New York Daily Tribune

Militia Fines.--Out of 300 persons committed to our City Prison, Eldridge-st. during the past year, 88 were for Militia Fines. From Jan. 1st to 12th, 13 have been committed, 6 of them for non-payment of Militia Fines. One man was committed last Fall (a journeyman tailor) who could neither speak nor understand English; he was poor as could be, with a child sick of typhus fever at the time, and another was born to him while so confined. Many are imprisoned who are absolutely unable to pay. The Militia officers are now collecting fines for three years back; the 97th regiment, we understand, is collecting for 1839. The prisoners have no bedding. One Quaker, whose conscience would not allow him to pay, was kept there several days till some friend paid him out. We hear complaints that fines are collected of persons against whom no warrants have been issued. It strikes us that this is not the correct thing, any how.