The New York Herald Newspaper, November 9, 1873, Page 7

be told that now ts the time for a weaning from ex- travagant havits.” oe. you condemn the banks fur thelr course in to discount dd paper: feleate™ uestion to answer; altation in declaring t is @rather delicate but for my part I have no hes! the banks tave as much rigut to protect them- seives as this firm husor that firm. ‘The banks of Pittsburg have stood ont bravely, and deserve all the credit that can be given them, We are all trying to proiect ourselves 5 that 1s exactly what 10 do, ine) are WORKMEN'S 'VIRW OF TUR SITUATION, The trying positions of the workmen, a3 @ enera)l thing, have been accepted as grace- falty, pertiaps, a8 could be expected under the eircumstances, ‘the great majority of them considered hall wayes were better than nyne at all, ‘There are exceptious, of course, but they are comaratively tew, and these have given vent to their ieelugs by knock- fag olf work or attemp ing to Instigate a weneral strike. This movement, however, has not been eountenauced ; it 18 looked upon by sensible Work- men as suicidal, and never showed any great de- grce ol strength, I waid to-day to a workman whose family {s large and pay just hali what it was afew weeks ago:— “How do you manage to get aloug Dow)?’ “Well, you,see, I, ike many otlers, expected the notes iroin Our employers lor the remainder of our wages would be eastiy neyotiated in the | market, and thus give us money to get aioug quite comfortably on. ut in this ‘we were mistaken. While not doubting the solidity of our empioyers, bankers or otners won’t dis- count their notes al any price, simply because they have not got the mouey todo it with, ‘The chunge we have expericuced 18 almost overpower- Ing, Singie men and men with snail families can get alouy easily enough, but those who have many mouths to feed tind it rather up bill work, 103 eke giying gur Wives and culidren # half loaf now when joreriy they got @ whole one, if we had aftticipated “a crash six months ago we mizht baye been better enabied fo withstand its discomforts; — but now ‘We dre merging into Winter, and it takes a good sum Oo money to clothe & iamily of seven persons aud lay ina suppy of coal, flour, meat and gther necessities, Our landlords giso add to our thisery by reusing to take our employers’ notes for rent, they wont run the risk, as tiey are just as ikely to go up trom the eects oi che stringency ay any One else. You can see, then, thai the out- wok 18 HOLE O! the brigitest for us poor men,” BUSINESS IN OHIO The Want of Money to Transport Mer- ehandtse—Bailluce of the Musical Scason ana tae CausemHeavy Opera- tions in Dry Goods at Pantie Prices, CINCINNATI, Nov, 5, 1873, The worst feature that has yet appeared in the mercantile community, showing the stringensy of the times, is the inability Of shippers to either pay freight upou goods or drayage to or from tae Tabroad depots or the river, which at this tme is at a goo stage for navigation, There is pearly half @ mijhon doilars worth of merchandise lying at the raifroaa d.pois now, some of it coming and some of it going away, which cannot absolutely be “moved for want of money. Tue railroads will not forward it on credit or take chauces for freighage, the master ray! n cannot feed horses and pay drivers with notoing, and the result is as stated above, With rogard to the arrivals of freignt it may be said that much o! it 1s notoi the kind for instantancous use, and would therefore lie in depots until really needed, that is within the limtt of railroad treight Storage; but it ts in the freight composed of stutl in daily demand that the stagnation noticed is to beseen. And this condition obtains all along the various lines ceutriug here or tribatary to the commerce ol the city. None of the roads are do- ing = mach forwarding. The freignt de- pots, side tracks and switches make @ big show of empty cars, and a yreat many railroad hauds are thrown out of empioyment in co.se- quence. About a month ago it was seriously con- templated by the radroud coinpanics to withdraw thelr track lavorers or cut down the number to hai the usual force; but A NOTE OF WARNING ‘was sounded in the sugsestion that that policy would prove sulcidul by letting the tracks run down and leaving them to the mercy of circumstances, which are easily guessed when mangement and care are withdrawn from a railroad, on the roads in case they were thrown out of em- ployment just as winter ts Coulig on, Waich Closes Out so many, i not all, ofner sources ol ovidoor work jor the men Who work for dally bread. Wie idea Of xoAndonment is worse to What cluss taan hail pay or no pay at ail, for with idieness comes al the demons Of mischivi—drunkeanvess, thelt and Worse crimes against society. ‘Vne very mstirict of Javor has a savor of ieaven in it, and honest men move under its impuise. Tuey feei that as long as their employers give them work tiere 18 someiting to live for, something to hope ior, Dut when that is cut off they lave no recourse, motuing to jall back upon, and (hea mischief be- ine. There might be pictures drawn of groups of idle men lounging wround the little railroad depots g@long the Various rouies of travel; men standing on the street corners and loafing in the Whiskey shops and beer saloons, CURSING THE HARD TIMES and the scarcity of money and the want of work and ali that sort of tung; but such pictures are not required; the reality presents itseli on aii sides aud no one can help seeing tt, The condition of afiairs in this city to-day is not 80 bad as the constitutional growiers would have M, but itis bad enough. ‘vere 1s a great shrink age of values in cry goods on Pearl sireet— great wholesale street—whici must tell heavily on the stock on hand. The sales since the panic have | bertonea tl been limited; but it 18 also trae that ore it struck the community che fail busii ‘Was pretty wuch over. iuere has veen a loss On Old stocks Of provisions, pa: tly produ by the faoff in the Southern cwemand on acco i te epidemic, This, however, has had a favor- ablé iniuence on the coming seavon, by giving packers aud ueaiers a chance to get aogs at low prices, thereby throwing the ioss on the producers, Who are best avie to bearit. A iar business was done in groceries, but it was coaducted in a con- servative way, Collections were coud. the houses were not heavily stocked when ‘he panic came and therefore the stoc’. of leading stapic# was low, VMK BANKS worked more easily to-awy and the payments of Maturing bills Were more prompt, that ts, in tie Teguiar banking bus.ness, Phere ts a world for re- ‘There was | also ab agly grow! heard from tie men employed | fection upon the Weakuess and folly in homun Mature in the enormous rush of bus.pess ik we | sucrificing dry goods honses at this tite, in the first piace the leauiaw recail houses lave beou in. aul in some extravagant adveltising, hot only asto y butin ihe quality oi the wordy at. tractions, and ticy have lived up to tie cxtravayal romises, Great sacrifices have been made, and Ke consequeuve is that the stores are crowded wiih ladies from morning Wii night; the dashin, deiivery wagons are on the go constantly anc eigh bo," as Falistai? said, “coe devil rides oa @ tadiestick.” In the geveral compiaint about the