Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-17

r.,,ne Good Care of Uncle Sans Con
Well FED RascHls.

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.....,,,,SGroN. Nov. 13.-The United
,overnment takes good care Of its
.isoners. Idon't mean simply those now
pa ,ban locked up for contempt by some
auu -ossional committee for refusing to
N'-@' it's questions, and who VIGOROUSLY
--7 ~, srrawberries, green peas, and reed
=, midwinter. / speak OF ordinary
W., .,,ors convicted OF crime under
lIis''1 law Inv a Federal court and SEN
ftul'5 az Federal c0nvicts. The govern
leL1-1 c,yns no penitentiaries, therefore 1t
lls N board its convicts at differ
pap e,o+e commentaries. The AttOr-
euu ,t,,eral who has charge Of Federal
DC! orsrs makes contracts through MS
Pl.srfs with State prisons under Which
T53eraI prisoners are received az so much
fe,'tlrl nor annum. The Attorney Gen
srsI ts very careful in selecunS prisons 10
el'"'i,b Fadpral prisoners are to be sent.
w. w. Int the best VIII do. They must
NStoniy he secure. butthey must be clean
~. ,rho1psome, well lighted and heated,
an am sTnnlied with good food and under
Ua,one management. No State prison
~ forging is in vogue can ever get
DIT FEDERAL prisoners. Every year the
az .t;ornev General, not content
. A;, each states inspection Of
". ~ prisoners. sends the general
cent of the Department OF Justice
~ eyamine every Federal prisoner aud
t,e nrison in which he is confined. This
.aTy If inspection is no easy one. 1t takes
w noa~lv al the States east of the Mis-
sisstnnj and north OF the Ohio river. Other
5anr1spptatiyes Of the department inspect
-risors west of the Mississippi. The
1-njted States send no Federal prisoners
% Soufbern prisons for the simple reason
mot Southern prisons are regarded as IN
~ Federal cOnyicts in Arkansas, for eX
awnia are sent TO Detroit, Mich Maj.
Srroug. the general agent, and his assist
ami Howard Perry, are just back from
tbis annual tour of inspection. They ac-
compnshed it in the very short space OF
frgo weeks They did this by travelling
,icbt and dav, with scarcely any breath
mo smells. For example, they left
here at midnight, breakfasted in the rail
nav station at Philadelphia the next
Morning. and instead of going to a hotel
Vent at once to Cherry hill and inspected
tba Federal prisoners there, gong to
Trenton the same afternoon, and so on.
There was no iunEeting about this trip
IL WAS model 10 government inspectors.
In the course Of their tour they saw 500
conyicts. Every Federal prisoner is eX-
sminad priyatelv on these tours, and out
ofbearing of the prison officials is asked
about his life in the prison. Ii he complains
oftbe treatment he receives his com
plaints are investigated. If they prove
wali-f0unded he is removed from
that prison to another. But in the
last tour of inspection not a single COM
plant of this sort was received. Every
Federal prisoner seemed TO be well treated.
The inspectors were struck with the ex-
cellence and abundance Of the food
furnished the prisoners. In many Of the
prisons the prisoners are allowed to help
themselves to bread. Ii is said to be
wonderful how much bread some of them
can eat. A negro in a Delaware prison
a big, stlapping fellow, took ten thick
slices If bread one mOrning-a great arm
ful. The warden, who happened to be
standing bv, said: "NOu can only have
8 as much Of that bread as YOU can
8 eat; YOU mustn't waste It." TBereupOn
& the darby sat down, aud then and
4 there ate every one OF the ten slices and
n then asked for more" Unlike our Old
& friend Oliver he got more, too, l was
speaking Of this to an Old gentleman who
used TO be a United States Commissioner
e in South Carolina, and he SAID: eyes,
n the Northern prisons afford the Southern
,
Il remember" be continued, "tlat when l
was in South Carolina | was instru-
81 mental in having great big negro, black
as the top Of your hat sent u the peni-
tertiary at Auburn, n. Y, for two years
for an assault with intent TO Bll. After
he had been convicted and sentenced be
swore that when he rot out If prison
be- would come right back and kill me.
Whom his sentence expired be did come
night back, and got revOlyer OF the
sea-c ckng variety aud kept IT in an
open drawer OF my desk when ! was in
ny Office and in my side pocket when
wasn't. Two or three daysafter he came
back the big black buck tame walking
lnto my little Office. was about to draw
my revolver when l saw that he was
smiling and putting out his hand as
ihough he wanted 10 sha.e hands with
me- As he advanced toward me he said:
Use powerful obliged toyou, Mr.. Jones
Tor sending me TO Auburn; nebber had so
81 good a time in my life Ief0re; got fat
earned a good trade AM quit drinkin'
amt uebber gOin' TO drink any more
aod by that time he hal heartily shaken
81 my hand. And from mat time we were
Tie best Of iriends.D