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We are informed by Messrs. Williams and Kimbrough, the gentlemen who have charge of the city chain-gang, that we were slightly in error in nothing the facts connected with the recent escape of Wm. Booth, a member of that valuable industrial institution. He was pursued, and would have been made to return to his work had not the absorption of their time and attention to that undertaking involved the possible escape of thirteen of Booth's compatriots. The chain-gang is a very good institution, if you give the keepers power to enforce their orders; but there exists an ordinance by which the Mayor only is clothed with the power appertaining to the custodian of such stray remnants of humanity as find themselves members of the C. G. The keepers! under the present arrangement, are powerless.

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