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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-15
BOARD OF AUDIT.
Weekly Meeting Of the Board
Yesterday.
IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS REsclNDEpa
Large Payments Ordered to the Board Of CharYs
ties and Correction-Long List Of Claims
from the Department Of Public
Works and the Gas Companisa

The Board Of Audit held its weekly meeting yes
terday. In the ONCE OF the County Auditor. rh4
Comptroller presided. There was smaller attend@
ance OF the public than usual. Il
Mr.. r. 8. SToRRs, CLERK to tho Board, read the
minutes Of the last meeting. which were approveds
The Board adopted the followtng:- 4
Resolved That the resolution adopted March loA RI
gpectin9 the claims OF the OIL
Health for services for the September OCTOBER
November and December, 1871 be same n hereby
rescnded and annuo this advised counseG
that there lawful authority existing for The
the expressed In said resolution -
A resolution was adopted resembling the rssolus
ton allowing william A. Beach 5000 Is counael
fees III the case OF Daniel d. C0nover and Others.
SUBMITTED CLAIMS. r-tNtT
The following claims were allowed and ordered to
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-15
COURT Of GENERAL SESSIONS.
Before Recorder Hackett.

Sentences In Mnnslaughter Cases-A House.
breaker Sent to Sing Sing Prison for Ten
Wanna
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-03-23

Pursuant toinstructi0ns from the Executive
Committee Of the National Labor Reform Par
ty, Of the State ofPennsylvania, notice Is here
BY gwen that = ConyentiOn Of the National La
Dor Reform Party win Be held in the city Of
Wilhamsport, State of Pennsylvania, on Tues
day, the 9Th day Of May, 1877, for the purpose
Of nominating candidates for Governor, Judge
Of the supreme Court, and should the Legs
lature 80 Determined for Auditor General, and
Delegates st large 70 the Constitutional Con
venti0n, and also, TO form an electoral ticket
The representation in the Convention viii be
equal m number to both branches Of the leg
islature. Delegates must have the certificate
q the Chairman and Secretary appointing, and
alsO the endorsement Of the Executive Of their
respective districts, and give proof that they
endorse the principles and purposes of the
National Labor Reform Party. Delegates con
ing from districts where no organization has
been formed will be subject to the action OF
the Convention when organized Delegates
will Immediately notify the Secretary Of their
appointment. and the district they represent
Nv order Of the Executive Committee
THOs. H. GREEvY, Secy.
WILLIANsPoET, Pa
JoHx SNEY, State Executive
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-03-23
Miscellaneous Items.

Ii is estimated that from So, 600 to 81, 900
persons marched in the st. Patricks pro-
cessien in New York.
GENERAL David L. Stanton, Collector of
the Fifth Maryland District, has been ar
rested and deposed from his position,
charged with being defaulter in . sum
ranging from twenty to thirty thousand
dollars.
A BILL for the abolition of capital pun
ishment haa been introduced in the British
House of Commons. There has existed
in London for several years past . society
having for its object this change in the
criminal law.
CoAsr LINE OF NORTH AMERICA There
are %, 969 miles of sea coast, and in South
America, 6,012 Europe has only 19, 625 /;
Africa, 1851 Asia, 50, 1887 Australia,
8,947.
The proportion of sea-coast to surface in
North America il one mile to 265 square
miles in South America, one mile to 4S4
square miles IN Europe, one mile to 1872
square miles; in Africa, one mile 895 square
miles in Asia, one to 469, and in Australia,
one 10 3S2. These are measurements worth
mentioning for future reference.
THE ship Great Republic, after long,
eventful and useful career, has gone to the
bottom Of the ocean. She was employed
by the Americans ON the mission Of carry
ing food to the distressed people of ireland
during the famine, and has sailed alternate
ly Under the American and English flags.
Her loss is great one, but happily no hu-
man beings persisted with her.
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fully discharged tho duty imposed npon
them,) we must confess, with these odds
against ms, il ID surprisinG that even We Rot
the bin through ut all, a. Il exceeds our ex-
pectations and il . stepping stone for the
future, and il our minsrs need any addition,
which We think il necessary, let them 20 70
work nextfsll and elect men from their
own ranks, men who have a practical
knowledge Of local mines and mining-if
their grammar and language are asacouth.
their hands rough and hard BY the use Of
thepick, andtheir faces marked and Scared
with the Black Diamond-with all that We
think they can display degree of intelh-
gence and demonstrate facts without fear Of
contradiction from lawyers and petifoge Q.
Until tins ~ done We can never expect
justice.
We Aiso desire 10 call the attention of
Mr.. James, a. Secretary Of State Council
10 the resolution reported to have passed
ut tho State convention, held in Springfield,
10 the infect that the names al the officers
of the State Council should be advertised
in the advocate Ifit passed, 70 report
Why not do it
The Labor Reform candidates seem To
take well around here, and with an effort
on the part Of workingmen they will be
triumphantly elected. Let every working
man aet M committee Of one TO bring the
mater befOre the public, and we think the
Executive Committee have done well 10 es-
tablish their headquarters at Washington,
for the purpose Of Issuing documents eH-
planning the principles to the country
Hoping their efforts will be grand success
Fraternally yours,
REFoRNER
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-03-23
Raliahla InGnranca.

