The New York Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1860, Page 2

TEE traced 2 ————— THE CONGRESSIONAL PRIN”, ING SPOILS, Pickir.gs and Stealingsfrom the Public Crib. E OF GEN. BOWMAN AND JOIN C. RIVES. The Printing Incumbents Opposed to a Government Printing Office. RATIOS Goop THING Nor TO BE SPOILED, Roe, Ree, Re wing is the testimony of General Bowman and oan O huves Fefore the House Committes on Public Ex- penditures in relation to the Pablic Priating:— George W. Powman, examined by the Chairman. Q Where do you reside and what is your occupetion? A. [reside in this city, on Hi street, between Tonth and Hleventh; Iam editorand proprietor of the Consttution end Pripter to the Senate. Q. How long have you been Printer to the Senate? A. Since the 17th of January; I think that was tte day on which I was elected; the 17th of January of the present eur. ¥! @. How long have you been the editor and proprietor of the Constitution? ‘A. Since the 11th of April tast, Q. What are the rates paid the Senate Printer for print- ing documents of the House? A. The rates are embraced m the published act of 1852; they are paid for according v0 the rates specified in the act of 1852. Q. Can you state the amount that has beer paid you eince you were elected Printer tothe Senate? A. I havo ‘Rot received one cent so far. @. Do you perform the public printing yourself, or have contracted it out? A. I perform the pubic printing jost in the way a man would who was printer, and uader- | wok to discharge or oversee everything pertaining to the public printing; employ Mr. Rives to execute the work mechanically for me, for which I pay him at the rate of 72, centa on the dollar of all printing that shall be exe- uted and paszed by the Superintendent of Public Printing. Q. Were you at any time the Superintendent of tho Pub- Mec Printing? A. Yes, sir, Superintendent of the Public Printing for about one year and a half, I thiak. Q. are there any persona interested in the profits of the public printing besides yourself? A. Neither directly nor indirectly; if you will permit me, I intended to state r in reference to the interrogatory about my attend- ing to the duties of the office; I have a clerk employed at naalary of $1,500, to be increased to $2,000 on the lat of April, whose special duty it is to attend to the clerical Bervices of my office of Printer to the Senate; I visit the office, sometimes once , sometimes twice, and some- Umea three times a day, sometimes late at night, examin- ing the printing in all departments trom the pressroom up to the upper room. I generally call once a day at the office of ‘the Clerk of the Senate, and ascertain whether the printing has Deen properly executed and returned. I makealithe requisitions for the paper for the public printing, receipt Yor its delivery, and do everything that I would do if I owned the office and the material in which and with which the printing is conducted. That is to say, I give it ‘ell the personal attention I would if the whole thiag bo- Jonged to me. Mr. Rives has vo interest in any shape or form, by contract, transfer, or in any manner in that ing, except that he manages the mechanical part of Tie me for # special sum, to paid by me to him for executing the work. Qa Be furnishing all the materials’ and doing all the work? A. He furniching ail the materials—yes, sir, @. Who are the editors of the Consitution?. A Tam ‘the editor and proprictor, and Wm. M. Browne, of New ‘York, aseociate editor. + Q “are theee the only persons recognized as the editors of the paper? A. There sre newspaper paragraphisteand reporters in the office, but there are no pereons connected ‘with the editorial pteew exept those named. J contro! the paper entirely. By the Cbalrmen—Are the profits of the Senate print- Jug, or any part of those profits appropriated towards sus- taining the newspaper known as the Constifution, or any Ver. Hindinan—1 object Mr. Hindman—I ol = ‘The witness, inverrupting—By my election as Senate Printer, there was no appropriation made in any way to the support of any bewspaper out of the profits thereof. Re Chairman—Are yous practical printer? A. I am, and bave been for thirty years; 1 worked with Duff Green as a journeyman, when he wass Printer to Con- in 1830; 1 eerved a regular apprenticeship to the Virginia, and edited one paper in Pennsylvania ty-live years. Please state to the committee your opinion in rela- to tite proper reforms required on this subject of the public printing, if you have formed any opinion on the wabject. A. Weil, sir, with your permission, | will state fo far as some reform: have already been effucted during period I was Superintendent of the Public Priating. For instance, when I was appointed Superintendent of the Pablic Printing 1 discovered that about thirty thousand dollars a year were paid for what ie called ‘‘double composition; that is to say, a Printer was elected for the Senate anda Printer for the ecertifcate would be given by the Saperintendent of Pub- Ye Printing to Mr. Steadman, as Printer of the se, for the composition and printiog of the e and documents Thus pay would be for the fork on account of the ~ NEW YORK HERALD, WepNespaY¥) Marcm! 28, 1860, 2reirLé prety cousuntly went 24 The ‘Tribune's Charges Against’ the | or twenty persons, would send in samples; under the Jaw, ag it reaas, the Superintendent bas the power to take the highest bidder if he rs him the best. Q you know of the wnment ever having put out | the printing by contract? 4. Only by statements that I have seen im the newspapers upon the subject; I will state further about thia paper, while speaking of it, that discovering the difiiculties in reference to the purchase of- the paper, I adopted this plan:—I made what I believed to be a fair sample of cach of the didereut kinds of paper re- | quired for all the departments of the government as a | standard, and had !t bound in » book; J then invited pro- posals for that paper as it was fled in the offloe, cutting off one-half of the aheet which served as the sample’ and writing upon the other half the names of the different per- fons who ‘offered to furnish it; thus, instead of requiring, them to furnish samples, I required them to take a sam- ple, and all bid to one sample; by adopting this system there was s gaviny effected in two years of, say $10,000 in Paper used by the government; in every instance! gave the contract to the lowest bidder; if he failed, it was given to the next; there was, I believe, only one case of that kind, in which @ man named Vaederhoven, who lives in New Jersey, vid for the Post Office ir, and | was satisfied afterwards that be never intended to take the contract; he declined to furnish the paper after the con- tract bad been awarded to him, and Crowell, who was the next lowest bidder, got it; I brought suit agaiast Vanderhoven for hig faire to fulfil his contract, and it 's on record in the Solicitor of the Treasury’s office ; the reacon why it was not immediately prosecuted was, that ‘be Solicitor of the Treasury sald that the guilt could not be broveht until the contract expired and tt was ascertained what the difference was between the amount at which Vanderhoven offered to furnish the paper aud the amount paid to Crowell by the government for turnishing it. . by the Chairman—Do you kpow anything about the profit on the Post Office biank printing? A. I have nevor investigated the subject very closely, but [ suppose from all I have heard, that there ie very likely $25,000 clear profit realized on that printing, perhaps $30,000; that is the impression of every intelligent