The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-09-12


u 80 -eSsca aad the disposition OF the iuhab-
tents 70 surn into tue country duriag its heats,
we msy zee that these l. 10 great confidence ia
'be summer salubrify of Manhattan Island,
4roanihg uLder the ma sive load OF unyeltigat-
d ouiicir gs, in which men jostie, AID sweat
I'D fa,ut aid die by thousands . month and
Kyth scarce room enough for their graves II
he merchants Of New York think that by re-
aiming a cro1ded. close and pes,iiential Qda-
anti; Z within twenty minutes Of our greatest
they increase the INDUCEMENTS to
trade, draw customers more surely and frequent
y, improve tbe public health. and add 10 the
general prosperity, then let them persist in
seeping up the Quarantine grave yard, aud
continue to expose TO coutagion captains, crews
ard scores Of uniucky Staten Ielalders.
We know there is an objection made to remov-
ing the Quarantine grounds TO q more distant
point, ca the ground of expense. Supposing 1t
he SO, TIA. is Of the smallest Consequence com
pared With the safety of the city itself If the
shippers viii bring yellow fever into our bay,
il their eagerness TO make money let them be
kept at goo6 distance with. their pestilential
carsoes until we are willing to receive taem.
Indeed, it would be 40 more than right entirely
to prohibit their entrance into our port
But we doubt very much whether the ey-
pepses attending change of location would be
any greater at Sandy Hook than they are now.
They ere at present quite as heavy rs can well
be met, ard it would require considerable inge-
nuity in the Health Commissioners or Board of
Health to get them much higher, no matter who
wishes to finger the plumber. There would be
more room to do business, greater competition
among steam tugs and lightermen, and more
safety in the working Of every department of
the Quarantine itself, and more confidence in
our security from Infection We should also
get back the numerous vessels which now enter
the neighboring ports at the eastward to escape
detention In our harbor.
New York, to maintain her commercial pre-
vessels to enter, or they win keep away; must
be protected in It's suburbs, as well as its CITADEL
from imported diseases of mortal type, or emil
grants, travellers ami men Of business win avoid
us: ia short, a spacious convenient secure and
healthy Quarantine station, at q proper distance
from the town, is imperiously required for its
future prosperity. Fifty or sixty miles would
not be too far for perfect security, and the
merchants would then fiod out that the ex-
penses Of detention and publication, as well
as the detention itseli Of their vessels would be
lessened.
ANY attempt.to rebuild the hospitals, offices
and dwellings recently destroyed shoald be re-
sisted by the people of this city with all their
energy. If, under the idea of great and
grievcus wrong, the people of Staten leland
have taken the law iAto their Own hands, and
have even been criminal in their conduct--of
which they entertain much doubt-it is no reason
why we in this city should be punished for their
offences, or the yellow fever he invited to land
as usual of Quarantine. If Yellow Jack is q
favorite with the Board Of Health, he is not 80
with the public; and they are opposed to any
further expenditure of money in that direction
to please DR.. Thompson or the stevedores, or
any Of the crowd who live and breathe and fat
ten on pestilence and death. A great nuisance
hss been abaied-how, we leave II to time and
the law to determine; but il is to be hoped that
the rash and ignorant advice of a certain class
Of our citizens to rebuild the Quarantine out OF
q spirit Of spite, or without regard to the inte-
rests OF the people at large. may be rejected by
them and treated with the contempt il deserves.
Tux FREE LOVERS AGAN.-These people
ore at their work again. A convention has
met at Utica, at which the advocates Of free
love arc fully represented. A female of the
name OF Mary I. Davis as we learn from
their proceedings, has approached the main
topic which they delight to contemplate, not in
the usual garb Of philanthropy, temporarily as
sumed as cover for the assembling Of the con-
vention, but as an artist. This is the last new
Of these bold faced men and wo-
men. They have tried maternity, generation. and
personal affinity on several previous occasions
and q female Of the name OF Branch has publicly
attempted to seize upon her sex and drag them
down with her into the depths Of indecency.
Mrs. or Miss Davis, on the contrary. IL a
lover Of education and the fine arts and pro
peses colleges to be thrown open to woman.
where che may be educated in all departments
like men: and "furthermore," as Through ma
ternity woman is the greatest artist as well as
sufferer she should "be free 20 select her own
and Ito specify her own time for
assuming the great artistic work Of reproduc-
ton This is the sor. of talk uow uttered by
these petticoet reforrners. Artists, Indeed
Why, there are enough Of this class already.
They can be seen at any time a. various parts Of
this city, as living statusry price two shillings,
and very often at the station houses and Rsndal's
Island for nothing. No colleges are necessary
TO instruct their followers 10 ths braach OF art.
There are plenty of.private institutions in our
large cities and towns where thesc disciples
can learn all they wish to know. Every ami
nal that roams the Geld il . teacher for these
women. and will charge them nothing We are