The Globe Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, Of Nos. 258 and EGO Broadway, cor
ner Of Warren street, New York, is the
largest and most successful company of the
same age in the world. All its policies are
non-fOrfeitable premiums are payable in
cash dividends are paid annually on the
contribution plan losses are paid in cash /;
members may freely travel to and from the
South, California and Europe; registered
policies are issued under the Insurance De
partment Of the State Of New York, and
guaranteed BY pledge Of Public Stocks. 1t
il surpassed by no company in it's hberality
to policy-holders. Its available assets
amount to q, 20, 933. 81, which are safely
invested, and managed by an honest and
reliable board of directors. Pliny Free
man, Esq, gentleman prominently iden-
lied with the Labor Reform Movement,
Is its President, and this fact alone is q
guaranty of Of its responsibility.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-03-23

One Of our exchanges. the Iron Age,
publishes brief account of new machine
of ingenious but simple device which is
now being made in Philadelphia, 1t is, in
fast, . compact, powerful weighing machine,
20 adjusted % to ascertain with the utmost
accuracy the strain required TO break the
test-piece Of iron, boileg- plate, etc. The
machine IL ~ nicely balanced IN any ordi-
nary scale, having steel fulcrums at every
friction point. The balance il 40 delicateI
that IN ounce weight placed on the weight
holder throws the parts out Of equipoise
instantly A machine Of 81, 900 lbs. capac-
ity was shipped to Cincinnati lately, upon
which number o. the most satisfactory
experiments we're made for the Baldwin
Locomotive Works, with boiler-plate par
ticularly. A tool for holding the plate 20
that it il subjected to fair and square
strain, is Of novel device, and accompanies
the machine. The manufacturers have al
ready number OF drawings and patterns
for machines TO be applied TO various pur-
poses, such a. testing columns and girdevs,
bridge bolts, chains, wire rope, wrought
and cast iron, and boiler plate. The re-
Variable nicely with which tesla can be
made with this machine, win make expert
ments in testing material very interesting
and useful. wv.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-03-23
TINE MINER

CAsEYvILLE, ILL.,, March 1s, 1871.
70 the Editor % the woRENsxAxs Advocate
DEAR SIR As it has been some time
since anything from this place appeared in
your paper, have came to the conclusion
to pen you . few items. II would have
given me pleasure to chronicle some |
and interesting newn, but, alas. it Is not
so. There IA, in this vicinity, some thrte
local mines on the st. Louis & Vandala
Railroad, one employing about 60 men, and
two others about TO open. There ia also
about five shafts on the o. a Nj. II. r. ;
three of which are working, and two be-
longing to x. Schroeder have suspended op-
Grafton, throwing some 50 or 60 men out
Of employment. Mr.. Schroeder intends
leasing or selling.
Owing TO this suspension business seems
rather dull, large number of men leaving
for other parts.
In your last issue we find o communica-
ton from Mr.. James, Braidwood, in refer
ence to the ventilation, and after a careful
differ with him ON some points. He says
that the Legislature would have performed
their duty more faithfully If they had re-
turned home without passing any bill for
the protection of miners.
Now, Mr.. Editor, Mr.. James may have
been to Springfield, and, if We are correct
~ informed, has been there several times
for the purpose Of assisting the bill, and,
undoubtedly, deserves the credit and thanks
of every local miner In the State Of Illinois
Nevertheless when he thinks they had bet
ter return home without passing the bill
which has passed, We think he ia entirely
wrong. III We look back to Germany or
England. France or Belgium, we will find
that It was not 1T once that the poor local
miner got the proper attention and protec-
ton which he ought TO have had, but it
took them years, yes, centuries Of hard
fighting, and ut the present time they are
askinQ for amendments to the law. Now,
then. II il has taken them 10 long time or
40 much hard fighting and reasoning on be-
half the miners, how can we expect our
Legislature to give M al We AL in one ses-
sion. especially when there il mot one-third
of our local miners taking any active part,
nor offering TO assist the few who have been
using their best endeavors 10 press the mat
ter 10 the consideration OF our leginla- or !
Now, when we view this matter i'm its
proper light, and find one-third only or the
miners taking IN active part in such nm inn
portant measure a. that bin, and On one
aide see 70 much interest manifested ON the
part Of the operators, (they even had men
elected 10 work for thsT interest who faith
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-03-23
THE NATIONAL WOOD WORKERS
UNION.

