The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-11-08


with dire plaques and psstiences, sweeping like
food over the broad surface of human society,
and carrying off thousands and tens OF thousands
TO premature graves. These singular pestilences
have sometimes appeared confined to particular
suot,-sometimes they have been almost univsr-
sal in the range of their destruction. Medical
history records several of these terrific vista
tiops. The first we read offs the plague ofAthens,
which Hippocrates has described with such ap-
pslling fidelity. Then we have in the middle
ages, the sweating sickness, which swept all over
Europe, and desolated extensive districts and
cities. Next came the small pox, which, until
late years, was a regular and general plague,
carrying off, we may say, millions of youth
and infants. Then, lastly, appeared the Ash
attic cholera, a new form of disease, spread
ing terror and dismay by the suddenness
of its attack, and the rapdity of its fatal crisis.
II may not be agreeable, but It certainly is both
necessary and useful to make ourselves acqualnt-
I'd with these things and to call the attention OF
The public to them at the proper time. As our
readers will have perceived by the many and va
rous accounts from Europe, recently published
in our columns, the cholera, that hateful and
dreaded visiter who spread such dsmay in our
cities a few years back, and robbed 80 many
market gardeners of all the profits usually de-
rived from cucumbsrs, squashes, and melons,
has again made its appearance, dawning again
with its lurid and dismal darkness, over the same
regions where it first began its desolating march
in 1882 Of all cities in the world, New York,
from the filthiaess of it's narrow alleys and
crowded streets, had, perhaps, the most to fear
from visiter who seems to delight, like some
ha in
dirt and walow in the mire. Without coveting
the distinction Of being the first to sound an
alarm, or awaken the fears of the tlmid,we deem
it our duty, as public journalists, to impress upon
the minds of our municipal authorities IN this,
as also in every large city OF the Union, the
sacred and imperative duty deyolved upon them
from their official situation of preparing, by
wise precautions and judicious sanitary regula-
tons, against the possible calamity of such
awful vsitations. We are glad to be able to
congratulate our citizens in this city upon the
progress of improvement in the construction Of
sewers, and the prospect which is afforded that
our city may yet become as famed for its cleanli-
ness, as it is for its extent and wealth, and as
hitherto has been for its lamentabe want of
cleanliness With such preparations, and with
such supply of pure streams of running water,
which our magnificent aqueducts yield, we
shall be better able to meet and encounter
the approach-lf it should approached this or
any other fearful epidemic. But we wou!dstrong-
ly urge upon our Corporation and city authorl-
ties the wise maxim Of Cesar. "Ml reputnns ac-
tum, dun quincquid restat agendum' that is, to
consider nothing as done, SO long as any thing
remains to be done. The beginning made is an
h.no hat fIl
further and greater energy will be applied IN the
prosecution of all these public works, so that our
city may be prepared, in due time, against the
possible recurrence of those great public calam-
ties and public diseases to which such an i'm
mense aggregation of human beings, in 30 small
a space, is in the nature ofthings, inevitably ex-
posed. Timely precaution is wisdom, and time
ly warning deserves attention and consideration.
POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS BETWEEN THE UNITED
STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN Every body who
is acquainted with our history, must have no.
tced with admiration the spirit and energy
with which we have repeatedly defeated, in
peaceful manner, the most unjust measures of
the British When the British threatened to
hang up some of our officers, Washington imme-
diately placed under arrest several British Off
GERS, and threatened retaliation. Again, in the
war of 1912, when the British seized upon some
of our men and threatened to shoot them, be-
ethey were British born subjects, our govern
ment retaliated, and saved the men, by threaten
ing to execute a double number of British pri-
soners. These are military instances of military
retaliation we have now to record what may
be considered curiosity in the history of ma.
tons namely, civil and commercial retalia-
ton. The situation of affairs in relation to the
mails and the postage between the United States
and the British government, sShas been 80 often
,dvered to and explained by us, that it Is unne-
cessary here to repeat all the history. Below,
however, we give the utimatum of our govern
nent. This document is important; it is an act
Of Just reprsal. We give place to this record
with pleasure-we call attention to it with some
pride, and we hope it will have the effect, as in
former military cases it has done, of bringing
back the English government, per force, to ra-
tona, Just, and amicabe postal relations
PUBLIC NOTICE.
Posr OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Nov. s, ls47.
The British government having 1t to charge with
full postage the Atlantic the nail matter which
actually conveyed across by the United States nail
stsamsr Washington, 1t bsosne necessary
Of self protection that this should take the
sps therein authorised for terminating the subsistnp
arrangement between the two countries In relation
well British mails In transit through this country for
their colonial possessions this continent the ordi
nary mail between those possessions and the
United States This was accordingly done: aud those
will In consequence terminate the six
teenth day Of the present month
The necessary result will be- that and after the Fix
tespth instant mail matter destined for any Of the
British possessions this continent will be permitted
the Unived States unees the United States post
age thereon IL previously fully paid.
CAVE JOHNSON, Postmaster General.
Sporting Intelligence.
GnEAT TRorTIre M ATcH, To.pAY.-The trotting
match for $1,000 between Rpton and Lady sutton will
take place this afternoon at the Csntrevie Course L.