stringency of the times, THE STAGNATION OF BUSINESS and the scarcity of money, one is astonished to see how muca the darlings whose husbands or fathers are loudest in complaints can sisi out for splendid silks and loveiy laces, regard- less all the while, bless tueir hearts, of the territie comparisons and tiferences made | in the minds Of observers and tattlers on the other #.1e of the counters, Or DeXt door to themselves, when the bulky packsges are sent home. But With all this there is an economy. jor waen women turn economists they are the best in rhe world, and to their credit al tits time be it said they have not punished their loras and masters beyond en- durance, for while going in very vily on the bank account ior dry goods bills, they uve made no demands at all on the score oi music and the drama. THE MUSICAL SEASON thns far has been ruinous, Thomas went away dixgusted and more empry Mm pocket than he came, Lucca will not ora similar fate, and Kellogg is. taking the poor chauces, ‘dhe money tor opera Nas gone into tae pockets of the dry goods men, The time now comes jor wondering low the dry gous men can stand it—not the stream into their pockets, but the enormous sacrifices of stock that roduces it, Will there not come a day ol reckon. ng with the importers and big houses in New York which supply our dealers’ Are they jully aware of THR WAY THINGS ARE GOING? Or is it possible that tiey are in co-operation with our retainers to Hood the country with the finest fubrics and the most elegant manuiactures at abso- lately panic prices? One of our largest dealers fad to-day that he bought a big lot of dry goods in New York last week jor wixty per cent olf net prices for cash. If that is all righi there it ts all right here; and, judging trom the rush to-day, there iM plenty of room for more extensive operations. Siena HE FEELING IN INDIANAPOLIS Effect of Real Estate Madness—Nepres- sion following Inf Down aad Failures Certain—signs of Distress, INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Noy, 6, 1873, Indianapolis has probably suffered more from the Gnanctal disturbances than any otver city in the Unjon ; not that money ts scarcer here, but because the transition from the unexampled prosperity and Activity of the past two years Was greater—the fall lower, As is pretty weil Known Co-everybody this eity has grown rapidly within the past twelve years, having more than doubdied its population since IN61, About tree years ago there sprung up On extraordinary activity in real estate—bealthy NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9. 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. at nrse, Out ted Dy @ conUDUANY Mcreasing excite- ment until it finally ran into the wildest specula- tiop, Vacant property wiblin the ok! corpora- tion doubled, trebled, quadrupled and quin- tupled its valine; colossal fortunes were | made in @ short time by speculations in real es- tate, A ravenous horde of real estate agents, many of them unscrup:lons and some of them richly deserving of a term in the Pemtentiary, were | spawned upon tie city, and the bubble was blown | to dimensions fur exceeding those of the Graphic | balloon, Everybody weat stark mad with the real estute lever, apd all the talk upon the street, ta the counting room, at the portals of the cuureh | and between tue acts of the theatre was of “blocks,” eet,” “trontage,” bodies of land that | would “subdivide handsomeiy” and eligible prop- { ery that was bound to “douvle in value” in jess tuan six months. Syndicates and rings were formed to speculate tn real estate; swamps four miles irom the city centre were bought up, laid of in small lots and sold to CRAZED SPECULATORS, on small cash payments, the balance of the purchase money beiog secured by mortgage notes at ove, two, three and four years, ‘they were sok and resold, and sold again, each time at increased prices, Everybody conspired to bull the market, and the few croaking bears, who had read or heard | about the two apprentice boys wio got rich by , swapping jack knives, were overpowered Dy the weight of public sentiment, and flually ended by becommg bulls thémselves, Extraordinary Ge- vices for “shoving” additions and subdivisions on the adjacent country were resorted to, The, “jactoiy’? dodge was a favorite, dne, | A company of speculators would dy up a fara, and the newspapers would heraid the trans- action with the announcement that the woik- shops of the great North American Frying Pan Oompany, or the (Occidental Mouse ‘trap Works would be located thereon, Litho- graph maps, illuminated with parks and avenues and drives, ulso showed @ large auount of space “reserved for factories.” The bare announcement that @ jactory was to be located on the addition was suflicient to vive intrinsic value to the lots, and tiey were sold at aston:siingly bich tigures People bougut and suld and got madder and mad- | der, all the time jeeringly alluding to the ‘alse predictions of the coming time when “the bottum would drop out.” It was iondly believed that this state of things wouid last forever, REAL ESCATE GAMBLING IN INDIANAPOLIS was history repeating itself, It war tie South Sea bubble aud the tulip mania over again, Bub when | did a bubbled victim ever read history understund- ingly? Sceptics become believers and the mad- dest of operators, Indianapolis grew and flourished in the meantime, it is true, nds of buildings, many or them enormousiy and aie acdiuons were wae to tie siial aud elegant, Went up; rents increased | | wi ac allt men, with no idea of taking any portten of them on agam this winter. RELVUCTION OF TIME IN A MACHINE SHOP. Heald, t isco & Co., Baldwinsville, N, Y., machin- ists and pump Lailders, have reduced the working time Of their eraployés to six hours, TMG MACHINY SHOPS AT FITCHBURG, MASS. ‘The Fitchburg Machine Company bas reduced the number ot working hours to seven, Charles H. Brown & Co. have ioliowed suit, The Rodstone Company wenton eight hoara’ time Novemver 1, ) and the Potnam Cvmpany did the same on Wednesday, retaiming, a8 did the other companies named, @ full force, THB PANIC AFFECTING THE MOVEMENTS OF CATTLE. Not asingie car load of cattic reached Aibany Sunday or on Saturday—ihe two great cattle days of the week. Such a thing never occurred before in the History o1\iest Albany, To jaj tiem 7,000 | head to zero in a single week 16 someting LO Mare vel at. ‘THE PANIC IN THE BRITISH PROVINCES, The Huancial panic here has had its evect on the tr de and business of Nova ccula and New Bi ais- Ab iiultiux business is UeusMclly oul, and he ports Of that provilce the trade with the States 18 less than had bem anticipated and the price lor fig. and ; 1oduce 18 low. ROME, WATERTOW The kome, Company have issued an Order to reduc the wages: 0; Sop luen Len per cent, engiucers 0 coal-burning Jocomotives ‘en dobars a mouth, firemen tive do Ars, laborers, ne'pers, &c., twenty-Lve cents a day, Ne ed joyes acquiesve in Lie judgment of their super THE SALISBURY (MASS)., MTLLS, ‘thg Merrimac Journal says the patisbury Mills carfbraction last week suspeuded work in 1 Noy 2, which had abous pinety hands. ‘tis eorporavon has stiugyied bravely to Keep ther invehinery rune ning and woe hands at Work; Wut toe plessure is low tov great, AT