Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 8, 1876, Page 10

10 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: BATURDAY JANUARY 8, .wo—TWELVY PAGES, e e L e emeemperm e’ THE PENITENTIARY. A Fecble Imitntion of Tweedism Uncarthed at Joliet, Additions to Bills for Supplies Furnishod the Prison, Peculations Within the Walls, and the Extent o Which They Were Carrled.On. Religions Exercises ns ‘ot Prosont Con- duoted~Effoot on tho Prisoncrs, ‘Warden McOlaughry and His Idan< agoment of Prison Affairs. TWhen it becamo neceseary to onlargo tho os-' pacity of tho Htate Deuitontiary, aud when it aleo becamo necossary to conttalize tho location of that inatitution, the theifty, enterprising City of Jollot was found to hiavo o longing tor some- thiog it bad not, aad to thirst for tho gnesliona- ‘bl famo af Leing pointed out as tho homoof tho crimfunls of tho Commonwaalth. Alton, where the old ‘prison bhad been located. was not inclived to mnke war ou JoMot's nmbition, but did not yhold with- aont a seoming stragyle. Joltet wag snccosaful 4n gotting tho priton, and with it tho degreo of prominence in tho Stato resulting therefrom sthich it now enjogn. Tho stono for thoe eirmet- uro wag at hand, and the builling was com- ploted and ocenpled, From that time on Joliet Lias beon a terror to tho criminaf classes of all +types and conditions, and tha prison manzgo- ‘ment o fruitful bone of contention in Stale aud county politics. ha procs of the ftalo hay Iong sico bocoms acenstomed to lonis fu that direction annustly when . search of o sensation or -dorruption in bigh placas, sod each wucccefve Tepizlatore Las been as prowgt in (b3 juvestigationa of tho aoktitution year after yoas ag-the old-timo indi- viduel meraber was to apply Tor hia railrond pas and dimw Ly por diem aud mileaga In advance Maay of Lo investigatione have uot beeu in wain, nor withont restits benefleial alike to the conviets ead t3 tho csedit eud ceannmy of {ho Covarnmaens. In , they lave trans- v of JINNN0Y . o self-muitalning, & e nnee of reveue ty re-thictioth of It tumn aouwai ALu 4 VE Lo vis luveeigation ity to ‘tho i pusely ¢ tho auset fng tos,—for this “to tho loeal Proag, o veil adoduato foz tho wor's whan 1t hed 14 couraga,-—ba spo:lly to fallow up £omo reporty whieh had bnd enr- rency m Clicago 0 rafecenco to the disscusions among the nubozdinates cf the prison, which wero 16t hikely to contrihuto to the harnony e guccers of tho gewornl menagemont, Auothur object 01 the vixit Wos to tnkio i comory s at tho pandon-lisy of tha year, tho reruleof whic wan presented Batarday, and ahio L0 ot nb e facta 83 aro uat generally knowa to the puois cennection with the recont maneroment, Tho reportor, upon mok: tumeed aud lun mission kuown, wes grected vory corHally by thy Warden, UAT, WrLATG: aud avery facility was accorced hiin whareby hie could becomo informed mpon such matters oy suggested thomrolvea. Tha Wurden in com- peratively & yonng man, u gent'enun of edien- tion aud ~ remnoment, “aud jus whole hoart 1 apparently in bis business. ‘Lhar o s not sdapted 1o tha pomnon De Lolds would hiapresa ona from bis ogsy-going manners, £nd the aluonca of nuvthing i bin wpe );f.unnru that wonld etawp biw & comununder, 1 former life, mlitary and cin), wonld seeu, howover, to npeet this impression, for fn tho ar- wy he was known a5 a brave soldier au atli- cor of moro than oiGinaty excsative ablity, Eut Tis carcerat $hio priean, xo fur, mey bo gaid to be thot of au experimenter, for hefote baing an- inted to the position ko 1o Liolus hiv lifa had on vaid of peison exparionca, He had seen o fi;cnt deal of the differcnt phindes of soviatyrand ®» busy Jife had boen brougut into cons foct with @ cerinjy Ado of erimis nule, Ilo bad koen an msivictor, however, zather than ruler, Tl cppernenco with erd inals and in the pulpit or on the rostrmm boen as a tomperanca loctuter, sud oven no! Lis thoe fs divided botwoen tho caure of 1 oranco it Jollet and the keeping of Lbo esin iols consigned to his cherge. To s said by pome that his appointment s Warden was tho Tesult of a clerical error i making out his com- mirsion, And thas he was ntended to ovenpy tho porition of Chaplam ¢ but, whether thiy bu o or not, 0 fur there lus bean litlo cause for complaint_nkajust htm, To the contrary, the plandits of bin wanagement which have gouo forth have Locn nuaderans. in most cases well-tius; TWazn b in remembered thet just prior ‘o of the ipctitmion & storm of publie mdigoution way groiug np all over tho Btato on reconut of the cruolty ol the punistments, from which eversl duntbis resul- ©¢d, nud it I8 now statod thae the diseipiine is equally a3 good 48 8% that timo, and thut pone fshimonis nwve boon roduced 47 per cent, the chango wraugbt s npparaut, Mot ouly hius tho smaber of punishments beou reduced, but their ceharactor has olso baou modifled to the extent of aboliabig #ho ol * ballering,” tho **ico- bath," the * eand-bnge," aud kindred destl- producing punfsfunents, 1y pasyimg through the institution tho raport- or was handad |?‘ tho Waidon a teiter wrilion by » priconer, wineh is not only » fair sunple of FRISUN LITERATURE, But will go to uhow tho outside world somathivg ot prison lfo, tho priviiegds of prisonsms, aod she rigidity of tho wmviptine sven under the mofificd hystem of punishtaent, ‘Tho lotter was witten by i 108h upmed Thomas Hanilton, toa faend tamod Smith, who, o bed heard, had armvod at the prison, write to oun auother i4 an iulrachion of lmnuu rules, and At tho timo tha letter Wy handod the reporter [swmilton was ending bLiw third day i solinpry cuntinement, whoro ho bnd . subsigted on oread aud water ns iy penaueo, Fha lettor was simply o New Yoar's giecting, but fo tho reader it muat apoear o contly ouo. 1t waos as follows, tho rouder boing lett to gnesy atwhat b caunot undoratand : Gradn QuUab, Deo, 30, The—Fnienn Hutri: 1 wish 30u o happy Nuw Year, I Joarned througl Tuowipeon that you bud wrrived for ono yosr, und was Indeed Rlad fa liear tiat you got off 10 lght, s you 3old mo that you oxpoated wbout ton yearw, I ik w0 wero hutls very fortunato, sithougih we wero i zard Ik, T hopo wo may piay better luck next tiny, out ziot 4o thia Blato will 1 try o piay it § $hink (i oue of the burdest buna 1 ovar kot tnto, 1f they do five * dandy fuuk " ouce » woek, 1 woulid rather by wlicro T could suako my own * dandy funk” und Wdropn? And, oh) give me rowe drupw. Scotty was 'tollivg e alsu st you was weldng for me, ‘Lt vegutablo Louso whors ‘you suet asuch & Bica placa to Work, Wit it, capecially on & 3l day, 1 understand thul You ure u tie Luspita),— spital place § you cali uppreciato it, ae you ure fond 3t good ivinic, 1 wus working with the masous, 1t 14 work buro, 'Fhury 18 no such things ou koft Jobe hars, Mthough 3 might of bud u good job if I Lad not of ‘old thew § was o bricklayer, Dut I Lavo only uing icare sud s piece, Butly, Lam golug Eat whew Jet oty ‘The chango in diacipline hiss uot been withont s cost, and woy fonnd to be really 41 THE BOTTOM OF THlE DINSENSION AND BTRIVE ibat now oxiste swong the owployes, Doputy- Warden Hall, ono of the protoges of the old Vansgement,~a MAd who dispiaged niore Jubu- anamty i tho punishing of urikoners thon wes »wer lieard of fn similar justitutions, wliosn rigor mas never toned by education or anected by ho donths it caugod,—thongh remoyed by the )d wad rolgstated by the uew mavagemont for iomo cauee or &wotler, uotwithelandiy bis sezord. It