The New York Herald Newspaper, November 25, 1874, Page 3

- bourse, have been kille MINING TROUBLES. Terrible Condition of Affairs in the Scranton Coal Region. RIOT AND MURDER RAMPANT. Eight Thousand Idle Workmen and Their Families Crying Out for Bread. RELIEF OR STARVATIO Immediate Action Necessary to Prevent an Outbreak. Scranton, Pa., Nov. 24, 1874, When your correspondent leit New York for this point thathe might investigate the “difficulties among the mines,” of which we have recently “heard so much, it was with the firm belief that | many of the reports were gross exaggerations and that the so-culled riots were simply the common brawls of the street. Nor was this opinion the least bit shaken while en route; on the contrary, asl gradually approached the more firmly did it become fixed, for the ‘ne nearer I drew to the fess 1 heard about the strikes, It with @ feeling of disappointment that 1 alighted from the cars, because { was confident ‘shat my mission would be fruttless. At the depot, Rowever, 1 noticed a number of men grouped around an odd looking character who wes ad Greasing them, and so excited did they appear that I approached tolisten. I learned that tne body of a man, beaten and mutilated, had been found at the foot of a steep embankment just out- side of the town; that the time and cause of the Murder were mysteries; that the party who mines the committed the deed was unknown, and that the Mayor of Scranton hud offered B reward of $500 for his apprehersion. Leav- ing the gentlemen at the depot I proceeded \n the direction of my hotel, but could not help Vaking note of the extraordinary bustie and con- fasion which seemed to exist everywhere along the street. The natural supposition was that the Qews of the murder down along the river had been widelv circulated, and that the people hud rushed forth to ascertain additional particulars, 4s 1 passed along the thoroughfare, however, an Opportunity was afforded me of catching, the drift of the general conversation, and I bad not pro- ceeded very far before I discovered that the mar- der in question was not being talked of at all. ANOTHER MURDER, T addressed & man standing at the corner of the street and asked him the cause of the excitement. “A young man was murdered in a dance house last night,” was his answer. “But last night was Sunday night,” I said. “Do you mean to say that your dance houses are open on Sunday?” “Oh, yes; dance houses of that kind are open at All timer,” was the response. Have they arrested the man who did the act?” Was my next query, Yes,” he answered, “he is now in the hands of the authorities.” A THIRD MURDER, Upon arriving at my hotel I was informed that the evening previous two men had become en- | Baged in an altercation ina low drinking saloon, that one had fired a pistol at the other and killed him, while, incredible a it may be, 1 was assured that in a section of country near here named Pleasant Valley a man was found who had actu. ally been crucified. ‘The fact that four men id been murdered in less than thirty-six hours @nd that three of the murders had been Committed in the city itself changed the opimons I had upon leaving New York and tonvinced me that the alarming accounts of blood- shed and outlawry, which of iate nave proceeded from thts section, were not such very gross exag- gerations after all. Below will be iound the names of the three men who, within the past twenty-iour ‘Michael Kearney, found dead along the river; William Goodman, killed by Michael Connell; Joun Roland, shot by Frederick pean name ol the man cracifled at present un- nowa. Here, then, is seen & condition of society so freauy resembling barvari#m that.there could ve ut iittle Choice between the two—a condition of society alsu ail the more terribie because it exists 12 & community higbly civilized and refined, and tn @ State which, of ail others, boasts of tne advan- | tages and protection which it affords to its citi- zens. Scranton is 2 City of 50,000 inbabitants—a bandsome, busy, enterprising city. It tas its Mayor, ise police and its courts; ity public schvols could not well be surpassed, while its numerous cburch spires ascend heavenward like sculptured prayers; yet witain & period of six days eigtt or Diue Men nave been slain in its vicinity, and in Many instances the names and whereabouts of the murderers are unknown. Where are its police gud where its courts? Where do we see the effect Of its schools and where the influence of its churches? iu 1864 the lie of a respectanie person int treets of Scranton alter Wark was uusafe; the sun seldom rose in the morming tout it did Or disclose the mutilated bodies of those who Were slain in tue night. It seems ag if the city were to sce anotner tuch terrible season a8 that when the citizens were iorced to institute vigilance committee and shoot down, like Animals, ali who dared to violate the law. Bat let fed deeper into the matter—let us not be satis. fled with the circumstances which develop day by day, but let us discover if possible THRE CONDITIONS ‘which have brought them about :— First—Why does this outlawry exist around the coal mines? Seoond-—What is the condition of the mines and the mivers? 7hard—How can peace and order be restored? The past tew weeks have been full of the most terrible scenes; m Womeu ana youths have in- dulgea in , vine aa assaults and open riots; individ- uals have been shot, stabbed and crucifie!. sucn iasues are not spontaneous with any momentary trouble; Ce! are the results of a long series of grievances, either real or imaginary, und are cul- minated invariably torough the rage which the masses feei when they vonsider themselves dealt with unjustly or through the madpess which always lollowa the pangs of wantand hunger. Therefore when one takes the troubie to investi- gs, the perpiexities which at present exist here je finds that they have age and growth, and that toese riots aud murders are the result of evils which bave been accumulating for many yeara, The Lackawanna valley contuims too many Aphabitants dependent on the mives jor their Support. It reminds one of a litte country, iaolated irom every other, tuat is daily and hourly consuming more than it can prodace. It 1s there- fore @ necessary consequence that some must Starve, and that when ali rash for the bread that a@t best will iced only halt of them, mavy must fail to the dust and be trodden mercilessiy and re- Vengelully under toot. Were ali tue mines in the Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys runuing at “full blast’? tuey coald barely employ the men Who dln about them; and when the fact is taken into consideration thut many of the mines are not Worked at all, and that ail the others, with a sin- gle exception, are running on partia: time, some Bught conception can be formed of the immense Dumber of men who are idle. While en rouse ior this point I made several stoppages, and I find tuatin the Wyoming aud Lackawanna regions there are over 8,000 men un- empioyed. There is uo use Ol begging the ques- ton Dor of turning,away irom inevitavie issues; {nese 8,000 men must be fed, and a starving wan knows no law. Uniess these 8,000 men secure Work riot, outrage aud oloodshed will continue all Winter; not the cumparatively insignificant out- breaks Of the past (ow days, but A REVOLUSION