Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1839-09-16


The clsse Of the Camp Meeting
We rive in another column, the closing scenes OF
one Of the most remarkable Camp Meetings that ever
took place in this country The anxiety oft pub
lie 10 peruse these sketches has been int In
order 10 CRAFTY their audabe curiosity we SHALL IN
sfew DAYS. publish an exclusive edition, containing
al the sketches, with the engraving Of the ground
At Sing Sing to the number Of fifty thousand copies
for circulation over the whole Christian world, in
Europe and America. 1t will do good. In these
Camp meetings there is much good and evil mixed
together As Christian Sect there is none who pos
sess genuine piety moral worth, pure religion
and correct scrptural views, than the Methodists.
The absurditss committed by many Of the weak en-
thusasts at Sing Sing not sanctioned by enligh
ened Methodsts-Just the reverse. Another great
reformation is at hand. Watch the day and the
hour.
The BANKS AND THE MERcHANTs.-The conduct
Of the banks is aud exciting the hostility
Of the commercial interest. The safety fund notes
were suddenly refused, Saturday, by every inst-
tuition; and by this capricous conduct the brokers
had an opportunity Of shaving on such paper at the
rate Of from six to eight ten per cent discount
How is thisl Are the banks in league with the
brokersl Why do they not make permanent arrange
time 10 call public meeting on the subject? These
are fine times for the brokers.
The Invesiiga,ion sing sang State Prison
The labors Of the Senatorial Committee appointed
to investigate the transactions at the State prison
al Sing Sing during the last four years, have been
brought 10 a close. The mountain has labored and
brought forth All the horrible disclosures"
and unparalleled suflerings that several sensecss
sc,tx lang hraxU IpU ahO
have all ended in smoke. We say this, not because
some blockheads belonging to the whig party have
been raising great cutlery against the agents and
keepers Of the prison; nor because certain equally
great blockheaas belonging to the locofoco party,
have raised great cry in favor of the Keepers
But we saw so because such is the truth. The in
vestigaton has amounted TO nothing, SO far as the
attempt 10 substantiate any charge of illegal con-
due, on the part ofthe keepers.
The fact is, that the keepers have committed no
crime for which they should have been punished,
nor any thing to warrant even their dismissal; ex-
ceptin an stance two years back, the part Of
an assistant keeper who was discharged We have
been put in possession of the whole of the evidence
addsced in the case and are compelled to admit that
the CLIQUE who eudeavored to make political capital
OUT Of this affair new made a miserable fail.
ure. All the old claptraps Of party warfare were
resorted TO- such as unfortunate victims" fend- |
ish barbarity," outrageous abuses" iron handed
oppres son'' and so on, but wthsut effect. The on
ly thing proved, amongst all the charges made was
that the keepers used the cat occasionally to og the
refractory coRvicts; and the committee admitted
that il was impossible 10 get along with so rough and
hardened class of men, without Jogging OCCASION
ally.
The principal charge was deficiency of food but
n I'll nd L wa cd
that the food of all the convicts was regularly
weighed and consisted Of full sized ratons Of eight
and ten pounds per day each. We examined all the
food. and found il good and wholesome; and il was
proved ON oath, that il had always been equally so
under the present management. The charge Of cru
city 10 the females is equally malicious and unfoand.
ed There not single case OF cruelty to wo-
man sGbstantated or even one instance oil unneces-
sary severity exercised. The female department Is
abcautful and comfortable building the side Of
hill; the matron is a highly accomplished and amia-
bic lady, named Bard, and nothing can exceed the
order neaness, and apparent comfort manifested by
the female convicts and the interior OF their prison
The cruel case, where it was said 400 lashes had
been given TO one man, was totally disproved; and
the individual charged with that act was shown TO
have never exceeded 40 iashes at time, and never
70 have drawn blood in any instance. lie was fully
10 have been the most cruel Of any. And so II was
with all the other charges. In fact, such bad been
the violence and virulcnce with which the accuss
tons had been pushed that even the warmest friends
OF the keepers thought that there must be at least
some grounds for the charges, and were equally As
much a.tonished at the result were the wing mem
bers &c the investigation.
we,are the last in the world to screen public Of
Gcer from censure il he does wrong. We are the
last 20 advocate cruelty or unnecessary severity TO
poor wretch imprisoned even for crime. Bat here
are set OF 800 Of the greatest desperadoes in the
known world; villains Of the deepest dye from all
quarters OF the habable globe; and only or ) men
10 control them They have to keep up the strcte.t
possible discipline, or they could do nothing with
the convicts They have done this and no more |;
and there are numerous instances Of men having
served out their time with obedience TO the rules,
who have never been punished, and who have be-
come completely reformed characters BY this dis
cipline And the truth is that this movement in or
der to make political capital FOR the next election, Is
another Of those gross bunders that so frequent
with 70 the clique who seek TO control the wing party
in this city and state.
FAsuIoSABLr DEPARTURr.-The Countess OF
A. II