The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-07-31
City Intelligence.

Jogs MIrcHEL AID rnr orHrs rRAssroRrED P.rRrors
We perceive that meeting OF the Clubs Of 1sts aud
other friends Of Ireland Is called by the mmittee
appointed to make arrangements for public meeting
for the purpose OF presenting testimonial 70 Mrs
her husband In exile and also TO give becoming
sion to the popular sentiment this country in refer
to the outrage perpetrated by the British govern
ment, In banishng him and his eenfrcres from their
native land into the slavery, in penal colony
The meeting Thursday night Is TO be only prepare
tory TO larger and more public has been asked
what has become Of the $4,000 in the hands Of the r
executive committed We understand, after Bishop
Hughes getting back his subscription OF $500, and
sundry other gentlemen making similar deductions
from the gross amount collected to say nothing Of the
runs squsndered there Is stiI balance le OF s25 900
Surely this money could not be applied TO better
pose than dedcstsg 1t TO the service Of tn exies
and Meaghsr do not want money; but poor o'Donohue
r. sadly In want Of t. and has left wife and family
s% al Ia. Sus sS
fei Nv British aet Of Parliament; aud the irish In
America and every sympathizer with that hero could
not perform more worthy acs "'","s Nm ssuo:
and liberty 1.-THE Executive committee will part
with the doars Of which they have got hold there
enough ready to do the needful without their aid But
really we do not see Why such sum Of money should
be left In the hands Of two gentlemen who have
claim to II than We have, now that the object
for which 1t subscribed has passed BY FOR the pre-
sent generation.
w.sprreroS MaHSrr In times Of pestiience and
death like the present tits marvellous that those who
entrusted Win the OF the puDnc neaitn aul
clothed with full powers 10 accomplish that end far
human means can do it-it Is we repeat, most ex-
traordinsry that those who have taken upon them
selves this mportsnt duty-should not AZ such time
By all the means In their power when their fellow citi
zens are daily swept away by hundreds, endesvor
faithfully TO discharge IT, II seems TO us that one of
the hrst and most urgest duties Of the Board OF Health
and thoee acting under their authority IL TO perambu
late and inspect every street lane and alley In this
city, but particularly the public markets, and Those
quarters u the city inhabited by the poorer ciass
because IL Is In those places dcttation aud po
verify prevail most that filth will accumulate and die
ease be epgendered; but this paramount obligation
has been grossly neglected We have to this
conclusion from a perambulation made through
certain parts Of this city friday last IL is true
however that IN all the leading streets and arstocrac
thorouebares. the most perfect order aud
viebie; but in the localities where poverty and
wretch. dne-e dwel everything confusion aud
discfd3fthe dwellings Of those miserable creatures
he most hlthy state with heaps vegetable aud
animal matter before every door the streets full of
rats and covered with Stops. But partcu-
1arly struck with the state u Washington Market.
vhch to a courtly phrase In the end the
city We travelled through every square alley, aud
bye-vsy 81 10; in each OF rhicn found the floors
estimated with water, and in some places pools
81 10 In stssnant state, with heaps Of rotter
hsy, straw, and other vegetable matter. There
we're aso In various parts o. II charcoal fires,
from which arose an intense heat; in other psrts
there vas large quantity u live fowl, from
which, and the dirt that surrounded them, the
mo~t offensive sme was emitted, that betscea the
heat from the sres the eavia from the vegetable
Ter and fopls the atmosphere In the locality q tins