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In New York and other large cities these associations are carried on with the most complete success.

In the Western District of this city they have an organization of the kind which is doing well, and we

jealously any attempt to bring in issues and topics extraneous to the prime objects for which they were

The Canal was viewed, and the points of merit and demerit, as between it and the proposed conduit, were

Two of these—the American ship Grotto, of Bath, bound to Scotland, and the British ship Suzanne, bound

to Liverpool—were obliged to make this port on account of having lost portions of their crews.

The survivors of the crews and passengers were landed and both vessels sent below.

Ever since the present quarantine laws have been rigidly put in force, the city has been comparatively

But inside of a city, through the houses and streets, are the most important requisites for safety.

should be a regular weekly course of disinfectants applied to the gutters of all the old streets in the city

The officers were about two-thirds women, the remainder men.

He knew there were persons present, both ladies and gentlemen, who agree with him in these views, and

they wished to know whether such question as he wished to be broached and discussed, were in order on

These doctrines were received by the audience with considerable applause!

The hisses were only a few. The only objection made to Mr.

A whole course of lectures has been delivered, the current spring, in New York city, boldly advocating

It can hardly be wondered at that the good people of Rutland the other day were excited by the proceedings

Last night every seat was occupied, the aisles were full of benches, not a few were forced to stand,

If only the meanest estimates of life were cherished we should become groveling grovelling grovelling

If time were only looked upon as an opportunity to delve and scheme and get, we should not wonder that

All apparent results were sometimes denied.

Ladd, when friends would dissuade him from the step which inaugurated the American Peace Society, had

The financial condition of those wards of the city of Brooklyn comprised in the late city of Williamsburgh

under a load of debt accumulated by the extravagance and misgovernment of the officials of the late city

is anything but consolatory, and one which should induce us to labor strenuously to free the late city

arranged to be chosen from a class of men who were unfitted to accomplish the designed end, and who

would render it impossible for parties to recover judgments and accumulate costs against the late city

Only think of the Queen arriving, in the midst of a fleet of vessels, one of these fine American days

In a debate last Monday night, in the Common Council, the points were pretty well presented, as far as

We were lately in a large company where the subject of Swedenborgianism being alluded to, a lady, not

The life of this man of the future (American Spiritualism is doubtless all from him), began in 1688 and

“That very night,” says he, “the eyes of my inner man were opened, and I was able to look into heaven

I saw those who were dead here, but they were living there; I saw many persons of my acquaintance, some

Many were attracted by curiosity toward him—some by sympathy.

the suburbs of New York—will be one great inducement, if permanently secured, for swelling our population

could cross the upper ferries for two cents, we should doubtless experience a large addition to the population

recent establishment of a Mercantile Library shows their consciousness of the wants of a thriving city

support of Common Schools in this State is $8,403,139, of which nearly one-half is expended in the cities

Referring to the American Almanac, we find that the sum expended annually in Massachusetts is $2,346,309

and 293 female; 100 private schools, and 46,000 children residing in the districts, 35,817 of whom were

There are 29,511 volumes in the school libraries of this city; 13 frame school houses, and 17 of brick

The cost per month per pupil in Kings County towns is given at 92 cents 9 mills, and in Brooklyn city

It was in evidence that the profits on liquors, such as are generally sold and drank in the city, were

usually make their appearance, and every care should be taken, not only by the health department of our city

We would enjoin then upon all persons the necessity of co-operating with the proper officers of the city

hundreds of lives are lost by criminal rashness and carelessness—now it is the fall of a building in the city

the Water Fund a sum sufficient to pay for a grand Celebration of the introduction of water into the city—a

Let us have a celebration worthy of the occasion and of the city.

Douglass' statement aside) asserts that they have made a good enough "pile" out of the city without this

was not that the citizens took any action in the matter, or that the Commissioners on behalf of the city

It was to accommodate them, not the city, that the Common Council were appealed to to sanction the deviation

afford to make the conduit than complete the canal at the present price; and that, instead of the city

with above half a million more than the works were warranted to cost; and in the present instance we

with the Engineers and Commissioners in thinking that a conduit would be in every way preferable, but were

addition to the original contract price a conduit can be had instead, we think it advisable for the city

The expense of the change has been the only reason hitherto inducing the city to withhold consent from

at stake, either they made no effort to bribe Commissioners or the Common Council, or these bodies were

that the appropriation of the $630,000 was promptly refused, and now the same work is offered the city

The shears were erected on Friday, preparatory to the erection of the engines.

The interests of the city cannot suffer, and will not suffer, by the Common Council's taking time to

Their passing on the matter hastily would have cost the city $135,000, but could not have accelerated

too much the fashion with those interested in this water business to denounce as an enemy to the city's

all cavil; but we claim the privilege of forming an opinion for ourselves as to whether it is the city's

the Common Council, we are now in possession of the exact terms of the proposition to be made to the city

close their communication by reiterating their hope and belief that the first supply of water to the city

the progress of the work, most of them more or less inaccurate, having appeared in the papers, we were

Numbers of men were at work all round the reservoir chipping and shaping the large slabs of stone intended

From the Reservoir we passed on to the pump well, where another numerous body of laborers were hard at

McElroy (brother of one of the engineers, and clerk of the Works) we were shown from point to point,

Of the two engines to be erected by the present contractors (space being left for two more when the city

Lott yesterday granted an injunction to prevent the water of Baiseley's Pond being diverted to the city

The Commissioners were to have met the Celebration Committee of the Common Council this morning to arrange

By a subsequent resolution the following eminent professionals were selected: John B.

their offices, consisting of about 150 of the largest tax payers and most prominent officials of the city

Among those present were noticed, Mayor Powell, Senator Sloan, Supervisor Smith, Alderman H. R.

as it was only for the purpose of cleaning the reservoir from time to time that three compartments were

The following resolutions were, after discussion, adopted unaminously: BY W.E.

