The New York Herald Newspaper, November 11, 1871, Page 13

—_—___—__—___: HH INTHRAATINA, Mr. George Wilkes on the Coming Issues of American Politics, The Banded Woikmen of the World the Supreme Power of the Future. DOWN WITH MONOPOLIES What Is the Right of In- heritance ? American Society Wrongly Organized. We Are Recoming a Nation of Supple-Kneed Courtiers. Corruption, Aristocracy and immorality To Be Stemmed in America by the Party : _. of Peaceful Revolution, THE IMPENDING STRUGGLE IN EUROPE, British Oligarchal Rule To Be Puffed Away. The Platform of the World’s Reformers. Paris, Sept. 20, 1671. To THe Epttor or THE HERALD:— My letters of the last few weeks have shown tho Yelative princtpies, motives and positions of the two parties. to the late civil war at Paris. On the one side we have seen a royalistic Parliament. which had been sprung upon the nation by the rural PMiests, meditate the political emasculation of the great centres of intelligence as the oniy permanent security for monarchy in France. On tne other hand we have beheld the capital, alarmed none too ; Boon at this conspiracy to subjugate "the cities, draw the sword, and appeal to the country in favor of communal indepen- dence and republicanism. We saw it «keep | the flela with 200,000 men tor two months, without | remforcements or supports, its sister cities having been induced to leave tt to its fate, through the | adroit lying of the rovalists, who reported that Paris intended to assume the dictatorship of | France, and also through the still blacker perjury of Thiers, who kept swearing to Marseilles, Lyons and Bordeaux that, if allowed to deal with am- bitions Paris as he wished, the republic should be held intact. We then saw Versailles recruited by the Prusstans from the German prisons, and Paris muardered ‘by their ald. No sooner was this black Treachery performed than Thiers, despising nis oaths, proclaimed monarchy to ve his choice. He at | Present adheres to the vain form of a repubii¢ only because his ambition has taken @ new slant, MORE ALOUT THE PARIS MASSACRE. ‘This fa an epitome of what has gone before. In the Mrst place all the monarchies of Barope were in “the plot to humiliate France, because they percetved that the: ‘had agata come around for itsdemo- | crauc energies to act. They therefore stood coldly ; aloof until ber power had been broken, and then cbeerfaliy patronized the subordinate job, under- taken by Thiers and the legitimists, of rooting out the International. They feared that growing ter- ror more than they dreaded the undue aggrandize- ment of any special State. And that is the true reason why they permitted the “nalance of power?— that cherished fruit of the “Holy Alliance'’—to be destroyed by the dismemberment of France; and also | the reason why not one of them ratsed a finger | against the suppression of the laws of civilization in | the massacre of Paris. As (or Parts herself, her fight jhad been for liverty. On this theme sbe was a unit, Before her etrnggie was over. however, and after | she had cndared the imdiscriminate barbarities of Versailies, sue became wholly a convert.to the Later national, Inthe face of the new armament of Eu | rope and the fresh compacts of its Kings she saw | that ner only hope was ina Holy Ailiance of the peopte. THB CARDINAL DOCTRINE OF SOCIETY. The International 1s an organization of the work- | {ng classes of all nations, who believe tnat the | present form mto which society has worked itseif | is & false, artificial and unjust state of things, which has fnveried all the original condi- tions upon which man was entrusted with the possession of the earth. ‘They hold that Jana, water, air and all natural elemeats are { common gifts; and that even these depend for their | value wpon the application of labor; that Iabor, | therefore, 13 the great source of ail the wealth and | production of the world, and, as such, 18 cnuuled to | an equitable distribution, not only of what It pro- duces, but of the political power necessary to Insure @ just distribution and watch over its own safety. Jt does Not deny the rignt of individual acquisition of property, or bezrudge to honestly acquired wealth any lawful luxury it can command; but tt insists | that the common gifts of the Creator shall not be monopolized by small bodies of men, through gov- ernméntal char ters, or a system of xpectal legusiation tolerated Which confers the opportunites of acquire ing wealth only on favored classes, To use the language of one of their most gifted defenders:— ‘They ony that where in a common work tabor is no less | necessary than capita, and lavorers are ae worthy of te | profits as managers, the em by which the gt result is appropriated by capital, an. under which the sel-indu.gence of wealth soars to yet ued while the area of ance and éx! THE INTERNATIONAL a power Lerpats of workine! to handicap the laborer iu the rags of tnutietry, of ube Buate shall step in to. Heultullze compeution and to re- wh rot siratu the selfish abuse of capital. Such is the faith Das seized the foremost minds of the work which, in some form OF other, rec the devotion fa Feligious creed. Can any one doubt ite sure 4th the concious — corruptio © ™ tin creed ? oes the setiish cunon ition, fa sta bear, think it can stand © ike this, with ail its brrors and all its aangers Htipages and tole only fo am: wits meo who are ready thus to taken’ The ciaim 0 Capita to it choores and to spend it how vile—the claim of the workman to result 1s 60 unanawerable—toat tn he fesie Is not doubttnl, And since thi sociat problem must Rome day be taced oy alt tt seems timo tor Ferious men to reflect what other solution remains. AMERICAN ECHOES OF THE CREED OF LAROR, This eloquent. vorce, Which rises above the roar of selfishness and wealth In England, ts echoed vy we programme o} tue “National Labor Union” of the United States, which has recently issued a preiimt- nary address toa Labor Coaveution, to be Heid ab Columbus, Ohio, IN Oclover Next, wilh the View of traming a platform ol princiies end vominaling & of Euro eee } Upon « | repavlicau phiiosuphers were © | from his body, dts coatrol over tt hab Cease, abd | sagacious admiuist ¢ aor s jaeses nual ughe the bawie in unity “the, fol- the Lou. lavor candidate for Presiient. The working Of “tho design ; the excrad nares Neanismm ar BEnOnYIMA fOr tsFantyy uniimited beneath the p man edort, iditic rs compeited fn sickness vecpaupers and vagrants, | How {ar ermanship seems not to perceive; yet it ts wet dea “hatte! siavery as been whole emancipation in respect to. the uiviaion o( {ts prouuct®. Fhe cifference ites only 1h the methods of ; v8 FONE etatars of tern practically im the com ENGLISN REPUBLICAN MANIFRSTORS In direct sympathy Wih thls manieato on pablcans. Setting out witn whch states tei object ty be the American government,” say these earnest men, ak HOW Or Anite), Are Je have no enpply beyond ther daly ected with the abuses of Lavor, ished, vet (he rights of Indor stand ynst where they dia bovore and concentrating teem in tion. Bein i alg low mg programme has just been issued by nulellectual, taoeral and martertat Wwelrare of Taka, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 11 1871.—-TRIPLE SHEET. they declare the best means to realize this aim to be, ip their t— ip 2 - L 1 e Tae apetication of the federation principle to all repub- 2 ‘Abaition of axttooratie tities nad privileges. 