The New-York Tribune Newspaper, January 30, 1867, Page 4

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The base is Nickel , upoR ver of such thickness that they possess all in_uillity, and from besuty of design and ble from it. ompany refer with confidence to the high jon they bLave ed in the production of SOLLD SILYER ARK, in which ther Lt for many years engaged, andl they now sasure the public that they will fully sustain’ that_reputation by the pro- daction of ELxcTRO-PLATED Wakks of such quality and extreme durs- ility s will insore eutire satisfuction to the purchaser. All articles wade by them are stawmped thus GoBEAMMIG,, And oll such are fully guarantoed. They feel it neceasary particularly to eall the sttention of pu: 18 to the sbove trade-mark, as their designs v exte se goods can ouly be pro- onsii commtry SURGICAL LECT pwarp H. Dixox, M. 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For Cirealar s, apply ta Lflm-, Agent, No. 119 Broadw: Hawkisoy Boitxw Won) Tug Wrepmawkex Ferey Co, Ixpict Grand Jury of Hudson County, New-Jersey, an indictment agaivst the Weehawken Ferry Company. on thie ground “ that it only runs one Loat, which being old and rotten endangers the Uves of passengers; thut eheep and hogs are turned into the ladies eabin, besides . having Iits walls covered with indecent carricatures and _writing, s used as a smoking room, and that rain pours through the roof as if it was a sleve.” The -b:m&m e xpress the TOHOnNess AN 088 bty ff.fi" ,h’::;. bont of the Weehnwken &)mny. the “airty Lydin,” as shé 15 Tamiliarly termed by the sufter. bliged to tako passage ARf Brsons who e obUKS Iy Tvdia - haa ladies eabin, but e nwerons quadrapeds that travel over this line make no distinction he: 'wu-- ;.he Sexey :‘I’.n;hl.l;xalll:; Cclata eabins at will, oo “’i":‘z' n'&.. of them are besweared covered with rude and obscene cartica- would ce the vilest den of iniguity. The &s“" M‘a‘xfiwflwp with dirt somewhat resem- “ "With a weak, rickety engine, travel is : i thing of the e i ouliged. 1o eiauntar. O Charon Ssoll would have res) tw-mm it he hind been “eompelied to n such a-craft. e — - Cinourr COURT CALENDAR—The following is the m‘"“"x y Ciréult: Court for toflay, 15 ¥y @, u‘.uh.m.ui‘",'m'.' , 14,15, 23, 9, 92, et Jor Puily Erbrene WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 80, 1867. IR Dpes i ZERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. Dary TriBUNE, Mail Subseribers, $10 per annum. SEau-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, Mail Subscribers, $4 per an. WegKLY TRIBUNE, Mail Subscribers, $2 per annum. Advertising Rates. DALy TRIBUNE, 20 cents per line.' SeEMI-WEEKLY TBIBUNE, 25 cents per line. ‘WEEKLY TRIBUNE, $1 50 per line. Terms, cash in advanco. Address, Tue Trimsune, New-York. 70 CORRESPONDANTS. No notice can be taken of Anonymous Communications. Whaterer 14 Intended for insertion mus be authenticated by tho name and address of the writar—not necossarily for publication, bub & & gusraaty for bis good falth. AUl business letters for this offce sbould be addroased le ' Tan Tain- uwn,” Now-York We cannot updartake to retars rejocted Communloations. @ A Letter from otlr Special Correspondent at Boston, an Abstract of the rt ?ejlr..f Ross Browne to the Secretary of the Treasury, Meeting of the Board_of Supervisors, Report Dr. arrfb of Mar Bu{eaupzn ital Statistics, City ‘and_New-Jersey News, the Civil'Court Re- ports, and the Commercial News, aj r on the second page. The Markets will be ;ound on the third o. The Oriminal Court Reports, Long Islan ews, and Shipping Intelligence, are on the seventh page. It 1s reported that in Constantinople a war between Russia and Turkey i8 regarded as im- minent. The Turkish Government has called out 150,000 reserves, and Russia has ordered that all military furloughs shall end on the 1st of March. As a general rule, it is well not to rely too much on the Cable dispatches; but a war between Turkey and Russia is undoubt- edly much more probable than the suppression of the movement in Crete. The Cretan insurrection is not at an end, as a dispatch emanating from the Turkish Gov- ernment—which we discredited at the time— announced a few days ago. We are, on the contrary, informed by a Cable dispatch in this morning's issue that the propositions of the Turks have been scornfully rejected, and that the fight will go on both in Crete and in the adjoining islands. Whatever may be the tem- porary defeats of the Cretans, a people which can display such heroism will not permanently succumb to a government 8o feeble as that of Turkey. The new Ministry of Greece has re- plied to threats of the Turks