that will comprehend the entire area of Wyoming and Lackawanna and which the entire militia of the Stare will find dificult to quell. his will result Vecause the condition of the miners grows worse and worse every day. Airesdy the mid- wight assassin and’ the secrey murderer are periorming their bloody work. Poverty and hunger have trunsiormed them into fends, At bess tney ure men Of low instincts, more like an mals than human beings; want stares thew im the face and betore them is the long, cold ana dreary winter, Tum aware that! am taking a new view Of the situation, but Lam contident that it 1s tne fight one. Briel the circumstances are these :— Bight thousand meu in the Wyoming und Lucka- Wannd Valeys are idle; they nave not enough money to hive in their districts, and they have not snough to pay the expenses of going out; many of them a1@ poor; many utterly destiute. What fun they do? | ascribe all these muraers, ont. rages and crucifixions to the tact tnat su many men are unemployed. Where we tnd the great oat industry We alsy tlad the wost periect peacu, , AMONG THE MINERS, One of the jai jt col COMpunies in ioe nel borhood ia | H miles away ir ne ie aie ‘be ue wl fr UJ isla, whieD, ry aw. son, C 6 is Ned wits rie soviroumenis comprises simple reason that | was | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, ‘NOVEMBER 25, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. 12,600 souls. I Rave been there and thoroughly studied the situation, ‘The collieries of this com- Dany dot every hiliside trom Carbondale to Plym- outh, It is this company that founded the 101 Mer piace and made it wnat itis. Indeed, when the large domains of this corporation are consid- ered it comprehends almost the entire ares of the two valleys, and yet the miners of this company ure only working ou “one-quarter time.” Gut of the 12,000 souls who reside in tue neighbourhood only 1,500 are employed, and these only at partial periods, I uave just floisned a trip to all the towns Which this corporation has built op, 1 have visited Archibald, Oliphant, Providence, Pittstown, Plymouth ana Nanticoke, each of which localities prior to the panic was a, busy, busting, enter. prising town, with fiue stores, scuools and churenes, When we compare the present c tion of these localities wit 1ormer ones te © trast 18 terrible. Then their citizens were ployed, their stores well supplied, their schools well attenaed and their cnurcnes well flied. Now their storekeepers are on the verge of bankruptcy— many of them have already closed their dooss— their schools are in a great meusure deserted and their churches comparatively empty. Men apd women, drapken and lawiess, can be seen on every thoroughiare; their eves are dark and lowering, and their jaces wear a brutal, “hangdog" jook, by nature they are mercurial, and iond of jest and enjoyment; but now every form of mirth and innocent amusement 18 denled stand ready to indulge in any species 0! vutrage and crime. them is only & place where they cau consider their idleness and bi over their poverty and woe. | Thave said that Scranton was a beautiful city, and such indeed It is; but Scranton bow 1s not what it Was a few years ago, As 1 remarked above, three murdets were committed in it on the same night, whue at all hours hundreds of idle men an women can be seen wandering about its streets, The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Coal Company really sustains Scranton. its works crowd every hillside for miles and miles around, but a large number af their miners are Idie; others working on three-quarter time, others on one- half thne and others still on one-quarter ume, simply to keep the machinery running. About the mines of this corporation toriving tte towns have grown up, such as Taylorsville, belleview, Boon Hil and Mincoke. There are private coal companies here, such as the Fairlawn Company, Reiley & Co., Conner & Co,, Kéener & Co., Coray & Co., the employés o} which are in the same con- dition, Here, then, about this one city, are hun- dreds, nay thousands oj men idie, aud who have no means to buy their daily bread, while to render their condition still worse the baker has raised the price of his four and the butcher demands twenty cents a pound for his meat. As | said before this locality has MORE MEN THAN IT CAN SUPPORT. Kor years aud yeara the population bas been too great to sustain itsell, The question natu- rally arises why do bot some of these men leave the region, and, followiug the advice of Mr. Gree- ley, “wo West.” ‘The auswer is they can’t, tor here is the difiiculty, A great many ofthe men who are now idle and starving own the huts in which they live; others own half of them, and others have puid for a stilt smaller portion. Tne man Who owns his bat entire in the critical condition of affairs cannot dispose of it, nor can the par- tial proprietor sell oat his mterest, even though he offered to do so at a grenc sacrifice. Kach man has a wile and amily, He would rather die than abandon bis home, which he entirely or partially owns alter years Of ecouomy and toll. They must remain and they must live, THE INEVITABLE. Briefly I have tried to give an ideaofthe im- muse Aumber of men unemployed in these two valleys, and who have nothing to do save to nurse their poverty and become riotous and frenzied jrom want. Riots are a dauy occurrence, aud the jew men engaged in the mines are compelled 10 go to and Irom their work armed with rides, Mur- ders are Irequent, and theit and assault the pro- ducts of every hour, There 1s no prospect o1 work, and the long winter is just opening. ‘There is uo doubt that this entire region is on the verge of a tot umike any that the coun- try has ever seen before, and 8 riot: which only the entire country shall forestall. Tnough the awlul moment tus not yet arrived, it wall vurely come, when & cry of agony, brought about by the cravings of hunger, will go up irom this Tegtou for bread, und if that cry is unanswered 8,000 human souls, With their shivering wives aud children benimd their backs to urge them on, will seize the knue, the pistol or the bludgeon to flnd that food im defiance of civil law, and at the sacrifice of human iife, Tne tssue is mevitabie : it must come; this vast community cannot sure vive the winter without aid. ‘The fact is already made manilest by the assaults, murders and cru- cifixions that have already occurred, in_ this letter I have simply given the general condition, I leave tor another the details. 