The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-25
COLUMBIA.
Tuesday Morning, June rs. ls67.v
Increase OF Crime-Rnpid Demorali-
zntion.

LAtlOns
Newspaper editors have better op-
portunities of noting, as we'll in
morals as in politics, the movements
therein, whether progressive or retro
grade. They constantly receive the
records of passing events from every
quarter, their attention being more
naturally concentrated to passing
events in their own country. They
cannot, therefore, shut their eyes to
the appalling fact that crime, in all
its most hideous forms, is rapidly
increasing throughout the land, and
that unless the religious teachers are
moro Jealous in their commissioned
work, and the laws of the land more
strictly enforced and more rigidly
administered, society will become
totally demoralized, the foundations
of law and order violently torn up,
and the teachings of the Christian
religion utterly set at naught and its
divine principles superseded by
atheism, infidelity and anarchy. What
hope can there be for the country in
any respect, if this threatened doom
oyertakes her?
That we are not merely drawing on
imagination, or exaggerating the i'm
morality that is stalking through the
land, seemingly unchecked by. that
conseryator of the good order and
peace of society, the law, we give
some of the head lines under the
general caption of crime which we
find in few exchanges before us.
The following heads are from the
Chicago Tribune, but do not embrace
street brawls, murderous afrays,
burglaries, robberies, &C., which pre-
vail in that city:
A domestic woe-A husband disco
vers his wife in the arms of neigh
bor-The seducer severely beaten.
A fiendish act-A respectable girl
decoyed in boat on the lake and
outraged.
Divorces-Judgments against the
owners OF houses of ill-fame.
Shocking outrage-A young girl
violated by her lover.
Terrible infanticide-Babe stran-
gled and thrown into vault.
Probable murder-A mans skull
broken with q pick-axe.
A revolving outrage-Attempted
rape of child by an old man.
The story of woman's wrongs
Alleged adultery.
Serious stabbing affray.
And now we select Unfortunately:
Three dead infants were found in
an ash barrel standing in Laurens
street, New York, Tuesday night, by
the Eighth Ward police.
In a single number of the New
York lSun, we find the following
headings:
A Methodist minister poisons his
wife.
Inhumanity in Indiana-A girl
ten years of age tortured almost to
death.
Reported elopement of o. Metho-
dist minister with girl of sixteen.
Alleged outrage by conductor
A child thrown through car window.
This does not embrace the local
record of crimes and outrages, num-
bering some dozen or SO, in the same
issue. Indeed, were we to collect
and publish the crimes we find noted
in all our exchanges received in q
single day, our readers would stand
aghast at the fearful record. Not
only murders, burglaries and rob-
berries are of daily occurrence, but
the chronicles TEEN with outrages
against female virtue In some of
the largo cities, it is hardly possible
for female to go alone in the streets
without being insnlted. In Brook
lyn, recently, n girl returning homo
was dragged into graveyard and
outraged hy sixteen men. In New
York, a yoang lady's room, in IA
shionable street, was entered by the
window, and, while asleep, she was
stupeficd with chloroform and out
ragged. But it would be revolving to
!