0. all t Aeaiienet standing armica, & Compulsory gratuitous secular and industria! education, 6. Obiigation of the Stele to provide suitavie capioymant for ail ei able to work an! Busteunnes (ur the Incapact- tuted; uone to uve upon the labor of 7. ivatioualizauion of land. ‘These pronunciamentos and demonstrations afford afair general nsigat into the prmcipics and pro- gramme ol tne interaauional; but the two proposte tions which have earned for it the deepest hostuity of the ruling classes in Earope are is meditated re- forms ta the ownership 01 land and compulsory secuiar educaton. tbe first of these has drawn upon it the adsparing denunciation of the landed | aristocracy of all nations, and tue latter exposes It w the special opposition 01 the clergy, The amount oi lying Which has bven levelled av it by these two oluerS. hostlie interests 18 periectly amazing, and Ido not | know tat £ cau convey & better idea of its | than by rejerring to the mie im which these two agencies tem. porarily ,succeedea in drowning the Com- mune—a pact which sprang irom the loftiest patriouam, was actuated in everching it did by the purest mouves, and Which, ufter a devoroas, moral ana jorbearing life, died without @ crime. At any race, U it commited @ay—any, ab least, in the forms Of uishonesty, sacrdegs, Soca Immorality or wur- der—iis persecuiors, WHO drauged tt by the throat belore mittary trivunals of their Own, were uuavie to brand a6 with @ siugle case. Of course | leave ONL o! Unis category Wwe Shoring ot tae hostages and tue firing of certain public edifices dung the last hours of its struggle, satisued that I have already exhibited sudicieat legal jusiifcation upon these points, THE LIES OF THE FOXS OF THE COMMUNE, It is nov sale to accept the representauions uf any of tne organs of Huropean svciety or their leevie Lul- lowers In the Unite States as to what are tno docirmes and aims of the internaitonal. The poilcy O1 society, Organized as it 1s 10-day, shameless measure is ‘simply to bowl a it in the Jump, and to atirinpuie to tne Internativnal ali the foul and wicked purposes wiien vase and terrified Mmuginations Can conceive, Vuring the struggie of tue Commune all surts of forged bulieLns, par poruug tobe issued by the laternational, were scatiered througuuut France, in order to bring Ou1um OD the asseciauon, and every ouce la a Wale the Engush jouuats Woud pudlish talse pro. grammes oO: its principles, 1a Wuich the aenial of Paris, which are of each other, hed studiously wougted these things and understood thorougniy the workings and beuedits of tne law for the division of the estates ol intestate jetors. They and their predecessors were the custodians and de- fenders of the law; but the interna’ bemg men ol progress and of bold teas, have hit upon & mode by wiicheven that beneticeut law may be tm proved, The amendment they propose ts, that the adundoned estate (Unat Is Co say, abaNndOued because the owner has nor chosen to dispose of It bo- fore deata), instead of being divided among the heirs-at-law of the deceased, should be appropri. aied by the coautry, to be sold at auction, the proce ging into the pubic treasury, to be dist! among the Dalion, Larvush te remnissi O} Waxes, the tmprovement of rivers ant commercMl roads and the establisiment of cuaritabie lust Mons for the helpless aud incompeteat, At tirst signt this sees Lo be a bold invasion o} our ordinary nowons of the rights vi property; but, On relecuon, 1b Will be Seen that the proposed system toucnes no rights except those which have been resizned, for We proprietor is always at liberty, evea on his deathbed, to seil, divide or give away tue estates Wuicb, caly through fis oWa neglect or seliisiucss, may become sunject to its operation, This is the only ameadmenc Which the Iuteraational propose to what is obviously the vest land system In the | werld; and that ttis au improvement on ours no candid reasouer cain doubt, I nave discussed it with many men of wealth in Paris, and uuey have ail agreed that the p oposed amendment ts good enough ior them. They say that they have cont. dence enough in themselves to bel.eve thal they can auiy establisit their chiidren previous to thelr death out of the property they nave acquired; and the man Who is 40 miseriy a8 not to do that in time, bul to jet death overtake him while still tightening nis grip, is vot eputled to much commiseration or re- spect from anybody else. Besides, they also take the practical and se.fish view that they can look out Jor the crisis 01 death, and they would ratner nave the chance to proit by tne negligence of Laose Who are less generous or 1e3s sagacious than ticmselves. ENGLAND Vs. AMERICA, But the best proof o: the vaiue of this law asa democrauc measure 18 Lhe contrast Wich Its results afford witn tne present condition of laud tenure aud Jand vwnersnip in Kugland aad the United States, in Engiand, through the centralizing imiueaces of the law# of primogeniture and entail, which ue tie land to families and fasten its descent from eidest son to eldest son, the eatire surface, on Wich 40 | Many miulious depend for their subsistence, 138 | owned vy the ridicuiousty small number of 32,000 | propnmetors; and the number of these proprietors is & GO, the abotion O. Wwe iWarriage ue and the re- distribution of ail property were Unviushingly Paraded as the cardinal points, Most of these precivus fulMmimuuous are DOW 1n reguiar course of Circula.iou aud reprint in eultghteued America, Oniy wo Weeks ugo an assumed prociamation of | We internatiwnal found its way inio the Paris papers, tareaieuimg all tue memvers uf the goveru- Ment ot versuilies With ean MIL should execute any of the Commuuist prisouers tien on trial, aud this morning | lind In Guéguere: av eXivact wom the Unua Cae ca, of Purim, giving the platiorm of THR ALPIERI SUULNT «9 ROMB (an acolyte o: the luternakonual), pretending that Lhe sixth article declares Wut, 12 casé of a War between Italy au a ioreiga Power, It will haye to desceud to the ground of uction, and burn as many Churcues a8 pussime ~esprcialiy wie Vaticao—aad Tevive 1b the secvliection oO. Lhe Deopie the tradition O1 (he oiclian Vespers, nd tuis is tae Kiad Of trash these reachonary conspiraiors exvect Lue Work! LO beeve of an aSsociatiun awed after one of the most celebrated poets Of italy, and ootwriously coin- Ding umoag 118 Members svine Of ihe frst rusts and origiiest ioveievts of the ternal city, But this is just the trash that 1s readily believed, and most read.ly by Americans, MARBIAGE AS A PROFIVAKLE BRANCH OF RELIGIOUS COMMERCE, The International, a8 1 wave said before, is sim- Ply aN Orguuization, of the working Classes of the Wold upon & pa iorm OL the Tights Of iabor. De- clating une poucicai equality of man, 1 Knows Where to thad its enemies, and, u8 &@ Means OL deteauing thew, 1 asas for Universal Compuisory “yecuiar” education—that 18 10 say, tae compulsory education Of bOLU sexes In vhe general rauments Ol KuoWwl- edge, without tue iniusiou Of reugious creeas. On the sudjeci of reuton 16 incuicaces uoUniug and re- jects nuvblag. 16 pataves itself soiey with sO eulargug the tele.t wiin Wholesome and Vigurous imsuructioa that tme mind 18 capa. bie Of acting as a iree ayent and judying Jor itself, Soiar from ving aiteimuc, tucreute, the interna, luvnal prociaims iree trade 1a reugiva, aod the only Tesirichons WAICH It Pidces On Mts doctors 13 that tuey shail have 0 suare lu the legisiauion of tne.) State, As two its exumadon vi the nousenvid rela- | ons (in regard wo Walch It has been so wickedly maligne), its programme prumutes marriage oF liberadug the uesiravie act of weaiock from the Jo1ms aid upon It py the jaw aud tne fevs pat upon it vy the Uaurch. In Otuer Words, It propos:3 to lactate marriage between young persons by maxing @ Slupe acknowWedzment belore & Magistrate @ suuicient cuntraci, as in the Luled ptaies. luis sweepiig decree against | on, of the most prottavie braucnes of reli- gious commerce coud not be tacraed by tue merchants oi emer tae Cathouc or Engusa Cuurcu; aud nence uli the edtusioas we have oeard avout tue dveadidl social theuries of whe interua- ional, dv lar irom onese accusations Delug jasti- fied by facts, ine Crucis just tae otuer way. ‘Tne home Of iemare Cuustiy, 0. maniy Coaiuence “and Ol the Soudd duimesite Virtess os Win the iabvoring | poor. Tuey kuow goumng of the luxary ol wealta | or of its devasvinenis, toey rise with the lark. Their Rumoe meruing Moat, Sweetened wih tne Ki8s 01 Her WO spreads 1, sent ibem to vac toll Which makes tie earta Nia viiavie; dad bhey rel abagnt to clap the vlusseus v1. thew love upon their preasts, With a uouest joy Waici 18 In seit the ueepest grA-ude 10 ddeaved. dues are NOL Lue people Woo Commi. CTunes or wanker ater unMorel- ity; and Wes Whe Can beieve buey are KuOW BuLa~ lng Of maussna. TUE AGRAKAN POLICY OF TUE REFORMERS. But we preteuded ugrarian Wsuncts ot the inter Nadonai, its assumed disposiiua to lake irom tuose WhO Have ana divide Witu Luose WhO Rave uot, Us the tavorne ap, acdiod Walca ow cousimutly Cou- JUred up L0 ailrigat “socteyy”’ wit the prospect of | the labor lie Cisses getuns “He upper waad.”’ Let | Us see Wuelger LS pidusidie slander Will bear tue | test O: an inquiry avy beer Caan Lue 1alsen0048 we | have already probed, The ducurmus O Cae Later havonal ani tue Couinune oO the sibject ol wwe Tedistivauos Of land 13 simpiy # slight atvance | jaw Ol Frauce @s it fas stood ever sce Whe republican ivaders of (that pettod Liv, | havieg sound che social organization sianding 0a ls bead, Wilh none of tue tand in the tiuds | Ol those Wao Worked LL, devoied taciaselves Lo see how wus sand cudid ve Qouestiy recovered row | those Wao had monopolized 16 wad redistrivaied | f@mong Us i Bature Cuu.d ve re peo. te—now, in short, the original pia stated Withoul Confscation | of Any other vi tence against the form of law winch provecten tl to ihe possess fr. Laougn the evi Was | @ Crying ONG, aud demaaded a quick Temedy, these | went oo abide the Areca Operauoa vt alaw Wiica sould bear upon Lue lature; and, in this sprite oi novle moderation, tuey devised (he stacuce Watch has been the source ol the wouderiul material prosberiiy Which Frauce has enjoyed sinve is en.cunment, THE Puksk T LAND LAWS OF FRANCE, | Tspeak of (nat law of France wiieh furoids the devise of property by Will att requires estates to ve uivideu among those Who are prescribed as aeis- Abiaw. ‘Lhis lezisiction pracicady said to tue | couutry, “We lave ho ou,ccuon 10a man becoming nen, ir we recogaze ume ob sly of suuie | Special stimulation to mdividaal effort, nor Will we disturb him im Lie en,oy went Ov his property by undue regu sitluns. On (ae contrary, We Wil wro- tert Him In 13 pOss@ssiuny uy, We WIL ; even permit fin tO uispuse of it ad he pieases, vy gut ur o.berwise, down to the Jast his te. bul, When te breath passes Inement Of Among tose Wi. IL Was nts natural uuty lo jove. Havug acquired its posses- sion under the gcuerous pro ection of (he laws, ne shall nut be AuOWed to Lyraantze O-er ib witer He 1s dead, OV ageidullizing Oue Successor at the expense 0. several equally Jeserving beta, WHO May perhaps | become pauyers Or crimiuals to barden or perplex tie Suate,”? ‘Taig iw, which did 10 Gue an injustice, Knocked prituogent.ure aud eutail in the nead. Unaer 8 operation the wrge estates crumuied at the death of every proprietor, ued land) Kept consianiiy subdividing — Itsell, working back amoug Ue people, as if under the supertmendeace of ws original duuor, the Creator, As Carty as Within Bixby years of its enuctinent, this original pian nad been so tar re- guinea that there were, aud still are, 9,000,000 of lauded propiieiors 1h France, against the 8z.0v0 inat Are 10 be (oud gud. 6 Was seruck With Cho physical evideu Of tus LaW on uty Uret visit to Unis Country 1 .35., Itt variety of simalt paiches o1 contrasted culuvaniou Which Were visinie In panned ued. During aDoiner visit, in isdd, a wealliy English squire, Woo Was the oWuer of thousands Of broau acres, directed my attenuon to this tact (roin the window of a rail Car, and depioringly made nis comment by remarsing, “An, sir, Wik This infaie — suylivisioa of the lund there can be DO model 1arming here.” “No,” said 1; “you ure que © rect sh tht; but, after all, a coa- tented man fs the Most successidi OF Macoines; aud 1 veg to divect your attention vo the tet that every 10Ch Of BOL La Us country is made tu bear a biave OL grain.” This law Of subdivision Was Lhe legacy OL the old French Revo tuvu, aad ia notice 1s effects in some tetiers Which L wrote in 185i | re- MaATKEC (Mal IL Was tue Creaiest charter ot equailty Uvat nad ever be n devised by nan, And expressed my bevel that bo Couuiry Could long remain repub- hean wihout it. We have seen what has nappened since ju the United states and wnat is the potiucal | outlook Of America to-day. Bator that by and by. ErPECiS OF A JUST LAND T&NUR This grand Jaw of lant subdivision (throagh the Abrogalion OF Wis) Was (he Work O +e Paria Com~ Muuists OF 17.3, and LO Ki OF Emperor who has siice succeeded Wien 1a Power fas dared to inter Jere wiiatt, Unier its mduence France has risen to the ieaversnip oO: ihe Word In producto, in manutactures and tue arts. Tae vast material pros- | pertty, Which has been erroneously attr.outed to ine trou of the second empire, and which, through tue tuucistoue of the recent loan, surprised tue world by the Hidden wealth. revealed in tie pockets of the people, 18 All to be creaited to the benedvent operation of this law. ‘The lvan, doubtess, nad one otver vageen help, and that Was the fact taat, through the fraudulent remissions of the mmperial War De- p. rtment, tere hat Deen oMly 890,000 miitary non producers vuder aruis vutinyg tue last five years, ta- Bieau of jvu,voy, fol Which tie empire was exactin, pay and rations, ‘The andual production of 359, len is & Vast Herp, even To @ NATION Of 20, {HALITADtSs,; and thus France, im addition to the enormous Venedts accruing tnraugh a generat cul- ‘yvation of her sol, profved unconsciousty by tne fysiem wich so enricves Eoytand ant America—to wit, the practical reducuou of her standing army. THK SRIGHT OF INHRRITANCR,” The International of France and the Commane of shali then ve divide j have glanced unaualiy decreasing, through laws which surround ; the trans.er Of land with so much expease tiat it has ceased to vecuine a markevavie arucle, Indeed, 1¢ has been for several years the settled policy of | the governing arisvocracy of Bngiand to couceatrate tye land of the entire dominion oi Great Briain | into as lew hands as possible, aud to tos end tho | owuers Of the iarger esiates are Constantly endea- voring to buy up and aosery the smatier ones, AS an evideuce ol tas. there Were in Kugiand, @ bun dred years ago, 290,04 proprietors for tue 82,000 of to-day, ‘To quote from str, George Odger, Who has recely Contrinuted a very ab.e article to the Cui temporary Keovew upon the laud question:— A better notion of the growth of the monopol: be ob- talneu trom the following:-The ‘Karl of readaibaie caw sowa house in @ wheriand owns the county ame; this county resches (rom sea to se: ry ame D. Duke of Richmond holds possession of 440,000 don Caste aud Goudwoou, and the Duke of Devonsaire 96,000 @cres im the county o: Leroy alone, It hay been authorita- tively stated that less than one hundred and sixty persous ait tue land of nyland au ‘ourths of e way in waich political power, so largely monvpoilzed by lauded proprietors, has been used, muy be gleaned from the (act that, Witain the Last 30 years, 7,000,000 acres of common lands h en addel to their ‘esiaves— that is, to tue estates of adjoining proprietors, ‘Ihe resust of this crimiaal conspiracy to aosorb the commou inueritaae ts, of course, to Make tho people puorer wad poorer, and to coustiiuite the MiOdoplisis the oWwuers of the populauon of we country as well as of the land. Heuce the aris- tucracy Of Great Britata 1s whe most’ powersul, weaithy and well organized in the world; and, now- ever mach we may Rear iru them against the 1m. periai systems of otuer Couutrics, taey are the firmest supporters—nay, ine chief rellance—of the darkest despotisins of the Contiuent. tu like man- er Is ‘he HDziiso Kstaplished Cuurch tae stoutest Tevance of tite papacy at Rome, TAk LAND MONOPOLY IN AMERICA, In the United States we nave been freed from the laws 01 primogeuiture and ental, and it was reason. ably supposed When tals great uberauion Was eifec.ed tact iand monopoly 10 a Country $0 1avored as ours, fod Wiwal 80 vroad, coud never reach # poiol Whence it conid threaten the public liberties, Yet we have lived to see an insurrection oi lauded pro- prievors of the Sourn, who fad become so rich that Uney no louger desired to reimaim republican; and we ; have vefore our eyes to-day the fact that, in face of tue principles of the American consutuudon against igud = mouopuly, the Vongress of we United States have, within the last few years, doaated away to railway speculators an amount Of the uauOnal domain equal to the entire area of France. aiwWay iords are Combining