New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-24

stress is laid upon the fact that hcailhS was
gwen TO every one. But inasmuch as Dy
keeping the returns secret the Governor anu
Coupcil rendered II impossible that anyone
should know what he ought to say, it is PLAIN
why this privilege was not regarded as Vaiu
able.
The tails of Ludow-st and Raymond-st.
are but poorly equipped with facilities ior
escape compared with that most accOnlmo-
ing penal institution i'll Indiana. There was
an escape some time since through hole III
the floor of one of the upper cells, nut the
County Commissioners, IN splflt Oh uue
economy and not desiring perhaps, to inter-
fere with the right of any one TO the pursuit
of happiness, merely had the hole stuffed
with mattress, and ordered that the hole
abe hidden under bed" Strangely enough,
the prisoners found it, and no less than six
teen of them disappeared through it, thereby
utterly destroying the pure faith of the Com
missioners in mattresses as substitute lot
locks, and driving them to the necessity OF
finding some other way OF removing hole III
the floor than that of hiding it under
"bed."
Commissioner MacLean in the light and viz
tuOus tenor role, while Commissioner Camp
bell appears as the venerable proiligate and
very heavy villain. There is dispute, 1t
seems, in three acts, between the police ana
the inmates of the Court House and City Hail.
respecting the removal of the ashes from
those buildings. Their regular removal IS
much desired by all the big and little lnjuns
of the Democracy there assembled, and has
been requested in various touching solos
by Commissioners Campbell and Kelly, ac:
c0mpaned by full Tammany and Anti
Tammany choIuses Of bowls. But Mr.. MacLean
has put his foot downfall is TO say, almost
put it down. He does not like the box i'll
which these ashes are deposited. He does not
regard the box as official, as legitimate, as
setting proper example to the mass of orr
citizens, and he has announccd-this is his
finest air in the whole piece-that he will not
remove the ashes again until there is a diff
ferent style of box to take them FROM And
here the news stops with the play still going
on. We can suggest a capital denouement TO
the piece, and a solution of the whole cOntro-
versy Let the ashes be kept for Mr.. Kelly.
He'll want them all to put on his head when
he comes home from the National Democratic
Convention, and from nominating Iilden
IF Justice miscarries in the case of the wife
beaten in Newark, whose achievement is re-
ported to-day, it will be time TO consider the
need of an agitation upon the subject SINH
lar to that which some courageous women
have conducted in England. 1t does not
seem possible that any instance of this heart
less crime could have been more atrociOus.
The man dragged his wife from her bed and
beat her with the buckle end OF strap,
which literally plucked out her flesh; he
thrust her outdoors naked and beat her down
the street and back again; pounded her head
against the walls so that the plaster yielded /;
tore one eye out entirely and nearly destroyed
the other--if there is anything which this fcnd
did not do, it was simply because his inge-
nuity could not keep pace with his ferocity,
and ne could not think of any new atrOcity to
commit. The mans very logic was character
ishcally brutal. The language supplies us
with no better word, though, as DR.. Chaplin
well said the other day, there arc men to call
whom brutes is an instance of cruelty 10 ami
mails. Knoll, drunk himself ut the time, gave
il as his excuse that his wife drank, and we
are to interpret the whole affair as temper
ance lecture. The humor of this is too grim
even for smiles. There will be considerable
curiosity to see what Jersey justice does with
this wretch. Any human law would be mad
equate, of course in such a case. The taking
Of life must be followed with a heavier penalty
than any other crime, and yet many a murder,
committed in flash of passion, has been in
nocent compared with this fierce and pro-
tracted orgy of devish spirit The law will
be inadequate, but let him have the full bene-
fit Of it,