Forced Contributions.
--The prisoners in the city jail, or at least a portion of them, have appointed themselves tax layers and gatherers on all new comers, and those who refuse to comply with their demands are sometimes handled in the roughest manner. Yesterday morning a paroled Yankee prisoner, called Thomas O'Neal, who was incarcerated some, few days since for being drunk and disorderly in the street, appeared before the Mayor and testified that he had been equally beaten by other jail birds for refusing to pay five dollars as an entrance fee to their select circle. O'Neal had his forehead bound up to conceal the wounds inflicted by his persecutors, but his blackened eyes, swollen cheeks, and scores of outs and contusions inflicted with an old razor, showed that he had been badly used. He stated that when he was committed he had but $18, and this amount be desired to preserve to pay his lodgings with when he should be released. --The Mayor sent him to the Grand Jury to make his complaint against his tormentors.