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he is a native and resident of Brooklyn, Long Island, born and bred in an obscurity from which it were

His Leaves of Grass were a revelation from the Kingdom of Nature.

If there were any relief to the unmeaning monotony, some glimpse of fine fancy, some oasis of sense,

-1874) was an American writer and actress who contributed a lively column for the Saturday Press from

The comedic works of François Rabelais (c. 1490-1553) were known for their risqué quality.

-1874) was an American writer and actress who contributed a lively column for the Saturday Press from

1859-1864.; The comedic works of François Rabelais (c. 1490-1553) were known for their risqué quality

This poem later appeared as "A Word Out of the Sea," Leaves of Grass (1860); as "Out of the Cradle Endlessly

German and the Scandinavian Based on the handwriting, Edward Grier dates this manuscript to before 1860

Based on the handwriting, Edward Grier dates this manuscript to before 1860 (Notebooks and Unpublished

— Based on the handwriting, Edward Grier dates this manuscript scrap to before 1860 (Notebooks and Unpublished

the poem that would later be titled "Recorders Ages Hence," first published as "Calamus 10" in the 1860

Based on the handwriting, Edward Grier dates this manuscript scrap to before 1860 (Notebooks and Unpublished

the poem that would later be titled "Recorders Ages Hence," first published as "Calamus 10" in the 1860

This note is possibly related to the poem "Recorders Ages Hence," first published in Leaves of Grass (1860

20 American air I have breathed, breathe henceforth also of me, American ground that supports me, I will

See "Remembrances I plant American ground with" and "A Remembrance."

American air I have breathed

See "Remembrances I plant American ground with" and "A Remembrance.

are justly open, of being designed to establish an irresponsible and all-powerful triumvirate in the city

, authorised by the Legislature to spend the city's money ad libitum , without as much as saying "by

These, with a provision guarding the city's interests more stringently in the matter of the proposed

.— We yesterday were shown the impression of a medal to commemorate the introduction of water in Brooklyn

Spinola—authorizing the city to borrow $29000. By Mr.

Ostrander, Epenetus Webster," and their associates To run over the Brooklyn City railroad track, from

In the city of Brooklyn; thence along First street to Division avenue; thence upon the track of the Broadway

intersection with South Sixth street, to and cross Union avenue to and through Montrose avenue to the city

Why the water of the city of Brooklyn should be "distributed" in the county of Queens, is more than we

question of the constitutional right of the people to govern themselves—of the inhabitants of this city

now at Albany, understood to be designed to place the control of the water works and sewers of the city

the allegations of unconstitutionality and tyrranical interference with the people's rights which were

The water works were to cost $4,200,000 Including the half million for the closed conduit, they will

probably cost the city a million and a quarter more than that sum by the time they are finished.

except the single one of the sufficiency and adaptability of the works to the purpose of giving the city

They are satisfied, from the very much larger sums paid by other cities for similar works, that the price

command of the best materials, and the most critically overlooked workmen—no work more worthy a proud, populous

, ambitious and opulent city, full of the spirit and the means to do as much as any city upon earth has

do we think there has ever been anything superior in ancient times; the Roman Aqueducts and Cloacæ were

home to our immediate presence, we have such a work, in its sort the peer of the best of any other city

We have drank in all part of North American, at Niagara, at the Straits of Machinaw, the Missouri, the

The cars were absolutely crowded down, either one way or the other, during the whole day, and the facilities

of the line were not sufficient to accommodate one half the travel.

In one corner of the empty reservoir a half-dozen vagabond boys were engaged in an energetic game of

intense desire among those who visited this building to have a look at the pumping engine, but they were

the wells are completely covered in by a large wooden shed sort of arrangement, the doors of which were

of Brooklyn who have investigated the matter in an impartial spirit, are quite unanimous that the city

cry raised for election purposes about "taking control out of the hands of the people," "putting the city

Kirkwood pretty dull—that if the Commissioners were not sharper than their engineer, Mr.

.— Alderman Pierson’s resolutions last evening were decidedly premature. Let Ald.

McNamee’s committee go on and construct a fountain in the City Hall Park, and another on the corner of

That the Water Works of the city, if they operate at all, as there is no doubt they will, will confer

a benefit on the city far exceeding their pecuniary cost, both by raising the value of property and

twelve millions of dollars worth of benefit from them, that we are to pay more for them than they were

the wealthy, the wise, the good, of the city par excellence .

