New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-07-06
TIE FDUisTH.

| The ssturnaa which the writings Of the clsssir.
have rendered familiar to modern resders sppes.
be OF the necessities OF the popuiar heart witch
exsis at 81 periods among sll nssons simply Oh
modified by the Influences Ofraee or climate We
find them in the Carnival Of CathOlic Europe equally
with the buffalo easts Of our Indians These all
are marked bys temporary outburss from the re-
straints Of ordinary days We have too. our satur-
nalia in NewYork. They come off not on New-Year's
day. That's too cold The real day is the Fonrth OF
JAY, when the samuer sun allows persons to be
abroad, especially the juvenIlities. Saturn was a
destructive cid gentleman. and only kept from eating
bis offspring by n convenient stone giveu 10 him as
occs Won might require. which not too hard for
bis immense powers of deglutiton. The diabolic
traits If the original are rot lost on Young America
when they practice his orgies the nasaal snniver-
sary. Surely the pbilosophic lookeron would say in
witnessing the scenes Of the Fourth aud Of the nj h
preceding it, Is there any law, written or implied in
this City, Is property life at all valued in the first
commercial city OF the Union
We say sobery that in Paris at the period of Rev
Outon-during the Three DSys-life and property
were, out of the barricaded and fighting quarters,
more secure than in New-york through the most
TopulOus parts of the City. the Fourth of July.
Tre.crackers sold by Millions and by millions
discharged in the streets: boys, and even, en-
deayoring if possible to frighen horses by throwing
these exploding missiles under their feet utterly
reckless whether, in running off, the animals killed
the persons in TIE vehicle killed the standersby
So, too pistols and guns were discharged with fen
zied disregard Of the safety Of the public Rockets,
too so dangerous except in the hands of the technical
Pyrotecbnst were fred of, and if they went up at
right line into the clear ether. well and good: bat f
they detected at an angle Of forty-fvc and went
into houses-yorse than killing the inmates-
il matercd not to the persons who discharged them.
So too if houses were set FIRE by the meaas,
the crowd cared not This is not defamation. Some
eight or ten buildings set fire by the Fourth,
and. if the CITY wss not cOngeres of burnt-out
houses in its most populous parts it is solely due to
the marvellous and generous activity of the FIRE com
psnes The accidents too, terrible to relate which
occurred fill up a column Of our newspaper; bald
catalogue OF names and the shortest account possible
of each incident are given, and yet see what space
the list oeeupies--a death from firearms included
We appeal to the respectable portion OF the CON-
muny-abOye oil to parents who still have the desire
to control their children, and keep them out of the
increasing sinks ofbsckguardsm aud brutality which
the huge extempOrzed and ever rapidly growing pop
ulation Of this metropolis createsto combine for the
purposes of producing REFORM and stopping the ex-
plosions Of fireworks and firearms within City limits
on the Fourth of July We have not touched on the
drunkards and rOwdes-in.ordinary They were as
thick as a summer sOlstice aud deuge Of alcohol
cOuld make them