by a proposition to raise the strength of the active army. The sole point of the President’s veto of the bill to admit Nebraska as a State, is the pecu- liar definition of the word “people,” to which his veto of the District of Columbia Suffrage bill, and his recent speeches, have accustomed us. The noun “people” in Mr. Johnson's gram- mar always includes the adjective “white," and he bases his veto on the argument that the people of Nebraska have not approved the conditions Congress has offered, Congress recognizes as a portion of the people of the territory its black citizens ; Mr. Johnson does not. Hence this veto, which will attract little notice, being merely an ordinary instance of his opposition to the majority of all the people, or his ignorance of the principles of Democracy. The Senate is still at work on the details of the Tariff bill—the immediate question pend- ing at the adjournment last evening being a motion by Mr. Sumner to reduce the duty on Bituminous Coal from $14 to 50 cents per tun. The most important vote taken yesterday, was that on Mr. Garret Davis's motion to recommit the bill—in effect, to kill it—which was de- feated by the following vote: YEAS—Messra. Brown of Missourl, Buckalew of Ponn., Davis of Ky., Doolittle of Wiso., Grimes of lown, Hender- son of Missouri, Hendricks of Indiaua, Lane of Indinna, Norfon of Minnesota, Pafterson of Tenn., Riddle of Del aware, Saulsbury of do., Sumner of Mass., Trumbull of IMlinoik, aud Wilson of Mass.—16: (7 Republicans and 8 anti-Republicans.) NAvs 25; whoreof Messrs. Dixo verdy Johnson and Van Winkle are accounted “Conserva- tives”: all the rest Republicans. —We augur from this vote that the bill is pretty certain to pass; and we entreat the friends of Proteetion not to be too tenacious as to details. ————— In the House yesterday Mr. Williams of Penn- sylvania moved to strike from the Civil and Diplomatic Appropriation bill the item providing for the salary of our Minister at Rome; and Mr. Stevens moved to add, as a reason for so doing, a protest against the recent denial in that city of the right .to worship God according to the dictates of their consciences by American Protestants. Mr. Stevens's amendment was practically defeated—the preamble being struck out by a vote of 65 to 32. We most earnestly hope that the appropria- tion may mnot be made and that the Mission may be promptly and forever dis- continued ; yet we rejoice that the pream- ble was stricken out. For the reason therein assigned, though cogent, does not cover the whole ground. Rome is an ecclesiastical capital, and our Goyernment has properly nothing to do with ecclesiastical matters. The Italian people desire to be one nation, with Rome for its capital; and Rome, by a vast ma- jority of its people, desires to be that capital. The Papal Government exists there in defiance. of the people of Rome as well as of Italy, be- ing upheld by threats of forcign intervention. Our keeping & Minister at Romo tends to uphold the despotic” Papal power: wherefore, we insist that our Minister shall be withdrawn. Certain of our people recognize the Bishop of Rome as their spiritual head on earth—which is their own affair, with which our Government has simply nothing to do. The rule of that | Bighop over one million or soof Italian people, in defiance of their notorious wishes, is a very different matter, and ought not to be counte- nanced by this nor by any other republic. Let us “render unto Cmsar the things that hre «(Cmsar’s,” and not mix our theology with our politics. The case decided by the Court of Common Pleas yesterday, involving the duty of Ferry Companies to passengers, is important as a pre- cedent which may teach the public it has rights which the companies are bound to respect. The docision is substantially that the ferry companies which do ot provide proper protection on their ‘bridges are liable to be prosecuted for accidents which occi in consequence of their negligence. In thi “ienlar case a passenger, pushed about in a wob of people hurrying to get on a crowded Hoboken boat, was forced in among the wagons leaving it, and had his foot badly crushed. On Monday, at the Catharine-st. Ferry, on the Brooklyn side, one of the gate- men bad a leg broken as'a direct conmse- quence of a similar want of system. There is mnot one Ferry betwden New-York and the neighboring cities at which precautions ave taken to prevent such accidents, and it was not many months ngo that, by the breaking of {hoe chains at ‘oo of ' the: Nowth River ferrics, tho bridge fcll, and o pwmber of DOTSONS Wero plunged into the water, Gommitte on Commered and Novigation, whioh is now