togetuer to monopolize tne Mmteraat cartying trade of the coun- try to an eXtent Loar Witt enaule these corsorators to say ul Waal rate & vusiel Of Whicar raised in Mis- Souci shati bs eated in New York, aud what ine West shalt pay the Must for the tnags they use and wear. ‘ae tarts vhey will lay Will be more onerous town those o1 the government, and the: combined power Will be gresier; aud the Worst feature ol tne probiem 18, tia’ Waen We turn to the only quarter poten enuugh to carb (his rapidly increaslag dan- ger we are vonirouted by a Congtess wich 1s | Caaaily corrapt—nay, that exhibits an increasing tenuency to Gate Wii the Conspirators aud use (Ae puoite as its prey. THs CONSPIRACIES OF WRALTIL. The davger Which now tiveatens the public liver. tes tu tne United Staics and tts very form of goverament ts tae growing tendency to coaspiracies Of weaich, in the form of land, railway and steaim- ap Monopolies and moneyed Corporattons. —1¢ 18 not the putpuse o: this letier to suggest lezislation on the subject; but it is obvious that, uniess the sysiein Of land grants and special charters 15 #peedily arresied and the law ol Fraace for the sub- GiVision OL estates adopted, our boasied 1ustiiutions ‘wul soon Cease to be an eXample Lo mankind, Lam almost afratd ty express iny conviction as to the amoant Ol monarchical element that now exists ta tue United states. Twelve years ago a Maa would have been langhed at for saying that ihere was any percepiivie traction “ut our popn- lation in favor of abandoning = repubilcaa Jor monarchica: institutions. severiieless, Wwe have fo: the country swing OT In DUlK fnd envertain proposals for a Ki It is the con- mon impression ot atrou—nay, of our lawyers Lia’ the jaws of primogeniiure and entail have no existence within our bouucaries; yet we See num- bers of such families a8 tho Astors of New York fay tiving their wealti and passing tt from | eldest sou to eldest son by Wol—a sad example of deleating the spirit of our Insututions, which, u not exactiy criminal, is deserving o1 the severest repro- bation, Ps evi @Xauple is being followed vot ¥ generally by tne amoitions families 0. tue is spreading of late among wealthy of the Sortiern States, it will vé perecived, tuere- fore, that mstead of tie monarchical leave? oO! pri- | Invgennure and eatall having been eralicated from our land, It 18 spreading with a new luxufiance and rapidly disseminating tuture evils, WE ARE A NATION OF SUPPLE-KNBED COURTIERS, I wish | could stop here m the enwineration of the dangers whicu we have o treaa; but there Is one influence more immediate, more eorrupting and more certata to sap cae public liberties than any I at. Jaltiuds to the trade ot poliues, wich, under the various forms of parties in the Vanted States, bi. become @ regular national me. dustry, aud has converted us to a large extent into | @ nacion o! oMice seekers, of, in plainer words, a ne uon of suppie-kneed, bowing, scraping and tine. serving cou tiers—aye, courtiers. Thiuk of that as & Testing destiny for the oace austere, high-spirited, democrauc people of Ameriea | ‘The iruital soure> of this national detertoration ig the re-clective feature of tho Presideacy of tue United states, lected for a term, wita the poss buity of being elected again aod again, tt is the direct interest of every incumbent of the ofice to Shape Nis course so as to Keep In iavor With the poli- ticlans instead of laboring to serve the public. To accompilsn this ob,est he constantly holds himacit ready, ander the advisement of his party council. lors, to appoint any incapaole rogue to place 1m his own personal interest, instead of selecting merely capanle and honest men for the service of the coua- trv, The whole torganization of government thus becoines & mere machine of party, and every plece © legisla‘ion, every pudtic moveinent, is studied in ivance, More with & view to the next Presidential canvass than imconsideration for the paviie good. Washington and Jackson saw the dangerous eects of tals feature o! our system, and In their farewell addresses earnestly aivised an amendinent to the constitatroa prohibiting (ne re-election of a Presi. dent; and every subsequent aspirant to the Prest deatiil cnair has conceved to the duiversal sett. ment of the nation on thts subject, by giving out that he would not be @ candidate @ secon’ tine, In every case, however, these pledges have been s ealtly ignored, and in nearly every case the poti- ticians have succeeded In triamphing over the re- pugnance of the people. Of course this deplorable Abuse Crows Worse and Worse as time rans on, Aad, under the increasing patronage of the White Hor ft will soon be possinie for the too powertul occu. pant to reinstate himself as loag as he may live, ani be in effect a king. THE PATRONAGE OF THE PRESIDENT, Under the revelations of the impeacument trial of Andrew Jolinson it appeared that there were 42,000 persvus who, divectly or indirectly, depended upon The patronage of the President of the United states. ach Of theae persons im place there were five Who Were applicants and quite as large « number who haa held the place betore and hoped to hod th agato, For this 490,000 men, Whove eyes are fixed humbly and worshipfaliy upon the central throne, there are five times as many similariy situated as to office under the sub-machinery of the States. So. here we have the enormous numoer of 2,000,000 of men, with families and relatives to the extent of millions more, all constituting among them @ public tnievest which is a8 much of @ mt tional indusiry as the making of shoes or an growing of wheat and corn, Unlike the litter wholesome industrial pursuits, howe the tndas- try of polities i the United States ts, very expe- Tieaced citizen well Knows, founded on the sub-in- dustries of lyimg, cheating and stealing. I wish tno worst were tou burt itis noc; for these corrapting influences permeate every artery and section of s0- ciety. ‘They make us a “amart” people, Iking to get money AS We can—A people Who lay by their Consctences whea they attempt to trade; and the leaders of whose soviety get rich tn Wail street by felonious deceptions; thrive at the bar by derending right or wrong for money; sell justice trom the Denen to the Wythe widder, Mg Eg RE ad G even im religion, seek onl chufoh Such Ia etrne pictare of the governing rion of America to-day, fa no lance; etch, Uta aeep analysis, While, on this aide of the At lantto, tue hearts of the masses are striving to get Nearer and nearer to a pure ideal of democratic aberty; on our side, the couspiracies of wealta and power are leading us on the velvet track of mo- Nurehical reaction; and the most hopeful of us shud- der when we refect where it mast stop. in Euro- pean nations, Where tie people are unskilled 1 politics, they rise periodically against the corruption Of heir rulers aid sweep a dynasty away. For a time ali goes well; but vy and by the next dynasty becomes corrapt, and thar in turn 13 swept away, and again the atmosphere ts cleansed, But let us, while we are surveying tue Jaws of thts phenome- DON, pause for a Moment to reflect, and tO ask Our- seives the guostion—Wnut ts to become of that coun- try the teaveney of Whose laws aud practices 13 to make the peopie corrup.’ AMERICAN SOCIETY WRONGLY ORGANED. But thas far there 13) nothing che matter with the great bulk of Our people; the real troanie is, that AMERICAN sOOLETY is wrongly organized, and tae wrong classes are In power, It 18 organized, in short, on ne Huropean aristocratic pian, sad is more in need oi the paurif- Caton: of @ Worough revolution than even the 80 ciety of Kurope. uv raiWay Masnates are our Marquises of Westuiuster, vat Carls of Bredalbane, and oar Dukes of Kivuinond; end our re-eligible President 18 every inch a King. More tian & Kiag, for he Aas A Wider power; and worse taan a kug, tor waue @ hereditary monarcu naturally eels a per- sonal interest in malatatuing the welfare of the coan- try, a re-eiigibie presiient Is ready to sacrifice auy pubic measure, however necessery Wo good govern. ment, 10 secure his re-election, Tie most corrapt- lug forw of moaarchy Kuown vo tie World 18 thal Waich concea.s tiseif in the constitution of tie United States in iis fauure to prouibit tne re-cligt- bility Of the executive. Let the new power which 1s coming 1m America rub Out this error aud inscribe the “Uae-Teri Principic” upon its banners. Under the constitution tous reformed we shall have preai- dents Whose ConsiAnt Lipuse it will be to promote the public weiiare, to permit honest men to remain im oitice and io leave a good name behind them when their term is done. Without this chtet reform We muse plunge on la corruption, and soun drive | upon tne rocks, THE SUBDIVISION OF LANDED ESTATES, The other main reioria we need 1s the adoption of the caw o1 Fraoco in regard Ww the sibdivision of the estates of deceased proprietors, as amended by tne Internationale, This wall effectually root out the seeds Of primogeniture and ental, Which are bemg curefully ios.ered by the parse-proud arisioce racy of our country, North aud Soata, and will prs veut tue Villuay ol dunating away the public do- Inain to WonEpUIIsis, to Lhe EXteut of empires, rom plaguing us veyout one generation. The constant tendency of the french jaw is to break up large estates And redistribute the laud, Under genue aud equitable tnuueaces, back among the people, tvs & Jaw watch wilt be accepibie Lo Wie rich as Weil ag to the poor, for, wate by ughtening the burdens of taxation, Mb pracucally increases the property of every proprietor, it vasily enlarges the opporvunt- ties Of every landless man ty become a proprievor hunself, 1018, 10 short, nod Ouly essentially a demo. cratic law, but tie very fountain of democracy Itvell; ahd my couviciions are renewed (as ex- pressed several Vears ago) Woat no Country Cau long Temain aemocratic or repuotican Withgut it. RESUME OF THE REVOLUT.ONARY CKEED, Thave now sketvned, and { beiteve with falrness, the purposes and acts oO: tae Cominune; aad, as tar as 1 bave decd avie (0 ascertain tue, the principles Of ihe Lnteraatiouale. 1 have shown the first Wo lave been actauted by (ie nobiest motives, Characterized by the purest conduce and butciered at tue shriae ol liberty unconvicted of a crime, I have ex- aained the second, not with the eyes of a man wno hates the poor, bur of One Wud loves his race, aud found them to be as honest a4 their labor, and aun- ing only to liberate mankind froin tie tyraany of kings aud from that false gondition of society which conters ail-the rewards of life upun the few nad ti- pas ail the hardships and sacruices on the many, sound their reed 10 ve:— 1. The fraternity of mankind to be regarded a8 a principle paramount to the geo.rapaical punadaries of nations, 2. The aboiwbieat of war as a mode of se.tii national disputes, und tie conseqaent abolishment of the death penaity in any form. 8. ‘Tue Lederative principle to be applicable to ail States, ani to be maintatnes on asystem of international arbl- tration, 5 4. ‘the resumption by the State (as th of all property reliaquisied by the death ¢ order that ft may ve reutscribute 1 (thro the propries pudite sate and deposit in the puulic treasury) to the succeediug gene- ravion, 6. © abolition of all monopolies founded upon spectal 8. Wrage. 7. Marriage coniracts to be simplified to a formal ucknow- ledgment oet a dthe trade of pubite prosti- tuiton to be pronibiced vy & rigorous applicsiion a industrial venaities. A STARTLING CONTRAST. These are the main docerines of the Internationale, Wit any oue assuine thar they do uot Lorin & velter prograinue lor the organization of society than the hemous system under wluch tie word rots and groaus to-day? Wuits be pretended that tae mus. erabie slaves of poliucs tu the Unitea stites—I mean + the tundreds of thousands vf poor parvy dogs who Snit About (he prvice oMces tor cruubs, who daily crawl On their peliles fur sume place-giver’s sintle, and Who dare not uteer an iadepaident houghi, or, Indeed, Lo speak at ail excepe ul their patron’s nod— Tsay, Will 1 be pretenGed sat the saouiders ot stich creatures ure @ saier loundatioa jor TS support Of # republican state than luc honest arusans WA0 fought tor the Commaue ta Parts, and who died for their priacipes at the barricades’ Tank of, those vending | parasites in contrast Deiesctuze and his heroic comrades, Mime all Tevious exXainple, even of e. tne siern Roman days, with their useess Swords pat by and ther breasts ind bare, calmiy exposing themselves tu the tudlade of tneir barbaric ves, With the text O: liverty upon their ys and say waich are the Mitest to preserve the viitue of & State! (1 18 move likely tual iue spirit of liberty, Wale NOW G44 163 Most nunerods Worsmippers in isurope, will agata cross the Waters, to rectadie its dying fires in America and save us from the new slavery Which. ander ime preseac descending pro- gress Of adairs, must be regariet as inevitable, Tae ouly power wuich can do this jor US must sprit, from the unpoduted source Watch has never nel power beivte—fro.n the banded workd@en of the New Worid—the Interaatiouaie, — it 1s already pre- pariig for 1s (ask, and 11s Hirst care bust Ware of acceping tHe vid backs Of party a conaciilors or chieis. The day of deaveran Hana dad ali taiags Mast ve made New. THE KUROPEAN REACTION, It may be thought tnat t aur aliridubing an nodae importaace to We Interidtionaie, and crediting it Wilh (00 great a lorwarduess towards the objects of its mission, bul everyinuig oa Uns side of the Ate lantic yustiles My expeciauous. Stacy the gee crimes of Prussia mM pitudertag De: ing Austria, and secretly ploctiog & sys rt Sal armament (Which euanied her to aeiuge France wiih biyonets, and inust have the ovect of reieud- auzing Burope ol tue basis of the Middie Ages), the masses of alt toe Continentat Staves have beeu pour- lay into the organization. Sieam, tae eieciric te: graph, We rapid progress OL ace, And those sug~ gestive coavocauons of the mechanic aris Kavwa as the Workl’s Fairs, where the geaims and 1abor of maa sat-iustaiied 1a their true supremacy have, duciag the past tweaty years, done more to set the Kuropeam masses to thinking in their own beualf than ina hundred years b fhe organ- Alton ol the Tnvernauoaals, however, has been more acceierated durtag tue last audacious crime Of Bismarck, in ene civiizauon back and set the world again on bayone's, than by aay other influence. it has forced every man to thik, ANA It has at the sane time made every man ara. They perceive that the natural instinct, whica 1s knoWa as love of conn- try, has been artificially aud crattuy developed, in order that une trade of murder may be Universauy remstitaced ta the imierese ol kings. flence, then text as tw tie “irate nization? of mankind, and the assump. tiou of the Commune that the casting down of | the voluina of Veadome, that symoo of war and murder, tidicated tat aere Was tu be a new pal- riolism for Ue fdtare—a patriotisin which should overdow the mere geograpnicai boundaries which rene not obs and dows Of war and De Core the human race, That lesson ¥ Ne masses of Kurope oor upon map mu, and a Vasuy & erated activity of the alfiliated societies sprang irom the fail of the commune, BRITISH ATISTOCRACY TO BR PUFFED AWAY, Meetings of the [Internationale are now being eld, Qader varwus Utles ang pretexts, ali over Europe. ‘she most notapie of tiese took place in London a few weeks ago, Waich had beea iorbidden by for oe ot 0 the auchorities, bucked by an cay nearly tour thousand pocemen aud alae rve ol miutary, Tne meetiag Was held, however; and (he frst thing Waich the lirst speaker said tothe tens of thousands of people who wee mat swarming nd him was:—"We are here to-night because the government has forbiddeu Us to co.ne.”