1 nave been among the buts of the miners, to which lew g0 who sre not compelled to do so, and trom Which every one is anxious to depart as speedily as possidie, 1 have becn on “shanty Mill,” an isolated district within a stone’s throw of Scran- tou, Where thousands of miners have their miser- able aboues, Where hundreds find no work, and where were scen cases of poverty and distress that would actually pierce the heart of him who went there fully prepared to sec want and misery in their most ¢xaggerated torms. THE GREAT TEA PARTY. George and Martha Washington at the Brooklyn Academy—A Gorgeous Pic- ture of the Republican Court. The Academy of Music, Brooklyn, last evening, on the occasion of the Martha Washington tea party, given jor the benefit of the Brookiyn Maternity, Was crowded with a fasbionavle gathering, and, though a noble purpose was the cause, intense jollity was tne consequence. As the preachers had not yet included teu parties amoung the forbidden fruits (like theutres) everything “went merry a8 @ marriage bell.” Very nearly 1,500 persons were present, and the sale of white gloves and white neckties at our princl- pal dry gooda shops must have been something enormous auring the last few days. The tea party Was managed by the first ladies o1 the City ot Charches—Mrs. William C. Kingsley, Mrs, A. B, Bayliss, Mrs. Jasper W. Gilbert, Mrs. 8. B. Chitten- den, Mrs, A. S. Barnes, Mts. J. S. f, Stranahan, Mra. H. W. Beecher, Mra. Franklin Woodruff, Mra. Heary A, Moore ana Mrs. General Slocum. Almost all the distinguished men of the country were invited to attend the party, along others |, General Grant, whose excessive fondness jor tea is universally known, and Mrs. Grant, General Sherman and wie, Hon. Hamilton Fish ana wile, | Postmaster General and Mrs. Jewe.l, Senator and | Mrs, Boucwell and Miss Boutwell, Governor and Mrs, 1x, Governor Blect Tilden, Mayor Hunter (of : Brooklyn) and lady. THE DECORATIONS, The Academy was tasteruily decorated, and, with its choice fowers, gay flags, chaste statuary, lus trous candelabra and fine paintings, presented a britiiant spectacle, Over tue ceutre was sus- pended a monstrous eagle, differing trom other birds of thia genius in that. it was golden, and the gorgeous streamers from‘ its beak extended to the thirteen tables (representing the thirteen original States), on waicn the supper was spread. Under the eagle shone the ilumined Words, ‘Brooklyn Maternity.” Shortly after seven o’elock the carriages begun to arnve and to discharge tueir rich loads of silk and velvet and satin, Soon alter a rocession was iormed, led by Mr. C. B. Wyman aa Vashington and Mrs, W. Sage as Martha Wasningvou. and marched to tue turther end of the auditorium, which nad been floured over to @ level with the uress circle. bis Country and his charming lady took up tpeir O81:100 in root O1 the proscenium box, while the ladies took Charge of the various tables which were assigned to them as 1oliows:— THE LADIES AT THE TABLES, New Hampshire—Mrs. J. uoward, Jr, and Mrs. William A. Tyler. Massachusetts—Mrs. G. 8. Gury, 4. U. Hurt aud Mrs. A.C. Barnes. Rhode Islanpd—Williain A. ‘tyier, GP. Sheidon aud Miss Robinson, Connecticut—mrs, J. I. Howard and New. New York—Mrs, N. 1. Beers and . Bassett. New Jersey—Mrs, D, A, Hew- htt and Mrs. Kadelifie Baidwin, Pennsylvan Mrs. J. F. Whitney and Mrs. hk. M. Cowles. Lite ware—Mrs, Wiiltium Tuttie, Mrs. ©. U, Like and Mrs. W. v. Clyde. Matylund—Mrs. ol. T. Wing, Miss Leovard und Miss Kevere. Virginia—Mrs, R. ©, Motfutt and Mrs. Thomas Smith. Nortu Caro- lina—Mra. O. RK, Suaw, Mrs, 8. D. Bigelow und Mrs. New. Soatu Carolina—alrs. W. W, Goodrich wud vc. P. Furnald, Georgia—Mrs, @. W. Gilpert and Mrs, D, V. Bennett. ‘The untiorms of the Hartford Phalanx were worn by many Of the gentlemen, and blue coats with bu saciugs, buif vreeches, top boots and bul tops aud cocked hats with black rea-tipped plumes were to be met with every- where, As to the satellites of George Washington, Who Were supposed to be in tne court dress o1 1776, they looked as unlike General Grant’s courtie:s (tom Murphy, Boss Shepherd, &c.) a3 pussibie. ‘Their sieeny velvet coats with brass buttons, tily- White satin vests trimmed with gold lace, knee breeches, top boots and old fashioned perukes, cocked hats and red Pas Would have lovukea very junny at General Grants cottage in Long Branch. THE DRESSES, ‘The ladies of 1874 evidently do not like the simple costumes Of their grandmotuers, who had no Worth, jor last night they carelully eschewed the short Martha Wushiugion dress, preierring that & ta Pompadour and en train, shades prevailed, wnd, though wany of the aresses were exquisite in beauty and elegance, scarcely any of them Were Martha Washington costumes, propery speaking. Many of the pretty giris and stately matrons were in simple walking dress, showing that American Jadies still = Maintain their —Inahenable Tight to Wear just such clothes a tuey please, Mrs, Suge, the Lady Wasninzton, wore a biuck velvet dress, with White brocade petticoat, ilu. ston folded neckerchiel, point e sleeve trim- Tings, iliusion cup, Witu Jauuty velvet brow, pearl @uri Inge and Deckiace. THK SUPPER Bho chaste and mild as the whole entertainment, 50 Wes Rothing Of AG intuxicating Gature on them, their hands find uothiug to do, and they , ‘They are seluom at home, for home to | the light aud dark | | | | gent and influential audience. | you are ‘There tue Father of | | kind of speculation. any of the tables; but, on the contrary, tea—amd ch delicious tea! Germans and Russians haver deprenepsible habit o: pournng rum into their tea 8) ag to make it stronver; bucat the Acad-+ emy its pristine purity and dekeac, undefiled “by any sucht abominable admix- ture. Nobody went away inebriated; every- bod, went away cheered, People who had not drank anything so mild ior months sipped the innocent beverage, served in lovely China cups by beauty’s hands, with po-utive de- light, and seemed in a fair way of becoming as enihosiustic tea drinkers as tue great Dr. Jounson. The edibies were selected wita a view Ol avotding any disastrous consequences im the Way of indigest! n, lignt cages and biscuits, sand- wicnes, &¢., veing the principal delicacies, No- body but one who has experienced it can conceive the extent of the tojury cunsed by quails on toast, grouse and other choice dishes, and they were careiully avoided last evening at t! Brooklyn, remained THE DANCING. At nine o’clock the dancing began with the old- fashioned Lancers, and was kept up, mostly in Wu'tzing, to a Very late hour, Although many of the national celebrities who were Invited failed to put in an appearance, the leadiag men of Brooklyn, such as Horace &. Ciafin, Judges Moore, McCue and Benedict and others were pres- ent with their ludies. ‘fhe proceeds ave very con- siderable, and the ladies deserve great credit ior the kind work ofcharity which they have so cheer- tully undertaken and so admirably executed, MONETARY SYSTEMS. Lecture by Protessor Bonamy Price at Association Hall—American Currency Denounced. A lecture was delivered last night, at Assocta- tion Hall, by Professor Bonamy Price, of the Unt- versity of Oxiord, England, on the subject of "Me- tallic and Paper Currency." The lecture was de- livered in connectton with the Mercantile Library Association, There was a small but highly intelli- On the platiorm were Mr, 8, Patterson, the President of the asso- ciation, who introduced the lecturer, Mr. W. E. Dodge, A. J. Stewart, Cyrus W. Field, S, B. Rug- gies, Peter Cooper, ex-Judge Pierrepont, D. W. Jones and F. F. Mowbury. Mr. Price commenced by explaining the origin of the value and use of money. It is a commodity which every person agrees to tuke one from the other. Therefore the great principle of currency 1S & guarantee, THE NEED OF COIN. Very littie coin is wanted where paper is used: as in England, where everybody pays im bankers? checks and notes, Gold coin is the most useless thing in the world when you can use bankers’ checks, If you give your gold to a banker he puts it into his cellars, The banker does the business of buying things more