Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 15, 1873, Page 2

THE “STATE.” Tho Final_ Argument _Ieard_fn__tho, Petition in Roviow for the Removal of tlio As~ signeos - .+ - ., Mr, Von' Armon Waxos Woth Over an Aristéorady of Thieves and. Swindlers. Mr. Sidney Smith Believes the -Assignee Has Done His Duty Efficiently and' Honestly. - - The Court Holds that the Assignee Has Teiled in His Duty in Some Respocts, Lut o Does Not Consider that Solely a Teason for Discharge, and Wil 8leep Not. s The roading of tho tostimony, and tho written argumont of Mr, Cooper, having boon disposcd of in the mattor of the Stato Insurando Com- pany, beforo Judgo Drummond, for roview of tho decision of Judgo Blodgott, rofdsing to ro- movo Norman C. Perkius from tho Assignocship of tho Stato Insuranco Company, oral argumont yosterdny commonced. Mr. Sidooy Bmith, for the Assiguoo, mado fun of Mr. Coopor’s polished essay, dwolling on the unusus! fact that counsel Lind found it necessary to commit his thoughts to pon, inlk, snd paper Ho dofended Mr. Porking' conduct in answering tho Inquirles of polley-holdors, considering that o was unablo to give other than very guarded zopliea to ull quostions put to him, His roti- conco ns to figuros, which had been attacked by tho otlior side, was really tho best part of bis conduct, and was such as any prudont man in bLis placc would feel called wupon {o rosort to. 1o roforrod ot somo longth to the ovidenco taken,” arguing that thore v nothing to bo found fu 1 Justitying tho con- clugion that My, Perking' conduct had at sny timo besn actuated by impropor motives, and insisting that such o construction was n forced one, mndo for their own convenionce by the other side, and not founded on tho facts. .He mrged the Court to look at tho circumsisncos, not from tho prosent staud-point, but from the past; to remember that whon Perkins gave tho guardad roplios roforred to o to what dividenda the Company might ultimatoly poy, that the prospocts wero thon very uncartain ; that nothing Wna positivoly kuown aa to tho Toutonis claims, and that the Court had not thon rendored his docislon as to the noturo of & set-off. 1Ilo re- ferred to tho outery; that had boon made Ly the other side as to nu alloged attempt- od conceslment of tho fuct that tno National Loan and Trust Company was n debtor to the State Insurance Gompnujv for upwards of £312,000. Ha laughed at tho iden of thero boing sny focrosy nbout it, aud aseorted that not only a1l Chieago, but the County aud tha ontire Stats, woro thoroughly well postod as to that fact, Porkins know a3 much as the outsiders did, and vory little more. 'Fho papers told all that was to Do told of the state of tho Company's affairs, and it could nover bo charged thet the public know nothing of it. Ho turned to tho books of the Company, which were lying upon the table, and opening thom at the pages whera tho State In- suranco Company's accounts wero kept, asked whethor thoy woro not there fairly shown,. whethor there was any sttompt ab concosiment. Thore was not the shadow of a ground of com- rlaint, there was not scintilla of ovidenco thst any stops had boon taken, or thut thero was any intention to conconl {ho actun latato of tho account betwoen tho Bank and the Insurance Compuny, All that could be eaid, or had been proved, was liat tho Dk bad clufms ogainst | Lo Company which thoy claimoed wero & good ond snflicient sot-off against tho amount hold by thom- to tho crodit of tho Company. Thoso claims weronot at that timo detormined, and, it was not possiblo that the Assignco could pro- nounce on them. 'Thoy had already got $167,000 . out of tho danls, whick thoy could-not bava cal- culatod upon, and they liad ontorod upon. litiga- tiou for tho remainder, tho cnd of which God ouly knows. No man cen to-day foresco tho re- sult of this interminablo litigation ; Low then could Mr. Porkins bo oxpectod to do 80 at g0 carlyadate? "The Assignoe, ho supposed, was expccted by DIr. Coopor o wito essays, mud ek oraflons, to policy holders who colled on bim _ to discover tho_prospeels of o dividend, Heg concluded by enying that Mr, Perking had takon prompt action aftor his election as Assigneo, and that his con- duct was such a8 to inspiro confidenco, and that tho first thing ho did, whon legally ablo, waa to mako the Smiths disgorgo; and more to the amoeffect., Mr. Van Armen followed, Ho said the history of this litigation was_without o parallel for kedness and immorality. It was not s quose n a8 to whother the Assignes should bo re- moved or not, but whether tho eufferers by tho disastrous firo of 1871 should ho plundered by & 2ot of conspirators, not prompted by nocd or want, - but by groed and avarico. hocircumstances surrounding this inlquity made it moro ravolting, The issue was whothor tho Courts will tolerate in Chicngo as in othor places an aristocracy of thieves aud swindlers, who eet at deflance the laws aud_morality. Alr. Bmith's argument would bave beon more to the point had it answered that of Mr. Coopor, inatead of wenkly nttompting to mako fun of it. For such n achomo as this of Mr. Smith's to bo carried gbrough would be a public calamity, and its .ef-~ fect would bo pernicions boyond all calculation, and the villainy that hod boon ntLemptnL‘ should be pursued to tho Inst limit. As to tho statoment that it was well known that tho bank had the moncy belonging to the Com- pony in its coffers, it was nothing but niero as- gortion. Was itiruo? This waa tho very issuo that they bnd beon struggling for, What hed thoy beon fighting for but to forco thom to the conclusion that thoy held these moneya? Yot thoy now said that ‘everybody knew quitd well that they did hold them, and that thore lind not ot any timo been sy disposition to conceal tho fact.” If this auscrtion wero truo, then the-very cause of (ho greater part of this litigation 1ins navor existod, and now falls ta tha granma. Yot it was undoubtedly ‘tho fack that tho olficers of tho bank wore alono cognizant of tho Slato of tho account, that thoy utudiously Topt the matter sceret from thoso who sought for information, and mado usa of their knowls’ edgo to choat tho policy-holders, and that res- pondent diulmnuutg; ‘aidod them in doing it. Tho counsol had beggod the question. It is trio that tho figuros oxisted in the books of tho bauk, but nobody ontsido the bank could get hold of the gures, until, after o sharp and Ditter wtrugglo, tlioy wero obliged Lo bring the books iuto cotrt, T'he counsel akotclied tho battlo thut had been fought boforo this point Lad Deon at- tainod; and contrasted (e manner in which tho other side had strugglod for power to koop tho Dooka and withold the facts with holr prosont protousions, o wont” i dotall into tho history of the two bankrupteies, to show that oyory step tuken wau dictated by a dotor- mination to provent tho_poliey-holders roalizing one cont that thoy conld koop from thom ; an proceeded noxt to refor to the sohedulo filled by the Prosidont of tho Company. It was known that the capital ways §400,000, yot tho neuets wero reprosented ot nob much mord than 100,000, of which §17,000 ropresented tho debt owin, by the bank, inetead of £813,000. i waa roprosonted *that Uho lattor was in congoquence of tho circumstanca that the baunk claimed sot-offy, hut the falwohood of this was dotected in tho fuct that in the snmo uchedulos, ovory singlo claim held y tho bank against tho Company, was written down, With respect to themo clalns ho mld that tho oflicora of tho Company gave the Bmitha cortlficates of indobte odness against the Company as quick oy’ they Yought up clhims, aud ‘prosented thom, the consoquonce of which was that thoy must have known that thosa wors dobts oharged n[.inlnnt the Company, Ho attacked the President, oharging him was porjury o signitg o falié sohodule, wnd he nouncod the so-called diligonco of the Ausignee, aud continued his remarks for & column or up further, concluding by an oxtraordinary atato- mont reapecting Judgo Blodgatt, which wwas ovi- dontly intended as a verbu! Lombsholl, aud cor- talniy had tho offoct of one. Ho eaid that tho Court mould probably be Inclined to afford the usual ecansideration” to the opinfon of Judge Tioduott, but & fack hind ouly tLnt oy gm0 to T opod, Tdgo modu%,. xq.fln Aol #AYyB Lo llnugung kun_‘gn théroabondontyand that{t would tako geent doal to shako his opinfon of his honosty. Bo it ap- ponred that Judgo Blodgett was porsonally nc- -quaintod with tho _Assigneo, and was not likely to romove him from his catoom, Tho faol that o hnd loarned was, that Judgo Blodgott was o membor of tho Company. 