New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-25

rood LsicSbgrhOcds, edcE mSc ALoSiiS 80 '~''
his sntecedents, and his probable tendencies io'
good or evil, the difficulty Of governing increases 70
such o. extent that the problem usuues serious
sirr ifcsnce. We are moved TO make these remarks
By observing the growing brutality Of rutans IN
every part OF the country and the shocking otcia'
expose of our police Superintendent Take LOT
exsm pie TIE telegrapLc reports OF Wednesday
In Baltimore, as We thence learn, there was q
brutal, nuIderous assault worthy the feeJee
Islands; no words, indeed berg competent to e1-
sceerste lie nfany, and every man in it deserving
the halter A steamer left the to IN, feighted
with large company for camp meeting on
Choptark River. Apropcs CT nothing. bands OF
row6ies aboard, organized under different NAMES,
began an indiscr;minate assault upon men and
womer, knocking them down in every direction
clubbing and stabbng the n as at an infern. carni-
val. The Lights we're blown out to perfect the de-
sicp, and robberies were numerous; while one
ran was stabbed, and his wife violsted before his
eyes, In Heavens name, what are We coming to-
Where are laws where the guardians of justice
Where puDie anl pi;sa!e security; when
such things take place, not 10 Ic!!es and caVerns'
but on a crowded steamboat, and steamboat upon
such misunderstanding Christians in so-clled
Christian community to place Of worship 1t
adds nothing to the supreme shame and villainy Of
the recital to cay that one man is reported to have
died of his wounds received on the occasion.
Philadelphia, too, on the same day, was equally
sgnalized. During an excursion of certain Sun
day School to Tacony, with Rife Company, the
party was attacked BY some Of the most diabocal
rovdiss who have ever cheated hemp of its due.
The telegraph does not tell US that the Sunday.
Schools carried the Church-Mitan. with them ;
but considering the rampant savagery of the attack
they were simply wise in so doing. Some twenty
persons were stabbed and otherwise wounded; and
the riot was resumed upon the return Of the parties
to town.
Now, lie. US come to New-York and take the
quarterly return of Deputy Superintendent Car
penter as text During the quarter ending July
81, there were -, 262 arrests. Crime and viO-
ence are thus shown to be on the Increase. At
this rate taking the quarters return as an average
for the year. there would be II 0i5 arrests in New
York in twelve months. In France, in the fash
ouable streets, every well dressed tenth man is
decorated; ard all over the Empire, more than
every tenth man lives at the public expense. In
Ncw.York, as an Offset for fine streets and shops
We have the heroic satisfaction of knowing that
every tenth person in the community is arrested for
murder, rape, arson, theft, violence, drunkenness
or breach of law or decency Of some sort And
this is the residuum Of our civilization This the
last hope Of democracy. This the ecstacy of lilo.
eIty, perched on Our proud metropolis, command
ing worlds wealth, growing as city never grew
before, prophesying grandeurs such as history has
not recorded. AS the sum of iniquiy is con-
stsnIly swelling here, what are We to expect! Al
the rate we are now proceeding it would take but
few J ears to make all the men (and most of the
women not in the Police Department the subjects
of arrest some time in the course of the year.
This is not byberbole 1t is fierce fact
OF this morbid and terrible list it is hardly ne
cessary to cay that the overwhelming majority are
Irisb. Victims Of the ever present corner gro
Gerry, or the grOe-shop in some form, of which
alcoholic bels there 1000 on this little island,
the poor misguided men of Ireland, so figure in the
catalogue of violence and shame Dupes of poll
ticians, who cry rum freetrade and slavery, their
pockets ere emptied while their health is under.
mined and destroyed their wages reduced or cut
of, and their status as laboring-men degraded by
the fact that millions of labOrers are bought and
sold in this sO-called democratic country.
All who do not prefer party success to the safety
Of society; who would sooner not triumph on
election day than see the city and country prosper
under the shield of immortality; and who do believe
" that righteousness exslteth nation, llgive
heed to these facts