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

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

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

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

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,

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

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.

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

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

.— 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

—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

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

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

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

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.

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

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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.