peraon with whom I bave conversed on the subject, and I think it a fact. Q. Can you furnish the committes with an estimate of what the cost of the Senate printing of the present session will be¥ A. That depends upoo——If you will permit me while J am talking about the papers and those reforms, I will refer to another matter ; in reference to the engrav- ing I discovered that the engraving and lithographic print- ing were pat out ou the same principle ag the paper, and 1 adopted the, principie of giving them out to the lowe t bid- der in ever cage. Mr. Towers, the chief clerk in the ot- fice of the Superintendent of the Pubiic Printing, etated before an investigating committee of this House last Cong- reas—— Q He was your clerk? A. Yes, sir; that the change in the system of giving out the engraving and lithographing made a difference of about fifty per ; that contracts given out by myself were a saving of fifty percent to the government; this reform effected a saving of $60,000 a year on the engraving and lithographic printiog. Q. Can you give an estimate of the probable cost of the Senate printing for this eession? A. J supposed that you ‘would ask for some information of that kind, and itis embocied in a statement which I bave here; the cost of the pripting for the present session would depend upon the amount of print the Senate may order; for in- stance, take the Thirty-second Congress. and the gross amonnt of the printing for the Senate was only $14,000 for the firet sereion, and $24,000 for the second session: while for the Thirty third Congress, the printing amouated to $58,600 tne first session, and to $110,000 the second session; the printing for the Thirty-third Congress em- braced three heavy and expensive quarto works:—Perry’s Japan Expedition, &¢., in which the costly colored en- gravings and materia) used jn them ciused an immense expenditure; these works have been continued from that time down to the present, and Mr. Nicholson, who was the Printer at that early period, is still executing some of that work which was then ordered, and is yel unfinished; the printing for the first seesion of the Thirty-fourth Congress amounted to $38,000, and for the second and third sess ons of that Congress to $51,000; the printing for the first session of the Thirty-ffth Consens amounted to $21,000, snd for the Inet session $56,000; the grogs amount of the Senate printing, aggregating from the Thirty-third to the Thirty-fifth Congress, was $402,000; of course those estimates were ‘aged upon the Jaw as it existed before the iaw of the last seesion,; which gives to the Senate Printer, in certain contingencies, precedence In the way of doiag certain work; that law is treciprocal; if the House orders a do cument firet it prints it for the Senate, and if the Senate orders another document first it prints all the copies of it ordered by the House; that system was adopted to avoid double compeeition. Q. Under that law do you suppore thet the printing for the Senate will be increased or diminished? A. It ts im- poeeible for me to answer that question, becanse it de- pends upon what orders Congress may make; they may, under this restrictive system, fail to order works that they have heretofore been in the habit of doing; for in- stance, when the Delafisid report was up before the Se- nate, they rejected it at once, and if they print simply the resofutions and re; accompanying them, aod Dill, &c , it would be avery small matter; but if they | go into the printing of books and heavy reports, no mat- ter whet rates may be fixed for the printing, it must run up toa large sum; if you will look into the matter, you will fd that, whitst the printing in a period of six years cost the government about one million, the paper used cost two milliona—sbowing that the cost of the white paper alone is double that of the printing; the cost of the paper makes a hoavy item in the expenditure; with this Printer has nothing to do; the white psper exceeded the cost of the printing one million of dollars—just the paper alone, whilat the bind- ing_of the extra pumbers alone come to $776,360; that was during toe six years, from 1862 to 1858 inclusive; the engravings aro firet made on steel, copper or stone, and then they are transferred tq # stone and Br igeers from the tone; that is what is called lithographic printing; the impressions are not usually made from the original engraving but are traneferred; it fs upon that descrip- tucn of work that I speak of a saving having been affected in the proportion of A‘ty per cent. @rewo w ie Printer, and then « bill would be presented by Wendel!, in the name of Mr. Harris, the Senate Printer, fee the composition and printing of the Message aad dosu- Ments for the Senate; and thus the same work would be ‘twice charged and paid for; this was done on every oc- where the same docnmenta were ordered by both aud ihe compvgiiion executed but once; we (00 which we found was drawn pater, Lyd for jinon, without going Into the anialler items eon or, which would have ren the attount up to at ,0CO a year; that was reformed by an act at the the Inet session of Congreas; I discovered further, king into'what are called the regular anaual docu. tg of Congress, of which the number regularly sup: uf plied to the House is, 1 think, 1,520, and the Senate 1,420, and which donments are bound in calf—the moat expen- sive binding—and furnished to every member of the gov- ernment entitled to receive ® copy, that $37,500 were ex- pended every year for duplicating these documents; I think, if you would take into consideration the paver used about the packing room, and the twine and other mate. rials used in putting them up, that the coat for duplicat- jog them would run up to $50,000; but I showed by an estimate that $37,000 were expended for the paper and printing; that was stricken off; another reform ‘which I suggested to the Senate was, to omitthe maps ing extra numbers of the Message e ordered to be sent out for cir- culation; an inquiry into the matter showed that about $20,000 a year wasexpended for these maps and charte, on the matter es hag” apa os hive eae committes, tostrike them out andonly pabish the maps and ts in the regular numbers of the Message and documents; thus a saving of $20,000 was eftectad om looking into the Message and documents, that they were making three or four volumes dred pages each; as Superintendent of the Pri 1 drought that matter to the attention of he Joint Committee on Printing of both Houses, ana the Bemate, at their last session, agreed to strike out all the of pri pearl f E il ze 2 5 Statistics from the extra numbers, and only publish them | fm the regular numbers which were to be preserved as office copies and to be filed by the government; there e@ saving there of $20,000; Senate and the House this present seazion adopted the same principie; I matter upon the attention of the Houss commit last session, but the chairman declined to sug- form; Mr. Smith, who was chairman of that e, declined positively to recommend it, on tho that he considered it necessary and right that ics ehould go to the country; but it has since and by this reform « saving has been ef- goverpment,on the Message and documents least $40,000 a year. on the num! of copies ordered fer both . Yes, sir; there was a saviog in the Senate 20,000, and 1 see by a statement of the the House Committee on Printing, lately , that he cetimates a saving of nearly $20,000 in HTT the House; that reform reduced the cost of that @ocument per ‘year $10,000 at least; when I came into office ot the Superintendent of the the