The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-27
NE wy KHS MS.
From Our Orpn Correspondent


NEW YORK, May 81, 1862
Wrecks, explosions, fires MURDERS suicides,
assauts-drowning, run-overs sudden deaths
robberies, defalcations, fraudulent transfers
behold the aspect of the kaleidoscope at
present. Writers like Don Patt who have
been reeking in Washington for indefinite
terms, come here and call the city Sodom. They
are not complimentary, and they do not speak the
entire truth We are not quite so bad as the cities
Of the plain, and with all our wckedness we have
enough Lots to redeem us. But we are quite bad
enough. Counting all New York as our neghbor,
the notes in that neighbor's eye are exceedingly
many. Any statistician wishing to gather criminal
data will not often have a better chance here than
he has now. The hands of coroner, Judge, jury,
detective, and police reporter are full. The pri-
soners' box teens; the courts OVERFLOW the prisons
reek. The feeble VidOcqs of Mulberry street are
''working up themselves more than they are capa-
BILE of working up the cases intrusted to them If
anybody would be so good as to invent new crime
thrilling blOod-curdling and yet altogether unpre
cedented-readers of morning papers would feel
thankful Anything but this plethora of old sensation.
In 'muggy" weather the Decalogue is not extensive
enough and the eXcitement-yearning reader yainly
wishes that there were more commandments to
break.
In the first, place "Brckbat Jimmy" notorious
rutiian OF the Fourth ward and member Of ''Reddy
the Backsmiths" gang, has been arrested after as
saulting an officer Chatham street, and seriously
damaging his scalp in tomahawkish manner. In
the next place. the police Douglass has been bearded
in his very hail. Commissioner Brennan's private
offce, at police headquarters has been broken into
and robbed and the thief has escaped. Next, Ger
| man sailor, armed with Japanese clasp-knife one
foot,long, made murderous attack upon his condd-
ing boarding house keeper, and the only alleged
was long continuance Of unmitigated hash New
| York hash, like Indian hasheesh seems to
| drive the eaters of it mad Then, in
! sne of the suburbs, young man named
| Starr shoots himself four times before he accom-
plishes the feat OF sucide-that evolution upon the
| hyng trapeze of death which lands one upon the
| pedestal Of eternity! Then cOrOners jury hands
| in verdict to the effect that Alexander Lppman
was billeted to death by persons unknown. Next
two men named Byrnes and Bradley are stabbed
both dangerously, and mortally, by three Spanish
sailors incoming about after midnight. Next, long
| standing feud between John Purcell and William
Herman is terminated by the latter being shot dead
by Purcell in Sheriff street. AS a piquant finale,
two boys quarrel over a game Of marbles, and one
of them stabs the other dangerously with penknife
Remember that most OF these occur within
twenty-fOur hours of each other; and add to them
the destruction of life by recent wrecks, fires, eXpo
sions (all occurring in and around New York
within the last two days., and the amount of
remorse agony, shame, and distress Of
every kind entailed by the numerous cases OF dealca
ton, robbery and casualty all occurring within a
| similar length OF time, and you will have revolving
| picture Of metropolitan suffering and sin.
The loss OF the steamer NOfWalk III East rlVer the
| explosion Of the steam-ug William Parks and injury
of three Of her men, the running down and sinking
Of the Austrian ship the Fglia Maggiore, the fire al
Bulls Ferry, in which one hundred thousand dollars
worth of property was lost the fire at Mr.. Whitneys
livery stables, in Brooklyn, occasoning the loss OF
seyenty-dve thousand dollars in carriages and yeoc
pedes: the Hunters Point petroleum fire. on the
premises OF the Devoe Manufacturing Company
Fulton street in which hundreds of thou
sands OF dollars worth of property
were sacrificed; the vctimization Of
the president of the Greenwich Savings Bank to the
tune of thrtydve thousand dollars; the posthumoui
defalcation TO the amount OF two hundred Thousand
dollars Of the late William Rushmore, president o.
the Atlantic Bank (BroOkyn; and the aoscondlng o.
Scott ana Munson, Wall street brokers, with Sixty
FIVE thousand dollars in Illegal gains-these com