St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-20
New York Letter.
Editorial Correspondence Of the Intelligencer.
New YoRK, Aug. 10, 1857.

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Editorial Correspondence Of the Intelligencer.
New YoRK, Aug. 10, 1857.
When in Detroit. accepted the in
,itation Of Captain Langley, to take
passage on board his magnificent lake
steamer, the Mississippi, for Buffalo.
The weather was very fine, and the
comforts of this floating palace made
ne feel very much at home. Leaving
Detroit at IL A. NJ, we were in Butfa-
10 at 4 o'clock next morning. Step
ping on board the lightning express
train Of the N. Y. Central Railroad, at
6 o'clock, ride Of three hundred
miles brought me to Albany at
o'clock, whence the steamer New
World landed me safely in New York
next morning. It is worthy OF re-
mark that, while the cars run full,
but comparatively few people travel
by water. The cars are crowded,
warm and dusty; while on board the
boats we have cool atmosphere, and
all the comforts Of first-class hotel.
New York is still New York. Law
lessness and violence, vice and crime,
stalk forth by night and by day, and
every year and month, even, this state
Of things grows worse. The city is
governed by foreigners, the dregs Of
all creation. With these facts before
us, the wonder is that the city is no
worse Of.
The all.absorbing topic in every
circle here, is the baby case,' OF
Mrs. Cunningham, the comic and ala;
gushing details Of wallpapers far and
the staple oppose the readers Of the
,nreIligenccr are already advised o.
the particulars, and l will not repea,
them. l doubt if the annals of crime
can show a parallel case to this. II
is the most serio-comico farce that
was ever played ;jyet with all the in.
genuity Of playwrights in adapting
local events to the stage, doubt their
ability to put this case into proper
dramatic shape, fit for representation,
with all its disgusting details-to
adapt this Frenchy drama of A. Oak
ey Halls to the American stagc-the
scene in Elm street, the apothecary in
bed, az the representative Of the Gal
ifornia widow" his pitiful meanings
in consequence Of the pains Of travail,
the fish basket, Mr.. Halls furniture,
the trunks, the mysterious yelled wo-
man in the cars, the shifting Of the
scene to 81 Bond street, the reception
Of the baby by Mrs. Cunningham, her
Joy thereat, her sudden illness, the
pains Of travail again repeated, the
two accouchers, Drs. Uhl and Catlin,
with their sleeves rolled up, the bus
tie in the house, the preparations to
receive the little stranger-the heir
the baby-clothes, the first squeak Of
liberty of the blessed baby" and
other details elected in the testimony,
too disgusting to appear in print
Well did city paper remark on Fri.
day:
1.-THE excitement consequent on the
astounding disclosures in regard to
Mrs. Cunningham's Bellevue baby has
seldom been PARALLEL in this excitable
city. The tragedy Of the earlier acts
has now been relieved BY situations
as purely comic as any that ever
brought q house down. The Spring
street apothecary personating par
turient widow, with night-cap, after
birth. and corresponding groans; while
the plotting woman receives the baby
in the District Attorneys fish-basket,
and the same lady's sanctimonious re.
marks to Dr.. Uhl, three hours later,
: have put my trust in the Lord, and
he has brought roe safely through
can hardly be surpassed"
The result of all this has been, how.
ever, the detection Of Mrs. Cunning
ham in the attempt to defraud the es-
tate Of the late DR.. Harvey Burdell,
by one Of the most daring and artful
plots that has ever come within our
observation and the evidence given
is SO strong against her that she can.
not escape punishment, though not to
the extent anticipated by the District
Attorney, owing to the fact that the
machinery was stopped and the i'm.
posture was exposed, before Mrs. Cum
ningham had presented the child, in
proper form and place, as the heir Of
DR.. Burdell.
In addition to the Cunningham farce,
the record of New York the last week
forms an array of wickedness that
ought to startlc any candid mind
First comes the murder at the Sea
View House, Navesink, on Saturday
LIST inst, by which the bar
lender of the house had his throat cut
n his room by the book-kceper. They
,ad been gambling during part Of
he night, and the former had won