New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-25

Serious as q long continued drouth may be to the
farmer there is not as much reason to fear it In the
country as in the city. For some days the sky
above New York has worn the appearance Of heated
brass in place Of the cerulean hue of healthy at
,nos phere. The streets are dusty, and every little
breeze WATTS its light particles into every open
door and window, even up to the topmost fth story
and dswn into the lowest back basement, com.
pelling the tenants to keep doors and windows
closed to shut out the street dirt that any respect
able City Government would sweep up and carry
away in carts; and 30 they stiAe themselves In
close rooms, in an atmosphere UNFIT for human be-
ires to breathe, because in Some Of the most dense
ly populated parts Of the city filth is allowed to &C
cumulate sufficient to poison the air blown from
mountain top.
The natural effect Of drOuth upon all stagnant
water, sunken lots cesspools, on accumulstions Of
decaying animal or vegetable matter, is to produce
mixes with the surrounding atmosphere and when
breathed by human beings. produces disease and
death. In all regions subject to fever and ague,
wet season is healthy one-a drouth is dreaded,
for 1t brings pestilence. In the Summer Of
1887 severe drouth prevailed upon the
western prairies of Indiana and Illinois,
and il was the mos. sckly season ever experienced
We have the same reason to dread drouth in this
city, because, notwithstanding the healthy situa-
ton of New.York, 1t must be as sickly as the
worst swamp. infected district Of tho West when
ever the nuisance is permitted to obtain the mas.
terry as it surely will do if ever an epidemic breaks
out 60 as 10 create paric among the people. In
deed, no people on earth are 90 shamefully
neglected BY those appointed to conduct their mu.
nicipal affairs, and Lone 20 liable to be swept away
BY pesti!ehce. Even now at this moment, with o
burning sun woithy Of the dog-daJs pouring do gn
the rays Of cheated term" upon city growing
every day pestllebtial for want Of rain to cleanse
its filthy streets, alleys ard back yards, with bills
of mortality increasing at fearful rate, our public
function aries are apparently unconcerned and in
different.
We appeal once more to those whom the deluded
people have consented BY their neglect should be
ekcted BY shoulder hitters and bsllot.box suffers
to rule over Them to turn their eyes up this day to
the fiery heavens and down to the thirsty earth,
end to take coeDizsnce Of the ieeking masses of
PutIefaction all over the city. This one cause will
in all probability carry more human beings into
eternity within the next sixty days than all the rail-
road slsughteIi,gs Of Chrstendom. 1t ia not the
province of the bard daily laborers Of the city to
look out for the ptstlence that may be lying in wait
for their auiles-percbancea at the next lot to their
own residence; but il lie the province Of those whom
the laws have provided for that purpose, aud ne.
gsct Of that duty BY which death ensues isu the eye
ofrtssop jest as mus murder as the neglec' ofduty
ina railway conductor by which crash and mas.
sscre are occasioned. This duty is shamefuuy
neglected in this city, and now with the theruom.
eter Of 90 slmost on the average day and night,
with the earth parched with dIouth, with miasua
neating though she cir Of every street. With pen,