May I ask once and forever. to settle the slanders upon the great city by giving a. few of the statistics of our proud metropolis i The prisons. hospitals. asylums alinshouses. nurseries. &c.. nunberilg twentyseven institutioUS. reeived 153.271 subjects in 1673. The department for the outdoor poor gave relief to 22.78. persons. The amount of money expended in sustaining the operations of the commissioners of public charities and corrections during the year was $1.206.358.85. And you want this chained in ? The organized local charitable societies and institutions receive and disburse annually $2.500.000. The total expense of the commissioners of emigration during the year was $592.437.03. Yet you would send these benefactions inland. where there would be no beneficiaries? The receipts of the daily press in New York are said tobe $9.000.000 annually.
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