as the most outrageous wrong. He has put
an end to all attendance, from the city, upon prison meetings of every
class, except when he may give special invitation himself; has abolished
all lecturing to the inmates by outsiders; and would have abolished the
secular school, but for the persistent efforts of the chaplain; has
ended the custom of having the female prisoners assemble with the males
in the chapel Sabbath mornings for worship, requiring all moral efforts
made for them to be put forth in their work room. He has also ended all
funeral observances at the prison, cut off all distribution of religious
tracts to the prisoners, and all trinkets or trinket-making in the
cells, and has forbidden the receiving of presents from friends,
excepting tobacco, &c.

If there were prison abuses in any or all of these, he has effectively
corrected them, and should receive the full credit.

Then there were those two orders which he established in the shop, and
he should be credited with whatever good they secured. The one was, that
a man, meeting company in a door or pass-way, must turn and face the
wall till they had passed, thus professedly not seeing them, though,
before turning, he must have enjoyed the sight of all. The other rule
was, that the men, when waiting for work, must stand at their machines,
and by no means sit down.

In respect to account-keeping, no comparison can be made, for, previous
to the service of this warden, the arrangement had been entered into for
him to have no concern with that, the financial matters being attended
to by an agent.

We come next to the behavior of the prisoners, the great point really to
be looked at,--the one which outsiders, no doubt, always suppose to be
meant, when reading or hearing about gains in prison order. In the
chapel, with the most critical observation and careful weighing, I could
not discover the slightest difference. The behavior was good, equally
good at all times, in both years. So, also, in the hall, as far as my
knowledge extended. As to the shop, I could not pretend to judge from
personal observation, but an overseer, who served under both, gave me
all needed information. He said, that he found it more difficult to keep
order in his division the second year than during the first; that some
were more excitable, revengeful, inclined to vent their spite on their
machines, if nothing else; to throw those out of order and break things
generally, costing him far gre