New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-12-05
mont, but Of all the worlds with unBurpassed
facilities for comfort and ease Of living, with

mont. but of all the world; with unsurpassed
facilities for comfort and ease of living, with
proyo,qtiycs to health end longevity, lavished
bv both nature and art surely with its unpro-
ccden ed growth OF populston, there Aaye come
also . corresponding sG'a5rity, strength and
virtue Of its people, certainly its death rate
could not but haze risen % tho most favorable
standard known among cities, one inhiIy
Alas! That it must 20 said, instead oil fiia
banpy. healthlul oondi.im, instead Of being tic
Mace To which IF al Others, the stranger nlens
resort with tho assurance Of health and ION
ceVitv. a glance at its mortality tables reveals
the astounding fact that his chances OF lle' o.
those Of his family, will BIO reduced to nearly
one half Of this 10 sees here everything
.bounding Tat may crafty his tasto, supply bus
obysical wants, mako his own days com.oita-
BE, and en- sblo him to provide !nvishly Tor the
education of his children. A public.school sys-
TEN. unsurpassed in completeness, opens wide
its doors, inviting hs offspring not only 10 seat,
but to books and apparatus without q cent OF
cost: end he may find here copious free libra-
res, nightly lectures by tho most distinguished
authors, galleries Of art, museums Tor winch
ancient Egypt enshrined her sacred APPS, 70
which Pharaoh and PtOlemy have sent theiE
erpbalmed representatives., and Africa the H.
habitan.s of her deserts and mountains.
lie needs but to walk o few squares to
SOC face 70 face the inhabitants Of almost
every country and cline; and IN pronenading
Broadway he may hear-at least so said the late
DR.. John ". Francis-the sound OF 20 different
dialects. Surely this metropolis, already so diS-
tinpnished. and destined TO q still higher su-
premacy, presents everything the stranger de-
string to settle here, may desire in tho way OF
health! Hero no Pontinc marsh gives ioTth the
deadly masm. Here is no Vesnyius TO over
vhelm with its ashes and lava; it is not LIS
hon to be swallowed up by earthquakes, nor
vet London 20 be docima'ed by she plague
the equator sends no smoom blasts, and the
arctic freezes rs not; We have changed
neither our latitude or longitude, and God and
pe,uge are still the same as when Fcrazzano,
three centuries ego, observed tno sparkling
waters Of our noble rivers, and spoke Oh or
beautiful atmosphere.
The stranger, in view Of thsso facts, inclines
20 tie belief dat no place on the continent pr
son,s so many attractions, Sd many advantages
for comfort and health
In A column Of tie daily press he secs a line
Of figures doro,ng The fluctuations Of stocks
and studies Tie system Of brokerage; he reads
too. Of the enormous prices 0. real estate and
cspo, ally how the new Central Park has con-
tribu.oi to rs elevation, and what opportunities
are presentcd for profitable investment Of
his means, simultaneously with delightful
] "raubles." and " skating ponds ana drives
and hy this last token the question OF
his settlement hero is about decided, when
i his ere lights on another column of figures,
which tell another tale. J Is the report Of an
official called "City Inspector lie cannot
divine TIE meaning e that tide, but lie reads,
and % his astonishmont he finds that amid all
this a,iractiyencss and these splendid adyar
tages, there is another influence az woT. in
different direction He observes that in on,
week more than 600 Of tho inhabiH uts hay,
died. lie has heard Of no epidetnir. iIo scans
the paper in vain for any allus' on to Aia.i.
cholera. or yellow fever, or any ding Of the SOFT
What means il, then, that i9 time Of profound
general health throughout. the country. death +
hero holding high carnival, sending nearly Is,
a day to their tlerprl homes in yonder Gene
teries' 10 looks again, and sees that OF the''
900 dea,ls more than two-thirds are chi.drcr
under FIVE years OF age, ard ho rerccives Of
once ihe desperate chances be would run viii
his chillren's lives, wCro he 70 bring them here
10 dwell.
\ more extended inquiry reveals 10 him the
fac. tia; cholera irfhntum here runs riot, and
hat 40 hand Is raised to ry IT, rayagcs. " II,
learns from An Official repcgt tha, 1886 chill
dren died ia his city during the year ls5e-a
number, 1900 greater than tho population o.
tie city Of poughkeepsie, equal 10 the popua.
ton Of the City of Oswego, aud 1900 greater
than TIE ou'ire population Of the County d
Putnam. OF this number 1889 were children
under ten years Of age, a number exceeding the
entire iuiant.ie population II tho Same ago II
all The neghboring counties of Richmond
Rockland, Putnam, and Hamilton; s,5GS Were
under one year Of agc--a number ncagly equal
to the population OF tie City of Auburn" Gu
stranger j. asiourded. and not more ct this ex'
traordinary array Of figures, than a, the indif
ference Of tho people to them. lie looks about
for some expression of surprise, if not indeed