, 1862-04-19
Public Hygiene.

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MEssRs. EDrTORs-I trust it will not be though
indelcate in me il the attention of the Honora
bic members of the City Council be respectful
directed to an important matter, SO far as relate
to the heathful and sanatory status of Wall
,Walls, viz It's hygiene. Our cityis being dali
rowded with persons from a distance, and during
he coming summer it is presumed dense, hete
ogenious compound will be added. With thi
afux Of strangers the foci Of diseases must b
'ecessarily laid for instance typhoid and billion
emittent feycrs, small -pox, sc. -,sr .,a
Is it not, then, of the first importance that
Board of Health" be organized, as means 0
assuring the continual enjoyment of health and
proper observance Of those general hygiene rule
among the community As an addendum to
more direct duties let record be kept Of tht
births and deaths as ,theyloequr.. s.,-..
Thesereaeetions haze their more immediate
origin in noticing piles of dead cattle in stat'
Of decomposition, here and there upon the com
mons near the city. The exhalations given aof
from. these putrfyiag bodies added to a hot apt
arid summer, are certainly capable of prostratinG
the system if they do not form the exciting cause
of maladies malignant in character.
1at sa.a, iorana MEDIcrs,
SrEProEurIESApril1 10, 1862 79i.ass10af
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I, THE FABRIC OF OUR GOVERNMENT. al
the presumptiqns INDUCED in by presamptuou'
man, that's one, of the rashest which looks foi
repeated and favorable opportunities for the de,
iberate establishment: of united Government
over distinct and widely extended communities
Slch thing has happened once in human affairs
and but once the event stands out as promi-
nent exception to all ordinary history, and unless
we suppose ourselves running into uinge of mir
acles; We may not expect its repetition. Wash
ington, therefore, could regard, and did regard
nothipg Of paramount political interest but the
integrity of the Union itself With a united Gov.
ernment, well administered he saw we had moth
ing to fear, and without it, nothing to hope. The
sentiment Is just, aud its momentos Atruth should
solemnlyim the whole country.
If disastrous war sweeps our commerce from
the ocean, another generation may renew it fit
exhaust our treasury future industry may replen
ish it f-it desoaie and lay waste our fields, still
under new cultivation they will grow green
and ripen to future. harvests. 1t were but trihe
even if the walls of yonder capitol were to crum-
bic, if its lofty pillars should fall, and its gorgeous
decorations be sll covered by the dust Of the val
lev All these might be rebuilt. But who she'll
reconstruct the fabric of demolished government
Who shall rear again the well-proportoned col
umns of constitutional liberty Who shall frame
together the skilful architecture which untes ma
onal sovereignty with state rights individual Sc
curiiys and public plosperty2o No, gentlemen
if these columns fall they will be raised not again.
Like the Colosseum and the Parthenon, they will
be destined TO mournful, melancholy immor-
tnity.a Bitterer tears, however, will flow over
Roman or Grecan art, for they will be the rem
nants of more glorious ediice than Greece or
Rome ever saw-the ediice Of Constitutional
American Lberty-DanieL Webster.
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STRIKING COMPARISONS lit seems TO us, when
we come to look facts calmly in the face, that we
entirely too much disparage our own country, and
population in comparing it with the nations Of
Europe Suppose, for instance; we take the Uni
ted Statesi census for 1860, what sha1we seef
Firstly, that hepopulation of the nineteen free
States Of the, Union exceeds that Of all Spain, or
all Prussia OF all Turkey, or if Kentucky be ad-
ded in, that of all England and Wales. Second
| ", that the cities of Brooklyn and Nfw York
alone contain more people than ALT Greece or all
Tuscany, or all Finland, or-al Norway. Thirdly,
that New York Stale contains more people than
all Holland, or all Sweden, or all Portugal.
Fourthly that PENNSYLVANIA has a population'e ex-
ceeding that Of all Saxony, or all Switzerland or
all the Roman States. We might institute few
more comparisons just as striking. but these will
BE- sufficient TO show that when we speak of the
nations of Europe, we are very apt to indulge in
an exaggerated idea of their several populations,
and to forge. the magnitude of or own. 1lr
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The RARITY OF GENTLESEN.-P gen
tlemen are rarer personages than some Of Us
think.oaWhich of us can point to many such in
his circle P-men whose aims are generous, whose
truth is constant--and not only constant in kind
but elevated in degree--whose want of neauuess
make them simple, who can look the world hon
estly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy
for The great and small We an know hun
dreAi whose coats are we'll made, and a score who
haveli excellent manners, and one or two happy
beings who are what they call inner circle, and
have shot into the very centre and bulls eye of
fashions but of gentlemen, how many9 Let us
take a lttle scrap Of paper and each make out
his lst.-Thdckery. i9i1ios afi ,39ic
EDWIN NJ. STANToN.-The Sierra Citizen saws
of Stanton '~I NOD. no Da1s0 1sfr >s-r
d. He is a native Of Steubenville, Ohio, studied
law with Benjamin Tappin, and was received with
him as partner Aherward took. George W.
MeCook as Jaw partner, the one now General
in shs Federal army, and son Of the father Of the
fighting family. Stanton went to- Pitsburg at
the Commencement Of the Ntexican war. and Nc
Cook went to that waras Captain Of the Steuben.
vile Greys, and returned Lieutenant Colonel.
Ira cat had wings no bird would be left in the
ait. If every one had what he Is wishing Who