WELLSVILLE, O10. ‘ The panic is jelt al Welisville sivhtly, The rail Toad shops have in consequence reduced thei ume Irow ten to nine hours per dey, Ze unary has al-o made reductions in wages and tune, he roling ada Un mil, Welch shut down for a time, ts Low running again in KOMe of iis depart. Michts, aod it Is WOped thal Buon 1b Will De In iil | blast, FOOLISH STRIKERS, A strike was occasioned on T amoby part of the empl is at Ruviand, in consequenc twenty per cent of ihe waxes, ond va | suutdowa, ‘This was not ine work of the eutire | » LUE LOSO Eres? ah eatent Liat it beceine ne- | saary to Stop. Soime of the workmen Were Whig | tosupiuit to his reduction, feeling Waal it was better | ty work Jor small pay tian Have NO Wo. kK wt THE MILLS IN WOKCESTER COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS. A cui tailment of Jabor has b mude tis seve. ul Ol tue mils Oc Worcester couniy. ‘the Homiton Brush Works and tue Columbian Mills, soucnbriage, reduced (heir 1unting Ue to eight hours ou Pics: day, At Webster, the Stevens Linca Company's mus ave Tuuuing On three-quarter time, avd 118 understood Ulat a change Will be Wade on the 8th Just. at the Siater mill ‘The Uxiriige Woollen Muis have partisily suspended operations, aud wiil run only tvo-tinrds of their machinery on three quarters time jor the present, THE PANIC 1N CONNECT) CUT, The Sprague wills at Baluc have not stopped, but are runaing on short tun ‘The sash and viind establishments of G. G. Bot- sday, Novemrer ob tue Vermont | oa reductun of | Las now | PopwAtiON, Manuiacturing establishments spruog up on every hand and trade was extenved every- woere, In the heigitci prosperity, wien the ex- citement was at lever heat, the paime struck lie dianapous. ‘Tne iailure of Jay Cooke pricked the bubole, the gus escaped and the coilapse was iustuutaneous, A Weas bank, that nad been push- lug 168 business to a dangerous except, saccuunbed best quiet run by tiud depositors and closed its joors, otier banks, loliowed by temporary and partial Suspensions on the part of al tue bandas except the First National and Fieicner’s, an old private bauk, which Were very strung and well established in the avections o1 the people. Since then Indianapols bas been worrying along in dire apprehension of woree tocome. kena e-- tate bus.ness is dead, and the market elutted with protested paper. ‘fle preeent outlook 18 dismai, with but Littie hope of lumediate relief and a yeu- eraiy enteriamed tear chac the worst is yet to come,’ There tiave been -no absolute tuiures among the business men, but many of them are ‘then iouowed a rug on the Kitzinger aud | badly cripplea, and t' pushed must go by the board, | ‘Wito a goud hug crop and abundant gram but ht- | ‘tle Of tie produce Of the country can be movedior | Wallt 0: mone, ‘HE PACKING HOUSES, with the exception oj Kingan & Co,, are doing lit- 2. can, paying $3 cash on the moderateiy On cvomussion, with tke “shrinkage” im the vaiue of hogs Anu the impossibility Of seiiins for casi, are reius- Zio sell, Lheve is hota Louse in ine city, with the exception of Kingau’s, that can run iour weeks longer w.thout heip irom tie banks, whici there Is little prospect of Obiaining, tne bunk reserves being a:ready at alow ebb. “Phe Kinyan packing house, having Wealiby Luropean connections, is in good condition aud Is Cperating on cadle transiers, ‘There is little movement Of gram. Aiuch of the Wheat, bought in the Bush tines at $125, is still heid over, im the vain ope Ol a rise in prices, and jarmers deciiue (o sell at present rates, SIGNS OF DISTRESS. Much of the manufacturing and mercantile busi- ness of Judiavapous, beiny young, has been con- ducted on iusuilicient capital, the establishments depending on bank loans. ese are now line possibie, sighs 0: distress are Maniiest in the cut. | tng down of wages, tie reduction of hands and the issue of individual scrip in lea Of money, ‘the Frailroaus lave reduces their working iorce twenty- five per centand cut down the pay of those ce. tained ten per cent. The Woodbrt Sarven Wheel hog, or packing Farmers, disgusted | {| Moke aBour Some are buying on tuwe as Tuc as they | Company, the weaithest corporavion bi tue city, is Tunuing tour days ia the week only, eight hours | per day, be od rolling iii WOOK advaniage of a | joolish and ill-timed strike among its workmen | to quit work entirely, Guisen & Dickson, ot | the Capital City Iron Works, are paying | their worsimen in scrip, The car works have prac- licaly suspended, The machine shops are run- ning iull tune, with a {uil force of Nanis. Work on the Heit Kailway (an enterprise designed to re- heve tue city of the pressure of rativoad traus.er busitiéss) las been suspended. The whotesalo houses, which got along very comiortably during the lrst tuirty days of the pauic, ace besitos to feel the pressure severeiy, They sell but lite and collect noth.ns. Most Oi the business houses in process of erec- tion at the begiunag of the panic wil ve com- pleted, though itis possibie that many 0! the ele- gant storerooms will be “Jor rent” for some me alter completion, NOTHING LEFT POR A RAINY DAY. It is estimated that at least 5,000 persons will be out of employment Wifuin the next siX weeks, most of wiom, 18 is the habit of the American arti- san, lave spent their mouey as they earned it, and have laid up noc hing jor a rainy day, Some effort is being made to relieve the necessities of these | | people; but, bevertieless, itis appreiiended that | absolute suidering will come upon them during tie | winter, ‘The city treasury is bankrupt, and city employcs are paid in warrauts, current only ata | discount, The common school treasury 1s bank | rupt, and teachers are paid in sclioul scrip, which can be used Obly at a discount of ten per ct Smail real estate notes and individual serip ci late at a discount, THR FINANCIAL TROUBLE has been the absorbing topic o: conversation ever since the Cooke iaiure, Meeting aster alt | has been held, and the amount of talk would fii several volumes as large as Webster's dictioniry, Nine-tentis of the public sentiment ts in iavor of an expanzion of the currency, Just how it is to be done, or to what extent it is to be carried, no | one seems to have any cleariy dgtined icca. But all unite in a cry for immediate reel, no matier what may be piled up in the future, The national banks, however, are oyposed to inflation, The President of the Firs National, Mr, Wiliam H, kngiisn, has attended several of the meetings, aud made wopalatabie speeches against infiation, Mr. Enghsh is @ man of some talent outside ot his finan- cial tact, aud at one time was a member of Con- gress and originated a measure famous at the time as “The Englisn bill.’