New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-27

eaA1 We have psrv.oassy statsd ws fossl 80.
sral Of tie ehidrea end youtas pursuiss tie ssaa,
Of ths Dad iasesascs. cad Mr. King 70 Ssses..
hat fee saaelanA Pc. open 70 con ss,soa, sAssv
be established IN TIE Universities for the csIor.s
people SO for - TIE edsosdoa Of those vho A.
intended for the iearned professions 10 csacsr,sS
this Dsy be vesy wep; bat in olhss case, =.
time devoted 10 the deed languages sppe.n NJ,
spent or not spsat 90 pn6Ably % il nieA. A.
To those VIE have 10 struggle in seSr 81.
those sciences which have IN immediate sn.s..,
bearing mssbemstics, natural shi,osepAr 60.
try, engineering. &o.-are much moro usst,, ~.
Latin and Greek. Az for tho elevation Of An ~.
The oolored man Who inveats labor .yss ~,
chine. builds superior ontge. or msks, a y.Ms.
bic discovery in the arts. viii do Ter moro "a, n.
people than one who may be able 70 edit LQcr.tv,
or ArntopAanes.
One other topic in ooaelusion-heslA. n !.
we'll known that the negro IN America, wAas n.
hsbe 70 feyeYs, cutters more from nbercuis, dn.
es.e thar he white man. and that his haeuity to
t is much greater at the North than at the S,usA.
A part of this tendency may be owing. 10 cites. 70
over crowd,pg AID want Of ventiissioa, bat q arre
part of il would seem due directly 70 the elects Of
climate. Many ply sicians believe tia. the maatts
has this tendency 10 tubercuAr duesss in Q eth
higher degree than tho black man. For saeA q
opinion there Is at preseot no cold foundation, "a
the ut.l statistics of the different rsoes require b
be studied much moro carefully and more sssa.
rstey than has hitherto been done. before any CO..
tain conclusion can be arrived at The part IL
Canada West chiefly Inhabited BY the ccior-d 20.
pie lice in the same latitude and part.kes Of ~
climate of Western New. York and Michigan; What
IL the general mortality Of the colored race thsre
and " what extent they suffer from partcslar de.
eases, it 10 impossible ~ ascertain; the sAtisses
on which such knowledge must rest sre not in o.
istence. The cOlored people themselves slmok
universally maintain that the climate agrees with
them, and that they enjoy thsre full measure 4
health. Many circumstances impressed me viii
contrary opinion, and fear that consuupdoa M
it, allied diseases viii prove besvy drawbsckst b
the enjoyment Of more liberal insttuticss.
Whether the liability to the disease iuereases viii
c6c1 eucCtcolbR sc1cfetou, VI "nosoAs S"uWsy
to general experience in such diseases, 1t aAy 10
gradually lesssDsd and exlsgushed, reaa,ns fsr
experience TO determine. This whole sseject q
eiinate in its effect upondifrent races, forns sas
Of the most difficult as well a. ono Of toe moss ia-
portant and interesting questions to which ~
attention of medical men can be directed
Since our return from Canada We have received
fiom DR.. J. d Litcb6eld the medical gu pennisal-
ent OF criminal lunatics in the Provncisl ~.
lum at Kingston, an account Of the compssa
tive numbers of colored and white mea co..
fined in the general prison at that place, which
is at variance with the returns of those confae1 u
the Jail at Toronto. The whole number Of prisoa-
ers on the 3lst day Of Dece Dber, 1857, vas co.
and Of this number as were negroes and IL were
muhttOes, making in all 81 colored people, nearly
1 10 of the total number. Nov, a. the colore1 Do
not form more than 1 so Of the populstioa Of tho
Province, this would make crime Eve times more
rife among them than among the whites. The
returns for the year 1856 present similar result;
thus in the total number Of prisoners, 279, % ca
negroes and Z nulastOes) were cdsred poOpls.
The crimes were all of serious character; Of 81
ueovo convicts tbere wera far: