The New York herald., 1862-01-09

TIE MErRoP,LzTAN PoLIoE-SANrTARY CoNDr.
ToN OF THE CATY.-In another column will be
found the annual report of the Board of Police
Commissioners as presented to the Legislature
yesterday. 1t embodies several statements and
recommendations that will, we trust, meet with
prompt attention from our representatives.
Foremost among them is the alarming fact that,
whilst in 1882 the mortality Of the city was only
as one in thrty-five and half, it is now as one
in every twenty-seven or twenty-eight. This
curtailment of human life, in a community where
the natural facilities of ventilation and drain
arge are greater than in almost any other city,
is attributed to the defective construction and
crowded condition of tenement houses, in
the erection of which every considers
ton of health, comfort and safety is sacri-
feed to the cupidity Of their owners These
are evils to which the notice Of the Legislar
ture has been repeatedly directed, but as yet
without producing any effective remedy. Un-
less it's members would have the crime of mur-
der laid to their charge, they will at once take
steps to introduce the needed reforms in sys-
tenn by which so many lives are annually sacri-
feed. In connection with this subject we would
add fresh stress to the recommendation earnest
ly insisted upon in the report that all slaughter
houses, hide houses and ofal and bone boiling es-
Establishments be removed to the streets adjacent
to the river and beyond the lines of dense popu-
lation. There are various other suggestions made
by the Board, such as the expediency oftransfer.
ring new powers to the police now exercised by
other public officers which demand careful con-
sideration. Could that body be rendered en-
tirely Independent of party influences, there
would undoubtedly be wisdom in imposing ON
them these additional duties. But the whole
force should be placed under the au-
thority of the Mayor. From another re-
commendation there will scarcely be dissen-
tient voice-namely, that of transferring to the
supervisors of counties the appointment of poll
clerks, now improperly vested in the Police
Board. We should be glad to see the suggestion
carried out, because it will contribute to lessen
the prejudice entertained against the police force
of its being the ready instrument, as it has been,
of the creation of a political organization
TIE ROGUEs Nor ALL ON Our SIDE.-Tha
Richmond (Va) Examiner, the organ employed
by the radical secessionists as their whipper-in,
fatty sayE-"We are satisfied that there are
enormous abuses in the Commissary Depart
ment, by which the stomachs Of our army have
been robbed for the gain and peculation Of off,
GERS" So the truth is out that there are rogues
and peculators among the rebels, and among
the "oficers" of their army, too. With us the
sharpers and swindlers are among the army
contractors, and chiefly in such things as da-
mayed horses, bad beef and pork and misera-
BILE shoddy. The rebels have not yet reached,
in their inventions, the article of shoddy; but
their cotton army overcoats are the next thing
to it. In all other respects especially in Con-
federate scrip and local shinplasters the suffer-
ing people under the rule of JEFF. Davis are
being depleted, plundered and swindled to
their hearts content; and thus their golden
dreams of Southern Utopia. have already
vanished. A better day is coming; for when
rogues begin to fall out honest men may soon
expect to get their own again.
Our SOUTHERN NEws.-Our readers are aware
that recently it has become extremely difficult
to obtain any newspapers or any reliable
news from the South, and any intelligence
thence is greedily sought after. Everybody
wants to know what the leaders of the rebellion
are doing, and what the people and their news
papers are doing and saying. Occasionally We
receive batch of Southern papers which con-
tain very curious intelligence, throwing food
of light upon matters of which everybody at
the North was ignorant. On Monday, for in
stance, we published page of highly interest
ing extracts from the Southern journals, and
yesterday we published another page, giving
lifelike stereoscopic views of political trans
actions at the South which otherwise would be
as sealed book to the people Of the North.
These extracts are very instructive, and furnish
valuable hints by which our government and
generals cannot fail e profit.
Mr. vAILANDIoHAM ON THE TRENT QUESTION:
At the last session of Congress the Hon. Mr..
vallandigham, of Ohio, and Burnett, of Ken
lucky, now prominent leader of the Kentucky
rebels, were almost as intimate as the Siamese
Twins, for they were always together. At the
pre6ent sobsAon M. VoiiauuAenoH 40 ieis w uo
the best he can for the rebel cause without the
assistance of Burnett; but he seems to labor
as willingly for war with England, in behalf
of our Southern rebels, as if his Kentucky friend
were at his side. The speech made the other
day on the Trent settlement by this patriotic
vallandigham was just such speech as Bur-
nett or Breckinridge would have made in our
Congress on that subject. So 1t was under
stood in the House, and so it will be accepted
by the loyal people Of our loyal States. The
gentleman from Ohio is understood, and he IL
only wasting his time in beating about the
bush, instead of slipping of to Dixie.
n.xr cv nm TINE Vox tha m