1lis namo was on tha hog](?gl! ;) ntockholder: A udge Drummond asked if -the spoake; that to bo & fact. . £, B weet « el Mr. VanArman sald 1t wis 5o on the hooks. Mr Bldnoy Bmith paid 1lis Honor is not, and novér was a stooklioldor, Mr. VanArian- did” nob 'boliovo- Mr. Bmith's: statomont. It ivns nol bocauso o raan was on tho m:?uthnt ho wns to bo conslderod abovo u- . Judgo Drummond romarked thot ho know nothing whatover ns to tho truth or otharwise of tho statomant made,. == 77| PR Mr, Smith consldered Mr, Van Arman's ro- marks uncailed for, ond . reiterated’ that Judgo Blodgott hold no interost in the Company. Mri Cooper asked whother AMr. Bmith wounld undortwko to say tho Judge's namo was not on the Company'a books, . } Mr. 8mith meant to say, and would sny it ns _ofton as neocsenry, that his Honor was not now, and nover had beon, a stock-holder of tho Biato Tnsuranco Company: “ 3r, VanArman said that ho had seon the books himself, and that tho Judge's-noma was thoro. Ho concluded by gq‘:pumu to tho Court to aid tho polioy-holders to obtain their rights, and tho pooplo justico, . : S Tho Uourt said ho had not lind an{opgommuy of golm{ through the record,but he-had somo va:!y igtinct improssions sbout the enso, and* bad bLad ovor ginco it first camo undor. his ob- #ervation; but, ho did .not feol inclined to decido tho qnestion 88 to tho romoval of the Assignoo, or ms fo . the action of tho Distriot Cotirt on the motion for it, without ngdn oxamining the rocord.. Under ono mspoct of tho casp it was a quostion of consider- ablo pordonal importanco to the Assigngo, and ho might ns well 8ay at onco. that ho ‘had nover hadany doubt that, in some respacts, tho Assigneo had acted impraporly, but how far ho had dona &0, or how for ho might Liove boon nctuated by impropor, motives, the Court would not now undortake to decidlo_until Lo had had tima to look nt the rocord. For example, tho Conrt had no doubt that- ho did. not- malie: thoso full disclosures . to the policy-holdora that ' ho could have mado,.and ‘which .it was his. duty to havo mado. Ho thonght it was tho duty of tho Assignes, when ho sow the salos that wore thking placo, to_havo made s full ox- plenation to the policy-holders of all the facts within his knowledge. Tho Court did not think ho did that ; lio did nqt malto thosa full disclos- uros that it was his duty todo } espocially undor tho circumstancos of tho cnre, But Lowover his opinfops onthat point ‘might bo, boforo hio interferodwith the sotion of the District Gourt, Lio wotld have to bo satisfiod that - the Assignoo lnd boon aotmated by wrongful motives in his conduct. It mightbo that the District Court Judgo had takén much tho enmo view'ns he had ot this pust of tho caso, nomely, that it was an orror of judgment on tho parl of tho }\ssl?mun, and that upon an intimation from tho Court this orror woutld bo corrected, TheCourt would not now undortako to eay that this was erroncous, Ho would, thercforo, look through the rocord as goon 8 ho could boforo -going to Indianapolis, and thon disposo of tho motion. Mr. Perking soid that all the assignments complained of had been made boforo he was ap- poluted Atsignoo, and not a singlo ono lind beon mado ainco. Ho bogged the Court to cxamine them and satisfy himsolf. Mr. Cooper applied to have tho record in Frank v. Perkins also put in evidance, if tho as- aignments were. 'ho Court did not think it nccossary, and saw no reason to depart from his determination an- nouncod. . Judgo Blodgatt was afterward seon by a Tnin- UNE roporter, and asked whotlier tho statement mado by Mr, Van Arman, that ho was o mgmbor of tho Btate Insuranco Company, was true. His Honor snid Lo is not now, and neyer was, o membor. * EYANSTON. ‘Iho Asscxsor Ordered to Assess the Uni= versity Xcal Estatce=Nicoting ok the ‘Arustoos. Jumes P, Root, Esq,, County Attorney, has inatructed M, Lovi Clive, tho Assessor of tho Town of Evanston, that it is his duty to asscss tho roal ootato owned by tho Northwestern Uni- versity, exceptsuch ns is actually occupied by tho buildings of the institution. Mr. Root Lolda that, undor ihe new Conslitution, no’ lands can -be exempt from taxation excopt by 6 general lnw, That by tho now Conatitution and Internal Revenue law tho oxemption clausg in tho University charter is ropealod. Thisis & very ‘importaut declsion to_ Evanston, aa the University is tho largeet land-owner in tho vil- lage. Tho people of the villago awalt the courso of the University Trustocs with great intorest, aa it is thought that thoy will contest Mr, Root's - decision. - TRUSTEES' MECTING, Tho Bonrd of Truatees met in tho offico of tho Olerk on Tueeday ovening, Thero were in at- tendance Ches, J. Gilbort, Presidont; Willinm Blanchard, L. J. Gngna, 0. A, Willard, and Wil- son Phelps, The minutes of tho provions meot- ing haviug beon disposed of, Mr. L. X, Boutelle avo an oxposition of o laws relatingto the es- ablishmont of publio libraries in towns nnd vil- -lagos, This was done in view of tho foundation of the new public library. The Committeo on Plata- and Bubdivisions brought in the map of Conner’s Subdivision of Lots 21 and 23, in Block 40, which was approved by thio Board. Tho Xufiliun of intorestod parties for the clay- ing and graveling of Asbury avonue was roferred to the approprinto Committes, - There being no-further business, the Board ndjourned. ] Tho young Iadiea. of the"Fomalo Collego will receivo & lecturs to-morrow afternoon from tho Rov. Robert D. Bhopard, pastor of the Michigan Avenue Mothodist Church. y v Yoo . 'WINKETRA, Thio young ‘peoplo of Winuotks gave a vory lem purty aaud danco at tho Acadeiny on st lueadny night, Thoro were many invited guosts, and the drucing was kopt up until's lato hour. oAbt i ety - " THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. % TFollowing fs & recapitulation of tho recelpts and expondituros of the Board of Public Works, for tho yoor ending March 81, 18781 £87,412,33 1,798,77458 275,887, 33,495.16 $4,745,020.07 $1,501,471.10 '500,130.67 417,714,063 ity Hall fund, City Bridewoll ft Total $4,186,460,11 ‘This incindes cortifieatss of indobtness, monoy Borrowed aud paid, smounting to sbout $1,000,-, The incoma of tho Board from water rents for thé yoar onding March 81 was $544.757.08; tho operating oxpotisan for tho samo poriod woro 264,000, The total additions to the Water- ‘Works cost 800,000, 'The bridges destroyed by firo aud siuce evected cost 817,000, —_—— GET YOUR STAMPS, All personf aud firms doaling in winos, dis- tillod or fermentod lquors, tobaceo or ocigars, whother at wholesalo or rotail, becomo liable on tho 1st day of :Mwy, 1873, to o speclal tax umder the rovenue laws of the United Btates. Ivery individual or firm engaging or engaged in sweh ‘Dusiness, without having proviously procuncd from {ho Collector of Intornal Iieyonue the specinl tax etamp (liconse) indicating thoir bmai- noss, is liablo to a fino not exceeding 91,000, and algo to imprisonmont for & torm ot ox- coeding twoyeary, Lrosccutionswillbe instituted at ouco in case of fatiure or neglect to get tho nocossary atampe (liconsen), Tho law ruquiras theso _speoinl tux stamps (liconses) to bo lopt Enumd consplouously in the ownaor's place of usinoss, undor o ponalty of not lows thaw. 10, with thq costs of prosecution ndded. thoroto, Porsona who have not already dono so, would do woll to procura tho spooial tax stamps (liconuc) they neod without uny delay, as tho penaltios of the law, above referred to, will Lo st onco vigorously onforcod. ‘tha Colluctor's oftive is Room 22, {(0. 