Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-01-29

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New YORK, Jan. 26, 1856
The recent cuttings-up of the clerk of the
weather furnish the chief topic of conversation
around the red-hot stoves of Gotham, and our
newspapers devote whole columns to the frigid
theme New York harbor has barely escaped if
it has escaped being closed by the ice, vast fields,
like those with which DR.. Kane is familiar, being
spread out before our harbor, on the bosom of
the stormy Atlantic, banging great ships about,
and gouging ugly holes in their sides Thous-
ands of men, with not 1.-THE of the faith of St.
Peter, have walked on the water to and fro, be-
tween Manhattan aud Long Island while ferry
boats, freghted with impatient suburbans, have
wandered about the Bay Tor dismal hours wedged
in between unyielding cakes. We begin 10 feel
hopeful when the mercury sinks only to zero, and
those OF US who are not of the suffering poor
bear up with commendabe patience under the
famine prices of the markets, and the scarcity of
milk for cur coffee. occasoned in great part we
are tempted to believe, by the freezing of country
wells and pumps.
Now and then, we give an extra SILVER when
we hear of great ship driven pell.mell, by the
the frozen crew dropping one by one from the
rigging, stiff and dead, until all are swallowed up
among the dreadful breakers or of bonnet
found peeTing from beneath snow-drift, under
which woman's dead body is found, with awful
staring, Vanished eyes OF of an omnibus driver,
who like Sterne's starting, "cant get out" tug at
the strap as they may, until the end of the long
route is reached and the dead man is lifted from his
box, still and stiff in his sitting posture. We
drop tear OF sympathy for the poor perishng
sailor, for the starving and freezing pauper, who
died in the midst of plenty, and for the desolate
and stricken home; and the wealthy and fash.
lonsbe among us our consciences by at
tending charity balls and concerts, at Sarsaparilla
Townsend's SNOWY palace, where we give pit
lance to Gods poor, who are always with us, and
receive in exchange, amusement and the gratli
cation of our vanity, in the ostentatious display
NlllaIny thrives with us as usual, despite the
low state OF the thermometer. CITY officials
plumber the city treasury necessarily, and escape
by means of technical bubbles. ESQ the Grand
Jury say, in their recent presentment,) and their
constituents at the other end Of the social ladder
plumber each other and the strangers who venture
among us, by cheats and swindles in the day.
time, and the "garotte' at night. DR.. Hobbs
would say this garotting is +" great institution
wonder If you have had experience of it in Wor
cester. 1t happens in this wise - You have been
at the theatre or at social party, and you are
jogging homewards in complacent frame of
mind, when suddenly You arrested by strong
arm around your neck, and the next instant you
see all around you myriads of dancing stars on
red and purple ground and have confused con.
seriousness OF muttering voices and f1mblng
hands. Then you are "k know nothing" loI an
indefinite PERIOD and then you find Yourself
alone, crawling on the ice, on your hands and
knees. Your voice is very feeble, your tongue so
thick you can hardly swallow and your head has
an irresistible tendency to lop over. You get up
and stagger a few feet, when YOU discover that
your pockets are empty and inside out that your
watch and chain are missing, that there is a rag
ged hole in your shirt bosom where the diamond
PIN toas, that your ring finger is very lame that
you have no hat or coat i'm short, that you have
been "garotted " OF course there is not a no.
iceman TO be found, and you crawl home, and to
bed, as best you can, only stopping by the way to
notify the fat lieutenant of police, at the station
house, that you have been robbed. The next at
ternoon, bolstered up in bed, you read in The pa
pers all the details Of Another Daring Ghrotte
Robbery" The victims name resembles your
own quite closely, but he was drunk at the time
and was assisted to his residence by officers Nc
Naob and O'Grady, who were called to the spot
by his outeries, and chased the villains nearly a
mile, in the hope of arrestng them. The .'ear.
citing process had Its origin in Paris, whence
ike other fashions, it found its way first to Lon.
don and then to New York. At first, the robber
used nat piece of wood. made to fit mans
meek, and choke him comfortably and scientific
any, out 1t was soon found that the business
could be doue by taking the neck in the crook Of
the elbow. This mode subjects the patient to
somewhat rougher and more dangerous treat
ment but il enaOles the robber to dispense with
carrying the awkward neck yoke, which might
be dumb witness, in case of arrest. Since
Christmas, fifty or sixty men, women, and bovs
nave been garotted in New York. The police.
men wear conspicuous uniforms, and as they are
few and far between on cold nights, the thieves.
who know their beats thoroughly, are rarely in.
terrupted. Last week. however, two of the hold
p0nuht. he "a Of % l.. r..
the commission Of the crime, they were on their
way to Sing Sing under sentence for life, shows
how thoroughly the community is alarmed.
The late news from Nicaragua has convinced
every intelligent mind that fllibuster Walker Is
on his last legs. Nevertheless his agents have
managed to keep their spirits up, and to push on
the recruiting with Yigor. There is no longer
any special disguise in the matter The recruit
ing officer is at the corner of Broadway and Leon
ara street, and was crowded all day with ragged
and drunken vagabonds, who were enlisted 10 90
IN the steamer Tennessee, which sails on We'd
nesday noon. Two hundred men are already en-.
listed, and probably the number will reach three
hundred by Wednesday. Not thirty Of the nnn-
Der will ever return alive, which will be BLESSING
70 tne clty. Nevertheless, pity some rash
young men OF fair character whom happen 10
know, and who have been entioed away by gross
misrepresentation, and their own love of adyen.
ture Government will not interfere. for two
reasons--one Of which is, because no powerful
nation demands the enforcement OF the neutrality
laws, and the other, and most potent, is, because
the slave power will not tolerate interference. az
long as Walker has loop to hang hope upon.
The same power which sustained the border ruf
fans in Kansas, Is sustaining Walker in Ncar.
augua, and for the same ends Did you ever re.
fleet on the Significance vt the recall Of Colonel
Titus's command from Kansas, TO be sent 10
Nicaraugual urM
We have, among us, a lamentabe case of mon.
omania. Mrs. Mcmahon, a respectable, intelli.
gent and wealthy lady, residing near the fashions
that she is a great actress and persists in the
strange delusioni in spite Of the condemnation az
we pnoho After some study, she went TO Buffalo
g make her debut, and failed. Het audiences
, nuu inc newspapers told her 50 whereupon She
buhalonians they were all fools On knavos' s,dok
the dust from her feet, and returned 70 New