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in the fact, in a great swarming city like New York, of the deliberate bringing of the whole moral power

in jobbing, shaving, stocks, and loading and unloading cargoes—while the streets in every direction were

Yet it was the most profound and solemn fact in the midst of the city.

named—as close to the ferries, for example; but not on any account the sweeping ordinance, now among the city

What proportion of the city ordinances do you suppose to be rigidly carried out? One in ten?

Give Us The City Cars, Night And Day GIVE US THE CITY CARS, NIGHT AND DAY.

We have heretofore favored the requirement from the Directors of the Brooklyn City Railroads, of the

The Brooklyn Railroad Consolidation have been vouchsafed by the city a most valuable grant, a monopoly

Were it not for others, would that my horn had been sounded—so easy, so delightful I may say, was the

behold death and destruction, contagion and cholera, and a thousand other evils, threatened to the city

from the existence of a sunken lot away at Bushwick or somewhere else beyond the line of population;

but a great, reeking, stinking canal, extending right up into the centre center of the city, escapes

receptacle of all the sewage, distillery swill, and other abominations, of the central part of the city

A person would perhaps be all the better, if he or she were to go for months without eating butter at

If it were only once agreed upon to provide nothing, and partake of nothing, but what was suitable and

But the pictures of American domestic life, which are drawn with a discriminating and appreciative hand

Were the case reversed—had it devolved on the soldiers to determine to which of the Aldermen the premium

If the respective bravery of members of Assembly were in question, the superior claims of the gentleman

But to decide who was bravest, in a regiment where all were brave—to say who was most heroic, where all

were heroes, is a task which nothing but the sublime impudence of New York Aldermen, tutored under that

themselves; they can read human character sufficiently to discern who of a hundred applicants for city

Few men can take so prominent a part in the politics of a city as the Hon. H.C.

occasion on which to express their respect for him, and their sense of the honor conferred on the city

Husted, the owner of the cow stables in the Seventh Ward, which were recently the subject of discussion

November, in any year, on any premises owned or occupied in whole or in part by him or them within the city

As several of the owners of distilleries in the city keep huge numbers of cows in stables attached to

But a fire having occurred by which the stables were destroyed, the proprietor forthwith commenced to

, in the midst of a growing and rapidly aggregating population, where from 1,200 to 1,500 milch cows

The two last vessels he was employed on were the barque Abrahams and the brig Sears, of New York.

Would the city be a bit the worse if these six were utterly blotted out of existence?

or if they were furloughed? or if they were steeped in perpetual slumber?

Our opinion is, that if it were as common a custom for all classes of the growing youths of Brooklyn

Were they undisturbed and secure, they would be more likely to congregate together in the safest and

It should be remembered that it is only in the vicinity of large cities that such fertilizers can be

Those who compalain so seriously of this alleged nuisance, doubtless were aware of its existence before

The comparison is made between extent of surface, the number of its population—and then in the comparison

It should be remembered that is is only in the vicinity of large cities that such fertilizers can be

Those who complain so seriously of this alleged nuisance, doubtless were aware of its existence before

Gross worked were the ship Benares , the schooner Passport , and the brig Abrams .

of these vessels brought contagious diseases into port, nor did they come from sickly places, nor were

articles in the current number of Blackwood’s Magazine, which we noticed yesterday, is one on the North American

proposed by Blackwood in calling attention to the subject is to secure a representation of the North American

and extinguish whatever anticipations we may have formed of the future annexation of Canada to the American

is but a short time ago that the modest dwelling houses of moderately well-off and poorer classes were

Everybody knows what execrable things they were (and are, for there are some left yet, more’s the pity

The rooms contiguous, or the “packing rooms,” were full of these articles in an unburnt state.

there were enough to break all the bell-wires on the South Side.

All the cups were safe and intact—nothing was injured.

In France, we are told, from 1836 to 1852 inclusive, there were 52,126 suicides, or a mean of 3066 a

In great cities the proportion of suicides is far larger than in the country districts.

