The New York herald., 1846-06-03

chant" and ''The Turnkey's Daughter" Carey
& Hart, Philadelphia interesting tales on
very fertile theme.
City Intelligence.
The MIsrERIEs OF New YoRK.-The old adage that
zone half the world does not know how the other hall
ves has no better application any where than in this
very city Of New York Here packed on to this
and the manner in which many OF the members OF this
community live, is caution to all decent and respectable
people The mysteries of New York, yet, remain un-
written. and when some master mind arises who
shall faithfully delineate them picture OF crying
misery wealth sadness and mer,iment will be exnpl. bit
tween the honest honorable tong merchant who iaoors
necessarily at his desk and the low miserable thief who
watches the slightest opportunity of stealing shilling
or the beggar who stops at the corner and supp
Gates you for the gift of penny there is great yar
ETY. OF grades There living in this city whose
hands have known honest labor and yet who live
in luxury and wealth, men who strut through Broad
most sumptuous fosd. Among the many modes pursued
BY men in this city for obtaining living is gambling
on the Five Points but betting hfes and hundreds on
the turn OF card in splendid rooms, garnished with the
tuTe where wines oW as freely water gushing from
fountain and where the most delicious viands nat the
palate could wish for are served for the
of customers Few persons OF the extent to
which gambling is carried in this city Paris, in its
palmsst days, probably more prolific Of fash
ionable hells than New York is at present Many of
these houses public of them strictly private
In the former seated around farotabe watching with
interest the cards they turned from the
dealers box are men Of every station in e from the
clerk in the counting house, with salary scarce su'
cent to clothe him. up to the merchant or banker with
his hundreds Of thousands And here may be found men
in no small numbers, who in years gone by were hour
reasnT ~ who were worth their thousands
and their hundreds of thousands reduced now to
mere hangerson at these establishments, watching with
eagerness the winners in the often deusve hope OF pro-
curing from them small of money with which they
hope to win The keepers of these establishments: are
general thing, fine, gentlemanly fellows who, in
their earlier years became addicted to the vice of gamb
ling and having saved some little money adopt this course
he upper pa Of lie city, are gaming houses
strictly private where allowed to enter with
out an and registry y 81 the ad name IN hs
moncyed men, and men Of respectabiy and standing IN
society-who " wouldn't have il known for the world "
red on. There probably in this city 1--WE hundred
lotteries and policies are sold all who will buy them
And this is not such improbable business At one Of
the smallest of these establishments understood from
one Of propretors few days SINCE that the receipts
amounted to two hundred dollars per day. Taking this
dred thousand dollars which not probably an over es
innate expended in this manner daily There are inths
city men who for years past have lived as .aey ca
and all sorts Of plans concoced for the raising
money by borrowing, swindng, or stealing, in such
manner to become liable to the law. These opera
tors are divided into several classes from the gentleman
y fellows who get their friend" TO endorse their notes
for five hundred to the wno 90h's .
book" There is a house near Broadway, where hese
latter geniuses congregate in swarms They are ever
on the lookout for subject they can catch one
gazing with eager eye upon the pictures of the museum
they step up him and venture remark upon the ac-
curacy the paintings the weather something COM
monplacc The victim If he takes and enters into con-
versation done" for all he has about him, and allow
cd to g. i he
look the hordes of gentlomany dressed pickpockets
who frequent all the public meetings. and all places
looking, finely dressed fellows gentemany in their ad-
Dress voube in conversations but before you are aware
book has passed from your pocket into theirs There
various lights in which this picture may be viewed
be some poverty Where many live upon the public,
few least, must labor hard and acquire nothing Alta
future time may give another chapter on the Myste
ATTENTION TO EMroRASrs.-Most of the Liverpool
packets when they arrive at the wharf have arrange
ments made for the convenience Of emgrans assisting
them in getting the baggage out OF the hold &c This
il highly commendabc, and should always be done.
We noticed however. ship arriving few days SINCE
where attention of this kind paid the emig rants
being obliged to get up their baggage with ropes and
lug Il on shore themselves
HEATING AND vENrILArISe SLEEpIrGRooMs AND
scHooRooMs-In the letter Of Doctor John H. Griscom
TO the County Superintendent of Common Schools which
appended to the report Of this officer presented to the
Board Of Education, the 18th instant we find the fol-
lowing facts and suggestions, which we commend to the
fathers Of families Dr. Griscom says there two po
stons Of youthful life than all ohcrs productive
Of physical evil to this portion Of society viz: sleeping
and schooLrooms In these the child passes more
least exposed TO the health-bghting and life
shortening influences Of close and impure air. and If
there preponderance Of evil upon the side Of either Of
those positions, inclined to think is against the
schoolroom." Doctor Griscom continues we have
astounding facts the basis Of reasoning first
that quarter of ell who born die before attaining
the fifth years and second that one half nearly die before
arriving at manhood. Add to these another important
fact that scroula Is believed the increase and that
according the opinions the most eminent medical wr
ters both hempheres this protean disease produced
directly by the respiration Of foul air. He continues
the principal Of mpurty in the air OF school
ROOM are respiration perspraton, combustion and the
dust of furniture, clothes, sc. To maintain good at
osphere says the doctor two things must be attended
to- first the removal Of those impurities fast as they
are generated and second the supply Of amount Of
external air sufficient for all the demands that posi-
bly, be made upon it, Doctor Griscom recommends the
following methods for ventlating and heating school
rooms &c :Therc various means' says he "for
hausting the air from II may be drawn of either
from the top the bottom and the motive power may
be the same in either Fues in the wall with aper
lures into the will answer the purpose, IL sufficient
ly numerous, IL they heated, which they must be
to be OF any service School rooms in private dwellings
may be ventilated in this way, BY chimney aues, also
may be chambers and parlors" The available plan
of exhaustng the impure air Of school room and keep
ing up current Of air thoroughout It, would be to
centrate the fues in the wall into aue in the attic Of
the building in which fire should be kept burning dur
ing school hours The termination Of the arfucs should
be below the re then all the air for the combustion
would necessarily from the school room, and con-