161 LeSullo streot. i K i s —The story in ciroulation in rogard to a strike amony the hauds on tho oxtonsivo farm of M. L. Hullivaut, s without foundation, “Tho hands: had conplotod a job of husking 700,000 bushols of corn, and ho puid them off in tho sum of 811,000, and thoy wont on their,wsy rejoloing,—; Lontiav (Zil.) Sentinel, the Cotton Mills, Wl;u.t ‘theé Average Laborer Earns, and ‘What He i Eats. e Testimony. -of the Sm‘lihgs-Banks---Thé " New England Labor-League. A Btriking Striker---Movementa on Foot -Butler in the Fall Campaign, ‘Special Corresponieiica of The Chicago Trfoune. XosToN, Moy 0, 1873, | Thé snnual attompt Lo logislate labor nnd cap~ ital into somo sort. of harmony ia doveloping, this yoor, into as rampant hostllity as ever. Tho offort nt this session is for tha ennotmont of AN EIOUT-TOUR LAV, . which, with romarkablo modesty, is asked to ap- ply only to the employos of tho Stats, countios, cities, and towna. . Thus prosented, tho project has an elemont of popularity that ought to' bo appreciated in tho raral - districts; ywhero a day's Iabor in * working out” tho highway-tax will bo » bogotallo indeed jf limited to right houra, Bup tho proposod law, of courso, relates, more dis- tinetly, in its ultimato purposes, to tho cmployea of our manufacturing estdblishmonts ;. and tho sgitatlon is accompanied by circumatancos which indicato o vast growth of tho movomont through- qut tho Biafo, ° o Bofoxo spoaking of theso clrcumstances’ and incldents, which nro very significaut, it is woll to consider tho progross yunking by the advocatos of tho eight-hour law at the Btate-House. Thoro fano doubt that, in -this porplexing question, thoy havo reason and fact on thelr sido to an ox- “tont that moay well nlarm such capitalists a8 por- sist in maintaining o hostile attitude toward Iabor.” These, wo may hopo, aro foiv ; for there B avo cortuin terrible, though silont, nbuscs which nood immodiato remedy. Tho employmont of o3 ORILDUEN IN FACTORIES in among the most crying ovils ‘of our system, agninst which law sccms to bo of littlo avail. 1t is nothing but barbarity to work childron of 15 yoars, and from that downwards to slmost infancy, ton'or twolve hours o day ; but that is thorule in many largo ostablishments. Tho ‘wages of thicso babies averago about §150 o year, —quito an item in the support of familios such 48 they aro grown in, but poor cnough as an oxchangoe for the education our Stato Lonsts of forcing upon cach citizon, and for hoslth and lifoitsclf in too many cases. . But it is not so much for tho children as for adults that this agitation {8 mado; and the nd- vocates of an eight-hour Jnw may well roly upon tho succesa of the experiment of ten houra of Iabor in somoe of our large mills. TkLo progress hias boon steadily to n DECIEASE OF TIE HOURS OF LATON, and it must continuo in that dircction. Fifty years ngo, sixtcon hours made o day’s work in o cotfon-mill; and, provious = to 1853, thio 'avernge tima in theso establishments in Massachusetts was not less than twelve hours. A goneral theory, if found ab all, must bo de duced from particular instances ; and in this re- Intion I may montion the Lawrence Mills, whoro tho hours of labor aro reduced to sixty-six a woek, with a_half-holiday Baturday aftérnoon. Alko,’ thio Atlantic Mills, which for five yonrs liave run on ton-hour timo. Tho result is 8o fo- yorable to all partics that, from this ovidenco . alone, ono might bo led to advaeate sn indefinito reduction of yours of labor. For, while tho At- lantic Mills—I tako this establishmont a8 ropre gentative of a well-mrnaged “busincss—manufac tured somo 400,000 pounds n weel under tho' oleven-hour systom, with 1,600 looms " and 1,200 operatives, this year it lins nveragoed over 600,000 s wook, wnrklnfi ten Lours a day, with 1,800 looms, ‘and 1,100 operatives. This gain of 50 por cont in tho production is, of courso, in somo ‘measure duo to improved machinery, a8 the do- croase in tho number of oporatives would indi- cnto; but it is unfair to refuso to attribute it in considerablo degreu to tlo chiaugo in tho hours, Which givea belter and moro zealons work. It at least khows that no harm has come of the con- ceasion. Another theory which facts in the experience of Massnchuseits hovo dienpproved, is that of tho inability of working men und women tomake DECLNT USH OF LEISURE TIBE. Bad a8 o largo manufacturing town muat be, it 18 nat wholly degraded, nor do operators inevita- bly oizo tho first_empiy hour to_gob drunk on tho wages of their labor, The Lowoll Publio Library gends out from 10,000 to 14,000 books s month; and on Saturdays tho sverago of appli- is crowded on day. If such ol loisurs tho evoning tho extent in_ the of is of timo inlf-holiday plan is also enid to work admirably, —the operatives refuting acousations of morality by huhnvin[il\vell and sensibly. Facts nleo show tl wish a further concossion, worst enemies. - For nothin vincing of thoir willingness to labor . ANLONG AB THEY MAY BE PAID FOR WORI, lnrge establishmont, the Washington Mills, being made. The rest of .tho mi far shend with —menufacturo durin ucagon of onforced idloness, ~that was onnounced to operatives: - tho disabled jscction that tho; in other departmenis begen to sist that thoy nleo should bo oy only to geb ¥ MORE WAGES YOR LES8 WORK. the wages now Inbor by ten in fs nlso inorensed in ratio, is equally true ; and it tal, ttor all, roituof ovonls. become wealthy unless tho; ‘I'horo io somothin and do not need it. 1t is very ovidont that THEY NEDD SOMETIING, bo ocaslly proved that no family of Inboring “clusa counld oxist from " year year. This averago skilled workman, then goly just €403.40, Buch cluding himsolf, ut on averago oxponso of that tho reproseutative workman of sotts wiil STARYE JINAELY AND PAMILY tho 'avorago youll's wagos of 160, cants for booka is GO0, whilo the l‘umlillg#:gn: 0 abuso grontest ‘manufacturing contro of the State, thera s much weight in the argument that & still further ex~ tension of time would be well employed. Tho at, if (ho oporaliyes really thoy aro their own J g more dircetly con- can bo ndduced than the oxperionco of anothor whoro oporatives aro paid by tho hour, It was not yory long since that tho turbine driving ono seotion of_this mill broko, and work rapidly ac- cumulated_in that scction whilo xnlmu'u were 1 got so this it in might work: two Loura ovor-tme if thoy go desired. Not ono of {hom rofused tho opportunity of working up to tho standard of {imo againgt which thoy for- morly rebolled ; and not only wero thoy smply satisflod with tho situation, Lut tho operatives mble, and in- lowod' ‘to work twolve hours & day, aud got twelve hours' pay. Thore was_no demand for i, and thorequest was denied. "T'lis wonld cortainly eacim Lo give color to the statcment of the opponents of the cight-hour Inw, that worlanon wish for shorter Tt le, however, onsily domonstrable that tho wages for a day's work of sixteon hours Lalf o century-ago is equaled, in X\u-nhnuiug power, by earned onss - of " our more modorn establish- ments. That the produstivo power of labor 8yt largor 1n evidont that capi- i gotting thondvantage in tho prog- ut tho faot thataworkmen willla- bor twelye bours instead of ten, provided ho is pnid by tho hour, given tho oppononts of tho changs a cortain authority when thoy eny that thio potitionors do not roprosent tho laboring olasties of Massechusetts, ‘Lhis, with the well-, worn argumont advanced by comfortablo mor- chants, to the offect that they would never bave ad worked fiftoon hours a day, forms tho burdon of tho opposition. #ald about intorforenco with })rh’nlu rights in the purchase and tho enlo of abor, and also concerning tho rights of capital; put, lilke the woman-suflrago quostion, tho issuo hoy'been made, that workingmen do not wish it Wero wo to trust to figures alono, it coull‘d tho to Flho fact I, that thoy do exist, aud evon ncrenso and multiply ; but how, is & mystory, I'heta queations of averagen are queer in thoir rosults ; but thore Is no way of leurning tho condition of tho Massachunotla workingman, or of any othor, but by reducing bim to anaverage, onrng just €636.63 0 year; tho nvorago nuskllied laborer 8 tho incomo from about 800 days of labor, But the averago man 1ins ald0 an averago family of fivoto nuppmh‘i‘x{. o less than 8700, Unuided, 1t will readily bo scen agsachu- abont six weekn botoro the end of tho yoar, But, if tho childron can run alone, and lot the wifo and motuer oarn her averagoe fomalo wagas of €237, or if B dnu(r'hlor orn son can hring ‘ln tho houschold may wqueoze through tho twelve- month, Gen, Oliver's Labor Lureau, whoso S 0 hyol 0w, tirilo titage, ioa found ot {his; and much tnoro;«télling tio world that thi nvorags Mosnchiusotin orkihgimam, who Catmo bogin fo earn enough to supfort Lia average family of nvo,' porafats in sponding 814 a yoor for roligion, and half na much for chnrity whiflé 156" Aqunidard” §8.74 “on méwH) lmlifll’l\mi' such-tynaly; and - natunlly;pays as much forf so- - cioty ™as ho doon'for Kerosono fnid earidlén.l 1t ia - plainly.domonstrated. that.tho working- fonn banno live,and support hls famlly .