investigating tho condition of the ferri wo trust, peport a il com) companied, among other fe- forms, to provido o eystem of gatds, which will protect people leaving 6r going on the boats from the rudeness of crowds and the trampling of horses. The present organized negligence makes man-traps of the ferries, and there is no reason why the bridges should not at'least be as safe as the streets. Another indication that the reform public opinion demands ;rvxll be enfol;:ed, is the in- dictment of the wkep Ferry Company by the Grand Jur cs“fimn %onnty, )l;cw- Jersey. This indictment recotints abuges that, were they not so disgusting, would be atnusing. The Wechawken Company runs but one boat, known ag the “dirty Lydia,” which is so rotten and old that it endangers the lives of the rs. It is stated . that sheep and hogs are turned into the ladies’ cabin, that the walls are covered with fndecent cari- catures, the roof leaky, and the docks ankle- deep with filth. When we read of or see such things, the marvel increases that they should have been permitted for years, and that the fi:flonw of "the citizens of New-York should ve endured them for a single day. DEMOCRATIO LOYALTIY. The World labors through half a reply to our summary of the facte and considerations which impel our conviction that the Democratic party of the Free States did not heartily desire the de- feat and overthrow of the Rebels, and did look hopefully for a reconstruction of the Union through concessions and submissions to the Slave Power which could not be expected from Mr. Lincoln and the Republicans unless we should first be badly beaten in the field. We find nothing in this screed which requires reply, but much that needs rectification, For instance, we are charged with making “an “elaborate assault on the patriotism of the “Democratic party.” This is not a fair state- ment. We do not doubt that Mr. Vallandig- ham, Col. T. H. Seymour, Judge Black & Co., love and mean to serve their country. What we believe, and have tried to show, is, that the Democrats held a theory of Federal authority and of State Rights, and had been schooled in notions of the rights of Slavery and the wrong of anti-Slavery, which rendered them inevitably sympathizers, in large measure, with the Slaveholders' Rebellion. We hold the famous Virginia and Kentucky resolves of 1798 and 09 to be the germ of that Rebellion, and their repeated indorsement by the whole Deme- cratic party, North and South, in National Conventions, to have weakened and erippled their power to resist Secession and its conse- quences. That ‘they loved the Union, and wished to save (or restore) it, we have not questioned: but they had no faith in saving it otherwise than by letting the slaveholders have their will of it. We defer further remarks until we see how The World deals with the main question, which we will once more put distinctly before it, vizz We cherish certain convictions (al- ready distinctlg sct forth) as to the sympathies and conduct 6f the Democratic party in our Nation's terrible ordeal. Those convictions are founded on years of intent observation, daily intercourse with men of all parties, and toler- ably extensive reading. Now, it is quite possi- ble that we are as incapable of seeing or hear- ing as The World would have us of reasoning; but that is aside from the issue. The vital question is—Have we a right to hold and ex- press our convictions? or are we justly liable to abuse and assault whenever we see fit to avow them? CANALLING THE ISTHMUS. Congress, at its last session, at the instance of Senator Conness, called for maps, reports, and profiles, of the various routes whereon it had been proposed to construct a Ship Canal across the Isthinus of Darien. Rear-Admiral Davis, after examining the whole subject, re- ported, as preliminary to a thorough survey, that the San Blas, Darien, and San Miguel, were the three only routes worthy of especial con- sideration. Congress, acting on this report, ap- propriated $40,000 for a survey of those routes. Here, 8o far as the poblic is informed, the enterprise came to a full stop ; and, though this is the dry season on the Isth- mus—the only scason favorable to the re- quired surveys—we believe none are in pro- gress. The appropriation may have been deemed insufficient, but it was certainly enough to begin on; and more would doubtless bave been added whenever Congress should have been convineed that the $40,000 had been properly applied, and that more was needed. A Ship Canal across the isthmus, whereby vesscls of 1,000 tuns could be towed from ocean to ocean in the course of a few hours, saving the circumnavigation of