appears thus ho bow rosisted all at~ iomps 8t chaugiog the punisliments, and from a0 1ight agaives mh. Wham, which lod to 0 Tpmo of the lsttor, he guined iha contidence of tho Comnusstoners, sud w wme extent Las bad their sympathy i the strugglo. Flus, Whilg It may not u\)rou %0 on o taco, It s a fuot, neverthcleys, that s de- greo uf wtrifa, or & wutit of harmiony of wpipiun, a8 grown up betwean ths Waiden and Hudl, Los iween tho Wardeu and the Comnnssioners, sud setweon many of the cmployes and Hall. "This way tna condition 0f affairs aswasn by the ru. Enner. aud was wot doufod by the suthorities, spocially weg thialuek of barmony found to axiut botwoen MALL AND TUE SUFPLY AND DELIVERY CLEXK, A may pumed Murray, who biss been gounectad ¥ith the prison & number of vears, It wan ‘ayud that the disagroeusot bad been wo great but tho dixpute bad bosu suvmited to tho Comnissionors for vettlewent. Hall was ro- porfud aa the ausbor of 1bo diffioultios, which prow oat of Lis making complawnt to e Board To talk with or, to the affect that Murray wan a traltor, un. fricndly to Gov. Bovotidge, unteliablo, ote.. aud onght Lo be removed, to sustain shich ho pros duced fattorn from ox-Warden Eudwards and ox- Commisolouer Iiced, who bavo a bistory which has aiready been told, The fact that IHall wont tu such o sonres for * charantor ™ for Murray fa au evidenco of the intensity of tho fosiing exint- ing among tho enlordiontes, from which an estimnto of tho oxtont of the wrangle can Lo formed. Thoir diflculty was foally a'nioably adjusted by tho Iloard for tho timo, the natonishing featare boing thna considering T{all's relation to Lho 0id Board and that of tho o!d and now hards, Murray was not dismissed Dat thistronble is ovidontiy not at an cud, snd.whathns beou 1elated mny not bo th full oxplanatton of tho situation, in viaw of cartain facts which camo to tho knowlodgo of the ro. porter during hia further ingninos, It sppears that in TRE DLD DI FIONT WHAN dan, which ted to his dismiesal, Commis- T Houthwortn fook tho lead. Ho oven far as to request ano of tho employes to watch Whom's condues, aud to. nacegtain the trutk or falsity of reporta entront at the timo that o “wran fmporting hoga from Bpringlicld, fattening thom at tise expaneo of tho State, and then par- chosfag them of himwell for tha Hate; that be had an Interestin tho bosf-contract ; and that b waa Aceenting and paying for nfes10r— if not rotten—insat, Tho vmplove was avor- farthful, it appears, and took notcs, not only in raferenco to Wham, butala n roforenco to IH=lf and his mnn Sleeper, who at the tine woro tho pots of tho Boand, ‘Uhe notes againat Whawm 10nds - out:s proug ¢ago 1 the nuud of tho 13oard, oud led to his dismisspl. Subsequontly, Tilit 5OTeS TAKES AGAINST WAL ; wore Infd before tho Itanrd wnder oath, showing that 1t had heen tho custom ot Hall and Bleoper to walk away with hawmw, chunks, of dned beef, #acks of flour, hags of beauy, rud cccasionally o faw pannds of fresh stoak, all tho property of fo Hiate. At the timo it Way tho custom of tho rrlson mpangement to Pell employen their provislons, and it was a rula that wliatever wan vo sold should Le reported at tao ol chargod, Tho articles Lhat Houth- worth's msn noted as being talten off daring. n pevivd of feveral montha wero not to churzel, eml 1o inade afil tusit ta tha Baard of tho dates rud itors, from which the following s axtracted, rh‘"-.'\lvhx;: tho amouot of pecilation for Javuary, a9 W e venL B0 . 11—=[Ta11 an1 Sleapar, one bam esch, 1y Uil L1, —1fally 13 ponspda of Aeat, dlzppet, 0no bam and dried beef, ~Lfall, 19 poun: (4 of stesk, Tho resalt of this vhawviog to tho Board ‘wag that Mr. 1Iat vvao ent -0l from tha nosessity of eatrying any more provisiony off for Lae support of s family by hosing bim ntove them to the prigon, tor which there appezrs to bo no anthor- ity of law or precedont. Lhe exposire had nav- vral otaer ofests, but did not Aucceed in camsing 1Iall oc Sleener to vacato thair vorttive, Ono wag tho diechargo of tho inforiaant, and anothior the promulgation of £n arder againat Half'a inferiom taking provisions irom tho Lawtitution, avd againat the Biate cua~ tinging 1o ran & market-housa aud w grocosy in connoet:on with tho prison, ‘Lho effect was, no ioubt, whalesumo, 8o Yar a3 it corzected husineer Iazity, which was aknost eriminal, for thero is no teliing {io nmonnt of goodn that had boen ear- wed nway evory dey, An iden of ths exteat ey i»e gained frozi tho fackthut nftor the order hnd baen jxzue avden sags he found it neces- sary ta g aly plaes o watchman over the Warden's heuss, whers tho provisions were wtared, to ol ageins’ the pagstbtlity of con- duued pesulations, srbiel tio bt beow tuformed wure goiog on there, and tho man was here at iho timo of the 1eperter’s visit, e conduct of tha lalorauat in tha expa- nnre, howaver, to whieb it i belicvod Muerar wai and which lact is, pi 4, the real 12 for tho war bobveon I sud Mure rav,—aouglt to bave bitil: kim up in tho couil. deteo and osteem of the mavagomant, bus it did aat, e tosalted ta Hail's advaatage. Notwiti- standing what has boon waid agalnet ITatl w tha paet, wiat is wow voforead to, kud what Is lott uusaid for tho prekent, it can bo said of him. and to Lis credif, that aff ¢ho public koow of “C:A8i PARDON LOSINESS of astalintical clinvactor is hia haudiwork, may Go asceused of troachers to tho pu- tties and to the Governor of thy o in viow of bis proteynng tho enmg iat ono af his fallovi-oflicors and uim dismisaed therefor, but Lo eat an cxamination of she pardon ligt, tor witich these Baving tho good b heart will dovoutly thank tlm witli- ont wtojpnz to question iy motives or to - quirs into the broils brtweou him aud his co- warlier, After gatting o pretty genoral insight into tho intornal divscumons of tho institution, and into the rofornu inangarated notwithatazding there, tho reperter (hot took un a clow” handed hiw kindly before laaving Chicago, 1o bad learned thattho matter of pecufatfon nd the institution had nat becn couflaed Lo tha takitg off of goady surreptitioaly bv omployes, but thet there was Pussibly an cqually HERIOUH LEA 5 e a 3 Lo hinva THE OWGINAL PUNCHANE Aaf thie wae, eapocially whero thoy waje uot do- isvored on coutracts publicly fet. The pentle- man haviag ehargo of the purchassy, wito s known us stewstd, was found on inquiry to be comparaively o strauger in euttontisvry hig- tary, aznd whosa conticetion with tho lustitution dator sinco the tuore miportant {uvestigationy, &nd sluce tho | bresling of what was knomn n tho “ofd ring”” Bo wus fouud to ba a perscnat friend of the Wardeu's, and ¢ was cleimed by some that ho was largaly instra- mentnl in gecuring hig Appointment, t was nlso found that be kau been for years identified with X pelitics in certaln porlious of tho State, ond hold places of profit nud trust at Spriug- tiel, aud heside had gomo mitlitary glory whict Lind given ham s title. o bo plaw, and toie- hiave all mida )Ymuunnlon. g nwtae was J. D, Iatmlton, nod bo appouts to havo reached years of discrotion wauy sumwers sga. Tho aitega- tions the reporter was it possugsion of wotein cffeet shat. Mr. Hamilton hiad beou recoiviug A VERY LARUE PEIOENTAGE ou many of L purchwies for the fnstitntion, and thar e had thereby gnioed consideralils waulth, o the detriment of the State. Ths charges wero of the must delluite character, ant the evideunco wes said to bo dectintunbicy, aud o matter of record, hoth at tho piison and 1 Chileugo, sk weut to vhow that Haaulton hed recoived on certain purchsees fram 16 to 30 por cent. 