Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-12-15
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New YORK, Dec. s. 1868.

Esl 80 NEW YORK, Dec. 8, 1865.
I always thought that New York
could -holdrup its head with any city in
the land in the cool atrocity of its hom-
icides. We have been rather disposed
to plume ourselves on our "Burdell
Murder" of several years ago and the
taking off by cutting up, of Mr.. Larkin
last week, we were pleased to look upon
as rather pretty job I; but / find, that
after all, we shall be obliged to recon-
slider our pretensions and probably
award the @Grand National Prize for
Eccentric Homicide" to the village of
Boston, in the town of Massachusetts.
When Tread, this morning. of "a Charles
town or Boston gentleman, who had in
duced his. .brother-in-law to bow his face
oyera meat block and then had amiably
chopped his head off with cleaver, L
felt that for once, the Empire City had
been excelled, beaten at her own little
game, and that henceforth, in the mat
ter of murder, we must stand second so
Boston town. i sil. De
Il donot. think however that the Met
ropolitan pride of our roughs will per-
init them to rest quietly under the de-
feat-they will doubtless speedily set
their invention at work. and perfect
Homicide will be the result. fully ex-
pect, not to say, hope, before this year
is done, and Eighteen Sixty Nine draws
upon us, to hear that same enterprising
New York Amateur in killing, has
hashed some popular gentleman into the
seasonable Mince Pie of the period, or
has blown him up with blasting pow
der; or has given him dose of half
pound of Nitro Glicerine, exploded him
bya "punch in the snoot," and SO scat
tered his mangled remains all over the
adjoining State of Jersey. EEI85
sBoston-look out for your bloody
laursls.- ;.n - 80 - ~
In the matter of our amusements, I
am happy to be able to record such
decided improvement in quality as
would seem to argue decided progress
in the public taste. sincerely trust,
and believe too, that we have honest
grounds Of hope,that the "Black Crooks"
and the "White Fawns" have seen their
day and have departed this life
OF course it is possible that some
thing of this sort may be again at
tempted in our city, but I do not, think
our public taste win even requires or
even tolerate, spectacle quite SO gross
as some of the scenes introduced in the
"Black Crook" Fr 4
Certain it is that just at present we
are having something in the dramatic
way that is really worth going to see,
and worth staying to hear after you have
passed the portals Of the house. q ~
As the New York Theater we have
lady, from England, bearing a most
illustrous name, and whose coming was
heralded by q series of extravgantly
laudatory articles in the London papers,
while Americans are, / honestly think,
always willing to give any and every
artist fair trial, and to render a verdict
upon the true merits Of the case, they
don't like to hayea straggler thrust down
their critical throats by the, force of
newspapers puffs, even when backed by
the shadow Of an ancient and everywhere
honest name. siena r's
Mrs Scott Siddons came to New
York, having been SO besiayered with
premature praise by the injudicions pnb-
iication of over-the-water puffs that
her career was made harder for her
than it otherwise would have been by
the yery rational disinclination of Amer
leans to have their own individual judg-
ment lforestalled. To add to her EN-
barrassments, her agent committed the
fearful mistake of subjecting her to a
"silYer teapot" presentation in Boston,
in public on the stage.
However, Mrs. Scott Siddons has
been PLAYING for week with very fair
success. - She has enacted "Jnliet, y
..Rosalinds in eAs You Like It," and
she has also done Lady Teazle" in
"School for Scandal" have no in
tention or desire to critieise her per-
formance-I only wish to place on rec.
ord the fact that the most crowded and
fashionable audiences ever collected
within the walls of the New York The
ater have assembled every night to see
Mrs. Scott Siddons in the heroines Of
the old Shakespearean and Legitimate
drama. sssI
And this is good sign.
To-day also Mr.. Lester Wallack, an
nounces that on Monday, Dec. 14th, he
wiliproduce at his theater Shakespeare