South America (14,000 miles) in voyages from our Atlantic to our Pacific coast, could not be worth less than £5,000,000 per annum to the industry and com- merco of the United States. Were such a Canal to-day in existence, the production of Wheat, of Wool, and of other staples, in California and Oregon; for consumptiow or manufacture..on. this scaboard, would be rap- idly and enormeusly expanded; nay, Grapes, Figs, Peaches, and other delicious fruits, would be grown in California. for consumption in our great -Athntic cities. Tt would not be extravagant to estimate the increased legal valuation of California at $100,000,000 more, ten years after such a Canal shall be opened, than it fwould be if no such Canal were or could be constructed, If, then, the survey waits for a larger appropriation, we hope it may not long wait in vain; but it would be far more satisfactory to learn that what Con- gress has already appropriated had in 'good faith been applied to its object, before more was required. That a Ship Canal across the isthmus is practicable, no engineer will deny: the only ele- ments ta be considered are those of time and cost. Now let us suppose that a canal suffi- ciently capacious to float vessels of 1,000 tuns would cost £100,000,000, we csti~ mate at that sum its resulting advantages to California alone. But California is but a hand-breadth of the vast region to be surely, permanently - benefited thereby. Oregon, West- ern Mexico, . Central America, New Grenada, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Chili, Polynesia, Aus- tralia, India, China, would all feel the jm- pulse and share the blessings of such a work. The great ~Pacific, with all its consts and isles, would be thrilled as by, an electric shock. A Camal across the isthmus would practically .insure the elevation of One Hundred Millions of our race from idleness, ig- norance, squalor, and barbarism, to industry, plenty, civilization, and Christianity, Wo do not know, nor choose to guess, in the absence of definitive surveys, which of the proposed routes is preferable; but, simply as proof that an Interoceanic Canal is practicable, {we will state what has recently been done., ., Mr, ¥, M. Kelley of this City—who bas giyen e, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 50, 1867. much time and effort to the subject—and who affirms that “the execution of such work will “place the United Shmmmtnphiu!!y in the “genter of th gf the wor, ! W bl gmmetbe n“riqfigmfe’* sclfi Kn“?u «over kuown or conceived by the most “ganguiné, far-sceing man"—had a survey made of the San Blas route during the Winter of 1865-8. The gistance by this route from ocean to ocean is but thirty miles, whereof ten are traversed by a capacious, navigable river, leaving twenty to be overcome by science and effort. That theso lic across & rugged. regiod may be safely inferred from the fact that their direct passage involves a {i el of seven miles. We presume, however, that a m devious, longér line, flanking or iircumvenunz this and other mountains, will be ound fat preferable. Mr. Kelley's engineers wero directed to survey o line directly acrées the Isthmus from the point where the San Blas (by a sharp turmn to the west) becomes unavailable ; and they rigidly obeyed orders. It is quite probable that a line 30 to 50 miles long (instead of 20) would vastly re- duce the obstacles to be overcome. For this, we must probably await the Governmeént Sur- vey, which should already have been at least commenced. We may speak further of this, and of the rival routes. The Darien was surveyed long ago; but of the result we have no accurate or satisfactory data. The San Miguel—by far the longest, but not neccssarily the least practicable nor the most expensive—is, we believe, now being surveyed at the cost of Senator Sprague of R I Wo shall be thankful for all the light cast* on the great question by theso surveys; yet it were idle to ex- poct them to determine any point beyond that of the practicability of the Canal, and of that we harbor no doubt. A Government Sur- vey of all the routes, by engineers thoroughly competent and impartial, can alone settle the questions of cost and preference to the satis- faction of Congress and the public; and we trust such survey may be speedily effected. THE PROPOSED BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKES. The bill, prepared by the Citizens' Asso- ciation, proposing to crcate a Metropolitan Dis- trict of the Cities of New-York and Brooklyn and to establish a Board of Public Works therein, has been submitted to the Legislature. Its main object is to create one Board or Commission which shall exercise