The city has therefore a right to expect from such men, so appointed, an administration of pre-eminent

Health of the City The Health of the City. The annual report of Dr.

their minor duties, and ought now to devote more time to the sanitary and social conditions of the city

prove abortive unless and effectual check is place upon the systematic habits of a portion of our population

putrifying animal and vegetable matter mingle with the atmosphere, to the injury of all sections of the city

s report, we were about to repeat the eulogy which we had already bestowed on it, as a careful and valuable

"To the pure all things are pure," and I will venture the assertion that there were very few at that

This is the general practice in great cities. —[Exchange.

If girls were taught the general principles of medical science, they would not only be free from the

their action, complete inflation taking place only on the other side, affords a sufficient reason, were

in the summer, as if there was no danger to public health from any cause but epidemics—as if there were

regular and constant sanitary reforms and obligations to be introduced and enforced throughout the city

There are practices carried on, which are destructive to the salubrity of the city—there is a general

below those of almost every city of similar size on earth.

What then does Brooklyn need, in order to guarantee, that in her limits, density of population shall

was one of the best that has ever been given in Williamsburgh, for in addition to the members there were

Pierce and Burnham of this city, each one of whom is a host in himself.

Ryder, Burnham and Halsted formed a very beautiful tableau on the parallel bars and were loudly applauded

Messrs Brady, Burnham, Halsted and Ryder's performances in the swinging rings were beautiful and daring

; where all were so excellent it may be presumptuous to particularize, but to our own mind Mr.

.— The Scientific American thinks that more die annually from a want of sufficient brain-work than from

Galileo and Roger Bacon both lived to 78, Buffon died at 81, Goethe and West were 82, Franklin and Herschel

To-day he writes to the Tribune , stating that his views "are precisely the same that they were two years

, when, in connection with the controversy concerning the running of Sunday cars in Brooklyn, they were

If these views were not heretical in '57, they are not in '59."

—The excitement simultaneously occurring in so many cities as to how far amusements may lawfully be infulged

bier of the outskirts, as he would be by the poisonous spirits vended in the obscure rumshops of the city

The only result of the Sunday car controversy in this city that can in any degree be regretted, is that

with a purse as light as when he went in, but at the same time rich in the universal sentiment of the city

progenitor and namesake falling upon him, have played no small part in the affairs of the village and the city

As it is, the consolidation of the two cities, and the erection of a seperate separate ward out of the

21 I turn now to another part of the district, and select for portraiture a man of whom, though I were

He dissents from his dominie in theology, from his political party in their local policy, from the city

aught I know, what Fernando Wood was in New York about the same time, vis, the best abused man in the city

Dunstan and other holy men painted him, and I must confess, for my part, that I know in this city very

Henry Ward Beecher is tremendously popular in the city of ours.

in general questions, but attending strictly to the concerns of his own particular portion of the city

one of the leading men in the city councils.

does for the public gratuitously more work than almost any man who receives a large salary from the city

Though not a native American, he possesses in a high degree the best qualities which are “to the manor

A short, stout, dark-haired man, who formerly sat in the City Councils with the two above mentioned.

former portraits have not been high colored and flattering enough to suit the people for whom they were

He is best known to the public from his services in the Common Council, where high expectations were

His impulsiveness—rashness I had almost said—has often offended, for the time being, those who were the

I hope at no distant day to see him again in our city councils, or in some more extended sphere of public

And there is no more hard-working man in the city than my subject, who labors unceasingly for the good

end, as they have not heard from me for several weeks; but the fact is that a brief absence from the city

In the county towns as well as in the city, everyone concurs in speaking well of him.

When last elected he was solitary and alone of his party—the rest were all left far behind—but even the

bitter animosity is a partisanship, engendered by presidential elections, were assuaged by the general

He holds an important position under the city government—one which requires, almost beyond any other,

And indeed he is popular all over the city, or else he never would have been elected as he was, when

all his associates on the ticket were so utterly overthrown.

