The Portland daily press., 1867-05-02

Prospect Park-- Why People die in New York
i d Floating Palace-Reu. Henry Ward Beech
er-SwJf Justice -Successf,a Public Journal
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pr 40 nolia.sa NEW York, April 20, 1857.
To the Editor Of the Press: r --.lrf a5.f.g .f.sa
d 1 have just returned from stroll to Prospect
Park the great Brooklyn enterprise designed
to rival the Central Park of the New Workers.
1t is great undertaking, and will involve the
expenditure of millions of money before it is
completed. 1t is about two miles from East
River, and commands view of the harbor of
Now York, Manhattan Island, Western Long
Island, Staten Island, New Jersey and Sandy
Hook. Brooklyn will probably spend 5000, :
600 on this Park, and no doubt, twenty years
hence, will receive the thanks of posterity for
what now appears to be extravaganza. 1ol aas
A great many people die in New York, and
no wonder As the warm wealth IT approach
es the Board OF Health are using strenuous ex-
ertions to advance the sanitary condition of the
city. But notwithstanding all that has been
done, Mr.. Dalton, the Sanitary Superintendent,
says there are now remaining in the city one
hundred and forty slasghter-houses whose exis-
tence is a nuisance in the highest degree
Many of them are carried on without regard to
cleanliness or decency, rendering the condition
of the people residing near them almost intol-
cradle in the hot months. The slaughtering
necessitates the shedding ofblood in enormous
quantities, and mnch Of it flows into and clogs
the sewers, becoming putrid and offensive. The
blood and offal of these establishments fill the
air with pestilential odors, the profit, source
of disease and death. Is it 3 wonder that peo-
Pile die in New York? The Sanitary Superin-
tendent asks that these slaughter houses to
Immediately cleared out of the city. IA
! Another floating palace is running on the
Hudson. The new steamer Drew has just
commenced her trips to Albany. She is 400
feet long, 80 feet breadth Of beam over all, 40
feet depth, 2,5iS tons burthen- The cylinder 10
IS inches i'm diameter and has stroke of 10
feet The paddle wheels are 40 IL feet in di-
ameter, buckets IL feet wide and feet In
depth. The main saloon 10 $50 feet long and 20
feet wide, and has 40 rooms and bridal cham
bers The furniture and decorations are u the
most costly description. Tho carpeuns all
came from France. Any one who wants a
night excursion TO Albany can 20 mp in the
Drew in tan hours.
The learned aud eloquent Henry Ward
Beeeher failed of an election, the other day, ts
the Constitutional Convention. The primar,
Gauss Of the failure Was want oi votes. The inn
mediate cause 10 said to b. thst the ladie. in
struoted thsir husbands 10 vote against him
first. because he wAs for xamans suffrage, and
they were not ready 20 20 into politics. and
sscond because they eoalin't get along without
hearing him preach. This !. consequently .
sagzr-ooassd pill Cor Beecher, he accepts N
good faith the latter horn u The dilemma ~
is impossssls ior Brooklyn ~ go along wish"@s
Mr. Beecher. Empty sssts 90 dFo~-y heAf"f.
.ra ,sv.y -, IN hls church. He u The imper-
..a.s;aa sf paIpit esectricity. gcspel sunshine
and large hesrssdne%--
x. ~. res-ntiy had another instance d
.w,r iu.sioe. Joseph johnson and George
u.,r.x on The isth Of April. about midday
t,..r.ed down and robbed Mr.. Alfred ID. Du-
hos. Principal Of GFammer School No. a, In
Ninth street. near Avenue ID. They took from
hin s2eeo which ha Was taking 10 the school
To pay the teaohers' salaries Lsekiiy the Po
lice were early ON their track and got hold q
them before they could conceal the evidence O
their guilt. Murray was Acting Jsnitor Of IN.
school, On Monday, April I'D, serea Days af
Ter the robbery, Recorder Hackett sentenced
them to tacenty years each imprisonment in tn
States Prison. This, in community where 50
many scouudrels manage to get clear Of JUS
tice, is particularly refreshing.
A very important fact in connection with the
history of public journals in New York, is the
removal of the Herald from its old quarters On
the corner of Fulton and Nassau streets 10 'he
new Herald building on Broadway, corner Of
Ann street. The history of public journalism