all the powers now intrusted to the loeal authorities or boards of those cities in respect to the con- struction and repairing of the public works, and, to lift the whole subject above the at- mosphere of corrupt local politics. The plan of lodging the construction and eare of - the public works in one Board has worked admira- bly both in the cities of London and Chicago. By the division of responsibility we only in- creaso tho cost of our works, and multi- ply the opportunities for official pilfering. This bill, ecreating the Board of Public Works proposes, by concentrating the power and the responsibility, to decrease the cost of our public improvements and to prevent offeial corruption. The bill abolishes the Strect Department of the City of New-York, also the Croton Agqueduct Department, and transfers all their powers and duties to the Board of Public Works. The duties of the Cro- ton Aqueduct Department, embracing the laying of water-pipes, the construction of sewers, and the paving and repaving of streets, connected, a8 they are, with those of the Street Depart- ment of curbing, guttering, flagging, and gra- ding the streets, necessarily require that there should be no clashing of authority or interest, but that all these powers and duties should be devolved wupon one Board, where they can all be carried on harmeniously. This union of the two departments will cause greater regularity and less expense in the construction of the work. All the buildings re- quired for the use of the Board of Education, the Board of Commissioners of Charities and Correction, the Metropolitan Fire De and the other local Boards and Depa the Cities of New-York and Brookly constructed under the direct supervision and | control of the Board of Public Works; and all the money expended therefor shall be disbursed by it. The bill also gives this Board the sole charge of the opening of streets, and thus pre- vents frauds which are a disgrace to our City. Under a Board of Public Works, such as this bill proposes to create; we feel assured that no such gigantic fraud as the County Court-House could have been perpetrated. The bill ereating the Board of Public Works im- poses a heavy penalty for every violation of its provisions by any of its members, and throws around our people every safeguard against official abuse of power. It cannot be expected that this bill will be enacted into a law without great opposition ; for it is so radical in some of its features—it attacks so boldly all the citadels of corruption—that the enemies of reform will work night and day to defeat its passage. “FREEDOM TO WORK.) The World casts a very gloomy, dolefal horo- scope of “The Future of the Negroes,” who, it fears (1) will find Freedom so hungry and chilly that they will be impelled to disparage if not abjure it, finding themselves far less com- fortable than they were while elaves. To be sure, their needy, suffering condition is mainly the result of devastations, floods, droutl, &c.; but they will not genetally understand this, but suppose [it to flow naturally from their emancipation, and sigh, as the Israelites did in the wilderness, for the flesh-pots they have repudiated. Our skilled artisans and mechanics will not tolerate them as equals or rivals; they must remain agricultural laborers, while the modern tendency is toward the ebneentration of small farms into large plantations or estates, owned by capital, and cultivated by a combi- nation of costly machinery with hirved, depend- ent labor. These«conditions, operating upon the natural indolence of a tropical race, will, it is insisted, insure the degradation, misery, and ultimate extinction of the Blacks. And, adds The World: “ The ballot can do little for the freedmen; inasmuch as 1t cannot place them on anything like an equal footing with theWhite laboring elasses in the competition for em- ployment and wages. The bullot cannot guin them ad- mission into the various trades-unfons; it cannob compel skilled artisans to receive them as apprentices; it cannot prietors of establishments to give them era- hands object ; it ennnot give negroes the tentre of , and make them independent Sl farmiers, ngalnst the growing tendencles of agri- culture to eultivation on a large scale. Those who wish to bencfit the negroes, aud uot merely muke political capital out of them, must nde their prospocts from the new stand-polnts of the White laboriug classes. We have snggested some of the difficulties, and sincerely Lope K beinevotent wminds will bo Able to find solutions.” —There is very much more truth in the above statement than in the “miscegenation” bosh which The World has, for partisan