The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-08-29
Correspondence Of the Republic.
New YoaK, August IL D. m.
THE HUNG ARIAS MEETING

NEW York, August 27-4 p. m.
THE HUNGARIAN MEETING.
The great topic Of to-day is the Hungarian meet
ing, which is just about 10 assemble in the Park IL
will be a grand demonstration. Our foreign popu-
ation is crowding To the place of gathering in hun
dreds and thousands. Flags are floating from the
City Hall and the hotels, and professions form
ing 10 march 10 the Park and Join the patriotic
throng. good deal Of rivalry has sprung up b,
tween the leaders of both political parties here in
reference To their share in the movement and thus
another exciting element is introduced which will
swell the numbers of the assembage, and add To its
enthusiasm.
Three stands are erected in front of the CITY Hall
The central and main one is to be occupied by those
citizens whose native language is English that
next to Broadway by French and ltalians and that
next to Chatham street by Germans, Poles, and
Hungarians.
Among the gentlemen who have consented to act
as officers of the meeting Governor Young,
General Avezzana ex- Mayor Havemeyer ex- Mayor
Mickle, Mayor Brady, J. Philips Phenix, esq,
Robert Emmett, esq, JonathanI. Coddington, esq
NJ Van Setback, esq, Moses H. Grinnell, esq.
Thomas O'Connor, esq, N. b. Blunt, esq, together
with others Of our most eminent citizens.
| The native Hungarians have elected four delegates
TO represent them. Mr.. s. Ludvigh is their chosen
orator. Several military companies, among them
the montgomery Guards" fine Irish company.
have volunteered 10 appear in uniform and a Dor.
ton of the Hungarians will attend in their national
costume. Altogether the occasion promises to be
one of unusual interest.
! STATE PRISON REFORM
curious trial has been commenced in the SUI
premc court OF this State, arising Of an appca-
| ton for writ OF mandamlis growing out Of a
controversy between the inspectors Of State prisons
and the New York Prison Association, as to the
right OF the latter to converse in private with the
| prisoners.
The petition sets forth that Mr.. Isaac Hopper and
| DR.. John Russ, an authorized committee Of the as
sociation were DESTROYS, in June last of visiting the
State prison at Sing Sing, and made application to
MIR. Porter the warden, to that effect, but that the
warden refused such permission, unless they per-
United an officer OF the prison to accompany them
| IN their interviews with the prisoners. As this
would be abrdgng the privileges and usefulness of
the society, they declined, and now ask this court
| for mandamus, requiring the said warden to per-
mt the visits OF the committees of the association
according to the meaning of the act.
The warden, in his return, denied that he refused
such permission. In his affidavit he says that he is
employed by the inspectors Of State prisons; that
last year the inspectors had under consideration the
claim OF the Prison Association to visit and converse
with the prisoners in secret and to the con-
clusion that the association had just right to such
course, and that it would endanger the discipline
and safety OF the prison. and that in future visits
| they must be accompanied through the prison by
| the Warden, or some officer appointed by him for
that purpose; that the committee, in the present
instance, calling, he invited them to visit it, he ac-
| companying them, which they declined; they, how
ever, visited the female department, not in the in
| terror OF the building, and expressed themselves
much gratifed with the order and discipline &c.
Mr.. X. Reed, for the association, commended that
1t had right, through its committees to visit and
converse with the prisoners, without the warden or
one OF his officers being present, the visits would
| be useless, as a prisoner knew some means would
afterwards be found to punish him or her were they
| TO disclose any grievance to the committees that
| the claim OF having an officer present made at
no prison but that Of Sing Sing, and that Mr. Wells,
| after having been warden, and made an inspector
OF prisons, was opposed to them; that he (Mr r. }
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prisons, has seen the necessity of this power given
| to the association. Among other cases which had
come under his observation, at the prison
IN Clinton county, where prisoner had been kept
locked pin his cell for four months and he under
stood his offence to have been that he disclosed the
fact that of the officers employed the convicts
to make shoes and clothing for his family; he after
wards understood that the prisoner was bad man,
but the inducement for locking him up was appa-
| rently that which had been stated
Mr.. Lockwood, in opposition, said the order of
the inspectors applied to all the prisons in the State
that at Sing Sing there are seven hundred prisoners,
the most desperate persons that could be found in
the nation, with but few persons TO guard them;
| and on the visits of the committee there is a great
commotion among them, and almost the idea of a
general Jail delivery. He commended that the right
OF conversation with prisoners without the presence
OF am officer, did not apply to persons under sen
tence in State prison also, that the application for
Mandamus, in the present case, defective in
not setting forth all the facts, &c.
The court seemed TO entertain an impression that
the association should have traversed the return,
and the case be submitted to jury. The papers,
| however, were taken for advisement
| This is quite interesting case and the result
will be looked for with some anxiety.
HEALTH OF THE CITY.
| The deaths by cholera only 233 for the last
week, which is decrease Of l56 on the preceding
| week, when the deaths reported were $50. The to-
tai deaths for the last week TAG; for the pre-
ceding week 96s-which is decrease of 2l9.
The following table shows the proportion be-
tween the general mortality and the deaths by dis
eases OF the bowels, including cholera: