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Fugitive Slave Law, the Shaster, the ark of the covenant, the heart of the political Bible of the American

Then the Deputy Marshal and his eleven resisted, with revolvers and "muscle," but were taken notwithstanding

things, the Deputy United States marshal telegraphed to the government at Washington, what calamities were

There were fears that the bad blood and angry passions which this matter was causing would lead to collision

proceeding to Peck Slip ferry to receive their guests, of whom a large number are expected from other cities

Taft, of Greenpoint, and a large and handsome banner will be presented to the Williamsburgh City Horse

opened for the first time on Monday evening, when a Ball will be given there under the patronage of the City

The returns of the Captains who have submitted to the new law were first sent in, and as they were addressed

to the right person in the estimation of the Deputy, they were received as usual.

The returns were destroyed in the same manner as the others. Capt.

Mullin's return were sent in by a Police officer, directed to the "Chief," and as promptly sent back

Case of the 3d, were presented in much the same manner and shared the same fate.

We contend he is not only an American “representative man,” but a great original—just as great in his

Barnum’s plans were so vast! even his humbug had sublimity!

Thus the clothes should have reference to the night air also—especially as most city residents live late

Murphy We only wish all the appointments of the President and Senate of the United States were deserving

Murphy to the American Ambassadorship at the Hague. In the present state of things, Mr.

Brooklyn was, as we have said, but a village, whose affairs were managed by “Trustees.”

From this mould a permanent one was made, and several busts of Elias were formed, quite perfect, it is

city—the third in the United States, and evidently destined to be one of the greatest in the world.

It was the move of a zealous partisan, and not of a sensible man, Mayor of a city of two hundred thousand

Nevertheless, in so vital a matter as the sanitary condition of the city, I do not think proper to separate

governing power in Brooklyn, after all) with the Fernando Wood and Bill Wilson democracy of New York city

Is it not disgraceful that this vast and populous city, with all that belong to it—wealth, improvements

Grand Buildings in New York City GRAND BUILDINGS IN NEW YORK CITY.

We believe that in less than fifty years from the present time New York city will contain more superb

private residences than any other city in the world.

opposite the Park, towards Beekman and Nassau streets, will also have grandeur—the grandeur of Americanism

There were performed the rites—in that city, and among that people, they and the building belonged.

Even the Aldermen of cities—even members of the Legislature, submit themselves to be Dead Heads sometimes

will not become angered when you say “Never mind;” but for all that he would cheerfully pay if it were

Now, if American men are indeed so gallant, why don’t the theatres, railroads, saloons, &c., pass women

If we were asked our opinion of such things, we answer we should think it would always be a pleasure

Walker essentially a Southerner,) that is pleasingly fitted for directing and governing the American

Delvecchio deserves the thanks of the citizens of the City of Churches for his efforts in behalf of the

exists that so early as that New York began to knock under to Virginia—submitting to vassalage as it were

The tendency even of the emigration westward is to settle in towns and cities—to inhabit or found urban

, rather than to populate rural localities.

There is an unhealthy love for city life and city dissipation engendered in the mind of youth, which

It would be much preferable if less pork and more mutton were raised in many agricultural localities.

would be far less want and distress in our large cities than there now is.

Steam on Atlantic Street Steam on Atlantic Street STEAM CARS IN CITIES.

The Central Road passes directly through the city, and with the changing of engines, the wood and gravel

other service of the road, about two hundred passages of locomotives across the main street of the city

horse-cars there instead of locomotives; but the interest of the city at large points in the contrary

The railroad has contributed to populate the island, and to build up even Atlantic street itself.

Our readers are doubtless informed ere this of the occurrences which yesterday converted the City Hall

The curse of American politics—especially in municipal and State affairs—is that men love their party

Legislature may appoint such a police, and rest there in their decision, the conflict between the city

authorizing the substitution of the Metropolitan for the Municipal police; or in surrendering the city

Nor would the Comptroller be justified in paying any city money to such Metropolitan policemen.

