ATROCITIES IN CUBA. proaching Mrs, Aguero, “Madame, I we tf— px ITIES. (The following account of the treatment of Cuban insurgents by the 8panish authorities in Cuba is furnished by Mre. Lila Waring de Luaces who was, for two years, with her husband, Dr. Lnaces, in charge of hos pitals within the msurgent lines, Although Mrs, Luaces bas beon in America suce lust Spring, this narrative has bitherto been withheld from publication out of consider ation for the safety of her husband who remained in Cubs. His estates have, however, been destroyed, and so great is the animosity against him that it fe now re garded as impossible to aggravate his dancer even by the publication of such acts as those given below. —ED. J fo the Editor of The Tribune. SIR: On the th of April, 1869, the family of Manuel A. Acosta was in a hut hidden in the woods on the banks of the river Canto, in Cuba. As be was leaviug the place ove day he fell into the hands of so: ie volun- teers, who bayoneted lnm and dragged bim to the house. At tbe sight of him deluged in blood, his wife, bis eiidren, and his sisters set up a ory of horror, .nd wept aver the victim. But the Spaniards are not men, and were perfectly unmoved. Manuel AcOR'a Waa not yet dead. They found a man named Grant, son-in-law of Acosta, and Grant's brother Domingo, and placed them all with the ladies in the middle of the column, which started on the road to Bayamo. It is needless to speak of the treatment of the prisoners on the way, nor of the Althy epithets with which this brutal seldiery offended these helpless ladies. On arriving at Canto Embarcadero, the blood was pouring out of Manuel's wounds, and the insults to which the ladies of his family were sub. jected drove Lim crazy. Ro the savages, to avoid fu ther trouble, dispatched the old man, and pitched his body into the river. His wife, in desperation, tried to fling herself in after bim, but was withheld. The Spaniards then took Grant and Domingo behind the cemetery and shot them. In August of the same year Gen, Maximo Gomez sur prised the Spaniards in Raire, in the jurisdiction of Jign ani. He obliged them to shut themselves up in the fort ress. He rescned several families, and set fire to the town. When Gomez retired, the fpaniards murdered every family that bad not been able to escape. The fol lowing September the €panish troops of Maniabon (Hol guin) retired to Puerto de! Padre, burning their houses and ramparts, killing all the prironers they had, and de capitating sercn women and five children. In October, the Spaniards attacked Ramon (Rantiago de Cuba), and murdered wll the #ick that were in the hospital there, These were sipung up to the beams of the house aad burned alive in it. In November, 40 cavalry gol diers attacked the Cuban camp at Miglal (Holguin), which was undefended, and took 20 prisoners. Among the latter were Carlos Teliez, a lawyer, and Antonio In fante, a plurter. Those two had thair eyes gouged out, and then they were killed with the rest. In December, a Spaniard named Arango, manager of a bank in Trinidad, proposed at a meeting of the Spanish Casino that every uban and every member, women and children fueludeds of their fam les, should be beheaded. The proposition wus adopted with great applause. some time in Jannary, 1870, Gen. Pnella’s troops, when they began the warch which ended in their rout by Jor dan at La Mina, tool, near Deseada, in Camaguey, Fran c1ee0 Alonso Ramos prisoner. He was over 70 years old. They tied bis bands and feet together behind, making a cirele of his body, and in this position they hanged him ton tree by lus wrists and kept him there all night. Next Lay they killed Nim, ent off his wrists, and left him un buried. Tu the following April Narciso Tamayo, from the Sierra Maestre, wrote to the Department as follows: “A month after my three brothers had been killed, the Fpanfurds assaulted the camp where my family lived. The first news that reached me was that they had only Killed my father and my brothers, Juan, Pacho, and Ga vino, but lately I have learied that nobody escaped. My mother and sisters were also murdered by these sav ages.” In the following month the Spaniards, from their camp at Lus Parras (Camaguey), surprised a little hut in the woods. They knew that a patriot had been there recently, and not being able to find him they vented their rage on a woman who had just heen delivered, and on her babe only a few hours old. Both were hacked to pieces, Salvador Cuevas, of Villa Clara, under date 20th of January, 1870, wrote as follows: “Some troops came to a ranche at Arrogo Blanco, where the quiet citizens, Pastor Figueredo and JAntoulo Leon, Jian, 20 years old, Leonila, and José Celestino, young santos Medina, Rimon de Leon, and two other children, The soldiers surprised Hoy just a8 the moon was Seng Medina and Juan escaped after a struggle, the first wit three bavonet wounds in his chest and arm, and the second with four. Ramon de Leon fled into the woods, and then the brutal soldiers tied Dona Caridad and the two old men snd burned them alive in the hut, The charred corpses were found next fas. The atroci’ies which the Spaniards commit are more horrible each day. In January they found the wife of Nicholas Chirino, Pre tect of Seitabo, and her son, 12 years old. The hoy at tempted to run away, but his mother retained him, be lieving that the fact of his not trying to escape and his age wonld save him from the fury of those tigers. Butin spite of all ber tears and entreaties they broke his thigh bone with a bullet, and when be fell into the arms of his poor mother they rmshed upon her, drapery him from Ler, threatening to kill her if she moved, and then be fore her eyes mutilated ber boy with fiendish obscenity, and gashed and stubbed him to death.” In July, 1570, the traitor Lolo Benites at the head of a party of volunteers attacked Riito (Jiguam), and captured 19 prisoners, of whom two were old men, two were sick, and the rest were women and children. They were all killed, and the corpses mutilated. In November of the sawe year, after a fight between the Spaniards and Cubans at La Aguada (Tunae), the former surprised the peaceable citizens Macias and Man nel Fornes, They had never taken part in the revolution. With these victims the Spaniards added to their brutal cruelty the most fearful blasphemy. They enacted amd oaths and profanity with these men the fearful tragedy of Calvary. They stuck crowns of thorns upon the heads of the victims, whom they made to carry crosses, and crucified. They then chopped the crucified to death. In the mouth of October, 1870, shortly after the massa eres of the Caballeros and the Molinas, a column surprised Manuel Montefo, a most quiet and respectable old gen tieman of over seventy years of age, and Francisco Bena vides, a young man, on Mr. Montejo's place, Ban Se verino, three leagueg from Guasimal, the scene of the Molina murder. With Mr. Montcjo was his daughter, a charming young married lady. When the column came up, the men were dragged out of the hut, and the old man, who was very infirm, was seated in a chair. His daugh ter, with ber arms round the dear old father's neck, as sured the commander of the forces that ber father had intended to present Limself long ago, but that he was so weak aud iptino that he had not been able to make the sourney, a long one, to the camp. She spoke to brutes, not men. One raised the butt end of bis musket, and was about to brain the old man, when she fell across her father, taking bis head in her bosow, and received on her back the blow that would have killed bin, Her filial Jove was vain. She was forcibly dragged away, and the bands of the old man, of Benadives, and of a mulatto on the place were bound, The victims were then taken a hundred yards from the hut, and gashed and slashed and stabbed to death. The corpse of the mulatto was laid across the other two, and the savages then returned to the hut, and told the poor, solitary, defenseless, half frenzied woman to Go aud bury them if you choose,” and she did, In the early part of January last, Mrs. Aguero, with Ler two daughters Leocadia and Clotilde, aged eighteen and fifteen respectively, were living a retired life on their estate La Gloria, distant some four leagues cast of Puerto Principe, on the Sibauicu road. Mrs. Aguero, who was a celebrated belle fa her younger days, still re DSO YORE LO CR I aes Th Lo oy