New-York daily tribune., 1854-07-14
CATTLE AND CROTON.

Tie Board Of Aldermen finished their July session
last night The cattle driving ordinance came up, and
IVES of course opposed by AID Ely the friend OF the
butcher shops that flourish in the Seventeenth Ward
AS Mr. Ely is prominent member of the Board OF
Health we presume he considers these shops, with
Il cir blood ol aud stencil, as healthpreserying in
s,itrtjops. However the ordinance passed; and If
tie Councmen will DO their duty, the disgustingand
dangerous carting and driving of cattle through the
streets Gn the day time) will cease. But the pro-
nosed law is not strict enough No cattle, sheep or
swine should be at any time of day landed below
Finieth-st; in fact, TO talk exactly right none
for slaughter should be landed within the bounds
of the City The whole killing business should
be removed to some distant pace-say above
Fort Lee, under the Palisades, where water
and air would always be plenty, and where no
one could be annoyed by the work Such course is
demanded by every considt ration of public health and
public deeeney and we believe would be-propery
arraDged-ereatly to the benefit Of the drOvers and
butchers themselves. If there is any good reason for
City butcheIing driving stabDg should like to
hear it, Ninety.nne in hundred agree that the
driving of horned cattle through the streets is dan
eerous; snd the entire hundred shocked at the
cruelty Of cartng sheep and calves with their heads
banging over the box, tongues out and eyes rolling in
agony, as some demi-savage drives them over the
rough psvements Such scenes are so manifesty dis
graceful so unnecessarily inbumsn, so inevitably per-
pcious, to children especially that one can only
wonder that they have not been long since stopped.
The Croton Water nominations were also brought up
last night The Mayor il seems less serye to the party
than was expected, long time since renominated
some of the chief officers in that Department. To be
sure they were Wings, when there was Wing party;
but they were the only men who were familiar with
the busIess Of that important Department, and
were in degree indispensable to it's proper working.
But the rough and tumble Democracy that claims a
ajority of the Board of Aldermen was determined
to have the Cr,ton water filtered through Democratic
hands, and for long time they have prevented the
taking up of the nominations. Last night, however,
they slipped up; the nominations were called, and,
after hard party effort to Kill 'hem they were con-
fImed reconsideration moved and carried,
on one officer but before second vote the Board ad-
iourned-so the nomination is in fact agreed to.
when shall we see the end of this patry partisan
folly in regard to local Offices Such absurd party
divisions have been the OF robbing and misgov
ernipg the City for the last decade and it is high time
that the people set their seal Of dsapprobaOn upon
the whole business. The factous men who make up
the majority of the present Board Of Aldermen. will
have serious reckoning with the people of these
days. not only for partisan foles but for their shame
less efforts thwar all the real reforms hoped for
and worked for by the hewers of wood and drawers
Of water WHO pay the taxes.