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Based on the handwriting, Edward Grier dates this manuscript to before 1860 (Notebooks and Unpublished

— Based on the handwriting, Edward Grier dates this manuscript scrap to before 1860 (Notebooks and Unpublished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Based on the handwriting, Edward Grier dates this manuscript scrap to before 1860 (Notebooks and Unpublished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

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

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 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

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

Varet street actually poisoned 12 head of ducks and geese in one morning, and their rotten carcases were

He says: American gentlemen have adopted as a national costume, broadcloth—a thin, tight fitting black

—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

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."

Even the strongest Lecomptonists admit, sotto voce , that the issue in 1860 is between the two D's—Douglas

Every Congressman from New York city, and every Tammany man who visits Washington during the next session

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,

If so, it is very limited in its extent; for when a National Base Ball Convention was held, there were

The reasons which we gave some days since for the speedy selection of one large grand Park for the city

Greenwood is located at the very extremity of the city.

It would not be necessary for any considerable portion of the city to take more than one railroad route

No equal tract can be found in or near the city, unintersected by roads. IV. It is cheap.

The city already owns the Reservoir and a large space around it, which will be so much less to pay for

As to the fashionable custom of decamping from the city, and pitching a new tent in a strange country

He was taken to the drug store adjacent, where his wounds were dressed, and he was sent to the City Hospital

of popular institutions while refusing sympathy to popular excesses, to embody the opinion of the American

school boys yet unborn, as it is by thousands now living, his reputation at the first of living American

He tells us that the defects of Murray were strongly impressed upon his attention while he taught grammar

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

.— 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.

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

Among the various questions to be decided by the Commissioners for locating parks in this city, we regard

If parks are to be "breathing places" or "lungs" for the city, let them be large enough for a good-sized

With a wide expanse of water on three sides of the city, and an illimitable expanse of open country in

Also, an inspection of it shows that no other spot of anything like the size could be found in the city

Add to this the cheapness of the land, and the accessibility of the place from all parts of the city,

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.

becomes a mere tributary of the mighty flood which pours from all parts of the Western District past the City

If the object of the New York authorities were to increase prostitution and depravity, they could not

The police of that city neither vigorously put down all such places, nor tolerate them, under inspection

favor of their Borioboola Gha Missions elsewhere; but to call the attention of the police of this city

" of their brethren in New York are having the effect of driving the frail sisterhood over to this city

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

the presence of which is most to be feared, and the use of lead pipe may prove more hurtful than in 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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