aver ad quoi it may be, for I know him, and he always executes, when he can, whet he threatens.” The ladies yielded, and so these tender women were brought into Puerto Principe each seated in front of a dirty, low-bred ruffan, with his arm around her body. The shock Was too great for the beautiful Clotilde. On resching Prin. cipe the whole of the lower part of her body was found to be paralyzed, and Dr. Risco, who attended her after her arrival, says ho doubts if she can ever recover. NARRATIVE OF A FORMER RESIDENT WITHIN Congroas has and already wo hogin to THE INSURGENT LINES—INHUMAN TREAT- th tterings of that storm that the enemies MENT OF CUBANS BY TIE SPANISH AUTHOR= heat the mueer ucers mansgo to conjure up ns Rafael de Varoua bad served in the cavalry under Ryan, and, when the latter left the island, was appointed to the command of the corps. At the time of his capture be was on visit to 8 ranche that had been built in the woods, where some thirty ladies, including three of his own sisters, and many children were hidden. Guided by some vile traitor, a body of Spaniards, divided into two columns, came up and surrounded the ranche. Varona knew that his hour had come; but seizing hie revolver, he issued out to meet the tyrauts of bis country. The women and children fled dismayed. A ballet from an American musket struck Varona andjbroke his thigh bone, On one knee he discharged six shots of his revolver and wounded two men. As soon as his shots were expended, the Spaniards rushed on him, and slashed and stabbed him to death. They were unable, however, to identify their victim; and seizing one of the young ladies, Maria Aguilar they dragged her up to the corpse, and threatened her withdeath if she did not divulge the name of the mur dered man. She professed entire ignorance; she said she was from Holguin, and knew no one of that jurisdiction. One of the morilizados coming up to the body recognized it as that of Varona. The exultation among the ravages was great. They gathered all the women and children from the woods, and drew them up in line, and then tying Varona’s body by the heels to the tail of one of the horses, they dragged it up and down before them, his own three sisters standing in the line. In dragging it, it caught against the stump of a tree, when the com” wander of the column yelled out to the savage that was riding the horse which was dragging the body, “Dig in your spurs, and haul him out of it;” and to the infl nite amusement of the gang, Varona's head was nearly pulled from his body, and the stump was beswmeared with his brains. Probably in no land and in no age has such a devilish invention of cruelty been witnessed as that by which Manuel Garcia was brought to his death, His sole erime was that he was manager of the estate Triunfo, belong ing to the Guerra family, whose owners were serving in the patriotic ranks. Personally, Guerra had never given aid or assistance to the Cuban cause in any shape. He was captured while inspecting the fences of the place by a column of regular troops. They dragged him to a neighboring tree, and under it they tied the old man’s hands together by the wrists over his head. They then attached to his wrists one end of arope, and throwing the end over a branch of the tree, fastened .this other end to a stake in the ground. They previously lifted the old man up, so that when the rope was taut from the stake across the imb of the tree his fect dangled about a vard from the ground. Hauling then at the rope near the end fastened tothe stake, they hoisted him some 20 or 30 feet in the air, and then suddenly let go. At the first fall both of the old man’s arms were pulled out of the sockets, The agony was fearful. He implored them to kill him, but the fiends, gloating in his torments, con tinued hauling him up and letting him fall, till every tendon and muscle in his body was revered. This lasted some 30 minutes, and at lust, finding that life was not yet extinet, the brutes took stakes out of the neighboring fence and brained their victim to death. The Mola family is, or rather was, of the wealthinst in Camaguey. It was of those “all of whose sons are brave and all the daughters beautiful.” The men by experience, exposure, and manly pursuits on their vast cattle estates, inured to hardships and exposure, the pictures of health and virility; the daughters refined, accomplished, and of surpassing beauty, the pride of Puerto Principe and of Camaguey. All the men of the family joined the revolution at its outbreak, and the women went heart and soul into the movement, as did the noblest of our own in 1776. All the sons of the family were married, and the two female victimes of the last brutal assassination, Merceaes and Juana, were sisters— maiden names Mora—renowned for their beauty and ac complishments, and married to Melchor and Alejandro Mola. Alejandro Mola, husband of Juasa, was lame before the revolution, and received a shot in battle which broke his other leg, and, being unable to get away, was deliberately backed to pieces by the Spaniards. Another brother, Gregorio, had THOU 0 PItAtucty shattas STU 3 seca t thaw grew sbwseanyg vs Bav had been surprised by a large body of Bpaniards, and endeavoring to escape, his sword tripped him, and the Spaniards came up and dispatched him. A nephew of these gentlemen, Julio Mola, was living in a hut in the woods with his wife, on his place near Las Parras. He had retired from active service in the revolution in con sequence of wounds and partial loss of sight. One day the Spaniards, led by Capt. Obregon, found their way to the but. Julio Mola, by his unceasing vigilance, saw them and got away into the woods at tho back of the hut, Obregon asked his wife where he was, She replied that being unable any longer to serve Cuba, he had intended to surrender, but that for fear of Obregon, he had fled to the woods. Obregon told her to assure him that he need have no fear, that Obregon would be personally responsible for his life, Hereupon the wife went into the woods and called him. He came obedient to her call, Come,” she said; “the officer in command bas given me his word that your life will be spared. You can no longer serve your country. Let us all go in.” Mola, hia wife, and their two young children were then conducted to the Spanish fortified camp at Las Parras. Here they were detained five days; and Obregon, in violation of his plighted word, or at least to evade complying with it, handed them over to the com mander of the fort. On the fifth day after their surren der they were all ordered to get on Lorseback and pro ceed to Puerto Principe. On reaehing the estate of Santa Isabel, the Spanish commander of the column ordered the wife and children ahead. As soon as they were out of sight, Julio Mola was told to dismount, and he was then and there cut to pieces. Not a shot was fired, His corpse was left unburied, and the murderers rode up to the head of the column and conducted their victim's wife and children into Puerto Principe. The following account of the brutal murder of the ladies Mercedes and Juana Mola, and five of their chil dren, is taken from the lips of the little eon of Mercedes, whom the Spaniards bad left for dead. These ladles, of whom, as I have already said, one (Juana) was a widow, were living in a hut in the woods, close to the Spanish camp at Lazaro. With them were three children of Mercedes, and four of Juana. Melchor Mola, the hus band of Mercedes, had been Prefect of Caunao, under the Cuban Government, but had retired from service. He did not enter the army on account of his weak state of health, and had been for many years, alike in Cuba, in Paris, and in this city, where he was educatéd, subject to a speciee of epileptic its. The ladies had no servant with them, and Melchor lived in a small hut, about a mile from his family. Lazaro ls distant about 12 leagues west of Puerto Principe, on the Espiritu 8anto road, and the Spanish camp there was eommanded by Col. Fran cisco Acosta, a renegade Cuban. This Acosta, on the very day of the massacre, the 6th of January last, stopped at the little ranche of the Mola ladies, on his way from Puerto Principe to his camp at Lazaro, and asked Mercedes to influence her tcctand ta nieanaont himaeclf addine that ha wanld ha at SWELL AAT 70 SE MAE TV CINE WANNA YARN YN YN rye camp at Lazaro, With them were three children of Mercedes, and four of