LIFE IN AMERICA.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 234, 10 March 1875, Page 3

LIFE IN AMERICA.

(From the Australasian.) An extraordinary picture of life in a civilised community is afforded by the summary of American news received by the mail, one which it would be hardly possible to match in another age or country. We are told of live mounted and armed men stopping an express train, and robbing it of 27,000 dols, and of a lawyer shot and killed in the streets of San Francisco by a lady client, who thought that he was somewhat dilatory with her law business, and took this means of remonstrating with him for his slowness. We next read of a mob of 150 men breaking open a gaol, and taking out and lynching a murderer, his wife clinging to him till forced away by the lynchers. A superintendent of coal mines, while making a tour of inspection, was shot and fatally wounded. It is discovered that asystematic course of robbery has been pursued by the officials of a Board of Health and ‘ ‘Boss Tweed, ” the great master of all of the tricks of municipal corruption, being tired of gaol, gives public notice of his intention of escaping at the earliest opportunity. The editor of a New Orleans paper attacked Governor Warmotte, of Louisiana, not in the columns of his journal, but in the street with a large stick. The Governor retorted with a knife, and was successful in killing his assailant. It does, indeed, appear that he was subjected to the formality of a police investigation, but was discharged, and the case remains a warning to editors not to lightly assail persons in authority In Missouri, an old and wealthy citizen, named Spratt, was shot by a Mr Brown, and Brown in his turn was wounded by the son of deceased Spratt. The feud was an old one, and will now go on with additional vigor. That such feuds are institutions in the country is shown by the account of a vendetta between two families in Illinois. Nine meii were killed in consequence of this difficulty last year, “ and all who express an opinion on either sidb are doomed. ” The consequence is that the offi cers of justice passively look on, and the “whole community is terrified into silence.” Passing over many other cases of violence and murder we note an item that an effort is being made to procure a pardon for Stokes, who was unfortunate enough to murder Colonel James Fisk some short time ago. Really there is much to be said in favor of the movement, and in a country where murders are committed with such frequency and impunity, it seems rather invidious to deal severely with a single offender. From all this, it is evident that life in America is not deficient in incident, and that it is far from moving on a dull level of unvarying monotony.