'To tho rovorter, from tho nvestigstlonn fis tind wado prior to his viav, thece was o doubt af the trutlulnoss of the chargo, and his canvictions were slrengthoued by a fow guos- tions dexterously put by ‘the Warden when questioned a3 to whotlior ho knew avything of any auch trausnctions. In'tho conrao of the wtorview he botrayud s suspicion, at least, by askiug whoter tha ro- porter had referonco ta the paorchasa of u cors aju srticlo, buv that ho was ontirely ignorant ot tho facty ist tha csso be evidouced by 4l undne curiomity to know whst tho vevortor know, say- log iy oouneasion therewith that if ho could bo conyimeul that snything of ihe lind uad been going on be would dlumissa Homilton at once, whother the sulount of thie pilfering wos proat or mbull. Mo was assured in roturu thot e 1uformation in the potscasion ot the report- er was entirely raliable, aud that La had iy bis ‘w\clmt thu dates, nawes, sud amount, but that hoy contd not be then givon for tho reasun that thoy hod besn gotten under a plelge of “seorocy, .ifo still apposred incrodulons, but extitbited a déuire to see oll in pring, rators ating his datermitation to ave an honsst aud econome admingatration of afairs at all hzards, 8ud ik regrot that bis efforte bad come xo far uhort of success us 0 make the publication of wiuch charges porviblo, ‘The woy MR, MAMILTON AVPEAGS TO NAVC COXDUOTHD 1§ THANSAUTIONS Is very difforeat frum tlst of the otheromployes. 1t appienrs that whon bo wanted a cortain article for tho instilucion vo the purchsso of which bo thonght he ought to havoapercantage, be called n 8 thrd party, took Brun 1o Uhleago, aud the work was done, ‘I'io third party made the purs charo for Lim in tho name ot the lthnols Htato Ponitentiary, and tho pooda wera shipped, ote. ‘o Mnauato: Haunllon wants 1,000 poundy of supa He soen Jowos, and Jonos makes tho purchase for Lo, ssy atthe rate of 10 cents per poun: ‘I'ho wugar {8 sbipped to tho prisou billed at 10 conts, and 8 drafy lojlows for #5100, ‘Tlio sugsr 18 chargad on the huoks of L0 mercbaut ot 5 conts, and a bill 1y aldo rou- dored L0 Jonus for tha ¥ame smonnt. K'he priv- ou honors tho wwerchant’s dratt, aad the 3 oruty vor pound percontage s refunded to Jones, who pays icover to 1lansliou, und the prison suthor- ues a0 novor the wiser by it ‘Fhato 1w wue #uch trauuaction s this which bas come to the knowledgo ©f 1o seporter in which Mawe iitou's percentage was something lows thau 60, aud other transsctions we mo- cowstbly, aud csu wnd will be exposed WLED 3t beeolaes necesdsry, But this nugf:a W suflica to opun the eyes of tho \WWarden auna the Hoatd, aud of they oxercise hulf sho diligonce 1 their junuiries that sho writor Lns, their kpowl. adgu of tis exponres sud roceints of tluo prison 1o (he last twoive mouths will bo watorially eunbauced, oven it thoy du not find 38 nocessary 10 turu the koys upon more than ouo of tho e ploves of the inslitution. Lurulng fromuo system of peculation sud | pablic robbery, the noxt object calliug for at~ tontion way ‘ TAR RRLIAIOUR WORK i tho prison, tho intorost in‘whicli must be hoightenoed to tho publia by the partial but pa- thotic account of ¢ho oxeratson Christmaa Day, whon the two mutdorers, Gallaghior and Dutler, weoro_givon preaonls fresh from Lho hiands of tho Exeentive in tho shapa of pardons, on the recommendation of the prison authoritios. If thorendar could Liave gono with the revorter and Aen tho sutroundings of tho place of worsbip, aud picturod is his own mind tho array of erim- inals of ali t5pos, from the ordinary thief to the Linoathiraty murdorer, with upturncd, scorne fal faces, Nt by dorsive emiles, and at the mamo timo imagined the Chaplain filled Wwith -earnestness, ond warming up as ho apake to men® who cared far moro for a square meal and their liborty than theie future stato, aud mors for tho guatd caged at ono ond of the room, armed with an Eufiold riflo, than for the winister or his tenchings, and then imagived tivo vilo murdarers rocoiving their psrdous, they would hava frombled for the future, and been inclined to abed a tear in bebalf of dafeatod Juss fico, Whilon few may be impressod uud bouelited by theeo religious oxerciscs, tho majority, it is very ovident, obtend tho seryicos for the same rosgon that they go to worl overy momingy and if tliero iy an additional roason, it s fonod an tho . fact that & prisonor will do anything to gat out of bis confinomont., Thst this 1s €0 18 abundently demonsiratod in prison etatistics, and seoms to be confossed by the mausgement in tho reocnt eroction of a cage for tho occupsuoy of an armed goard, wiwse presenco has become necorsary to proservaorder and apparent attention durfug sorsice. To do- prive them onttroly of roligious and maral in- straction, howevor, would be ejually cevanrar ble with the fdea of forcing it upon them st the point of tho bayonet, Those of the wWidest ox- perlence in prisan diselpling and 1n dealing with crimiunls bave loug besn advocating L PRIVATE IN VREF] TO PULLIC RELIGIOT8 TRUCTIL nud bavo arpned vory succeeafully that the public or foint moetings ndoptud at Johot aixd wiany other Btate Prisons are conducive to more trouble, coufusion, snd dissstisfaction among privonera than ansthing olso, and that thoy avail themaolvoa of ‘anch neeasfone uniformty to cancoct aseape, lay plaua for overpowertug tho officors, and for wuch other doviliry nn their nkili Dlay sugrest, In fact, it is belloved that tho fustory of religious fustruction fu tho insti- tation will show that amoug those Lo lhave lLieretofora boon the greatort pretenders and tho mont dovout participants in the exercisey, n very large percantoge nre now in the institution agaii werving their eccond and thind sentences, THE COXTRACTONRS at the inatitntion apjeared ‘abundgotly satisfied witls tho present ninagetttesst so far as tholr {udividaal uterests wore coacerncd. Thoy wero lond, howaver, in thetr condemnation of Gov, Heveridgo for tho liberst uee of hig clomeney, ‘fhey argued that tha poliey was against tho intetost of the stitution, tonded to in- torfera with thelr success, &nd depraciated tho valuo of conviet labor. They maintained tust tho most of thoeo pardoued during tho vear wero the miost deporste characiers, and that some of theni bad alveady aervod n second uentenca nnd a fow hnd sioos entored upon their third, or warc inmates ot a similar jvstitution in other Niates. Tor the most part tho coutruclots wero found ralisble, solid, businesa men ; but s fow, it wnn lesrued, wero in arears to the Stato Jin largo amounts. tho prapriety of which iy, to aay tho least, queationnble. A LEAP-YEAR PARTY, special Carreapondence of The Chicaga Trisuie, Grsnva, 1L, Jau, 2.—A largo party gathored New Year's night, st the Public School Hal), at tha invitation of ths young ladics of the town, who inauynrated the year with the wost brilliaus assombly ever held in Gienova, . Tha Indics bad decorated tho hall most beautifolly with overs groonn, flowers, sod bright-plumazed birds. ‘The chandelior was lovely in yits trimmings of greon festoons, borchod upon which were acarlet oriolos and gay cedar-birds, ond n browu-coated wendel peeped out betweon the burners, A largo arch of ovorgroens sprang up ovor tha foot- Hghts o tho stage, with large lotters, excond. the compliruents of tho season, sueponded from {ta segmont. A largo wroath depended against tho noith ‘end of the hall whi the dato of the your, 1676, in gill figuves; whide on eltber #ide, In wmilar Jotters, intertwined with grocn wreathiug, wers tho cabalistic words, * f,eap-Year,” vihich rovealed tho secrst of the Indies’ mauscomont, Lvery window was fou- tooned with bright groon and Lenutiful fowera. A wise-looking fi{ttla owl sat porchod over the lurge wircath, sddiug muceh to the rusticity of tne decoration. 