Publie Printing, I discovered that the paper accounts were kept in a very loose manner, indeot, ox- treordinarily so; for instance, paper amounting to some bandrede of thousands of dollars had been received by a man loyed in the printing office a8 a watchmac, who was in habit of receiving from vessels and from tue cars large invoices of paper sent by the coptractors to the government, and who would simply tear off a small piecs of the outside sheet of the printing pap? ani write upoa &, “ Received by such a veseel or such a train of cars so many reams of 50, 48, or pound paper,”’ as the case might be, and address that note to the Su; ; 1 found Ido not know how many of those notes i ofl name of thisman’? A. I think his this immense amount of paper [ im the sole charge of this irresponsibie man, connection with the government, but was in of individual, and J foand that he the paper from the govern to the wettung room ; this wareroom wa Printing office and was owned rented to the governmeat; on I dismissed Wallece and took the OWD possession: I after : Py 5 Ad contractors: li show the names of. all the con- the q Can you name any of them? A. Mi was one: e: ‘bell Ball & Oo., of New York, er; and Tillot. Houlings another; there were a number of other contractors, but I have sveciGed the prominont oaes. by Mr. Fouke—Who contracted for thie paper? A. The Superintendent of Public ee Q. Who was the person who entered into the contracts with the persons you bave named? A. Mr. ae with ave ad J t into the office was td send pamopice, sud Under this ry sem large number®, say fleen Porintendent'’s | Q. Do you include in that amount the cost of the Pacific Railroad reports, Emory’s report, Perry’s Japan Expe- dition, and other books of that character? A. Yea, sir; every thing executed under the law from 1852 to 1858. ! ‘The Coaet Survey Report, too? A. Yes, sir; evary- thing; I thipk, by the eatimate we mede in ‘the engrav- ing Of cach plato for the Coast Survey it was shown that my Lpmetecemer paid $159,000 for what was after wards obtained for abou: $49 C00, Q From your kuowledge of the public printing, been superintendent of it, and being now the Printer to | the Senate, what is your opinion of the propriety of a | government printing offlce? A, My impression about | that is thie-—If a government printing office Is established, with powers 29 execute the binding, engraving and }tho- ore printing, and to contract tor the paper, &s., &e, think, in the coarse of ten years, the expendisures in this department would be double the amoun: heretofore paid;J think in ten years it would be found to double, and I base my opinion on the statement I hive just made of abuses lately reformed, amounting to about $200,000 a year; I stated the abuees which have ited in detail before the Senate Investigating Committee; they have ex- | isted bere for years, and although inveetigations into them have been made, yet no effective action was unti) recently taken, and this immense amount of $200,000 a | year was literally thrown away; if there wasa govern- | went printing office established, under the c! 1 of the Secretary of the Interior (not » practical prictar), with a | wuperintendent and printer, and contractors combined and working together, I am of opinion the cost of print- ing, &c., would be doubled in ten years. Q. Those contracts are all put out to the lowest bidder, are they not? A. The law does not so read: the law gives much discretion to the superintendent; but in order to retieve myself from imputation, I determined, although Mr. Hali served a notice upon me that be would contest my power to do ao be'ore the courts, to present a sempie, require contractors to bid for ft, and give the contract to the jlowest bidder; he insisted that I was bound, under the law, to ark for and prices, and to dispose of | the matter in that way, but] assumed the right to do as I | have said, in order to save myself from gay imputation of baving being connected with these paper contracts; his subject | was before the iovestigeting committee of the last Con- ress, and they reported that Mr. Wendell received soma 00 as a per centagesfrom paper contractors, litho- graphers and evgravers; I think in reply toa question it to Mr. Wendell as to how much 4 certaia firm paid jim, he remarked that he could not exactly say; that his operations were about a million s year; now the priat- ing proper never exceeded $180,000 year; ho further | stated, that if « gentleman offered him one thousand dol- lars to put © certain thing through, he would pocket the affront and do as he pi with t&e money; that is | om reowd; you will discover, if you look at taat rey that some swore, tbat as contractors, they always bid fifteen or twenty per cent more than they would hive bid, because they knew they would have to pay some. | body, and they put it in their bid; and thatis woy [ uoder- | take to say that the printing will be doubled under a | government printing office with these immense power | conferred upon the Superintendent of the Public Printing; | a combination might be so effected, and so completely kept from the view of gentlemen who are not practical printers, and who have bat little time to examine into the minutive of the concern, that the coet of the printing might be doubled without your suspicions being aroused. Q. How much money have you invested as Senate Pripter to execute the work required of you? A. What money have J invested? I have Mr. Rives, aa I stated ia | the beginning, employed to execute the work for me me chanically. you invested any money? Does be not do all A. Yes, sir; be the whole work. Q. He owns the presses, materials and everything with which the work is done? A. Yes, sir. Question by the Obairman—Is not Mr. Rives the printer | of the Lg geome Globe? A. Yes, sir; Mr. Rives sail to me that it wae probable that he might lose money, but great desire, for personal reasons, to get the ‘k, and be would do it if he lost $20,000 by it. le may lose by his contract with you, but you are to suffer no loss by it? A. So far as that is concerned it is ‘& matter of no consideration with meat all; he agrees with me to give me the use of his materials, and agrees to ack as wy foreman tn empioyiog the proper hands to execute ‘the work, he (Mr. Rives) acting under my direction, and seeing that the part of the work is properly executed. Question by Mr. Fouke—He predicated his contract with you his facilities for doing the work? A. Yes, sir. tion by Mr. Somes— You are not responsible for any y of the losses he may incur? A. I am im the amount for which he agreed to the ‘You are not responsible if iy the journeymen he employs? A. No, sir; tome by m; him the amount to exocute the Ath og Rot it? A. SAT tal owo ‘Dusiness? A. Ihave been for twenty-eight years. ie Do you publish t'4o Congressional Glo? A. Yes, Q What is peld for that? A, 1 4 seven dollars find a balfa coluryn for reporting een and pub- them in. the , and then f au paid six dollars fr 9 long eeeton and three dollars & short sesion for (Prnting the debates in book form. Latierly, when Quantity of matter exceeds three thovmand quarto in ® long session, I have been allowed one cent every five pages of such excess; and when it exceeds @fteen hundred pages lua short session the same allowance is made. When I com- menced printing the debates and for several years after, they did not average much over twenn-four or twenty five bundred peges for a long session, ard one thousand pages for a short session; but they gradually increased session after seesion, and f told members of Congress that I could #iand no more than three thousand os a long seasion, and fifteen hundred pages a short pe oy atthe rates I ‘was paid. Tne debates ran ap as high as thirty-eight hundred and odd pages for # long session, and I could pot stand it; but, under an allowunce of one cent for every Sve pager the excess over three thousand pages, I can stand it, Q Bow much did that excess amount to at the last long session? A. 1 do not recollect; but it was a yore lovg seseion, and J think the debates made three thousand eight bundred and seventy pages. I think I was paid a fraction over ten thousand dollars each house; but I do not ecollect the precise number copies taken, and there- ore cannot give the exact amount’ There has only been Cpe session longer than the last jong seasion—only one. Q Do you recollect the aggregate cost of publishing the ebates for the long session of the Thirty-fifth Congrees? A. Idonot. Iam paid at interva's during the session for eporting the debates, and not inthe lump. I cannot herefore remember what I received; but I think It was + bout $87,500 foreach House—in all $75,000. Add tothat he $20,000, of which I bave Siresdy spsken; and the otal amount would be $95,000. The Senate pays me, be- rider, sixty-three cents a volume for binding the Congres- ienal Glove. Q. That is the cost for the whole session? A. For the whole sersion, exclusive of publishing the Daily Glob. Q. You think that is the coat? A. I think it is about it. 1 make the estimate from memory. Q DoT understand you to say that you are paid, besides that, $7 50 @ column for reporting and publishing same debates in the Daily Glo? A. Yes, eit; but | pay $4 50 of that $7 50 to the reporters. The remaining $3 does not pay for the composition of the work in the Daily Globe. T have made a statement of the matter in my pa- per. I loge about $10,000 on tha Daily Globe, but I make vp my loss when the debates are corrected and published in book form. Q. Do you do the Senate printing and the printing for the executive departments? A. Yes, sir. Q. How long have you been engaged in it? A. Since General Bowman’s election; he made an agreement with me by which I do the work. Q. What are the terms of your contract with Bowman for doing the Senate and execative printing? A. Bdv the whole work, and he has nothing to do with it except to see that it is done right; I im one-third. Q. Has he any responsibility connected with the doing of the work? A. His good name; he does not give me aby instructions or hire any of the men employed in it; he is interested In seeing that the work is done well, be- cauge be is reeponeibie for that. Q. You furnish the materials? A, I farnish everything; I was determined to habe the work, and I made the pro- position to Bowman that I would ao it for two thirds the amount paid by the government for doing it; 1 may lose a Jarge amount ‘of money by it, but I was determined to beat Wendell, who once, when [ was bidding for some work, pot in a did three mills under mine after mine was exposed; J published Wendell and all who were connected with the matter at tne time; in doing the printing at the rate at which I havo undertaken to do it, my calculation is that I will not make or lose more than $7,000 and the wear and tear of the waterials; I put in the bid willing hat Wendett should know it, and try to do it for that if e could. Q. You were determined to have the work? A. Yes, Q. About bow much are the profits onthe Congressional Globe in book form? A. [ do not know. I have never kept a profit and loss account. As itstands now geta fair profit, and no more, I believe. Theone cent that is paid for every five pegos of excess over the number of pages | bave mentioned, is paid only for what is printed ‘when they exceed three pages for long scesion, and fitteen hundzed pages for a short one. so ee ee ee graced y telcoiang form, are eession Congress? . About thirteen thousand. . And you are paid how much per column for those? * ‘wards by the column. Iam paid $5 = copy for the ‘DO matter bow much it makes, for the long session, one cent for every five pages when they ex ced three bpdred pegeey and one oent for every & Pages, and one cent for every five ‘There were three sessions in the Thirty-fourth but the extra session was @ short session, and charge full prices for that. George W. 1 was entitled to $3 a volume for the extra seasion; wonld not take it, though the law guthorized me to do so. I charged the debates of the extra session as an excess of the number of pages allowed for the long session, and re- ceived ove cent for every five cheaper book published men higher prices than they are paid anywhere this city or in this section of the } or eleven per cent more than thé prices gresaiona) printing, because they have to work are good, excellent printers; taking into consideration the capital I have invested, and he wear and tear of material and machinery, I ought to make, I think, twenty or twen- y five per cent on the capital { have invested, or $25,000 for a long session, aad about $15,000 for a short session. Q Persnnum? A. Yes, air; one Q. How much have you invested in your esiablishment? A. About $. 34,000 or $140,000; but about thirty or forty thovesnd dollars of it 1s pot needed to print the debates, Q Does that include your bnildiog? A Yes, sir; puiid ‘pg an@ materiais were asszesed last fall for $70,000, and I suppoee I have put in $30,000 or $40,000 since. Q How miany presses have you? A. Eighteen, and two more coming; | expect one here to-day. Q. How many men do you employ, on an average, dur- ig a session of Congrees’ A. I really do not know. I suppose that I bave eighty or ninety printers, bat there are, perbaps, two hundred persons employed in the office, about the printing business. Probably 1 have one hun- dred printers. a 2 you do any dry pressing in your establishment ? . Yes sir. Q, What is the cost of dry pressing? A. Ido not know. ‘We have just commenced it within the last turee moatns. I think it cost me $3,500 to fitup my pressing room. I made a calculation the osber day that it would cost me $8,000, but when I examined into the matter I found that one = amounted to $500 or $640 more than I thought it would. Q. Are your reporters paid anything besides what you pay them? A. The Houses sometimes vote them extra compensation when it is voted in the pages. Q. How much usually? A. Usually $800. Q. apiece? A. Yes, sir, Some seesions it has not been voted, but usually it has. Q. Are you acquainted with the rates paid by Congress for public printing? A. Yes, sir; very weu. Q. What is your opinion as to those rates being tv0 high or too low? Hind state particularly those which you think too high and those #hich you thing too low. A. I pab- tehed ao article in the Globe of yeeterday, written hastily, and most of it in the morniog when my paper was making up for press, which is true, You could, perhaps, examine me better after reading that article. Q. You will please answer my question. A. In a word, the compoeition is too low, and the preeswork on tue lung Bumbers is too high. Q. Toe compusition is too low? A. Yea, sir. Q. What is alowed for the small pica? a. A dollar a Poge plain work, and a dollar and a hslf a page raled work. That is right A. That is jast aboat right. Q. That is remunerAtive? A page of emall pica consists of sixteen hundred ems. Q How about the brevier? A. Toe brevier per page, that is to beck it, contains twenty eight hundred ems. Toe law allows $t 50 for twenty-eight hundred ems, brevier plain, and $2 !or brevier rule and figure. Both pric?s are considerably too low. ‘ Q What ought the prices paid