Juana. Melchor Mola, the hus band of Mercedes, had been Prefect of Caunao, under the Cuban Government, but had retired from service. He did not enter the army on account of his weak state of health, and had been for many years, alike in Cuba, in Paris, and in this city, where he was educatéd, subject to a speciee of epileptic its. The ladies had no servant with them, and Melchor lived in a small hut, about a mile from his family. Lazaro 1s distant about 12 leagues west of Puerto Principe, on the Espiritu Banto road, and the Spanish camp there was eommanded by Col. Fran cisco Acosta, a renegade Cuban. This Acosta, on the very day of the massacre, the 6th of January last, stopped at the little ranche of the Mola ladies, on his way from Puerto Principe to his camp at Lazaro, and asked Mercedes to influence her husband to present himself, adding that he would be at his camp all that evening, and that he would expect to see Melchor Mola there. At about nightfall some of the Spanish soldiers from his camp presented themselves at the ranclie. They forcibly dragged the ladies and their children out of the hut, and then threateningly told them to deliver at once all the money and jewelry in their possession. The ladies replied that they had none, when one of these brutes, enraged at the dRvapeet of Jojug thwarted, drew his sword and struck Mercedes a fearful blow on ber shoulder. On geeing this outrage, the little boy, who escaped and tells the story, rushed to his mother and begged her to deliver everything she had, and save her lite. Meanwhile another infernal scoundr bad felled Juana to the ground. Then, maddened like tigers by the blood of their victims, the carnage was general. Mercedes was struck to the ground with a fearful cut on her head, and there, weltering in her gore, she was literally hacked to pieces. Her corpse when found was one mass of cuts and stabs. The little boy had fallen under bis mother's skirts, and the brutes thought he too was dead. He was ouly badly wounded. Poor Juana underwent the same fate.” There was not a foot kquare in any Jou of hes body that these flends bad not gushed. The then killed four of the little children Suiting them up in Jleces. All this was out side the but, and when the six) were found the head of one little fellow wbout four years old wae missing. Its said that it was carried off on the point bayonet as 8 trophy The refinement of inhuman cruelty was reserved, dwever, for the child, a beautiful little girl, only two years old. The savages set fire to the hut, and pitched the ri litte soul alive jul the flames. The worde of her little brother when telling it were: Mi hermanita estaba vivila quemada. Acosta confesses in his letter that he heard of the deed that night, that he heard from bis camp the shrieks of the women and saw the flames of the burning hut, and yet he coulis moved into Puerto Priucipe next morning, without even visiting the scene of the maa sacre. The little boy, whow the Spaniards left for dead, got up as soon a8 they left and went into the woods, He Ktated that twice or three times daring the night he ven tured out to the road inthe hope that he might meet somebody he knew. Iu the morning he met s mulatto, 3 Jorier slave of the family, and to him he related what ad happened. Tie mulatto accompanied the ohild, and found he mutilated corpses of the ladies apd children, He then took the boy to where the father wus hidden {an the woods, Melehor Mola, en hearing the team ful re cital of these bratal ontrages fell senseless, and died a few days atterwurd, ‘Fae ladies Merecdes and Jima Mola were aged respectively ob und “5 vats, Merce tains more than average charms. Kindly, accomplished, delicately reared, and still beautiful, she is one of the wowen of whom Camaguey 18 justly proud. Bat the sur passing loveliness of her daughters, Clotilde especially, casts all other Cuban beauty into the shade. With a skin as white as driven snow, and a prodigious wealth of golden hair, nature has adorned her with eyes black as night, black eyeurows, and long, black, silken eyelashes; a type of beauty rarely met with. Her form is as perfect as her face. A column of Bpaniards, commanded by Brigadier Fajardo, the same scoundrel who replaced Morales de los Rios in Santo Espiritu, ar rived at La Gloria. The ladies were ordered out and told to get up on the saddlesin front of the men. They were to be taken into Puerto Princive. Every feeling in the bosoms of these tenderly-murtured and beautifnl crea tures revolted at the thought. To ait on the saddle, in the arms of such dirty, stinking, brutal, disgusting creatures! No, they would die first. They declared that they were ready to walk and along the rough road, with the brutal soldiery, the scum of the world, jeering them as they went, thede beautiful and defenseless creatures plodded for some five to six miles. The whole distance to Principe 1s about 12 miles. After walking thus far, Fajardo rode up to the bead of the column and asked of aun orderly, What is the matter t Why don’t you get along faster 1” He was informed that the column was moving forward as fast as the ladies could walk; that they had declined to ride on the saddles with the men. What)” he exclaimed, “they won't ride with my men, won't they 1 I will soon see about that. Halt the column. Now 10 or 12 of you run into the wo ds, cut a dozen withes, strip the wowen, and I'll flog them tll they obey.” One man—perhaps he thought of his mother sud sister—diswounted, and twost respectfully up NEW.YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 16, 1671 —TRIPLE SHEET. R 4 F-# A j In her maiden days was the recognized belle of Puerto Principe, and was oslled La Bella Oamaguepind. In the early days of the war Mrs. alta hallero, s wealthy and most estimable old lady, 72 years of age, was living with her family, consisting of five sons and several danghters, on her sngar estate Ingenio Grande, three losgues from Puerto Principe. Her sons had never taken any active Jarl in the Insurrection, none of then had ever served the RepubMe in any capacity either civil or military. In June, 1869, the Spanhi column went 0 the place and took all the sons—three—that were at the time in the house, The commander of the forcea said that he had orders to take them into Puorto Principe. All three were captured without resistance one was an idiot from his birth, a perfectly harmless, simple crea. ture. The Caballeros never reached the city. They were knocked on the head on the road and bayoneted to death, the idiot included. Their sole offense was that they were born Cubans, and wealthy, When the Cubaus heard of the massacre of Mrs. Caballero’s kona, they sont her word, and fonting that she might meet similar fate, implored har to leas her estate and hide somewhere in the woods. Bhe fol lowed this advice, and with her remaining sons, Juan and Manutl and her danghters, took Nive at Banta ADA, a st0ek farm nearer 10 Principe, and league snd a half from Guasimal. Of her two sons, Manuel was Ying of consumption in fact be hardly breathed. In to ber, 1870, body of some 400 Spaniards was sent from Guasimal to Santa Ana. The family were taken by sure prise. Manuel, of course, was at home; he wos at that tiwe too low to move out; and his brother, unfortunately, was taken also. The brutes tied Juan Caballero’s arms presence of his mother and sisters. He waa then taken some 200 yards from the hut, some 300 of the 400 men ao companying him, und he was there shot. Manuel had been brought ont of the hut seated on a obair, as he he too weak to stand, and his poor old mother stood at side, supporting his head on her bosom. The guard, foe 16 or 20 en, left at the hut told his mother that they v orders to take him dead or alive. She implored theln 10 have a regard for his condition—he was more X than alive; but she spoke to brutes in, whom all je man feelings had long ceased to exist. “At loans, 8 said, lot me get him a cup of broth, or he will €76 0 the way.” To this thoy consented; and as ebe turned to go into the hus one of the villaing sent a bullet right through the skull of her son. Pe ball entered his Jere. head as he sat in the chuir, and, passing out at the ba of his head, entered his mother’s y on the left side of the sacrum, It passed down the left thigh, and was ex tracted three days afterward from the upper part of the left femur by Dr. Risco, who gives me these