ends, accustomedl jtself to utter, ~ “The ballot” does not, and cannot, equalize discrepant social con- ditions. There is many a blackleg, pugilist, or low grogseller, in our City, whose political in- fluence and consequence transcend those of Mr. William B. Astor; nevertheless, he is not in- vitgd o dir., Astor’y dinngrs; and aluost any one would prefo invitation t6 his.” “The “Dallot” does not and cannot efface social dis- tinctions. What it can do for thé Blacks is to shigld them ust laws and White op- pression. For all beyond this they must rely on their own ability, energy; industry, and fru- gality. N 17 s But, despite the “growing tendencies of agri- “culture to cultivation on a large scale,” the Blacks may soon rise above the conditipn of hired Ifnrm laborers if they will.. Co-OPERA; TIVE INDUSTRY 80l es the problem so ghmnil presented by The Vorld. Two hundred mui farm-hands, whose {z umber one thou- sand pqfi:gl. may « buy an eligibly lo- gt a0 Pl s if they choose; and th ‘0 - thou acres, with gardening and fruit-culture, will employ and subsist them all. Hefe they may employ a few “skilled artisans,” and soon instruct and develop many more; prosecuting the mechanie arts and gradually establishing the simpler and ultimately the more complex manufactures. Thus, their two thousand acres will be found an ample domain after their numbers shall have swelled to three or four thousands. There is no obstacle in their path which Codperative Industry will not remove; and they may en- gage in it—of course, under some disadvan- tages, but out of debt—when they shall have carned and saved g clear £100 per family. If they can generally be induced to give Cobper- ation a fair trial, they may all be thrifty free- holders and their own employers, owning a large share of the soil of the South, within the present century. THE MYSTERIES OF MURDER. There is an old proverb that *‘murder will out,” and so no doubt it will if the requisite skill and diligence be used in tracing it. But certain late occurrences have reminded us that either our detective system is a very loose one, or criminals in the United States have a won- derful knack of baffling discovery and avoid- ing the fate which in other lands is pretty sure to follow the evil-doer. It would be a strangely snggestive work if one were to search through the police returns of the last ten years and make a catalogue of the murders whose perpe- trators have never been discovered. How many assassins, we wonder, are now walking about, unsuspéeted, in this city alone? How many persons have been quietly put out of the world by the thrust of a [(knife, or a stealthy blow, and have found no avenger and left no reeerd ®f their fate except the brief chronicle of a “mysterions disappearance?” How many of the daily cases of “found drowned” have a dark deed 6f violence behind them, which the law never sees, and none but God ever punishes? Look at the celebrated Burdell murder in this city. It seems almost incredible that the cir- cumstances of that crime should never be dis- covered; but to this day we know not whoge hand struck that guilty blow, and probably we never shall know. Ten or eleven years ago, in a little village of Litchfield County, Conn., a gambler named Foot was found dead, with his skull crushed, in the horse-shed attached to a church. The circumstances of the case were such that a deteetive of moderate acute- ness could hardly bave failed to get at the bottom of it; yet it still remains a mystery, though one man ‘was tried three times for the murder, and was finally released. - About two years ago, portions of a human body were washed ashore at various points on the Brook- Iyn side of the East River. The remains were never identified, and it never was known where they came from. Many supposed that they had been thrown out from some dissecting- room; but when the head was washed ashore, a bullet-hole was found in the skull. = In June, 1865, two little children, brother and sister, named Joyce, were murdered while gathering wild-flowers in the woods at Roxbury, Massa- chusetts, The perpetrator of the fiendish out- rage never has been discovered; but a few weeks ago the skeleton of a man was found near the scene of the crime, and was popularly supposed—we know not on what grounds—to be that of the eriminal. A year and a half ago an Italian named Diodati was shot near the outs skirts of Brooklyn. It is supposed that he was assassinated by a gang of counterfeiters, be- cause he knew too many of their secrets, but no proof was ever obtained, and the murdergrs still go unwhipped of justice, Many of our readers, no doubt, remember the painful