He seems to aim at nothing less than the establishment of an imperium in imperio —a metropolitan city

His organ tells us on this point— "We believe that under our new State constitution, the city of New

show some disposition to get up a row here, as a counterpart of the disgraceful riots in New York City

The New York Disturbances The New York Disturbances The disturbances around the City Hall have ceased

The Mayor is apparently master of the situation; the City Hall is still garrisoned by his retainers;

Fourth—that a city is independent of the State in which it forms a part; that the Mayor of the city is

the superior in the city of the Governor of the State; and that the antiquated colonial charters of

the city cannot be repealed by Legislative enactment.

When a notable person arrives in any of our cities, he is set upon, pursued day and night, and not permitted

For all this, if the job were well done, and the narration well made, might be commendable.

were even then the remains of an ancient city."

The population were in a state of terror and despair, and hopes were expressed and reports whispered,

Formerly, these were reluctant to mingle with the American population, but this state of things is rapidly

They were met by the Americans under General Jackson, 6000 strong.

—Over one-half of the population are Americans, of British descent.

At one time this scrapbook likely contained numerous additional manuscript pages that were later removed

During the 1860s, Price and her family, especially her daughter, Helen, were friends with Whitman and

In 1860 the Price family began to save Walt's letters.

Emory Holloway (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page, 1921), 1:234–235.

See also Emma Hardinge, Modern American Spiritualism (New York, 1870), 149.

Andrew Jackson Davis (1826–1910) was an American Spiritualist.

appalling statement from an official document, that there are “upwards of eighty thousand females in the city

of London who gain their living by prostitution,” more than four thousand of whom were arrested during

After dark, in the great city of New York, any man passing along Broadway, between Houston and Fulton

—A large proportion of the young men become acquainted with all the best known ones in the city.

Of the classes we have mentioned, now in these cities, how many are there who have not been diseased?

Some advertise for wives, some for children, some for lands in the country, some for lots in the city

A True American A TRUE AMERICAN. The Albany Journal says: “Robert J.

That Walker carried himself so well, and came out with credit, proves him a true American in spirit.

influence has been more perceptible since the close of the Eastern war, by which quite a number of them were

Although the stalls were partially cleaned, they were filthy enough; and the cows were also.

There they were, slaves for life—worse than that, prisoners for life.

At the fire last Tuesday morning, when the cows were hurried out, before daylight, they filled the whole

The animals were frightened—they ran to and fro, jumped over people's fences, &c.

that if he or any one else expected common etiquette from you, after having read Leaves of Grass they were

progretionists are put on the back ground by some who have been by them pronounces pharasees and hypocrates, Were

I am not blaming the good people who inflicted the tortures, if they thought they were sending a brother

interests of Man as he is, and not the dogmas of any set of men only see how I am running on, as if I were

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was an American poet and essayist who began the Transcendentalist movement

Unitarian Church, and he became the president of the United States Sanitary Commission during the American

Lorenzo Niles Fowler (1811–1896) and Orson Squire Fowler (1809–1887) were brothers from Cohocton, New

They established a Phrenological Cabinet in Clinton Hall in New York City in 1842, where Whitman received

office, in Iowa, resulted in severe accidents to several persons, and more than a thousand claimants were

New York, surrounded as they are with all their water–advantages, ought to have an almost entire population

Public baths ought to be established by the city, where the people could bathe free.

For all that, the day will come when Free Public Baths will be established, at the cost of the city,

As one looks around Brooklyn, New York, and other American cities–as he sees such multitudes of undeveloped

The notices it has received hitherto both from the American and English journals, are singularly favorable

I received yours of the 29th last evening and hasten to comply with your request. a friend in the City

will send you a check today for fifty Dollars Hector would be very glad to do it, but he left the City

inspiration knows the best, but I with all my ultra radicalism would be delighted if some of the expressions were

Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888) was an American educator, abolitionist, and father of Louisa May Alcott

American Money Gone A Wool Cultivating American Money Gone A Wool Cultivating What has become confessedly

What is now the paved and populous city around us was then of course a sparse collection of old fashioned

York city at all hazards; and this was to be done through Brooklyn.

