The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-01-29

ne want of proper care and attention on the part Of
parents Much Of this rs no doubt owing to impure
milk and other unwhoesome food, evils that really
call aloud for REFORM and which 1t Ia hoped the Com
mon Council will inquire into, proposed In q re-
cent resolution with regard to poisonous milk; but
at the same time parents can do much towards en-
HANGING the health OF their offspring by clothing
them with flannel, giving them healthful exercise,
and shielding them from inclement weather. Let
parents, particularly those who are in the habit Of
leaving their children almost totally in charge Of
servants, think Of these things ere it may be too
late.
We would direct the attention Of the reader to
communication in another column, from DR.. Geo, o.
Jarvis, of Portland, Ct, the necessity of organ
izing charity for the Surgical Treatment of Dis
eases of Women. The high responsibility Of the
author, together with his earzestness will doubtless
secure for it careful perusa 1t seems to be well
tined suggestion ana it Is presumed viii be taken
up in the proper spirit by our benevolent citizens
Henry F. jackson, fireman, fell through the
scuttle of third story building and was instantly
killed, during fire in Buffalo, on Friday night.
The letter elsewhere given from Our Australian
correspon sent is reelete with curious and instructive
information relative to the hardships endured by
the natives, the animal and vegetable kingdem &c.
1t is most romantic narrative OF incidents IN real
life, We have TO thank Messrs. &rkel 4 Elliott of
No. LAG Pearl street. for files Of the Melbourne Argu
to the LIST of October last. Our advices from that
portion of Australia received by the Euro pcan steam
era and previously published were to the goth OF
the same month, bat are the no less indebted to
oar friends for prompt for waraiDg Of The papers to
hand
"The man who nominated Frank Pierce" has
written another letter IN his peceliar STYLE de-
scriptive of politics and society in Washington.
Those fond of fun, spced with morality and plain
common sense, will not fssl TO read it.
We publish in another column decision OF Judge
Ingraham on O motion 70 be discharged from arrest
where the defendant was imprisoned on prina
face case of fraud. The case altogether presents
several points of interest.
Want of space precludes particular reference to q
large portion Of the entertaining reading with which
our columns are to-day overlooking. We annex q
summary Of a few Of the more interesting articles
Account Of the terrible tornado in Ohio; horrible
tale Of love, murder and suicide in New Hampshire
news from New Mexico, Nicaragua and Suma.ra
late from the La Plata Surveying Expedition under
Lieut.. Page details Of the fire. explosion and loss
of life at Savannah; the new law to secure the
largement and completion of the New York canals;
political and commercial intelligence, &c.
The Missouri CompromAsc..TheQ ueatioa OF
the Day.
The Legislatures and the party press of the
North are mastering strong to oppose the re-
peal of the Missouri compromise. Rhode Island
has spoken out, and New York has Dicknson's
protest under consideration. The Courier and
Enquirer has followed the lead of the other
party journals, and Joined the army which al
ready counts the Tribune, Times. Post Gem
mercial, Express, Mirror, and Albany Atlas,
among its leaders. The Courier does not OPP
pose Senator Douglas project from convic-
ton that the law OF 1921 was constitutional
and sound; but because it was law, COM
pact "a compromise; and as SUCH to the COuries's
mind it is like the laws of the Modes and Per-
slams and cannot be altered. Our cotempcra
RVS argument must 60 for what it is worth A
larger and more philosophical view Of the ques-
ton might have been expected from jourCal
of the Courier's standing: but Senator Doug
las opponents seem by common consent to
have restricted themselves to shallow logic
and fimsy reasoning. Not one Of the host OF
newspapers which have reviewed his project
has handled it broadly. Not one has probed
the matter to the bottom. or had the candor to
lay before the people of the United States this
slavery quarrel as it really stands.
Had any done so, it would not have been left
to us to say that the proposal now laid before
the Congress of the United States is merely
another step towards the consolidation of the
constitution under which we live: nothing more
than necessary vindieation of one of the great
fundamental principles on which the Union is
based. 1t introduces no new doctrine, attempts
no deviation from the original conditions of the
confederacy, violates no pledge. sacrifices no
trust. 1t is, we venture to hope, premonitory
symptom of return to that sound system
which, first partially abandoned in 1887. has
since been infringed from time to time by party
politicians for selfish purposes and on the restor
alton and permanent recognition of which the
stability and peace of this Union now seem
largely to depend More than this we cannot
discover in the repeal of the Missouri compro-
mise. Nor does o retrospective glance at the
history of the slavery agitation reveal it in any
other light.
The discussion of slavery is coeval with our
national existence 1t devolved upon the con-
vention which framed our constitution to adju-
dictate between the rival claims of the free and
the slave States. They did SO by distinctly re-
serving to the States or the people all powers
not specifically delegated to Congress, by ex-
clndinp all mention of slaverv from the conati.
tuition and by granting to the slave States q
representation based as well on the number of
slaves as on that Of tree citizens they contained.
These sagacious propositions were adopted as
the framework of the confederacy; they were
the only basis on which permanent structure
could have been reared Any deviation from
them would have involved a sacrifice of inde-