some months ago, a. our readers know,
the Carpenters and Joiners' National
Union ceased to exist. 1t had been in q
sickly condition for some months past,
and although strenuous efforts were made
by its sver-vigilant Secretary, W. J. Jes-
sop to keep it alive, the effort was unAvail-
ing. 1t is a somewhat remarkable tact
that 30 far all efforts to maintain the local
unions of this organization in this country
in an efficient condition have proved
failures, while in England the very re-
verse has been the case. We believe this
il in great measure owing to the bene-
fetal system which there forms so promi-
nent . feature in their organizations. The
experience Of our purely protective So
cieties has been anything but of salts
factory character. In fact their failure
and the failure Of our English and Scotch
mechanics to ally themselves with them
arises in . great measure from this very
want A number Of our National Unions,
realizing this fact, have recently added the
long needed beneficial feature, and SO far
with the most beneficial results,
Shortly after the demise of the old
union, a noble hearted and skillful me-
chAnic, Mr.. Henry Wilkie, of Syracuse,
New York, q coach builder for the New
York Central & Hudson River Railroad
Company, conceived the idea of uniting
al wood working mechanics under q single
name and q common brotherhood. The
IDEA met with such universal approval that
it was determined to give it practical shape.
A public meeting was accordingly held in
Syracuse. January IL. 1872, at which a
permanent organization was effected and
the signatures Of one hundred and four
members secured.
The National Union is now in thorough
working order prepared to forward con-
situations and issue charters to subordinate
lodges-throughout the country. At
tached to the organization is an Insurance
and Pension Department, conducted on
the principle which has given such popu-
larity to the Engineers and Molders' sys-
TENS. Properly conducted, we believe
there is a bright and prosperous career be-
fore the National Wood Workers Mechan-
les Union; at least the ADVOCATE wishes
it God speed. and trusts that every man
interested in its success will do his duty
in the premises. The follow ing is the list
Of officers
President y A. Griffin.
First Vice-President- Moses Hinkley.
Second Vice-President- Z. Sloan.
Third Vice President-F Hunt
Fourth Vice President Van Auken.
Secretary-A r. Walker.
Treasurer-H. Wilkie.
Conductor-J. Hopper.
Door Keeper. X. Robin
Insurance DEPARTMENT
Insurance Secretary-B T. Wilbur
Trustees p Church, T. n. Lasher, W
H. Chase. T. J. Evans, ii. II. Evans.
All necessary information can be OBJ
tanned by addressing A. Griffin, President
of the n W W NJ L.. Syracuse, New
York
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-03-23
Cooperative.

