The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-07-21


From this statement there appears to be .
the. total number of deaths, and of forty-fve
per cent on the mortality of adults showing
that that Of children ia larger in proportion to
the aggregate.
This difference in the mortality of the two
seasons, although perceptible in every class of
disease, is most marked in those which come
under the head of bowel complaints. In the
week ending June 3, 1854, there were only
about dozen fatal cases of this kind From
that time up to the week ending the 18th Of
July they went on steadily increasing and in
the latter week the deaths from cholera cholera
morbus and cholera infantum reached the
startling number Of 2s1. The table for the
week ending the I'd of June, in the present
year. shows only five fatal cases of the two last
of these diseases, and that for the week ending
the 14th Of July, fifty seven deaths from the
fatal cases are recorded. From these facts it
would appear that wet seasons are antagonistic
to epidemical diseases
Judging from comparison of the deaths
from other causes, the same conclusion seems
applicable to most Of the ailments "that flesh is
heir to-" The statistics Of consumption for the
respective periods embraced in these tables,
show large per centage Of decrease in favor
of the present season. And so it is also with
fever and ague, notwithstanding the common
error that damp is favorable to the propagation
of the disease
An things considered, then, we have reason to
congratulate ourselves that Providence has 80
mercifully tempered the trials and hardships
under which we are still suffering, with the
prospect of year of unbounded plenty, and
with the present enjoy ment Of health. AS,
wisely bis gifts are never dealt out to us with
out some drawback, let us felicitate ourselves
that the worst is past and that the future opens
so brightly and hopefully before us.
GOVERNOR REEDER's MEssAGE.-For the spe-
affairs, we lay before them this morning tho in
teresting message of Governor Reeder TO The
Legislature of the Territory Fsom this official
document it will be seen that Kansas is going
ahead, and that very likely her application f,r
admission into the Union as sovereign State
will have to be answered by Congress, yea or
nay, during the next administration. This il
the more probable from the violent rivalry be-
tween the Missouri border rufians" and the
Northern Emigrant Aid Societies. although the
information derived from the Governor upon
this subject is by no means satisfactory. The
Governors message settles one question very
conclusively; and that is, that he is still the
Governor OF Kansas, not outstanding his alleged
extensive speculations in the lands of the In.
dian half breeds, and the assurances of the
administration organs that these misdemeanors,
II proved, would suffice for his expulsion. Have
they not been proved by the Commissioner o.
Indian Affairs or, If not, how goes on the in.
vestigation Has Colonel Forney put in a de-
murrer, OK how Something ought to be done
for the democracy in the forthcoming Southern
elections.
CmP OF THE OLD BL0CK.-The letter which
we publish to-day from Mr. James b. Clay, of
Ashland, Kentucky, son of the great statesman,
shows that, in some respects at least, he Is q
chip of the old block His letter explains IL
self. II is o great pity that Prentice, OF the
Louisville Journal, with all his experience of
tho had conse M. noes of the dirty n4rtv nolfos