The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-08-27
LOCAL MATTERS.

| LOCAL 1ATTEae.
i --------.
TIE PoIrcx Rxro.rs-The police reports Of
this paper must be impartial to be just and, there
fore mo discriminations - 10 persons can be made
In III columns This department In the Richmond
press was not in former TIMES, 20 fully and care
fully prepared a. # il now. When the city was
smaller, there less to occupy that part of pa
per, and even the little that there was, was slight
ingly noticed. and the names of persons who were
not solicitous of the notoriety of being connected
with breach Of peace and order, were very readily
omitted. But times have very much chan ged here
Theipoice department of the press, and especially
of this paper, has become q record of what trans.
pres in the poles court of the city, and indeed in
that way becomes sort of police itself, holding In
terror those who commit outrages upon the order
and decency OF the city. And, repeat to be just
and impartai-all that transpires-all the names
connected with police proceedings must be reported
as accurately possible, as well in the spelling as
| in other respects If this is not done, we had us
well shut no our police department. 1t would be
as reasonable to ask Gen. Lambert not to try case
in public as to ask US to omit it after it Is tried
We can make no determinations. If Dan Moran
gets into the Mayors Court and finally into the city
| Jail why Dan is heraded without remonstr ance as
again sent into retirement for his vagabondism and
drunkenness Dan is poor old fellow-abandoned
| to drunkenness. To be drunk is part OF his cha.
| racter which no event will probably change until
| Dan is quietly laid in the grave. We do not see
why others more fortunate than Dan, do not de
serve to be published when they disturb the peace
and give trouble by their irregularities.
THE HEALTH OF RIcHMoND-Our city, proven.
bal for its good health at all times, never before,
we believe, enjoyed this great blessing in great.
er degree than at the present precarious season.
For this should be thankful; and for its contin
uance, al VINO know how to appreciate health, or
who have suffered the evils and pangs of sickness,
| (and who have not, at some time other D must
offer up their sincere prayers. But, to secure 80
desirable an object, we should not rely alone upon
the efficacy of prayer. Much may depend upon
the exertions and the course which we may think
proper to pursue ourselves. Too often are our af,
| fctions the result of own negligence and i'm
prudence. 1t is our good fortune to live in a land
| of plenty, and land not only blowing with milk
and honey" but also teeming with the most choice
fruits and vegetables of the earth. proper use of
these blessings will contribute both to health and to
pleasure; an improper of them, will inevitably
lead to disease, affection, and ruin. Let not lose
sight of this important truth at this, more than any
| other dangerous season. We too prone to for.
| get the admonitons we have from time to time
been taught, and too liable to follow in
ofimprudence and neglect until again the
victims of affection, the result of folly the
| want of foresight The attribute which NEST dis.
tnguishes man from all other animated beings, is
| the reasoning powers given to him and denied to
the other, and yet how often do we fail properly
to exercise this great power which nature has Civ
US for wise purposes In health act if sick
ness never were to come upon We eat and
drink to stufocation and suocation forgetting that
| thousand have persisted from an overindulge nee
in eating and drinking, where one has persisted cf
hunger or from the want of the proper ailments of
existence. We freely partake of food which our
appetite, perhaps morbid one, may crave, regard
less of the dangerous character of that food and its
adaptation TO our constitution, health, and capaci.
ties for receiving 1t. We indulge in immoder ate
quantities of that which is m st agreeable to the
tas e, forgetting that have not the stomach of q
| beast. Thus do we go on so long s'frail
barques" can Withstand such indulgence and abuse;
in health, not dreaming of choleras and the long
| train of bilious diseases which imprudence may
| cause to visit There are laws to regulate our
existence here, as well as laws for our wellbeing
hereafter-laws imuaterial, and laws MATERIAL
| But, enough! We did not take up our pen to in.
dite elaborate disquisition upon the science of
health. Our purpose was of practical char
| ac;er. We designed merely to call to the atten
ton of our citizens the importance of some caution
in reference to the of fruits, and to make some
suggestions in reference to the general pecularties
OF the season. AS We proceed we hav in view the
| old adage, as true it is DID, that "an ounce of
| prevention is worth pound of cure" The Fall
| season, when bilious ard the most fatal diseases
| generally prevail, Is approaching. The decay of
vegetable matter, it is well known, has a tendency
to produce those diseases, and never have we had
greater cause to fear the effect of such decay than
| at present 1t behooves us then to do all in our
| power to prevent that which we have so much
| reason to dread. Some attention to our premises
| may save our health and heavy doctors bill. Let
US avoid, as much as possible, coming in contact
with the miasma arising from decaying weeds
and all vegetable matter. This can be done by its
| burial or removal to distant point. Let US keep
| our houses, cellars, &c, clean as possible, by
the removal OF all extraneous and impure matter.
and by the free use of lime We remember wit.
Messing the death of four children of one family
within few days of each other, and the physicians
| gave the opinion that they all died from disease
which had its origin in cellar containing rotten
| cnips ard other seeds of disease. We also invoke
the attention of public authorities to the condition
OF our lanes and alleys. Many of them, at this sea.
son, require constant vigilance to ensure their
healthy condition. Servants and others in too
many cases have no fear of the penalties of ordin-
ance, or regard for the health of the com munity.
Attention to the hints we have here hastily
thrown out, may avert many of the "evils which
| human flesh is heir to-"
| CoRRRcTIoN.-Itw was stated in the local depart.
ment of this paper yesterday, that Mr. Lewis d.
Crenshsw was duly fined by the Mayor for leaving