? So far there have been no failures in Indiana- polis, with the exception of Woollen & Webb's bank (subsequentiy resumed), because a spirit of mutual toleration bas prevailed, in the uope that matters would speedily right themseives, The business men sustained the banks in their hour of trial, and the banks improved the opportunity to strengthen themselves, Now grievous complaints are made by the business men that the banks :ail to sustain them—that tiey selfishly look to their own in- terests, It 1s evident, however, that MANY FAILURES MUST OCCUR within the next six weeks unless relief is had. There has been but litte foreclosure on protested Teal cataie paper, So lar, Owing to the spirit of tor: bearance, and to @ less Worthy motive. Much of the real esiate mortgaged to procure purchase notes, if sale was forced, would not bring the face of the first note, Hence creditors hold off, in the hope that rea. estate business will revive in the spring. ‘The Exposition Gnaranty Fund 1s another fruit- ful source oi trouble. Indianapolis, emulous of Cincinnati, concluded to hold an exposition, The State Board of Agriculture got the thing up in connection with the State fair, on the gaaranty bonds 0; business men that they would make good the deficiency in receipts, It was beueved that tie guarantee Was & Were form—that the enterprise would pay self out, but it didn’t, Expenses About $150,000, receipts less than $60,000, entail- ing a draft on the Serneer, Fund of ninety per cent. ‘Tho guarantors how! and squirm, but Rie Board demands all that is nominated in the bond. It is charged that there Was sharp practice on the part of the Board, if not downright stealing, THE CRISIS ELSEWHERE, om SHORT TIME IN WAMSUTTA MILLS, The Wamsutta Mills, at New Bedford, Maas, Which are probably the best Known im all New England for the manulacture of mustina, shat down on ‘Thorsday night, and will in tuture ran but four days in the week. A LARGE NUMUER OF MEN DISCTARGED, The Holley Manuiacturing Company, at Lock. port, N. ¥., Dave discharged @ sarge number of tom aud enry Peale in horwich ure ruuuing on three-fourths time, ‘the puoiished seport that the New York, New Haven and Hurtiord Kailroud bas reduced tue pay OF ali i's neu twenty per ceny 18 Incorrect ‘The yard men, who have been getting $1 75 per day, fire reduced to $1 oy, aud a portion O1 those petting $50 AmMoutA OF Over bave been cul duwa tweive anda hai percent, The remainder of the better paid class lave met no reductiou, Of the forty or more workmen dischurged from the ratiroad re- pau shops in New ilaven six have salied to iy- luad to winter there. Kennedy, the wrestier, is umong the discharged, In Grisioi bus:ness 18 very duil and, the factories Tundiny, Most OF them, on eigut hours, but none have as yet shut dowa. ‘rhe Norwich aud New York Transportation Com- pany have iaid up the City of Lawrence at New Londou On account Of the duiness oi freights, on tue steambost line between New Haven and New York the freighting has dindinished (o an extent sudicient to warrant the taking off of ove boat, -0 that three boats are now run instead of Jour, as usaai, The com y employs avout twenty-five hands less than before the panic. THE CONDITION UP THE MILLS a? MANAYUNK, PA. Fitzpatrick & Holt, manuiacturers of cotton and Woollen goods, have suspended all work. Their miilusaally gives employwent to about seventy- tive hands, Neitzielder & Leyold, manufacturers of cotton Foss, have shut down, ‘This urm employs 120 | wns. James B, Winpenuny, of the Arcola mills, employs 20 hancs inthe manulacture of woolica goods, 18 mill bas shut down compictely, Thomas s. Steele, proprietor of the Eacle mills, devoted to the mauulacture of cottoy and woolen goods, employs 10u hands. ‘11s Mi) Has closed, General Kobert Patterson’s mulls, in witch 500 hanis are employed in tue mauulacture of cot- tonades, have discharged no hands and are run- Ding on full tune, A reduction of fifteen per cent has been mude in wages. Campbeli’s lower mul, the largest in Manayunk, giving suinloyment to’ 750 hunds, bas suspended | operations. The nuncs struck some time eitce, In consequence of & reduction of fiteen per cent ia | toeir wages, and (he iid has been idle ever since, ‘Yuis mill makes checks, ginghams, &c. devill Schotieid’s mill, employing £09 hands, ts running three daysin the week on blankets and broadcluths, Wayes have been reduced titeen per cené in this establishment, but the usual ivree is retuned, Heit & Ogie’s mill and dye works, giving em- | Ploymeut to i44 hands in :he Manuiacture of dow skius and jeaus, are running @iew hands in the dye Louse only, ‘The rest have been aiscuared, “rhe Lincoln’ mills, run by David Wallace & sons, empiloyiug eighty bands in (he mavusacture of} ans | and cotton yarns, have aut down, | " Platt’s yarn mill, im whieh forty hands | are empioyed, is running five days io the week, No hands have becn discharged, Rice & Bean, yarn 8,inners, employing about ten hands, have stopped operations, THE SPRAGUE SUSPENSION. A Card from the Committee of Creditors Interview with Mr. Thur-ton—The Value of the Sprague Property. PROVIDENCS, R, I. Noy. 8, 1873, The following card has jast vecn issued by the committee appointed av the creditors’ meeting, on Thursday :— ' umittee appointed a oA. & W. Spr cred: led to | tho meeting of the are gr be ab: unani requested tha corporation © nature, will for Vrovidence, Chairman of said Board. WA. H. HOCKINS DASILL REMANGTON, man, bs W. J, KING, JOHN L. RIKER, HENRY HOWARD, Your reporter learned to-dav from Mr. B, FP. Thurston, attorney for the Sprague corporation, | that the deed will be executed early next week. The committee of the creditors, together with the trustees and the counsel are now actively engaged in the examiuation and preparation of the deed, Thad a brief CONVERSATION WITH MR, THURSTON relative to the litors’ meeting, the result of it and the state of feeling in the community. Rerorrer—What is your opinion, Mr. Thurston, of the creditors’ meeting? Mr, Tnurston—Well, things passed off much better than was expected. Reroxverk—Great confidence and a large degree of unaminity prevailed. Mr. THURSTON—Yes, though in the early stages of the meeting there were manifestations of a spirit | among a few of the candidates to use their efforts to defeat tie plans of the committee and the pro- posed trusteeship, There was an ingenious trap laid by these parties which Lat once perceived, but we spoiled their plans and they were evidently disappointed at the overwheiming vote of the meet ing endorsing the action of the committee aud approving of the names selected for trustees, REPORTER—Matters will doubtless now go along smoothly and satisfactorily? Mr. THURSTON—Yes, the committee and trustees are in hurmony, and there is a generous spirit maniiested to do all that is possible to adjust atairs to the satisiaction of ali concerned, The feeling in the community is decidedly better, Rerorter—What do you think, Mr. Thorston, of the passive policy manifested by Mr. Robert H, Ives, of the house of Brown & Ives? Mr, TuUKSTON—I read the HenaLp report of the interview with Mr. Ives and the result of that in- terview, bnt it corroborates the opinions 1 ex pressed to you in @ previous interview, that, though not avowing oven hostility, yet Brown & lves preserve @ questionable actitude of silence and indiference towards the Messrs. Sprague in their distress, The interview here ended, Mr. Thurston seemed considerably amused at the truthiul HERALD por- traiture o| Mr, lves, AVRECIATION OF THE SPRAGUR PROPERTY, * ynversation with your DE L.x-Governor smyth, In a Teporter last evening, expressed Ins Veliei thal the Sprague property would dot sell sor what it 18 8 the result OF the crisis has veen to dept alucof the lands, He appeared however, satisted with the result ol the creditors