usefully without gold than with it, Gold only rises and falls im the whole commercial market of tne world, notin any particular nation. Many people in Amer ica seem to think that there would be great difficulty in resuming specie payments, in getting goid Irom other countries, There is no such diMculty. Ifa new world bad sprung out of the ground aud the inhabitants all wupted gold there would be gold enougn; the only dilference is that sovereigns would be worth thirty shillings, perhaps, PAPER MONEY. Now about paper. There is such a thing as credit in the world. Well, the substitution 0: gold Consists in that; i Lam certain that the paper is equal to the value or it I preter the paper. If paper is perlectly solvent then it is to me as if the issuer said, “I wil keep the metal for you,” The whole thing depends that you buy and sell against the metal and not against the paper. A converti- ble note 18 4 tool with @ specific use, and is nothing else but @ changing tool. As Jur as the public of England goes they pay identically as much property ior getting hold of the bank note as the sovereign. But there is a great diverence when you pay :or the goid to tne miner 1n California, vecause you then give rails or: some Other property for {!. That is so much property virtually destroyed, as far us Engiand is concerned, Now the Bank of England has £15, 000,000 to lend to traders in England, ‘Tuat is the present circulation of the Bank of England. All the rest o! it 18 mm gold in its cellars, ‘The bank may do what it hkea with the £15,000,000, ‘The government owes the bunk £14,000,000, ‘rhis bank 1s a steady, old-fasnioneit company, and has always been so. Tne Bank of Eng- lund has so much confidence placed in it that nobody thinks the bank is uasale, Now as to in- convertible paper, uoovdy koows when this is going to be paid, ‘The imconvertibie paper of America ig paper that takes away trom a nation more than was raised by the treasury. Ii there ‘was ever the beginning of evil doing it ts raising | taxes by inconvertivie currency. An American paper dollar buys less goods than the metallic do}- iur, ‘the consequecce of depreciation 1s that prices rise, Whoyets the benciit of tuat? Why, a number of things loilow, FINANCIAL GAMBLING, Then business becomes gambling. No man kno’ What a dollar will buy. Notes remain out in a community, aud when there are more than @ man Wants the 1pan Offers more lor his goods than he otherwise would, PAPER SPECULATIONS, Now in 1802 there wus a difference in the premium on goid of this character; on April 12 it was 1X, aod on the 23d of June it stood at7. ‘This Was a discount om paper, not a premiuin on gold. The people of America pay for their notes the same as they im gold. The nation has given tts property to these issuers of notes. What do they do with it? They give it to speculators and they immediately go into every All sorts of wild prices are obtained, ‘Then comes the jurnisning of rooms at $40,000 a room. It means more champagne and thereby more destruction of property. Then this makes the nation rer. This is not the practice of the Bank of England, who lend their money to buy a bale of cotton to make into caltco, All this issue of inconverti- ble paper in America does no more for the gov- ernment than ovtaining the first tax. The trouble 18 that all the curse of the taxes ts continued, and it has the effect of taking the property of the American people and giving it to the speculators. Now, the lurmers are worse off tn this regard than iy other class of producers. The foreigner ex- jis a terrible penalty on the American peopie. He saye, “What isa dollar’ There 1s no soswer to thix, All that they say ts this, it isa promise that the American ‘government will some day pay & metallic dollar. Then the 1orelgner bets Upon this chance; sometimes he bets twenty OF ten per cent on this, charging what he sells accordingly. ENGLAND AS A CREDITOR. When England buys American bonds she does not pay aAwerica in gold. The Ger 0" ernment, although tae French, was not one penny richer; all that she did was to put a certain amount of prop. | erty in the hands of Germans. You want land and other countries to buy your stocks. Eng- land don’t send you gold tor that; sue sends you all kinds of tools and all Kinds o1 clothing tor your bonds, and your nation becomes richer, Bat When the Englishman asks wnat a doliar 1s, he cannot get an answer, and therefore he refuses to send you these goods, That is the curse of the present American system of currency. Now, how 0 get Out of It. You can get out of this wnen determined to get out of it, There 18 @ delusion that it cannot be got out of without piling up an amount of gold. It isa mis- erabie deiusion, There will be no demand sor gold if your notes are certain of being convertibie. Say, ior instance, uf it were known that in two years the resumption would take place, then prices would be settled on the present value. ‘rhe difference would be sach that it would scarcely be perceived. The same thing occurred in Kng- lana; three years were given for all new contracts to be made, and in consequence of the confidence im the Bank o1 Euglaud there was no inconven- ng- lence. Now, who 1s to put out tnese convertivie notes’ Not a government, (Cheers.) I would trust no government on earth, (Uheers.) You cannot arrest @ government, or put it in @ baukruptcy court, THM BANK OF ENGLAND. 1 would not trust the English governs Ment with £15,v00,000 of the subjects’ money. We, in England, in 1844, before the Bank Charter act, allowed anybody to issue notes if they were convertibie in gold. Beiore 1844 many of these country bankers went into speculation with this paper, aud England stopped this, Baukers issuing to tue nation without any security is a very bad issue, There Was 80 much trouole about American finance that it was very diticuit Jor a stranger to auswer What wouid be the vest. ‘The position of the Bank of England 13 certamy one which America could copy excellently well. ‘The £16,000,000 of Bank of England notes are given to bona jide honest traders, not to Joint stock companies. fhe result is that the Bank of kngland notea never went to @ disconnt. Never in the worst crises of financial diMculty did tuey go to uiscount. ‘This £15,000,000 ali went for capital to trade and is always reproduced in an increase of trade. [| believe the reason that the imstitation has not been copied is because tue organization to do that work 18 not found in other countries, Tne neurest approach to itis the Bauk of Fran it had $860,000,000 of gold 1n its cellars When that UD lucky Franco-Gerinan war broke out. It ts ut terly impossible for me 'o answer whether Amer- ica can get Up such an jnstitution as this, Now What is needed is that such institution snould be periectly solvent, amd tnat the proceeds of it should be legitimately employed as capital, and capital only, for trade purposes only. set of private persons out of a pubiic Junction like this have @ right to get all the aces to themselves, The Bank ol England does not give uny direct sum in money to the government for this privilege. The Bank Manages the public deot, pays the dividends and tukes the tisk on these pay ‘ ‘000,000, ment owes the Bank |, OVO, | government pays no interest on tha loan. question of Americau currency