The New York herald., 1846-06-02
City lnte1llgenoo,

WAsrH or PusLlc MoSrr.-For soma time past, CON-
plants have been repeatedly made to us In relation TO
tho manner In which public money has been and contn
ues to be- squandered away in almost every department
Of the city government During the past winter it was
by no means an unusual sight to number of labor
ers at work shovslling from the sidewalks around
the Tombs, or carrying in few loads Of coal intended
to be used in the culinary department Offices connect
ed with the City Prison. leach receiving fair
ration for their servicss while perhaps from thirty to
forty able bodied loae were allowed 10 remain dle or
amuse themselves in any way they saw it, within
the walls Of that building.
has been intimated that under the present admins
traton of the city government the tax payers dollars
have found another outlet in another quarter and this
the almshouse department From the information i'm.
rarted to have to believe that there il less
attention paid to economy in the disbursement Of public
money in this department, than have right to ex
pect 1t appears that there several vehicles horses
and drivers kept for such duty connected with the aims
house department the commissioner may assign them
such as the conveyance of sick and destitute persons
from their atodes to the alwshouse hospital accord
ing to the nature Of the also for the conveyance
of persons to the Pottersed for nterment In
expenses 1t has likewise been customary to employ
these public vehicles horses and drivers to remove the
bodies such unknown persons as are found drowned in
the docks, &c. to the deadhouse IN the park, building
erected expressly for their reception, with view Of be-
ing and recognized by the friends Of the deceased
and inquest being held upon them but of late for
unexplained cause or other the having charge Of
these public vehicles &c. have refused to remove such
bodies to the deadhouse even when notified to do SO BY
the coroner in consequence of which, the latter
compelled to employ other vehicles horses and to
perform the necessary duty and charge the expense in
CURED thereby to the Corporation; in other words
the taxpayers Of the city while these and horses
kept by the almshouse department remain at ease in
to Ssir
the consideration Of the powerstha be II is to be hoped
that the subject will receive due attention. and render
any further remarks unnecessary.
DocroR ADAMS DIscoURsE.-A discourse, ON the SUBJ
ject of the New World, its History, and Prospective
Relations to the DID, delivered Sunday evening
the Rev. Dr. Adams The audience as usual when the
reverend gentleman preaches was both numerous and
during the delivery of the DISCOURSE 1t has been well
remarked by eminent author that next to just idea
Of the nature and object Of pulpit eioquence the point Of
the subject which he breaches" On all occasions,
Dr. Adams carries this excellent maxim out to the very
appropriate or better suited to the times which live
to the great events which are now developing them.
and politics. and the results they likely TO produce
either for good evil on the future destiny of the human
ace-could not well be made. This attention to the
proper selection of subjects to be distinguishing
point in the character Of the sermons Of Dr. Adams He
commenced by an allusion to Genoa which, he said,
claimed the distinction Of being the birthplace Of Christie
pher Columbus and then continued to trace all the cir
cumsances which led to the discovery of this hemi-
sphere by that ceeDrdted navigator ana the
changes il had wrought in the then condition Of mankind
and their future destiny He then took the subject Of
the reformation and gave minute and affecting account
Of the suerngs and of the early reormers
both in England and the Continent by the crowned
heads Of Europe He showed that at the very time Henry
Will protested against the supremacy Of the Pope and
declared himself the head of the English Church, the
slightest deviation in other respects from the Of
the ancient church punished with the greatest
vory and during the reign of Elizabeth although she
had completely separated herself from the Pope the
and cruelty continued the dis
senters The discourse purely historical and intend
ed to prove that the great principles Of the reformation
were yet fully developed and that it this
tinent they were to be contaminated.
DEATHS DUNNO MAY-The following il the report Of
deaths the city from the 25th of April to the 30h of