The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-02-27

statistical account Of the expOrtg tmpOFs proapocks
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OF the Little Giant Tor Chicago claims him q hsr
own. Yours, Mr.. Editor, respectfully, B.
Our Rhode ISland Correspondence.
Providence, Feb. %. 1854.
The Legislature and the Roiroads-Ihe Ststs
Debt-Daby Shoe, &c.
II Ia said that the Legislature of this State viii I'D
journ on Saturday next. What Of it? It has done
nothing, and has nothing to do. The City Council
of Providence is quite as important body. Thii
Legislature meets 50 often that ito sessions are moi
worth chronicling to anybody beyond the limits o.
Providence Plantations" It met three several
times last year to nay knowledge. Having taken IN
early start now, and meeting again next May II haa
good start for the year,
A bill Of some importance has been several weeks
before the H0use-having passed the Senate, where
1t originated by two to oneor the better control Of
railroad companies. II seems that al OF these com
panies in the State have got into IN unendng snar
The people prove that they show avortism in taking
and delivering freight; that when goods are da-
mayed by them they Cypress the owner BY making
him first pay freight, il no damage had been done,
and then get his money in the best way that he
BY law suit. They prove that the rate Of freight
and passage Is not uniform, and that the free
tickets granted will enable them to control
any election in the State. 1t is said that at one time
there were above three thousand gratuitous tickets
on the StoniDgton Railroad alone. Moreover, when
this road was chartered one provision expressly re-
quired that citizens of Rhode Island should always
be carried at the same rates as through passengers
This Jaw is wholly disregarded and the departure has
become oppressive they say. Tickets from this city
to New York were once one dollar only; but from
Kingston, between Providence and Ssonington, they
were two and three fourths dollars. If Kingsto-
MAN sent to Providence and purchased q cheap
ticket getting on the cars at his home he was not
permitted to it. On the Worcester road it costs
one dollar per ton to send coal to WoonsOcket four
teen miles; while it is but one dollar and fourteen
cents to Worcester, fortytwo miles. The bill before
the Legislature provided that ten cents per ton
should be allowed for loading and unloading coal,
and that the cars should take it at specified uni
form rate per mile. &c. also, with fares II Is said
to cost more to come from Worcester to Woonsoeket
than to Providence.
The bill was to day as good as indefinitely post.
poned. It was referred to the Railroad Com
missioners of the State, who are to report
bill for the removal Of those grievances at the next
session. il they deem it necessary. Most OF the five
commissioners are opposed to the bill hence thus
ends months legislation, like Ungas, the last
OF the M0neganS.
had almost forgot that the Legislature had been
amusing itself with an old proposition to pay hum
bug claim called the State debt" It seems that in
1895 State passed the Force act, which required
that all rev pulmonary claims should be presented i'm
mediately or forfeited. Many persons, supposing
this the last opportunity to get cent, settled with
the State by getting about six cents on the dollar.
Yet some forty thousand dollars not presented
forward and settled these remaining $4,000. Those
who had compromised with the State, finding them
selves cut of from par settlement with the general
government now applied to the State and procured
at cheap by the State, the condition that
the certificates thus re-issued should never again be
presented to the State, but solely 10 the United
States. 1t seems, however, that the national funds
about that time became exhausted, and that
the certificates were never redeemed. They
now, with accumulated interest, amount to about
$780, and are again urged on the State for pay
ment, minus only the sum formerly paid. The
State has expended far more than the claim in dis
cussing the subject and will yet be forced to pay,
Just to abate the nuisance.
This morning at breakfast hearing general dis
cussion relative to the "baby show" / endeavored
to learn what this , new thing under heaven might
Festival, at the Universast church, this evening;
and after other things, closed with large letters
"a premium Of 81, and a crown viii be given
to the prettiest boy under five years Of age that
shall be offered for competition"
was perfectly astonished, and supposed it q bur-
lesaue, until this evening" when heard that itjhad
actually occurred, and that baby about four years
old had been taken to the stand and crowned, with
big speech.
This is certainly the most ridiculous farce that
ever saw perpetrated by church. 1t would be bad
enough in brothel, where the sensibilities were
beyond being shocked; but among civilized people,
in Rhode Island in New England assumes an air 50
revolving and disgusting to me as to seem unworthy
of ridicule. 1t simply bid to the most groveling
tastes Of the gross and uneducated I had thought
hlA kAsv.n ~rckIn
have an irresistible constitutional dscacy and semi
physical adherence of such, simply less than indie
cent exposure" that would drive her from such a
to hide her head in shame And what the fathers
of the church propose by it puzzles me. Suppose
that they found dozen ugly babies, as must needs
be the case, for every mother thinks her baby hand
some, and would hence have it on hand-whst
would they recommend in such case 2 Now, can
see some propriety in the Mormons holding such
cattle show, and would thiSk it matter ofcourse
/ could even tolerate the Catholic church doing so
if one twentieth the stories told about some Of the
functionares be true but how the Universalists in
tend mendiDg the matter, that's what can't under.
stand. KNICKERBoCKH.
MURDER IN CINcINNArI.-A young lad was yes
terdsy afternoon about five O'Clock, trandlng hoop
along what is known as . Rat Row. between Wal
nut and Vine streets. A man was passing ct the
time and the hoop rolling against him, he kicked 1t
upon side, when the boy, in his atttmpt to reco
yer it, fell Crying, he went into the house Of his
1atner, Jonn Nc Gam, VINO inquired OF the man why
he had knocked his boy down. The man replied that
the boy fell by accident Upon which McCann said
that he was q liar and struck him heavy blow In
the eye An unfortunate person named Aacanally-
as we understood the name-interfered to prevent
further violence, and received blow from McCann.
The man whom Mccain first attacked then endea-
vored to make his escape but caught hold OF by
a man named Thomas Smith, and in the meantime
Macanally, again interfering to prevent mischief,
was stabbed in the side by McCann. He ran about
half q square and then fell, fanting from loss of
blood. Before medical assistance could be procured
he expired Cincinnati Columbian, FEB "a.
MORE VICTIMS or THE X ATE KsARHKY.-Wm.J
Stewart, another of the victims of the Kate Kearny,
died yesterday morning at the Sisters Hospital.
reside Since writing the above we have learned
hat Nv I r.