? THAt Was Che finisning stroke Lo the present govern- reat Britain, and when the Internationale are ready to proceed (urtner they wii pud the form of away. [isannouaced In the Presse of this city that the Internationale of Brussels wili give ® banquet on the 24th of this month to se the aunt. versary of the foundatton of that society, ane thete add Iseineat staves that one of thew Oojects is “by protest against the celebration of the September iestivals ta Kelgiin, and to edace the Ingaorions recoliection of tie demarcations of ir urs Which Lupouad peopies in the ‘valu name of country,’ in armed groups, always ready to de. vour each ‘ovlier at the slightest warlike whim of thew royal i .? It is plain from this, and Irom ail ines signs, that tue true hope of France hes wot io che reorganization of her military system and the mcrease of her army to the Prussian stand: , but im the Tnternartonale, She had beter dis- jigs all of ver soldiers and send ihem to the plough, aud address herself, trtough her people, to we masses of Germany and En cland, and see li, by tak- ing noid of hands, they cannot heave of this super+ mmeumpve| 3 Of BLeel Which @ iandiul of despots rave inn Lupon their chesit. One broad respt+ Tavion and the world i free. France will then flow back to her natarat boundaries through the votes of her communities, and tne harsh memories ot war Wil be iraternaliy eMaced, If we are to have an era of universal bayonets instead of universal rage, let the bayonets for once exercise the OF (htiKiag; and then Cue Kings Wil: disap. ment of pear. DAST WORDS, That the lespotlc Powers of Europe do not under rate ine Mnportance of the Internationale, aud aro prepared to grapple with 16, ts evident irom a variety of signs that appear 1m tie journals of the day. To perfidious government of M. Thiers pruposes, uh 18 Minister of Justice, to make mem- be » or Ih aug other. secret association, & penal ofence, ‘The correspondent of the Lon+ don Zines, Wwerising from Saizburg on September 7 on the sudject the meeting at that place 0 Bismarck aod Beust, and the Austrian and Prussian Emperot says:—“one of the subjects discussed by the Austrian and German statesmea was the inter: national Society, as much With the object of do- fence against ite machinations, shonid necessity arise, ay with toe view of possibly arnving at & Poritive solution Of social questions.” And sae Courrier Diplomaiique of the same date pubitshes the following news:--“At Salzburg, Count Beust and Irince Kismarok have resolved to matutain the peace of Europe against ail agereasors. 4 pro- t.col has been signed Sonouraing theasures to be taken agatust the Internationale. Other Powers will be mvited to give in thew aduesion.” In the face of these signs it 18 to be boped that the crisis will come soon, and that the resnit of it will be a pact of fravernal republics, founded on universal suf- frage, among whien the heaviest e will be the attempt to raise a military foree—a crime not to be puaisued py the penalty of war, but by ex- cluding the offender from commercial intercourse | until he shall conform to the peaceful regulation of the whole, A decree of this sort would be ior r- rible to the delinquent than a Vistuation Of armed legions, for it would operate instanter in the siop- page of all trade. and thus bring the interests, as Well as the common sense. of every citizen to bear | in protest against tne belligerent action of bis gov- armment, Surely this peacefui principle of coercion, in the form of non-intercourse, 1s more Worthy of | the civilization of the age than the barbaric diplo- | macy of war, Then will the Freuch miaiden not Rave sung la vain Ob, if 1 were king of France, or, atill better, Pope of Rome, Ti have no fighting men abroad bor weeping maids at hom All the warid BOvuld be ab peace, ard {t kings muss suoW ir might, Let those Wao make the quarrels be the only ones to fight. Ww. THE IRAVELS OF AN ESCAPED CONVICT, How One of the Nevada State Prisoners Got to San Frauci-co, {From the San Francisco Alta, Nov. 3] Tho arrest of Thomas Ryan, one of the Nevada prison breakers, has already been noted in the Al/a. Ryan 1s a young man, only twenty-two years of age, of Irish descent, When first arrested im this city ho was very stubborn and deciined making any state- ments, but changed his mind In the course of a day or two. This 15 the second time he has efected an escape, In August, 1869, he was con- victed in Reno of burglary aud was sen- tenced for a term of four years. He was in prison about two years, when one day in the Month of May following he sheaked om aud was not massed until the followiug day. He was oul of jail but a Week when he was rearrested in Virginia Uity, having in the meantime comantted another burg- lary. He was tried, convicted and sentenced jor a term of nine yest, and also received an additional sentence af three years lor having ¢scaped. He has a Very poor opinion of the Nevada Prison, No op- ortinities for reform are offered, altnough he says he has been a thief all his lifetime, The discipline isnot good, and, with @ little sirategy, prisouers can escape at almost any time, His version of the break on the 17th of Sevtember does not duter materially from the statements al- ready pubished, He 13 very careiul to stave nothing of bis OWa acdon in the matier except that he was close to General Denver when a pistol was taken from him, aud he does not believe tat Bob Dead. man exhibited any bravery. At an early hour yesterday morning he was visited by an Alfa reporter, and prior to leaving the prison for the boat, In company with Detective Stone, he gave the following aarrative of his trip from the Nevada State Prison w San Francisco:— All the convicts kept together for two miles and then separated in squads of three, four, six and eignt; Hurley, Flynn and myself went together; we travelled three miles, when I gave out. I was 80 exhausted after the fight that T had to lay down with the ague, [haa @ terrible shake that lasted four hours, and was almost dead for the want of water. I struck out for the river, but daylight came on and still no Water could I fiud, 1 kept on all the next day, and continued traveling tuwaid a place where I saw some light, in the hope of getrin some water. Kefore I reached the Hyht founa water and drank so much that 1% made me vomit, I came to again and went on toward the light to get some food, for 1 had nothing lo eat for thirty-three hours, When | got hear tne house & dog began Serene and 1 bad to goaway. This was in Carson Valley, nine miles from the prison. [then travelled down the road a mile or 80, Waded across the Varson Kiver and went toward a farm house, When [ arrived there the first thing I went for was tor some clothing, a8 [ still had my convict clothes on, There Covtained a pair of pantaloous, vest aud coat and a pair of boots, and then 1 went for some food, because I wus very hungry. I found plenty to satisfy my hun- wer, and enough to last the next day and lots of inilk. I was preity well worn out for want of sleep, 80 1 went into the sia le and slept the rest of the night and all next day. During the second nignt I got up, Went into the kitchen, took some fvod and struck out for the mountuns, lor a cut-ot, and I YO ae A COUNTERFEITER’S DEFENCE. He Snys Some Hard Words Abont News papers, Reporters, Detectives and United States OM-ers, (Prom the Cinetnnatl Enquirer, Nov. 9.) Yesteraay afternoon Counsellors Butterworth and Pruden filed @ motion tn arrest of Judgment and a motion for a new trial in the case of Bil) Milla, re- cently convicted of counterfeiting, The motion in ar- est of judgment was susteined as toone accountand Overruled as to the remainder, Tho motion for a new trial was also overruled, The prisoner waa then brought tuto Court and asked whether he had Snyihing to say why sentence should not be pro- bounced upon him, Te then produced the follow- ing letter, which Le sunmitted to the Courti— * County Jar, Now. 5, 1871. How, Junew Swine:—f Your Honor pleases I Mave O great deal to say, but how to write or say td hardly know, Tava weil aware how stand, A con- viet in Court, with all tue influence and prefadice surrounding hin that have been brought to beat om Mme has but Nite hope, and thinks all ne can say will avail nothing, unless the Judge is above beng prejnaiced, and from what T have seen and known or some of your decisions I believe you are willin and anxious tortye all jn to the low as well asthe high in place. It encourages ine to attempr to say a few words, notwithstanding the Haht ™m which my persecutors as well as prosecutors hgve placea me. In the first place, the witnesses agamst me lav great stress on my belng a notorious connterfeier and burglar. I