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% mm NFW ENGLAND LETTER. THE NEW SOUTH?THE MALDEN BANK TRAGEDY ?ABUSES IN A ' REFORMATORY" INSTITUTION RECRUITING?NEW ENGLAND SANITARY FAIR? THE HEENAN AND KING MILL?THE WEATHER? VARIOUS NEW ENGLAND ITEMS. From Our Regular Correfq>onileiit. Boston, Mass., December 2^, 18C3. The arrival of the Fallen at New York yestr r lay (without a prize, for a wonder), admonishes me to prepare my hebdomadal contribution to TiieNiw Soith, else my paper may be stopped, and thus I be brought to grief, for I assure you Tiie New South is always a welcome visitor to me, and to all New Englanders who have friends in the Department of the South. I hear many compliments to yourself, Mr. Editor, upon the spicy, newsy character of your little charge, which is just what is needed in such a Department, for entertainment afcd for convenience. But I don't know that I t a ?u wnr from Boston. and llCCtl IU Willi' bUIO IU1 IUV w so, having briefly shown that I am sensible at least on one point, I will go on to other topics. The groat event of the past month in all New England, has been the Maiden bank mnrder and robbery, which I have before merely alluded to. "The latest previous event in tho whole word, that I am aware, of. which had any parallel to it, was the murder and robbery of the porter to the British Linnen Company's Bank, in Edinburgh, 57 years ago, described by Henry Cockburn in the "Memorials of his Time," and the perpetrator of that bloody crime never was discovered. In that instanee the murder and robbery "were effected in the street, after dark, but within a few rods of sentinels on their beats and the murderer got some four or five thousand pounds. The Maiden crime was committed in the middle of the day, in a bank building which is directly in the heart of the village, and young Converse, the President's son, was shot through the head, without anything unusual being seen or heard by the neighbors' or passers-by. Only $5000 was obtained. There is as yet no clue to the murderer. Skilful detectives are at work on tho affair, with no results whatever. Several parties have been under suspicion, and one. an ex-convict, whose wife resides in Maiden, was kept Under strict surveillance for ' 1 oAnl.1 nnf 1 to ft time, till it was oeciueu iua? jic wu,u the guilty man. Rumor has been busy al>ont the matter, and has made the Detectives almost omnipresent. announcing the arrest of the murderer by the same man in as many as ft dozen different places all over New England at the same time. "The Maiden people think the gnilty man is still in their midst, and that the truth may be developed ; but the proverb that "murder will out " is not always supported bv the facts, as witness the Edinburgh affair above alluded to, and, to come nearer home, the Parker Murder, at Manchester, N. II., nearly twejity years ago, the perpetrator of which has never been discovered. Another exciting topic, emanating from hereabouts, which is talked and written of all over the country, is a recent exposure of abuses at the House of Reformation for juvenile offenders, a 1,, inrntnd nt Deer Island. 7>unc?lji L'UUlln iunuiu?.w.., in Boston harbor, of which one Peyson, formerly Sheriff of Essex comity, and who recently replaced another man in his present position, is Superintendent. The judges of the Boston Police Court and the Judge of Probate are by law the Inspectors of Prisons for the county of Suffolk, and it is their duty to visit all places of confinement therin, at least twice a year, and report thereon to the Board of Aldennen. They are all gentlemen eminent for their personal integrity. It appears that they presented one of their halfyearly reports to the Board of Aldermen in July last, and in it made some severe strictures upon the House of Beformation. caused by the death of one boy and the crippling ol two others for life, the result, as they alleged, of gross carelessness, or extreme cruelty on the part of officers of the institution. Strange to say; the report never was noticed publicly, and although ordered to be printed as a document, but few copies ever got out. In fact, not to put too nuc ji po:m ujwh i?, if was suppressed, evidently, 1 v somebody's friends. About two mouths since tbev made another report, containing still severer strictures, including some on an acknowledged custom at the institution of chastising small boys wifch cartwhips. and others on a girl-beating arrangement of a disgusting character. It appears the inspectors visited the institution on tlic 2Stli of last July, and found the girl, who was about seventeen years of age, in a solitary cell, with livid marks, as large as one's hand, on her bark, where ?hp had been flocked with a rattan. The offence had been?making a rode reply to an accusation of tbe matron, The Superintendent coolly remarked that he very seldom had to flog a girl as severely as he did this one. but that he was deter mined to conquer her, and that when he