descending into the cabin, a state of still greater confusion appeared there. The few articles of furniture were disarranged. The companionway steps were pulled down, and some of the sails which lay on the companionway were pulled out. The floor was wet and bloody, and bore signs of having been covered in its entire extent with blood, which had been washed off with water, probably brought in the pail which was found there. Upon the handle of the pail there was found some hairs, where the hand would naturally hold it. These hairs were of a different color to those found in the other parts of the vessel. The appearance on the floor and the disposition of the articles lying in the cabin, together with the two auger holes found bored in the lower part of the cabin, where the floor slanted down, showed that an endeavor had been made in washing the floor of the cabin to let the water run down. The auger with which these holes were bored was found there, and also some little chips which had been bored out of the floor. It seemed as if the attempt had been given up in the cabin, and the vessel had been abandoned afterwards. There were a small stove in the cabin and a pile of wood under which the blood had run. On the wood was lying a coffee-pot or a tea-pot with fresh tea leaves in it. The side of the tea-pot was indented and covered with human hair, which was likewise black like that found on the pail. There was nothing further than this to direct suspicion, and the vessel was taken in tow by the Ceres and brought up on the morning of Wednesday, the 21st of March, to the slip at the foot of Fulton Market. On the affair being noised about the town, the sloop was visited by a large number of persons; among others by persons acquainted with the vessel and those belonging upon her. It was found that this was the sloop E. A. Johnson, owned at Islip, Long Island—a vessel belonging in this district, and commanded by George H. Burr, who was also part owner. The sloop had been engaged in the oyster trade in Virginia, and had recently come in, and had on the 13th of March, a week previous, cleared from here to go to Virginia for another cargo of oysters. The crew consisted, when she cleared from here, on the 15th of March, of Geo. H. Burr, master, two sailors—Oliver Watts and Smith Watts—young men, brothers, residing at Islip, and the defendant, who, under the name of William Johnson, had shipped as first mate. During the day a great number of persons visited the vessel, and the daily press of the afternoon and the following morning scattered broadcast all over the city and its vicinity information concerning this affair. The attention of the public finally addressed to this fact was the cause of developing many slight circumstances, which gradually formed themselves into a chain of circumstantial proof directing the attention of the officers of justice to the offender, and resulting in the arrest of this prisoner. It was found that on Thursday, the 15th of