New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-22
IMPORTANT FROM JAPAN.


From Our Own Correspondent
KANAGAwA, Japan, March A, 1850.
The ink of ny last communication was hardly
dry, when, 40 we were sitting around our evening
fires Oh the 2Sth inst, our servants apprised us
that there had been another murder at Yokohama.
We went Immediately to the Housin, or official
residence of the Chief Magistrate, which was not
far dstans, to make inquiries who and bow macy
had been slain. AS we went into the streets,
we found large police force ON the qui vive Tbs
streets branching of from the tOkaidO, or main
thorOughfare;: the roads leading back into the
country were barricaded by ladders and ropes
stretched across, and guarded by officials; lanterns
~ere lighted, and bsatires were Blazing at the in
tersectons of street, and all the usual precautions
of the native authorities 10 prevent the escape of
criminals, were taken. Mounted messen-
gers had been diPPatehed 10 the neighb0ring
villages TO warn them to be on the lookout Also
Straw ropes, ladders, lanterns and besfres will do
little toward catching offenders, thought /, as we
turned into the Mayors quarters Here also, wa
gathered great number of Officisls who smoked
vigorously at least. The interpreter was absent
but, az we turned into the street again, two Euro
peaas, bearing the news to feddo, met rs and told
lis the sad story Two inefiensive Holanders FOss
and Decker, masters ct vessels then in port, had
been cut down in the main street of Yokuhama
without prOyOcation. One was quiet old man of
sixty years, who had arrived only three days preyi-
Ously. The deed was dene at seysn and half
o'clock of the evening. The streets were lighted
with the usual paper lanterns, and there was a
yeuDg moon at the time. 1t appears that the two
men had started out for wak, and in half an hour
after they had parted from some friendSwere found
literally cut to pieces.
A Chinese comprador WAS the only sorcien wit
ness of the deed, and he fed at the moment of the
attack, in such personal fear that he remembers lit
tie of what occurred. The two victims were walk
inc quietly along, when they were approached by
three Japanese, armed with the customary two
swords The latter instantly commenced an attack
on the unsuspecting men, while fourth, unarmed,
man held lantern One OF the unfortunate men
ran few steps, but both wore found not more than
a hundred feet apart. The bloody deed ysas accom-
pIished with fearful CELEBRITY and certainty. On
the body of one was found fourteen sword cuts, on
the other nine. The japanese lang sword Is pow
erlul weapon, and the Japanese are trained TO its
use. single blow had cut one OF the men SLAIN
from and through the collar and shoulder bones
down half through the ribs Another blow had left
the head scarcely cnging to the shoulders. 1t was
indeed horrible butchery. Two more inofiensiye
or quiet men were not in the settlement than these
same shipmasters. We look in vain for any provo
cation to the deed. We're these two men mistaken
objects of nesreyenge or u il the result OF that
deep-seted hate entertained toward all foreigners
BY ihe Daimios of the Empire, and their retaners
will not say oil the DaimiOs, but the more power
ful If them. In the same street, near the same
spot in August, the Russian officer and his com
panion were assassDated for no known cause. On
the 2sth the bodies taken for sepulture to the
bluffs near the old town of Yokohama known as
Treaty Point They were followed by procession
of 200 from the foreign residents and the shipping
the Russian war-steamer Japanese furnishing hle
of 20 marines, and the British gun-brg Camilla 80
more. The Governor of foklhama and his suite
attended the procession, while the japanese specta-
tors lined the road by thousands. There are seven
graves on these bluffs, six of which are filled by
those who have met violent deaths; five persisted by
the hands of Japanese assassns. Is not this indeed
bloody ground! All the foreign representatives
have made common cause with the Netherlands
Consul in demanding OF the Government the persons
of the offenders
II cannot be possible with the japanese thorough
system Of espionage that three armed men, lighted
by a lantern could come into the most frequented
street of the town, in every tenement OF which
there are dwellers, accomplish so thoroughly their
bloody purpose, depart and e9aee from their wea-
pons and persons the traces OF the act, and not
have been seen Of enough to bring the crime home
where it belongs, if the will was good TO that epd.
And Opine the foreign powers would be Justl1ed
before the world in the most rigid measures in de-
mandng the causes and perpetrators oil these re-
peated transformations. The Russians were killed In
August, Dent & Co.'s China servant in December,
Consul General AIcocks body-seryant in January,
and now these two fresh victims are added, without
the slightest trace of the offender in any case OF
them ALL The great body of the two-swordea class
are soldiers of the different Kamis, and unless
their own countrymea belle them, there Is
no lack of vagabonds among them ready =, =,
do bad deed on their own account. ~
certainly is to be hoped that these repeater nIues
are the result of personal provocaton VI fclnoPs
OF individual malice eyen rather than ue olEsPrihg
of settled hate on the part OF powerhi parry II
the Empire, hate expressed by their followers IN
attractions dseds. The Japanese authorities are
seemingly very anxious to bring the Offenders TO Jf'
tee. The Minister of Foreign afairs.is down from
YeJdo To- ,ook into the mattsr. At the request OF
the Consular powers the Japanese iro to institute
new regulations Sor the protection Of persons ana
oroperty, and foreigners are cautioned against being
in the streets ofler dark. A japanese policeman
bearsin his hand long pole surmOunted with jung
ling rings which be- strikes on the ground at every
steN A better plan could not be, to let rogue
knew n quarter Of q mile distant, that the watch
was coming and be had better hurry thrsagh bis
hWiness.
The following circular has been issued to The
| American residents from the Consulate; n
"U.s. CONSULATE. KsSAGawA. Bah. % fsso
In view Of the nbupsn murder Of two Du,ch an
The streets Yokuhaa the evening 81 the 2etA inst oy
The hands 81 Japanese ovden, insecurity h there
Ill Afor hn