\, .- - b WITHOUT ABBISTANGE - 1h ¢ and Honco it is thint we ‘find 60’ many-ohildron in< tho mills, Evon the farmors, whom wa aro now rogerding 08 on_oimost oxtinot raco in Mossa- chusettn, are no bottor off than _tho omployos of tho mills,—sending tholr.childien ‘to thosd ealali: lishndonts Lo enrn Wagoa' with which ‘to oko out-! tho nh{xpnfl which tho' soil* denjos them:: It is, thon, but nntural to.oxpoct to- find: the averngo workingman in dobt; aud happy is Lio that such o thing us dobt oxists, withont-which-onr math- omatical formulas would quickly starvo him, and leava him to'bo burled by tho?town.: The om- ploye of o mantifaoturing town lvesina * | BTATE OF GIIIONIG INDEDTEDNESS, * ¢ Hib crodit is Jimitod nccordinig to.tho rate of Tis wagos, and on this ho draws his grocerios, moat, aud conl, until piy-dsy comios. Wo cannol 10,60 Linrd upon him if ho doos not sottlo, for nob tho best Intentloni.in the world'cdn make #5630 pay for £700 .worth of: gooda. - 8o yo find ‘him changing from ono'creditor to another; and: from ono place to mnothor, without paymont of Lis debts. Again, wo'find him pulled up shorl le tho .trustoo-proceas; and.again, ho nssigua s wages {n ndvance, ‘It is & notablo illustra- tion of this manner of lifo to find that tho Polico Court of Lowoll {asues about-2,000" trustoe-war- rants ogainst dobtora yonrly, and that noarly the manl‘la number of asaignments of wages aro made, - 2 . IT I8 oRUEL— G . . bnt the facta in support of the thnory rove it to bo true—that the aldlled 1aboror in' Magsachu- sotts cannot onrn enough to support himsolf and family, Thero is no mercy in tho hard 0R, He must put his childron {n'the mills, and work them day nfter day, of thoy aud ho will starve. With “this absolnto noccesity -for the labor of childron,;tho need of strict; logislation, concorn~ ing tho Jiours of work and the priviloges of odu- ' éation. appoars ovident, unlesa it is purposed ta ofmit thio growthof » goneration of stunted nrbarinns, kuowing only enough :to'jump to- ward the mills whon the bell rings. In confirmn~" tion of the and fact that wages do. not. oqtal tho copt of living, wo ave the statistics. of tho savings-bauks, Thero in 5 * '+ ACTUALLY NO BAVING v on tho part of ‘wdrkingmen of this class;. ipon which any one may on;.n . Tho withdrawals for tho past throo t{\‘mm have m}unloil;lhn doposits ; whicly menns that the workingmen bave laid up’ nothing for ago and sicknoss ; whilo tho #avinge- :banks aro finding . a -widoly-oxtended ute a8 de- positorios of wuinvested "funds of wenlthior. mon. Indeod, tho larger_amount of dopesits in, theso institutions aro mado by persons who havo' no need of such advantages. This fact is occa~ Hloning. considernblo remonstranco,. although thoro apponra no just and no officlont mothod of *restricting tho savinge-banks to what is nomi- nally their .business,—the prqviding 'of monns for protecting and inoronsing the'carnings of the oor, Anothor equally cruel fack s found in tho nability of the workingman to 2 ACQUIRE A MOME,: ~ . Tho Ascessors’ books show that no wage-la- ‘bovor payn taxos on real-catato, and a poll-tax is the amount of his usual lability to tho Btate, Ts it sbrange that tho workingman of - this civ- ilized- Btate, nssured that ho can Iny up nothing, thnt tho utmost of Lis endosyor will batoly focd and lodgo Lia family, and thab bo will nmever own s home, should scclk fantnstio remodios ? Confident that something must bo wrong, ho takes tho Amorican citizon's way of righting it, y gettiug up o convention l;:ult l[:nuaiug roeolutions, Buch Was tho meoting of tho ¥ NEW ENGLAKD LATOR-NEFOLM LEAGUE, hld_horo some. tima sinco, at which Victorla Woodhull explojted or woos,snd right kionorablo gentlomen, somo of whom havo run for Congroeg on tho tickots of tho great partios, listoned snd applauded. Tho grievance:of . this Convontion was found In the stupid and seneclons order of tho city nuthorities, that no entrance-feo should bo demanded at tho door of tho hall whoro the mooting was hold. It was dosigned 08 o probi- Dbition on the Woadhull, but it furnished thio La- ‘bor-Refarmers with eapital for furious denunoia= tions of constitutod suthority, Thoy porsisted that . tho Convontion was in no _manper an ¢ gmusement,” Lo come under tho Liconhc-nct ; and, truly, it was not vory amuaing. For oue can but fecl ead, . . rather {l centortained, to henr prosumptively sober mon doclaro; in solemn. rosolution, that *Tho ‘attompt® to hold or to eoll land for gni 18 sufliciont causo for its conflecation, and for the indictmont of tho traflickers ay common thioven.” Or to hiear & man with thoe title * Hon," prafixed 10 hig .name denounce “‘any dividond or intor- est " 08 * robbery from those whoso lnbor pro- duced it." Tt is casy tosco hiow theso articles of Lolief are deduced from tho peculinr position of tho workingman in this State, whose inability to acquiro lnd ‘projudices him against land-ownors, and wlhoso lack of investod funds leads him to look with dire onvy on tho man who draws his quartorly dividends from stock in mills to which Lig Jabor contributes tho profits. The worst fonturo of this agitation of tho theory of labor-reformis the - AANIFEST INSINGERITY OF TIE LEADERS. The Chairmon of tho Convention tlat do- nouncod the ownership of land and profits from investments is n gentloman of. leisure and of property, doing no work with his Lands, but pubsisting on what Lis. followers call “robbery.”, Aud ono of our Democratio legislators _bad tho bardihood .to risg in’ his placo af_ thut convention® of Labor-Reformers, and point out men, the loud- oot in pmclnimini: tho principlos of Commu jom, who found iheir, eupport in' banlk-divi- dends. Dut, for sl this insincority among the leadors, tho rank and filo aro iu earnest. They really boliovo in such moasures as tho Chiatrmais of their Convontion .proposed, in tho form of & potition to the presout Logielsturo, asking tho , ATOLITION OF DANKING £ and govoral othor modest changes in the existing system. In Rhode Island, the workingmen havo, undertaken to reduce the dny's Iabor to ten’ Nours by means of strikes, and procossions, aud Sunday meotinga; bore 'thoy go into politics to’ gcours the enmo end. That fhey biold o'vast po- fitienl povar, no guo oan deuy. All thoy necd i an organization that can withstand tho wiles of men who mako politics thoir bueiness. ~“This hos Tiorotofora boen lacking, and thoy havo boen n}dit up botween tho two Pnruan, cheated, 2nd thrown aside, at overy eloction. ' There is n pros- pnn: that, in tho coming canvass, tho Labor " parl will cast the decisivo. voto, ovon in tho lominating convontion of the Ropublicans. DUFLER 1§ THEIR MAN. o is thoroughly commiticd ‘to the most ex- travagant of thoir thoorics on’ tho money quos- tion, nud his plausible nonentitica about the in- terents of Inbor, uttered in his memorablo cam= ‘paign of