Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-13
A virginia Journal on the Election of Linz
Fhe Petersburg (VS.J Brpress remarks

A Virginia Journal on the Election OF Linz
r The Petersburg (Va.) Express remarks:
: The great national, or rather sectional, bat
tie has been fought, and although the official |
report of it has not been completed, there /
can be no manner of doubt that victory has |
perched upon the Black Republican banner.
The issue has been disastrous to the Union |
cause; for tn. triumph of seetionalism has |
laid the foundation for all the mischiefs and !
Ills to the country which were predicted and |
deprecated by Washington In his Farewell |
Address. 1t is gloomy exercise of the mind to |
contemplate the new aspect of things, but |
the people must look ct IL and ponder it, 1t
is time now for the wisest hands and most |
patriotic hearts in the land to enlist in the
great work of adjusting matters in such a
way as TO save the Republic, If possible, from
the almost certain .perditioD which stares it
in the face. The ship is now humping upon
the rocks which she has so long been ap-
proaching--her timbers are creaking and
cracking from stem to stern, and to all ap-
pearances she is bound to go to pieces. Can
nothing be done to save her2 Can no means
be devised to rescue her from the peril in
which she liesP These are sad questions,
but they can not be blinked. Some thing
must be done in the wey of their solution,
and that Immediately.
To drop metaphor-the people must now
consider what their interest and welfare
require them to do in q crisis big with the
fate of the Republic. Statesmen and patriots
must now come forward and take counsel
together upon public affairs. ? This is no
time for heartless politicians and crazy
fanatics, and infuriated declaimers to be
permitted to have their way. They have
been the men to preeipitate the country into
the sectional strife which has just cul-
minated in the issue of life or death to our
| institutions, which now stares us in the face
n N a
| to the popular passions is alone attributable
the calamitous condition of the country.
Let the people, then, summon up their
energies, and grapple at once with the danger
that is upon them. Let them with COM
| posure, frmness and dignity meet the trial
| which has befallen them. In moments of
| imminent peril, cooLneSS and Setf-1ossessiOn
are the greatest of reliEnoes. On the other
hand, wild excitement and despair are sure
| leaders to destruction, AT all events, they
| certainly make matters worse. Let these
considerations be laid to heart, and let them
be the guides Of action NA- GaHJt1
The people have great duty to perform,
I and in its performance is involved the veal
or woe not only of unborn generations in
this land of ours but of free institutions all
the world over, and in all time to come. ,,..
UnhenIthfuI HOusss.A Peculiar Cause of
A late number of the London Lancet
observes: s. .....s
There is one way to make homes un-
healthy, which has often been criticized by
our medical officers of health, and which
still demands all their vigilance to prevent.
1t forms regular part of building opera
tions in many localities around London.
You may ventiate house and drain the
the street; supply plenty of light, air, and
fresh water; but there may still be a source
Of disease in your house, which may eludC
discovery, and, if discovered, defy remedy
1t is literally bound up in the composition oi
the road, and forms part of the fabric of the
house-walls -...--.--y----,-
Il a Scottish registrar lately noticed that
the increase of fever and zymotic disease in
his district was chiefly confined to street
of newly built and somewhat superior
! houses Some surgeons have, from time tC
time, made the like observation in the sub
, | urbs of London. If the composition of thu
, roadway be observed, and the air of th'
basement tested, the cause may be partly
guessed. 1t is not unusual, in making thes'
roadways, to cast into the chasm to be filleC
| every kind of refuse, including animal anC
vegetable debris of the most unsavory char
acter; and this being packed together on
/ level with the easements, all emanation
e from the mass steal through the lower par
/, of the house and ascend to the upper rooms
I'll A surgeon in the southern suburb com
4 municated to us q case in which the mem
v bers of numerous family were successivel
|. attacked by zymotic 'disease-in two in
q stances fatal and repeatedly renewed, unit
/ removal from house so poisoned. DR., Dur
s. das Thomson, in his weekly report, draw
d attention to cognate defect in the hygieniC
lerI of masonry whichdeserves tobe duly notet
A "My attention has frequently been called t
IS trust an almost obsolete practice indulge
v in by some builders Of mixing up putri
a slop from the streets with their mortar, il
" stead of using sand, which has chemici
s. relation to the lime"
le "a case of this kind having been reporte
l. to me by the inspectors of Hamilton Te
le race, / found the slop used to consist 4
putrid organic matter, BIZ water, 1866; an
oe of inorganic matter, 5A,lS Being of opinic
Of that the use of such mixture in the pla
at tering the interior of.a house is not like
Z to be promotive of health, while it undoub
edly produces an inferior binding materit
| requested the builder and the architect
> discontinue its use, but not in time to pr
vent the fall of an arch, and the injury
ne three men engaged in the Construction
te the building"
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n Grizzly Captured. .
he The San joaquin (Cal.) Republican 0
io1 serves:
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