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tlj- Bv referring 10 the letter IRON w a'ui"s -, A.
,ecn iAa, the House of Representatives have


1a,, on ,tc Fi.c, Bank Bill to-day, at 70 o'clock
The bin will undoubtedly pass the House 'hS "N' "
the shape in which it came from the oe"a0'


Ma. RoosEyELr AND THE GESERAL bASh"ofi AA''


W. believe the statements made in the following letter were
;aed TO be given the public and we nave thought pest
70 oivc them in the language of the writer;


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Aug. 1871.


s,eI have Just received copy your paper OF yes


- IN which l am represented opposed TO the Bankrupt


and endeavorng defeat it, passage. The fact Is pre-
III e reverse and WISH therefore you would correct the


sapprehen.ion Ny opinion has been for and has been
freely expressed that nasmuch the States had delegated e
mower Of establishing uniform laws the subject OF BANK
ruptcies General Government II was the duty Oh Ia
Government exercise the power and fulfil the trust The
trust 1cQs fulfilled for 800 and IS 10 be deepy re
GREETED that the Act passed at that early day. instead oei
repealed in 1903 had been amended and preserved
as one Of the valuable features in the National Code


! am sir very respectfully, your ob't servt,


THos McELRArH Esq JAMES ]. ROOSEVELT.


Now while sincerely dcsrous do justice 10 the motives
and the conduct of political opponents we are compelled
10 adge of them by their acts rather than their pro-
fesons when marked discrepancy between them Is mani


fest That such the in this instance let facts establish


Mr. Roosevelt a member of the Judiciary Conmi'tee
which reported Bankrupt bill with resolution declaring II
aaexpedient upon the subject at this Session The
Chairman Mr. Barnard remarked that he and Mr. Brown
t Tenn mot james j. Rooseve did not concur in this
fatal resolution and notion it Instantly lad on TIE
tsbe by vote of 1lS 8l-JAMEs j. ROOSEVELT End aH
his Loco F0co colleagues in The Committee uOting against
zaying the Resolution The tadle in favor of giving the
subject the goby till Session Sec Yeas and Nays in
The Tribune of the ODD


If Mr. Roosevelt considered important that the Bank
Tariff Public Land and Loan bills should be pressed forward
as fast possible very well and he had only voted to put
these through first we could have made all due allowances
But reporting and voting against considering the subject
at all this Session. he voted contrary the wishes of his
sucnts and manifested unmistakuble hostility to TIE
measure We him that this matter is understood
hero; and when that he is opposed to passing
,, Bankrupt Law this Session he does need mask
farther If Bankrupt Law proper needed, II
is so now and ne who opposes its at this Session
will oppose if he do it without odum


~ An enthusiastic Meeting of the citizens of Brooklyn
opposed present system of State Prison labor was held
on Wednesday cvening-WM. H. PECK in the Chair, G W.
SrrLwELL Secretary Addresses were made by Messrs.
RIDDLE, WAYDELL, CHURCH and TREApwELL; and reso-
uons strongly expressive Of the sentiments of the meeting
were adopted. CHARLES RIDDLE, Esq presented to the
meeting an Address the Mechanics of the State of New
York which warmly commended and universally aS-
proved Of Delegates appointed to attend the State
Convention of Mechanics be held Albany the ls of
September next.


G The Albany argus endorses assertion of the Chi
caro- Democrat that Illinois will only receive $37 900 per
annun from the Land Distribution, which would afford her
no essential relief But this grossly untrue Suppose the
receipts from Land Sales per shall be $36OO0OO OF
which $50O0OO for Lands in Illinois That State, under
1hc Land BILL would first receive $4,000 per cent
the Lands sold within her own limits and SIS 900 her
share of the proceeds-in all, sl25,Ooo Is that
Thing But what says the Argus to NEw-YoRKs receiving
about $4O0 900 per annu from that Dstrbution Is
that no object! What say the Forty panic-na-
kers to this efficient antdote Estate Bankruptcy and
grinding taxation 2"


" The terrible Murder of Miss Rogers excites daily
deeper and wider interest city, Well may it do So
Young leaves her home Sunday morning, and is
nhcard of till the following Thursday when she is found
horribly outraged and murdered Hoboken week has
since passed and clue the perperator of the awful
crime is yet found Our police the alert, bur we
fear too late What has the Mayor been doing We hear
that he awaits the offer of reward from the Governor OF
New-Jcrsey before offering himself. This is wrong.
The criminal probably than the VICTIM belonged To
Newersey; the offence strikes the safety and peace OF
The citizens of Newly York-Who Miss Rogers Hobo
ken on Sunday week VIII any whodid and hesitaes
10 go before the Police please address stating the
facts this office


Gov DoTY.-A large meeting of the Wings was recently
held Prairie du Chen, Wisconsin, in relation TO Governor
Doty whose appointment by the President highly salts
factory to the Wings of that Territory. No could have
been selected who better qualified fill the station The
Opposition however, with dsaeced Wings, doing
all they vfy his character and destroy his influence
a, home and his reputation abroad.


MORE DErALcArox-Letters from New orleass say ,ha,
the sudden death of of the Teers in the Canal Bank
had caused investigation his which, far
as the examination had proceeded had disclosed deficit of
over $4,000.


Die&, in Brooklyn, Monday, August 3D. Miss Lucy
HoorxR, aged 25 years.


Silence fitting language of grief; We, suffer
our rareygied friend to sink a'o the grave without
sc sad tribute OF and gratitude For years