places the na tion below the intelectual and scientine condition of the age. ‘Ine American people ure a people Against Whom no implication of weakness can be brought, ihe tuimkers of the word, when tuey tuink of Amerivan currency, toink wnat America das et Into w Re trouole, america ip this below ita Uatural position im the Werkd. og she got £250,000,0u0u from | { Academy in | | } i ' t | brings in the strength of the company, Mlle, | Albant beimg the Elsa of the present revival. | very wellattended, It was the third of the series, AMUSEMENTS. Italian Opera—Rehearsal ot ‘‘Lohen- ° grin. The final rehearsal of Wagner's grand opera took place at the Academy of Music yesterday alternoon, and the first performance this season takes piace to-night, The distripuuion of réles Judging trom yesterday’s rehearsal there ts mach to expect from her performances to-night, She seemed to bave caugnt the spirit of the rdle and to have infused into it the earnestness and conscien- Hous spirit that have given such a charm to her previous impersonations ta lyric drama, She ap- bears to conceive an idea of the requirements of the role different irom that of Mme. Nilsson, for one of the attributes of genius ia to be origional, and it will be ainterest- ing to-night to watch the result of such a venture, Miss Cary and Signor Dei Puente resume the rdles in which they achieved @ con- Sptcuous success lust apring, aud Siguor Carpi will endeavor to rival the triumphs of Campanini. A judicious selection was made, considering the | aera Culibre o1 the company, in giving to Signor oolare the part of the King. ue labors of the ches @orchestre, Signor Muzio, at the rebearsal yesterday, were as great as bofure the first pro- duc tion of the opera. Every detail In the great Work Was Curelully attended to, and chorus and orchestra Were compelled to iollow the painsiak- ing, Hnished interpretation of the distinguished leadiar, A periormance of unusual interest may, tnerefore, be expected this evening. Evenings with the Great Musicians. Mr. J. N. Pattison gave @ lecture and piano re- cital last evening at De Garmo Hall, which was ana thie Dew enterprise of this favorite pianist seems to have taken a firm hold of the public Mind. ‘the subject on this occasion was a great and @ fruitiul one, “Handel, the Colossus in the Realms’ of Music.’ Mr. Pattison gave a very elo- quent and interesting account of the Iiie and the labors of the great composer, displaying oratorical powers of no inconsiderable extent, a delivery worthy of an eXpertenced artist in the jyceum, and, in the iilustrations of his remarks the skill and thorough finish of @ frat ciass pianist, He played the tugue in E minor, winch he represented as a “fire ingue, probe | ably the result of the composers wit- nessing one of those terrible contagrations that a century ugo used to devastate London, He gave to the theme and its developments thut ner. vous porwer, Clear porasing and fine expression that marie the fugue as hght and sparkling as one | of nis own ealon works. The quaint “Chaconne,” | in G major, and its fantastic treatment was reu- dered 12 & ho less happy Manner, and the well kKpown “Harmonious Biacksmisu” ended one ot | the most interestiag musical entertainments | given im this ciiy this season, Mme, De Rytner und Migs Annie Borle sang three selections irom the works of the 1mmortal composer with exceed- lng eifect and finish und received much applause, Mr. Patttson will lecture ou Aleadelxsobn on Tues- day nexs, giving extracts irom the “Liederonne | Worte.” It 1s quite @ treat to herr such works interpreted by »killul fingers and preceded by a Clear, muelligent explanation of their meaning and Of the characteristics of the composer. Ntolo’s Theatre—‘Mctamora.” An exceedingly small audience attended Mr. Eddy’s representation of the Indian hero which Forrest oiace made the sensation of the day. Mr. Eddy did not give anidea ot the character com- mensurate with the expectations formed by his admirers. An asthmatic tragedian, whose voice has moutited tuto the regions of the treble with an evident loss of power, cannot present a commend- | avle Metamora. The support was of a correspoud- Ing standard, excepting the Walter and Nameokee | ofthe oceasion. ‘Tragedies of shis nature snould be placed on the stage in a proper manner or not at ali. ‘The public oi: New York must naturally look for @ very different periormance at « theatre jike Niblo’s than that which was given ‘to them jast nigBt. Miss Fuy Templeton tieaaed the bill ‘with a lnusical extravaganza called “Parepa Kosa,” Union League Theatre—Professor To= bin’s Lectorium. A very entertaining lecture, of the Mosaic style, haviug a little of everything in it, was given at this Byow theatre last evening by Proiessor Tobin, a handsome looking gentleman irom Lon- don, The principles o1 electricity were ilustrated by various elaborate instraments, the working of the Atlamtc cable was explained and an apparatus showiog'the solution of the problem of perperuul motion was exhibited. This 18 claimed to be the presentation of a new force which, without mechanism, is now in its seventh month vf constaut motion, and will presumediy continue until the materials of which it 18 composed are destroyed by their own reactiou. A number of beautifal col- ored views, showing Paris by moonlight, were throw on u white screen, to the accompautment ot vocal Gud instrumental music, Alter this fol- lowed what the lecturer termed “amoidexterous spiritualism,’’ cousisting of a revelation of the tricks whereby the senses are deceived, and what @ppears 10 be Of supermundane origin 18 Clearly wwo to be che product o! dexterity. This variety of change in the evening’s entertainment ‘was its particular charm, and the audience were saved (rom weariness. It will be given again ‘Thursday evening and Saturday aiternoon, Masical and Dramatic Notes. The new Chinese spectacle at the Hippodrome ts &@ great success, Paul Féval’s new piece, in preparation at Bootn's, will be called “The Officer of Fortune.” A sacred concert will be given to-morrow even- ing at Tottenville, 8. L, by the tadies of the Bethel Methodist Episcopai Sunaay Schvol, Miss Clara Morris makes her essay as Lady Macbeth to-night. The eyes of the theatrical worid will be turned Brooklynwards, An organ recital will be given to-day at the Charcb of the Holy Trinity by Dr. 8. Austen Pearce, | very distinguished musician and littérateur. Mr. Jefferson appears at the extra Thanksgiving Day matinée in Booth’s Theatre to-morrow. He will play Rip Van Winkle. He also piays in the evening. Willtam Voegtlin, Matt Morgan and nine assist- | nt artists are busily engaged on the scenery of “The Hero of the Hour.” it 18 prowlsed that it ‘Will be exceedingly beautitul. Miss Anna Bock, a young pianist, will play Liszt's arrangement of Weber's ‘“Concertstick”’ and his “Polonaise” in E at Carl Formes’ concerts at Steinway Hall on Sunday night, John C. Clarke will opeu bis engagement with “foodies” and Major Wellington de Boots, but Will produce his new play of “Red Tape” at the beginning of his second week at Bootu’s. Owing to the imcompleteneas of the arrange- ments at the Grand Opera House the ‘Black Crook” was not produced last night, as promised, The managers state that the opening will cer- tainjy take place