New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-07-17
CITY ITEMS.

resrs OLD and neither man nor boy cart nor wagon was
nesr 70 aid her. how bitterly that poor woman ara
COB One afternoon last week wheeled store cart
passed M toward the Deaf and Dumb Asylum With
grown persons coffin in ii-no pail attendant only
the corpse she'll and carter He drove hard, bat
stopped near the Asylum TO ask where the ersve yard
was Three weeks since a woman and her daughter as
Il seemed 70 passed NJ With cof ned corpse OF the
infant Of the siter-uo attendants were there but the
grand mother the weeping mother and their dead babe
Frequently old passes up with four wheeled
cart loaded with cofHned eorpses-somernes no pail
10 decent covering Al other times BIT OF white cotton
10 thrown the remains Of the dead Now snd then,
a, midnight one or two with corpses will pass
up with 'ils ceremony ifhs drivers were carrying
load oflo1se earth to level the streets The mum
Der thst pass upward this highway OF the King Of
Terrors Is truly Astonishing and the miserable condition
Of the deposited too often sested By the neglect with
which their remains sre treated Sometimes Gsst night
for instance there will be mourning coach or two in
attendance on funeral but not often. One day lsst
week plain dressed msu wearing much worn blue
coat vas seen carrying his back al alone the coffin.
ei BODY Of bis dead son years old He asked the loan
OF spade and go,it TO dig his childs grave The boy
who wen, to get the spade for him asked Why be to
dgthe grave himself 70 which the reply Because
! have 20 money to pay another
Perhaps that boy in language less poeticsl but
more emphatic a. he wasted and pined in the sitting
Storage Of Dublin trader hsd oudy eutresed bis ago
nzed father to bury him where the loved Of hi.
infancy would be near biz las, resting place
Let nv death slumbers De whore a mothers prayer
And sisters tear shall mnsle there;
o twill be sweet Ger the hearts thr0b ia Ger
To krow when its fountain shall gush no more.
That the friends often have yesrnedior viii come
And plant the first wild aowers OF Spring round my tomb
An unattended funeral always looks 20 Us. gloomy
and desolste When In former years the New Orleans
Pcauas has described the terrors Of the pesilence
the unattended hesrse TIE ouehorse scmbre vehicle,
with rs careless blsck driver hurying along 10 the
graveyard with bis pulseless passenger not soul fol
loving 10 perform the last rites Of departed friendship
We perceived nothing to indicate that want had caused
the apparent negect-the Editors Inference wss, tina,
distant stranger had caught the yellow fever whom per
hsps some loving wifi, sfscronste mother or gentle
sister anxiousy expected 20 return To his happy home
Here. however the idea hsuuts one. that the poor
whom oppression bath driven from the soil their fathers
trod are arriving among us st Montreal, in wo and
wretchedness and breathing their last on the very
threshold of this fair land OF promise which they
pected 10 have found haven Of rest No doubt i, is
so in many csses-snd in others the Of such
misery ~ We nave strh - hluUhuil ht1tuA rfii
Only few short weeks ago. our benevolent citizens
fastened 10 besow their and hundreds Of thousands
OF dollars In order to mitigate the misery which was
depopulating unhsPPy lreiaud-msny thousands OF re-
fueees have since been aided by the generous munih
conce of Northumberland yet there is room. This arii
Gle Is peuned in the hope that means will be
devised 20 prevent the necessity If such H. of women
In America staggering in the under MONDAY
81. hi 4 elftr4
the cold high north latitude Of human e but Of the
early pledges Of their youthful welded loves-wretch
e. fororu md seemingly Misunderstanding to reach
the last abode OF trail and feeble mortality the spot
where
An 10 the dust are equal made
with me poor crooked .cythe and spade
Where bat the actions OF H. Just
smell sweet. and blossom in the dust
our City generous the poor kind and considers,e
to the helpless stranger. Nowhere in America have
greater efforts been made to aid the needy and decenty
tres, their remains Al the last hour Cannot this benefit
b. extended to 81 Shait not be our Citys mpersh
able monument
Think Of Luxor on the Nie--its vastnesf-ts i'm
meme commerce-its caravans threading continents
What renainsi Only the ruins the obelisks pyramids
and sphyuxes with the countless mummes that once
we're living men and women Their exploits their bis.
tory their mighty power their sages and heroes their
rise decline and fall no shall tell of them' AL all is
forgotten.
Their memory and their name are gone.
Alike uukuoving and unknown.
Why were they stricken from the face of the earth
aud the place Of their power made desoa,e Was i
not becaus &c. ike the lords and mobiles who drive the
Irh out Of their own beautiful land to perish on the
ocean or is borders their proud rulers had no sym
palhy with the people,
THE SLAVE CAsE-Judge Days decision in the
case of the two slaves la Costa and Ds Rocha yes
,erdsy postponed to this morning In the Of Maria
the nurse an proceedings far they relate TO her
have been Discontinued she having sign certificate
refusing 20 leave The service of her master Mr. Jay
fully scguiesced IN the proceeding Its proper state
that the eir has only been before the Court At the dit
ferent hearings because she included 10 the writ OF
bsbee. corpus and thst no means have been used TO
persuade her to change her mind since 1t was shown
tina, she preferred remain board The Captain has
made use othe case Of Maria to produce the Impression
that the boys Of the mind, which is far from
the fact Every hour only their dread Of sssu
falling into the hands Of the Captain and every effort
that Justice and humanity dictate will be made TO make
them free.
We understand that two separate actions for assault
and battery hsye been commenced against the Captain
on behalf Of the slaves who sege that they have re-
ceyed from him the most violent treatment since their
arrival at this port,
~ On this date both Of week and month just
eiehtyhye years $50, Peter m. husband OF Cstha
rine H. Empress OF Russia deprived of bis life while
under an guomiuous confinement and on the same
day In 1922 Charles VII crowned. OF the manner
OF demise Of the former Hing OF France. II Rheims
various accounts have been in circulation some sseri
hing 70 sort Il cholic which until then total
unknown TO the Prussan physicians Others again
affirm that bic removal effected By means similar 70
those which deprived the unfortunate Edward u Of
I life After such fashion does History
Tell sad stories OF the death OF Kings
How soma have been depOsed some slain IN war
some poisoned By their wives some sleeping killed
/ ~ According % the new Directory Just pub
u.hsd the number Of Churches VI each religious d.
nomination 60 tbs City follows Protestant Epis
eopal 81 Presbyterian. 80 Methodist Episcopal, 81
/ Baptist % Catholic II Dutch Reformed, - Jewish
/ o; Congregational, 7 Unitarian, 4 Universalist,
| Friends 4 Lutheran, Associate Presbyterian, 3
Associate Reformed Presbyterian. Reformed Pres
| byteriAn 10 Welsh , Methodist Protestant MIS-
celsneous y Total Pr.
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