4 Tha costuman of the Indics wore most elegant, gud in perfect aste, and 1t wonld be invidlous to partioularizo. Thuir Horal adernmenty wore lovely. Who musie, by U'rof. Fitzgerald, wad ox- quisite, ‘Tho 1efeeslimonts wero spread in the Nbrivy-room, and wero palatable aud abnndant, Ou tho hlackboard at the eutrance to the room, was printed, in avgo lutters, Waolcome, Yonrs Koupeetfully—We Girla—1578, Tho vight beiug b‘uumn{(. tho aesombly broko up s httle heforo 12 o'clock s but, owing to the veusible management of the Indies, thoy bogan danciug prowmptly 8t 7 o'clock, and thus had plen- ty of uma to fill thele vaned aod intereating prograwms. The programmo anuouncoed tho fol- owing committees: Introduction—>ieses Lillio Teimbio, Vitgiuin Warren, Alfco Bonnott, Libbio Towuner, nnd Etin Piereo. Tloor-Managors— Tliss Biancio Loveday, Bello Beunctt, and Annio Harrieon, No puing were spared to make tho ocession o ol joyous one, It was an cminent succoss, sud tho ladies are to bo eredited with gotting up, snd carrylug through successfully, the most Lruliang aud elegant party over givon in Geuoya. T ey A CENTENRIAL RHYME, (PURLIBNED DY RREQTEST.) (In Oueshurg, 1, Dee, 3%, 1473, Dr. 4. 3. Motss, anoidand eateemneil citizen, was ‘tricken with spo- plexy, and aled befors asslatanca couhl bo calied, Hunday, Dec, 2, 1035, the First Church of Galesbury etnsed tho tue Of 13 twbornscls Cur the performancs of Masaule sorvices over hig Temaing,} Wo all roinember the actor who diel, A man who biad hved an upright ifa o How liia corpaue wan turued out of 8 gilded elmrel, In the (ace (f & stricken, hoar t-hraken wifs, Ilig trade vis o ¥bam, 80 the prescher aafd § Aud bl profeaston should bury its desd, Only fant weel: 8 yhiystolan felt Whilo trylug to sunwer a mck man's call ; Dica 45 i utls, with 1o Hps t0 tul} ow tho carcs of others wlghted b fall, i yenra bad o ahent for o piek lwro'nnd thera; Dut s churet refused tho poor corpeo s prayer, Hin sat, 51 19 urged, ina Mason's Lodge, Au Ordor an ol o8 the Church il ; A Brotherhood bousd in fraternal love, With no room for sectarian creed or self ; A Templar whodo ritual grew from the Word O Qud ua ft came through the Blussed Tord 3 An Order that teaches good-will (o nen, Regurdiens of colar, aplaton, oF race { Inuleating Charity, Faith, and Lope, And help nover nueasured by tino nr placa s "Tiunt comen botwoets wiilows and orplians aud want, Aud muakoth uo show of religlon of cant, Its loseons aro tanght within aacred wal Good for tha treet, the baie, atid the alore ; Tessony uf faith 0 b wraugnt every das anks nothing snd wania nothiing mors, Whera obsourity hows with men of renmra, Aud th Wealth of the pow {4 unknown, An Ordor as good for the averige soul As a bigoted Ghurch with {rou-clad croeds ; Whers projudice smothets all Lrotherly love, And words sre offered i place of doeds; ‘Where a preschier docs all there is to do, Escluing all siuners too pour for o pew, Within thoas wdlls our burled brother sat ; We fancy wo suo where bia fect have troid § ere, whiero wa know of tho life ho liyed, To'miado bis bargain with man and with God, 1l belpod tho alck and gave to the poor, Buts Chrltisn churel turned ‘W sbrpas from s T, 1o dled at tho Merty Ciriuluas thne, Wheu the Chiuseh biad ot ups ity typlesl tree, Brfugiug good chezr ot Curlsts natal day, ‘Who said: ¥ Bufferall Lo come unto me, On a broken brancl bty & badiy, all grlin, With the worde: ** A Masuu~uo Lhrh{l;ur m» 1u tho dead man's homa Bt, Nicholus came, With theso word on & wreeth of lmworiulles # A Lrotler, who lived for bis (ollow-tia Iiss gouy 10 1 Towand—ring out (ho bolle. ‘Tlera 1n o cliurch nor croed, e Irgend rosa, #ur sect, whore God swakus o bleed dead,? Thie grava {s but the ontrance ; and the puthe Adown tho dark aUQ VAAAOWY WeY My load throuyhs Qburch or Mesow's Lodgs, OF both, At 1 Vo Bagvent ek s bk v i : 18 ant Ko o aetions al oas oW * No record is maade of ihe valn parade n'r‘h;: sousiyus Hie reaius o e 6od; ut, the Pharisse’s piguo sud the bigoy' ru sugravec o b sapiats of Gy © L1008k 1f tho stab bath polsoned the wlduw'y life, Tha powor will protec thist tasde bt a wife. Lo aleeps on the sdgu of tha town Lis sorved, Aud thera, u May, tha flowery will cowo And Nuture's lucenss sud the tunsful birds Will sek 10 Clurch what prayens (o buta ; And 1ho stars that look from e silent sty WL blvsa tas peayers Uit never die, V4G, Ll Jan, 1, 1oide “THOU SHALT NOT STEAL ITow They Make Men ITonest in New York by Machinoery. Some of the Dovices Employed for That Purpose. Cliecks on Horso and Stoam Car Cone dngtors, Bartendera, Ete, Embezzling Tnsurance Brolkers and Thiove ing Bouk Clerhs, An Intoresting Chapter on Orlmo and Ite Prevention in the Empire Oity, Speetnl Correspondenes of Ths Chfeaco Tribune, New Yonr, Jan. 5,—~Ono of tho grestest probloms of tha day is tho complete caforcoment of tho Eighth Oommandment, Making mon honost hasenlistod not only the sincero offorts of roligions teachars and moraliats in generat, but aleo tho Ingonuity of invontors. A large pro- portion of tho Inveutions recorded duriog tho past year hiavo beon dosigned to provent ateal- ing on thio part of individoals who landle other poopla’s money. Theso dovices aud methods bays becomo go nuniorous and so ingenious thnt theic stady s sn interoating comaoisntary on the legal maxim that o msn must bo doemed inmocont until ho s proved guilty, jnasmuch as thoso checks and patent do« tectora ara usod wipon the assumption that every roan i o thief whethor fonnd ont or not. In tbis city, more than anywheéfe olso In this conns try, ouo ia coutinnally mesting theso automntic policcmen in tho hands of cashlors, waltery, drivers, cotleetors, and others, uatit it wounld scem 1bat no employe 18 honcst—or, at loast, that no loop-hole is left for dishonesty, In somne casca It is o boro to the customer, who ‘muat pither wait ontil the red-tape process iy comploted, or submit to 8 pumber of polly an- noyancos,biecanes 1o one fudividual {s trusted in ooy largo catnblishmont with tho recolpt of monoy withont o haif-dozen checks to provont its being approprinted. RAILROAD CONDUCTORS, Tor some rea=on not explicitly visiblo to the naked oyo, the carliost and most persistont ef- forty toward n systom of compulsery houosty Linvo boon directod agsiost rsilroad conductors. A porson accustgmed to travel canuot fail to havo mnoticed in Aifferent parts of the vountry somo of tho devices used to chieck the mpposed dishonesty of the conductors. Prolably they have reduced thin thing to aa near sclence ag oaeible in Virginia, on une of tha roads, where the conductor is not peraiited, under any cir- cumatances, to tocolve any monsy at all. This is nccomplished by tho belp of a ticket-ngont, who precedes the ticket-puncher through the traln, ofter pamsing & stntion, nnd sells to uvery passonger uot proviously provided with one a tlekot, which, being takem from n stub, necossnrily ropresents n sum of Imouoy which tho seller muat return to tho compauy ; " but oven licro, if thiore 18 colluslon botnoon tho ticket agont and tho conductor, the company may bo dofeaudod. Probably no road has tried more oarnesuly to roduce tho eteallngs of its condnod ors tban the Now York Central, aud tho varions arbifices of the duplox tickels, recelpts, cte., must lava cost the corporation o large gum, The latost contrivance {8 a peculiar tickot given for long distavees, by which a porcentago of faro paid is refunded on application at tha tickot of. flco, but ou fares collected for short ridea there 18 no positivo eheck. Tho Peunnylvauia Boad, on its Now Jorsoy Division, Ia allowod by Iaw tocol- lect an Increass of 10 per cent above its tleket ratos for fures fuld on tho cars, hat s compeliad toreturn a rocoipt fur t1io oxcoss, rodoomablo at any of its ticket ofices, DOUBTIUL JOKE ON A CONDUCTOR, A story i ofton toid by travelers which will boar repeating, although it may have been printed before, A gontlemnn living fu a sub- mban villaga invariably paid hls fare on tho carg, sud this too heforo the daya of refunding an excoss #o paid. 