Year: 1865

while life is so cheap, and, as contractors say
Iabor is so dear, shall we moralize over horSes
and forget that bpeds drop and die as wei


But we are not so speaking. and The imaginary
audience will therefore please give way 10 a
larger. That luckless horse, just as worthy 10
be the subject of a paragraph as the eVetias'ins
countryman who will lend his money 10
stranger. in defiance OF many previous eA'
amn,es suggests again the happy way IN winch
things in New-York are left undone' lno
optimist who looked for an honest fulillmeht OIL
the street.cleaning-i. Q. pocket'hllng con-
tract-executed early last Summon had not
long been resident Of the city. 1t was only
too plain that the whole thing was merely O
shifting Of position in the burden which si'S'
ike Sinbads old man, asride the neck OF every
dveller in the metropolis; instead OF the City
INSPECTOR. we were to have his cronles, ana IN
stead of $500. 900, for which a show OF work hao
been made, the city was only to pay nan a
million, for which nothing was to be done III
the most systematic and faithful manner. Ihese
facetious contractors, having in reality agreed
to do nothing, did it most admirably. and tho
city. which was clean {! I } when Mr. Hercules
Boolo turned it over TO his three headed loiauS'
simmered and steamed, and was stencil and
chsrne.house, as usual. through the very not
Summer lust passed. The dreaded Death when
had been spreading ID pail westward over
Europe did not comei Heaven once more
helped those who would not help themselves,
and we all breathed more freely as Octooer
came. But other Augusts are to come, ana
New. York awaits them, as foul and death-breed'
ing a. ever, and there is no remedy.


We do not offer any more dolorons statistics
to-day. New-York at present is ravished
woman whose tongue is plucked out, and whose
arms are neryeless The evil il radical, and the
only possible remedy under the circumstances
must be equally radical. Sad as Is the COM
mentory on republican government to say So
/ this city practically cannot govern herself; she
/ is unfit TO be trusted with herself. For the
1 Croton Water, for the Central Park, for the
Metropolitan Police, for the PAID Fire Depart
ment. we had TO 90 to the Legislature, a. to the
/ captain OF o band Of robbers for protection
against being plundcred by subordinate thieves,
and for new piers, decent markets, clean Streets
or any Of our fifty wants, vc must look TO the
Legislature until We are satisfied The Health
Bill Of the last session was the needed measure,
and would have done for tho health of the city
what has been done for il pleasure and comfort
/ by the Croton Board and the Park Commission
err. The defeat of the bill was simply remand
ing the metropolis for another year into
the hands of Mr.. BOole and his con.
tractors with all the suffering and
danger consequent thereon. Having waited and
endured one more year, the question Is now
whether we must wait another. To be sure,
the open opposition came from New-Iork Itself.
Mr. Registrar Ramsay. who treats us this year
to a icarfully elaborate disquis.tiOn on small
pox, and who il always ready with statistics
proving that the mortality of any given year is
~ many per cent less than that oi the previous
one, went to Albany and showed that the city
was never so healthy beiorc-indeed, he scarce
ly saved himself from proving it quite too
healthy 10 be natural-and the bill was voted
bore and flung out Of doors 1t was lost, how
eyer. by the votes and the convenient absence
Of country members, aud We, therefore, charge
upon the country districts the fault of its failure
n fNew-York dies of contractors, a. she is in
danger OF doing, the blame will rest upon the
State at large.


We therefore cntreat our country readers for
once to consider the metropolis, which with
shame and sorrow il forced to appeal TO them
for aid Until the ruin of either anarchy or
pestilence falls upon her, Ncw-York is, and
must continue to be, the center Of the Western
hemisphere, and if you deny that her prosperity
/ il yours--you who inhabit the country districts
| we have nothing to say 10 YOU except that
] you may live to be convinced Of the fact. But
We beg of you this year to make the well-being
of the metropolis one consideration in your local
politics. Men who could be argued or bribed
into recIoancy to their duty toward this city.
viii be equally recreant in their duty to your
selves. FRithlulness in lesser argues faithful
ness in the greater; what then shall be thought
of those who are unfaithiul to the greater
Take note of the men who would not lift so
much as finger to romove the burden from the
metropolis. Keep them at home. And take
home to yourselves the thought that New York
city seriously and earnestly entreats of YOU this
Fall the election of ,an honest Legislature for
her relief