The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-06-07
Amusing, If not Instructive.

The Richmond Tines OF the 9th instant has On edi-
torial that we republish below, and which has more
point In regard to the present social condition the
Unreconstructed States In peculiar and important
point Of view, than anything we have seen:
Mr. Moore, the learned historian whose merciless
exposure OF the revolving and hdeous features of slave
~ as 1t existed and practced in New England for
an, snd quarter has given general satisfaction
aa9 lhe1hausuble mine in which many eager workers
"iH MaS, soon mp pc ,eieI aieeIving and exploring
[es OF New England cruelty bsrbarity and heartIess
ness are now brought the surface almost every day.
Mrs. Ann B. Stephens, whose intensely Sensational
and meo-dramatic romances are eagerly read by the
samirsrs @ Of sylvanus Cobb. Reynolds and Ned Bunt
moore gave to Massachusetts Nobody ever suspected
Ihal Mrs Stephens novels historical and actually
pnIhadelphia paper "clain,ing that what seemed i'm
and exaggerated In her very latest bottle OF
Inc three points which criticism has challenged as
[p are first that at the close Of the last
GER convicted guilty in the second degree and SEN
fenced 70 sit upon galows erected the public
her neck and after that confined in the Stale Prison
81 Sts sss9ary mines for eight years; second that the
copper mines and that the prisoners had 10 work out
terms Of confinement in these mines third that
to the oVens sra WAS S which was close
which, when heated while the baking was going on re.
fract:ry prisoners we're thrust in extreme cases.
The reply to the first Of these three points ia hstA.
cal aLd strictly true that time between 1915 and
1920 very young woman, convicted at New Haven of
murder In the second degree, wan sentenced to i'm.
prisonment, preceded by sitting upon public gallows
on the public green square Of that city with halter
around her neck for one hour; that this punishment
was In every respect carried out in the presence Of
multitude of witnesses. many Of whom are now living
On the second point Mrs. Stephens alleges that Sims
bury copper mines "were used State prison until
about the year 1880. when the present structure at
Weathershed completely" that this prison is now
ruin but visited in 1923 Mrs. Stephens father
who spent day in examining It, and that her descrip
ton Of the prisoners descending by one. through
narrow trap to their sleeping places in the black depths
OF the mine. is "word for word as he described the
scene to her many time in alter years."
As to this third point, Mrs Stephens says that Ave
years ago. when the idea OF writing her book came into
her mind she sent relative to examine this abandoned
prison, who described 1t to her 1t then stood and
doubtless stands, "the mines In which the prison
ers 8lep the where bread baked CLOSE 10
1t the sweating which used for punishment In
extreme cases." ... .. =.
The New York Police Gazette also gives the following
2s the bill of criminal fare the Hub Of Creation" fol
the past week. It is sad catalogue OF sorrow and
death . ,t
l. Thos Moran was tried and sentenced to be hanged
for. the murder Of his mistress. ....
2. John Gallagher, murderer, gets Off with ter
years imprisonment, and Expresses surprise that h
was not hanged"
g. Hayan Barnard, the keeper of the Aims House. de
bauches tho deaf and dumb paupers entrusted to hi
caro-. '., =
4. George Nickerson ruins his own daughter n
mention is made Of the ordinary criminal docket.