The great main from Ridgewood, which is to be connected with the pipes laid in the city, will be finished

the Common Council, we are now in possession of the exact terms of the proposition to be made to the city

close their communication by reiterating their hope and belief that the first supply of water to the city

In North Fifth street above Fifth the contractors were for three weeks engaged in cutting their way through

organizing a proper and befitting celebration on the occasion of the introduction of water into the city

introduction of a certain and plentiful supply of pure and wholesome water into the streets of our city

condition—that it is to immensely increase the comfort, convenience and business resources of our population—and

As we hope to derive the advantage of an increase of population and business, and consequently an enhancement

place of residence or business thoroughly known, and we need never fear a diversion of the tide of population

We are a moral and religious people, as becomes the denizens of a "City of Churches," and even when the

Everybody goes “on his own hook,” and thinks no more of his neighbors than if they were natives of Timbuctoo

There is no part of the city so greatly in need of improvement, both sanitary and pecuniary, as that

of itself; but all the efforts than can be made are required to improve the central portion of the city

The U.S. government are but doing tardy justice to the city of Brooklyn, in filling up this “miasmatic

voted for the Wilmot Proviso, and that in 1858, to the great disgust not only of the Republican and American

in Kansas affairs, he would have retired from power, receiving that homage and respect which the American

The Democratic members of the 35th Congress were elected on the platform of principles enunciated by

That bill, which in effect declared that Kansas had population sufficient to be admitted as a State with

Maclay, notwithstanding that, before his votes were given, a Committee of Congress appointed to visit

The first point visited was the pump well, where men were seen working hip-deep in water, eleven hours

Here were two steam engines constantly at work—one pumping out water (from the excavation where the well

All were satisfied with the stability and strength of the work, and the thorough manner in which it was

traced back to the Creation itself—made his company as pleasant, as his subsequent conversation on city

preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were

It only needs to be considered, for a moment, what a proportion of the parents, in great cities, bear

Then again—same source as above— "Of the deaths in New York City last year, 14,948, more than half of

the whole number, were of children under five years.

It is a proportion of infant mortality that is scarcely paralleled in any other Christian city; but its

The wretched poverty of the newly-arrived emigrant population, the damp, mouldy cellars in which they

Un-American Sunday Force Laws in the Eastern District Un-American Sunday Force Laws in the Eastern District

We think, in cities like Brooklyn or New York, comprehending a million of people, of diverse tastes,

The un-American Sunday laws are the more objectionable, because there has nothing occurred to make a

We advise the Mayors of our cities and the heads of the Metropolitan Police to let well enough alone.

Americans are not exactly fit subjects for the sumptuary and ecclesiastical statutes of the despots of

They were brimming over with excitement and enthusiasm, and the cold formal message of the lady who is

Two American Sailors in a Spanish Dungeon TWO AMERICAN SAILORS IN A SPANISH DUNGEON.

At the end of twelve hourse we took the hatches off and 270 of the coolies were dead.

We were obliged to do as we did to preserve our own lives and save the ship.

The American Consul refusing to take cognizance of the case, our wages due from the ship were paid to

It is so full of truths that it stares every American in the face who has ever been abroad.

to Congress a message covering a despatch from Governor Cumming announcing his entry into Salt Lake City

It is stated that the Mormon settlements were broken up, and the inhabitants moving south, in the direction

Maclay in keeping Free Kansas out of the Union until she has double the population necessary to admit

Maclay by the Administration presses, that while the seats of other Lecompton members were in doubt,

still less euphonious, and we have often thought it a great pity that at the Revolution the Empire City

cognomen of “East New York,” and affixed it to the pretty suburb on the north-eastern frontier of this city

is that it has grown and thriven amazingly—quite as fast, in proportion, as either district of this city

We learn from the paper referred to that East New York contains already a population of 2000, which number

.”— We were requested by a prominent citizen this morning to head our notice of the great yacht race

that we look upon the prospect of this result with very great curiosity—or rather would look, if we were

Benton is a specimen of a marked class of American mentality and physiology.

Brigham Young had abdicated, and that Governor Cumming, at last dates, was thirty miles from Salt Lake City

characterized as the finest in the country, and showed that when our extraordinary manufacturing facilities were

developed, that then and not till then would Brooklyn attain that commanding position in point of population

All our hopes and prospects were dependent upon a water supply, and the speaker was unwilling to permit

While we were about it, he went in for doing the thing up right.

Soon, the city will begin to fill up, and the fashionables, who are even now beginning to find their

, sea bathing, etc., are made, at present, altogether too inaccessible to the great bulk of our population

Persons accustomed to well-drained towns and cities, where these exhalations are less perilous than in

Gymnasium in South 4th street, last evening, was attended by a large number of ladies and gentlemen, who were

The exercises were opened by a short address from one of the members, explanatory of the position and

The members of the Turnverein of this city followed with a variety of feats and performances on the single

Pierce of this City, Mr. Vanbleck of California, and others, whose names we did not learn.

Pierce’s performance on the hanging ropes, were some of the best gymnastic exercises we ever witnessed