New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-17
. FROM BOSTON.


sBeA' "a N 49, cur OF nNe years oSo shcic
Se1e stores 70 AZ disadvantage Of the SaPern-
tendept wbo>e oame do not nov call to mind,
asd TIE result was his discharge or resignation.
When Mr.. S.arr of Worcester was placed al the
bead o. tho institution public cen6denoe was re,
stored. Then came the great fire, which des'royea
large part of the buildings. The LEGISLATURE! uu
der lhe Governors advice, then cut down ,Ile 'ns
sshen by establishing Naa'ica! Branch me Ia
csss of which Is as We. uncertain. qnaf,ei oe
between the C,orerpor and Council on one Sue suu
he Truste % on the other. 10 relation 70 'ne Pa.
Of calpr' A hv the former, without consuming inc
latter TO ak tisce last Winter, ana cIeNeu , sn
IN feehp q Now o COMMITTEES OF TIE Cou''c1, Con.
sitting ii Lieut. Gov; Ir.sa aha 'SSsssa -.
Slepe r and J. NJ. Churchh have Puohsaea TO
rar, A., which they condemn in the severest TEL ma
Ia ~ oSct of the Superintendent In suelectne boys
20 so Asry Imprisonment and OF the lrusttes n noe
lest Ac 20 cosly scrutlnze ,he anais o' tne schoo
and thew recommend entire reoreaIizslcn on
tbe peyernmept Their statement Is substantially I
Sat several bows for venial" Ofenses, have been
imprisoned for terms Of two, three, and even i"ur
uss,ths in unyentlaiea unhghted cells and PORTIONS
vf H. time hap6cutf-d aud fed bread and water;
ssa that no particular pains we're taken ~ ascei,
t.is whether they were willing to accept mel .! aug
behave themselves better. The Trustees, through
gae Hon. Simon Brown, formerly Lieut. -GoVernor,
,onise A statement in few days, and think u VIII
ann on, that the members of the Council have been
N soa degree governed by their III fleeing toward me
-rss,ets growing out OF the old quarrel which hnve
paeniianed aud that they have not scrullnzed WIKI
.,eiernt care the statements of the bOys RON whom
shev derived most of the information winch they
sS.ss..5;aa in their report Several articles have
speeared In The Advertiser and other papers tee
h,ent of which II 10 break the force oil the report;
ans they have partially succeeded ana people are
nov ling 10 wait for further Developments one
of III, AdrcrttseT's spondents describes visit
nj he
saw light BOYS who bad rtcited more than two th0u
.ana verses of the Bible during one quarter, aud
one had committed TO memory over aItcca
thousand rerses in year" enough to WIN org
:. nreu,ium Bible and beat all the other Sabbath
''School BOYS and girls in the State. am sur
r;sea that these facts were not adduced by the
committee of the Council as evidences OF cruelty.
Tb, ba,s should at least have had their choice be-.
+x,sl ,he I6, OO0 verses and the handouts and
..reaA sad water.
T.. s,rr., he above was written the reply Of the
s. -; has been published, and | am confirmed in
impression that the Committee OF the Council
ave been altogether too fast. The Trustees state
hat the cases of solitary imprisonment have been
{ fpw, and for aggravated instead OF Vema
ouenses; that the cells were well ventilated and
that the health of the prisoners did not suffer- that
tbe manacles were imposed solely because there
was no other way of keeping the boys in conine-
rpeut the cells being of plank and merely tempo
rary to supply those which had been burned IN the
great fires that the Trustees and the superintendent
have been condemned without hearing, ana chlehy
on the testimony of the culprits themselves. The
reply is signed BY Farley Hammond of Worcester,
Simon Brown and Henry w. Cushman, both OF
whom have held the Office of Lieutenant Governor;
Thomas A. Greene of w-BediOrd josiah Ii.
Temple of birmingham, JudsOn ). Brown OF Fitch
burg, and Theodore Lyman, a son, believe, OF the
founder Of the school, 1t is at any rate sufficiently
strong TO counterfeit the charges of the Council and
TO render it incumbent upon that body to bring fur
ther proofs OF withdraw from the field. There Is
no danger that the people will tolerate cruelty in
any OF the officers of their correctional Institutions;
but hasty judgments and misrepresentation,
growing out of previous quarrels, will not have
much weight with them. There was similar ex-
ctement last Winter over some alleged abuses at
the East Cambridge House of Correction, but the
accused persons exculpated by the Legislature.
The kidnapping of the son of Mr.. Henry g. Rice,
formerly of Baltimore, by of the myrmidOns of
the Thorndike family, excited some attention for
few days, but the feeling has apparently died away
There are even apoogists for the act who say it |
was no abduction, no kidnapping, because the boy |
(who had obtained the mature age of nine years. |
had in court expressed preference for his mothers
society instead Of his fathers. Sugar-piums, loLy-
pop, fishing rods and Shetland ponies might have |
been the inducements for that expression. Judge |
Bgelow, before whom the case was tried, gave the
case full hearing and decided that it was for the
good of the boy that his father should have exclu
sive control over him. He is accordingly taken |
back to Nahsnt and Mr.. Amos Nickerson and two |
other ruffians proceed to that place, seize and
threaten the master of the school which he was |
attending, and carry him Off Nickerson is arrested
and is identified but he finds bail in the OF
ten thousand dollars, his bOndsman being MIR. Hill |
dreth the Postmaster of Lowell, brOther-in-law of
Mr. Butler, counsel in the case. Of course every
body knows who runs the risk, OF furnishes the |
money
Mr.. Butler, by the way, made very telling |
speech against Douglas at Lowell on Friday night |
last. Prudently avoiding any attempt to vindicate
his own consistency, be poured out upon his enc |
mics stream of well-deserved ridicule and ex- |
posed the weak points in Douglas and johnson with |
good deal of skill and power. He showed that |
they were in no sense regular candidates; that |
johnson was an enemy of free labor, and in favor
of ownership of the labOrer by the capitalist; and |
that Douglas was the worst and most mischievOus |
of agitatOrs, while pretending TO be DESTROYS OF put
ting down all agitation He denounced the repeal |
Of the Missouri Compromise; probably the law OF |
1920 was unconstitutional, but what then; the |
Supreme Court would soon have found that out, and
would have settled the question without the agita-
ton which had conyulsed the country and divided |
the Democratic party. He stated that Douglass
withdrawal at Cincinnati, in 1885, of which he has
boosted as a specimen of his magnanimty, was
trick. On the 9Th of June an agreement was made
between the friends of Douglas (whO had received
63 votes) and Pierce (whO had received 75) to con-
centrate on Douglas and continue the contest unta
compromise candidate could be brought forward
But no sooner did Douglas get l22 votes, than
fraudulent dispatch was produced, puIportng to be
from him, dated the 4th, withdrawing his name; |
and he thus bad the glory of being the only com
peting candidate-Pierce being out of the ring. |
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