sen- sation which was created not very long ago when young Mr. Embury of New-York was murdered at Fishkill. His body was found by ayside, with a bayonet-wound in the back. ¥e had mo enemies, so far as known; he was a gentleman of singularly frank and upright character; and he was not killed for purposes of robbery, since his watch andsmoney were found upon his person. To this day his fate remains a mystery. A very remarkable murder was committed at a house in Magazine-st., New-Orleans, on the night of December 14-15, 1866, and, except on the principle that public excitements are gov- erned a good deal by the public caprice, it is not easy to undersand why it has not ereated as great a stir as the memorable Burdell case. The occupants of the house in question were a Mr. and Mrs. McLin, and a girl of 16 named Dora Hennerichs, who lived with them ds & friecnd and companion. She was a young womun of excellent character, plain in her ap- pearance, retiring in” her habits, and a great favorite with the McLins, who purposed adopt- ing her. She had, as far as any one knew, no enemies, and—what is perhaps not less im- portant—no lovers. On the night of the 14th the family sat up late with some guests. Dora went to bed just before 12; Mrs. MeLin, being sick, retired.earlier; Mr. McLin sat up until 1. is room was separated from Dora’s only by a very thin partition. He heard o disturbanee cither before or after retiring. In the morn- ing Dora did not appear at the usual hour, and her room, after some delay, was broken open. Shé was discovered lying in a corner, with a fearful wound in the back of the head, apparently made with a blant instrument. A smoothing-iron with blood on it was found in the room. if the girl had been struck while in bed, and, strange to say, a feather bed had been re- moved from the bedstead and dragged to the corner where Dora was lying. -Otherwise there were no marks of disorder; there were no indi- eations of u strugile, and apparently no attempt had been made upon. the girl's person. She was still breathing, but unconscious. She died in the course of an hour or two. It is equally difficult to conjectare the mo- tive and the perpetrator of this deed. A few articles of underclothing were missing, but they were of too trifling a value to have tempted any one to murder, even admitting that they were stolen; and beside, there were other things in the room which & burglar would have been much more likely to take. The traces left by the murderer scem to complicate the mys- tery. These traces were & handkerchief, marked with certain unrecognized initials, and footprints stained in; red Dbrick-dust. The orinté wero foupd oy the Window-gill, §ud on There was blood on the pillow; as | # Hhi i of his next neighbor, tracked again in-Weil's yard, where dust had been used in eleaning the The foot-marks ywere evidently those of a woman; butl't 1o g._i’ gm i and offered no vest for the foot within five feet of the ground. A robbery of a few small articles had’ been ecommitted in Mr. Weil'q house about 9 o’clock the- previous but that, it will be remembered, hours before Dora went to her any case there are serious. difficulties way of necting the two crimes. spems to De no reakon for suspecting any the inmates of either house, being excellent terms with them police, nga af:sz?fr ‘with inquests—has left the case as my: a8 ever. The excitement over the New: has not yet subsided when the intelligence of another case very similart of Dora Hennerichs. On the 11th instant a“girl of 18, named Christine Kett, was murdered in broad day, in her own house, at Ohio, and no clue has yet been found hly)mm In the City of New-York alone - during the year 1866, no fewer mm cides and murders, without including numerous cases of death by drowning er other means, which we know not whether to classify as mur- ders,. 'suicides, or casualties, Only 33 persons were arrested for these crimes, and the records of the courts show only 15 convictions ¢several of which were for offenses commited ina pre- vious year), with 19 prisoners still to be tried. That is to say, of the perpatrators of clear and unmistakable homicides more than 50 per cent are not arrested, and nearly 80 per cent are not punished. Now, the suggestive thing about this mattes is that it can hardly be accounted for in any other way than on the supposition of a very imperfect system for the detection of crime, Our police are sharp enough in tracing out greag robberies. A bank is rarely broken open or & safe rifled but the thieves are caught, sooner or later, provided they have secured a heavy booty. Human patience, persistence, and in- genuity are