The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-02-14
,THE DAILY DISPATCH:



Love Of she Herrfese. :,
,,t. ..n.r.,,, .nnno.ed that morbid spirit OF
c,rios,sy and love Of the horrible prevah on,
o,s. horse towns and 10 dIminutive villages 49,
people have plenty Of time to ransse' $50 .'.
ers hu.i,,,s and require some strong s""u'~'.
toL.., than alive. This, however sspu
,,;.,.t. ~ n true. as . generai ru'e, TUG nas0
.,,, - c,,h.u , resents An illustrious eAcep'ion'
TIA. r.on,. ~ ,h., great metropolis are Just re-
.-.,,,,r f.om the tremendous, overpowering de-
,,.,s-1.-,,.u,n,o of the late murder "in high lfe'
,rhau -. onv resting on their oars, however, TIL
- ..ra,onments aud when the criminals are
-.,~,.a :, the bar we shall see New York "a
Tia -.b emotion over this drama Of blood, % In
Tho lannon's cases of Colt, Helen Jewett and other
altar murdercrs--the stock performers In that hne
hing too numerous aud common to excite mucn
sensation. The splendid City Hal, Of New York,
m these grand occasions, becomes q judicial 20
liseur where the combats Of the legal gladiatoIs,
involving the issue of life and DEATH are witnessed
by countless spectators, who, though civilized
Americans are Just fond of the horrible as those
old Paraus. who Sc eraudest architectural monn-
men, IL An ,dfce erected for the contests OF men
and beasts and the mar. yrdom of Christians Inc
Roman love of blood how ever WAS relieved by osher
leontne traits of the grand and heroic kind, but as
much cannot be said for the appetite ihat gioa's
over a dish made up of such deeds, detais Ano
characters "A those connected with the las faSh'
;on.b,a murder in the Empire City. 1t ID ooserVa
b,e cha. a woman Ia alm ost always mixed up WIN
thesa oan,eel New York tragedie "a Helen Je"
oft. a female fispd of Colt; Mrs. Cunningham
.nd.he two Misses Cunningham. The zest ano
,,;ou.nov which these give to a frst-rate murder
..z...a,,.t,a The New York epicuTes Ike
their food little tainted, but they insist upon the
oona;r,en,s The y Y. Herald understood this
tsR.e and made the most of it in the famous case
of Richard r. Robinson. 1t converted an "nioi-
inmate dsmsel OF the pave Into an Aspasia, Lais,
aud set New York half mad over the meiancnoiy
fate of one who if represented only as one OF Inc
ordinary herd, might have died thousand Deaths
without elicitipg tear of sympathy.
Travelling lately in a Southern railroad 'rsin'
we were edited by the criticisms OF sundfy Ne"
York "drummers" upon the general appearance Oh
the country, and which wound up with the eompi~
cent and modest declaration that the section
through which we passed was about sixty years
behind the age. We are happy to believe toal in''
IA at least as true 10 relation to the railroad gaop
of crime as to the progress OF material oeVer p
nent IL we ara sixty years behind the New I ork
are in wealth we are at least sixty years 6enindt
In murders aud In a morbid taste for the horrible
There is vast deal of shame and tinsel in the so
oal life of our great cities and in their crimes
they know how to dress up very vulgar piece OF
rascality, SO as to make it appear to the best
advantage. In the South, we have neither
the art nor the disposition to produce grand the
atrical effect even when we possess materials Of
a gu Atty well adapted to the purpose.