'Lho conductor (hought it very strange, and one day romarkod to tho party that ho would savo somathing by buyivg ticketa boforo atarting. 1o ropliod as follows : Ay faiend, some years ago T had n jawesuit agaiust this ratiroad. Thoy beat mo on o techuis cality. Iomo tho company s grudge. Thero- fora I hnvo rosolved tley shall nover sco any of ‘my money~so 1 pay the conducior!" Ho was never zked for o resson aftor that. THAE *3POTICR™ BYSTEM AND LELL-PUNCIt COM- PANT, 1o Now York City, ou all tho horge-car lines, tho conductora almost lnvarfably receive mouey direct from pussongors, ‘Lho comnpavies bave not the wisdom (o soil tickets in quantitios at a radicod rato, ws they do io Onicago, They argue that sll thoy would eave in the protoction agmnst the dishonesty of conductons thoy would fouo in the leesencd rakes of fure, so thoy are continuslly contriving plany to provent conduct~ ora from appropriating fards to thoir own use, andd probably are being continually beston al their owi game. ‘Uhe wost compreheuaive mathod ever adoptod in this city without doubt I8 tiio plan of bell-puuches, backed up aa it s by a detectiva system for watching tho employos, Thesa punchen are hirsl from a compauy at 45 conts per day each, and, in cousiderns tion of this lhiberal rontal, the . unmnm? agroes to emplay upon the lins of the streakrail- road duniug the day = certain uumber of sput- tars, or detoctives, who rido op and down town continunously, watching tho condutor to see that ho marke a tiekot with tho panch for overy faro collectad, Tho outest part of thiy trivk 14, that the conductors nre sdvised that thoy ore ba- 1oy conntantiy watehed, aud houco are more than uaually cautious. Both nion aud womeu ure ow- ployed s spotters, 4o that tho emplove doss vat Lnow by whom he 14 beiug watchod. ‘Tlo ef- fectivenoss of thiu eystem wos illustrated a fow months 830 by tho arrest of ton coudactors in ono day, snd their nubum‘unn‘ conviction in the courts of using bogus boll-punches and emboz- zlomont. HOW THEY DO ON TIE NOKTRAND AVENUE LINE, ‘I'ls 18 m Brooklyn ling, and it employs & pocu- lisr system of ita own—not without some dufocts, Itis true, butin a degroo reducing the peculs- tlons of ita conductors to & minimum, Whon voupay & faro on thess cars, tho conductor haudayoun ticket which i8 subsaquently taken up by & oolleetor who boards tho car at a pasticular poiut for that purpose. Theso tickets are tom from o wiub, and ¢ho conduntor'taust ronder an account of ovory tickos tor off. Pausengers nzo very careloss aboat their tickets, aud often throw them ou the seats sud on tho tloor, so {4 {s cloar- 1y in tho power of the couductora to pick them up sad uso them over agui. Lhis, bawever, (s guarded agalust Ly having every tickst num- bered, and it is tho business of the collector to tako motico of tha jast number of tho stub, 6o that tha cou- duotor ¢an bardly palm off on s passeuger a low- or sumbor thau the last on his book, Tho dis- advantago of this systom i that it requiros an oxtea conductor,—not, howover, for each car, fot oue nultices for alf the ears ; and it i3 Ly adlditional expense that all largo and small con- corne wish to avoid, TIK NEW YOKK OMNTOUSLS, It will b remombered that the 'bus-drivers jn this city, aimoat without exception, engnged ln s strike two years a0 because the proprutore 1u- alsted upon jutroduciug * boxes’ for colleoting fares, ‘Lhis waa equivalent to confossing that they were in tho habit of hulglnu thomselves to whatever proportion of the fares received that suted them, It Gurdly needed this practi- cal dewonutration to convince sthe owners of tho stages of ¢l fact, During tho striko somo of the driverd wera wutorviawed lav mgulmm, aod fregly ackuowledgud that thoy bad boon fu the habit of retaining e portion of the proceeds of thoir tripd, Btrsnuge to Ay, some of thet Justie fied it ou the ground that it had growu into a oustom ssuctioned by the proprietos, snd undar- stood by them so thosoughly 54 to stwount o an implied permisaion, The striko endod, as most Buikes go, by tho triumph of the stage-ownes,” sud the boxos are now su establisliod fact. The rosult pore thian justifios the stage-awner. The recuipta ou tho Tifth svenus lin ealono have sl st donbled efuca the boxos wore tested, nnd tho drivers are now forced to bo contontod with thar gogulac wages. The writer futorviowed one of thowm Iately upon the top of a- Broadway atage, aud found thst, while thore wus much dig- couleut modairsatisfaction, there 1s not the loast disposition to striko. Thiy follow mado ous shyowd rvomark. e waid: °*You often hoarof dafaulters smong baukers' clerks, oyen of slostn-car coudugtors getting nch ou ‘ored, 'Mhia I8 on old trick in Tiiropo, but sgomo- what thoy knook down, but dit anybody ever lioar of & 'bus-driver bhuilding 8 brown-atone front? No, sir, we work from twolvo Lo eight- ocn honra & day for #2, and nevor havo a chauce to botter onreclven, This last hlowis nn ont- 1ageonn reflection upou a clnas of mon who Ars a4 honest, on tho averngo, na the chureli-mem- bots of ¢hia ey, Notwithstanding this briof 0387, 1Lio atagt.0srners linve wuccossfully made their drivers honeat by tho boxes, TAR-HCOR EXPRNIENCRTS Tew porsona hava an adoynate idos of e ougrmous businoss of & popndar liguor bar ln & lnvge cuz. Tt would hnwo hoen a imd strapylo to havo bolisred, nntil positively assurod such Is th0 caan, that any bar-room in tho world ro- cclved $500,000 in ono yent for drinks rotallod ovor tho counter ; bt thers are four ostablishi monts in thin city where tho receipts for the vonr now closing will exceod that amount. On iolidasa and otlior necasioun whon the demavda ol a thiraty multitude are oxo2usive, tho monoy received by thesa placea sometimen reaohioa §2.~ 50, Theso concorns hinve ho accessorioa in tho evil {8 gatting to o sa_ponoral that it innot m oagy maiter for & young man nowadayn, no miattor how honeat ho tmny bo at hieartt, or by ro- putation basnd upon foriner corroct habit, to ot hondemen to becomo his Aurcty na plnco of truat. Thus tiio innoceut sro made to anfter for the guilty, That Philadoiphia prescher swho told his andioncs that tho best financial plnt. form for thte pation and sl lts pooplo t4 tha commandmont **Thou sbalt not stesl,” bit the nail on tho hoas . TipAvry. e MINISTER SCILENCIK. ¥lo Dentes Any Lmproper Conneciion with the finchndo Case. Lokpek, Dee, 16, 1876.