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Show HORRIBLE. HOW A KIlI OHM He'llOOl, WAH MANiIKi AT Pll'lrilldiOll, I'll. An oll'icial invft-ligaliull by the legislature leg-islature of Pennsylvania of the management man-agement of a reform srliool at Pitln hnrg, Inii tie veli iped a series of horrorH tuoi'd diabolical than can bo con ceived. Jl 'ippcsir.i that this reform ehool was instituted twenty yearn aj'.o, ami iti abuses have existed from 1 its tii.-t year to the preuent limo, : showing the mo.it culpable and criminal crim-inal negligence of the board of management man-agement in its Mijiervihion ol tho ollicers in charge. The fiml superintendent superin-tendent was a clergyman who do-b.tuchid do-b.tuchid the feinalu in mates, and continued his abuses until hu found bin appropriate place in tho utiilo prison, llu wan succeeded hy one Sweeney, whose ibigrant cruellies hi last became so intolerant that bo whs relieved, and an Episcopal clergyman hy tho name of Avery, who had been ' aeliug as a.-.-ihtant, was promoted lo his place and hkewiso to his cruelties, in which position ho moro than carried out tho savage brutality ol hia predecessors. Tho te.-tiuiony showed that little t)yd were inixeu in indiscriminately indis-criminately with older and hardened , youths confined lor crimes against the laws, and young girls wero compellrtd to consort with the vicious and ahan-1 ahan-1 domd of their own ncx. The testimony of pome of tho victims is almost too shocking for belief. A little girl, 8 years of age, fr impertinence to a teacher, Wiis liorco-wnippi.'d. put in a Mrait-jaikct, and kept upon bread and water fur three weeks. Another An-other was whipped until Iho blood streamed fruni her nhuulders. Another An-other girl, who was compelled to a-socialc with Cyprians, Bought to escape, and, being detected in the act, was tied to a chair and beaten unit! the blocd flowed from her hands an 1 hrea-l. Then she was taken to a cold room, in mid-winter, and was kept handciifled, the manacles piercing pierc-ing the lle.-ih, and while uho was thus kit. ml was struck in the f.ico by tho brutal superintendent. One boy was lie. Hi n until the biuod flowed from his Iwxiy, ;m. then was thrust into a cold ro ho, here his teut were frozen. Ano'.her received i ashes upon tiie h..re I ark. A uue-a rmed youth reft re-ft ivt d ''- la-he upon the hare hack, an ther v,.3 Ikd to a post and horse-MhippeJ horse-MhippeJ until he fell exhausted, l'luio are a ft:v instances out of columns of bwrrs wiiieii are printed in the report of the comiltee. They mIiow a systematic continuance of brutal inhumanities blacker than any ever drawn by Mr. Dickens or Mr. Kc.nle. Undtr the management of Liie.se atrocious brutes this reformed schoul was literally a heil upon earth, turning out upon society theives and prostitutes, ina.le so hy tho brutalities of the fit: peri ntend cut and his convenient con-venient assistants, who seem to have shared in the cruellies of their superior. supe-rior. It ii ditficult to conceive how such infamies could have been perpetrated per-petrated year after year without publicity, cxceptVis our correspondent intimates, that it was a close corjora-tion, corjora-tion, and that it was therefore impossible impos-sible to get al its abuses uulii the state al l ist took tho matter into its own hands. There is a prospect now that these abuse's will be corrected, inasmuch inas-much as the state proposes to Like the control of Ihe institution out of the hands of the negligent, incompe enet, and culpable board of management, manage-ment, and conduct it as a state institution. insti-tution. Chicago Tribune. |