The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-11
Our New York Letter.
rFnoM QUE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

New YORK, January Tile JeStS nj scars tnat
never felt wound, says SHAKESPEARE; ho will not
lest long, for he must soon be wounded, says
Mou1Tn1E 1t is all very we'll for plain matter-of-
fact people Of tho Gradgrind school to laugh at
sentiments to sco at love, to contend that IT is all
nonsense, and to quote the great poet in suhstan-
tiation of the fact that mon have died and worms
have eaton them but not for love. Worms have.
feastod upon men, and women too, who hare died
oven from the romantic kind Of love that ne read
of in yellow-corered novels; fact beats felton, and
the newspapers of the day teer1 with tragic scenes
from reaf 1ifo that throw the sensation novels into
acted here. highly accomplished young lady,
who held the position Of foreWoman in the female
composing room of tho ''World" Office, and was
also editor Of the fashion department of the ''un
day Times and Messenger" was murdered on
last 8 ,turday evening by her lover, one Thomas
Burke, who, immediately utter the commission
OF tho deed, put tho pistol to his forehead and
added tho crime If suicide to that OF murder.
The unfortunate young woman was lady OF ire
proachablc moral character, and Of extraordinary
mental acquirements A lettor of hers, which fell
into the hands Of the officers ofjustice showed that
there had been time when she had loved Burke
cvcn with IN intensity that could satisfy his jeal-
GUS and passionate temperament. From some un-
change, and sho no longer regarded Burke with
favor. The engagement was broken of, but
Burke still pcrsovorcd in his suit and annoyed her
with his attentions. On last Saturday evening,
when the young lady left the World Office and went
to her boarding house, in Ninth avenue, Burke
followed her, and forcing himself into her cham
Der, implored her to renew their matrimonial en-
gaeenlent. On her refusal, the desperate man
drew revolver and shot her-once in the shoulder
and once in tho breast. At tho second shot she
fell and expired almost Immediately. For mo-
ment tae wretched man stood spell.bound and
rooted to the spot as he thought Of the past and
looked upon his dreadful work; then, as he saw
the bosom OF her he llsd so nadly loved ensan-
guined by The flowing lfe-stroam that hs murder
GUS hand had let forth, he gazea upon the CLASSY
eyes, where Death had set his sea-, and placing
the muzzlo Of the pistol close to his forehead
pulled the trigger and sent his wretched soul to
its awful account.
It is getting to be quite as amusing here to Mt
tend a church as theatre, with the adyantag in
favor of the former that there is no charge for ad-
mission This arises from the fact that it has
o-own to be the prevailing fashion not only to In.
troduce politics and discussions about theatrical
matters into the pulpit, but everything else.
During tho week, the newspapers spread them-
selves in editorials on the topics Of the day, md
the ministers follow suit on Sundays, and some.
times boat the editors. Yesterday wc were favored
by the Rev. DR.. Marsh With q sermon editorial on
the Excise Law. The Reverend gentleman is in
favor OF tile law and down on lager beer and Sum
day cock-tais, and contends that tho Sabbath Ca n
DO kept holy without drinking hot punches or cool
beer
It is certainly admissible, nay proper, for a
Minister of the Gospel to lecture on the subject of
intemperance, however; but what will your church.
going readers say to tho Rev. C!las. B. Smyth's
Sermon yesterday on '"rhe Great Ocean Yacht
Raco :. This discourse was most ngeniously con-
triycd, the lecturer rclnarking that the great Re-
deemer Himself ssillustrated His discourses by
referring to scenes and objects familiar to His
hearers !" wherefore, to do likewise (and he might
have added to please james Gordon Bennct2, he
took as His text: :Know ye not that they which
run a race run all, but one obtaineth tie prize
20 run, that We may obtain" This means tiat
IN sailing down life's current each one must en-
deavor to be Henrietta.
Tic skating pond in tho Jerome Park will be
opened tomorrow for admission to the members
Of the Jockey Club, and the high-blooded gentry,
who own high-blooded horses will don their
skates and engage in sliding and racing, for verify
one must obtain the prize.
\ couple Of bipcdaf brutes have been arrested on
the charge of having committed an act for which
it is grent pity that the law does not afi1 the
death penalty. The fends in human shape caught
a poor dog, and after thoroughly saturat:ng The
unoffcndine dumb beast with spirits Of turpentine,
set it on fire. The poor dog soon burned to death,
and if, when these men lay on their death beds,
they do mol hear its hoWlings again, then there