While these things were under way here, and the people on this island and elsewhere were in great excitement

Over the river, in New York city, among the people, the “Liberty Boys” were not content with the ringing

thousand American martyrs!

Prime, formerly resided in this city, and followed the profession of the law.

Captains, the "Municipals," to call in their men at 4 o'clock today (Friday), and deliver over the city

nine-tenths of them well satisfied with the decision affirming the Metropolitan Police Law, under which our city

Mayor Powell, as Chief Magistrate of the City, should have, and doubtless will have, the most weighty

Stranahan, let us now see if the Mayor cannot give us a splendid set of young, strong American men, physically

and mentally competent—men that will make "the force" a pride to the whole city.

Firearms were freely used, and seven persons killed, and twenty-five or thirty wounded.

a policeman, were badly injured.

The police did all they could to suppress the riots, but they were totally insufficient even to protect

A number of policemen were seriously injured by the riot in Bayard street.

We passed through Centre street while part of the disturbances were going on, and had opportunities of

But it is evidently not so in New York city.

Having done all the harm he could to the good name of the city, and to the personal interests of the

They seem disposed, in sheer spite (if not stopped by serious public disapproval) to put the city to

This assumption ignores the fact that the Mayors of those cities are intended by the new law directly

unable to speak the English language so as to be comfortably understood by Americans.

We were pleased to find Mayor Powell present. Our fellow citizen, Mr.

we noticed—was doing the agreeable—that is to say he was receiving applicants for appointments, who were

S. remarked that the duties of a policeman were very severe.

While we were present ex-Health officer West entered and presented his application. Mr.

Indeed, we were told that Mr.

for many years, of all the most abominable elements of city population, toward the little and large caucuses

Alderman Wilson, &c., in New York city—these now stand as “the party.”

A grand Normal School in a city would be a fountain of life for the entire education of that city.

It should be, in some respects, the noblest institution in the city.

the presence of these establishments has a very beneficial effect on the trade and prosperity of the city

have some men in our public bodies who would drive every vestige of commercial prosperity out of the city

We recollect examining our City Hospital in Raymond street, some years ago, when it was just finished

Architects and builders, note this: "There is not a solitary public or private building in this city

A few weeks ago we were requested by the District Attorney of King's county to visit an unfortunate youth

not more than five feet wide by ten deep, and eight high, with a narrow window tightly closed; there were

has invariably a turbid and sleepy look, while its muscles are so much relaxed as to make it, as it were

The Sunday car discussion in this city was, while it lasted, as our readers are aware, productive of

If one or two cases like the following were only pursued with inflexible determination, by the Board

direction; for those who by means of the vehicles now transport themselves beyond the limits of Jersey City

, will on the stoppage of the stages be induced to go no further than the city itself.

While the inhabitants of the cities have a right to spend the Sunday in a trip to the green shades of

Here, then, is one great argument for the consolidation of the police of the two cities and their suburbs

are aware how many delightful pictures of rural beauty can be beheld within an easy distance of the city

Yesterday we were favored with an invitation to accompany the female department of Public School No.

There were present Trustees Sparks and Lay, and Mr.

Of course the Spanish authorities at the district where they were landed will deny all knowledge of the

Of course the reader understands that the present slave population of the United States descends to us

The traders are Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, English, and Americans.

From these things they are sold to the American plantations. Would we then defend the slave-trade?

successful party has, year after year, no powerful and good principled advocate and expounder in a city

The party seated in some fifteen carriages were first conveyed to the receiving reservoir at Cypress

Everything around quite dissipated the idea of a city being near at hand.

Some were in doubt as to the certainty of a full supply, but could say nothing in reply to the statements