New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-05-20
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Sing Sing Prison.


Sing Sing Prison.
The bill Just passed for the relief Of this Prison
appropriates $4,000 to pay the debts already in
cured So 900 to defray the expenses of bringing
into the Prison the Cro,on water; $4,000 for re.
pairs $4,000 for the purpose Of building shops and
completing the walls of the Prison. The same act
also provides that children born of convcis in the
Female Prison may be sent to the Poor House in
the County of Westchester and there supported on
such terms as may be agreed upon between the In
spectors OF the Prison and the Commissioners Of the
Poor-the expenses TO be paid out of the funds OF
the Prison. Courts are required when passing SEN
tence upon prisoners TO cause convenient inquiry to
be made into their or business instead OF
relying, heretofore, upon the unsupported oath OF
the prisoner himself; and if convict has been In
State Prison before, he may be employed in the
same kind OF labor in which he was employed du-
ring such imprisonment, without reference to the
certificate, of the Judge, if the Agent shall deem
such CO best for the interests Of the State The
restrictions in relation to mechanical labor imposed
by the act of s4e areremoved far as they relate 10
the Female Prison. These provisions are such as
will me ct with very general concurrence.
The bill which originated in the Assembly and
which was cunningy designed to effect the removal
of the present intelligent Board of Inspectors and
bring The Prison under the control OF the
small Loco. Foco politicians in land about Sing Sing
was defeated. 1, shorn Of its principal feature
that relating to the Board of Iaspectors-before its
passage through the House, when its friends sud-
denly abated their zeal in lis behalf and did not
even call it up in the Senate. 1t made show OF
economy in the reduction OF sa!ares, but this was
only trick of men who sought thereby to get
chance to fleece the Prison by selling their goods by
wholesale at the highest retail prices. Large sums
have been sacrificed in this way in past years, which
might and ought to have been saved TO the State by
purchases in the city a, wholesale prices The old
law requiring majority Of the Inspectors to live in
Sing Sing nimical TO the interests of the State
becau Sc it placed the Prison in the hands of local
clique who ruled it for their own personal advan.
tage. The law as it now stands leaves the Govern
or at liberty to nominate for Inspectors of high
chars cter and standing, whose regard for the nte
rests of the State is paramount TO sill local considera
tons, Under the pretence Of lessenng the travel.
ing fees Of the Inspectors it was proposed TO reduce
the number of the Board from FIVE TO three and re-
quile them all to reside within fifteen miles OF the
Prison This, for the reason above stated, would
have been saving at the Spite and wasting at the
burg and it is fortunate, both for the pecuniary and
me raj interests Of the Prison that the bill was de-
feaaed. Far better would it be, both on the score
of economy and discipline to exclude all residents
of Sing Sing. or even of Westchester County, from
the, Board than that i, should be composed exclu.
sively of men residing there and liable to be sway
ed by local combinations.
| E GopLovE S. ORTIZ, nominated some time
since by the Wings of Indiana for Lieut. Governor,
has declined being candidate. Il is said that be
he's taken this step. from the conviction, that If he
/ were to run for the office, he would lose large
number Of Wing votes on account OF his having
voted in the last Legislature against the bill for the
arran cement and final liquidation of the public debt
/! MAlSE-O Tciol-The official count Of the votes
cast for Governor al the late election shows the fol-
lowing renult;
H. J. Anderson D..3i7ll S.Fessesden (Ab).... s.es7
T. II. Morse (whis) 6,34l Scattering. ...... &SS
Anderson's majority.. sass
! Thirty-Three Guns for Old Westchester. Z
/ WEsrcHssTxS. Tuesday, O'Clock P. NJ
| One Of the most brilliant achievements was OBJ
tanned by the Washington yeomanry of Westches-
ter to-day Tuesday, Notwithstanding the most de-
sermned and bitter opposition from Fort Schuyler
and The surrounding rum holes by which our town
is infested. But thank God the friends of the Tenn
perance csuee came forward and rallied around the
standard of Temperance and succeeded in gaining
majority of 30 over the defenders of the demon Al
cohol All hail for old WEsrcaEsrxR
P The Braoslya Eagle is welcome to ell the
capital can make by talking Of paragraph which we
published FROM the Newoeans Picayuae giving that pa.
per an credit, The TSsae story only sixteen men
going from Galveston, &c.
F-Itis said that there is an unusually large nun,
Der of persons in the of the City of New
Orleans with ,heir IN sings. The Picayune won
dess If the drafting has any thing 10 do with 3.
n Gov. WRIGHT has gone to his former resi-
dsnce In ST Lawrence Co. but expects to return pre-
Nioas 70 the meeting of the Convention.
6 We ara indebted TO Hons. John Davis end
VIM l. Dayton. Of the Q. 8, Senate, for valuable Pub
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