The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-02-20
For the Gate City.
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New York CITY. Feb. Tth.

circles it transcends, in fearful uniqueness,
all the thrilling tragedies Of the kind land
they are countless) which have yet been
chroncled upon the records of our criminal
history and, ms the examination progresses,
the excitement seems to increase. Since the
murder of Adams BY Colt, and the horrible
affair Of the murder Of DIR. Pnrkman, there
has been nothing TO equal them until the de-
yelopment Of this terrible piece Of human
butchery, which surpassss them in curious
dramatic interest, and seems likely to go
down to posterity shrouded in gloom, with
its perpetrators undiscovered and UNPUBLISHED
by justice. Although the evidence thus far,
carefully analysed by the public, sets strong
viduals, now in custody, 1t may be quite
possible that those whom the public eve look
upon as the principals Of this tragedy, may
prove that their situations are only unfortu-
nate. But up to the present tipe the testi-
mony tends strongly against them.
The Developments made in the course of
the investigation by the coroner's inquest in
this case, and also in two or three others now
before the courts of this city, Though not
for murder, vet all originating from the same
source, that Of associatng and tampering
with strange women,) should prove an in
structive lesson to men of prudence and dis
erection, more especially to those who know
and can appreciate the value OF good char
acter. The Burdell case will afford us suff-
cient reasons for admonishing the prudence
of a precautionary policy. 10 the proceed
ings of the ccroner's court appear the names
of many respectable citizens, Of whose NOR
atty no one can have any reasonable doubt,
yet they are made to act a conspicuous part,
and TO figure there in conjunction with wo-
men of q spurious character, or, more prop
erly, no character at oil /; some of them men
of family, and, under the circumstances OF
the case, ii is difficult to imagine the chagrin
and humiliation it must cause them to figure
before the public in this drama in eoniunc-
ton with female clarivoyants, female keepers
of fashionable houses, female fun-overs, &c.
1t is not supposable that these men, by habit
or association are bound by any affection or
sympathy to those sort Of women alluded to,
but that it was this want of prudence and
discretion TO have been caught, in some way
or other accidentally, on the outside of the
circle in which these characters live, just at
time when it would have been fortunate
had they been figuring in difFeren. class
Unfortunate for them as il is, they have
been drawn invountarily by eddy into the
vortex.
New York is now suffering from one of her
annual foundations Of snow, mud, slush,
filth, and nastiness of such quality and guam
tity, that even Webster falls to give language
of sufficient expression TO do the subject JUS
tce. The ladies have taken to wearing high
boots to guard their feet from wet and their
lungs from consumption, and they may now
be seen daily trudging through slush and
STOP, elevating their hoops gracefully as if they
did not care how many people became aware
that they had the means Of locomotion; but
forgive me the use of the word gracefully, for
the elevation Of the greater part Of the hoops
make them look like the bottom Of huge bell.
at an angle Of forty-fve degrees, the more
beautiful the fit of the top Of the boot, the
greater the elevation of the hoops. They
are about as long, proportionally, as a mans
boot, but are made with degree Of neatness
which sets off a beautiful foot and q hand
seine formed ankle amazingly. This is GER
tainly the most sensible fashion to which the
dear creatures have Of late taken an affec-
ton. They are adopting the old sanitary
adage, ID literal exactness, excepting the
feet warm" with new, fashionable high-top
boots, and Sleeping the head (very) cool''
with the smallest gossamer kind of tiny
bonnet
The knowing ones say that we are soon to
have an easy money market, q general inHa-
ton Of banking facilities-a time OF great
speculation-an expansion of credit hereto
fore unknown, to be followed in the course
OF year or two by general stringency and
an universal bankruptcy. Two years OF
general prosperity will place our Young
state beyond the possibility Of such a ca
lamity.
! met to-day at the St. Nicholas, Gen.
Reid and Col. Curtis
The weather is quite warm, the air is soft
and spring like. Tomorrow NAV giyeus a
snow storm and the thermometer below zero.