Show JLIJOCT ISAU Robert G Injrrxoll bite An td Irrvi ou HIP iiit > Jfrl ALBANY N Y Jan 21lIefore gt11BJi 3PVIIJ1SSI01ISItIP bert G Insersoll delivered nn address ad-dress upon the Eiiljict ° Crimes against Criminal in which at Uic outet he demonstrated that punishment t Jt t3 ment by torture and death have failed to abate crimes Crime Ie committed said he to punish crimes and crimes were committed to prevent pre-vent crme I is safe to say that governments have committed far more crimes than they have prevented pre-vented Colonel Ingertoll said ° Uu know that die of tlcsh and blood are transmitted from om generation to another Diseases of the brain and deformities of thu soul or rniutl arc also transmitted I aU perfectly satisfied that there are millions of people Incapable of committing com-mitting certain crime and it may be true that there arc millions more incapable practicing certain virtue vir-tue Vedo not blame man b cause he Is not t sculptor jioct bunter or statesman Vo say he has not the genius A re we certain it does not require genius to 0 good Coming down t the queiUonof of what can be done for the REFORMATION OF TiE C11IUINAL > Colonel Ingereoll said he should he treated with kindness Every right should 0 given him consistent uith toe safety ef society He should neither be degraded nor robbed Why should a State take without compensation the laborof criminals and why should they after having been imprisoned lor YCf turned out without the means of support Would it not 0 far better to pay these men for their labor lay aside tbeirearnlngs and put this money at interest so that when released he will have not merely enough moO to par his way tack to the place from which he was sent but enough to keep the wolf of crime from tIle door of his heart Referring to the question of what shall be done with the hardened or Inbitual criminals THE SPEAKER SAID Put one thou aud hardened thieves on an inland compel them to produce I what they cat and use and I am almost certain n large majority ma-jority would b opposed to theft Such a community would be self supporting Keep the sexes nb IUle1J apart and thoe who are b yond the power of reformation would not have the liberty to reproduce repro-duce themselves They should dwell apartaud dying leave no heir The death penalty Inflicted by the government is a perpetual excuse for mob The greatest danger I a r public is the mob and aslong n the rjtaUH inflict the death penalty mol will follow the example I we are to change tile conduct of men we must change their conditions con-ditions Burette poverty nod crime go band in hand Tenements Tene-ments and tau and rented lands are in my judgment the enemies off civilization They of-f a few 1 palaces pal-aces and tho many in prison Inclosing Colonel Inger ollsaid Ignorance filth and poverty are true mhuiouiries of clime As long as dishonorable success outranks honest eflorts as long I society bows and crinres before great thieves there will b little ones enough to fill thejalK A me Ininrclc E PASO Tea Jan 21The town of Paso Del None was considerably consid-erably excited today bya big 1J smuggling case M G Goes f agent and general yard master of the Mex Icn Central road in that city was pasting a train thit had been made up to go south when he discovered that the seal of a boxcar door had been broken He opened the door and found the car loaded with railroad rail-road tIcs and stowed able on the t top of tin ties were twentyfour bales of cotton cloth each bale containing con-taining from ten to twelve bolts of goods the whole being worth upwards up-wards < re 52000 He immediately reported discovery to the Mexican Mexi-can customs authorities1 and the goods wore seized and confiscated Mr C ton receiving onehalf their valiii The conductor and trains crew were arrested and imprisoned but went released later in the day I being ascertained that they were innocent nnd that a man turned Moth or Jdom owned the goodi and Is suppoi ed to have broken the seal nntsmu lcd them into the c A Pmer 1lu LONDON Jan 21Tb National llnestramtr Greece which arrived today roes New York reports tha she saw nothing on the losrage or Uiesame lines steamer Enn which sUed from New York December 2 for London and whlih has not yet I arrived I la feared tile JJia is I lost lost I ratal Explosion PITTSECRC Jan Iny an explosion ex-plosion of natural gas from the main at Swlcklev 1 g last night Mrs George Gibbs was fatally burned and her daughter seriously injured The ladles ilo carrylnL a lantern to light them home ant the gas which was escaping from a break in the main ignited Cabinet eIaue MADRID Jan 21me changes have been made in tho Cabinet since it was announced yesterday the Duke of Verasue has been appointed Minister of Commerce In aIplnle p lUca of SvUOT Bccerra who will become be-come Minister of Colonies I |