, 1860-06-06
Fashionable RurglaF8.

4 hundred ysa1a ago and more, men Of good;
birth AID fashionabls habita did not think It be:
neath their dignity to stop travellers on Houns-
low heath, near London, and relieve THEM Of
their money and valusbles Some prided them.
selves IN always maintaining The character Of
gentlemen ia these little nsactions AID being
particularly gallant and chisarous to the ladies
whom 1hsy csptured. By degrees The excite
ment Of this style Of life became sort Of ne
cessl1y to e1latenee; the money vent as fast as
their days detected and on the ga'lsws. Tho
young New Yorkers Of fashion SEED n be fol-
lowing house brs AkiDg, bank robbing ukd othe1l
manly sports" with the tame sort Of relish
and avidity. In the New York Hospital, a man
recently died, o! whom we gave an account
story window Of a Pearl street house, which he,
in connection with young Polander, WAS en-
gagged in robbing. The deceased gave his name
Charles Murphy, but be was IN truth the hroth.
er OF vel! known broker and hauk director Of
that city, had Joung and interesting vi9c,
whose daily u its to the tospit.! have attracted
much attention, a1d although the real names
have been kept out Of the public papers, tbcy
are, We presume. not unknown II muuy co1;
nected with the New York editotial dc part1nent
Slnca the time when Schuyler was ecnrered
forging railway securities. and Robinson torg.
like thoe Of Lane have showed that New York
cxtrayagauce und dissipation Was not kept up
without plentiful supply Of fraud Bat the
tsate for burglary is, We presume, only Just be-
ginning to be developed. Or was it thst there
we're burglars at burglary, and snade more Than
proper NOISE, or hAd not properly male their
arraugemeats wi.h the police. and 80 infringing
upon regular and established lines Of business
without pa.ipg their footing, were 50 terce!y
driven into q corner. In one re.pect this Cnai,
Murphy. the hatk directors brother, showed
some spirit. Lis leap Vas memorable one
thirty teet at stretcn, on to the pesked root Of
house, with twenty foot tumble afterwards,
rolling lin into jrlt j. This was not bad for
beginner, a1d would have maze a sort Of hero
Of him in New York had be escaped with his
life.
For robbery, murder, s~indling. gambling,
aud defaication, New York is becoming unhap-
PLY notorious. Its primary elections are con-
By one set Of rogues, collected by another, ani
what tIenaius Of them tquandered by third.
1ts municipal officers are scandals. Side by
side with i,a most fashionable hotels ere gamb.
lag rooms, and back OF them houses Of the
most Infamous and dangerous description. Filth
uccumutates, and disease and death double uppu
other cities like our own.
Up town, In many fashionable house, VITO
pines in splendid neglect, because her husband
is squandering III time mud means in The most
infamous acd vulgar modes OF vice, or rPp'en-
ishing his purse by bank robb-ry or housebreak-
.4uk. y 4A!HA VI q Jt4uk niu Athstf eNQCdk-
cd and refined, having TO leave the infant Of her
breast, to follow husband. thus wounded to
the New York Hospital, drawing down her veil
and Disgusting her figure and her voice, for fear
OF recognition, Is sad fate. Tee beauty Of
the ba'I room last season, becomes bu1g;ar's
bride and q wieowt Such are some Of the
mysteries and niseriesof tue light and shadows
Of New York life just now. No wonder some
families prefer brooklyn, or Pniladelphi4.
Where sudden wealth and squailed poverty live
side by side go closely, crimes like these. and
then peep out The grand moral OF such facts
should he, that no wealsh, and no connections,
and no manners. should blind ra as to cha1ac-
ter. Letparents think, md let every girl be
taught 10 think and know, thu: her future hap
pipeas depends more on the real undisgnised
character Of the Ian to whom she gives her
hen1t and hand, thnn upon all other Things on
earth like e+lth, connections, or fashionable
manners.-Paia felphia L-dg-r.