The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-12-13
GLIMPSES OF GOTHAM.
NEW PORK ENJOYS a HANGING
MATCH.

mAxCn
i-E -Ecs
Rogers a Victim 10 a PanIc-How a
Criminal il Choked to Death In the
Nineteenth Century-Tho Future OF
tho Tribune-The vice-Presidene and
b Editorship-Failure OF "Afrioa"
stanley as q Lecturer-Mr. Frouae
and Mary Queen OF Scots, Again.
[sRoA DUB OWN CORRESPONDENCE
NEW YORK, December Z.
Society is feeling quite comfortable anu
happy over the hanging ofa rufian IN brook-
lyn yesterday. Society has been In a panic
because, owing to Its " maudlin cowardice,
the criminal classes have been riding rough
shod over everything lately. We are IN ut
OF virtuous Indignation, and the hrst muir
derer whose time was near had to suffer for
It., Had Scanned spared Donohue and King
confined his pistol practice to q sporting gal
lery, 1t is likely that Mr.. Rogers, who was
choked to death yesterday, would have sue
ceeded In getting q new trial. He might
have had satisfaction at the gallows, though,
in rejecting that by the sacrifice OF ns lie
those of the other thirty or forty odd assas-
sins In the New York and Kings County jailS
will be saved. We have hanged q man,
~ u o No4ON 0bo ~ ~ o.
over the poor dear murderer again.
As to the manner of the execution yesterday
It wss disgusting and horrible. The excuse
is made for the sheriff by q morning paper
that hsngfngs are 30 rare noW-a-days that we
cannot expect them to be done with neatness
and dispatch. But inexperienced as the OIL
clals were, 1t does not seem necessary that
the criminal should have been made to under
20 q long drawn out preliminary torture be-
fore he was put to death. 4 mot OF people
are allowed 70 surround him in the cell, and
wiring his hands aid weep wildly over him, and
eriDg voice, reads the warrant TOR execution.
Following him comes the executioner, who
straps the mans hands behind, decorates hs
head with q horrible black cap, and putting q
rope around his neck, adjusts the KNOT
carefully under the left, ear. Thus arrayea
aides, front rear, right and LETT, BY five priests,
Chanting the prayers for the dying. With
solemn measured tread the procession
marches over a long prison yard TO one cor
ner where q great crowd OF Especial deputy
sherinsn are gathered. Hats are dGned AND
all eyes are turned upon the central figure.
80 wonder that, under the accumulation of
these dreadful ceremonies, the pluck OF the
fellow gave way and he tainted at the foot OF
the ,gSllows. After he had revived and,
trembling in every limb, was put under the
drop, it was some minutes before the praying
and hand shaking was finished and ne was
hundred deaths before his neck was broken.
Poor Mr.. Greeley Is In his grave and the
world has. returned to business again. The
only tokens Of the recent mourning to be
seen are at the Tribune office, whose doors
and windows are still clothed With black.
fund proposed for their benefit, and 1t Is
probable that the publics anxiety 70 do some.
thing will take the shape of Q monument IN
Central Park. sfhere is already q considera.
BILE sum In the hands Of Mr.: Dana, OF the Sun,
raised some months ago for a statue OF Mr..
Greeley In Printing House Square. A bronze
bune ONCE, (Mr. Greeley, presided at Its un-
Yelling and It was proposed to put "Our
later franklin at the other end In front of
the new Stats Zeltung building.
There Is a'g5od deal OF speculation among
newspaper men about the future Of the Tri-
he is gone, 1t seems to have almost lost its
individuality. Whitelaw Reid is a clever
young 1~0urnaltst, but he is not ''heavy guns
enough to keep up the old reputation OF the
paper. January Is fcOmiDg on, when the coun-
srysnnual subscriptions are usually renewed,
and what have the Tribune stockholders to
Offer their rural patrons In return for having
abandoned the Republican party? ills q seri-
ous business question:.
The rumoris that the Tribune Will go back
TO the party. There Is no field for 1t outside,
unless 1t wants to try the experiment OF being
Herald. The Liberal Republican party can
hardlyb said to have an existence. It GER
tainly is not numerous enough to support an
oroan of the magnitude Of the Tribune. The
World ID the Democratic organ, and cannot
well be displaced BY 8 new conner. Tne re-
port Ii, I repeat that the Tribune Will have to
makets peace with the party II attempted 10
wards that end q man Of distinction. whose
Radicalism is orthodox, viii be put at the head
OF its affairs. Rumor revlves the name 81 VICE
President Coltax in this connection, and l also
hear those Of General Hawley, of the Hartford
Coprant, and Rev. Henry Ward Beecher men,
Tho nomination of Colonel James l.. Orr, OF
South Carolina, as minister to Russia by the
President, prov0keB comment from the New
York papers. They generally speak favor
ably Of him, and the Sunday News, after re-
viewing his public career: pr0nonnoes MN 10
not credited with transcendant abilities, but
with what is b~etter-being one of fortunes
favorlteH. q
I-PerhAps you will remember the doubts I
expressed In tof these letters OF the pecu-
MARY success Of Stanley the Herald reporter,
cafve@byth the fuse. made over Stanley In Eng
land and duly exaggerated BY the Herald
here,made the preposterous offer TO him Of
an engagement for one hundred nights at five
hundred dolars per night. There Is really
nothing In Stanley to attract q crowd after
you have read the Herald's very full report OF
Ills travels In Africa. So, 1t seems, the public
thought; for last evening, when the third
lecture Of his course was to come of at Stein
Nay Hall, the doors were not opened. About
twenty people holding season tickets were
ciamoring for admission, and were Informed
that Mr. Stanley would not lecture any more, |
as the former lectures had not paid expenses.
Here Is q chance now for the Herald to fill the
vacancy made In its Cuban expedition by the
ignominious retreat Of its late special CORES
pondent,E Henderson. Stanley Is the man to
beardthe Spanish Hon In his den.
Mr.. Meline, the chiyalrous champion of that
much abused woman, the late Qneen OF Scots.
f4se.at Nj. Froude with two more columns OF
anlid brewer, this morDing. / thlnksit is In
oneaof smollett'sE novels that two serving
men, q Scot and an Engllsbman, wax go warm
In Q dispute over the character of the long
defnnct Queen, that they strip and pummel
each other soundly. There Is danger that