couldn't break hor down with a rattan twenty inches long, | (and I have forgotton how thick,) lie scut ont for a larger one. The girl remained in solitary seven : days, and the Inspectors found her there, the : scars of the llogging still plainly visible, at the 1 i end of that time?and released her. It is doubtful if this Haynauism would ever have come to light, had not the Boston Daily llcrahl got hold of the report and published an abstract with lite" ? rm _ ral extracts of the most important portions, ine article was copied and indignantly commented on all over tlie country, from the Border States into Canada. Then followed a publication of the July report, wliich then first fully saw the liglit, and on Saturday the last report was published in ; full. It is generally believed that an investigation, I full and searching, without any whitewash, will be unavoidable. Recruiting progresses but slowly. I doubt if any New England States, except perhaps New ; Hampshire, will be able to avoid a* draft. The quota of Boston is 3,330, and up to this she has only, by the most laborious efforts, succeeded in ! obtaining 138 of them. Charlcstown has got less than a third of her quota, but is gaining fast of 1 late. Some of the country towns are recruiting from the freedmen within our army linos. The city of Bangor in Maine, has completed its quota of 300, and some of toe largf towns have got all they need. At Concord, N. If., about -10 recruits j come in daily; recruiting has been stopped for ' I the 2d, 3d," 8tii, 10th, *3th and 14th Regiments, ! , and is now going on /or the Cth, 9th and 11th i Regiments. The Fair in Music Hall, for the benefit of the New England Sanitary Commission was a most successful thing. About $150,000 was raised ; xt.. ?iVo .an ,rn?n of fVio lidnd nf it j lilt; im?iui-niuj vi mj ?p*v. < <. ... and to their credit be tt said, their efforts were no , half-horded oncafjf-tbey made valuable contrilm1 tions?pnrchaatdEarticles at exorbitant prices, and went in dee^in raffles and other games of chance where "the bank" had an immense percentage. Contributions also oarao in largely, and visitors numerously from all New England. New Hampshire ranking next to Massachusetts. Many a young man was made involuntarily generous to this noble Commission, by the appeals, bewitching words and looks of fair sellers of chance and waiters at tables. I uo not consider the above a sporting item or t that the Heenan and King fight is appropriate in connexion, but that in the topic which comes to mind next, and it is a lively one here just now. ; You have heard, all of you, how Heenan was laid low in 2.) rounds, though he went into the fight 2 to 1 strong, and even rallied to 20 to 7. There 1 was a good deal of betting in all our large cities, and I regret to say that even staid, sober citizens were foolish enough to bet on a contest in the P. R. Rut the Heenanites got taken in and theie is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth in their , land. Tom Grew, who keeps in Portland street j n rpsnrt frecmentecl hv Englishmen, laid some j $10,000 on king in odds averaging the rate of 1 j to 2. and wins thereby about $20,000, the result j making a difference to him of $30,000. Mr. Dan. j Dobbins, late proprietor of the Franklin Trotting ' Park, lost several thousand dollars on Heenan. i Hilly Morris, of the minstrels, who returned from England just before the fight, and was sura Hee- j nan was the best man in the world, is reputed to ; have lost some $5,000. Johnny Pell, his partner, ! i and F.ph Horn, of the same establishment, are \ i also reported to Lave lost heavily, and there is no j | end of victims. So much for those who bet on j prize-fights. The weather is finer tlmh is usual for the season. j In this vicinity we have had one or two small falls ; I of snow, but they were speedily dissipated by j rain or thaws. Now the ground is barely white, j * 1 1 * ~ 1 X- 3 r.f ' I OUT Iue streets mm nunu-wi.nt. vmj x- ,*x., | and frozen mnd as evidences of winter, so there is no sleighing here, or any where ou the sea coast j ; fn Xortben Bhode Island and Connecticut, tliere ' is fair sleighing: and excellent in Western Massa! chnsetts, all Xew-IIampshire, all Vermont and ; : most of Maine. j My letter is already too long, so^f will close . with a hodge-}>odge of items There have been several arrests in Boston of persons who have enlisted men without authority of the Governor, and j taken then to other tonus and States Hon. Henry Wilson opposes the abolition of the com-: ; mutation clause in the Conscription Act The ! lumbermen of Maine are making extensive arrangements for the winter campaign, which will l;e a brisk one In Tamworth, N. H., avo five persons w ho have entered on the tenth dcc*ule of life ! i ?Johanna Monlton. aged 9:1; Stephen Pliilbriek, 03; Ilenrv Wiggin, W; and Sally Mason, relict of Deacon Tnfton Mason, 91. In Windham there is a widow aged S3, who can read, knit or sew with-1 out glasses; she has 