to-night. Ir4s said tnat Mi. Jefferson's eyes are again threaiening him with trouble. His ocutist is very golicitous about'them. There is no doubt, how- ever, but that ho will be able to complete his pres- ent singularly successful engagement. The “Black Crook” managers have issued invi- tations to ministers of religion, without dis- tinction of sect, to witness the bare leg spectacle they oller to the public, Satan tempting the Church! How history repeats itself! Wbose hoot does Kiralty’s foot hide ? A Louisville reporter lately interviewed Mss Kellogg and received jrom uer some sage remarks as to the tratuing of an opera singer, She advises American girls to devote themselves, body and soul, to the profession, and not to imagine that superficial training ts suflictent. ‘The programme of the second symphony con- certof Theodore Tuomas, which takes place on Saturday, and aiso of the Friday rehearsal, con- sists of & Buch suite, Schumann's Sympnoony, No. 1, and Liszt’s sympuonte poem, “Lae Ideal,” Mr. Mills will play the Ratf concerto, and Miss Lasar, Fritscn and Remmertz will sing a Beethoven trio, A Shakespearian sensation js promised at Buoth’s | Theatre on Saturday evening, Miss Juja Seaman, who made such peculiar impression in the “pelage,”’ Will appear in the character of Hamlet, supported by the entire company of the theatre, Kdwin Booth, E. L, Davenport, Fechter and other distinguished tragediana have been invited to be present. Tne first rehearsal of the new season of the Brooklyn Puiharmanic Society takea place tus afvernoon, at three o'clock, with the following programme :—"Fiiti Symphony,” Beethoven; “Kine Faust Overture,” Wagner; “Theme and Variutions” (uew), Brahms; overture, “trios phale,” Rubinstein, At the third renearsal aud concert Mile, Marie Helibron and Mr, 8, B, Mille Wl be the solowwts. ‘Theodore Taomes continues bad as ay Talsed ageluet a deteuoelees Woman Gonductor, as usual laa e het now Dope, ana being youns, though Vers ' should not too quickly wear out his single pair THE SAD STORY, Effect of a Pair of Slippers and Huw “Major” Made Friends. SHIFTINS THE RES?ONSIBILITY. Professor Chandler's Letter to the Commis- sioners of Charities and Correction. ° Action of the Emigration Com- missioners. | Eliza Collins was ® name on many tongues yes: terday; the suderings of the poor unfrieuded girl were on many more, Indignation was largely blended with the sorrow ieit tor all the woman had endured, and many hoped, jor the sake of Bumanity and public institutions, bers was 4 solitary case. Alone in a strange country, without means and sick, would | make up & catalogue sufficiently long and nard to | bear Jor the ordinary mortal, but added to these in the present case were neglect, starvation, and, itis alleged, the most heinous crime that could be committed agatust a woman. General Bowen went to the Island yesterday, Pprobably'to look into the “Major” matter, but be did not, evidently, bring back mach light with him for he had none to share. Shutting out inquiries at this stage will not mend matters, and if the Commissioners have clean hands tne sooner they show them the better. A woman’s wrongs and ruin have been latd at their door, To the mismanagement or tncom- petency of the Commissioners is due all tne suf- Terings, and their result, of Eliza Collins, Neglect may have had something to do with 10; but the in- fluence, or whatever name may ve given to it, that restored ‘Major’? to the place he had fortetted must be explained to the public, and the present 13 the time to do it. General Bowen pleaded business, but if there is any business tn | the department just at this moment calling the attention of the Board more important than that of the rain of this girl and the edect upon her | health, it must have droppell in upon the Commis- sioners very suddenly. To be sure there may be ANOTHER SUCH CASE on the Island, and General Bowen probably di | the documen: } the sole occupant of this ward, excepc when w 3 post, she has st{ll some spirit left. Ske anid yes nda, “they did give me a fire in the fever pavilion few dais nefore 1 leit; but that night the o! stovepine teil down, anl | was worse off than be fore. When I went to the Commalonionsrs CP cl ines trst 1 mad atiaavit, bu tes dirs ade a loug er) Was beard * of that untii the | Heath sent ap there, One of the gen- tiemen there said, ‘Have the fellow ar He wight get twenty years, bat Mr. Lame said, “No, wo; we'll settle all toils.” Mr. Liaim- beer aud Mr. Kellock spoke to me several times about what bad occurred, They desired me to say Lothing about it, and it would be all right. Protessor Chandler brougnt the matter up ip the Boara of iealcn, and it was decided in the to vive the Jeter sent by the President at the lime to the Commissioners of Charities and Cor rection to tne public. ‘Lhe 10llowing 18 @ copy Of PROFESSOR CHANDLER'S LETTER. Hear Depant! 0, 91 Morr Straw New York, Oct. 9, 1875, To me He MMISSIONERS OF FUBLIO CuaKiTtR: GENTLEMEN orto call your attention to a Very imgptant matter, for which, L fear, both your own Bou Buc the Board of Liewih may be held w some degree resNonsible ‘On the 24th of september E Collins aged twent; two, travelling through the Was taken sick wil wh iis supposed to be smallpox. (She was seen by Wo of rs, and seuc to the swallpox hospital, trunks b tiu our care, em Beale hae «on the Lat or 4d at October she presented herself to the Samtary Superintendent, Dr. W. De Forest Day, with the tollowims 51 ave tm oon atter her reception at the smalipox Lospits Bluckwell’s Island, the Gissase Was pronounced’ to be the bives and she was i transierred to ihe neighboring Pavilion Hospital, ali fear of small)ox having ceased. Here she but twice visiied by a physicirn, and she we WOrke house woman, employea as scruuber in the Smallpox Hosvital had a bed there. Her ciothes were removed another piace by the steward. On the morning o discharge, at halt-past six A.M., the steward. Major, came intothe ward, sent the scrab woman away, ant arier a struggle, i which she tainted, suecceded in vio- lating her pers yy couversation this afternoon with one of et members of your Hoard i learned that the steward hai been beture you, and dos Not deny the matersal points of the charge, “Her appearance atter her uischiarge, when seen by the sauitury Supermtendent a the Cuicf Cierk ot the iealth Department clearly saustied them that she was not in a physical con- diion to successtuily resist an able-bodied man, and in so far corroborates her story ot the outrage, «he has since 8: that nothing would induce her to marry the man, and that she does got want money; but thal she is indignant, and desires unat the man be punishes for the protectin of others ‘The case way report to George Kellock, your Supermendent of Ou door Voor, by the Sanitary Supermcendent in person, and the Woman was rent to vour office the next morn ing im company with a represeniauve of the sanitary Bureau. Lam intormed that Miss ‘ ollins has made aa alldavit to the tacts, which aildavitis in your posses: sion, Iam also informed that the steward has not beem discharged, although a weex has elapsed, and that Be sie./« have been taken to secure his puuushient 1 would say toxt this matier is now in your hands, that as the alleged act ot violence was committed j your