New-York daily tribune., 1858-09-29

Oi Staten Island no have ruihlessly destroyed the
property Of the State. For them. il Is 10 oe hoped
the law WI find fitting punishment for every Viola-
ton Of the law which they have committed IN any
conceivable degree; but neither law nor common
sense require of us that for the sake OF punl,A.ns
them We should punish ourselves. Let Ray TomP-
lins and !. C.. Thompson - hanged, If Il 50
please the law; but We do not care 10
add to that reialiatory measure for the burning
Of the Hospitals. tie death by yellow fever. Of our
wife and children in Twenty street
by rebuilding them on the old site. Perhaps We
might haze consented TO that irnmolltion of those
who surround our hesrth-.tone, before the Lords
Of Trade had Quarantine remained where they
meant 10 keep it; but now that il ia gone
BY the visitation Of the devil We intend to wipe
UP the pace where the naughty deed was done.
and, Ike good Christians, deliver our neighbors
from temptation, and ourselves from the fear Of
pestilence and sudden death.
The question now a, without reference to the
past, and with reference TO the future, where
shall We have Quarantine This question 1t
seems 10 us, the Commissioners answer satisfac
hospital, as has been proved by long experience;
and BY this, il shoad be understood, is not meant
hulk-s ship filed with foul and pestilential air
dark. dank, fetd with filihiest bige-water horrid
with creeping things-a dungeon in all things save
one snd that is the chance Of drowning added
to that of Imprisonment. but ii is house. an
edifce, one. two. three stories high. IS the de-
signer chooses built precisely as the same edifee
would be on stone foundations 0u the eyer-sbdlng
land differing only in this-that il rests on huge
platforms floating on the eyer-shiftng waters. Let
any one who would form notion Of what such
building may be look al the floating baths at the
Battery, and conceive how easy il would be, on
the same plan, to make dwellings commanding any
degree Of comfort or luxury.
Nor need any tender soul torment himself with
imagining the discomforts to which the sick in such
an establishment would be exposed from the rough
ness Of the sea or the perils Of the storm. Such
things are only an the Imagination. Storms viii
visit them only as they visit the outside of all
houses The sea will rage and break itself in vain
upon its barriers which will surround the quiet
lakes in which the hospitals will ioae Upon
some Of the shoals in the lower bay the water at
low tide is only three feet deep, and BY erecting
breakwater similar to the outer wall of the Battery
enlargement, for fifty thousand dollars three acres
Of water can be nclosed wherein the hos.
pitals may float as securely and as im-
movable as the floating baths now rest behind
the outer Battery wall. The Orchard Shosl we
have the authority of one Of the oldest and most
esteemed officers Of our Navy, who long ago sur
veyed the Bay of New York, for saying is pecu.
liarly adapted to Quarantine purposes. Quite near
enough to the shore for all convenience of access;
quite far enough off to all fear of infection
being carried by the winds; position where cool
and freshness of air may be always commanded;
hospitals high out of water upon floating platforms
protected from all lateral motion Of the sea by
artificial walls, where the swell is already broken
by the natural outer bar; here, upon these shoals,
Quarantine may be established more isolated,
more calculated for the comfort of the sick; and,
when, as the Commissioners propose, disconnected
from the lightering and warehousing system,
cheaper and far better than any We have ever had
before and such the necessities Of this port
imperstively demand.
SUOulu tut HIS herOtldlts, lIru, az
cede to this proposition ofthe Commissioners there
will not only be difficult problem solved, but the
manner of its solution will be our great gain. The
question, We trust, will be settled now, and not
left to acquire new difficulties as it grows older II
once decided upon the Commissioners recon-
mend, there, take it, is an end of all further
apprehension from the native sayages of Staten
Island, who only want, We suppose, to be assured
that the hospitals are not TO be rebuilt; and the
army Of occupation may be recalled, the tents
struck, aud the apothecarys shop dismantled,
all to the great saving of the pockets Of the cti-
zens generally whether Of the State or the county,
and certainly TO the great comfort of the tomachs
of our gallant citizen soldiery. New-Jersey, then,
may keep Sandy Hook for her next customer, If she
ever expects TO have another and stopper will be
put TO fine scheme which hear the Islanders are
seriously considering and about which they are
quite unanimous Of asking that that pretty county Of
2 900 inhabitants shall be transferred TO the State
of Camden and Amboy in exchange for Sandy Hook
10 this State for quarantine purposes.
A report published in the MoHneur, addressed 10
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