meeting aud hopesul as vo (he siuation, } Version OF vunds to Lhe use oO. | ducers, the working people. | condition, TABOW'S EXBARRASSMENTS. The Building ftrike—Seme of the Contractors iving the Full Wages-Threats of Vio- lenor—Depression in Erooklyn~ Gen- cal Buffering Anticipated. After the refusal of the uon-soclety men em ployed on the building job at Bank and Hudson streets to continue work uniess at the regular trade prices the contractor is reported as having given way to the demand, Like action was taken | @t the pew church corner of Seventy-tnird street. and Lexington avenne, Both the jobs wili hence- | forth pay the prices current be‘ore th: resolution uf the Employing Masous’ Society, This wu’ leave but very lew ol the bricklayers idle in consequence of fe attempt to cut down the wages. Very many were theretoiore unemploy#d on acvount of the slack condition of building enterprises. This condition | 18 lively to continve through the w nter at Jeast, and it was ostensibly with the idea of reversing it in the Spring and stimulating the investment ot laTge portions 01 the float.ng capital which centres in this city in works which would improve and extend the city while they gave increase to industrial employment that the builders proposed to cut down the cost of buiding by reducing the compensation for lavor, H the capitalists could be induced to build houses and stores, say the em- ploying masons, it would give us ample opportu. nity lor business and would furnish work, not ouly for ail the bricklayers and hodt-carriers, but sor the carpenters, plasterers, painters, pluabers and 1ooieis Who are but pariialy emploved here, and to many others who Would be induced to come by | wbaudence o Work, ANOVIER SIDE TO THE QUESTION. To the bricklayers, masons ana vod-carriers, whose Waces lie elnlovers pro; osed to curtail by tity cents per day, tue propos#tion have apotuer aspect. They Una tie bo: Piy Wish to take trom those woo ab oluvely need it half a doliar a day for the ititie lavor remaining huw to be dene On jobs lor Wiich the em oyers, vy thar contrac's, are paid unve. estimates tig- ured on jabor at the old rates, Nothing is to be saved TO the capitalist by ths reduction, The Workingmen consider it a6 simply & wrou “Lil con- he Losses, whi h Bnould go to eke Out the laborers’ scauty sub- sistence, AN ANSWER, As anofset to this che emoloyers complain of What they deem the disposition of the t:ades unions to usurp the management of their business. ‘they compiain that the unions dictate woo much the teruis aud cond. tioas under which the banaing e terprises of the city may proceed, and they cain the rigut lo buy labor in the Cheapest market, as they do wateriais, THE PROSPECT, As aeneral thiug the bosses appear able, if so disposed, ty procure ag much Uuskilled iabor as they can use at this time o/ t.e year lor the wages they offer, As toreguiarly tratued hod-car fers, they belong to the union, whic is strong fi nui- ers and wouey. So iar tiey show no disposition to back out irom their resolution to maintain the $2 50 rate, though several hundred are idle trom the combined efects of the strike aud previous de- pression of tie trade, Masons and bricklaye:s be: Jonying to the nntons have no! taken the lowered waves and are not likely todo so. Il that class ot kK goes On Soon, Without the payment of $4 per day, \t wil be by the labor uf men wuio are not Mcmbers o1 the unions, A FALSE MOVE. At noon yesterday sev pe sons appeared at the new telegraph building at Broadway and Dey street “and asszulted te taborers there with threats of vio‘ence unless they steuck Work. These threats induced several men who iii been at work to leave the building in obedience to the demands of the invaders, firm of smith & Prod: Who have tue con/rict, induced most of the laborers to retarn and reste work. A few, however, projessed to tear bemy shot, if they remained, ana so, bems paid ot, were discharged. No donbt this action ont Jaborers will be disciatmed and cor their organization, as they thing wuich shal tend to forieit the sympathy of the geveral public, wa:ch Would naturally be wita them, DEPARTMENT OF FUSLIC WORKS. Commissioner Van Nort, of the Department of Public Works, will tssue an order on Mouday next directing the additional discharge of 300 men eia- ployed in laying biock pavement, and fifty big pipe men, LABOR DEPRESSION IN BRCOKLYH The Record of a Very Dull Weck—Clox ing Factories and Curtaiiment of Ex- penses Upon Every Side—Heavy Dis- charge of Hatters. There certainly has been no improvement in the labor market of Brooklyn during the past week, despite the confident assurance 0. many employ) ers of an early resumption 01 the old standard 0. busi- ness aiew daysago. Every branch of industry and trade is more or less seriously affected, and the greatest suilerers are, of course, the pro- The storekecpers, dry goods, lace, hosiery, glassware and jewelry dealers, wholesale and retail, all complain of the jemmed by have bo “isa to doany- failing oY in their receipts since the last Week in October. There 18 less shopping now among the ladies, who, strange though tt may appear, are accredited with a sud- den impulse to practise economy and not buy any- thing tuat.they do not actually want for imme- diate use, Meanwhile many of these tradespeople who keep retail stores pretend that there is a won- der‘u) falling otf in the prices of articles, This im- pression they endeavor to give tor the purpose of creating a market jor the.r wares, although the ob- servant purchaser tails to see any diminution ta the piices. A representative of the HERALD yes- terday ascertained the following facts illustrative of tne evil effects of the tidal wave of depression which bas swept over the working people ol Brook- lyni— A SKIRT FACTORY. An extensive factory, a building about 200 feet ; square, sttuated on Nostrand avenue, near Myrtie, seems “jikea hall deserted.” Such is really its It has ceased to manufacture felt skirts, in the making of which it, up to within a | few days past, employed about 200 men, women | and children, who earned on an average from $5 to $30 per week, The proprietor does not hold out much inducement calculated to inspire the discharged operatives with the hope of early re- employment. PAPER PRINTERS AND STAINERS’ FACTORY. On the corner of Walworth street and Willough- by avenue stands the paper printers and stainers’ factory. There are seventy-five girls and boys em- ployed here, but they are working on two-thirds time, with an early prospect of “being Knocked out of time.” The wages paid are at che rate of iron $ to $25 per week. ‘he demand ‘or stock is bated small, and payments are obtained with diil- culty. A PICTURE FRAME FACTORY on the opposite corner of Willougnvy and Walworth streets, until receatly, kept 126 men Susy and paid good wages. They have been compelied to discharge fiity men this week, and have reduced the pay ten percent. The hands work nine hours per day. rhe owners hope to be able to continue | at the present !ow-pres:ure speed ior some time to come, The operatives, keeping in mind the old axiom “half atoaf is better tuan no bread,’ Jee grateiul jor their retention GLASS WORKS. The glass cutting establisiment on North Fighth street, near Fiith, E. D., has