two yoars ago, aro not forgotten. * Auido from'the developmonts of an incrensing political influence in thid Btato, tha labor nsso- Ciations aro not inactive in pushing tho olght- hour moyement by pressura upon.omployors. Tlio mosp remarkablo dovelopmont has beon the striko ordered aud carried out by tho Horgo-. Bhoors’ Assoclation, for tho reason that it in- volved . ACTS OF PERSONAL VIOLENCE, TN aftor the mauner of tho Shoflield Trades-Uniond, which biave been pnssed upon by tho courts. Tho strike took place among tho horso-shoors iu iho Metropolitan Streot Rnilway Btables, from which tho Association withdrow its men in a body. Tho Company had little diffioulty in fill- ing thelr places, with good workmon, too; eud in"a weck tho flurry was avor. Tho move- ment was mado without tho co-opera- tion of other trades, and, nonseqnunn{, expired without much noiso. DBut, during ita progress, the strikers managed 'to make thoir cnuto particularly odious by sotting upon and boating two or .threo -men \\'ho(fi)mhn‘cd worlc on thoir employors' torms to idloucss on their own, Oneofthone non-strikers was especiall ianged up about the face, and, With tho aid an aieiatanco of tho Company, procseded to pub Lis ussailont through tho courte. ‘The oaso just deoided, having boon taken to tho Buporior Criminal Court, 'Fhore were two county,—ono for assnult_and Dattery, and suother for using forco and threuts to compol a.person to dosist from lewful euployment, Tho strikor was con- vioted on the firet, and & ' QIVEN A MEAVY BENTENOE,— gix months, 'The prluclfi»lo of the wholo matter, however, was containod In tho socond count, and it 18 o mattor of rogrot that tho jury found tho privoner not guilty of that crime,” Thore was somo doubt about the application of the Inw, but tho Judgo rulod that it covercy tho caso, Yot {ho Jury, probably Influenced by tho conzidora- tion that o verdict pf guilty would bring n dozen yenrs' imprisonmont, uncrificod ]zrhlclpln to hu- Tanity, ns thoy doubtloss thought it. Tt i highly probablo that tho rosult of this trial will givo & blow to violent demonstrations Dby tho trades, and in this, as in many othor ro- sjcats, it I8 gratifylng! But, in the horse- shoors’ cang, it was only a quoation of wagos, Jimitod to ono set of workmon ; whila tho oight- hour businoss I8 much wider in'its scope, in- cludes many interests, and hiad o vory subsian- tin} basis of money in the Treaaury. 'Who Legiu- lature WILL DO _NOTHING of tho sort that is asked by tho Labor-Reform- ‘ora, Kt hna bogn With considorable diftioulty T Vor s of s xopork d bound,/and tho 13 b I;tlb(fi i "oy 4 U it T aee s oz notich ot e Tera s sclt banking aud othor monoyod Intorests roprosonted. inthioLopinlataro. And, wion tha BlatorTTonko in denorted, and none of tho new Inwe asked are found o thig stattta=bodk; thoroia Hkely-to-be- o atie in-politicy and in the trades. 'I'oearpon- *fers and jolners nre moving tor mn_olght-lour Inw of thoir own,.to bo ostablished by.the coms .nulsidon (if not grantod pencenbly) of thelr om< ))luyqru_‘l but hore, also, the nlternative of largor wagos “ig offered.” In all the dlfferent brandhes of fron-worl, tho agitation for cight hourd o day is in progress. ‘ho shoemakors, throtigh thiolr Orispen organization, are’also pro- nfod. In ahort; tho problom which tho Logis- nttiro Liosltatos aitompling: to eolvo, which tho Labor Bureau only sete forth in an array of ter- riblo fignros, and wvhich our. candidnton for Gove ernot o slmply as o basia for Ewaddle, Ia to bo | 'BERE YonRINGMEN THEMBERYRS in'action ; whotlior for good or for ovil, remains to bo soen, Thoraisno lack of wrong influ- conces, sich as appoar in the Now England Labor Lenguoaud “tlio profossions, of Gon,, Butlers: end if o combinatlon of -thore two dotestablo; forcos 1a mado this fall, thoro will b6 ‘a sfght for*| fifl!&, and mon, and polh[c:ll coconomiats, . THE HALL Exbgnmbw. Views of Judgo Daly, Dr. Hnyos, and Y.t Mre Grinmells ; OnIEF- A Tribune roporter ISTICE DA called wpon Qhlof-Jiati Dnl{é Prosident of tho American Gnugrnnfllefi his command; 6uly ita oréw might possibly - mako -boats -from ita Boolety, at Lis_rosidence, No, 84 Clinton Placo, Inst ovoning, Judgo Daly hag boon duoply inter osted +n . the. progrens of Arctie discovery for many yoors, In his anuual address boforo tho Goograpbical Bocloty, delivered Fob, 17, 1873, Lo oxprossod groat nrlr\rmhonalnn of tho fato of Capt, Hall's oxpodition, on nccount of, tho cutlre unfitness of tho Polaris for her work, and tho unusual soverity of tho- wintors of 1871-2 nnd 1872-8, to which tho oxpedition had boen'oxpos- od. 'His forobodinga hnd boon .mournfully con- firmed. In discursing ‘tho extont of oxplo- ration- _nccomplibhed by : tho :Polaris = oxpe- dition, Judge Daly enid that: Capt. Hell: got nearer the Pole by veesol than any previous ex- plorer. Tho body of water which *Kano thought - &n open Polar Ben, and Dr, Hayos considorod n stralt , 60 miles wido, was found to bo a etralt 16 milos {n width, opou at tho north, ~ Xbwas sing- Iarly unfortunate that Capt, Hall was'obliged— robably by tho latencss of tho senson—to turn ock when within 600 miles of the lole. Ilo .donbtloss had tho intention of afterward relurn- tug to this strait, or of moking sledge oxplora- tions northward, As to tho mannor of Cupt. Hall's death, Judgo -Daly stated that from his Lnowlodge of tho craw of the Polaris, ho ‘could not bolieve that the man had died b; that thero had boen n mutiny of his men. had seon it stated that Dr., Hayos hold the t‘:‘p jon that Cnph Hall mot this fato at the hands of- hismen. That statemont was unwarranted, for Dr. Hoyos Lind said yostorday that he' moroly throww out a suggestion that such ndeath was osoible under tho' circumstances.. Any suggose ion from Dr, Huyos, continuod Judgs Daly, i entitlod to gront weight; by, virtue of his oo~ | quiroments-and personal; oxperience, ho is the .most ominont Actio explorer in the country. But tho only possible reason for violonco or mutiny in Capt. Flall'u crow would havo beon thoir do- tormination to como back, while he was firm to go on, The Polarig ‘was ouly provisionod for 1873. - In an Arctio oxpoditicn, vessols are ofton Iaid up for yoars ; Capt. Hall'a expedition wag in n reglon whore thero was no chanco for Buc- cor. Consoquently tho crow might lLnve boen unwilling to risk tho chanco of returning in case of nny ronewed advangce. Bub aftor Capt. Hall'a death'and & winter at Polaris Bay, an Juno 8 fol- lowiug, thoy woro trying to reach tho.North by He in- two bonts. ~ Bo the Eupg sition of their re- fusing to proceed mnorth- under -Capt. Hall folls to tho ground. Tho ° statemont of tho resoncd party that Capt. Hall died of apoploxy is, howover, absurd, for, a8 Dr. Lluyos aesorts, that digeso fs unknown in the Arctio regions. 1t mny bo that Hall died of disense of the heart: _From his knowledge of Capt. Hull's charactor, Judgo Daly could affirm that lio was o mau subjoct Lo occasionel fits of violent corebral oxcitomont. - Tho unfortunato instanco of tha Tilling of & man in & moment of oxcitomont durs ing o provious expodition, illustrates this fail- ing. Doseibly lio may bavo hoon carried off in nn attack of cerobral disturbanco. g After tho nnsuccessful oxpedition to thonorth of Juno 8, 1873, just roforred to,. tho oxplorer returned overland on July 8, and then resolyed to go wouth. This was a'wigo measuro, in view | of their remote eituation, and of tho limited ox- tent to which the vessel was provisioned. Dr. Hayes confirms mo, Baid Jud§u Daly, in this opinion, Thoy . stariod for liomo - on Aug.»13, Thelr subscquent dienster aroso from the vessol's boing thrown on hor beam-onds on ‘Aug. 18, and’ in that condition \drifting down to Intitude 70 dogroes 85 minutos, the neighborbood of Northumberland Isiand.* Tho landing of mon and provisions was probably Qone.with & view to lightoning tho vessel, and their subsequont separation from tho vossel is accountod for by tho ico brenking in soveral Inces and tho ship parting: from her moorings. Tl koparation-appoars to ave been ontuly .