partioulars. As Mrs, Caballero fell she exclaimed, Oh, you have shot me!” She did not even know at the moment that the bullet which struck her had killed her poor sick son. The bullet, Dr. Risco said, was an ounce ball; and when he extracted it it wae flattened out at both ends, retaining its original caliber in the center. On examin ing it, he discovered that, tightly wedged in tho center of the ball, and between the two flattened ends, were small pieces of human bone, In {ts course it had not struck any bone in Mrs, Caballero’s body, but particles of the bone of her son’s skull had been driven some 11 inches through the mother’s flesh. When she was shot the only reply which her exclamation evoked was, Serve you right for being with the insurgents.” About the same time Messrs, Juan and Romualdo Molina were on their cattle farm at (Guaeslmal, eight leagues from Puerto Principe, on the Yertianiae road, With them was the wife of Romualdo, a daughter of the Mola family, mece of Gregorio, Alejandro, and Melchor Mola, whose murders have already been detailed, and a little brother of hers, 11 years old, Aurelio Mola by name. A Bpanjek column, 800 to 1,000 strong, came to the estate, and not finding the men, took Mrs. Molina into Puerto Principe. The men were hidden in the woods at the back of the house. They had built three palm huts in the woods, one further removed than the other from the dwelling-house of the estate. A Regio had assisted them in building these hiding places. He subsequently ran away, and was either captured by the Spaniards or for a reward denounced hia former masters. Rusty after the capture of Mrs. Molina the Bpauiards returne with the negro, who led them to the third hut. Here the Molinas and the last of the Molas were taken. Their corpses were found on the following day but so feariany mutilated as to be scareely recogniza lo. The gon and ears of all three had been cut off, and the hody of the little boy was 80 hacked to pieces that he was identified only by bis clothing. Bhortly niter tho ouiroak of the revolution, and be fore the atrocities abové related had occurred, Mr. Morel, Cuban who lived a short distance out of Puerto Principe, sent his daughter, a grown-up woman, into the city to draw some money which he had deposited some time Frosiously in the hands of a Spaniard, When Miss Morel stated the ohjeot of ber visit the Spaniard rudely replied that he had not got it, she left, and was about to return to her father’s house. The Spaniard, thinking ita gd opportunity to avoid the payment of the debt, repaired to the Governor of the place, and stated that he had reason to believe that the real object of Miss Morel's visit to the city wan to bring correspondence from hor father to certain aiders of the insurgents in Principe. On this the Governor ordered the young lady to be brought before him. She had not yet left the city, and she was conducted to his presence. He then ordered her to be stripped by woman in an_sdjoining room, sud after her clothes had been minutely searched, he made hey puss in review before him and a lot of officers of his staff, with nothing on her persou but oug¢ undergarient. New-York, Dec. 10, 1871. L.W. DE LUACES, THEIR STEADY INCREASE—~THE ACCOMMODA TIONS OFFERED—THE NUMBER OF LODGERS AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS. The sudden advent of Winter crowds the Sealy A Wasa “40 aot: PRAAEAR urticaE YE mendicants, but occasionally poverty compels honest men and women to place themselves in the position of asking public charity to shelter them from the piercing cold. The police stations are regarded as the centers of rellef, but in wany instances the provision there made is totally 1nadequate. All of them are misera bly poor and filthy in their accommodations, and it is only in the number of applicants they can sbelter that they differ. The now station houses, notably those of the Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Twelfth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Eighteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-second, and Thirtieth Precinets, have room for from 25 to 40 lodgers. The furniture is of the most primitive kind, and ia the same in the men’s rooms as in the women's—consisting simply of an iuclined platform, occupying the grater part of each room. These platforms are well scrubbed every morping by the doormen attached to the sta..on house, but the atmosphere, in consequence of the large number of persons gathered together in so small a space, is foul and vitiated. Ona close, rainy night, the steam arising from the drying of the filthy clothing, and the exhalations from bodies that have been innocent of the application of water for months, produce a com bination of smells that is absolutely unbearable to a man or woman used to deeent living. Many persons in the incipient stages of zymotic discases, more especially typhus and typhoid fevers and small-pox, are crowded in, and nearly all the oschpants are infested with vermin, It will readily be seen that no respectable person, S30unt upon Lonpultion, could be induced to pass a single night in one of these places. Decent people have to take their chances with outcasts and Jrofetons] mendicanta. Not long ago an elderly gentleman, habited in a well worn suit of black, applied for a night's lodging in one of the down-town station-houses. His isagtage was good and his demeanor suggested that he had been in better circumstances. The sergeant in command at the time told him the accommodations were of the poorest, but he replied that it made no differcnce—he was penniless, and must put up with them. The doorman showed him to ‘the male lodgers’ room; but, as the door was opened and he glanced at the flithy orowd within, he exclaimed, faintly Jiaggoring back, “Great heavens, is it possible that human beings can exist in kuch a place? woulda sooner walk the streets all night than pass it here.” The sergeant gave him a small amount of Beer to pay for lodgmes in PY decent house, and it was su sequently ascertained that he was on his Way to some rolatives in the East. By the aid of the poise was enabled to obtain a railroad to his destination. Recently the writer saw a modest. looking woman and her two children in the female Jodeing room of a aown-town station-house. Although belonging to the poorer class, it was evident that ri was unused to associating with the half-drunken mendi cants by whom he was surrounded. Bhe was a widow, and, having failed to pay her rent promptly, had been ejected by her unfeeling landlord. Cases of this kind might be multiphed indefinitely. THE NUMBER OF LODGERS. Notwithstanding their repulsiveness, the lodgiog-rooms are crowded to excess, and frevuently applicants have to be turned away for this reason. Late at night an applicant may have to visit two or more station-houses before he can obtain admittance. In some of the old-fashioned station-houses, in which no provision was originally made for lodgers, and cells have to be used, half a dozen of the unfortunates are frequently cooped up in each one, and should there be an unusually large number of prisoners, the lodgers are turned out. Not a night passes but that some lodgers are transferred from the lodging-rvoms to the hospitals. That De pauper class in this Sityiiapgely on the increase each yous is shown by the number of gora accommo dated for the past 10 years, as follows: 1861, 119,348 1863, 70,938; 1863, 68,284 1864, 60,929 1665, 64,247; 1866, 115,324 1467, 105,460: 1868, 141,070; 1869, to Nov. 1,135,601; Nov.1, 1869, to April 5, 1870, 82,607 1870, 141,780. The part of the lust year given Te Sadly the time that Sitweq froin the date of the Motropoittun Police pas to the hogin, ng of the Suaicips regime. It will be noticed that the total number of lodgers accommodated for theses 10 years is 1,104,648. The Leafs 1863, 1863, 1864, and 1865, show 8 Fe decrease in the number of lodgers. This was owing to the war, all lodgers who could pass the ex amining surgeon being drafted into the army. The nuw ber accommodated in 1866 was nearly double that of the preceding year. The Fourth Precinet lodging-rooms have, on stormy or cold nights, had as many 8880 lodgers; the Fifth, 60, and the Sixth, seventh, Eighth, Tenth, and Fifteenth fully 88 many. CHEAP LODGING-HOUSES. The ides bas long been eutertained of building several cheap lodging-houses, in various parts of the city, to