An Escaped Convict Brought Back

wüo carne to pnson 1 uesday irom Ann Arbor tbr a year for forgery, haa been there beforo. Yestorday Mr. Shaw, foreman of the Cooley contract, recognized him as James D. Williams, who escaped July 20,1863. Williams, alias Michael O'Grady, waB sent froui Kalamazoo in April, 187'2, for eighteen months for larceuy. He had served a term in Auburn and one or two in the Detroit workhouse. He behaved well here and when his time was noarly out was permitted to work outside with a foreman. Saturday, July 19th, ten days before he was to be discharged, the tearaster was taken sick and Williams was sent to put the team out, as it was not supposed that he would run away when his time was so near out. After putting the team out he " put out " himself and left no clue as to his going. It was understood at the time that he expected to be arrested as soon as discharged and ran away to avoid it. It tran8pired that he went west and served a term in a western prison. He showed himself in Jackssn a short time ago, when he visited the Prison and had Mr. Shaw draw an order for $5 due him from the oontractors for overwork. He forged an order from another foreman and it was cashed by Withington & Cooley. He then went to Ann Arbor, and there under the name of Dolan, forged another, for which crime he was sent up for a year. When that pear is over he will serve out the three months good time that was due him when ho ran away, and if he should be prosecuted for his forgery comuiitted ïere, it is likely that his address will De Jackson for some timo to come. - It is said the present Committee on Appropriations are behindhand, as compared with others that preceded thein. That is true, and for the best of reasons. The Republicana did nothing but mere routine. They reported the same bilis substantially year after year, with constant additions under a rule that permitted salaries to be raised and expenses to be increased, but forbade reduction in either. With the exception of new offices and new appropriations, thore was nothing to change, and any clerk could have reported the bilis. Now it is proposed to inaugúrate a new systein entirely, and to sponge out the old corrupt prácticos. To do this well, so that it can be defended and the country will be satisfied, requires time and the most searching examination. There is no hurry for appropriation bilis, because they are always sure to pass, whatever else may fail. The Committee is entitled to the utmost indulgence, and will receive it frorn those who are most interested. The question of questions before the Congress is retrenchment and reform. It comes home to every man's fireside and supplies with equal force the great operations of the government. All the elections for two years past have greatly turned upon that issue, and the Deniocrats are largely indebted for their present majority to its advocacy. The people demand it everywhere, and nothing but a radical change in all the departments will fulfill their just expectations in thig respect. Therefore the Committee on Appropriations will do well to make haste slowly, and to guard every point as they go on. The oountry is with them. - JV. Y. Sun.