The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-12-29


bring them into the Union a. States in due
time, we must protect the settlers who arc
building them up and developing their grand
resources.
The Thirsy-feurth street Tragedy.
y A gentleman was recently shot in his own
house In fashionable and populous neigh
borhood, not far from Fifth avenue, and
the assassin escaped. These two plain facts
are, az far. a. We know, the principal
features OF the Thirty-fourth street tragedy.
Murders happen every day and no ono Is -
tonishsd. h this instance some little sur
prise and curiosity are manifested on account
Of the locality, the position Of the Victim, The
circumstances OF the murder and certain mys-
terious rumors In connection with Il Soma
say il was the aot Of . burglar, done for pue-
poses of robbery. Others fatty deny that YER
sion. For the present, until the psrpetrator
be discovered, We are at liberty to choose ON
version, and We prefer the former whvf
Because crime in New York b fast becominx
an institution. Not CRIMES done for vengeance
or in the heat Of passion, but those done for
plumber. In the southern part of Italy. in tho
ex-kingdom Of Naples and in the Abruxxi
mountains, there have always been and there
are at this hour bands Of rowing brigands. In
Mexico highway robbery ranks almost a. .
learned profession. In both these countries, Is
well rs among the thugs Of Hindostan, It is
business handed down In the family. We
look with mingled pity and horror ON
those benighted, brutal people, and we send
them missionaries but az rule few OF
us have the nerve to trust our
selves among them for there no mans life il
safe. Now, where is The difference between .
trip from Vera Cruz to Mexico City and ride
from the Astor House, say to Fortieth street, on
street railroadf Let any man or woman or
sense think moment and 1t will be found
.1: he. .lrs Is none whatever. One may escape;
but is there anything known as law, order or
authority which can guarantee one safe tran
sit through New York city any more than
through Mexico? Put this question TO your
self, q respectable citizen Of New York! Ia
it not notorious that the street railroad cars
are infested at all hours by gangs of desperate
men, who rob you in the car or waylay you
when you descend at your own door! Happy,
thrice happy, the victims who have their
pockets picked quietly while riding up town,
thus avoiding the cruel fate of those destined
10 be knocked on the head first, - they turn .
corner in sight of their homes. Who in Nev
York is astonished at such thingss No ono
whose fortune it has been to live here three
months A week, q day. without q daring
Highway robbery, accompanied by brutal vio-
iencc, ending, 1t may be in murder, would b
i little remarkable; but our remarkable events
IRE not OF that character. And In regard TO
discovering the perpetrators of these out
RACES, il sometimes happens that they arc
never found. Neither is that anything reunark-
able. But what is remarkable is the patience
OF the public.
Thirty years ago tho island Of Oubs
was so Infested by rufians that In the city
OF Havana no one dared 60 out after sunset
General Taeon, then Captain General, resolved
10 put stop to the brigandage, and no did it.
He told the police that for every delinquent
not caught and delivered into the jailor's
hands some individual policeman from the dis
trict in which the outrage had been committed
should suffer the penalty affixed to the crime.
The result was that In a very short space Of
Time the island was swept clean, and has re-
manned so more or less to this day. Ono
thorough scourging did the business. But then
General Tacon was man who kept his word
aud discharged his duty conscientiously. Tho
city OF Havana blesses his memoryto this hour.
Is there any one among US, helpless, unpro-
tected citizens of New Fork, who, occupying
an Office Of profit and trust, will do his duty In
like manner? He need not be afraid; the people
will back him. lie need not hang the police
man-we do not expect such an exercise Of civic +.
virtue from him but he can get good men 10
do their duty. We must find some one equal to
the emergency and give New York q cleaning
that rogues and rufiians shall remember. The
shame 10 think and to know that some such
desperate remedy is absolutely necessary In
this splendid and wealthy city, the FIRST IN
America, Is too much to be borne forever.
The ATLANTIC CABIE.-The Atlantic cable
since Monday last has been dumb--dumb ss
an oyster. What Is the matterf The Over
land Newfoundland lines are reported broken,
but surely not so much as to require five days
TO repair them. Has tho cable given out or
become so weak as to be no longer able 70
speak ntelligiblyf or have we an explanation
OF its silence in our letter published yesterday
from Dublin, OF the 18th, by late steamer,
that the yachts in the Atlantic race on reach
ing Cowes will receive startling news about
Ireland" In word, has "a rising" In Ire
land resulted in the cutting the cable by
England or by the Fenians' or has the cable
given up the ghost We wait for an answer
from the cable or from Newfoundland.