ac commodate the better class of lodgers—these who cou. afford to pay a small amount for a bed, bus not the'h! h prices demanded as hotels, sad those casuals of the bot ter Slam occasionally te he seen within the precincts of a siaftow ics Jodging. These refuges sould Pe te Fp self-su ng ns Josuible 68 TaDgin "n 15 ons 4 grb nigh hel i, portion of the LD of the proposed under of these model Jotiginf-houses, prevented the consummation of she project. ovis 8 possibility, however, that others may take up the jdes and sucorsanlly exécute it. ‘The Commissioners of Charities and Correction have on several ocoustons devoted a porsion of their funda for feeding the poor. In the Winter of 18614 thousands of poor people were daily fed as Sie varmus Preolngts, A forrespohdent wishes to know whether a portion of the futids TUN 18 Tle denartuent would ol ba wisely sod hg WMD ROLL potter. than the hard-board accommodation of the vind [Qe wight be obtained, and the association of decent people with the vicious class. who habitually (rooiten! Station i Houses, wy THE HOUSELESS AND HUNGRY. et. as often as they think 1b PrROCUCREE cara AB ing blow in favor of transatlantio producers nad American shippers sad brokers. Among oh intérests aimed at ia the growiog of wool. Kiroe teaders have told us during all the years of low prices of wool that the duties lovied by the National Government on foroign-grown wool really dopressod and lessoned the prices obtained for our home-grown wool. This insult to our understandings they ropested so often and so persistently that it is possible they may have convinced ote 92 Shes) ves of $A truth. It is certain that it mever dec ved any wool-grower, Now, that the immense stooks of forelgn grown woo} that were imported in anticipation of the wool tariff are worked off, and at last we have come to the realisation of the beneficial eftects of Diogantign, and the raising of wool is fast assuming the Jropet place in the industry of the econntry, and prices of wool have become about as TemuBerdting 8s of other agricultural staples, the cry in faver of free trade in raw material is to De raised in the halls of legisla tion at Washington. I noed not informa the growers of wool that if it is successful it will be im mediately fatal to thom, and nltimately most disastrons to onr whole conntry, and most beneficial to Australia and Bnenos Ayres. The following extract, taken from a late New York newspaper, shows something of the drift of the attack that is about to be made. The writer is Qeseriving the woolen mills in Auburn, in this State, and says Hore no 103s than 460 oparatizes are employed, nearly one-half belug onildren, and 650,000 yards of the finest cloth goods, such us meltons and cassimeres, arc manu factured yithhi the year. ‘The wool used is principally from Ohio and Pennsylvania, domestic, and from Buauos Ayres and Australia, foreign. I had tho pleasure of Bee ing the Treasurer, who told me, to my great surprise, that he was sompelled to J oichase froth three to four dundred thousand pounds of Australian wool last year, and that the tanff, as it stood, was an absolute nuisance, without ahyihing to commena it. ‘For,’ said he, grant ing the necessity of encouraging the wool-growers by heavy duties on such wools as they can ralee, there can be no sense in putting a heavy duty on those classds of Australian wool, which can never bo raised in this coun try or in any other part of the world save Australia.’ This extract exactly states the false issue that has all along boen made when the parties addressed were supposed to be without knowlede as to she facts in volved. Very liberally, it is offered to grant *‘the necessity of encouraging the Wool.Groy ers x heavy duties on such wools as they can raise,” and then the “statement is made that American wool-growers can i Tiize Aptatian WoL caved pnd grow pt i ar ng untrue 18 8 and a nel ple is admitted. Australian wool must of necessity be raised in Australia. No sane man will dispute this truism but we do require protection against it, as it is the very kind of wool that comes into competition with the wools we most desire to raise. It is stated by this writer that he found another Auburn manufacturer who told him_* that the ex quisite fineness of the Australian wool was absolutely phenomenal” which means, I suppose, that American raised wool is not 8o fine as Anstralian, and that the Auburn manufacturer demands finer wool then 1s raised in this country. In the July number of The Bulletin of the National Amrocigtion of Wool Manufacturers, edited by John L. Hayes, and published in_Boston, I find an ertract from a work of Yillisn Lathan, published in Lon don, England, which Mr. Hayes gives as the history of the Australian sheep. I Propose to use this history a8 it comes from the manufacturers of woolens, an therefore, must be taken by that interest as true and conclusive, as, in fact, I believe it tojbe. Australia is an English golony, and the English breeds of sheep were naturally taken there. u In forming these flocks, the Leicester, Oojawald, Lincoln, Southdown, Merino, and others, a8 also the Spanish Merino and Saxony, all took their part, the English breods giving size, weight of fleece and length of wool, giving a useful and well-developed animal as the basis of the colonial flocks, placing them in the most advantageous condition for refin ing. Long and persistent refining on this sound basis with the best English Merino rama (Cabafa, George I11., the twin Capafia with the French Im perinl Cabafia, Rambonillet, and the best French Merino TaIa Rrocuréd regardless of aot) has done all that could be done in point of bl and quality.” Thus these tlocks were founded, and they are till drawing first-class rams at first-class prices” from tho same sources. Great skill and care have been devoted to the improvement of these flooks, “the breeding of sheep has become the most important rural interest, and, consequently, the most import ant commercial interest.” The wools of this mixed race of sheep have become of great value. They are (Fro a PABA Rly CARAVBEN specialty, the gros, Hoek fastens bf Spain consider it equisite to modify their famed Morinos to with the Australian wool” eompete n this account it is easy to know just wh wool of Australia must be, A in vv Aly i: he case it cannot be finer than that of the Merino, from which it in part sprung, ‘and toward which the breeders have constantly been looking as the stand ard, and from which breed they are yet procuring their rams, and which is the standard of fine wool all over the world. _ Extreme fineness of wool was ones of much more importance than it is now. Once the far-famed Electoral Saxony sheep was bred almost entirely with a view to tineness of fiber, but that has long ago been given up, even in Saxony. The improvements in the processes of manutacturing woolens have been such that extreme fineness of fiber is no longer so much in demand but if it was, there is no difticulty in producing it in this country. Whatever our man ufacturers demand in regard to wool, whether as fine Mr. Chamberlain’s Silesians, or as long as the o\gWaids our growers stand ready to a and e have the soil and the climate snited to the great est extremes. The American Merino is the reanlt of a demand of our manufacturers for a particular kind of cloth ing wool, in which strength sud other qualities were of more importance than extreme fineness. Lately tine wools have been more called for, and if the pres ent tariff can remain untouched, this demand will probably jncrease. Should this be so, the growers of wool will be ready to respond promptly to such de mand, fr they greatly prefer growing fine to grow ing coarse grades of wool; and if the time 18 ap proaching for a new departure, and our manufactur “ers will pay as well for fine as they will for medium grades, it will be forthcoming. For such a new de parture Mr. Hayes asks: What stock could furnish a better foundation for refining than the American Merinos 1” There is none. The writer in the newspaper before quoted names Buenos Ayres wools aa of those Vmir dy by the man ufacturers he interviewed. Let us see what Mr. Hayes says of Buenos Ayres wool,'and of the tariff in connection with those wools: *The increased duty on wools of the first-class was demanded by the wool-growers chiefly to restrain the importation of the wools of Buenos Ayres, which