New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-07

=" M3 re way fOr monsieur sad a EOlclef at tie
c-ecuton of Damen at Paris; "he is an English
man aud an amateur The snateur was a pc
son DO less witty and wise than George SelwyO,
who had gone over specially for the great occa'O'.
He bad fondpess for hanged people and fof
bousebreaters, end everybody will remember
Horace Walpoe's message: "My compliments to
Mr.. Selwyn, and have a housebreaker for BIN"
Dut the great wit of the London Clubs lived
a century too early. We take tie liber.y Of pre-
sumirg ii at bis peDchsDt was not so much for the
suffering as for the sin Of the criminal ard that he
thought great deal more of the cause than Of the
effect. How delightful, then, would have been
Mr.. George Sewyn's position in New. York. as
tbe farmers Almanac says, "abOut-tbis-
time" Could progDostical chronicle be
considered possible: we might imagine him gloat-
ing in tbe dog days over vaticnat;ons like these:
Expect-twO-bloOdy- muIders-aboIt -itis-
time!' "LoOk- acknowledgement, -
rapes" babies-may- now-te-a1tc.
ipa'ed" Depend upon it, Mr.. George should have
had his ST. mach full We should not have failed
to please him. For it is crime crime crime evl y
where! Burglary is chronic; the shooting has
become stole; mobs are mere nothings; murders
ate sources of melrilneut; larce1ies are levh'es,
ard pv' soDings are productive of puns; while any
rev rastiness will sell the newspapers. when
"wiR New.YoIk be finished" is COMMON ques.
lion. A'as that it should be perfect i'll horrors
before it IS perfect in houses
TIE truth is that we have travelled the whole
circle; boxed tie compass, if We Tay say so of
shame aud of sin There is MOI, we suppo-e, Sn-
Gle law upon the statute book which has not been
violated within the last year. Murder, arson, rape,
grand larceny, petty larceny, highway robbery,
seduction adu;efy addiction, forgery, dedication,
ob;snng goods under Ease prete ises-thefe are
common crimes. Aud now We are having tls1
of uncommon ones Mrs. CuuDipgbam's srppoj'-
fiioys child gives a rounded beauty to our C. -min'
c. cedar. Her new ofeose is rare one, made rare
By lis AZURE; for the most difficult assassina, Oh is
e.sy IN comparison with the succe ;s'oi inlro-
duci:on OF a talse heir. But we have scared
TO the CLIMAX Of ciimiue'lty at iast-the
attempt to cheat dead and gone into his grave
the grand Iasc3lity which REACHES beyond the
tomb, and seeks to make miserable moldering
corpse the resusc tated and revived accompice Of
rps;ice. shameless woman, casting fcc,A
upon TIE sacred responsibility OF re; eek, deferred
by none of those gentle emotions which have been
considered Inherent in the female bosom STIMULATES,
vr the sake of few paltry dollars, the thrOes Of
maternity aud clasps to her botelh as her own the
offspring of another And more ard worse. She
fpds not one, not two, not three, but many, who
are ready to aid her in the wretched cheat. Trere
is no swirde which any one of either sex Can de5te
or propose in this City, in which he or she may not
6ud assistants. All the Burjell affairs, considered
inclusyely show that there afe little eotsries Of
crime. societies of sin, bad men aud Bad women
ready at any time to be enlisted in any fraudulent
or felonious enterprise.
To this same favor, then have we come at last
Much money has rot brought us morally; pros.
perjty has lei. US bs,fen of pine pc; abInda,t
ca.h his been foord compat be with little con
see zee. And DOW where is this epiden;c OF
wrong. doing to stop' VINO OF us is SAFE Al of
rs ale cast into the whirlpool Of acquisition. We
shuu it with philosophical tipidity; We lipger,
prompted by Thousand generous motives upon ils
edge; we ask all tie gods aud 81! the de,tnieI to
rave us from It's turbid and noisome wa.ers-but
down we 20 at last Aud he who ventures f.
point olt the danger-to hint that all is not as it
should be in IBIS whiting and wretched mob-to
beg not reconstl uction Of society but some little
thought Of its follies, seductons, fallacies aud
decorations lie generally told for his pains that Re is
an infdel, end that public wro igs admit of but two
reuedes-tte State prison and the galows Ye,y
coed. Let US go en- yet little longer Let us
see how far War, Murder, Avarice, Slavery, Iu-
temperance and Lust will cary ~! Up from the
great depths of our degradation We may come
pdreed e, by fire.
Bu, alas for the present, ere that blessed time
Las cone, az come it will Which Of us, We have
asked, issarel We pass By, with the exquisite gu.
pc cliousness of the Phal see, the hsrdcufed and
hsrg de eyed detected marching to bis cell end his
bread and wafer, but even then there may be a
busy devil at our ear, whispering of that fret step
which it is the sweetest aud yet the hardest to take
Nobody knows what particular devd may sssaiI
him. Money, position, fame, pretty face, envy,