New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-01-23
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twill be observed that in the Fourth Ward, with
white male population Of 1881, (of whom $40
adults can neither read nor wTitel and a Loco-Foco
majority averaging abou! 900 at every election,
there ale 432 licensed and "A unlicensed rum shops
being 456 in all Of which four hundred and are
kept open on Sunday 1t is fair to presume that
Alderman Oakley, who is himself dealer In liquors.
shuts up ON Sunday-the only law abiding man Of
the whole rum-selling party. In the Sixth Ward,
where the population is about the same, and where
$50 white adults can neither read nor write, with &
Loco. Fooo majority sometimes reaching just about
90, there are 7C6 rum shops (or one to every tpo
voters and Of these 900 are unlicensed and four hun
drtd and eighty are kept open on Sunday This Ward
also is now represented, In one Board at least, by
rum-seller These facts prove the strict truth of
Mike Wash's famous axiom, that Porter Houses
are the Uerv nurseries Of Democracy" All the
representatives from these Wards have just voted
oIestore Rum to the City Hall
Cosr OF CITY LEGISLATION. The Com
non Council have held eight sessions this MONTH
ss many as they can draw pay for. The agsreg "e
Of these sessions has been about Is hours, or tre
more than an ordinary days work For this the ~
Aldermen and Assistants have charged the people
twelve hundred and eighty dellars, or eighty'hYe
collars and thirty three cents an hour-belng tNo
collars and thirteen cents an hour for each man
Add to this the Tea Table expense which Will aver
eye at least 81, 900 per month"; and we find the cos
for January for each member about four dollars an
hour for each one. Add to this the pay as Excise
Commissioners Supervisors, Judges, Coroners and
Special Magistrates and find that-.O say nothing
OF perquisites for official favors-an Alderman COST
the people from seventy FIVE TO hundred dollars
day for hundred days IN the year. And yet the
poor fellows can't afford to pay for their own soup,
brandy and cigars.
~ The Ball of the Beneyolen. ASsocI-
alton of Book binders will be given al the City
Assembly Rooms on Monday evening next.
ANTIQUITIES OF FRosr.-The editor of
The Long Island Star has taken the trouble to ex-
anime the files of that paper for NUMBER OF years
past for the purpose OF ascertanlns at what times
the East River has been frozen over so as to admI.
of passenger. walking across. lie reports that it
was so frozen in February, 1877, and January, 1921.
~ Some of our charitably disposed cit
gems. who are suggesting Ward and other Public
Meetings for the relief of the Poor during the pres
ent severe weather, evidently overlook the New
York City Association for this object, which has been
eight years In operation, and IS now most actively
engaged in this benevolent work. 1t covers with
it's four hundred visitors the entire City, aad Is act
Ing with degree OF energy discrimination and etii-
ciency which supereedes the necessity OF any mere
local effort for this purpose. All that Il requires Is
funds and the needy will be promptly provided for
The demands now on the Association We learn are
heavier then il can sustain. Let those, therefore,
who have not paid in their contribution, send it in
Al 10 A.u and natl
larger than the first Give freely, LARGELY,
PROMPTLY, and the suffering will certainly be
cared for.