threatened to monopolize our markets. The pur Rose waa accomplished, the importation being iminished to the extent of over 30,000 bales in one year. The weakness and general deficiency of these wools in every respect bul fineness is demonstrated. (the italics are Mr, Hayes’s.) The American consumers of cloth have been clearly benefited by the limitation of’ their use, while they have been equally benefited by the operation. of the specitic “duty, which has mad e it more advantageous to the Sup tulasuuren import and consume tho higher x d New 2 Son dor and cleanser wools of Australia r. Hayes edits the organ of th and when bo gives his bie Rp hy mit i Sxtrase, avor of speoifio duty, and gives the 8 does, it 18 worth remembering. The pros ent duties laid on foreign-grown wool were de ermine by 3 ind omni of rok lyr a Te ing nationa| i tions of each interest "rh N i a Manufac National Association of Hauiactuters aa, 0 far 3 can learn, been faithful favor of tho goto wher! \Relr IRtorosts have how dividual manufacturers of woole acting from what I bolidve to be a narrow ag! bhdbagign grovighed Py SB. thagdied Rati ound, bdide Pi Rh 4 oo CIS wir wool manufacturers, Feprhsohting national sasocia tions of each interest. The National Association of Manufacturer aa, 80 be 1 yo} learn, dosh faithful 0 snd has officially interposed in favor of the grower ul he their interests have been at hazard. dividual manufacturers of woolens, acting from what I belibve to be a narrow view of their own ultimate best interests, have tried to have the duty taken off from foreign-grown wool, that Fhey might, for a short season, buy foreign wool a little cheaper, shough by the destruction of home producing interests that would soon follow; these same persons would find themselves without Jrotec tion, competing ‘with foreign capital in forei countries for raw material. Mr, Dodgé of the Agricultural Dejhrtiuont [5 Washington, 1n his ad. dross before the New- orly State Agricultural Boviety, delivered at Albany, February 8, 1871, says: No wan in his senses, and ‘with ordindry 1ntelifgence, can Tail $0 sev that the tariff of 1867 has been the salvation of our shoti-husvandsy salvation from moro complete and remediless overthrow than awaited the business at the close of our war with Great Britain a halt pentur 80 LN woe axoaption of premium paid bo a A exception of the very or slotha, ThA lustrous comb woo] for a class ot Vorstads and somelof the pris Mop BRA toady ulites the wool reglisd for consumption. ore the war, in shy value of woolen manufaotases w Pah Soe, 788; after it, in It was bug Ju419.008, Before 0 recent war, in 1860, thé value waa $88,805,063 after it, fn 1888, it was $173,000 008 two-thirds of if the product of the wool of the Uufled States, 8. of floods, nover Hate here before, are arkiow god huperior to those of fereign manufast are, early all” our conmimption of coatings, us beaver, Eeqnimeax aad other slotag ate of home msnufucture under-clothing and hosiery, to ‘the mmount of $20,000.00, 1s hearty 2) produced at home of a quality de cidedly superior foreign manny our ingraln and Slhree-ply fro indoinparavly tter and stronger than shows Eagush wap acture, which are of material 80 poor and w 3 fy cannot be woven oh power oom, Nearly half. the Brussels carpets required are made in this country aud Dow the princely Axminster, apts ein boosh yd Suspter, Y Laly Sa a reduction of A (4 nelle ve mionishiug trides have boea made, groat advances in corinin ca heen tude ies Lgqeia, wad K uge A hf 4) 8 iy) FART bart ed boi i he ta Krower Is the extension of raunufacturing into his own vi infty the greal West, A feature of these fabrics, Wullhiy of the feciing of contempt (or shams, so ualuiul TARIFF ON WOOL, avy APNRCE GEDDES. to the West, is their om from shoddy, flooks, men and a for pure, strong, honest woo Mr. Dodge's sddress is full of the like valuable in formation, and the wool-growers, manufacturers aud consumers of oloth of the whole conmtry owe him a debt of gratitude for the good service he bas done am. If Congress will but lst woll emough alone, the prospects for wool-growing for Jears to come, are quite as as are the prospects of any other branch of agrionlfure. How lamentable it is that the assem bling of the National Legislature should be looked forward to with fear for the safety of so importantan interest. Fairmount, N. Y., November 20th, 1871. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. ——aPp——— RAPID TRANSIT AND CITY REVENUE To the Bditor of The Tridunc. SIR: 1 have been an earnest aqavocawe OL ule policy of building a rapid transit road for this cily, as a ‘olty work, I am so still. I see no relief in any other quarter; I see immediate and.perfoot rolief hore. I know how unfavorable is the moment for urging such a polloy now. Our city lies bleeding at the feet of those who wore trusted by and have robbed her. We are $97,000,000 in debt, and are appalled by vialons of the oppressive taxation that is beforé us. Yet I am in favor of bullding this road by the city, and {ncressing that debt by 920, 000,000 more, If necessary, for that purpose. I know how startling, how apparently ill-timed is the proposition, and how enrnest and honest 1s the ory for retrenchment and reform. Itoo am for retrenchment and reform. I am afraid of taxes; I want to seo the burden lightened —the taxos reduced, We must have relief. Hence, In aplte of all the ciroumstances, I urge the building of this road—bulldingt immediately—building it by the city. Let me roason regarding it. We are in the position of a farmer who has run in debt in jthe purchase of a good farm which will yield him $50 an acre, and speedily get him out of debt, it he has mo bad luck. But just as he has got bis fences made, and ground broken up ready for the seed, his plowman has broken into his till, stolen Lis money, taken his only team of horses, and run away. What shall he do? To buy another team and the eced for his ground will cost $300, and he is already in debt. A neighbor 13 ready to lend bim the money, and give him ample time to pay; and it is quite certain that the Suw mers crop will repay the loan, and leave something hand some to apply on the old debt. How shall we advise him? Shall we say, ‘My friend, you are very unfortu pate. You have no money, and you are badly in debt. It becomes you to ‘retrench and reform.’ Don’t got {oto debt any deeper, but lie down, and perhaps Providence will help you out.” I think it would be better to say: ‘‘Bor row the money, get an honest servant in your employ, and put in a double crop.” The case with us is perfectly analogous and may be shortly stated. We require, say $23,600,000, to pay our annual expenses. We pay~it from taxation. Let us suppose we have only $23,000,000 of taxable property in the city to pay it with. It is easy to sec it would take all we have. Let us suppose we have contrived to double our taxable property, and have $46,000,000. We can then pay our expenses and have halt left. If we double it again we shall have three-quarters left. It has so happened that by building strects, docks (suoh as they are), parks, and water-works, we have raised our taxable values to $1,047,388,449, and we aro able now to pay our ourrent expenses with 24 per cent of our property. This is our farm. Bo far wo have worked it to advantage. Our burden lightens as our taxable values increase. But now one-half our farm 1s yet a swamp and rocks, producing bus briars and miasmas, (taxes and discon font). With a very little expense we can turu itintoa garden, and mako it even more fruitful than the rest. Let us sea at what expense and how fruitful, We have 70,000 vacant lots. These have an aver ago taxable value of $3,000 each, or $210,000,000, vro ducing taxes, at 2} per cont, of $5,200,000. Bring these lots now within 15 minutes of Wall-st. and the City Hall, with means of transit the most comfortable and con veniont, aud we all know that their value would be quadrupled—but lot us say only doubled. Wo have then a tax valuation of $420,000,000, producing, at 2} per cent, $10,400,000, Cover these lotsa now with buildings of the class which would surely result from such an improve ment, and you bave their value increased again three fold, glving a total valuation of $1,360,000,000, and a tax in crease, at 2} per cent, of $31,200,000, or more than is now collectad from the whole city. What has been the cost of