New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-10


miles. containing 2,Gc0 miles Of streets fanked by
36o 900 inhabited houses with population Of 5000 600.
and assessed rental Of COO will never be too
healthy The positive facts about the approach OF the
cholera are simple enough. There be 10 question
thst the pestience IS prevailed terribly on the East
Of the Mediterranean, that it is travelling
rstward and has appeared ia the dest and easiest
part Of tho world" Sicily, and on the Adratc. On the
hand there arc indie tious that the vruence OF
the disease has spent itself. Llso the Summer has
passed its meridian and if the pest moves at its present
rate. shall not be troubled with 1t this Autumn.
Str The Unusual character OF the weather affords cause
FOR anxiety Like the lcsi, the present Summer is ex-
certiolaly wGrm-not ls hot as You have it in New
York. still very dece,tly sultry. May was hot, Jane
the hottest moush known sin ,e 1893 and July has at
taiI.d 10 in tho ehade Also have prophets writ
i1s TO the papers predicting altogether unparalleled
altitude Of sultiRess FOR August. Excessive heat
asserts one--he is ~ Z. a. j., whatever that may
be-"has added already to orr mortality to most
serious extent" and wsey advises people TO avoid
unnecessary e1eriion" Which they are generally en-
gagged in doing low in the country ald al the watering
places
For oar criminal topics DR.. Pritchard the poisoner
was hug tie other day at Glasgow, end most salts
faetorly so-f hemp is good FOR anybody. Since Pal
mer, the sporting" scoundrel. made away with
upward OF fourteen persons by the same detestable
secret agencies there has been murderer so cold
bloodeG and vilanous. The papers draw comparison
between the two: here is from The Glasgov Citizen
involving bit Of personal description, therefore worth
quoting:
'cThc psychological pecusrtes Of these miscreants
admit 81 parncl They had both good pSrsoHnd and
may ofthe greces that mark geuemani generous IN
civil aud social lfe aud hmable lad even beloved IN
private Pslnes face and features indicated no ie'
roety ond nothing abhorrcnt ever appeared until bis
di-cfo deeds disclosed. II Is the same with
ItcharC. lie has "a delicate complexion. pleasant ex-
preston ~ face and well chiseled features, WHICH, IL
d~Eu,led ~ his beard and whs.ers. would make MN
almost sonansh in aspect. His manner are gentle
! and pote lie seems ~ have been beloved at home
cohhded In by his wife, ard witness seid re was the
idol G. his mother. in-law. These soft manners and
sorlg virtues Of course disarned their victims OF al
1us fears; 80 much that, under the cover Oh
GOOD plulc and private reputation. Palmer and Pritch'
AID length Of time prac'oed their daDoncsl arts
without being Suspected. In These TO .ill'lns We
ace their entire sutgration TO grand master passion
% the ruse thes a aud utter degradation. Ihey
were both gross sensualis'c.'
! Nobody ptied Pri.chard the transparent falseness
and atrocous hypocrisy Of his successive confessions
II citing more disgust and suspicion OF deeper guilt
than he avowed. As witress on Ps'r''s trial az
serted &c war too civil by half" sctgsy grovcling
under condemnstoq and coupling IL An. shty and
the ordinary together in his confession. II proprie
tie- OF Madame Tussards wax'woEs ., ibis.on out
RACED public deeency by exhibiting bus. Of the mis-
cradle wretch In their Chamber of Horrors before
his execution.
While the absence OF all sympathy for Prtchard Is
inte bc enough finds Is lesseasy 20 understand
or OF cas, to jus,lfyhc pity, not only expressed but
really enter, aimed for Constance Kent TIE selfcon'
dcmned murdersss other unhappy little brother whose
L L Z ;,sot r.v
alton FOR lie. Tie amount Of morbid gushing done
by The papers and those who take their opinions OFT OF
them reflection. apropos Of this convict would be
extraordinary II We ddn'i remember the inevitable
lscinatlons possessed. for the vulgar. by mystery,
fcmini,y and crime when IN conjunction Assuming
that the girl wls sarc there was q more bar
barous revolving and cold booded atrocity committed
than tina. which ste perperated on sleeping child.
and her Hypothetical III usage being disavowed by her
own request, not even that miserable palaton remains
Yet tho public has drfted into wretched sentimental
impression that she Is rather a victim than otherwise
| In being treated ns a common criminal. This loose
weak condition Of feeling dwelling not in heart or
braIn but in the debateabIe land Of nerves tastes ard
proponsi,es moved entirely by impulse and without
settled basis in reason morals fact loving show or
seeming rather than reality is dead to the Infinite dis
|
its senses tckled by philanthropy In all proba
bty tho whole story OF the Road murder will now re-
main my,tery for ever. unless ns Is obviously as
serted Constance Kent ie produced written con-
fsson 1t is pretty certrin that the Government has
no intention Of instu,ng further Investigations One
result o, this secresy whether intentonalor accident
will probably BE- the removal Of the popular belief that
the Kent family has interest enough in high quarters to
shield themselves from publicity.
To have done with my criminal dispositions. the in
cue.t on the death Of the young Frenchwo,An. Mario
Bu6, has excited an interest isproportioned to Its
mporancc from the fact that the main parsonage in
the story is very well known in and about Pail Mall
The general opnion is that Mr. Mowatt has nobody to
blame except himself II gentlemen OF highly rcspecta
BILE sntecedens and mature age will become protectors
OF dirrcrutable and pretty Frenchwomen In Distress
nav for their lodgings gallant them about. and. when
thew die equivocaly, keep out Of tho way they can
hardly compain OF tho unchartabo suspicious OF Mrs.
Grundy II may bo all right but it does MT look Ike It,
There ia story Of Yankee clergyman, who. having
tooth extracted. was heard apostrophizng sacred
namo ycheinently Afterward he said he had been
uravpg, well, SIR" was the interrogators rctorf,
/" il sounded darned like swearing|
BEFORE the introduction Of the above items, ought,
perhaps TO have written Of topic Of much greater I'M
portauce namely, the departure Of tho Great Eastern
on her enterprise Of laying the Atlantic telegraph she
ia row out In md-ocean. some 300 miles from land,
steamins away at the modest rate OF three or four miles
ali hour and teleeraphing back notifications Oh the
famous mcssage-"Au right. DE SASTr'-to Renter
and Europe POSITIVELY tho fabulous DE Sanity is on
board her and the last lire Of DR.. Holiness Electro
Chemical Eclogue was prophetcD But by tho time you
get this the great experiment win DO either an accom-