to be? A. I have stated in the article to which I alluded pretty mach whet f thought it ought to be. One dollar and seventy-five cents ought to be paid for a brevier page, plain werk, and two dollars and a baifa Page, at leas ruled work. Q. ‘How as to nonparicl? A. dollars and seventy- five cents is allowed for every 4,20) ems of nonpariel, except on the government or department work. Q. Is that too low? A. Yes, sir; I fixed the prices, too; there was no necessity then for using tnat kiod of type, except for notes and rule work, to bring the rule work in &@ page shen it wouid not come in in other type; it ought to be $4 50 a page of rule work. e Q. Are there apy other kinds of type used? A. There are no other kinds of type used in Congress printing, ex- cept the English. A. There is no pica; they all Q How about the pica? start from tbat Q. Is pica not genorally used? A.:No, sit; it i¢ @ medium tized type which the printer starts to measure f Enghigh ig a size larger, but theymeasura that as Q. What is allowed for press work? A. In round num- bers it te about twenty-five cents per thousand peges; I made an estimate and it comes within a fraction of that. Q. That is what is allowec? A. On ali proes work, ex- cept bills; I forget what is allowed on Dilla, but it is not bye ;. aves Ph tt we within @ fraction of a mil mts for ever, ousand pages, fc atitebing included. y. : hea am Q. That is what is allowed by law? A. ¥es, sir. Q. Do yousay it is too high? A. It is not to high for the reguiar numbers, but it 1s too bgh for the extra num- ders; the law is thet when the extra numbers reach five |, two and a half per cent aball be deducted from the printer; on allover that number and up to twenty er vad) bork A per cent peng includes tae whole allowance for composition and prees work? A. Yea, sir. “ Finting Oomneitien ‘vernment; a8 Leaid in my article, the public printer or make him rick, can kill off a man who is | and poor in one Congrees, es seg Be a order extra qumbers? A. He Hve: me! “ na aay eee een rintig office?” ar T Yo. wat thiek ~ mat ‘inte it me be proper lone by the government it from fifty to one hundfod per cout prices I have indicated. Ihave no doubt ‘would be willing to risk my establishment Gevernors of the Almshouse. [From the Tribune of March 23 ) WHAT If WAS AND WHAT IT IS—SCENES OF DRUNKENNESS AND DEBAUCHERY—TAB INSTITU- PIONS TURNED INTO DRAM SHOPS—-SENSUALITIES OF THE KEEPERS—SITUATIONS BOUGHT AND SOLO— GRAVE CHARGES AGAINST THE GOVERNOR3—RIOT, RUM AND ROBBERY, ‘The Almahouse Department of this city, after ten years of trial, has been found woefully wanting. Originatio; in the necessity which existed for the renovation an‘ reform of the old, imperfect and corrupt system, under which, we are told, ‘‘licentiousness, disorder and flith reached a disgraceful height,”’ it was intended to make it @ model institution. With this view ten gentlemen, among the foremost in the ranks of philanthropy in the city, were created a Board of Almehouse Governors. Those gentie- men, honestly and desiring to their Guties to the pnblic, framed such a system of checks and ‘balances as was lated to peers oe wishes, and established the department upon & non-partisan @t once safe, economical and effectual. ‘The members of the Board were themselves selected in equal numbers from the two great political parties, and the body was so constituted that upon their withdrawal their places were to be filled by others of the same politi- cal preferenceg, elected by the people, so that neither ty should preponderate nor usurp the contr. . The ftw “gave the Board the sppoiniment of wardend! and these positions were distributed equally between the two parties. But it was also wisely ordained that the wardens should select and appoint all their subordinates, save the clerk of each iustitution, who kept the accounts of the supplies furnished and ured, so that the wardens were able to hold each individual under them to « strict per- ‘fopal account. ‘Thus sytematized and compacted, the department worked harmoniously, being administered honestly, and to the public satiafaction. But after s few years, when,by the terms of its organization, most of the founders bad retired to make room for successors selected by tho people, a class of men began to seek admission to to the Board who were actuated by other than unselfish, philentrhopic motives—men, in fact,'who, fat pick- Yngs in prospective, looked less at the honor of the pos!- tion, and the good that they might achieve, than at the emolument that they might fcovertly crib from the chil- éren of poverty apd crime. Under the diegraceful administration of such unworthy persons the departmentto which, in itginfancy and prime, Strangers (rom far and near were directed by New ‘Yorxers with pride and pleasure, as a branch of our local ‘nment, which was honestly and faithfully conducted public spirited citizens, in the midst of municipal fallen from iis high estate that its condition may best be ‘toomings of the most fisgrant character, has so far expressed by saying, 28 was said of ite predecessor, ‘1i- Centiourness and disorder have reached a disgraceful heigbt,”’ and the public interest again demands a radical The Oret step toward this state of demoralizition was to override that provision of the organic law which gave the wardens the appointment of their subordi- nates. This was not done openly, but was effected in juite as effectual as if the law inetitation y ree of Gisorganization, s dissolute disregard of decen- fa we lorable character. tn the palmy of the department, when le service was than the should eat at the publis ex; But, for years past, this order of things has changed the worse. Instead of going to their work with a will, in quiet committee, each member now belds it to be bis right to visit the institutions whenever bé pleases, w business calls or pot, and to take along of his friends, sometimes twenty or thirty in number, in cer- riages ‘hired at the public expense, and to dine and wine them at the cost of the city, ordering the ors and viands on his individual responsi. and the wardens ia r friends, whom they must wait | upon and eerve like commen lacqueys. On these osca- sions scenes of disorder occur as which even the very convicts cry shame. Five Governors st @ time, ia the | pevitentiary, have drack thomeelves drunk, and then quarreling over their cups, they have called each other common thieves and peewee: nd wound up by getting into a fight, pelting each er with glasses and the remnants of dinner; smashing the furniture, and then, hanging their hats upon the lamps, they have rolled under the to sleep off their debauch. It is by no means aif uncommon ocourrencee for the Governors and bread ered to be helped down to the river, and lifted foto the boats, by the prisoners, being too grossly intox!- cated to help themeelves. At such times the guardians of our pauper and penal institutions are wont to indulge in dan; and debavior lewd and disgustingly obscene. ‘Well may convicts remark, as they frequently have done to the wardens. ae ‘witoessing such ecenes, ‘‘ Mr. ——, Ws pretty hard TU should be sent up here for six months for getting crunk on my own moacy, and be put un- der the keeping of those who get drunk on other people's.”