know some twelve years ago I was convicted of barziary, and before that time was considered a hard casa but never was accused of being a coun- terfelier, or being conuectel with it in any shape or form, and some nine years ago, when 1 had paid all the law required of me.and received Ty pardon to start anew, I have tried and endeay- ored to get along withont laying myself irable to the law, But it seems, and all my expertence verifies . thatif a man once errs it ever after follows him; no matter how hard he endeavors to get along right he is marked ns letitimate prey for thos» eentlemen. that aspire for detective laurels. They have no aif. culty in finding reporters to play cards with their vic- tims as the notorious So-and-so; aud Mr, Thaw, or whoever it may be, deserves great credit for ability, shrewdness, &c., in accomplishing the arrest of such a notorious character and the creanious com- mit ity swallow all this, not looking or thinking all ints is put up by the detective to gana place aud a little newspaper renown, and when they bring their victim to trial before a community prepared in this manner it taxes no prophet to foretell the result, partieniarly if they cap by any posable means tn giving their testimony ring in a few words preface, such as the notorious burgier end counter- felter, the smartest man tn the West or East, as the case may be, Now tnis is my ence with this feces particularly with those styling themselves United States deiectives, and if you want proot what sort of men has ran this district tn that capacity since 1865, 1! will not be hard vo find, and pi present incumbent is no improvement on any of them. This Thaw ond Applegate have styled me a noto- rious connterfetter, Twitl try and show you where it came from, In 1865 and 18 6, one M. Gaylord had this district. As United States detective he tn is Tiads arrested me twice, The first time L was dis. charged as soon as taken before Commissioner Spencer. The second tine hold over four days b; Commusstoner Halliday and taen dismissed, nol one particle of proof against me, only that [ was re- lated to Mrs, Roberts, aud he thonght T was in bis Way to prevent him getting her to the Penitentiary, aud to use his own words, he said “ve would make me talk orarrest me every week.” At the same time he haa all the papers punting him up and de- grading me, So much for mygcounterfeiting expert- ence as far as | was tudividually concerned Ul ar- rested on the charge. Now lor my barelartes, wey gave me so much notoriety. Avout this time Mr. Gaylord had a man by the name of Maviey Thomp- son working for him in concocting and setting uP his games; when the Vinton county treasury Ww: attempted to he robbed I gave mformation to one of thelr commissioners and a detective that secu ie arrest ot ‘Thompson as one of the princinals, an Gavlord as aider and abottor. Then tie whole force of this Marshal's oMce was bronght to bear to clear them and throw it on me: and they did clear Gaylord for the time being, but be was indicted as soon as ther Court set, and he ran away from this district. and 1s & fugitive from justice to-day, As for Mr. Thomp- gon, the proof was too positive against him, and he was kept in jail, Untied States commisston and alts ani by his instigation and the assistance of his backers T was arrested and mitcted as alder and 4 watked tor two days and one nigut wita no prospect of geuing over. Iwas very dry, and resolved to turn back toward tie valley, avout eleven o’cloc’ aud kept on anti Lreached'a rapch, wuere L pa took of plenty of MUNK. While 1 was ta the mou tains I bad no rest, 80 I wept to sleep in tne blaDie, 1 made a hole large enough in the haystack to Keep me out of sight, Lad heard avout noon that day parties talking about the break and about tie soldiers scourtig tie Willows after the prisoners, and that they gave ttup asa bad job, 1 thought t Was in good luck to be Where 1 was just then ut the stable. Alter I had been there about an hour & man climbed up the haystack, stepped on me, coming down With hia whoie weight on me; still he dia not look to see Wuat was there. My first impuise Was to Jump up and tell him all, bat thea I thougat would bo. do. The man went right along avout mia business, and I thought then that I was the luckiest man that lived. That night I only got some milk, and walked about fifteen miles to Vansickie’s farm. Belore | reached Vansickle’s I underiouk to cross & marshy lot aud went to wade across. When our a little way I sunk up to my neck ly water, mud and weeds. {began to sink deeper, 80 1 took of my coat and struggled to land. I was pretty well ex- hausted. I took off my clothes, wrung them ont and pat them on wet. 4 felt very cold, and kept on uuttt1 reach Vansickle’s, where 1 obtatnea some food, dry cothes and a bianket, About that time [ Was sore and stif, 80 [ thought thar L would take a sievp watil the next night. f laid down but could not | sleep; L was cold and less, 1 arose im the morn ing and took an observation of tninga, 60 that L could Know which road to take the next night, At night L obtained some food and twosix-shooters, and then Went into tne stable aud took a borse ‘and bridle, I took @ pride im the horse; rode him 145 mites m two days. Teame across the overiand roate to Liacervilie. 1 more toll on that road | than on any l have ever traveiled. Karly im the | morning [eluded four five Of these swindters, but wach 1 came to the sixth tt was no fo; the ga Keeper said, =“ Gola coin or its equivalent.” 1 told bim Lwas broke and that he evald not take biood out of a stone, The road agent then spied a pair of gloves sticking out of my pockets, * He pulled them out and looked at them, 1 sai to him, “ Witat! do you mean to take then gloves for twenty-five cents tout? He said he would give in return what they were Worth, and he gave me $276 in re- turn, i was so weil satisfied with the bar. gam that L shook him for the whis. Key and beat tin four times im succession, Then L threw the dice for breaxtast with nin aad won, Soinl went to the table. Oh, such @ break- fast Lnever saw put beiore no man, ‘The beef was roVen and cord, the eggs With feathers stickiog tu them, 1 dtd nor stop long at that table, you caa pet on that; so T asked the road agent i he would shake aga He said yes. We shook and | beat him nine siraght shakes. L then bid him good moraiag, and remarked, “lf a man comes aloug broke, don’t take his gi place was forty: nine miles from P.at that it was toil about every turee mies, |} meta teamster on the road and bought & Gollar’s worti of bariey Jor my nor J. would rather go hungry than let my herse suller. Tarrived in Placervilie the same day avout sundown, after @ hard day and halt the night viding, ald Was pretty st; that night I pat up my Horse, had supper and went around town. f passed the Sherit’s omce, and the sight of the jai told me to beware, so l went off and went to bed, and slept until four o'clock in the morning; | got up, fed my horse and olf f started tor Sacramento, reaching th the next evening about seven o'clock; Tremataed in sacrament one wees, soll my horse, bridle and saddle lor $20; While m Sacramento I re- veived $69 trou a iriend aad thea started for San Francisco; arrived im Sau Fraucisco on a Sunday morning; Was in the city exactly one monta the day i was airested: J ant positive that | was given away by one of two iriends—wnat they call fricuds, but £ i siums; and I have been in @ great many places musemeat, but never saw SIX men thal Knew me before i went to vada; they would nut recog- hize me today uf they saw me in the street or any other place uniess lL was pointed out to them; the detectives of San Francisco are very sharp, L admit, pa it 10OKs Very strange they did uo Larrest me we- ore. I don’t Know what they will do with me when T am taken back to Carson, hor do [ care, for L would Just as liet aie now as to serve my sixteen years, Some will say that | deserved it; but if, on my trial, they went according to the evidence, | was bound to be acquitted; but L Know thes wer prejudiced (hat they were bound to convict me; then, through the leniency of Judge Harris, 1 got nine years, The Witness that swore my life away was at oue time Nevada sitice robber, Aiter testifying to woat ly Saw and heard he made a contradictory statenient; atl, he Was believed. 