He was the most faithful and industrious legal officer that the city has had—he filled the office of

any number of other renewals of the same trust from the same constituency—for I can assure him they were

kinsmen, my subject is engaged just now in developing the resources and augmenting the prosperity and population

accommodation for the people; and if his efforts had been properly seconded by the representatives of the city

Into the demonstration made at this end of the city on the occasion of the water celebration he entered

eventually remunerative as well as successful, to cheapen and improve the means of access to this city

If I were writing sketches of all the good men, I should have to include at least some clergyman; but

I am rather gratified to find that my first sketches were generally recognized, and their fidelity admitted

He is not deficient in public spirit, but until laterally has hardly shown that interest in city matters

Some of our hard, matter-of-fact people, who never talk or think of anything but dollars and city lots

enterprise which, if carried out, will confer untold benefits on the north eastern portion of the city

Many men who are now well to do in business, were started by him; his was the capital—though he is not

anxiety greater than that which he would bestow on his own property, the progress of works which the city

through a mile of his own property—once an old hilly farm, but soon to possess incalculable value as city

For the days are passed when high social standing advances a man politically, in our large cities.

yet complete and full history of the preliminary movements for the introduction of water into the city

, which we published yesterday, was compiled from the City Clerk's manual for 1858-9—a work which contains

Bishop, whom every well wisher of the city, irrespective of party, desires long to see occupying that

position in the city government which he so competently and creditably fills.

to any of the rest, and which at first, before we learned the circumstances of its authorship, we were

The following were among the guests who went out: HARTFORD, CONN.

There were also some fifty prominent officials of this city.

Speeches were made after dinner in reply to various toasts in honor of the guests, proposed by the city

Wickware, of Jersey City &c.

This Company were the guests of Engine Company No. 9.

are many families and much furniture coming this way and there is very little of an exodus from the city

So far as we can learn, there never was a former year when anything like so many houses were engaged

connection to state, that ere the sun goes down to-night there will literally be thousands added to the population

nor related to the Oration—but rather the Star , and that "Ode" which was first palmed by it on the city

It is singular how, with capacious halls, and a numerous, refined, and educated population, we do not

Notice was circulated in this city on Saturday evening that the Water and Sewerage bills would be discussed

before the Committee on Cities and Villages on Monday evening, and Mr.

without his knowledge and consent and that the meeting could not be held, as most of the Committee were

In the cars, the Water Works and all appertaining thereto were so loudly and volubly discussed, that

The Grand street railroad bills were before a Committee of the Assembly this afternoon.

We have resisted, in a previous article, the common disparaging view taken of the health of American

comparison with that of English women; but we, at the same time, felt constrained to admit, that American

But we wish the superior beauty of our girls were no more rapidly evanescent than is hereby accounted

.— The New York Times pretends that there is yellow fever in this city, because the Captain of the Brig

Attendants were present to preserve order and minister to their wants.

were under restraint of limb.

Of the rest some were amusing themselves like children, others were lost in apparently profound meditation

, and some were afflicted by a cacoethes loquendi ; but none were dangerous and hardly any were even

Hardly any of the patients were colored people.

Respecting Mineral Substances mentioned by the Ancients; with occasional Remarks on the Uses to which they were

They were acquainted, however, with a large number of minerals, their uses and properties, and the two

Statues were painted by the ancients with minium, and hence were called miniatures .

Of combustibles, sulphur, bitumen, naptha, amber, gagates or jet, were all well known.

There were also bony stones or fossils of various kinds.

Secretary, we find the following: The last case I shall mention is that of a gentleman with whom you were

, has again and again been disgraced by being placed on the list of arrested "bummers" sent to the City

Were such cases rare—had the gifted Freeman Hunt been almost the only man to whom the existence of an

Ex-Mayor Lambert of this city is one of the Trustees, and by him, or Mr.

that the forcing system of school instruction is prematurely wasting the physical stamina of the population

forcibly expressed by the writer in the Atlantic, that we appealed to the Board of Education in this city

Boston in 1854, which resulted in the triumph of the physiologists over the cranium crammers, who were

find space to mention; but we do most seriously exhort every member of the Board of Education of this city

—and is it not a shame that the city should have to pay for printing it and sending it forth to the world

Would that old Isaac Disraeli were alive, that Dr.

No nation or people will ever preserve the weight of influence to which they were naturally entitled,