The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-11-09

OF the general suspension on this side, the effect
of which we have yet to learn.
From what we have stated it will be seen that
at time when our financial and commercial
condition is "a critical as it we'll can be, and
when our legislators will have to devise mea-
suresto guard against the recurrence Of the evils
| from which we are now suffering, no more i'm
portant or valuable chapter of information can
| be presented to our readers than that which
will be furnished to them by these chronologies-
If history teaches by example, then let US hope
| that the instructive lessons which 1t contains
will not be lost upon the consideration and
future action of our people.
Liccntaousness and IT'S Fruits-Incidents OF =
| Single Day
Thousands Of years ago one of the old classical
writer's expressed the idea that the direst cause
| of war was woman. Since the day when Virgil
bore that testimony, society has made great pro-
gress and Christianity, with its vrtuous teach
! ings is generally supposed to have effected
salutary change in our moral nature. But
nevertheless the testimony in regard to the in
fuence of woman is as true now, and as applica-
BILE to the presentday it was in and to the days
when the confederate Greek Princes laid seige
| to Troy because the fast and fascinating wife
| of one of their number had taken it into her
head to levant with young Trojan coxcomb.
Woman is now, as she was then, the taerrima
ca'Ga bell, and if her light behaviour does not so
often now set nations by the ears, it is none
the less potential in arousing the bad passions
of men and giving rise to conventions, heart
pangs, violence and assassinations.
| But few days ago the morning news
papers of this city recorded no less than
| three exciting occurrences Of the previous
| day in which a woman was either the
| principal actor or the chief element OF
| these romances of daily life, the scene of one
was laid in no less sacred place than a court
of justice and the case was certainly as re-
markable q one as ever transpired in such
presence. We doubt if there could be found in
the whole history of judicature another case in
which q person, appearing in the character of
seducer, had the brazen effrontery to ask
court of justice to order his victim to be taken
from under the protection in which she had
been placed by her much wrongei husband,
and to deliver her up to his care; and yet
such-neither more nor less-was the applica-
ton in this extraordinary case; but no less ex-
traordinary was II, that for several days this
application was seriously entertained by a
| highly respectable and able Judge, and that
finally the fast young gentleman who made it,
was permitted to depart from the court un-
scourged by those on whom he had brought
such dishonor. The cause was heard as coolly
and deliberately as if it were a mere action on
promssory note, and'wa only withdrawn on the
appearance of the ladys brother, who came to
bring her back to that paterual hearth TO which
her conduct had brought sorrow. The individual
who had thus trumpeted his own libertinism
and his poor victims frailty to the world, was al
lowed to go off without the rufhe Of single
feather. We hear that his chivalrous conduct
in the matter is about to be initiated in regard
to another lady, whose eccentric course has also
led to her being placed for safe keeping in an
asylum in the vicinity Of this city. This Is
number one Of the newspaper romances Of q few
days past
The second romance that was chronicled the
same morning had a more bloody ending. The
scene Of il was laid in hotel in Philadelphia
the same characters of the faithless wife, the
wronged husband and the alleged heartless Sc
Queer, being represented. The circumstances, as
narrated by one of the principal actors, showed
to be- If possible viler case on the part of the it
seducer than even that of romance number one.
The faithless wife is represented to have stood
in the relation Of adopted daughter to him
who betrayed her. His crime, therefore, was
| little less In Nervousness than that from which
| Beatrice Cenci saved herself by the assassna-
tion of her father. His penalty was the same
death-death by the hand Of the husband.
The apparently calm and unexcited appeal
which the latter seems to have made to the des-
troyer Of his peace, lie said to have been met by
the brutal answer that his next advances would
he, not to his wife, but to lis sister; and that
| answer sealed the mans doom. A pistol ball
through the heart, followed by other three
messengers of death, sent him unannealed to
| his last account.
The third incident Of the day was not of such
a tragic nature. II was nothing more deplora-
than the fact OF fast young Ilood being
soundly horsewhipped on Broadway by q fair
damsel, with whose fame he had allowed his
tongue to be too hippant. She rode down In
her carriage to the neighborhood OF where the
youth was sauntering away a sunny hour,
and having administered to him salutary
castigation-from which he was fain to fee
she re-entered her carriage and rode of amid
the plaudts Of the spectators
These records of day 90 to show that, after
all, human nature has not undergone much
change in the lapsed ages since the siege of
Troy. The only difference between the past
and present is, that the consequences Of mans
libertinism and womans infdelity are not now
to be seen In cities overthrow and provinces
laid waste, but rather in desolated hearths,
ruined hopes, and acts of wild vengeance.
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