? Governors, Ww! making the tour of the instiations with visiters, bavé cften been known to step into the jnarry, and, taking some striced stone hewer by the | 1, publicly-recognwe bim asa friend and political | cropy, conversing anc joking with him ag an equal, sad commending him as ‘“‘ad——d good fellow” in the pre- sence of the Warden, guests and prisoner. Sach behavior, it must be obvious, cannot fail to prove destructive to the blige ag which ovgnt to be maintained among the in- mates of a penitentiary. With the female priconors the | Governors are equally free, and in their maudi; tome of them converse with ‘volting At their dipner parties it was ueval for the female priscners to go into the presence of the Governors and plead tor their liberty. At such times, al- though the Wardens might remonstrate, and rem!ca the Governors that these women had been committed a dozen times during the quarter, and released by them only a few days before, it 4 bod oye “Make out their dis. cbarge, Mr. Warden,” was the usua} reply. ‘The effect of all this lax discipline and familiarity between prisonera and Governors may be imegined. A short time ago the Jaw was amended f0 a8 to also require the sigaature of the committing magistrate to the discharge; but itis no 4xMoult matter for any Govervor to obtata this for those whom he would betriend. For 2 while the Wardens Seog ane this licenee, but as it cid no good, they yiel to circumstancer. When the wardens loet control over their subordinstes they bad no means of enforcing their commancs. Nogiect of duty, ingolence and insubordmation conrequently cha- acterized the conduct of the keepers toward their supe rior oflicers; and, taking their c2¢ from the maanerg of their patrons Board, in their intercourse with tue male convicts het ord wooed and wh ot female prieoners shametu!ly igate, Ina number cf instances aoe. the offspring of this criminal intercourse, werc ep in moods the women in @ strain of re- nurees to wl 5 The downfall of the rapisly declming department was copaummated by a combination between a German re- publican, two Americans and three democratic members Of the Board, avout & year ago, to override the organic law and turn out of office (that is, to dey te, in the hope that they would regign) several of the Wardens who had manhood to the ie poet of upon prerogatives, their licentious conduct. These is own name, and was said to Meep bis accounts at home by chaik tallies on his a loor qt Tea § 3 i i i te it A oe H AB ; : 2 ‘Well might the Gran@ Jury your conduct aathey | mutmber, Board at the er department, 41d, ana put you to the Dike though by the term of thet epee stent taay were There is uot an institution in the department which is | board themselves, The keepers in the other institu byt iterg he ia which pane Goverate bes: showy $2 omer for board, This fa a wi jaors pT eS Da fy — ppalanionwent agli rus institutions, bat week or one of ‘meny of Pocket and carry off segars by the bunch | Island sold bis sitgation Io the son ey aan Solos and brandy by the bottle, these offcers conniving at the jarlem. The place war worth $600 a year; its sel’ The in the Park is notorious as a dram- | price was $160, 4 farmer was lataly shop, where at all bours of the day Governors may be | make room for Harlem man, w) found dripking at the expense of tho Almshouse fund. | and hed frequently been discharged’ from, ‘With @ full supply of champagne, liquors and segers | fore,to be put in his place. of always at band, and pressing invitations from the Gover- | quite as and ini asthe Dors to partake, it is not sur; that worthy officers at Of their favorite governors to this place are acquiring habits which unfit them for buai- thom eceate rom fessorae How prisoners ness, and must in the end work their ruin. The beat | the city » egies pobehagne friends of these men see this and deplore it. Perhaps the { cells by rats, or dying of sheer neglect, Pereons themselves see it too; but how. can. they statements of slok poople, sent from the prisons to remain in if refure to their the way to Blackweil’s id, or Bellevue those who keep them in piace— pretsed to ‘‘take a | A man who bad his broken was some drink?” It would be considered that they were | on the floor of the van, aid ia compan; “stuck up,’ they would be ot wanes ty-four prisoners sent from’ the Tombs to seem better the Governors; thelr refi way to Blackwell's Island. would be taken as an assumption of superiority, 2 Use ey nich this Beard asks and 80 they do , rather | 1860, is 160, and $107,049 for buildings, than as they would. At this place on lay evenings, foi of $706,109 for the, expenses of the after the exbaustive labors of the weekly meeting are Jn the opinion of those who have made over, the Governors, with their frienda, sit down to a | hbelr study, at least $200,000 of this sum oo feast of good things, then, under the exhilarating dy judicious management, the discharge of the wine cup and the sedative segar, forget and female, who bave been pat into their promises of improvement, and rescind in private the | draw pay for political and other services, buncombe resolutions for retrenchment ‘and reform pass- | ment of the extravagant building expensee. ed juet previously. thia would nat allow of the au Let us suppose a company about to make the grand | by the Governors on con! ir meat, “tour of the institutions,” assembled to take carriages | goods, }, pottery, iron, paint, bricks, lime, from the Rotunda in the morning. An invitation to Ber artiches furmisded Jor the use of the drink and smoke is the .. Them, enter- | next friends. ‘Why won’t the Legislature gt yng the 5 are driven rere laa. Governors an overhauling, or, better yet, turn oa! ‘Heresy: large ball, hung with rele & pees it | rascals, neck and crop, retaining only those of the > to the use of the Governors | obnoxious to these charges maleupaoe; and their buffet at end contains an of Control, of three or five ample store of ail Kinds of potables, and that toot supe- we E:ay hope for a much-needed reform ? hell ee Too SMB any coeswon ber 8 room midnight carousals of the Go. seen tol Geir lente ar tommon somurence and THE SLAVERY QUESTION. where many a sober, respectable man date his descent Sc cee tase nTRTACS | wnat» Yonaane Puager ot Rarpad he ap and more ; this, with a throngh the hospital wards, completes the inspection, ” of and they walk down to the water and enter the boats for of the Polkties of the Day, Biackwell’s Island. The boats are manned by prisoners The men'have bees plist Wik Iason” beards ort vmx Bote men have n pl nor, order of the |, Wicwan, » Os Governors belonging wo the ve comtaitiees, whove rie Maroh T1600. 0”? N*?} Doats they row in. ‘word is for a race, and the Mr. Buswsrt—You are aware I have been for seve boatmen bend to their work the stimulus of whis- | years @ sul to the daily New Youu Hana, key, when, ag one or the other boat gains ahead, the Go- occasionally a volunt contributor to its coin nus. Yernors shout, ‘‘Bravo, },”’ “Go it, penitentia- | reside in Prince county, in the ry,” “Bally, slmshouse,”” and cheer their men along, re- | tile valley of the Patuxent, ‘where the wild ‘warding them at the end of the pull with more whiskey. grows.” Over and often, while ‘The custom—and it is pre Mega ag that it has be- | of my servan Thave been reading in the Wi come a custom—now is for the committe of an institution, | FrRarp the sermons, lectures whether it brings ite boat into requisition 9 Mrhegehag Messrs Seward, Giddings, Garrison, Beecher, Fr. '\ liquor, all Dn one of strictest rules of these insti. | Douglass and Co., and your and tuticns is the rigid exclusion of all spirituous beverages pe ee. Notwithstanding have denoui from the inmates. How can it be expected that these ‘York Hematp as the focus where all the People will respect the laws which the men set over them | the United States f@ concentrated, and I hi are the first to violate ? vised