reduced the working force from 180 to one-half that number. The tine has also been reduced, ‘The market (or cut glass is very small. “I don’t think,” remarked au ex. tensive importer 01 cut glassware, “that the prices on imported goods in our line will be affected, as the prices in kurope will not change, and the only difference will be in exchanged. With domestic manufacture it is very diferent, however.”” STEEL WORKS. A steel works factory, which is located on Kent avenue, near Hooper street, has been closed tirely upon two occasions within the past jew weeks, owing to the fluctuation tn the price of gold, which infuences the value of iron, steel and all other metais, Wien business ts good 150 men Have been employed tere. Now sixty men consti- tute the force, There are plenty of orders for Work at thia shop, but there ts no money to be got to pay for it, and men won't work witho it that “very Hard cash,"’ or its equivalent in the shape ofcurrency. There is some suspicion in the minds of the mechanics that an effort is being made to cutdown the old rates of wages, and that the “bosses” seek to weary them by cutting down tne hours of labor and the pay commensuratery. Speak- ing of the scarcity of steel a wag remarked, “There will be steal enougn, Tam atraid, if this state of affairs continues long aiter the first snowfall.” NIAGARA STEAM PUMP WORKS. At this factory a great reduction in the workiug | fore, has been mace empiwyed, at walt time, rom nine P.M. “Wlenty of work, but no money.” storys but sixty men being now A. M. to turee The od TOBACCO FACTORY. At @ tobacco factory at the corner of Degraw street and Tiflany place, Where 200,000 pounds of tre weed are aved In prosperous times monthly, Ousiness yas so far decreased as vo neces+ sitate the discuarge of flity employés. ‘There are 860 still at Work; nO reduction of me or wages subsequeatiy Mr. Smith, o1 the | t i { | | tion anything | gfeat necessity in every co.d couatry, especiaily in” ‘The market price oF tovacco 1s tne same ag before the panic, ‘THE STOREHOUSES. whe freat storehouses o! Hrookiye are filling up With goods of every description, despite the de- pression 01 trade, 80 that the storekeepers have nO cause to com-lain. But lew gourds are going out, however, and this circumstance leaves many Monge shoremen unempioyed, The grain supply is spe- ally jarae ip ane warehouses, whieh is Cheering, | B . and would war: a E Bevstoril baieehees arrant the belief tat | Several hundred operatives wore tast evening discharged trom Preuiice’s hat tory, in conse. | quence of the depression o: the market, making $00 nands (ail tod) who have been added to the | grand army of unemutoyed la vor trom this estabe | lishment, The factory will remain closed until | December 1, when it will be reopened, should the money market permit. CITY TRAVEL. The ears on the Brooklyn city railroads begin to feel the elects oi the stringency in trave, Ont urt sieves Live the earuings ol each regular car have fallen $5 per day, HOW THE TAILORS SUPFRR. The tailors, 1t appears, are also seriously effected by the dull times, and many first Gass workmen have been thrown out of employment during the bast week, The writer met a inan Wii had been employ cd tor sowe years past in a tailoring esta- usiment, aud he stated that, owing to the hard times, he = iad = been —_ discharged, People, instead of purchasing new were making thelr old on answer the present, said he, “What ain Ll to doy a family of ght persons to support, and | canuot see them want tor jood. I have sougnt employ ment ior a week, and [ iind tuat ali the places are dul ane notin want of hands.” Tue query was diticult to answer. Itts estimated that tuly 3,000 people have ing tbe pust week. THE PANIC AND THE PvO o for A Happy Sugsestion. To THe EDITOR oF THE HeRAL As there 18 but little doubt tat the ensuing Wi ter will Le teignted with the sutierings of the poor, and that sume practical plan s ould be adopted whcreby tie aid coutrhut- ad oy our cite zeus may in the surest Way reach those peovle who most require it, Ldesive to submit to your reade:s a plan which a iow of us m the Fourteenth Assembly district have tn coutempla- tion. Our Leory 18 that Une citizeus ol euci As sembly At jook aiier = their own poor. in order (hat toe r coatribution to this UbjeCt may b Wy depossad und pro. , IL is pugs Uthat «cours cce @ persons in the uistrich be seiected to sulci and Pees ipuous oF money, clothe ing abd provisions irom citizens it toe diss 4 that a prac Weadquarters Oy coummities, and uw such commit. tee ve in atten IM €ucu Wee ; wore agents, 1 houses in the aissice, Wiss dulies sist In in.oruung Uhewse.ves vl tue weeds of (he poor im ther respective precincis, abd reporuiug at least once w Week 10 the comuitie the naaes, occupations and requirements 0: ali wao eoliel tre: clothing, | i have } wen throwa vub Oo: empioyment dure | rly | 3 | uadertaken. % | by ail who can?— of em) from its exchequer to the interment of ai members, I, in common with hundreds of ethers of the Union, hoid that the present is @ tting time to take into consideration the position and prospects in the approaching winter of the) composicors of the city. A very dark cloud ene velops the trade, and it ts datly becoming di but it is in the power of the geutleman who hol the incumbaney of the presidential chair of the Typograpical Union, assisted by his coiaborers in ollice, to bring to the depressed vision of hundreds’ of his constituents the “silver lining” of truatfal~ ness in, at least, the supply of the bare necessaries. | of life during the melement seaon of 1573-4. ‘Trusting that you will give this a place in , colin on Sunder and thavit ay be rec m tue spirit in which it is written, I am, air. NOVEMBER 8, 1573, 4 EN QUAD, THE DESTiTUTE POOR. Whe Relief Society Organtzed for m Winter Work of Succor—A Strong: Appeal to Christian Charity. The public have not /orgotten, it is presumed, | excellent work done during the past Summer the “Soctety for the Relief of the Sick and | tute’? in collecting funds and giving the poor children of New York all the benefits which they | conld bring to health-giving recreation, medi | cine, nursing, care and food, ‘The pleasant | barge excursions, in which thousands of | little ones took part, are well remembered | by all who had an opportunity of knowing of the which they accepted such charity and of how much: real good it proved to them. Tne present winter opens with pecruiary prospects almost unpreces | dently gloomy for the rich and the poor alike, | Those who will be ander the too common mis- | fortune of poverty during the coming mouths will! need allthe scanty meaas which their industry,’ their tricnds or a kind Provideuce can place in their hands. Very many of tuem can only lcok for help and subsistence to that coarity which! 