| sccidontal. “If thoro had beon any intontion of deserting tho party on” tho ico, the” members. would doubtless have suspected it and. stated thoir suspicions. - The circumstanco,of landing porsons yith provisions is not at all uncommon in Arctio -oxploration, No, commander. in. Arctic reglous would place persons on the ‘ico \itliout » supply of provisions-and arms for ueo in caso the ico should brealc up, Dr. Hayes slates that ho noyor would hava ‘ncted othor- wigo undor the circumstauces. * Moreovor, the party on the ice waro not givon a largo amount of provisions, Thoir survival was impogsible but for the Tact that thoy wero able to securo food by tho use of their fire-nrms, while floating down upon. the ico-flold. Their escapo is certainly tho niost extraordinry in tho history of Arctio ad- venture, . ot e A 1 agre® fully, 64id Judge Daly, with tho' stato- mout that tha Poluris was altagather unfitted for an Arctio oxpedition.' I thought o whon I sav. Lor boforo her departure. . Moreover, Capt. Hall, the commander, wag wholly unacqnainted with ‘Arctio oxploration, and know nothing of novign- tion. Ho had novar bocn farther north’ tlhni Frobishor's Straits, which are a8 far from tho Arctio propor as from New York. T'o this point" Yossols go overy year without difculty. 1 folt confidenco in Capt. Buddington, who is nn_oxpo- Trienced nayigator and Arctio whalor, sud I thinl thoro is every Frospunc that ho will effact the res- cua of‘tho’ Polaris, Capt.Tyson is_also shown to Liayo boen & thorough scaman, and ho prosor- vation of the ‘survivors must linvo boen chiofly duetohim. + = ‘When tho Polaris was Inst scen from tho ice- flield o8 it was borne to the south, she layin o Doy with her sails furled. I suppoge, continued Judge Daly, that tho wator uup‘v‘tlmcd to Lo n bay was the channel botween Hakluyt Island aud, Northumberland Island, Dr. Hayes snid to mo to-dey that it is possiblo that tho'vessol found & barbor insido of Hakluyt Island, ‘hore are no harbors on Northumberland™Tsland whero o ves- 8ol could pousibly outor, us it is brocky, ico- ‘bound const. The. Polaris, must either, thore- fore, hayo beon in somo ' Lurbor on Makluyt Island, if thoro is one, or olgs iu the channoel be- tweon tho two [slands, whicl is four or fivo milos wide. The American Goographical Socioty gava Copt. Linll'a roception upon his dopriurg for this oxfiudltmn and had every do- siro _thnt hio atlompt 'at _oxploration should “eucceed. Dut . thoro was = much rension to, fear for .its fato on .account of tho ‘charactor of tho vessel. I suggostod to Capt. Hall that ho sbould ask tho Govern- ment to chartor for tho oxpedition one of thoso Nowfoundland stoam-vessels used for sealing, which aro exprossly bult for Arctio navigation, £nd which would havo gono through tho Yoyus withont any of tho nceidonts which bofol tho Polaris. Dr. Hayes snys that Hall ml$ht as well hieve fionn in a caudl-boat as 1 tho Polaris, Tho vessols used in Arctio explorations sont from this conntry hinve always Leon vory poor. The Polaris Lind a good crow, as X illdgnd from porsonal inspection, oiid was well furnished. Jilia publia. prints And popular sontiment ool upou thiin disnater a8 o ronon for giving up all furthor Arctic oxplorations, Tha failure of ox- poditions hoa been duo to tho wrotched vossola used, and the rosult—In exploration—at least of thls Iast ono, is oxcocdingly croditable, in viow of the fact that in such a cratt the cxpodition got furthor north than any. provious one. If n Droper vossol had boon used, 1n all probability it would biavo reached p poiut still furthor north, nod have roturned in safoty. ‘Chis voyngs proves that Bmith's Sound fs thomost avallablo of all routos for renching tho Lolo. Donpito the dis- anter, thero i1 overy rosson to boliove that tho Tolo oan bo reachad by way of Bmith's Bound, :lml thut it will ultimafely Lo found in that dirce- on. DI.1. 1. MAYES, Dr. 1. I, Hnyes communicated his viows on the Polaris dlsnstor to n Zy7bune roporter last ovon- ing. Deside confeming all” of Ohiof Justico Daly’s nttorancos on tho_subjoot, ho thought tha tho injuries to the Polaris which causcd tho disastor woro directly duo fo hor dofoats of con- struction. The Government had always pro- vided misorably Inndaquato yossols for Arclio oxpeditions. Tho vessol in which ho had mado his own expedition in 1860, wan only about half ay lurgo as the well-known yacht Ilonvietta, ‘Tho Navy Dopartmont way to Llawo in allowiuk such violonco, or on aubh a sorviao, [ ol cfi porlo%c Exo the commander, a1 rfi 1is lack bt 'ovenis |, 1less of ‘nattire; grobnbly onusod'Isx digolpling in~ b t wonld secnrliluly that thero +na dissension on bonrd tho Polaris, and thio'ox~ pedition was n\v}»m‘oully Dndly mnnaged. Tho statemonts publishiod as miue,..said .Dr, Hnyes, . thot Iall wos put to donth by his mon, aro wildly oxnggorated, I havo unl{ suggentod that thero {8 tho morent posuibility that such. was his fato. Ho wad “n'man 67~ wondarful pluck nnd resolu- tion, hnd, if his life had:beon sparody yould not have givon ovor - the sttempt 0 reachi the Tolo for two {upm Tongor nt lonat. ‘ITo wou .o "groat’ trinmph in going further north with his ehip than shy man ovet bofore; though otliera haya gono as for in aledgos. Mo lLins proved, whotXdlways | olaimdd, that Bmith's Sound is navigable, and tho nsego futo tho opon Tolar Boa. : Tho, objoot of tho"slolgo expodition' mado o short timo boforo his death must have been to go further north with n,bont to navigato. this opon Bod. As to tho porsons loft on tho Polaris there is godd ronson .to Ay aosn that thoy oro still | living, and it is not nnlikely that the vossol'moy. bo liero by Boptember. If tho ship wore wrocked fragmonts and ronch Uporrinvicl, the -most_dis~ tant polut of the Danish coloniea in Groenland. < NEXDY GRINRELL, A Tyibune xoportor called, lagt nighty on. -Bone b by 5 sbotal, €664,710.08, loaving n balanae fn ohaory of 81,018,490, ' Durlng tho year, 274 olportourn” have boon employed. They hold 8,008"roliglons maotings, mada 230,085 family vlsite, fonnd 86,032 Protestant familin who hiab= tunlly nogloctéd ovangolienl. pronching, 0,081 fawlilos of. Roman Catliolics, and 12,200, Prots ostant familics without the Bible. Durlng th thirty-two years sinco missionnry colportage waa * inaugurated by the Soclety, 10,187,050 volumes * Tinya bodn #old, 2,714,063 volumos givon nway 263470 roligloun. jneokiuge held, ovor. 11,0000 -family visits mado, 504,108 Protestant famliios- found without ‘tho Biblo, and noarly o million fomilios - dostituto- of othet roliglous - worke. ‘ Tho work of tho Boclety hais also boon oxtonded and productive of great good throughout Chins, ™ India,' Africa, Porsin, Byris, Turkoy, Italy, Bo- homin qu:& Yortuga chii, 2 myo'xlco, Brazily ond ofbior forelgn countrlos, + -+ | “GOOD WILL AMONG MEN.” {tor from tho Lato, Ohici-Justice Tho Wilmingtén Q. 0 Journat 0 Wilmington (N, 0.) Journal publish Totior from Cilof Jantion Ghasrr et ha o 'i;l:g: bo‘law, profacing it with the followin, : ' In 1809, whon Judgo Chaso wi i e Juno torm bf tho Nodogal Contt In n‘;gllf;fi‘ufig Tonry Grinncll, at his resldedco, No. 1 strook. Mr. Griunoll lind nspootod the Polarls, aud was intimately ‘acquaintod with Oapt. Hall. Ho bolloyed thet evorything waa dono that could bo doue for tho dafoty of t’{m * Polaris, "Sho was. nat oxnctly the vessol ho would havo built for that purposo, but in hia opinion sho was s well fitted for the, ux[zoodnlon a8 any boat in tho navy. Bhe was too’ * wall-elded,” but that was nota' mnttorof groat ‘'moment. The-Govern: mont deecrvos oredit for dolng overyihing in lhulr’\:ower for tho promotion of scicntific ro- search and tho eafoty.of thoso m‘?" od in this oxpodilion. The crew was cara! ul? solectod and comprised & numbor ‘of old whalors and Arotio gonmon who had had extensive oxperienca in oricountoring the sovoro Northorn wintors, e officors wera nll doubtloss good uailors and oxcellont ]r{.nn, Lut the Polaris sallod uuder ordi- nng,mum nubnorvleo‘d.!uul‘gnno, which