1 did not swear on my own beball, because 1 knew Utat my Word Was of uo ac- count i Cour rth Adams (Mass.) No clams for aa Tux Hooste TUNNEL Transcript is wuttorized to sa extension of tie will be made, Aclatm by the conirastors for damages has a ‘iy been presented, ‘Tas claim ts based oa delays arising trom water damages to the orick areb of B. N. Farren, a part of the Work expressly excluded from th# Shanley con- tract. No otter claims for damages will be made by the contractors, Tne contract toes nov expire uuti March 1, 1874, by which ume the contractors are coutldent their work wilt be completed. Judge Shandiey, of New York, t$ no relation of the Messrs, Shantey, 80 tar as they Know, the Knowledge of his existence being recently acquired by ther Wilttam M. Tweed did furaish to the contractors $500,000, Dat Utis indebtedness has long since been setiied in mo? Tue Dovere Suroiwe av Lewiston, Me.—Of this sat atu the Lewiston Jowrnai says all tne tes timony thus fat elicited goes to show that Anna Wood, the eidest of the two victims, had for some time meditated suicide, and had to persuade several of her friends to join her in comunitting the act young ladies employed in one of the jactotiesw drown themselves with her, expressiug at the same time disbelie! in a futare sta.e. Two Lours previous to we tatal teap both girts made application for pluyment at @ shoe factory in Aupurn, ipepired by wan She tried to persuade several | deiendant’s one ot Auburn shoe was Lot as bad a iin as he had been represented @ Journal Vuinks the fatal act Was not | solttary confinement,” abettor, although | proved by me men that arrested me I was in the city the night the burglary was done; but Lincurrent the displeasure of a powerful clique daring to have an operative of the Seoret Service Division of the United States Treasury arresced, T stayed in jail there @ witle. gave ball, and made My appearance. at the proper time, ana was dis- charged by the Court, jaley Thompson broke Jatt, and is @ fugitive yet, tor allt know. So much for INV Notoriety m that case, and for the eMetent de- tectives Ut gave me a notoriou? pame for their own bevel, Now ior my uext burglary Mr, Thaw gives me ptoriety in. When I was arrested on this charge there was con- siderable exellement In Preble county over some burdaries that had been committed there. Thaw knew F would give bail, and he pats off up there wad has me aod my brother mdicled for that watch ho knew we were Invocent of, to secure us in jail in one place or the other. He denies stvearing I was up there, bat says he can swear I was here, for he knows it. IT know he Was up there, and before tho grand jurors, and my counsel tell me he had me in- dicted Tor burgiary there; and tt ne kaew | was here, and he says he does, how did they Mdtet me there on his testimony ? Anyhow, he let ine have the bene. ft of, a8 | claim his paying there in the papers he and iT bat have got out, and uo there was any way ot bringing ont what he adit swear to before the Grand Jury, 1 think L would have no trouble in convicting him of pet knows I had noting to do wrkh tt, and @ at many others know it; but it answered his and hts backers’ purposes to prejudice this case—and it is not, a3 Applegate sald, L would not give bail for fear of it. Thely Newspaper reports Irghiened @ man of | had to go my ball In the start, for be was airaid they wontd take me there, and that that would forieit my bau here. As lor myself, 1 was eager to give dati, and courted an investigation tn the Matter; and’ Your Honor Knows L endeavored, through my counsel, to have the Court accept my motner-in iw a8 security, She knew |} was inno- cen, and did not fear the consequences of an in- vestigation there; but it would be hard work to in- dave others to go my bail, with all the hne and cry there Was in the papers, and with raw and some g yd minions around to prejudice any one disposed 0 10 80, And now Thear they have thrown these charge? of burglary out of Court at Eaton. They answered Thaw’s purpose; he contd go there before the Grand Jury and swear, but he could not come mtd opett Court and do so, but went trom here to do 80. but seemed proper to leave beiore doing so, ‘nese two charges are the ovly ones where Ihave been tn- dicted for bargiary since [ was paraoned. First, through a United States detective, to get Nimselt it of jail; ana second, by oue of the samme claga, to keep me tn jail on a Charge of counterieiting. Now, as for this charge, [claim to be mnocent of it. IL knew Thew to ve @ detective, or acting for them. I knew it trom the 1a ormation of this George Serings and others, alhough he swears he did not tell me so; my Own experience wid me 50, My oniy reason for hyena Tt him at atl was to show him up as @ rogue, and at the kame Unie show the deparcment What sort or men they had employed here, and help Quinion ges his place back again: and f had made iemy business to try and find one all { could about these detoctives, and those before them Unat were interested in Mra. Roberts, for it was my duty to do so; and I think I had tracked them down pretty close, aud [ think Mr. Yaple and Mr, Praden wil say ail their in. formaion in regard to who these men were came from me; and think if Thad not beem are rested Mr. Pratt and Seisings would have been showed up in stronger light than they were, As for this man Toaw, you have heard ail hits testi- mony aud what they represent ine to be, Does it look reasonavie that Lam what they say ( am, and was led by tne man wherever he would have me go, Knowing who he Was and What were the sequences He says he talked me out of i, ab accusing him of being & detective several Wmes, 1 am known to all the oldest olcers of Uns place, and great many others through the Unied States, and 1 dou’t tuink any of them would believe that story. 1 am forty-one years of age next Decemper, aud since | was fiiteen 1 have been used to associate With all Clases of what are called sharp, strewd men, and since 1364 have beea thore of jes+ employed by detec. tives, and does it 100k reasonable that this mere novice fn the business should lead me where be wistes’ L think uot. His master, Mr. Dows should have learned him, beter than that. e knew me vetter, But Thaw, [ suppose, lacks one thing—that 18, he has no conscience, He could swear to aoything it he could only induces person, by any means, into & ition where he could not prove cufferent. Bub if ail this transac. tion could have coine ont and witnesses been gor here that 1 could not get here, there would have been a diferent verdict, if my cnaracter did wot outweyn everything eise. As for all this, though my couasel Lave already represented i all, aod as me golug over What (MS one or that oue swore to, It is DOL Uecessary; Tor my Counsel have repre- sented all that, and | have noticed your Honor has pat paritcular attention to tt; and 1 all your de- cisions and coarge to the sary T have not a word to compiain of, and all 1 can Complain Ol as rewaras ny trial is letuing those over-anxious Witnesses say so much as regards my character as they did. Alt I cau say ts, WL to be sentenced, ts tO ap peal Lo your mercy, tor that 18 @ privilexe, than’: God, the law does not debar you from using, Thiave a wife and child that teel ali of itas much ag Ido, and may suffer more by it than Ido, and tuere ars others Waiting. 1 have a dear old mother and stsrer waiting in anxiety tue final decision in (his case. Reieving you wil do what you tuink conscientious!) best, I have no more to say. WILLIAM T. MILLS, ‘The Court received the paper and read It caretuliy through, After he had tuisbed it he assed if tac deicadant had anything farther to say. Major But been endeavoring | terworth responded, asking that the Court would ve enrent as consistent with duty, speaking OF tie family, and stating that the defendant to be vy ouside parties, Cane von tthen sentenced nim to “be tmprisoned inthe Pententiary of fo MR Onto ae, We Cars, NO part of WNICN Savu Bettany conte Cit that he vay she Costa of the DrOsec Uti tibs