands of the thugs by
whom the city is being desoated 1t is only the most
extraordinary amount of nerve and selEconidence
that any people ever possessed, that enables to
traverse the streets after nghtta or enter any place
in company with persons who are not known to us.
istered in courts which is bringing down on us
this awful torrent of abuse.
4 In point of fact cur code of criminal procedure
seems expressly framed for the protection aud pro-
motion of crime. No honest man, with brains to be
dashed out or purse to be robbed, can sit and wit
the preliminary proceedings in the trial OF
criminal, nowadays, without shame and misgiving.
What with unlimited challenges, based upon an OBJ
lection which is an insult to common sense-what
with ample power of appeal, complete dependence Of
itc nf Tho Sc faf
Tombs lawyers delay and chicanery of all sorts,
criminal courts bid fair to become, before very long,
not the terror of evildOers, but cumbrous machine
for the protection OF knaves and assassns from the
speedy and efiectual justice OF Judge Lynch. Il III
Dr. Mott, son Of the eminent surgeon of that name,
was assailed in New York on the night Of the 10th
by number of men, who attempted to garrote him.
He put them to flight by firing revolver, but received
several blows, and was fired at in return.
The New York Daily Times of the 23d inst thus
appangly heads its criminal record Of the previous
day: So w. -ae.s0 a. ag 9.#g@
Appalling increase of Crime-Double Murder and
Suicide at Port Jefferson, l.. 1.-Two Policemen pro-
badly Killed--James Rodgers and james p. Donnely
to be Hanged-Engineer Holmes to be imprisoned
l5s years-CoIoners' lnquests in the Water street
William street and Canal street Murders-More Stabb
ing, Shooting and Beating to Deah-Interviews with
Convcts at the Tombs-The Grand Jury on carrying
Concealed Weapons-A Spanish Marine involved in
the Water street Mnrder-Terrible Tragedy at Por,
Jefferson, Long 'sland-A Husband Kills his Wifi
and Step-son-in-law and Hangs himself
And the Times, of the same date, in an editoria
tem rather jocuary refers to the horrible reputation
New York is acquiring, as follows:
| CONVINCED AT LAsr-Our provincial cotempora
ries Boston and Philadelphia concede to New York a
last the title of " Metropolis" The daily record o
our murders burglaries and crimes of every sort ha
conquered their reluctance to award us our just de
serts. II city which can boast of two or three
ders day, with rapes. robberies, and other SINAI
vlanies to match, is not entitled be called metro
1 tnte valid claim.