The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-07-15
GFor the Dispatch.1
Sewage, and Particularly the sewage
or Richmond.

your article on the "abatloir" meets my
views. but by far The greatest question OF
The age is how best TO dispose OF the sewage
of towns. II is not only a positive and fp1d-
" injury where il accumuaes, but to allow
this accumulation i to withhold fertility from
The soil Of the country, producing on the
one hand disease and death, and on the other
dcs;ituton and misery.
The writer was not far wrong who attribu-
Ted the decline of The Roman Empire TO the
cloaca Of The Eterna! city.
If science would turn its whole effort to
the calculation OF the plain, practical ques.
tons of life, we should enjoy an internal
pleasure from increased health and comfort
much greater than it now conieIs. House
building, warming, and ventilation, retrigc.
ration. cooking, street-paving, supply OF
good wafer, and many other things, need
Improvement. But, to return TO sewage, I'M
fortunately when it accumulateS it is AL OBJ.
iec. OF disgust, aud this disgust prevents
even proper cleanliness.
Can't you, Mr.. Editor, tell the people of
the value of this article in dollars and cents?
Can't you tell them hat in this same repul-
sive mass there exist, ready to be moulded TO
our will, the components Of more things
than John Quincy Adams ever wanted-iat
cattle, mutton, grain of every kind, game,
fruit, grass, trees, and t1owers-thit if
the excre,a Of Richmond we're carefully
saved and jud!cionsy applied to an ares of
i've miles around the city there would he
heavy grain aud grass.lots, fine vegeta olts,
nourl>hlng vineyards, and splendid pastures
where now s'erility and thrittlessneSs exist ?
The mat, rial for deodorlzing and pressing
fertility in everything of the kind, is as plen.
ufui rs the earth Itself Indeed. OF al! De 0do.
rlZers and reiainers of fertility k0own, dried
clay is the best, and housekeeper has only
to procure few barrels 10 accomplish the
double purpose Of cleanliness and saving
what is invaluable TO the farmer. Can't you
tell the urlape people that the gaseous eXha.
ation of which some complain is the very
same that blackens the spoon with Which they
eat their breakta eggs; that it IS the same
which greets the nostril Of brau'v and fashion
at the White Sulphur Springs; in fact, this
same sulphurated hydrogen gas is constant
attendant upon cities where the word urban-
ty originatedJ, and must be controlled and
managed by the best classes of the citizens.
The savage leaves bis village when it be
comes too dirty, the civilized man must keep
his clean, or sickness and death j. his PORTION.
The cities draw from the country the incest
Of everything for the use OF their in ha Bit
ants; they should, in turn, save the dfbriS
and send it back 10 be worked over for tDcIr
use. and save the country from exhaustion.
Near the Stare Flir.Grouud-, and on one
Of the leading thoroughiares into our city.
an entcrprising EugIi>hQIan proposes to de-
tnOnsrale the value Of this article. The
place has been well chosen, and we should
give him Il friendly hand: and | hope you,
Mr.. Editor, a good Tuckanoe, will prescribe
an ounce of cuyet to the pass, rs.by whose
no>triIs arc offended. and urge them 10 hold
their noses and 10 improve their iahds
1CCKAHoE.