THERE are twenty-six Cooperative As
sociations in Massachusetts,, and the whole
amount of tax paid by them last year was
d, 4O9.55. The Westfeld Cigar Makers
Association paid the largest amount, 1871,
the Union Cigar Makers Association pay
ing the next highest tax, $lOS.88.
A NEw MINING INTEREST IN THE
RHoNDDA VALLEY, IN SoUrH Wales
We learn with pleasure that the problem
of capital and labor is now to be tried to
be solved in South Wales, in common with
the Wildwood Galleries, near Leeds. A
company Ia now formed to work COAL in
which the men are to have a benefit. The
undertaking is, first to pay for the capital
and the plant all profit after that is to be
equally divided between labor and capital
The operation has the fun concurrence of
Mr. Mundella, NJ. p, and Mr.. Thomas
Hughes, M. p.
The Toledo Blade, the leading daily
newspaper published in Toledo, Ohio, in a
long article referring to Cooperative Build
ing Associations, says:
Last summer, through the exertions of
few public spirited gentlemen, Build
ing and Loan Association was organized in
this city. For a long time its success was
doubtful. The class for whose benefit the
movement was inaugIrated were sus-
picious; it was a new thing here the
people were not conversant with the work
ings Of Cooperative bodies, and at every
step the few that commenced the work met
impediments. But determined to carry il
through, they persevered and finally made
a l. ~
was all taken months ago, and enough
time has elapsed to show whether or not
it has answered the end designed.
The article then specifies the operations
Of the Association referred to and calls at
tention to new one about Organising,
strongly commencing it to the favorable
consideration Of the public. 1t concludes
a. follows
Every nottingham, every mechanic
and every salaried man in the city ought
to Join this or similar institution. Lott
can be had now at . rate much lower thar
they will command years hence, and rent,
are morally certain to be higher year By
year a. the city grows. There are thou
sAnds of eligible lots now procurable upon
accommodating terms, and Building As
sOciations stand ready to furnish means tc
erect houses upon them. This accom-.
pliAhed, the amount heretofore paid for
rent pays for home, to say nothing Of the
additional saving that viii be effected by q
man who labos conscious the while that
. competency il possible. Philadelphis
has seven hundred Of these Associations,
and a. consequence there ia no city in
the Union in which 10 many laboring men
own their own homes. Cleveland has
nine, and We hope Toledo viii have quite
- many before another year elapses. The
experiment already made has worked
great good"
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-03-23
The Short Time movement in England.

The uniform success which has attended
the demands Of the English work people
for the shortening of the hours of labor
shows in an eminent degree the value Of
combined effort. The struggle of the New
castle engineers for its recognition and en-
forcement was really THE struggle for the
mastery which decided the contest. And
from the action of these English Trades
Cnionists our own can take lesson. Re
alizing the importance of strengthening
the hands of their brethren in New
castle, that success there meant success
throughout the country, moral and mate
rial support wAsfurnished from every quar-
ter. As result the fifty-one hour system
was won not for Stevenson's engineers
Alone-but for the toiling millions through
out Great Britain.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-03-23

The Labor Reformers of Hartford, CT,
have started q neat campaign paper styled
the Labor Journal -
A LABoR UxIoS has bean oreanised In
South Glastonbury, and we have assurancsa
that that town viii poll large vote for ths
Lahor Ticket.
AZ joumeymen cabinet mAkss and
carvers Of Boston have revived their old
Union No. l. They start out without
about hfty MemDen AE * "a
SOME papers report that there are thir-
teen trades unions in Boston. There are
really over thirty, but most Of them think
it best to hide their lights ''under sbushel. y
CooPER trAmps viii for the present avoid
Portland, Maine, as the boys OF that city
are engaged in q little unpleasantness with
their employers. Boston and other East
ern cities please take notice.
BRISTOL il waking up. A Labor Union
viii soon be organised in that town, and
delegates from that vicinity may be expect
cd at the County Convention.- Hartford
Labor Journal.
THE second eight hour hearing before
the mh8eoc0uBogB L8DOf OOmmltbeo WIN
quite freely attended by the government
armorers At Springfield, and their testimony
seemed to make q very favorable impress
sion ON the committee.
We have Just received from our Braid
wood correspondent . synopsis of Mr..
Hinchcliff's able address to the miners Of
that village, delivered last Friday evening.
Want of space eompeh us to lay it over
till next issue.
THE Washington, OH. Independent
states that in few days 500 hands will be
employed in the stone quarries near that
place, and that ten canal boats, loaded
with stone, will be dispatched to Chicago
every day.
"THE REPUBLICAN PARTY THE FRIENDS
OF THE WoRKINGAEN. The owners of the
quarries in Portland for instance, who re-
fuse to pay their workmen $1.60 day,
notwithstanding that they are receiving
eighty-fve per cent. on their investment.
That looks like friendship.-[New Haven
Union.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-03-23
ne Hon. John Hinchclitfs.

We see by some Of our exchanges that
the Hon. John HinchclifEe of St. Clair
county, has been favorably mentioned in
several sections a. . suitable repre-
sentative for Governor Of the State.
Mr.. h. is in thorough sympathy with the
principles Of the Labor Reform party, il q
member of the Legislature, has proved
himself the friend Of the working classes.
We know Of no candidate whom we would
support with more pleasure.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-03-23

Now n works IN California The Land era
berA ssep Farming Operations.