jurisdiction und by one of your employes, 1t woul Svein that the punishment or the offender should proceed from some such action as your Bourd should be advised to take In the premises: and that the matter canuot be abandoned in exbectaiion that some other departinent, or that pri DberseQs lay assume he responsibility of vindicating the character and the dis- cipline of the pubhe uepartments charged with the care of such persous, Teannot believe that the discharge of the steward without turther ineasares would sausiy the demands of Justice or relieve public officers trom the responsibil.ties: of their posicion jit certainly Would not if the crime Were theft or arson. Iwill turtuer suy thnt the Board of Health is so far im terested that since this woman was sent to you by ite o perform inthe event covered it when he went tuere yesterday; or there may be one of @ worse nature, a thing quite porsible. The authority that would harbor a man cbarged with such @ crime as “Major” was, when he was sent back to his auties with full iree- dom to commit similar outrages on our poor patients, might be easily suspected of giving shelter to other mex of bis characcer, Mr. Major—ais name appears to be shrouded in considerable cloud; they called him the “Major; Mr. Laimbeer says it is Major, and | he ought to know—owes his present advance- } i i ment—strange as 1t may seem, and illustrative of certainty a8 It 1s, and oltentimes apparently the influences that wait meo to great. ness and power—to @ pair of sliDpers and | the care he bestowed upon them. According | the too, that various insignificant are \ to Commissioner Luimbeer’s account of him, Major | went to the island asa patient. He bad a pair of | slippers—good slippers, of what exact quality | Commissioner Lambeer did not state, but tney were a pair of pretty slippers nnd quite attract | ive. The Doctor in charge of the hospital where Major was lying noticed the siippers, ‘rhe character of the notice the Doctor applied to the slippers—whether it was a notice of cu- riosity, & notice of envy—but that is scarcely hkely—a notice of regret that he had not a pair like them; @ notice of admiration dt the beanty Of the slippers, for they must have been very hand- some; a notice of delight to see a patient with slip. pers; @ notice Of gratification that the patient of hose; a notice of gratification that the depart- ment would, not at an early date, bave to supply him with another pair; @ notice of generous satis- | faction that other men had slippers, and pretty | ones, too, a8 well as doctors, or & notice of surprise at the appearance of the things in the hospital | Ward the Commissioner did not say; but that the | Major had a pair of slippers and that the Doctor | noticed them particalarly, and that his particular | Dotice of them was the drat thing that brougut toe Major into PROMINENT LIGHT. Bestdes his LbSlerd beg det the Major had pretty ways—at least so the Doctor thought, and so ne Managed to convince the Commissioner. What | the public verdict 18 on the subject is quite an- Other matter. But the Doctor thougbt—and per: | haps thinks BO Bl Lecausge the Commissioner thinks so—that the Majors ways have grown entirely ugly yet, He likely at him as he would at a favorite wayward child, who had broken a rare china vase, and without heeding the damage @one, looked up laughingly, expectant of lorgive- bess, One of the Major’s ways that strack home into the heart of the Doctor was his cleanliness, ‘Ihe Major was clean. That was u new jeature to the Doctor, and oe admired tt. Agne looket at this | novel feature, the Doctor grew to like it so much that finally, upon this ground, and that ieature as an incentive, the Doo- tor determined to inquire further into the charac. ter of the Major. The more tne Doctor looked the better was he pleased, until te became so charmed with the morai picture the Major turned toward his view that the Doctor felt it to be his duty to share this delightfal nature with his chum, the Commissioner. It might ve that the public haw it its mind jnst at thia instant to ask the Doctor what he thinks of the moral essence of the Major now, but that would be an impertinence on the part of the pub- lie, aad the Doctor would not deign in all prov. j a | ability to answer it—upless possiv) | the Commis sioner were by, and the Doctor in that case would, doubtless, consider it nis duty to put himself on Tocord 10 his chiei’s esteem and 119k & large opin- jon in the stability of nis affections to their first loves una all circumstances. Alter & private consuifation witn his iriend, the Commis. sioner, the Doctor wrote to the Buard of Vomimis- allowed to have itloent Mayor neur hi: ‘The request was Major into bis ofice to do Yarious odds ends of work. Major saw the slippers bad made their el- fect; he copied the Doctor and never went about the bospitai 1m anytuing else. Wuen funds got into the pockets o: the Major he bought a Aecond puir and & third, and finally, it isaaid, he removed @ whole aneif full of butties from atop shelf and ranged a row of SLIPPERS IN THEIR SYBAD. ‘rhe Doctor was charmed, tae Commissioner do- lighted, and Mr. Major was soon ater removed and promoted to the Smalipox Hospital. In the | happy coniidence Of his superiors the Major went about unl the habit of office grew easy, and tnen he became reckiess. Complaint at last was made against nim; but no notice. waa taken vf tua—Mr. Major could do no wrong, Professor Chandler raised his | voice, and che Mujor was arrested. He was cast | into prison poor fellow, without s iriend ta tue world, said Mr, Commissiouer Launbeer to a re- porter of the HEKALD—siippers, neatoess, cleanii- Hess, aud all; nothing Stained or soled but ma morality, und that was nothing to island people— anu bolmeud to aid bm or cheer him with a | word of hope. The ubsence of the imeud was keenly felt by Major, so we Commissioner boldly stepped into the pluce und took up chat position. 1ue Commissiouer asked Mujor to write out a Nistory of Nis lie on oulscap—nice, clean foolscup—in regular round hand, looking vat for blots, and hand it tohim. Mujer complied with the request, wrote & lony and touching bistery, and sent it to bis trend the Commissioner. ‘tne latier called the Doctor to tum ai botn wept copiousiy in coucert over tho hara strug: | bbe jor bread Major had put into his biography. | rom that feast of mvurning and flow ot sor- row the Voctor and Maj 1s irieud, the Commis- siover, arose different men. At toe same moment they Were luspired with a firm resuive, a sturdy determination to remain firm to tae pvor victim of his own unhappy headlong passions to | the last and the adberence with which they stuck to the resulution may be readily seen In the story of poor Kliza Collins, For tue mowent, however, Major bus thougut it ad- | viswvie to save his friends the trouble of hiding him and takea the joo iuto wis Own hands. No doubt tus (riends know were to flud hun, but he ly not visible to the ordinary eye, and tuat is a pity, ior there were several ver much mterested gentiemey looking jor hi yesterday, Tney seemed auxious to find mm and keep an eye upon him at aii events until the result of Eliza Collius’ preseut low state 13 satisiactorily ueternined, Luck would, however, seem tw have a finger in the Major pie, for Eiza was