pot to subscribe to it, yet I know The visiters are shown over Biackwell’s Island, | editorisls that you are “‘« national, ‘8 Union-loving through the almshoure, i any! State rights man,” and I believe in 1g th: Penueotiry and hoapial. If they’ are of prurient articles you acted upon the principle, « of 0 tastes, alt they do no not belong to the medical | nion can be tolerated while reason is left free to o ion, they may, if they choose, step into the theatre | bat it.” ‘ of the Hospital, and the who have been | Youhave labored without ceasing to convince the wo left in charge by the di el will summon some | ing claeees, the manufacturers, the merchants, and c- of the unfe women sent there for treatment, and | servative men of the North, of the effecta which wo: subject them to the ahame of an examination, in the pro- naturally result from their quietiy allowing the aboliti rence of the 'y. At least this was the caac ngt | ists, wbo once formed 20 small a portion of the popuiat 1g 9g0, and not Governors alone, but the relatives of to misrepresent their and interesta and of « Governors took their thither to gratify a depraved. pret importance of har rallying to the regoue to prev A fproads upon rights South. mau ced over the island, the guests are escorted al course which the Hrratn has taken on the slavery qu to the grand ueting hall, a spacious Saloon in the tion, and the fact of its being « perfect encyclopedia of warden’s house, wi ‘the high revels are held. The news of the whole world, I expect has increased its ce covered oie the walls ‘gton tn the leet Sour years south of the Obio river « and ceiling are frescoed with all colors of the rain- | Mason’s and Dixon’s to sixty thousand copies. F bow, and the interior is lighted by @ large stained aibly the readers of the Hxnatp at the North window. This and the warden’s residence must heve | know what a slavebolder thinks and how pin egy pH $50, 00, th it would be very | reading the abolition sermons, Jectures, iffcult, from reports, to hi which you have published: actually expended upon the buildin; de. ue ros . I, therefore much was. g and its de- find room for thie communicstion in your cor: , ‘My education may bave been very defective, for Having eaten, drank and pocketed as much as they taught from my Bible to beheve slavery woaa divine please; they company again take the boats for Ran- | tution, ‘The higher aw” of my Bible te wridies jall’s Island, and race and shout all the way there. At | commandments. I find these words in the tourth— e Nurtery the are out and through | It thou shalt do no manner of work; thou, and their evolutions, a few of the ings are visited, includ- | and thy daughter, thy man servent and th: ig the tere then rege er and cone tgs re- | vant.” in in the Nec grb words—“ rn. time, as supposed, Goversors | not covet neighbor's ; thou covet and thelr guesta are not far from intoxication. bare wife ner bis + When tee 0 Le comple aye > ony oa 3 is fos iments 8] oe eeanta,” ie tt mos fair to io ight, their celle an stitution ? Are we i Beep the cathe and abeciar aaa mirth, af- | isa divine , When we read in prilisen, cher ter the hour of retiring. after that comes a verses 44 to 46—< sail around the isiends, or a stretch to a nore seal maids which thou shalt bave sball be of back by moonlight. How conducive to discipline and good | are round about ou; of them shall ye bu; Ss the institutions such proceedings are, may be perppgere ‘Moreover , of the ohtldzen ot x r amon; poem shail The children on Randall's island have been brought to fatlice thet te sisi on whe the @t the bidding of » with | your land, and they ehali be your possession. flying ers. and to the music of fife and drum, at all take them as an inheritance for your children Sanne eo the benefit of fire companies, re- | you, to inherit them for a possession; they aball be y’ pat " ast Ja), bad them out at night en ‘We also read in Opijoezians, chep. 3, verses 22 and Heights, for bie glorification. Al same time he took | “ Servante, obey . 2 John C. Heenan aed Snumber of Ider ; 2 every’ teevien as anean to Rapdall’s Island to review the boys, The ‘were drawn up in line and made to give cheer upon cheer for the Benicia, Boy. Would these Governora treat their own children in the rame way? If not, how much the more vender ought they to be with the orpoaned and desolate children ef they city, whom Providence and the people have confided to their care, 2 ‘The food of the paupers, lapatics and unit to cat. We are sesured that iuaed Nan book Barved ito and not unto men; the Lord yo shall 'recetve the reward of ‘inheritance, for you rerve the Lord.Chriat.”” We read as follows in Titue, 2, verses 9 and chapter “« Exhort gervapty to be obedient to their own Peter, chap. 2, ver 18, are o8t jn the lunatic asylum, » Workhouse and | “ to your masters with all penitentiary in @ nearly putrid stase. All of this meat | on! to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. pasees through the hands of an inspector at Bellevue Hos- when we read in Firat Timothy, chapter pital, and is approved by him before it is forwarded to the institutions. Ard yctitis rare that the contractor com. plies with the terms of his contract. Brom the appssr- | that the nameof God and his doctrines be not ance and quality of the meat it would seem as if he had | And they that ve believing -masters, let them not < gove through the markets, buying all the stale pieces ne them, are brethren: could find. Sometimes he sends & very good article; but m service, are faithful and the reverse is the rule. Teke for example the lunatic Paes Of the benefit. These things asylom, where the first quality is contracted for. Within apy man teach conduct ® month, in cold winter weather, meat has been sent | some even the worda of our Lord Jesus Chri: there in aetinking state. The food of the aged people in | and to the doctrine ling to godliness, he’ the almehovee is also complained of as innotri- proud, bnowing ing, but doting about cious and often upeatable. The same may be | studies of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railing sald of the articles supplied for the use of the | with evil surmisings.” sick. Sometimes the mest is sent back; bat this ‘We have here in this last sentence a good portrait ‘s rarely the case. Who is to blame, the inspector Beecherism and Typgism. This js the of meat or the men who keep him in office? It would be | the South. The alaveholder can take his Bil thought very improbable that ina penal perme i ge and diecuss the “« law’? doctrine of the North + vate piques would be allowed to influence the conduct of spy thme or in any . There is much said at the Nort those having charge of the prisoners. Yet in the case of | about the cruel lash of the alaveholder. & perzon commi:ted for libel, a Governor was heard to ssy | at the North should steal a hog, a to the warcen of the penitentiary, “God d—n him, give | great offence, he is put in. the hym bell!” And the poor wretch, who ought to ‘have two; although bis family may be dependent been eent to an insane agylum, was pot through such a | labor for their support. ‘This punishes the courte in the quarry as brought him to death’s door. We | dren; whereas the slave in the South rear 00 bave, good authority for that a sane | offences and let go—the of the Ni man, charged with repeated forgeries, was com- | wovld bim to be and mitted to the lunatic asylum, with the conniy- | might ; Dut the law says uzce of the Governors, to escape the just pun | coubt, if it ‘be ascertained, it would be proven ther« ishment of his crimes, and kept