The San Francisco " Chronicle" says
The population Of California il set down
at $50, 22S persons. OF this number, 149, :
Guiding these, 249, 7S8 are dwellers in the
larger cities and town leaving $40, 40 a.
occupants Of the smaller towns in the agri-
cultural and mining districts, and - til1ers
of the soil OF the latter class, it has been
estimated by competent persons, that %, :
S75 are actual owners, and cultivators Of
farms in different sections Of the State.
This in not favorable showing for agri-
culture in . country boasting our unequal
ed resources in that respect. There u no
better climate elsewhere than ours, nor NO
place where the profits of farming are larg-
er. We have ne snow. NOR Winter season
to stop all outdoor voEk for nearly ons-half
the year. AL the produce of the land
meets with qnisk sals and ready market.
Larger crops are produced here, with less
labor, than in any other known country,
and jet with all thsae advantages, only q, :
S1b out Of.a population of over $50, 600 are
- This y aoubtless attributabls in great
degree to the grisxopa land monopoly with
WHICH we are cursed By the tact that
nearly il not quite al the mest available
lands in the State are in the AanAs Of a fsw
holders, who sainsd contrel Of them st low
prices and now hold thsm, for enornous
Pro6tss at such Mates - 70 deter immigra-
ton. II msans cpuld he taken to force
the monopolists 70 aen, such a. taxing large
trects Of land held by individuAls ct thsir
full value, Il woaA doubtless have the eff
fect of bringing in many ANAL but indus
trious farmsrs, but Il We ars, forced 70 wait
until iAs prices nov demanded hy the mon
opohzsrs can be realized, we fear tho set
usment OF TIA interior win mot progress
with the rapidity which il desirable.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-03-23

e APoLrzIcAL NoNDRscRIPT.-Mr J. b.
Austin, Of Warren, Mass., thus defines his
political position:
!" ] have no interest in the Labor Party
under the present order of things. / have
no interest," in Democratic Party, and my
interest 10 fast being Withdrawn from the
Republican Party. A Prohibitory party is
daApisable. Ny interest al springs from
principle, TIE American Labor Republ-
can Party'-this party name covers the
whole American political ground my prin-
eiPle - ~ il, politically, and therefore my
interest"
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Judge Davis.

We clip the following from one Of our
Western exchanges. 1t is worth reading
Judge Davis ia about Sc years old, and
in the prime Of life-hale, healthy and full
of rugged manhood. 1t is thought he
would weigh $50 pounds. He resides on a
farm near Bloomington, ILL.,, and, except
when absent attending to his duties as one
of the Supreme Judges of the United
States Court, can be found at his quiet
home near that city. He Il . fine specimen
of the cultivated Western citizen a. you
would find in . weeks travel II he should
ever reach the White House the American
people viii not be annoyed by the turnkey
ism, bowling, congeing, and fashionable
follies which have made that house the
stock of all sensible visitors to
Washington. Judge Davis has but one
brother law, and his cousins are all able
to take care of themselves.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-03-23

Again We are compelled 70 appeal to our
subscribers in arrears to remit the amounts
they owe. We are opposed to hAbitual
dunning, but debt contracted as subscrip-
non to Newspaper ID certainly As sacred
a debt Of any other character. viii the
hundreds OF those who owe u please pay,
without further notice.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-03-23

PoLTT1cAL.-The New York Star" and
the WOrkinsman's Journal, (" Of Kansas,
hoist the names Of Davis and Parker
the first subject to the action of the Dem.
ocratie-the second to the action Of the
Liberal Republican Convention.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-03-23

A CORRESPONDENT at East Taunton1ayb
he knows Of twenty family msn there Who
never draw q cent Of their pay IN cash, the
whole Of their wages being absorhsd IN the
store kept by son Of the superintsndent
Of the company. He calls this shameful
robbery, and says 1t merits the vengeance
Of Heaven. These stories, several tin1es
rspssasd by the public press, should Be in
vestiRAAed by the Buresu Of Labor
IAmsrican Workman.
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THE CIGAR MAKERS.
IOfscial from the international Pres dent

RT VIE unions desiring changes in the sddre=ser 4
corresponding secretaries please the name ~ the
former secretary.