10 children, and 57 grand- i children, of which latter 30 arc males, and 15 have : ' been in the armv and 9 are there now An j Arostook (Me.) paper has an article headed?, "Hel!?its influences on man." Rev. Dr. . j Tappa^, of An<nj:U; died on the 22nd instant. ' 11 OBSERVER. Morris Isi.vxd.?The Correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer, writes as follows of Moms Island, which has become so famous in the history of the siege of Charleston. The subject is bv no means exhausted?will some body else give that dreary island "a first .rate notice?" "Coopir, in "The Pioneers," makes Leather', stocking say "that the best work God ever did was, building the Catskill Mountains." But what shall we sav of the " building" of Morris Island?this waste of sand, this desert of barrenness, this sterile drift of the ocean, upon which no vegetation (except the lowest type), dare grow, and over which the buzzard flaps his wings with disgust ? And yet the siege operations of this army will make it famous in all lands: its camp-fire talcs be told to generations yet unborn, and its deeds of blood and conquest be emblazoned on the annals of the great Rebellion. And to-day, in countless Northern homes, hotf many tearful eyes are looking down ncross the "mourning waste of waters" to this dreary isle; looking, in imagination, through trench and parallel, over bastion and parapet, where a brother, husband or father, fought and fell. Alas! looking also aleng the beach,^in the marshes, over the headlands for that one grace where the heroic dead reposes. I have seen miles of soldier-cemeteries in Virginia. where the Army of the Potomac had buried its fallen heroes, but I have never seen or imagined a more desolate place to sleep "after life's fitful fever" than Morris Island. The sun docs not shine here, it blears or scorches. The breeze does -1 v _ / T 11 not kiss, hut blinus you wun ciouus ci sanu ; me flora of the marshes brings no fragrance, but malaria ; the birds do not sing, bnt pipe notes oj ceaseless sadness. There is no forest to afford you shelter, no green valley to ramble over, no mountains with blue peaks to cheer the vision, and oven the sky and clouds appear mean and cheap as you gaza upon them day after day, and night after night. The ocean oighs with a dirge-like monotone as it chafes the bsach, or howls with rage when the storm drives it headlong and tumultuous against the head-lands and sand-drifts. Physically speaking, this island belongs to the Plentonie, if not the infernal, type ; was began nt the last end of creation, and was left for this besieging army to finish. Professor Agjlbhz might write its physical history?your correspondent cannot. Geographically considered it is a curiosity. Its first stratified deposits w*i e accumulated centuries before Secession was dreamed of, and yet its organic sand is excellent for building redans and fortifications; also good for trench work, as Gen. Giixmoue demonstrated months ago. Insular as it now is, there is a probability that it once belonged to the adjacent land* : but the tides encir-1 - 1 if nfftmm nnrl EV?llv T-jljinfle C'R'll 11, L'UIUH^ Ik VU l< vua vuuvw .?.u . , and from which it is now separated by Light Hons* Inlet. The two lost mentioned islands dissolved partnership with it in absolute disgust, and such is pride in South Carolina to-day that plover, marsh-hens and sand-snipe from Morris are considered vulgar, and rarely if ever associate with the respectable wild fowl of other sea islands In length Morris is about three statute miles: in width mysteriously uncertain, and in shape like a bologna sausage in Southward market." Thk Richmond papers are endeavoring to dense the cruelties practiced upon the helpless Union prisoners, and at the same time to incite the rebels to lurthcr atrocities, by publishing frightful stories of a plot which it i> sdleged has been detected among them to burn the city of Richmond! The idea that a handful of men, not only unarmed, but reduced to death's door by sickness and starvation, would attempt such a folly as the captur* or destruction of a garrisoned city like Richmond, is rather too large an imposition upon even the most oinplaisant credulity. ADVERTISEMENTS. A. L. STIMSON, AUCTIONEER FOR THE DEPARTMENT, Address Adams Express Office, Hilton Iliad. Metallic coffixs, for sale by C. W. Denxis Sc CO., 2Co. 4, butler's How DK. W. M. WALSH, Office No. 13, Sutler's How. A full supply of Drills,. Chemicals and Patent Medicines. August 29, lSCo.-tf ... ir'nr r"T T iv TrFiTiniTARTEHS.? J? UJiA, J1 k/UUUUUI ^ No. 3, East Houston St, (one ?loor East of Broadway) X. Y. (Above the St. Nicholas Hotel.) ITetdff'iatiers in AVw York, or the <tiHcer.- of Hilton Mead. Ale, Wines. Brandies, Whisky and Segars, of the choicest character. The current army intelligence, Ac. Near ail the places of public amusements, and the most popular place in the city of military resort cor* .IAS. I* FllAZEB, (late 47th Rrgt.) tag. 22-tf . Manager.