this kind of farming, to the city Say the road has cost $20,000,000. The interest on this sum, at 7 per cent, =hich must ba ndded to one ennnal taxation, is §1,400, 000. Tne Increase or rovenue from the lots falvne is $5,200,000. Tho increase of revenue from the lots im proved, $26,000,000. All this upon the assumption that the rate of taxation remains at 23 per cent as now. But wefjshall of course have no need of such a revouue as this, By tho practice “of a better economy than has hitherto prevailed, our city expenses for the future should not certainly exceed those of the past, including the $1,400,000 interest on the new debt, It will be scen, therefore, that the gain of values thus shown will have for its immediate effoct the reduction of our rate of taxation to nh per cent, and in five years to less than 1 per cent. I have sald nothing whatever about the revenues of the road itself. In my opinion, this road adapted to the full wants of our city transit, followed, as it will speedily be, by a compactly built up city, and stimulating, as it will, a thonsand new activities, with their attendant trains of prosperity and wealth, we shall in a few years be able to pay all our ex penses and provide an swple sinking fund for our debt, with a taxation not exceeding one-half of one per cent, beyond which it will never again go, But, you will say, All this is very well; but will not the same effect bo wrought, if the work is done by pri vate corporations?” I answer, wo have wasted 10 years of ceaseless agitation for private corporations to do the work, and have loat in revenues twice what the work would have cost, and not a stone is turned. Snall we wait 10 years longer 1 Corporatione will do it only when they have secured advantages and imposed rates that make the work when done, an Phpiession upon the peo ple and not a relief. Witness the Viaduct with its 15 and 20 cent fares. A corporation with such powers as this, with capital to buy legislation and corrupt courts, ounce fastened upon the necks of the people, will ride that peo ple with merciless Opiteasion and resistless power, for generations to come, o cannot afford to “oll uf still less to risk. [It is the people’s work, It should be done now. New-York, Dec. 12, 1871, 8. E. CHURCH. STUPIDITY IN HIGH PLACES, fl 9 se Mees v UJ ABO ATV PU TsO. Sik It seems to mo that the press will be derelict to its duty if it does not enter 118 emphatic pro test against the shameful old-fogyism and neglect of the vonerable fossils who have been the medical attendants on the Prince of Wales. The bulletins thoy have sent out, daily and hourly, might have satisflod physicians and thinking men in the fourteenth or the fifteenth century but they could posaibly serve no purpose, except to help the stock-gamblers at the present day. The Prince of Wales, per se, was of no greater consequence than any other man of his age and stature; but the aceidents of birth and position have made his recovery or dissolution a matter of deep interest to millions in Europe and Amer fca. When medical science was merely the art of guessing, and not always guessing correctly, it was pardonable to “say, There 18 a little Improvement,” or There was alittle more fever,” or There was a slight exacerbation last night but that time ia past, thanks to the discov eries and observations of tho last thirty years. Medicine, 80 fur a8 diagnosis 18 concerned, has become one of the exact sciences. No intelligent physician can afford to ignore the positive diagnosis. In typhoid fever, whether simple or complicated, 1t 1s especially important, as showing from day to day, and from hour to hour, the ac tual condition and the proguosis (probability of death or recovery), so clearly that not physicians only, but every intelligent man, could readily make up their opinion of jie provable result of the case. I can make somewhat Rainer by copying (as I do below), for you a page of a clinical record, now widely used by the best educated physicians in this country and Europe. The variations of the tempurative from the ard of health either up or down, morning and even ing, or oftener: the daily average and the dally air feronco in the toémperature, have their special sig nificance for each degree in typhoid fever and ite com plications, as have also the number of pulsations and respirations, Hahificalict which 18 perfeotly under stood, and which if published four or flye times a day without comment, wuld have told the public the condi tion of the royal paient with absolute certainty, and have prevented the disgraceful stock apecniation of the st tow days. How long 1s the medica profession to be dishonored by the incompetency of physicials occupying its highest positions. M.D. Brooklyn, Dec. 11, 1871, [The Blank accompanying the above, if filled out by the particulars of an individual case, would ive the de groe-of fover or depression, average temperature in de grees, average pulse, and respiration, of the patient for each morning and ovening during seven days. These particulars in connection with (the age, sex, and condi tion of a sufferer, from typhoid fever, would undoubtedly give b physician a very clear conception of the degree of danger the patient might be in.—Kd.| "A MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT. To the Rditor of The Tridune y TL ee—— DER 1 ARTE UTM ITW 0 vowing crue sus goatlony for tho purpose of bringing before the people of Now-York an ideaof a city charter which would be truly metropolitan in its charsetor and designs, and with the hope that they may cloit an expression of opinion which could not be otherwise than advantageous. 4 T would include under one charter the City and County ‘of New-York, the County of Kluge, the part of @ie County of Queena west of and Including the town! of Jamaies, sud sg much 6f Westchester Cotuty dy is already virtu LY LU) Fm et ot LT ARE A bined torritories would be foried und managed in all its departiaents on the principle of the Cougress of (he When they do have a municipal frand in Bostan thoy make the most of it. Somebody engaged in digging down Fort Hill in that city has been swindling, and the city government has published a book of 190 pages on the subject, to the ig emolument of the ‘ity Printer. At this rate, what a library of publie documents we could get up in New-York! A Western woodsman recently found bim self helplessly pinned to the ground by a prematurely fall ing tree. He was a great distance from home, and in a few hours would donbtless have died from the pain and exposure, had not a little whining our who had missed his master, and tracked him to his wood prison, begun a mournful howl as a possible relief from the dreary monotony of the situation, This suggested to the sufering man something of the story-book kind, and call ing to his little pet, he smeared his ShagRy face with blood, and bade him return homes for help, The little ‘oreature evidently realized tbe Importance of his mis sion, for he trotted homeward forthwith, and breaking in upon the astounded household, gave the first alarm, He led the way back to the wounded man, and in an ecstacy of whines attested his satisfaction at the deliv erance, i A new feature of the Woman's Rights Move ment presents itself, away off in Spain, however, so that it is not certain that it will have any influence upon the Suffrage-Without-Distinction-of-8ex Question in this country, Heretofore, the men of Spain have meanly monopolized all the honor and glory of contending in the bull-ights; but now two young ladies, burning for distinction, bave entered the arena at Madrid, and have handsotels slain not less than three ng Novy dan gerous bulls. And what harin was there in their doing this? If in Spain or anywhere else it was proper for men to kill bulls, and not only profes but honorable, why should women be exclude m this noble field of humuene tion? And if woman can gloriously figure in o bull-figh., may she not be able to do the State service of a certain sort by cracking crowns in the scrimmages of a New-York election “The Duke” is the best described man who has been before the public since the Prince of Wales was pictured by the reporters. The Boston Post informs us that the Duke’s stature is six feet two inches; whiskers auburn; mustache dainty; hair curly; teeth pearly; nose regular; eyes large and mellow; lips soft and velvety; while his hands are of a size proportionate