The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-01-27

srsndsf would Mr. TAariow Weed appear d
his now character of me svenging angel wsrs
no clad In tho Senatorial toga Do what yAa
will. . frock coat, with it, swinging tails, osar
not DO made 10 seem sublime. We advise NJ.
Weed TO change his mind about tho Senate 81
stick 70 his text about oficlal cerrupdonA
Unkind people say that politicians who saay
out Of oaloe mako more money than those VIE
aooept ofnoe; but - Mr.. Weed has made money
enough, and evidently has ar earnest sinesss
and Christian desire TO prevent other people
from getting rich d the expense Of the govese-
mont We urge him TO enter the Senate AMI
thus give bile denunciaHons double weight anA
bis virtuous thundera the authority Of Olympus
itself gr ...bsr
The Health Of che cisy-rAs Necessity q
. Sanitary commissson.
Vaccination has for many years past been
50 general In this country that the real hor
rors Of tho smallpox have not been felt, and
II Is possible, therefore, that the people Do
not entertain . proper fear OF that ioathssms
disease. This may have made many negligent b
relation 10 vaccination who. however, are aware
Of IL general necessity, and may explain. =
some extent, the fact that smallpox u new
nero prevalent in our city than II hassbsss
In great many years But We incline TO he
opinion that we may 6nd hetter expia@.
tiou OF this prevalence In the fact that Ne
have largo population who arc either utterly
ignorant OF the great prophylactic. Of have
never been within reach Of H. In short, b
rather moro than probable that the preseal
ravagos Of this disease here ere due 70 ~
want in our city government Of any thorongh
or wen regulated sanitary system-a system
that should force upon every newly landse
emigrant protection against the smallpox-thse
should carry the same protection into al Ne
viler neighborhoods Of the city, into the hlth1
alleys and courts whore the Gig OF the regu.
lar practitioner is never seen; and that should
furnish to society, in that way, ~ complete
protection against the possible evils Of this
psstilence a. the police furnish against ~
possible evils Of The bludgeon and dagger mon
our city rufaans.
Such commission IL one n the great wants
Of this city. Another Legislature should nes
adjourn without furnishing us with . well regur
lated, properly constituted, vigorous, hones@
earnest sanitary commission, composed o.
competent men, and endowed with power y
direct or to do all that rational regard for he
health of this great metropolis may require.
Just now wo see some necessity for this In the
spread Of single disease. But II the ravages
of that disease shall once fix the attention d
the people upon this important subject, that
one disease will pass out Of thought in the con-
sideration Of tho great necessity Of such -
organization, and Of tho very beneficial edsos
Il would have upon tho health and genersl
prosperity Of our city. In the present war We
have eeen in one marked instance the greaa
effect upon the health. Of city Of the enforce.
ment Of only one point In . proper sanitav
system. New Orleans had never been more
than one year In ten without cases Of yellow
fever, and In some years the fever had bess
terribly fatal. It was relied upon by the rebesa
as the Yellow Jack who was to drive the United
States troops out in due time, and accomplish
what the Southern soldiers had failed in. But
In the hands Of our military authorities; rigid
cleanliness was enforced. The decaying AMI
NAL or vegetable matter, from which
the hot sun had been accustomed 70
breed the fever, was not permitted -
accumulate, and there was no fsver. This shows
what cleanliness will do, and II we can have the
application in this city, through the great heaA
Of our short summer, Of all the parts Of good
sanitary SYSTEM. the difference between whAe
our city will be and what 1t IL In respect -
health will be quite as positive. Our city ough1
TO be perfectly healthy throughout the ysaEs
and with proper arrangements can be.
We can only hope to have proper sanitary
arrangements here by the establishment Of .
sanitary commission for the metropolitan dis.
trict, bounded, say, just ~ the Netropolitaa
Police district Il. Such an arrangement would
avoid all The conflict and questions Of jursdie-
ton that arise from time to time between The
Boards Of Health Of Brooklyn and this city, end
would give control for AL sanitary purposes q
our harbor. No sanitary system eould<bs pe>.
feet without this, sincs the natural relations q
the two cities srs 70 Intimate Such oommis-
sion would blow mp ct once IN inGnite spread
Of old fossil formations; with their choice
fdnctionaries Of resident pbysiciaus and Ne
like, who are heard Of only On pay days, and
would turn the attention Of the people properly
TO most important subject To give such .
matter into the hands Of oommission wsuld
also be- eonsonant with the evident srowA =
our municipal system; and such commission
could DO under the eye Of State or local an
scutive, just ~ the police or sny other con-
mission may be. Under such . system our
sanitary interests would be properly cared fsr
for the first time, and II should be Initiated
without delay.
OrR NAVAL Power ABRoAD.--h has been
pretty distinctly intimated lately that We are y
have more decided exhibition Of our nava,
power in foreign waters; that our Paci0e, Medi-