The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-19

| SHINES. Ten millions year are expended
nominally for the government of New York,
while at the same time II Is in the most horri.
BILE condition at the present moment of any
city In Cbristendom, reeking with filth and
generating diseases Of all kinds In London
| and Paris not an ounce Of dust in summer, nor
pound Of snow In winter, is to be found in
the streets after nine O'Clock in the morning,
while our streets present surface six inches
thick Of slush and snow and salt and every kind
of abomination. The city could be kept in
proper condition, and well governed, for half
ten millions of dollars under an honest system.
One half of the ten millions now goes, in the
shape of spoils, to our corrupt officials
The Hon. jefferson Brick ON tho Tight
| Rope.
Our diminutive contemporary, the discoverer
of the ''sympathies of youth" in "the elbows of
the Mincio, }" having become conyalescent from
those terrible rear-ward wounds he dreamed Of
| in the stampede from the Austrians after the
battle of Solferino, has turned up in a new
sphere of frog-pond notoriety. He has become
the successful imitator Of the daring feats, be-
twixt wind and water, Of Monsieur Blondin.
| He has made debut, in carrying the balance
| pole across the invisible chasm, dividing
| tweedle-dum from tweedled dee, which will be
subject Of sincere congratulation to his Help.
ers book abolitionist friends. In fact, the
recent outpouring of Mr. Jefferson Brick, at a
bogus Union meeting at Albany, is quite a
noteworthy little specimen of the complacent
style Of Mr.. Peter McGrawler Of the AsinGum,
who summed up his criticisms with the formu-
Ia:-"This work would be excessively good, if
it were not excessively bad Mr. J. Bricks
! exalted aspiration, when schoolboy, is said
to have been, to conjugate with variations the
verb ''to TRIM and to create an ideal world
| out Of its manifold synonyms. To unappre-
ciated exercise Of the Imagination, in this
his subsequent soatJriQuet of " little viii
| lain," and also those brilliant scintilla-
tons of fancy in the details of geography,
that have so astounded a. practical public
He quadrangularized the circle in Italy, and
has, lately, bounded the United States after the
cessation of its existence. This Union" he
translucently declares, "is dissolved already"
but it is 'still bounded on the North by
Canada, on the East and West by two oceans,
and on the South by some line which it is not
very easy very accurately to designate
(LaughterD
This was the fling with which Blondin's
emulator started off on his tight rope. No
wonder it convuIsed his auditors; but they
seem to have anticipated, after it, little
steady walking for q minute or two They
were totally unprepared to hear as sequence
to the proposition "the United States is no
longer nation" ergo, 'the republic is still one
and indivisible." This time there was no hi
larious outburst. Probably, in place of it,
vague, anxious recollections sprang up con-
corning the distance to the nearest lunatic
asylum. But, as heat drives out heat, so asto-
nishment at our Solferno fugitive's exordium
disappeared before the rapidly succeeding
somersets of his argument. After boldly pre-
missing that "if our fathers had foreseen the cost
of independence, they would scarcely have
plunged into tAe long and bloody war of the
Revolution" and crushed madly into rebel
lion,' Brick wants to know what such min
compoops as Washington, Franklin, Jefferson,
&C., gained by it. "Where," he says,
" are the blessings the Union was made to Sc
cure" Why, the South have nullifed them
completely. poisoned them into curses, and the
immaculate North are the suffering martyrs Of
the misdeeds and atrocities of their trans-Poto-
mac neighbors He says -
What sort Of Union is that into one section of which
man from the other cannot go without being arrested
suspicion himself expelled with insult and ignony as
traitor and an outlaw Men Of Northern birth almost
property, Invested Of all their rights without even the
form OF trial. the accusation OF any crime, but susp
Institution peculiar to the Southern States Northern men
going TO the South IN certain sections Of that country
subjected TO an espionage unknown in the most trannica
despotism of Europe. Napoleon at the outset Of tho
great war of the coalition, seized and imprisoned every
Engishman in France. and no was denounced with oil the
unffendy act but for having violated all the uages and
laws Of honorable Southern States citizens Of
mating that csnuance Of such practices may lead to
i'll feeling, and imperi the existence at least the har
these but sy ptoms that the Union dissolved already
No Northern man has rights in any Southern State which
the people thereof feel bound to respect Rewards are
publicly offered for the heads Of Northern State Le
eisiaures nng for defence against anticipated at
temps to ccercc them into obedience to the constitution
and the laws extended movements are on footto establish
commercial nonincrcourse with tho North, and open
trade with foreign countries in preference; and in tho
passion of the mes has even been
proposed the alliance Of foreign dospot and TO
solicit protection from his armies as preferable 70 con-
liberties guaranteed to every citizen are concerned the
provisions Of the constitution already dead In the
southern states ~ sne rescrps o. Roman emperor Tae
consider Is, how can II be re establisheds
| And again
am bound, in justice 70 my own convictions Of the
TRUTH to add TINT the South has made herself responsible
and upon the whole country She has made precisely the
mistake which has ruined despotism throughout the