1s juspired by tae Providence above, and the’ Kinuest feeling of those’ who may enjoy somewha' better lortune than they is appeared to by the’ prospect of misery in bitter store for the unfortue . | pate. Thevecan nor be a douht that the ever charitable parse oi the most open hearted city of, the world will respond to every accent OL skorien ay be heard, But the more truly grateiw ould be that which woald anticipate the y of want and give succor before the pangs | of piteous hunger torce the cry from prond lips | that might otherwise be silent to the death, | ‘These considerations have led the society to ‘ form a pian tor the tallest possible reilef or the, poor 0 the city during the winter—a work which ts | much preater and more dumtcnlt than that hitherto’ he society 18 purely nonsectarian im tue sources of 1ts funds and in the use to which: | they are applied and appeals most earnestly to, | churches 0° all denominations tn the city to ald my’ | its work of universal charity. | ‘The following i rtion oi the clreular, which ig | circulated by it, should be read and responded to iid; SUCK azenLs ews aduoried. ater making a | ‘The 4% volunteer visitors of the Society for the Relie to iurnisn each = suderee with an | Of the ick and Destitnce Poor of New York will be une, ee somuutiee ite is beneved | Hfity in thelr ministration, so tong as you afford them D Una ORIN TROT Bieta | sub (ontial encouragement, We call upon every oney, luat there are enous men and woe a im Wihout regard to sect, to co-operate in, this good | work, even disitice wag woud wiihagiy reader such | jor in iis imereitul uidertaking we do not pronase te erVices Without velmuneration, in BF of the | assist an, Hadas class one poor, bat: fo eae ower Ase Ky districts poverty provads to a | best we (| without regard to or ra olor, eealochastoud une in tual ol tne osnera; aaa 1 ‘cing visited att ieir homes, are lound to be 2 nest that contrioutions be | 12 want, No money i; expended tor office rent or Were ore rogrest wat conmoubons be | siiarios, buteveryuiine contripuied goes intact to the: aekea Jor in the dierent Caurehe> in bie city, at | poor Letitnot be said that in a city which expends jeast once a WOLth, In ad of tie poor yo: such dis. | $F oh0.0.0 for amusements in a singfe year precious tricts, bv be paid over to the coumuttiees seiected I such districts, fo cach of Luose bureaus of charity might be appointed a vo Who persons seeking empwses could a 3 this Scgzest pay be the means of calling beter ideas on Uus impurtant suvject, | re- spect wily ask 13 puylica tou. JUGS D. LOWNSLND, 200 East Tenth street, BER a, 1843, Reduce the Price of Coal, To THE Eprrork oF THE UeRALD:— ‘The editoriai in your Heracp of to-day is worthy ol Leing read by every workingman of tuls city, as it is well Wr tten in regard to how toe crisis Should bo met, In the same UERALD you write about the general decline in prices, in trade, trans, orta- vion, groceries and ury goods; but youdo not men- about coal, being the article of tie winter time, @imbiu0us speca.ato: reduction ia the of as.ea todo, We ho: Jt appears that the hard and do not intend co make any AL prives, ey have been eGb luis inatter Vaiuabie paper, requesting hearis to bave ine wih us. into consideration that many u discuarged aud have suffered ey Mist thousands have b¢ & reduction us wag J) President Gran! has lus salary raised this yegr, wile uve vur Wages reduced, Way dues he nut reau elarve tax We ure paying? it is vetier to avoid tie evil than aiterwards to appiy the reme, SEVERAL WORKMEN, New YorK, Noy, 4, 1873, Raise a Subscription. To Tue Eprro® oF THE HERALD:— J thank you jor your efforis oa behalf of the un- employed, Certaimiy someting siould be doue lor the starving peoyie who are unavle to fina em- ployment, especially in a country that is governed by ana fer the people, There is the same food supply, whether tuey have work or bot, Nature is | never ile, though men may be cruel and unjust. jin Why, then, suould these people starve, with their Wives aud childrea? itis not the custom in the presentage of the world for legislators to flad ways and meaus of getting work, money or food for meu who live by labor as well as lor them- selves, but I thin the people are leit tou much to live upon, and cueat One anotier as best they can, @Ways providing they can evade the law. fiere are iots 0; azents Wanted. True, buta man may try one agency alter another till he starves himself to deati. ahe uuemployed want money, and cannot have it | Without Work, Aud Work they Caunot get. Laere: fore they must steal or starve, because it 18 unlaw- tui to beg, Lhere are many, many who have mouey enough and to spare, work or no work. Panic or 20 panic, 1 is ali the same (o them. In the city of New York there are many good men and true gentiemen wio can afford to be cuaritabie, Let us hove that they will come for- ard and heip tue helpless and deserving unem- poyed on tie approach of an Auerican winter, With its severe irusts and snows, ‘hey are not aie. They simply Want work and cannot get It. Why treat them as professional beggars or va- grants ¥ 1 thank you most sincerely and the otuer gentle- men who have undertaken to advocate the cause 0: (he UneMpioye., Aud hope you May succeed in instituting # iad lor sheir benefit during tne com- ing wiuter. UNBAR. NOVSMBER 4, 1878, The Unemployed Tradesmen and the Panic. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD: — In your excellent and well-timed articles and reports anent tie panic and its effects on the laboring classes you have not yet mentioned the letterpress printers, a trade that at present is suffering to an alarming extent, aod with but a remote prospect of improvement. Itis well known that, in tne ordinary course of business, the print- ing trade, with its adjunct branches or offshoots, should be very brisk at this season of the year; in fact, November usually ushers in @ good harvest in the typographic art, But the present moathb, in- stead of improving the unusual dulness existing jor many months past, has seen the prospects be- come more gloomy .n almost every ofMce, not only New York, bat all over the country. of course, 1 do not here inciuce newspaper offices, which, Whetuer in financial sunstine or storm, generally “keep on the even tenor of their way.” lt may bot be known outsice their own circie that during the past week several hundreds of the compositors im tne city have been reduced to short time—imany ot them to half and otuers to three-quarter time, or to three and jour and one- hali days’ work in the week, Now this term “half time” would lead the casual reaver to believe that the workman so reduced is kept at work, earning money, at least three days out of the six; but such 18 far trom the truth, here is no more precarious employment in tne lists of skilled labor than that of tue compositur; and | will venture to assert, without fear of contradiction, that if the 2,000 members of the Union in New York were polied, they would almost unanimously elect to be reduced to ‘three-quarter time’ the whole year round, provided they Were guaranteed constant work lor the shorter hours, Jam aware that in every branch of mechanical labor there will be found at all seasons unem- ployed men—a position, alas! too oiten brought about by their own habits; but, t repeat, that in no other department of labor does tne same on certain and unremunerative condition of arranges ment exist as in the “art preservative of ail arts.” Nor can] at present see how this conuition is to be remedied. The typos are regarded by their brother artisans of other trades as somewhat superior in points of intelligence and general in- formation; but as legisiators they are o.teh very lukewarm. AS an orgavization the New York Typograptical Union ranks ‘A 1,’ both as regards membership and financial stability, There are ap. wards of 2,000 members enrolied in the Union books, and they have $10,000 to their credit in the bank (vide HeRaLo of the 7th), The Union oiticials have also in hands a very res, ectuble nucieas to- wards a building inad, which, added to the above $10,000, Would be of immense service tn any plan the Uufon may r Now, sir, she Typographical Union 18 Dot an ore ganization for the reliei or assistance of men out devise to avert Or relieve distress, |) | human beingsare lett to famish and die with less care than ix bestowed upon ihe beasts that perish. Six hundred thousand people live In tenement houses in New Yors, 10),000 of whom are ‘emates who earn: their own living. The average waves of 38,00) working | women and chilcren in the year 187) was only $3 44 per, | wee! ¢ well known that nearly all manuiacturers, have stopped work, and the great working population of. ‘ew York is now idle. polo prevent Imposition subscriptions to this fand shoulds sent to— ‘The New Yor Herat office, Mayor Haveimeyer, City Hall, New York. | Francis H. Jens, President safe Deposit Company, No 140 Broadway, New Y¥ Andrew W. Leggut, New York, Gity sati, Theodore Moss, Wallack’s Theatre. Jones & Ryder, No. 482 Broadway. Rev. Dr, Deem, superintendent of the Fifteenth ward, Chureh of the Stranzers, in Mercer street, near Eighth. br. William F, Thoms, superintendent “east side dis- trict,” comprising the Seveath, Tenth, Eleventh, ‘i hur. teenth and Eighteenth wards, headquarters No. 92 Madi son street, Kev. Arthur H. Warner, superintendent “westerly section” of the Ninth ward, headquarters Ne. 477 Hudson: strect J. L, Davies, f Sheldon & Co., No. 677 Broadway. Dualap & Co., No. 174 Fifth avenue. Charles U. Kendrick, genera! passenger agent New York’ Central and. Hudson ‘Kiver iealroad, Tow 6 Grand Genzral depot. Jobn P. Faure, secretary and snperinteneent “easterly section” of the Ninth ward, headquarters No, 2353 West Eleventh stre Gouverneur Kk. Lansing, Karke's Hotel, Treasurer. Rey. Aivah Wiswall, Prestient, and superiniendent ‘west side districi,” comprising the Fitth and Ei wards, headquarters oiice St John’s Guild, st John's! chapel, Varick street. Packages of eroceries, provisions, at’. Die 2, clothing, . medicines, &c., may be sent to the vah Wiswi who will forward them to the various superiniendents. The organization of the agents of the society for the winter work is to be as perfect as possiole. Av agent is to be established in every biock’ througout the city. The suppiies ior the poor will be purehased at their cost prives trom wholesale merchants. The principal articles needed wiil be rice, oatmeal, cornmeal, hominy, tea and sugar. Many individnals who are interested in the object of the society have made the appropriate proposition, Which couid lend a great impetus to Ube flow of contribuiions, that every pastor in tl city should invite his flock to-day to give their aid: to the good cause. The announcement ot the ap- | pealo’ the society might be made this morning, Irom every pulpit and would certainly be @ mos$* | Christian prelude to the sermon of the day. STCKSS’ SOLACE, | ] Treatment of the “Distinguished” Cone vict in Sing Stng Prison—How the Regulations are Kelaxed in His Favor, The urbane treatment and tender solicititude of which the assassinator of Jamea Fisk, Jr., has been the constant recipient since the perpetration of the atrocious crime still seem to be evinced towards him in what he has facetiousiy termed his. “rural home.” Uther than this, however, could hardly be expected in the treatment of aman to Whom an assistant prosecuting attorney thought it his duty to offer an apology in presence of the jury whici convicted him of the capital offence, and who, on introducing himself by letter to the Warden of Sing Sing Prison, } was assured by the latter worthy that the ‘quisery” of his coafinement should be mitigated | as mucn as possivie. That this promise is ine | tended to be carried out 18 evident by the unjust discrimination which provided Stokes with comfortabie quarters In the hospital whey no per- son either outside or inside of the prison believes that his health is in the slightest degree affected, It cannot, of course, be expected that such a glaring instance of partiality toward & Jelon, Whose friends are able aud willing to pay for any prison indulgence granted, can occur without producing marked dissatisfaction among the great majority of less fortunate jailbiras. Norcan it be wondered at that under such pal- able mismanagement escapes are frequent, open insubordination condoned (as im the case of “Wes”? Alien, who still remains in his oid nitro- glycerine quarters), and murderous assaults bj mutinous convicts on their keepers and on eac! other have grown tobe matters of ordinary occur- rence, That the “misery” of Fisk's murderer will bo “mitigated” beyond all precedent during the term of his sentence there is little reason to douot from the nature of a circumstance which happened & day or two ago, On the occasion indicated a well dressed woman presented herseli at the prison and expressed a desire to see Stokes, her somewhat biasé appearance and flippant manner causing knowing winks and sotto voce remarks as to er probable social status to be exchanged among the prison officers, ‘The official who has change of the public reception room, on qi tioning her, ascertained that she was no family relative of Stokes, and, in accordance with the prison regulations, imormed her that the request could not oe granted, as it would preciud the possibility of any of his immediate relativ } seeing him tor the next three months, Determined | not to be thwarted in her design, the visitor them insisted on seeing Hite ond man_ tn charge,’? a ice of Warden Hubvell, Here she was more successful, a8, alter a few minutes’ conversa. tion, the Warden conducted her to a cosey corner in the hospital, where the object of her iriendly. anXtety luxurtates in blissful ignor. ance of penal existence within the @! walls of the main prison, ‘The wai ful convicts who witnessed this ex! act of favoritism know full weil that were other than a “distinguished” felon an inmate of the hos- pital, and even able to sit up, he would have been summoned to meet his visiting relative or friend in the room set apart for that put , and in which the scrutiny of the oficials is constantly exercised, SUIOIDE OR AQOIDENT. Coroner Keenan was yesterday called to the Twentieth precinct station house to hold an in- quest on the body of David Scott, a man fifty-seven years of age and a native of Ircland, who, the evening previous, either Jumped or fell into the dock foot of Thirty-ninth street, North itiver, and was drowned, Deceased was in the employ of ex~ args Hemann, at Manhattanville, and is said te have been sober industrious man. is faimiy seem not to know of any cause why he showid desire to take his own ife, and ‘hey are re- luctant to believe he did so, There token iD charge by the relatives, 1 ? loyment, tis, more correctly speaxing, Ve burial pociery almost confoing Shoes * sup intense eagerness, enthusiasm and gratitnde with =~ ‘ork. Keting Collector of Assessments, of ~ ?