seldom better illustrated than when one of our best deteetives, with a full purse in his pocket, and—pardon us, gentlemen of the force, for saying it, for you are only mortal men after all—a good bouncing reward in pect, gets on the trail of a heavy burglary, or a great embezzlement, or any such erime of which the object was mondy instedd of life, You may say that burglars rarely operate alone, and the chances of detection are wmultiplied, of course, in exact propor~ tion to the number of the confederates. There is something in this; but it will not ac- count entirely for the comparative impunity of murderers as contrasted with other classes of criminals. We are not fin fault with om detectives individually; we only say that there is something wrong in the system under which they work. We believe that in the majority of cases they are unable to follow Wp a murder to the end because they are mnot furnished with the necessary morey, and certainly in some cases they fail because they have not the requisite indhcemq)qu to persevere. The matter desérves careful consideration, Individuals may be left to take care of their own money; Gov- ernment is bound to take care of men’s lives; and the incentives to the detection and punish- ment of the graver offenses ought certainly to be 1o less strong than those to thé pursuit of less dangerots criminals. ’ 5 i {1 MR. MOTLEY'S LETTER." Just at.the time that the French Government declines any longer to search the baggage of travelers, we find our Secretary of State enter- taining as matters of mnational fmportance the scandal of spies who, disguised as gentlemen, have penetrated to the drawing-yooms of Aweri- can Ministers in #urope. The correspondence be- tween Mr. Seward and Mr. Motley, United States Minister to Austria, which we print to-day, shows that the report of a person, whose name the Secretary is ‘apparently * ashamed to give, was deemed by him sufficient reason for ad- dressing Mr. Motley an official ~letter which ~ must take prominent place among the curiosities of diplomatic correspondence. The spy at whose suggestion this letter was written appears to have been capable of opening Mr, Motley’s lettexs or rifling his trunks in search of his personal opinions, and the very absurdity and mean- ness of his tales shopld have been suf- ficient proof of their falschood. Yet, vpon the authority of this evident slander, Mr. Seward asks “one of the most dis- tinguished of American authors, enc of the chief representitives of the United States in Europe, a question which for coolness has rarely been equalled. His letter to Mr. Motley is no more nor less than this: *Sir, are you & “ gentleman 9" "l We must consider of what Mr. Motley was accused. Sent to represent the Government of the United States at the Court of Austria, and intrusted not only with the care of American interests but with the dignity of the Nation, offenses which he was charged’ with it is diffienlt to describe. In a for- eign country he was asserted to bave announced his disgust with the whole conduch of the President, bis opinion that the Secretary of State is hopelessly degraded, and his con- tempt of American democracy. He is of infidelity to Lis oath of office, of indecency as o Minister, of utter want of patriotism a8 an American. - And of such a slander as this Mr. Seward does not mérely ask a denial, insult eriough, but actoally implies that a confirma- tion might. be reasonably expected. Mr. Motley’s reply to this extriordinary ques tion is such-as should have been given by one who is both a gentleman and a true American. Nothing that he has written—and he has written much that deserves to endure as long as our literature—will have a greater effect upon his countrymen than - this manly letter. Amer- icans all over the world will read it with pride, and will thank Mr. Motley for those few strong words, in which he declares the principles upon which the future of the United States should be established. —e . MUSIC. . z * This evening, for Mdlle. Naddi's benefit, Orphéc avs Enfers will be performed at the French . AV Steinway Hadl Mr. Bateman will give his grand conoert this evening. On Thursday evening Max Maretzek's Company, with Kellogg, Tests and Ronconi, will perform in Brooklyn. On the same night, Mr. Jerome Hopkins will give a concert, 8§ which Madame De Lussan, soprano, Mr. J. A. Dawsos, pianist, and Mr. Henry Mollenhauer will assist. Conoxew's INquEsT.—Coroner Lynch yosterdsy . held an in on the body of, I. A. Denson, ‘who com.. mitted suicide at & house n ‘Brooklyn, on ~', evening of Saturdayast. A verdict af ¢ Death gfifigfi%&%fi;fiflfiifiiafifi Fupli ad " . 5