was a serfous mistako, - Naval officors &hould have beenin commnnd, and the vessol should havo boon undor.tho: strictest naval discipline, Mo | oflicars should hiave hind the powor that thoso in tho navy havo. This was o doficioncy not to bo counterbilanced by any morit in other depart- mobts; Copt, ITal, too, poskosted vory Mitl oxporionce, and had nover commanded man 'to any “great " oxtont.” Ho wns tio familiar with his men, which ia a most sorious orror, s tho Oaptain ehould, to o dogreo, stand nloof'from his craw, -which 'conrao is especially neceseary wlhon o vossol s to cruiso in a region 80 romoto from law nsis tho Polur Sea. Capt, Buddington was an old whalor nnd was intimate- ly acquainted with tho navigation of Polar sons, .but nothing can take tho place of naval author- _il{lnnd digcipline, Foars have disturbed me not ttlo, snid Mr. Griunoll, that the oxpedition would prove a failure on this very account. ‘Whatovor is accomplished in the cause of mcl- enco will bo duo to Dr. Bissols, Ho has raceived n aclontific oducation, and is an onthusinst on -tho subjoot - of &ciontific research in tho North. Capt. Holl was first enthusiastic on the subject at the timo of the sonding out of tho oxpedition in gearch of Bir John Franklin, His enthusinsm gavo way to an_intenso donire to discover the North Polo. IHo s not n scion- tifio man, and hps never protended to Lo ono, nor i Lio an onthusiest on tho subjoct of sclen- tiflo research, From tho nowspapor* nocounts T think it highly probablo that tho vessel “and_all on board oro #afo, and thot' sho will roach this §"" by tho lst, 'or at any rato by tho 16th of eptomber noxt. - fr. Grinnoll and family foel anxiaus for tho enfoly of @ flag bolonging to {hem, which ac- companied tho expedition. 'Fhis flag will vio in famo with any of the tattered battlo-flags of tho lato war, It nccompanied tho oxpedition which;. sailed _south undor the command of Commodoro Willkos many yenrs ago, and by Lim was carried further south than tlio Btars and Btripes Lnd over” beon boforo. - Commodoro Willes presiontod the flag to Mr. Grinnell, in 1850, and in the samo year it wont north with the oxpedition commanded by Do Hayden, aud wag carried farther north thon the American flag Lind ovor boen proviously, It again wont north with Dr. Hayes, and that, tmo was taken thirty-soven miles farther north than beforo. Tho flag was intrusted by Mr, Grinnell to Capt. Hall, whe eaid that ho sould plant it on tho polo iteolf.” " Thio,flag ia abont fivo foot by two aud o haif, and is o rogular man-of-war's bont onsig. gt gl s o' Juvenile Murderers, Only o fow days ago we guve an account of the murder of onn.bioy by -auovher, -T'onusylvania, Tlus killing was dono, nccording to tho state- ment of the murderor, for & pound .of sugar. "o chitd bind o swook tooth i his Lead, and, to 'Ernlify Llig li:msinn for Bweots, killod a neighbor's oy, with whom Lo hed played and awapped Xnives, and ongaged in innacont boyigh gamos, Now tho story comes of _a boy killing o girl in' Bouthern Cayugs, N. ¥. The boy was a Germnn of about 18 yoars, very slight and light for Lis ngo. -1le givos bif nanio na_Oharles Ligglor, end states that hois from Ucberlinger, Grand Duchy of Baden, where lis father,. and mother, aud brothers, and sistors live. Mo also has an un- clo, Charlog’ Barrier, ;o Indianapolis. Ho camo over from Gormany about ten months ago, and ongngod with ‘Abram Wescatt, of Cuyugs, ns form bof’. Heo had not-been long on tho farm, and could speak very littlo Englis. .-Ilis broken tongue amused an orphan girl of 18, whom Mr. snd Mis, Wescott had- fnkon to raise. Bhe in- conwiderately laugled at’ the forcign aecent and _blundering words of tho boy. Mr, and Mrs, Weecott went awny on & visit ono dny, and loft Charles Egglor on tho farm, and tho orphan, Ettle’ Conklin, to tako_ caro of the houso, It was nrranged: that a noighbor's girl should go to tho houso and boar Ettic company, "ho girl wont assoon s shia was disengagad, aud . found theldoor' of Wescolt's Louse open, and Titie lying on the floor. dend, with a shoc-ma-. kor'n knife stioking in hor back, The girl raised on alarm, and tho people assombled to lewn abaut the tragedy, Thero wora govoral cuts in tho breast and back of the doad girl, and in the Inst wound the knifo wassticking so fast that tho body.wag lifted of tho floor by it in tho effort to oxtrackit, Eggler was' nowhoro-to bo found, ‘but & pair of squarc-tood bools of Mr. Wescott's woro.gong, and the fugitive was traced by their trocks, Ho wos oaught, and placed in jail ab Ithaca. In his packetswore found photographs which he seys wore Ricluros of his -father, mothor. and sistors, Thoy aro _good-laoking, woll-tiréssed poople, The boy made the follow-- ing atatemont through on iuterpretor.: **Was born inBadon, Germnny, whero my pa~ ronts atill reside. Larrived at Castlo Garden by tho stenmor Thuringis, about ten months ago. About tivo weeks ngo I hired out 6 nmanto come ont in tho country. As soon ns I arrived at Mr. Weecott's I wonttowork and have worked bard over ginco I have been thero. On Baturday I was in tho lot spreading menuro until 10 o'elack. I was hungry and' wont to tho houao to ot somo bread, Ihe girl told me to gooat, that couldn't hayo nny bread. Teaid I wanted bread, ahon sho tried to put me ont.and kicked abwo, Ihad thatstrap in my hand (roferring to the strap around his waist at tho time of his arrest), sud when sho Iricked ‘me X struck her with it. Sho gat tho stiap awsy from mo—slio wey too stout for me, ‘Lhen we lad n regular battlo. I elapped hor in the face nand sho slapped me in tho faco, Whilo wo wore fighting I saw the Knifo on’ tho table whichthey ueed to paol potatoes with, and 1 caught it up and struck her with it. Sho start- od to run to thoe door .and #creamed. I caught Tior by tho bair, Puuw or back, and struok Lior sgain with tho knife, I was so mad I don't know how many times I struck her “aftor that. Whon sho foll.on the floor I ran _away, If sho ind given mo bread thoro would have beon no fight. 8he was un ugl¥ girl; and had abused mo aver sinco I bad been there,” Bo it nl]\pnm that this murder was _committed for brend, The Loy was huugry and asked for somothing to cat and Lilled the little girl who rofused hini, 'Uhe examination revealedno othor motive, and tho confession will probably bo takon as stating tho_facts. - Egglor says lio Iy forry for what ho has done, and supposes ho will hiave ta hang for it.” Tlo writes a'goad ‘educated hand and I8 not o bad-looking boy. Wo lm?’ $001 have sccounts that Lo was conalitulionally hungry, and had become orazy on tho subject of soutothing to eat. —— e American Tract Socloty-=Tho Forty= ihth Annivorsnry == Siatistics of tho Yearrs Worke Fron the New York Times, Say 12, Tho fon(y-uigmh annivorsary of tho Amorican Tynet Bucloly was celebratod lnst ovening by o public meoting, in the- Memorlal Church, cornor of Madison avonuo aud Yitty-thivd stroot, 1Ton. Goorgo 11, Btunrt, of Ihiladelphin, presided, The Becrotary of the Socioly, Mr, Btevonson, mado o statoment of tha doinga of the Bocloty fortho pnst year. ‘Tho Bociely has iswwod 103 now publications during tho past year, and had printod tracts and other’ publications in 148 lane I:ulgml and dislocts, Tho roceipts for the year h donations and logaclon wore $116,878,01 ; ealos, £420,887,65, mnking, with balanco in the Tronsury and halanco from rent fund and building loan, £€500,029.42. Tho Boclety hna oxpondad it pube lishing books aud tracts £284,400.09; poviodi= oals, $118,28.80; colportours, sgoncles, and x!ulmultoxius, €107,982.89; socrotarios, 9, 670.92: appropristions ' for furign and pagan h\nda. §7,304.00 ; nl} othor oxponsos, §47,+ receivod o lotter from Br. J, B, Williama, th | Proaident of n National Bunk in Now Yorlt mfyn and n porsonal and political friond of tlio Chiof Justico, taking fasuo with him for kindly and fratornal ~ pontiments- oxpressod in a lotter to Capt. H, B. Mnnnlns “of Ohorleston, Whilo Judgo Chase was hol Ing court in Charloston, during the latter part of