The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-01-24


Gme of the II Dads 10 CriMe.
One of the surest methods of making
criminals, says they N. y. Times, is to de-
grade labor and to pay undue respect to
wealth. Men will run many risks to gain a
position in society. The recent disclosures
in the cases of Huntington, Tuckerman, aud
other similar delinquents in this country; Of
Sadlier, Robson, Redpath, and others in
England and France, prove that the desire to
appear well in society, TO be ranked among
the happy few who live without labor and
indulge in the elegancies OF life, is one Of
the strongest incentives to crime. And it
must be noticed, for the fact is painfully ev-
ident, that the false spirit of aristocracy
which revcrences mere wealth and scorns
| honest labor, is becoming alnrmingly preva-
/ lent amongn 1t is time that the Press and
the Pulpit, and every other instrument Of
modifying opinion, and producing moral
/ effect, we're employed in checking the grow
ing evil in question. Ii is especially the du-
" of parents to instill into the minds Of their
children just ideas Of the true dignity Of la
bear, and the wortnfgssusss Of wUre ux-
trinsic show; for the child that has been
taught TO regard wealth as the standard of
excellence, and honest labor as degrading,
will run narrow risk Of ending his on the
! gallows or in the cells of prison. A few
nights since little child of some ten years,
who should have been as guileless and inno-
cent rs q cherub, on being requested to dance
with another child Of her own age, shrugged
up her shoulders, and, in her childish way,
positively refused. On being asked why she
I hcsitated, she said she couldn't dance with
the other little girl because her father was
1 captain Of a steamboat. OF course the little
creature was taught to regard the captain Of
n steamboat with disdain, and probably to
] look upon the Chi drcn of all mechanics as
! below her, or she would no. have dreamed Of
making such an excuse. Ii would require
no gift Of prophecy to foresee what must be
/ the inevitable termination of life which
IL commenced with such false ideas OF what
should constitute true claims to honor and
respect.
i The WANDERING jew IN NEW NoRE.-A
sensation was created in William street, on
Tuesday morning, by the appearance Of a man
on the pave with long floating beard, and
4 dressed in loose pantaloons, with turban on
| his head. lie carried in his hand little man
uscript Hebrew book. out Of which he read
to the crowd that gathered around him. He
represented himself as the veritable Wan
dering jew. Nobody knows who he is, or
where he'came from. A learned Jewish Rab-
bi was sent for to converse with him, which
they did in the Hebrew language, and the
stranger was found to be perfect in his
knowledge Of that most dilsicul. tongue
The Rabbi tested him in the Arabic, in Phe-
nician, and in the Sanscrit, but soon found
that the aged stranger far surpassed him in
his knowledge Of them all. The Rabbi in
vited him TO his house; but, said the stranger,
'sNay, | cannot stop. The Crucifed One OF
Calvary has pronounced the edict, and may
not rest. | must move on--ever on!" lie
was last seen on Thursday, but rs to where
he has departed no one can tell.
TnK NoaMa~s.-Raiph Waldo Emerson,
in speaking Of these early settlers Of Eng
land, says Tho Normans came out OF
France into England worse men than they
went into il, one hundred and sixty years be-
fore. They had lost their own language,
and learned the Romance or barbarous latin
Of the Gauls; and had acquired with the
language, all the vices it had names for
The conquest has acquired in the Chronicle
the name Of the 'Memory Of sorrow."-
Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings.
These founders OF the House Of Lords were
greedy and ferocious dragons, sons Of greedy
and ferocious pirates. They were VII alike
they took everything they could carry they
burned, violated, tortured, and killed. until
everything English was brought to the verge
Of ruin. Such, however, is the illusion oil
Antiquity and wealth, that decent and digni.
Fed men, now existing, boast their dsscen,
from these filthy thieves, who showed fal
greater conviction OF their own merits, By
, assuming for their types the swine, goat
jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they
scvc.eily represented
succEsrioS TO THE AsAroxisrs.--con
siering the late prevalence of garroting--
! which consists, as our readers oil know, in
drawing n handkerchief tight around the vic
,, TINS neck, while you plumber him--would i
not be we'll TO exchange the name from tn,
"carrotid" to the garroted artery.
CT-Extensiye preparations are making n
Washington for the inauguration Of til,
: President elect. A committee Of arrange
; mcnss, consisting Of twenty gentlemen, hav,
: the matter in charge.
ET'The Hon. Joseph X. Chandler 10 de-
voting his accomplished and powerful pen t.
the cause OF American literature. lie ha,
recently predacsd deeply interesting story
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