The New York herald., 1867-04-15
THE VOICE OF TIE People.

beirS exhibited iu the window Of small paint shop
Broadway several picsure calculated 10 bring the as~
Excise law into conteapt and rdcule The subjects or
without license Cleaning up BY order Of the Board Of
Health; closing up drinking saloon one minute after
S sSsr az "a
thinks The attention Of Police Captain Jourdan should be
Aid for the South. s
81 +. B. ono Of the committee appointed TO pre-
sent the hose carriage 10 the Columbia s c. fremen
earnestly socs his fellow citizens to relieve the des
turion psrvadng that section He asks: .swhy should
still hold from them all that is dear freeman
They humble and feel full well their situation
and would, am sure, properly appreciate any acts OF
kindness the North might make toward them. Then let
lawmakers at Washington, instead of wasting time
correct ali the evils that aiic that portion or the land
and the result win be the development OF country and
the North and South will be welded together in love,
strength and glory.'' eE
The Income Tax.
"Freedomn endorses the course OF the HERALD rela
tive to the abolition Of the income tax and desires that
the citizens Of New York take some definite action
almost every one as being inconsistent with the prin
cipes OF free government and oppressive and tyran
meal and all would be highly .gralined If notice
would be paid 70 the feelings OF the people
"Poor jack, ~
"thar'es x" sailor, who served during the
on board ihc Star OF the West writes as at Icngth re.
specting the Ill usage Of In the United States
Navy He thinks has the governments should do som
thing In tho way Of pecuniary aid for this class OF
defenders The opinion prevails, he says that sailors
need no bounty because they supposed to have re
ceved fabulous sums in the shape Of prize money He
then instances his own case as ollows:-The frgae on
which served compelled tho citizens OF Galveston dur
ing hfeen months to pay $50 Confederate notes for
bushel OF salt else their food without any She
captured two prizes and cut out the prvateer Royal
Yacht from under the guns Of the forts with the loss OF
several men. Daring all this time we were alone aud
qun
befc.l the Harriet Lane, aided by whole feet We lett
s @ supply
s'murphyl' Now, for the reward or these hardshlps
solitary blockade having shipped for year only we
were detained for fifteen months but tho lawful one
despite OF numerous applications You will be aston
ished 10 learn that our share OF the prize money
amounts to 81 90 and the captains to $4,000 more
he correspondent earnestly presses the claims Of poor
Jack on the notice OF Congress.
Reward Of Merit.
"F H. c calls attention to tho services rendered by
Drs. swinburne. Burdett Bissell Harcourt, Kcnneit
Read and Sprague, the hospital ship Falcon and the
United States sloops ofwar Saratoga and Portsmouth
board OF which vessels The cholera patients wero
placed when the epidemic threatened this city year.
He thinks that public testimonial should be given
these gentlemen for the work they have already done,
and to stimulate them to still further exerons liz that
were possble) during the approaching season" F H.
T. proposes TO head the list with subscription OF 500
A" Victim OF Misplaced Confidence wants to know
what has become OF the firm OF Taylor g. Co., who
started gift enterprise arrangement in this city short
tmo since for the benefit OF the Women's and Chdrens
Dspensary, and which undertaking was endorsed by
some OF the leading ladies and gentlemen in the city He
thinks that the parties who endorsed Taylor Co. would
have sufficient regard for their own good name to at
least that purchasers OF tickets In VIII at pur
ported be laudable undertaking wero not swlndIed
out Of their money.
Improvement of the East Side Of the City.
Touching this subject "a b. CO. says-tAn old pro.
ect was advocated 10 the public prints many yoars ago.
but for reasons not carried into effect al
ludc the widening of Nassau street from the head OF
Broad street 70 the lower end OF Chatham square Also
to that Of the lower md Of the Bowery II these
accomplished together with the improvements as pro-
posed by You at the northern end Of Fourth avenue,
there would be formed straight and spacious avenue
the Ann street project could bc combined Herewith so
much tho better. What then is to hinder this great
avenue superior to other in many obvious respects
in rvang Broadway, which disappears practically, al
Fourteenth strce.s Should this vas, Improvement bo
accomplished, would not Chatham square be suitable
site for the new Post Onlcof''
The Monument to President Lincoln.
I'D. +. B." desires information from Mr. Timothy G.
Churchill, Treasurer OF the Lincoln Monument Fund,
to what amount OF dollar subscriptions have been coll
leced for the erection of suitable mausoeum to the
memory Of the martyred President and also to what
disposition has been made OF the same
PROFESSIONS ON st. PntricIx's Day.
"An Irshman" sends Us long communication rela-
tive 70 professions on St. Parick'A Day He thinks the
whole affair should be dscoun,enanced. He writes
ssea the Germans for Instance .a 10 lost 1'S their good
common sense, intelligence and sefrespect ono hne
morning. In0,7d! and 1 paTadsd Broadway imagine the
they would be politely termed. In this their
adopted country, Irishmen, however deeply they
may love their native land, show want OF good taste
aud respect towards American citizens in thus forcing
themselves In such an imperious manner public
attention. When ST. Parick's Day falls on week day
business and travel are greatly impedcd and the pro-
cesson becomes nuisance worthy Of the notice Of the
Board OF Health
Treatment Of Car Horses.
Conssnt Reader desires to call attention TO the
horses in general but those of the Fourth avenue in par
tcuar alleging that they the worst treated of all
They get barely enough feed, he says to keep them
alive and are n FACT living skeletons There Is hardly
,n,rrv They are sad on verv anal, nrar,i,v oS cv,
hay and bran, and nothing else.
The CROSSINGS Of the Erie Railway.
co. calls attention to the avowcd carelessness OF the
watchmen employed attend the gates at the crossings
Of the Erie railway In New Jersey. Several accidents BY
collision have already occurred he says and II Ia only
few days that OF the Jersey City and HoboEc
horse cars crowded with passengers had harbreadth
escape from being crushed to atoms in crossing the rail
a s Seen on and tho not
High Rents and Their Cause.
"Anti Extorton" thinks that there is collusion be.
tween rich and the house agents force up
extoronate rate. When man who wants house.
ho says, examines ten or twenty houses be-
fore no Is suited II does not follow, the agents would
have believe, that there are twenty applicants for
every house." tsf 81 rM IS 4.
y Relief for Broadway.
On this subject "Kn advises ~ follows:-"widen
Church street from Fulton Park place so as to
make Il seventy nvo feet wide; the sidewalk
along the Park In Broadway and add tho space 10 the
carriage way Pedestrians can walk inside OF tho Park"
The same correspondent, In another communication
thinks that General Grant dsgraccs himself by associa
ing with General Robert T. Lee whom he regards as no
better and less modest than Benedict Arnold.
a Victim to Appeals asks tho following question,
grounded on an order OF judgment made by Judge
Ingraham in the OF "The People and ST. Nicholas
and other banks the Comptroller Of the City and
County Of New York." in order that the can be
heard at the present term Of the highest State court
"why have banks and corporations the privilege OF get
ting their settled In the Court Of Appeals whenever
they deem IT. when private individuals, like myself
tas much interested and perhaps than they
required 70 bottle up their patience for ten twelve
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