~Tv the Editors of the Baltimore Amerfoan—~CENTLEREN : Aftor for- warding sou my Jettor of the 13th inst., rolative to Gou. Hchenek's connostion with the Rmma Mive, T recotved tho Newr Yory: Tribune of tho' st of Docomber, contalning a vhargo against form of gardens and hands of musie | the General of s differont kind, Thid 1atouoa to bring visitors, bat dopond molo- | broughtto Nis potico, and the rosult has boon ly _upou the popnlar domand for mixed | poy addreesing ma tho subjolned note, widloh sud plain drinka from dayto day. Thero aro others of less importsuce, whors tho recoipta nre frequently a8 bigh 08 $5600 o day. Bearing thess figuros fu mind, it will bo easily soon that thoroe is an ample opportunity for pec! ng bar- keepata to knock dodn a bandsume aum esch day. ‘To provont thix, many of the Inryer eatab- lishmouts Liavo adopted the syetom of tickets, and omploy a cashior (0 recelvo the maney, A cortalu number of chacks aro given to the bar- tondors each mumh:“s, and they ara to account for thom o night. Tao Yickets recoived by the enghiér are dropped into abox as fast na pald, and the nnmbor in the box pud tho number in tho bands of tho bartonders ioust agres, or somo fraud is suspccted at once, Auothor plsu ia to deal out to tho bar only n cortain amount of liquors, and raquire that tho liguor usod shall reprosont so maay drinks, and, consoquontly, a0 anch monoy ; but tho bar-kospora can bons this rchomo by diminishing the quaatity, por drink, snd defy dotectlon. An {nstanco {8 citod by the proprictors of a leading Broadway hotel, | ho thus continnslly misraprosentod. whoro their brinclpnl bat-keopar, on n salary of {75 addross thin comment on that publication to £75 por month, managad to purchines t elogant | rou, not morely bocause o? the kind and friond- Lrown-stone front in (o yoara, Evidontly it 18 | Jy tnforost with which you have brougit this bard to boat tho bur-keopors, frosh attack on_mo 1o niy notioo, but also for BITOIAL DEPOWIT 00T DONDA. the resson that L havo heard of the Jetter you A pentloannly-appearing nnn Intely onterod | javg recontly and voluntarily sout to tho Dalii- the "office of a deposit company, 80d | jorg Awmerican, moking, 28 I am informed, a atated tunt ho wishad to maks a peclal | jus) and fair viodication of my condnet in thn deposit of ome town bouds, lewied DY | mattor of the Tmma Mine, abont which I ave a thrifty New-Englwnd town, and 1ho | jean go poreistontly vilitlod. I connat but be porty i chisrgo casunlly looked ab tho bonds, | yory gratefufto yon for Buoh unsolicitod and aad supposing thoy woro all right (not being | oynrony dofense. svailablo'as n collatornl hio was probably indif- 1n brief, as to this olaim of Macbado, pent to feront 5o thoir gonnioeyess) ho kavo atecelnt | ;mayn 1871 by Thomaa Winrd, I givo you thin for o packago coutaming o wpecified humber of | gxpianation, which yon aro, not only at liberty bouds of “v”fl? each ",‘ll,’“'l’o"x“l! to bobonds | (o' make public, but which 1’ deslro to bave you of tho Town of ~—." Thisla the usual form | communicate as widoly as possiblo to all Who of the Company's recolpts, ond iy 1sod i every | 1ove truth rathicr tian calumny. caso. 'Lhio seccipl wan taken to Boston, sud W4 | “yyyen tha publication i tho Zr{tune was firat D ), 2317 | mentionod o mo, 1t Ll almost gona ottt of my steral for o ! 08D, AN vas not unlil ¢ v thio 1ot bacame dita thet. tho fraad was discov- | 1103 tiat sucl @ otun as dackadols had avor yon will obligo me by insertiog, with this, {n the American, From the stroug manner 1n which: Gon, B. refors to the papera on which the chinrge tests, and to tho {uferonces drawn by tho Tribune, it ecemn to mo that overy impor- tial nnd unprofudiced mind will agres that thero s notblng fn this pacticular of his condoct which calls for the . slightest gousuro, That he ahould fool cutraged ot theso sttempts to ruin his chinracter, private and public, is natural, and fustifics tho Atrong torms in which ho denounces them, nud also excuees the mannor in which he apenke of himuelf, I rematn, with regard, your obodicnt sorvant, RavnrDr JORNEON, | Lospox, Dec, 14, 1875.—My Dear M, Jony- BoN: Unbl you ealied my attention thls mornin, to tho now anasult mado on'me in tho Now Yor Tyitne of tho 1et inst., I bad not hesrd ol {6, It astonnds and dlvfiuutu mo that acts of miue can been sabmitted to me. Reading the fnlland able briet addrossed to ma by E.'C, Bonadict, E#r., & lawyer of ligh ropmtation m New York, which I kiave just found atd taken from & drawor whore it hing loog been lying, 1 now recall tbo circumstances, Itin an old case at tho Loga- tion, datitg from the time of Mr, Dallas, nostly twenty 'ymrs sgo, and running through the torms of soveral of my prodocesaors, This briuf rroin Mr. Beoodset was inclospd somp §n the first sear of my oflicial residonco Liore by M, Winrd, recompanied by o lottor or momorandum from Dimsolf, and with a copy or coples of Lis agree- mont with tho claimant, whicl, s 1 remombor, he wroto me had boen propared by tho attorneys of Machado. Ou racoipt of tha papers I wrote to Wiard in reply. Whethor hin contract or my Intter of acimorledgment, as publishod in -the Tribitne, are correct copios of the originals, or whetlier they ars parbled or mutilated, 1 have not the means of verifylog; and so, for my prosent purposo, I will asauine that thoy mny bo correct. Noither will Istop to foquire by what nats of perfidy or dishonesly private papors may haye como fnto tho posseasion of those who seok 10 ks thom for asgnult on my reputation. Tako my lotter and tho facte, aud I indignant. 1y denounico the colormg that fu songht by the oditor of the Tribune Lo bo glvon them, Mr. Winrd I bad known long and futlmately; Macbndo L have hever Imown, The yeforontoto o by theno parties in thehr dealings with oacl other sras grossiy yrong, unauthorized, and such ay, if permitted to puss unquoestioned, wight mako it appenr that I was to Lavoe soma intorest m the Investigation or-provocation of the olim, I was willing to-examtne tho caso, make inquiry, and ascortan apd ‘inform the partica If it ap- peated to linvo merit in it, or likelihood ot sue- coss Af further preseed. ‘This 1 swonld bave dono for any Amorican citizen. I wan tho readior to dot for a friend, but could not for- boar reprehiending bun, as I did, for tho nowar- ranted uno of my namo, nor frem pointing ovat to lim how such & thouglitleas and improper reforence to mo might afford ocensian for the vory migrepeesontation of which I now cdmnpla'n, how 1t hias not been tried in this couutry, The 1ending banks of Now York nover loau monoy to n ntimuger at all, aud, whenevor collateral is ro- nired, thoy domnnd evidenve of the -ponulne- 1085 of tho securitics oftered. MINOI QUHOXS, The restauravt keopers at first introduced checka to prevent frand on the part of custom- cra. Nowthoy are compelled to modity the sys- tem to prevent frauda on tho pare of the cashiers, In poma rostuurants, tho wnitors bave nunibored tickets, which they give lo customers, and the caatier is raqnired to ncconnt for them, but it ig obviously an mgm\t gyatem, as sometimen tho customera aro dishoneat and elip out without peyment, 'The worst ovil in popular restaurants down town la the practice of fosing waitare and indasing thom thoreby to give out chocks for o smafler sum then the amount reslly duo. 