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for many years, of all the most abominable elements of city population, toward the little and large caucuses

Alderman Wilson, &c., in New York city—these now stand as “the party.”

These gentry are sui generis , and to be found nowhere else than at the City of Magnificent Distances

staple of much of the newspaper columns headed “Washington Correspondence,” and what curiosities of American

pursuit of their vocation, there is a harmony in all their operations that would be really beautiful were

the poem became section 16 of Calamus in 1860; the lines on the first draft page correspond to verses

of the poem during Whitman's lifetime: he rejected it from his Blue Book Copy of Leaves of Grass in 1860

With substantial additions and revisions this evolved into section 37 of Calamus in 1860; after further

It is feared by Douglas that either Secretary Cobb, or the President himself, has an eye on 1860; and

For example, the other day some thousand hogsheads of port wine were confiscated in England, and found

In this climate, and with the peculiarly high-strung and excitable American temperament, the practice

Great hopes were expressed at one time that the manufacture of native wines from the pure juice of our

.— Yesterday the Herald undertook to show by statistics that there were upwards of 25,000 tailors thrown

midst of journeymen tailors’ residences, and there have been several such in the 16th ward of this city

When asked why he did this, the boy replied: “Oh, I know all the others in the trade were cutting it

Houses that employ one cutter and perhaps 16 girls, were put down as employing 16 cutters and 400 girls

Miss Beecher, in her popular work on physiology, laments the general decay of health among American women

She says, and truly, according to our own experience, that a healthy American female is rapidly becoming

The great trouble with our people—especially “city men,” merchants, lawyers, professional and business

in the rich valleys of the interior, to balance the wicked waste of nerve and tissue in our great cities

remark, in speaking of the decay of health in metropolitan life,—“I should despair of my country, if it were

American Institute Farmers Club April 21, '57 Origin and unchangeable nature of Plants and Animals. —

also contends that there is no upward progression into another of any species—that all are as they were

The North American Indian, as he was found here by our ancestors, was a carnivorous animal, as untamable

Yet when we suppose the age was faultless, or that all were actuated by pure and patriotic motives, or

American Institute Farmers Club

These pages were transformed into section 13 of Chants Democratic in the 1860 Leaves of Grass.

American Laws

American Money Gone A Wool Cultivating American Money Gone A Wool Cultivating What has become confessedly

The American Physique THE AMERICAN PHYSIQUE— Horace Mann, in his speech before the Christian Convention

Mayor Wentworth, of Chicago, reports that none but office holders in that city, and not all of them,

that the aim of the office holding Democrats in this State is to place Dickenson on the track for 1860

This poem became section 21 of Calamus in 1860; the lines on the first manuscript page became verses

cm, 8 x 13 cm, and 12.5 x 13 cm; This poem became section 19 of the cluster Leaves of Grass in the 1860

, all other leaves 21.5 x 13 cm; This poem became section 18 of the cluster Leaves of Grass in the 1860

The list of contributors includes some twenty or thirty of the standard names of American literature,

appalling statement from an official document, that there are “upwards of eighty thousand females in the city

of London who gain their living by prostitution,” more than four thousand of whom were arrested during

After dark, in the great city of New York, any man passing along Broadway, between Houston and Fulton

—A large proportion of the young men become acquainted with all the best known ones in the city.

Of the classes we have mentioned, now in these cities, how many are there who have not been diseased?

Few men can take so prominent a part in the politics of a city as the Hon. H.C.

occasion on which to express their respect for him, and their sense of the honor conferred on the city

New York, surrounded as they are with all their water–advantages, ought to have an almost entire population

Public baths ought to be established by the city, where the people could bathe free.

For all that, the day will come when Free Public Baths will be established, at the cost of the city,

As one looks around Brooklyn, New York, and other American cities–as he sees such multitudes of undeveloped

the presence of these establishments has a very beneficial effect on the trade and prosperity of the city

have some men in our public bodies who would drive every vestige of commercial prosperity out of the city

bold-eyed Amazons among our beauties, ready to return look for look with the most formidable gallants that were

Whatever may be the cause—whether it is that American girls, like their brothers, are too soon cut adrift

Prime, formerly resided in this city, and followed the profession of the law.

The notices it has received hitherto both from the American and English journals, are singularly favorable

But the pictures of American domestic life, which are drawn with a discriminating and appreciative hand

For example, the mechanics of this city, every section of it, the Eastern District, (Williamsburgh, Greenpoint

Moses in the wilderness,) but the five-sixths of the solid body of the people of consolidated Brooklyn were

Gentlemen of the City Hall! and gentlemen of the Railroad Directors' Committee!

nine-tenths of them well satisfied with the decision affirming the Metropolitan Police Law, under which our city

Mayor Powell, as Chief Magistrate of the City, should have, and doubtless will have, the most weighty

Stranahan, let us now see if the Mayor cannot give us a splendid set of young, strong American men, physically

and mentally competent—men that will make "the force" a pride to the whole city.