May, 1869, ho was in- vitod by Capt. Manning to_ottond tho momorial sorvices of ¢ho Union doad at Magnolin Como- tory, noar that city, and in reply wroto tho lotter towhich Mr. Williams objoectod. Mr., Williama had boon before the war Prosidont of a Btato bank, ond hnd opposed theNationnl Bank syatem and other leading financial measuros .which Judgo Ohaso, thon Sccrofary of tha Troasury, ‘was urging upon tho consideration of tho Gove ornmout for {ts adoption.'" Tho following is tho lsttor: 7 *' Rrxrai, N, 0,, Juno 10, 1869, " Dea ;X rogrot. that ihe perusal of my Iottor to Capt. Manning eauscd ¢ painful disantis. {action’ to you, for I am sure tht you aro patri« otic, and xot intonttonally unjust, Doubtloss Jou remembar oconsions upon whicl your sotiva 0stility to monsuros of finunce which, na ecro- tary of tho 'W'rensury, I thought indisponsablo to tho suceons of the national arms and to the por- manant wolfara of tho country, caused painful dinsatisfaction to mo. Tho profont name of tho institution which, you maunga with:so much ablhtg and success, shows that you Yinvo nban- doned your apposition to' oue, nt loast, 0f thoas moasuros, It is, porhape, not imposublo that you will change your mind aa to tho- sontiment you conauro. It scome to mo that: taken in co noction witli tho contoxt from whloh - your qu tation soparatos it, ita monso cannot bo mie- takon. 1t is, that Lruo_patriotisin roquires that tha'close of o great civil war shonld bo marked, nobiby prosoription or . disfranchisemont, but by mantfostations of sincoro good will, espocially from. the succossful to tho unsuccessful, and by fonorous racognition of whatover waa rolly rave and earnost and noble fh thoso who fought on the failing side. I have-no sympathy with tho spirit which rofuscs to strow flowers upon the graves of tho dend soldiors who fought againet tho sido I took: and Iam glad to know tliero was no such spirit among those who joinod in decorating.the graves of the soldiors of tho Union who lio buried at Magnolia Comotery. The mnguolia lavishen ite perfumes as freely, tho plonsant alr broathes aa softly, and tho Warm 8un shino as brightly over Confedorato as over Union graves. _ In thio lotter which has incurred your consure, T sought to put into the bLearts of my countrymen gome*hing of the divine charit; tnuiht by the troe, tho air, and the sun, a8 woll s by the procopts of our Bavior. I boliove it hing done gome goed, and I beliove it will do mora. ¢ T havo read your extract from the speech of ¢ one of onr brave Gonerals,’ whom you do uob namo, 'Choronro some good sontimonts in it and Bomo not 5o good, O _tho whole, I profor the lottor to tho'spoccl, and I am sorry to diffor from you 5o far.as'to think that, of the two, the letler *is mont bocoming’ tho position which I hold. The Chiof Justica 18, X think, not illy em=- ployed when . ho inculcates good will amoung men, > T notice thiat you more than intimato that ‘my lottor was promptod by smbition, It cortain- Iy was not, Idonot think L ever was g0 ambi- tlous 08 somo ‘anambitious poople Lave Topro- wontod ma. At any rate, Lam NOW UNCONSCIOUs of any othor ambition than that of dving a8 much good nnd na Littlo barm ns possiblo. I have no Gouucotion with polities. I meithor seck nor ‘oxpeck any politienl position, content to loave to youngor men nl tho contontfons and diatinotions of politieal lifa.- Ishall be fully eatisfled with my shiaro of. tha &vnnuml wolfaro, which it may be hoped_wisg , and genarous_statosmanship, with God's blossiris, will seouro for our country. Very rospect Lull; 'y 8. P, Cmase." NEWS PARAGRAPHS, Another Towa. woman hns beon giving herself hews -in tho matter of, four pairs.of twius in soven yeara, ¥ —Tho &ropmcd Y. M. C. A. California oxcur- sion_haa been abandoned becauso tho railronds would not make entisfactory arrsngoments, —The Now York Tribune is beginning work upon its new huudlng on its old site, cornor of Nngsuu and Spruce, 1t and cost £400,000. B —Tho Boston Post has purchased, a8 a loca- tion for itsnew Luilding, ‘the sito of tho birth- placoof Benjawin Franklin, & lot adjaining the ‘Transcript estate on Milk stroot. Tho Advertiser building " is on the sito of Franklin's firet print- ing-ofiico. -having occasion to cut his throat last weok, con= widarately wont out on_tho, bnak pinzza with & oporation, in order to aveid making o muss, . —A Now York gontleman, who lns ocoupied’ the sawo lodgings in an up-town house for sov- eral yoars, is about to mave becauno. tho' man abor L, who waighs 400 pownds, has, by tha adyica of u physioiun, taken ta clog-danciug, in order to cheek bis obesity. - —Iatolligonce has como to us from the Paciflo const that tho experiment madeby Soth Greon in tuaneplonting fho shad of tho Hudson to tho Pa- cifio waters hus been succossful, and tho shad of the Mudson taken to tho § beon' cought In .the Bay-of Ban I'rancjsco of & . sizo for the tablo, - < —Tho Bendors, of Kansas, nccording fo an Omnhu papor,: eliould -ba put ou o resorvation, Do woll fad, ‘o plouty of provonts, and should e kopt from tho contaminating infiuence of tho trontiorsmen. They srotoo govd Lo bo * choked to death with s rope.” ° o AT . —Tho Fort Wayno (Ind.) Sentinal vory .toraely and elegautly snile of o late railroad sccident W1 wak fost asleop, Srmly claspod in the arms of both Morphous and Somuus, and was only awakened by the glorious light that shone ‘from the judgment-noat in the world boyond tho river.” Now if tho Sentinel will only toll ug’if tho man was much hurt ornot, our anxioty Will' be ro- loved. —XRiaflrond responsibility is not a logal flction in England, at all evonta. ~ An onlicial statement submitied to tho House of Lords shows that, from 1807 to 1871, tho companios paid over £8,~ 000,000 (gold) for liborties Laken wilh tholives ox limbs of thoir patrons, and $11,742,810 for do- ovor there hava a: poworful motivo for taking K\liuu to dolivor thair luggagoe, animato and inan«- ato, in good order, - —The Now Orleana Oporn-Tloueo, an’ clogank atruoture, which . originally cost ‘$220,000, was: sold Dy the Bheriff the athor day for §40,000, or thelr stroota on o large o ecale of late . that they caunot bo expocted to patroniza theatros noz Thogpian treasuror vetires from bis box, aud the BhorifT eollects tha admission fop from tho Apoce tators, who aro also actors or supornumoraries, - Loutsville Courier-Journal, —Moro evidonco that the English tongne {a fast becoming tho languago of the world comen from far away Siaw, tho Kingof which realm haa fust establisliod Lo Inglish schools for the adu-~ cation of the sons of Lis nobles. Theso futura Asiatio aristoorats nro to boabla to converso with and read tho litorature of tho paug]n of Uroat Britain apd the United Btates. I'ronch mey romain the lnngim\ge of European courts, but the commercial tonguo of tho world is un- doubtedly tho English, and hie knowledgo of it I sproading with overy tresh portin Asin and Afvicn opened to commorco, with tho advent of Gaoch Aworican In Jopan, Ching, aud Egypt. ~—Those who clhioat tho Btato out of taxes, by undorvaluation of their personal proporty, often Touo moro. than lioy gain by tholr raseatily. 16 tho property Iu destroyod by fir, It usually turus out" that 1t hos been insured at a much highor figuro than 1t iv estimntod at on the Assossor's books, and n compatison of tho oaths made to thio Askessor and in tho proof agalust the nsur- anco company is apt to dovelop tho disorapanoy, “his 16 o good thing to boar in mind when tho Asuossor vomes round, A gontloman in Cinclus neti, who has insured s libravy for 81,000, which 15 only ratod st 9600 for toxution, I8 in troubly whout il watter,—St Louts Demoorak puil, over which Lo held his’ hond during tho ronder the logitimato drawma .profitable.. 8o the . —A commondably noat Mussachusotts mon, * ncrainonto havo stroyed or dameged property. Common earriers less than one-iifth of its firat cost. Tho’ peopls - of Now Orleans bavo bad' & melodramatio - meluigo of tragedy and low comedy played on . will bo eiyht storios high, .