'This Is practicod mora generally 1n tha up- sinirs reataurants, The bigh-priced ostablish- meats, like tho Brunswick, Delinonico's, eto., get around this ovil very hundsomely by taking or- ders in wiiting, and so having n doubla check on waiter and customers, Eveu tho salo of soda- water is gunrded by the checkand cashior sys- tem. Iiarber-sbopsnro given to-the sumae aflic- tion, and tho proprietora say that frogquently a ‘journoyman will give ont n 35-cant chack for 650 centn’ work, and got 10 or 15 cents from the ona- toruar for tho fraud, dcseeagors delivering par- cals will eollest 30 conta ustead of 20, sud tole- grapl boya havo been kuown to olter ouvelopes #0 that they tight colloct lurger eumn than wora rightly due, To prevent this, tho amount 18 uow writton ont in full in ther bovks 8o thoy caunot alter it, The ferry- miasters are uow- divided into two sots—thodo wha sell, and thoso who receivo tickets. To provent collusion, thoy aro changed about oach day 8o that no two will bo stationod near each otlior twico, oxcapting nt dong intervals, Ono of ourlosding banks hias sdopted the Bughsh systom of requiring all checks to be cortified veforo papnont, ‘This 18 in condequence of n traud goveral yeara Ago in which & dixbonest paying-teller overpaid ‘& check, and divided the proceeds with n confedorata. Tho tinnk Ly lost somo of it customors in consoquencs, but tho Direotors ara firmly_adhoring to the plan, and will pernavere u 18, Lautly, the steambont clorks ato having o guard over thom by duplex ticiet aystem, 0% COXDUCTONS ANY, UNIDRTLY AGOURED, Thore are always found in alarge ciy men who aro rendy to accuss anybady nud evorybody but themaolves unjustly, Tho Snperinteudout of o leading Now Yorkrailway hiaa fust dtamissod » fellow who persuaded tha Company to bire him au o detoctaive to watch conductors rud other employed. 1loado numerous charges Ryainst tho Company's scivauts, hut failad to sustuin them, and upon investigation it was sbown Lo had been in the habit of manufacturing evideneo to couviot partios accused, and thus maguify bis own importance, Quo of his tricks wos to bn;n ensog, that neither iu this nor any othor oans, tickot to some polpt and Jet it bo koown to tho | haye I ever nsked, sccepterd, oxpoctnd, or por- Huperiotendout that ho meant to travel onn [ mitted to be promised me compennrtion cetain traiu. Thon ho wonld pracurs n | of apy hind, dircct or Indirect, for my oficial clork or somebody from the Bubsrintendent's | sarvices, or for my influonca in or arising from oflica to go with "him. The ticket purchased | any oflicis) position I wrs holding anvo oniy such would bo shown to ihe watcling employo, but [ pay or #nlary ns by law I nave been ontitled to, when tho condnctor came_nlong unothor” tickot | and I donounco ovary chiarge or intimation to would be given him, bnb!ur}uumly the first | the contrary, by whomeosvor made, ns totally tickol would be »old 1o & ecolpor, And by pur- | false and dtauderaus, chasing it there again in the prosonco of awit- | You cau underatand, Mr, Johuson, how, fu the noss, it would be made to nppesr that tho cot- | progonco of thoss who hinve known mo longr s ductor bad fallod to rettrn tho ilckot taken uv | you have, in both my porvonal and public on the team, und had sold it to a scalpor. Tlug | character, I must foel bumiliated in heing called 18 onp of tho plans puraued by tho profeesed | on to muito for myself ths protestation; hut dolectivo, through which sovoral conductors o« | $ho strangnly crnol " malignity with which, for puted bouest hevo boou discharged ou a certain [ some_reason which 1 do “not understand, 1 ralroad out of New York. have beon latoly pursucd, makes ita duty pore ZMBEZ/ALING INSURANCE DUOKVRS, hapa to myaelf and to those whoao geod opintons fiomo yosrs ago, sovera) merchants Iu this | are dosr to me, not to subwmit suny longer to arty wholad effected largo awmcunts of insur- | eithor slauder or misconstructiou” {n silonce. ance through » woll-known: insurance brokeraga | Very faithfully aud sinceraly yours, fem, to whom thoy lhad prompily Ronert O, BoMENOK, patd their premiums, woro eurpnsed To shis Hop. Neverdy Jobusov, to r-éedva ml“ uuhy nmmlclauona hlunlll] e?’vmm of ———— e tho Cowmpanies whose polivies they hold, that thoir trummml muset bo patd within twouty-four THE HAPPY BRIDE. ours or their palicles would bo vold, sod they 7 wonld bo sued for the promium_alresdy earned. Bhe‘an nrl“lx'aar "xalhfi huhhlrrlxufi- Thls was n unepriso fudoed, | 1t anboscad that Fox ail mich westih midht ke-ay st tho brokor, thsongh whum the risks bad boon y * insured, had nevor paid tho reonay to tho Catn- s walinul dotel g hecd pauies, sud henca the fatter wera clamoring fur tholr mougy. ‘Tho morchauts rofused to pay, on tho gronnd that their payment to the brokor wos paymeut to the Compavy, Tho Compaties ro- plstod this ples, and Jawsuits followod, whonthe Court of Appeals dectded in favor of the Insur~ auco Companics. Tho merchants were com- pelted to pay s socond ¢time, much to thelr dis- guat, Tho result of this oxpurionce 1 that check for {nsurunce promiums are vow drawn simost inysriably 1o tho ordor of tho compaules, and the compauios Luye msorted in their poli- cios this clauso : ** Auy porson who may negoti- ato this insurance, and bring the samo Lo tho of+ fice of this combany, shall bo deemed an ageus of tho azsured, and not of this company, uoder any circutostancos," Thin is the cashier or check systom applied to dlshonest fnpurance agents, NECEHSITY YOR OHEORS ON THE HIGHEDR CLASEES. It will be obuorvod i slmost every instance tha devices omploysd to reduco eteal- jug to the momuwm, tho appiication o; fllzem ‘lla confiued ‘to‘ . cl:lws of employes whoso avornge salarlea undor $2000 pier sonum, Without theso patont ma- o Hind hoe o Ty % :hlxgu for making men honeat, it {8 veiy doubs- ful it their stealiugs would amaunt to 10 por Anon thoy move, aa, Oliod with love, cent of their salarios—or porhiaps 90 at tho ilo Ivads her 10 tho ultar qutside, ‘Chero 1 a ciaas of olorks, cashiora, nud And may the Yow, rocurded now, salosmen in large morcanstle and finkncial estab- In lodvon Buver falicr. ondeavor to- bring she taso uuoficlally to tho notico of Hor Majosty's Government. Thiy Iconldnot do. Some time aftor, when 1 looked into ttie rubicct wnd mado inznhy. I losrned thnt the Detiish Qovorument Lind avinced @ fixed dotormination to relnse indemuity to Machado on tho ground that his vessels, it respest of whicl: tho claim aroeo, kad boen ongaged in tho slavo trade, and thore scemed to be 1o authority for prorsing for dnmages without further nid nsplicit instrnotion from the Siato Dopartmons. Ay Governmont gave mo no instruction, and lmma tho matterhas rested for noar fonr ‘yeams ongor. Igwlll writo at onco to Mr. Winrd to ask what oxplanation can ba given of tho publieation of bia privato pavors. Aud'now I close with this doclaration, whioh T @oeiro o bo tskon in its follest snd broadest From morn 4t night, *neath dowy light, Hor puth A%0 strown with Tuaes s And, wheu shio amilca, howiichivg wiles, Asct of pearls discloven, Tha air abave fa Alled with love, Tho very earth wilh bijawna; And faiey flowerw, from eliin bowors, Coimo ehow'riug down iu kissos, Oh1 ahio ia falr J=with Aowlng halr, Aud cyoa of starey brightuou Aform of graca in ev'ey place, Aull os » bird for }ighituess, And ho1s good? Tho cirrling blood “Thironghout lier Leing Fushios, Andl o'er bur faco In malden grace, Suffusing # with blushes, Ble (00 {6 great {—{n queonly sfate Eliting Lushdo her niaster,— 114 Joving snflo an hor the whitle, To whito time Aylug faster, Bring rosts bright for her to-nighi u‘L‘l ‘llhe: 5 and teuder, Y lishments who got richh sod livo on very small salaries. Auy Saturdsy you can go on """‘,fd":?,’.,i’}’u'.':'dz'&’.