Walter Murray Gibson, who had also talked about the "koboo" people (possibly in the book Report, American

the East Indian Archipelago, published in 1855), had affirmed that all his statements in the book were

After adding several verses, Whitman designated this poem section 13 of Calamus in the 1860 Leaves, and

, after dropping the first two and last three lines of the 1860 version, permanently retitled it Roots

We have met but few of the over-nice people who could "smell of the shop" so readily, who were not more

the most useful works on health science and educational matters, that have been issued from the American

, sometimes funny scenes occur in these distributions—we will mention one that took place while we were

Supposing they were to be paid for, she declined, "being short of money."

At last she was made to understand that they were gifts to accompany her purchases.

was held]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf16 x 10 cm; This manuscript became section 1 of Calamus in 1860

The first section of the original sequence Live Oak, with Moss, this became section 14 of Calamus in 1860

If one or two cases like the following were only pursued with inflexible determination, by the Board

Central American Affairs CENTRAL AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

The inhabitants of New Zealand were so savage and impotent that it was considered legitimate to appropriate

themselves to the Honduras, Tehuantepec or the Nicaraguan routes, either of which will be better for American

The vast population of the Chinese Empire, the comparative ignorance respecting it under which other

nations labor, and the present disturbed state of the relations between the Chinese authority and the American

Less than a century ago, only about 200 chests of opium were imported annually into China; but that amount

Pohlman, an American missionary, who has resided several years in China, "holds its victim by a tighter

pasted over some lines in the top-left corner of the larger piece, from the top of which other lines were

The verses became section 18 of Calamus in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass; the poem was permanently

titled City of Orgies in 1867.

City of my walks and joys

Our readers are doubtless informed ere this of the occurrences which yesterday converted the City Hall

The curse of American politics—especially in municipal and State affairs—is that men love their party

substantial deletions and revisions this poem became section 13 of the cluster Leaves of Grass in 1860

12 cm; Written on a light blue Williamsburgh tax blank, this poem became section 15 of Calamus in 1860

whatever is proffered him, with assurances of benefit; and thus the ninety-nine quacks of New York city

The Sunday car discussion in this city was, while it lasted, as our readers are aware, productive of

Hope Chapel in March last, and with which the reports in the newspapers at the time, abridged as they were

He is quite as severe on the American for his tobacco chewing and spirit drinking.

were even then the remains of an ancient city."

The population were in a state of terror and despair, and hopes were expressed and reports whispered,

Formerly, these were reluctant to mingle with the American population, but this state of things is rapidly

They were met by the Americans under General Jackson, 6000 strong.

—Over one-half of the population are Americans, of British descent.

At one time this scrapbook likely contained numerous additional manuscript pages that were later removed

Does some great crime come to light in the circles where virtue and morality were thought to have taken

The population of the State of New York was 3,426,212; of these only 2,222,341 were natives of the State

Of the 652,322 voters, 135,577 were naturalized.

In Kings County there were 18,277 native voters against 14,350 adopted.

In live stock Kings does not retain the high relative position it occupies as regards population.

of the State are church goers; and the proportion in this city of churches is below even that of the

It should be remembered that it is only in the vicinity of large cities that such fertilizers can be

Those who compalain so seriously of this alleged nuisance, doubtless were aware of its existence before

It should be remembered that is is only in the vicinity of large cities that such fertilizers can be

Those who complain so seriously of this alleged nuisance, doubtless were aware of its existence before

Even the Aldermen of cities—even members of the Legislature, submit themselves to be Dead Heads sometimes

will not become angered when you say “Never mind;” but for all that he would cheerfully pay if it were

Now, if American men are indeed so gallant, why don’t the theatres, railroads, saloons, &c., pass women

If we were asked our opinion of such things, we answer we should think it would always be a pleasure

with those of last year in point of numbers, while in respectability of demeanor and attire it far exceeded

The twenty distinguished gentlemen whose names were on the bills did not appear—and to our mind the meeting

Consequently the managing committee had to fall back on local speakers, and the audience were probably

reception evinced the depth of interest with which this ferry question is regarded by the people of this city

of the Executive Committee appointed at the mass meeting of the Citizens of Brooklyn, held at the City

successful party has, year after year, no powerful and good principled advocate and expounder in a city