there for a long time, un- | are more blows given to the apprentices, ¢er the pretense that be was insane. He was ebildren at the North, than are received by the slaves ai away, and taken out of the city recently—s the South. who saw bim in the asylum, having identified nim, and ‘When I remember im al! civilized communities therc, told bim be was pot insane, but t escape the | mustof be ag yal “bowers of wood and drawers oj State prison where he deserved to be. water”’—when I contr: fe of the slave in the Sout We think we have shown enough of the doings of | with the life of the free 1 tbe Govervors of the Almahouse to satisfy the public | Canada, or compare i wiin the’ poor in oor Norther: ‘hat a retorm in the management of the department | cities, or with the poor and working classes in Eat 38 imperauvely demanded. Frem a high-toned, chari- | but ‘with the Africsn in his native jand, and table commission, it bas degenerated into a miserable | bow far happier the life of the slave in the Soath is—how partisan machine, ueed by the members for the basest | much better be ls provided for and taken care of than the and moet profligate purposes. We do not charge thet all | above classes—and when I remember the nataral indo- of the members of the Board are men of this stamp; on | lent d of the African race, I cannot help believ- the conirary, we bear cheerful testimony to the fact thet | ing tlavery to be @ Divine institation, and that siavehol: some of them are pure, bigh-toned, able men. | ers are the instruments in the hands of an All-wise Pro- But they are ia the salnstity! they eit at ihe Bowrd with -| Sieuce men whoee faces are babitusliy flashed with liquor stolen | Yes, the slaveholders are ivetruments in the hands of from the poor bouse and the penitentiary—eome of | the same All-wise Providence, who, for the benefit and them half drunk when they come to the meetings. from | civilization of the slave, and for other reasons beyoat oar the seme source—and how can their voices be heard, | ken, ordained le commerce of the world and their voles be made to tell, against sach a - | to depend upan the products of slave labor. What lees crew. It is asserted that some of the Governors ac. | wo commerce be without cotton, tually tax the department with the carriage hire of their | co, ar, rice, coffee and families, and the coat of riding about to electioncer for Hits treo tabbe ever jeodooed thees Is euftiotan quantities their party. i to supply the of the world? To euch @ estate is this noble reduced that | follows its own interests, and if free labor was more va- keepers and deputy keepers, appointed b: Governors for ‘polivical tervises, refuse to 0 bebeats of other i ‘wardens, or to heed the open labor. the Board of Governors. ‘Thus insabordfaation. is" the Sion’ tho ‘gresine sepectera ea rule, affairs go on pretty much ag they will, and all free order, system, and government is rapidly passing | away. Une Governar,a week or two ayo, saw a man bar) me by eating owen Magione g ‘at the fanatic aay- ives in peril, ond. prderea him i fim oat, ‘The fellow bad been insolent ana abusive before, but this time he Dvret out into a torrent of oaths, and inly told the Governor be might go to a very warm Penney B. F. Pinckney alone, who appointed him, was his master. tar, pitch and turpentine, they cannot av it, 1 was only by the moet persistent effort cn the part of the standing it has been contended from the days of Wilber- Goverpor—w one most respectable members | force down regent time of the Board—tbat this political pet was expelled from the equal to three tlavee. re mie island. Yet it was wotorious that this man kept his own ‘The London Timez, the official of the leading abo- oat, and went and came at will as he |, Fegardiess | litionista in the world, under the date of Jaly 10, 1856, um of the wishes of his superiors, going of with Pampers ogg the negotiation between Lord Ciarep- tbe keepers—ali getting drunk together—and rowing beck | don and Don Victor Hernon, about the colony, at the dead of night. On one of these midnight trips re- Ruatan and the Bay Jelenos, makes remarkabie aud cently they upset the boat, and bat for assistance from | rue admission—‘ One thing we may promise, and tt pro- the island would bave been drowned. tably will be denied by no one, Great Britain has no- Places are created friends and relatives. Take, for | wish for territory on the Central A: coast, Our instance, the reconstruction of the Island Hospital. A | wn West Incia Islands are fast imto primi- Superintendent of the masonary was appointed at $6 | ve sa e. When the rich are & dBy,& deputy do. at $5 a day. and a rigger at $3 | eing yearly abandoned, ant when (a Trinttad and Gul. aday. The work of the superintenpent and deputy was | :na cult! has almost coneed, it if not hikeiy that really done by tbe architect, who got only $3 a day. | England will care toextend her sovereignty f: over: ‘Ihe ty superintendent was removed the other which cap oply be brought imto use by- day, after a severe contest in the Board, all pretenceo | the of slavery which she has solemnly cou- mee i rervices Toye hea coy The | demned.”” ve e uid ing: ‘been roofed mouths, r- Now, is North williag a iavendent of the mescary, who ia friend’ of one of tuo | ake" bas’ the power) to abou erent ne ee Crea Sa retained cit gp althongh be has | outhern States, as England aid in Jamaica, Trini- nothing to do. In scaffolding rigger ad and Guiana, snd Jet the rich fisits of the are employed to put it up and down; dbutthey are { outh “be abanduwed,” let ‘cultivation almost ‘by ordinary builders only while in actual service. cease,” and let the society of the Southern }, ke: more fiberal Governors, ho: » Sppointed Mr. | thore islands, faat *« into a 8 of prigitive Antheay Dugro’s brother-in-law to that position, in the | sav: Would this be « profitable “Yankee specu- face of the fact that there are lots of satlors on Blackwell's ? Would auch a change the tphabitants of” who would do the work as well as he, and thus re- the Northern States, whether they were manufacturers of” torn scmething to the county (pr the cost of their trialand | cotton or engaged in any other pursuit? Let the shoc- during copfinement: and they stili retain him | makers of Lypp, Mazeacnusette, answer. Tne laborisg” at the rame salary, although for four or five months there | clastes, the manufacturer, the merchants and seamen of has been nothing whatever for him to do, and from the j the North are far more interested in slavery, and 116 ‘deginning only work for a few weeks at the outeide. of slave Isbor, than the slaveholder of tho ¢ lavish expenditere which has attended the con- because the profits on the manufactured article is struction of the Héspital is to be carried out to the | alws: that that mado on the raw material. end. Bics bave been received for beating toe building, citizens of the Northern States pit down all 000 000 lowest bid- | abolition newspapers and societies by not contributing to, capable men, with good securi- | or sttending them. And if they do in realty love the of their a hat wna tal be Bonnet ere ‘ave com- | negroen they have amons them; ‘shou! have a Themselves to vote for the $20,000 | furplus of generosity and funda) thore ere the por ef the badly rash the contract through next | Northern cities to be provided for, and Many other inte- In contravention of the rules and cus- | rests which affect the welfare and of tneir ia- all the other ingtta- | dividual Sater the keepers oq Randall's Island, four or fye in} I baye seen t mated somewhere (probably ia the Naw