}'filxb’-" t::rl Lifth avenue and vee young mon whoso salaries Vutil sho thes 10 Lativa akics, % ars not over #2.500 per sunum sporiing fast Aud Heaveuly Luve enfolds hery fiorses and dismouds, of at tho thestra ab nly waiting upon fashionabie-wocisty belles, st au expense oqual to @43 por ‘day or nlight, atid the greatest mystory of all ia bow they msn- :Eo o do it month after month without excitiug the suspiclons of their employors. A short tinjo ago, the writer natired shat thero were au uo- utual npumber of insido wire-railige bokind & bauk countor, and asked the Prosidosnt why 1t was doemod uecessary to fenca in tho olerka snd tellers soclosely, 1ia sasworud that it was dooo to provent bookkospors aud other clorks from wiyly taklng money packages. He rewarked further thas it was upjust to soquirs bonds of tellots, and bold them rsespunsisle for money within eawy reach of other persoud, Tae times aro 80 tickiish that one bardly knows whom to | the Missouri, the Iiack 1llls, sud—if the in- trust, und 3t s simost au every-day ocour. | Uisoy do nob Lubesrupe bis lonJovity—oast to rouco hat dofpleationy are dixcovered. Lho hflg'd"sm- Txau, ——— The Lougest Trump o Record, . Hwneapolia Mast, Ephraim Lincola, dologed, passed through Moarhoad tho other duy on his way to Manitoba., ‘Phioro 1 nothing remarkable fn this save- that he walkod irom Loaisians ¢o Virginis, sud from that place to Dostou, throogh Maine to Novs Reotis, uud from there through Canada to [k iuois, Wisconsin, Ht. Paul, and Duluth, overland toMoorhead, Iis journey bas beon uf jone year and nio wonthy' duration, end Le coutemplatos travoliui nine monthy lobger, whon Lo bopes to bring up in Washingtou, D. U, 1o was headed for Maoitoba, aund will go to the headwaters of o raquest of Bir, Wiard was that I sehould | Radv s Ready Roli It T 0o 10 Ty T, -—— NOT ONE HOUR - [ suffer with pain, .. y : Radway's Ready Reliof I8 A CURE FOR EVERY PAN.. .. After reading this Adverlfsement, neod any on Xt wts the frst and is thy' Ouly Pain Remedy Tiat Instantly atops the most Tolmmaione, anT coses onrsamiomm whomesof sl s, s, Riamacth, Dowolss or ofber” giatda oo application, e o N e e In from One to Twenty Mitutes, No matler How viokent or excrmofating the pafd,- ih houmaite, Jod-riddor, Inf New Falgle,or prostrated mih alscese sy watfen O N Radway's Ready Relief WILL AFFORD INSTANT-EASE. Ingammation of tho Kidneys, Inflammation. of tho Bladdor, Infllmm:fioix u!‘g?ggw.. g ols, Mum;s, ongeation - of . thoe, B St ot it e the ‘Mo, rstorica, . Cronp, Diphtheria, Cov DootdrTh: Imuefiz:? eéfi"‘hde““'i’a o 3 m, Cold"Ciits, Agdo Outiar "0 | The applivation of the m-dd’mm( 11 tha part o partewliers tho pain o diffoaity eststs Will afford esas ‘Twonty dtops fn hatf s ¢ y e e R S R e TiTs owels, anct alf (toreat papm o IATT> Wi 1d al) Arey & batdl mv:u'li’?rf‘% oo Ly proveut sloknaet e "nalay chatigo of watar. A is atior thaw Fronolt Brandy or Bitters as » stdmolaas, FEVER AND AGUE. | Fovar and Agae curod fc L mlinl'.aunun';lmm»rld"l“t’?dlm'*hfir“ %: R A N T Y way's 0 Qiloitas Nadmay's Neady Roliof, FifYy ¢ HoTa by Droaginse, © 7 11 coakd o attla HEALTH! BEAUTY! Htroa antfpuro rioh blond.: ingreacd of Nlesh e o A2d Goaatiulcoupiesion seowred to T \ DR. RADWAY'S SARSAPARILIAN RESOLVENT Uks* mads (s most astonishing g, Eo quidk, e 1apid Bro the ‘chan widae 153 1afiuegg of Thhy ety e o dorful medicino, that > Every Day an Tuerease in Flesh and Welght fa Seen and Felt, THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER. Jrerydropof tho Sarsaparillian Resclvent cominute ml";;lhm‘mlh l:l?l' m?"l‘uh >B'ull'. lfllh?, ulv(\d'nfl‘ur tulds 04 v ) ) 3, 1 Anoc -yans ‘ol tha'sfstems, ' fore o1, strumeeots dise reos I tio ears, sud the worst forms of_skin dit. gitots oraytlne, faruk sores wealdlicad, Hagwheny eall Orymipulas, acho, HIRok syl il AT A el Sina of 1) I3 rcnclple, wre o of this \wonder of 1andorh ohemsisies atd. o TowsdATe nes will ucorn 3o any porson uaing §y -for eitlisr Olsoase ts putont powet t curo tham. g If thy padent, dalls coming reduced lu tho wastes and tecompesition that is :?n inually progros: 20 ceate fu arcdslivg theyo wastos, a) rlb{a wilth nake matorial mada (ram beslt! o] A I Hareapariiinn will ‘stid does 40aurd,=—& caro is poviaini for wiion prow this remsdy, rfiflllra?enl l‘: work eatlon, and sucenods in diminlihiag tho Jows oF war 1t rop! #ifl b rapid, And evary ilay the natlons wil fonl himwell growing better and lfrd.flrf. tlia {ood dis ting batter, appotito lwproving, and flesh nnd waledt erarsing. ; Not only dons. tho Sl!llg!l‘fl"lln %\-nlnn exenl all Dt oLy £dind dronta in Lhooura af Chronic, Sprofutons, AL At Blin dlaBased, Lt 16 fs tho pnly pods tiva cura for ¥ L Kidney and Bladder Complaints, riaary sad Womb Diseasos, Gravol, Disbates, Dropry, T e, e netinans o, atiaw, Rrlgnta Al ety alh o il asms waote o dr Grs dnat depustta, or tho wateris o a .‘d'\m te : wubistancos lna the whita of .E or hit 018 , biltdo! oAranes, and il 48 M Miabiatt white bune-dut Brraing soneatict when of tho back sud alog.g the Jol i Tamor of Tweive Yenrs! (frowth Oured b ‘Rudway’s ftesolvents HeyRaLY, «« Julp 18, 1397, o mX‘..“m}‘n?:;'m“n'u‘,‘;fiwn g water, and pain the kmal sty iix holped mo, 21w youl van, . would tey i3 but Liad o’ falth i it, bocsuse I bad eus- x4 5 4t ta omolu Joix fosi i fored for twolvo yexts, 1 tonk als botdles. B e e s Liia&nd two. Hendy Relic, aad thera la iota sign of t4mor 1o o] boltnr, 6 r, snd happher ivoyoary. Tha worst. fumar ves i & Ty oregthie i, LRk o bl ? e boneiit of otiéra, - You can prbliel J63 o ahooeg, Price, @1 0ar battle. Ea AN TWPORTANT LETTER, From & prominent gent(eman aud resdong of Oinatnastt 0., for (ho past fOFLY youta well koown 10 Lhe nawspapes ‘pabiistzors throughoul thu United Ststes. New Yonk, Oct. 1, 189, On. RADWAT-DEAR 514: 1 s lflgllfl}dg] s monvo of duty to the sulfsring 10 make s briol slatemons of [ um‘lnl of your medicins o 1) oars bad been ailootou wils, sumo trouble 0. Airiuary aryane Whiok sumu s twelva monthy ‘lllll I‘li:‘ll‘ tarribly H‘(;ufllll d'luu‘ .fl.‘:zi.fl\.‘ : T hir NG s w promtatiotiSotnrs in [ Rasmimmlon of 1o Kidneyw And Bladdor, ituir tpimion that, wy i ovar geiting radically eur Lyafclans, and had takon Ih allopiathia aud boimaopa thio: Nt ad & Thialtyoud of sstonishiui oazne end scrme fou Foad & notéoo imiadarsiia harurday fvaning Fo5 of & ig flacted i e e e O e :‘hn’:‘r‘u'n"m’.’- o ok o and ko e o, Rosoivente Roady ‘lia et, aud Hogaiating Piis= Do oatnmunost 1aINE (hamie. 15 dhres dags | was s1wes . 1y saliaved, and now foel 5:1@!;5;&' Oloitonatl, O DR. RADWAY'S Regulating Pills Purgy, roguista, purdly, Glsadss, aud Mireuglc ay's 11lia, dut fivaure of atl ety Wartd 3inblo, contaloing 1o WERORY, 485 )bsare tho fallowing Wmpams realttos o8 DY ocdors of tho Dbrstifs Orkans: ., % ‘otntipation, fowaal aufin-—tl mmw‘ u‘,‘l?o THead, Avidity of o b 0l A el e, Flul o the Hasit, Otuslo or Buds ug housation whoo g Pusiare, Diliges o Y Dors o3 Webe o ighit, Fywiraad Dol %. Heud, Bulizooy o hhpilmd_& e e e Tin vad Erom, Y Lise Flashas of Hest, g i g |lesl, e Givws ot RADV. w?&;gl._% vl et Rend *False and True,* Semd oo buttaratamp to RADWAY & €Q., ¥ £ Wt Hew Yo ot BRI i liasslab will b sent 2ot