much im- proved yesterday. Her spirits brightened a little when sie ascertained the Worid was not all made of Majors and Islaou people wud that there was A GRKAL BYMVATHSTIC PUBLIC ourside of them which only wanted to be told the truch to make Up its mind and which er were this mi grooved: and the Doctor put ta | neid yesterday aiternoou, | conclusion otticers it Will nave some uty that your Kourd permits the case to rest, and it may ve come aquestion whether I shall not tee! obliged to bring the subject to the atiention of the District Atiorney im case Le {4 not otherwise officially intormed of 1t, In consequence of our conversation to-day, in which there was some apparent divergence of views I have Lit best to make this oummunication, as 00 of record, and 4 beg to invite your turtier cousideratios Of this subject in the hope that you will intorm the Health Department of the measures’ that you vrepose te t ake. have the honor to remain, yery respecttully, ane PE QUANDI ENG President of Board of Health, During a conversation with a representatuve of the HERALD uiter the meeting of the Board, Prov fessor Chandler said, “They had no business ta pa man about the temale patients. 1 don’t gee What Lhis :etlow had to do there at ail It wad none of his duty to go into the ward where that Wolkan Was, aod as Jor inviting him there she wag not in the condition of health that would lead ao; one tosuch & supposition, We were astonisit @t the Comuussivners of Charities and Correction treaung the matter as they did in the Oirst places aud that We should not be held responsible by the public was the reason we sent that leiter,’”” ACTION OF THE EMIGRATION COMMISSIONERS. a Arraignment of the Commissioners of Charities ana Correction and of Dis« trict Attorney Pnelps by Commissioner Lynch—Where Is the Secreti—The Giri Dying from Poison. Ata meeting of the Emigration Commissioners, Commissioner Lynch drew the attention of the Board to the terrible treatment which the girl Eliza Collins had re ceived while a paticnt under the care of tue Com missioners of Charities and Correction on Black well’s Isiand, The girl, he said, was sick of hives, and throuxzn the bluuderiug of the doctors Delong» ing tothe Charities and Correction Departmen, she was sent to the island as a smalipox patient, After belug twodaysin the emalipox hospital, Where she lay beside @ woman dying of the @ts. ease, the doctors—McDonald, &c.—came to the that the girl had not the dige ease, and she was then removed to a place called the Pavilion, a large open space used for purification of diseased persuns, where she lay alone. She bad one female nurse wno attended her, and occasionally @ man, the “Major,” used ta come in and light the gas, &c. Twice or threg times this man, seeing the girl alone, made inde, cent advances toward her, which she repulsed, Ths girl was twenty-two years of age and the vik an forty-four, an old libertine. The sick girl nad begged to be released from this place (tue pavilion), but was re:used. On the moraoing of the 1st of Oo tober this libertine, whom @ jary has acquitted, had, by force, intercourse with the young woman, and she was that day discharged irom the island, She then went to the butldiag of the Commiasion: ers of Obarities and Correction and saw Dr. Day, who examtaed her, and found that previous to the vitlain’s assault she had beea a virgid. Dr. Day, a& his own expense, sent the girl to the Presbyterian Hoepital, and reported the case tu tne Commige sioners of Uburities and Correction. ‘he girl was brougnt down to the office of the departmen' and soe there made an aiidavit, in the presence Mr. Kellock, setting forth the tacts of ‘rhe man, the ‘*Major,” ag be la called or as may D@ his name, Commissioner Laimbeer’s iriend, was then aeatior, Bnd be admitted toat he had had in- tercourse With the giri, adring that abe bad so ed him, ‘The Commissioners of Ubarities aud Vorrection, instead o: handing over the aftidavit to the District Attorney, piyeoa-holed it ior two weeks, in the meantime hi told Laimbeer’a friend, the ‘‘Major,"’ to resuine ls work, Dr, Day became shocked at this action, and on consulta. tion wit Dr. Chandier, both resolved to remon: atrate with the Commissioners of Charities and Uorrection, AS a result the trial ue Man took piace last Wi » we justice was not dove the gir. The District Attorney did not do his duty, whether from incompetency or disinclination he (Mr. Lynch) coula not “uy. ‘The case of the was really intrusted to Mr. Lyons. He (Mr uch) aud the Castle Garden detective, Mr, nealy, had supplied many puints to tne Districs Attorney for crogs-examinstion, but that oficial absuiutely relused to make use or them. The Dis trict Attorney Jailed utterly to do his duty. After the case Was proven fer the provecation @ nurse Was brougat Ou the stand, who testitied glibly @ lot of stuf as to the giri’s soliciting this orderiy. ‘fhe District Attorney woulu not ask any questions us to the cbaracter oi this Witvess. But the truta Was this Wituess Was @ convict—for what he knew not. No question was asked as to the previous history 1 the villuin who committed this crime. Tue District Atvorney asked no material questions. The miserable littie dried up libertine himself, with some assurance oi conidence, ad- mitied the crime, Dr. Kercnum, who had kuow® tus fellow tor six weeks, vouched for his charac ter, and Dr. McDonald, wno did not know, after e turee duys’ diagnosis, the ailference vetween smullpox and-nives, vid nearly a8 mach, Mr. Latme beer, was Also in court to give testimony in hig frieud’s benait When Mr. Lynca had got through, Mr. Stephene gon (aa @ macter of course) resused to agree with Mr. Lynch, He had reason to know that toinga were alto.ether diverent and that the “Major” wag pretty neariy a vicum or a hero, Mr. Stepnenson ad: Vauced some litile teconical points 10 lavor of the ajor’? whic were easily squeiched by Mr, Lynch, on the ground that girls to Waom improper advances liad been Made, provided the girlie were tuemselves virtuvus, Were Dot in the it of Purading the same, Mr, Stephenson did not quite wee it in that light, but he said Nothing, Mr, Lyncnturther remarked what, be said, he had forgotten, that i¢ seemed to bim Very str: that at the request Of the prosecution turee o1 orjminal twelve Jurors at the trial should have been Withdrawo. He then statea that when the girl heard that the verdict ,of the jury had ac quitted the prisoner, she satd in Court, “Oh, that makes me pulity.”” Next day the unfortunate woe nieu, buving spent the nightia & boarding bouse jo Bond street, visiced the house of tne Sisters of Mercy in Honston street, wher When one of the Sisters came to her im the ust Way of giving consolation, she exclaimed, “& woman swore lalsely und ue’s wequitted.) yeeti & kina of stupor visible in the girt’s face, the Stal asked her li she lad taken anything, and sne re piled, “Lt have taken poison.” Mr. Stephenson here syain made some fow Te Marks rather against the girl than tn favor of the accused, but was quieted by the eee one Mr. Lynon that the vnly one va the island w had sous the girl a service was the Protestants minister, ® result of the discussion & committee three was appoiuted, sonst Ee Sotuacs wpa stepuenson, to 1 te toe var Ryu analy sancunced that the ata Wad | ering”