The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-12-02
!. car, rrom Mr.. vu,osaxo Walden.

F,,itors Dispatch: Gentlemen, In yo9r
issue of Saturday, just received, my ~.
,ensfon has been called to card
signed George l.. Christian, ESQ. Mr..
Christian says" be cannot consent to correct
statements made 10 newspapers by anony.
nous correspondence Ny name could
have been learned by calling at the Dtspatch
Office, as I wrote TO correct an article 10 the
Dispatch Of the 20 h0ltime. which was s'an.
sigaed and beng an emplo!e 6. my wages az
che mercy OF these gentlemen, prudense
would naturally dictate that l should Wrlte
anonymously. believed irjustice had oeen
done gentlemen Of the retiring board Oh OIL.
recsors Of The Eastern Lupat'c Asylum py
said article, and having received many Aano.
nesses at their hands ] determined 70 noslce
IL, II this act retires me TO the precinc's ol
my farm shalt bear about me the consoling
thought that the '.new policy" current aIo
not drag me from my moorings. OK
make me turu back on former friend.
ships to worship blindly at the altar
recently erected in our midst. But to the
Question OF fact. Mr. Christian claims that
the new board OF directors have saved 70 the
State between sixteen hundred and seven.
teen hundred dollars. / say the claim can
not be subs.antiased even by record facts,
which think are IS convenient to'mysel as
to any member of the board. wrote my
.tEist. Justi,ia !" srticle before the record
was written up, and was 10 error; but
Nm review the account. By consolidating
two Offices into one, aud giving $500 instead
o!Sl,4Q0, you gain $500, to which add board
for one man at $40 per month (the record
price,, you are entitled to Si2o gain for the
new policy. You cut down the mairon
and teacher 800 eseh, making 1920 to your
account. This institution vas never without
a treasurer, and legislative bodies 40 DOT
swallow innovations without cue copsidera.
ton and as member OF the Committee OF
the House on Public Institutions, as an Ola
director Of this asylum, do not believe the
change proposed would be desirable. Ii
there were bank in Williamsburg 1t might
be different. You claim between 81, 6O0 ana
S1,70O. How do you make it? You increase
the expenses OF the executive commit.
tee 800 Instead Of 300. as ! was hrst
informed. Deduct that and you nave
1920 balance. One more Item anu
] have done. | have been 10 gee
the president of the board, and be says the
motion was made to raise the superinteDd-
ent's pay to $4,000, but after some converse
ton 10 regard 10 it the impression left on bis
mind WIS that in certain contingencies the
board would raise it. ask you, Mr. Chris.
tan, in all capdor, what was your impress
sion touching the auimus of the board upon
this poini2 If it was to increase. as COM
missioner in cbarcery would you not allow
it as proper Offset, against the new
policy" reducing the credit account to $500:
or, granting that the Intent to do away with
treasurer should be included under the same
court of equity, it would only make the
credit SIDE $500. If this is not fair state
men. of the matter don't think can make
n,and when the verdict shall nave been rem
dered shall not move for an arrest of judg.
ment, because l acknowledge no higher tri-
buna than the Court OF Appeals, before
which am now arraigned.
FULcsKo Walden.