to his frame, though his pedal extremities are no bate than the aver age of those of the wale gender’—which 18 an importang tact, it it be authentic And what doses the reader think of this as a specimen fine writing in the sume news paper? Of the theater 1s said, The scene awaits the resence of the Prince to blossvm in a Sorgrous trans. vio into a rythmic festival of igh and music and splendor, set in a bright frame of international em en Blossom in gorgeous transformation into a ryth festival of light and wusic and spicudor is whau v be called good. The Cambridge students, upon the occasion of the visit of t'e Duke, proved themselves to be bug second-hand and sorry jestcrs after all. They rent an order, purporting to come from the President of the Uni versity, for thirty-five carriages to be in the college yard, and the vehicles were there on time. There was also un order forwarded to a we -kmown caterer ot Busta Jo bring to Cambridge a dinuer for 128 Petal, Waite wero dispatched in advance, aud 8o the fraud was dis covered pry This course sort of lying, or forgery, has nothing original about it; itis only a poor imitation of Theodore Hook’s Berners-st, hoax. Boys will be boys, even though they have been regularly matriculated. We need not expect premature anliness in Freshmen or Sophomor.s; and if Alma Mater should resort to the sweetly simple style of corporal punishment employed in aps these lads would have only themselves to blame it they should find their sedentary pursuits for a time uncom: fortable, Louisville people are very unsuspicious, and apparently consider a salary of $1,000 a year amply euficient to meet th: most Javish extravagance. A clerk in the Post-Ofide received only that amoust, and although he sported dismonlls lke a willionaire, and squandered monoy without stint upon fast horses and fast women, no one period Mm of dishonesty. He acted as general money-lender to his fellow clerks, yet no one questioned how be could spend so freely a RA always hive manev. Complaints of valuable letters being lost in thgmalls were frequent for a year before any quiry made as to the cause of their disappear ance, A wajeh Was Rually set, and the dashing «ierk Was detec ght aot stealing lever letters. of 50 await course ho wae BITCH not Dave iting cof concerved if his employers had ve detected his net discernment on \bly have saved a lye which uow [Fret cement, with no We have the bare giinouBeein. ARIgywen IB particulars, that seven young \rage Which does them the vicinity of Boston, with 8 with the sub great credit; have amrained cy or hereon this Ject ot «Spiritual Bclence, «gpiritual Bclence” bO Winter in seven towns. M,byol “Spiritualism,” tbe meant what is Yulgarly kno P because that ment is all the ioaaiag, iguorsnt and matter as $00 long been in A s been to make ei so ene man lls SENS T Fiore far vo Nitle law of Bath opoerni which wa @re muddle ps ng wo pave lapsed oe of of materiality 1 the worid nas arian 2outie ie Inte Hn ore sSpivituali or not eS vomotiuies called Bpiritism” ul iil United States, only with this difference, that 20,000 inbab itante should be entitled to one repraseniatire In the House, and 60,000 mbahMtauts to one The Mayor should be lothet by. batict in each repsescntative dis trict, one-half o tach triot neces sary £0 his election. No man shou £86 erosted to office in the sity ernment unless an owner ia [ee simple Ban worth of veal and so certified six menths before Flor tho ofa of Benator the qualification dbe in a Hanjol id Kvery man und woman,” geiriug Aut ir, t worth of real estete, free from shoul be entitled to a vote, provided they have ved in the city two months, and registered in thelr oleotion district. No one should be entitled to vote at any election for Henators or Representatives witbon having jaud direct taxes of $60 or poll tax of 86. Phere should be a special registry law for the city without reference to the State rlectivia) thas no man or womso Bhovid LS, Sijoss registe 30 days before t. election. lecuions sould be held on the second Tucaday 0 April every two cars, The term of office s! Ay for s Reprosents ve, two rs; for 8 Senator? AR oe pars, No offioel sbould be eligible for re. eleotion until the iapee of period equal to his term of office. gh sware that such a charter would meet with ve arent tion, because it would obliterate a numbdée. Ee Fa aiiad rm ft system of vernment, aud their followers re peatert nd Ballob-box stuffors beeanse it wonld reduce he combined expenses of government one-half, and pep: sate the city from the State elections because it would require the members of the varions Boards appointed by the Bator to be confirmed by the Senate, and the ews en be 4 both branches of the Government. Bus should such a charter and such a Government ever be secured, I aw persuaded all embraced in the metropolis, and particularly the propertv-bolders and the tax payers, would be inestimably benetited. C. yew- York, Dec. 3. 1571. rr CHEAP TELEGRAPH TOLLS. To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: I am constrained to call attention to the unwarrantable and oppressive rates of telegraph companies where there is no opposition. I had occasion, to-day, to telegraph to three different direct and easy “points, and the charges were as follows 10 words to Philadelphia, distance 316 miles... $1 28 10 wor la to York, Peon., distance 232 miles........... 1 4 10 words to Marysville, Penn., distance 196 miles...... 130 I fud many places, where thers are opposition lines, from which 10 words can be sent for from 20 to 30 cents, for about the same distance. Jt seems to me that if tele graph companies were wise they would only charge fair rates; and, if they consulted their own interest, they would court business by reduction of rates. Most busi ness men would prefer sendioi telegraph dispatches daily to writing letters, if it be done for a cost of say 20 oents each, as the time spent in yung would be wortn twice that amount, while the ginate in doing business, and the speedy return of capi would soon repay the extra investment. Business men would soon educate themselves to condense, and all ordinary bus ness could be intelligently communicated in few words. Telegraph men, reduce the rates, increase the business, and make money. E. GCULICK. Starkey, Yates Co., N, Y., Dec. 1, 1871. To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: The letter of E. Gulick from Starkey, Yates County, N. Y., complaining of the unwarrantable and oppressive rates Which he has paid for telegraphlog, has been duly received. We are much obliged for the opportunity of stating the facts of the case, which dis pose entirely of Mr, Gulick’s charges, at least 80 far as we are concerned. He claims that he has paid for Ten words to Philadelphia, distance 316 miles......... 81 35 v Ten words to York, Pena., distance 232 miles......... 110 Ten words to Marysville, Peann., distance 196 miles.... 150 In reply I would say First: The office at Starkey, Yates County, is not upon our lines, but upon the lines of tbe Elmira and Canan daigua Raliroad Company, which connects with us at Elmira. ll de mp =m aT Second The tariff from Philadelphia, York, or Marys ed Starkey, Yates County, both for the Railroad Cowpany’s line and for our line, is only 81 for 10 words in cach case. Any excess over $1 which Mr, Gulick paid is due to the fault of the operator at Starkey. He is not in any manner under our control hird The tariff of the Elmira and Canandaigua Tele graph line from Starkey to Elmira is 35 cents, for a dis tance of about 30 miles, The tariff of the Western Union Telesraph line from Elmira to Philadelphia, York, or Marysville, is only 65 cents in each case. It appears, therefore, that the tariff over the raflroad line is in this case more than three times higher, in projurtion to dis tance, than the tariff of the Western Union Company. Fourth I consider our rate of 65 cents from Elmira to the points named as low as the business will justify. It {8 unnecessary to point out that between large and im portant offices, handling great number of wessages, We can afford to do business at rates much lower in propor tion than between small places in the country, where the number of messages i8 necessarily limited and the busi ness barely pays expenses. GEO. HI. MUMFORD, Vice-Pres’t. Ereentive Ofice, Western Union Telegraph Company, New-York, Dec. 9, 1871. GENERAL NOTES.