New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-01-16

| The Winter has given US respite from 'he
obo,ero II got no further than Sandy HOOK,
and was kept in close quarantine until the iros'
came. We have no assurance that IL Will not
be here punctually in May, with oil the summer
wherein to kill, and rayage, and gather CHASTITY
trophies. Our City Fathers, having gaineda new
victory in municipal matters, have too many Pc
cuniary interests to care about the cholera. The
Winters respite is an additional warning OF
Providence We feel morally certain that, II the
cholera had reached Marseilles three months
sooner, no quarantine restrictions could
have kept it from the attractive slums
Of the Sixth Ward. As it is, our
medical practitioners know that, during the
months of October and November, there were
large number of cases of incipient cholera
in. their practice, and hundreds suffered
from choleraic symptoms. The unusually lin
gcring Summer, always an unpleasant sign,
the warm, protrac,ed rains, 70 strange in De.
cember, with many other indications of temper
ature, make us dread an epidemic. We know
that cholera is generally accompanied By these
unusual manifestations OF nature-strangc, hn'
mid phenomena, that enorvate the body, de-
range the system, and incite fever. Under the
most favorable circumstances, we shall be happy
if we escape some visitation Of disease and death
tho ensuing season. Our duty is to provide
against any such danger; ard yet we so FAR for
get that duty that we seom 10 invite danger.
IL l. t.t,l, a, trn nf M
Emperor Napoleon's deeds will be most CRATE
fully remembered By France. Some think
the magnificent bouleyards; many his monu
mcnts to the glory Of the first Emperor; others
that great navy which has made the supremacy
Of England on the seas doubtful question.
We think, on the contrary, that no deed of the
Imperial regime will be ~ advantageous to
France a. his Improvement Of the sewerage of
Paris This wisdom was shown in tie recent
cholera epidemic. II came to Paris. Under ordi.
nary circumstances, Paris would have been desc
lated as dreadfully as when the plague ofthe Sew
entetnth Century swept OF 7O,O0o,OOO human
beings:Vcnice with her lagoons, having 100000
deaths arseiles losing 10000 in one month.
Paris in the Seventeenth Century was pretty
much what New-York is in the Nineteenth
Century. 1t was ruled by priests and bgots,
who imagined that when the plague came,
nothing was necessary but to pray, and chant,
and adore the blessed relics of the saints. They
forgot that God loved religion of cleanliness.
In New-iork, our priests and bgos are the
IN af rim ha If al d,
plundciers Of tie people.
We can imagine no city more easily drained
than Ncw-YoIk. II might be made the healthi-
est spot on this earth The ocean sends its
doodorizing breezes every hour of the day. A
great part of the island is high and dry. The
soil is firm and healthy. We have none of
tho immense mass Of decaying vegetation that
surrounds New-Orleans, making it almost
a Golgotha. We do not have the marshes
that 50 often exudo epidemics Of chls
and fever along the shores of the Delaware. We
are not down in basin Of the sea, like Charles
ton. We do NOT occupy low ground like Chicago.
Rivers do not intersect our thorougbiares and
occasionally food our streets like Balti-
more; yet in all these cities the drainage is more
perfect, and The health OF the people better than
in New-YOri. Gen. Butler showed the posti-
lential city Of New Orlcans-nestlirg as il does
in the midst Of swanlps and bayoGs, the ground
80 moist that the graye-digger cannot dig gaves,
but must bury his dead in masonry Enclosures
how to drive away yellow fever Charleston,
at one time one ftho most sickly, is now one
of the most healthy of cities. New.y0k should
be made more habiiable than either. The history
Of epidemic has shown, in New-York especially,
that disease generally tracks those districts OF
territory formerly occupied by water-courses or
marshes. The reason il tina. these water-courses
and marshes have never been properly drained.
They have been rudely and hastily filed up
with earth, and instead of running streams we
have soft, spongy earth, always damp and wet,
and sending forth miasma whenever the sun
the site OF the Tombs. for instance, aud
that dreadful district known as the Five
Points. We find that in the ollen time
there was an irregular lake Of water crossed by
pcarl-st.. and running from City Iall.placo
and Duane-st. 10 White-st., and from Elm to
Mulberry-st. This was body of fresh
water seventy years ago, and upon its
surface Fitch launched his first steamer.
A strQsn ran into tic East RIVER q. tL,e