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

Hine, who had painted Whitman's portrait in 1860.

talks about a new photo of “the eccentric poet” on display at Root’s Daguerrian Gallery in New York City

his painting of Whitman on this image, which in turn served as the model for Stephen Alonzo Schoff’s 1860

See Ted Genoways, "'Scented herbage of my breast': Whitman's Chest Hair and the Frontispiece to the 1860

Black of Black and Batchelder, ca. 1860 This rugged, footloose portrait was taken by James Wallace Black

, of Black & Batchelder, in March 1860, when Whitman was in Boston to oversee the typesetting of his

1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.

the publishing firm of Thayer & Eldridge, who apparently commissioned the photograph to promote the 1860

the basis for the engraving of Whitman that appeared with its review of Leaves of Grass on June 2, 1860

.— A paper has been read before the American Geographical and Statistical Society, upon the Polar Discoveries

Thompson, was for twenty-five years a Missionary of the American Board in Syria and Palestine, and there

—This excellent periodical, which has received the greatest praise from English as well as American critics

remarks, gave it as his opinion that the shad could be captured by hook and line if the fishermen were

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

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

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

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

General Duryea introduced a bill into the Legislature to provide the rites of sepulture for the American

These martyrs to American liberty were the soldiers captured at Fort Washington and who were afterwards

Some idea may be formed of their heroism, fortitude and devotion, when we recall the fact that they were

, at any time that they would abandon the American cause.

The ceremonies on this occasion were of an imposing character; the federal officers were invited to take

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.

and Amazon, we have shown that she offers a climate genial and unrivaled for its salubrity, and a population

present disturbed condition of our relations with Paraguay, and the large space which the South American

years past Literary and Christian Associations of young men have been forming in all directions, which were

.— 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

—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.

be blown by southerly winds directly landward, over the flats, to Flatlands, Flatbush and Brooklyn, were

contract—thus giving Cornell & Co. control over their third of Barren Island, free from obligations to the city

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

Oysters in Old Rome OYSTERS IN OLD ROME— The Roman ladies were so enamored with oysters, that they were

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.

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

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

that his interests have been well cared for—that the changes of construction which have been made were

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

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

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.

life affords a profitable lesson of the course, influences, and tendencies of the vortex of New York city

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 were the first probably to christen the water Ridgewood, but we are not so obstinate as to persist

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

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

Our printing office will be here, but we wish a publication office near the City Hall, and an editor

Doggett's New York City Directory, for 1850–1851 lists William H.

.— The "donkey engine" which figured in the preliminary introduction of the Ridgewood Water to the city

About a million and a half gallons of water are already daily used in the city and the present depth

CELEBRATION The celebration which is proposed for the 27th, in honor of the introduction of water into the city

, promises to be the most imposing demonstration ever witnessed in the city of Brooklyn.

Scarcely a manufacturing establishment in the city is there but what has indicated to the committee an

strikes us as somewhat strange that none of the many Temperance Societies and organizations in our city

At the meeting of the Committee this morning, applications for places in the procession were received

If this be so the city has been swindled by the commissioners, Engineers and Contractors to a fearful

They were informed that six or seven hundred feet of the loose stone fence, which constitutes the only

Now, however, when we are told that the vast expenditures of the city on this Reservoir have been thrown

They seem to have come round to Alderman Backhouses opinion that the city has had enough of Welles &

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

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

A number of the idle boys were playing around the basin and climbing up the marble jet, and it was generally

The fountain in the City Hall Park was tried on Saturday, and a jet of water thrown to the height of

for all citizens who can do so, to entertain some of the distinguished visitors who will crowd the city

The "boys" were busily engaged yesterday (they must be excused, this time, if it was Sunday) in polishing

Morris, 144 Fulton street, this city.

History of the Introduction of Water into the City HISTORY OF THE INTRODUCTION OF WATER INTO THE CITY

As early as 1835, public meetings were held on the subject of a water supply.

relied upon as sources of supply for the city.

were to be laid, and eight hundred hydrants provided for the then wants of the city.

On the 27th of March the report of the committe were adopted.

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.

It is an event to which the people of this city have looked with absorbing anxiety, and which the residents

of other cities have regarded with friendly interest.

labored to create the works, to the aldermen who have striven to make the celebration worthy of the city

For all these are citizens of Brooklyn; it is their own city which has been beautified and glorified,

To the delegations from other cities, and the visitors from abroad, we may indeed be grateful.

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

Each newly formed Board of Aldermen of the city of Brooklyn is in the habit of introducing itself to

Last night the old scenes were reenacted, with accessories There was the foul insinuation covertly launched

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

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.

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.