Wendell Phillips’s satire was as truthful as amusing when he said—“Put an American baby six months old

the whole by calling them together in a meeting, when a magniloquent preamble and two resolutions were

about the vessel on her homeward trip, that the excellent provisions to which the resolution referred were

Southerner calls a meeting of his fellow travellers from that section—at which we are told speeches were

ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE on the character and merits of the Chinese Potato. By Wm. R.

elected Governor, Rollins, may have gone by, it is plain that he was not elected upon the issue of Americanism

His centiments sentiments in regard to the probably extinction of slavery in the State, were such that

The existence of large cities like St.

Such cities can be built up, and their prosperity created, only by free labor. St.

Louis would never have been the enterprising growing city that it is, but for the constant steams steams

People who were forced, for their sins, to preambulate the streets, became in about ten minutes, thoroughly

Clean shirts were a mockery and a delusion.

The theatres were played out. Ice-cream gardens did a heavy business.

sulphuric blasts of heated ether that gave them fits, whenever the dim retreats of the back office were

Eating-houses were dangerous for persons with weak stomachs to enter.

American edition. New York: Leonard Scott & Co., 79 Fulton street.

with great interest, on account of the article which it contains on the “Manifest Destiny of the American

The mistake which this reviewer falls into, in common with nine-tenths of the European writers on American

The American Association for the Advancement of Science is in session at Montreal.

assembled at Montreal, aided by all the lights of modern discovery and nineteenth century civilisation, were

paper of high standing, published in New York, stated only the other day that it did not believe there were

ten merchants in that city who were not more or less given to stock-gambling—that the literary profession

Miss Beecher, in her popular work on physiology, laments the general decay of health among American women

She says, and truly, according to our own experience, that a healthy American female is rapidly becoming

The great trouble with our people—especially “city men,” merchants, lawyers, professional and business

in the rich valleys of the interior, to balance the wicked waste of nerve and tissue in our great cities

remark, in speaking of the decay of health in metropolitan life,—“I should despair of my country, if it were

And proceeds thus: “When shall we have a daily newspaper, in this great city of New York, worthy of the

they owe their success, and no paper without this feature can ever be extensively “popular” in such a city

But if this plan were resorted to an expense of several thousand a year would be caused by pumping the

will lay the subject before the Board of Aldermen, probably with a view to obtain the sanction of the city

which the citizens of Brooklyn felt confidence, it was the construction of the works for supplying the city

If the present contract cannot avail to procure the city the canal it bargained for, we do not see how

bold-eyed Amazons among our beauties, ready to return look for look with the most formidable gallants that were

Whatever may be the cause—whether it is that American girls, like their brothers, are too soon cut adrift

newspaper press; but there is a large and numerous class, aye, the most numerous, especially in the great cities

Hardly a newspaper in the city advocated his election—even the News, the go-the-whole-hog organ of his

Croton Aqueduct, N.Y., and Consulting Engineer in the construction of the works for the supply for this city

can be no fear of the permanent interruption of the works, for such a thing was never heard of as a city

remarked, with reference to a particular person, “he or she is not a consumptive person;” as if there were

never contemplate the tumultuous scene without feeling that here lies the true grandeur of the Empire City—the

The ‘Guide-Book to New-York,’ calls the City Hall the most imposing edifice in Manhattan— The most imposing

There were our old friends whom we were wont to meet once a-week for years, in social conclave; the ‘

those were pleasant times, were they not? But this is neither here nor there.

We were all there, with our wives and families; and a most pleasant time we had.

After all the glasses were filled with sparkling champaigne of the choicest brand, Judge G——D rose at

.— We were never more struck with the truth of the oft-quoted aphorism—“Death loves a shining mark,”

was distinguished by a modesty so unaffected, an amiability so sweet and touching as to win, as it were

Miss Metcalfe’s literary attainments were very considerable.

All her writings were marked by a singular delicacy and purity of sentiment, a sparkling but lambent

Hers were no labored sentences.

He still holds his old opinion in reference to our American great men—namely, that Franklin was super-eminent

Gaskell, we perceive by our literary exchanges, English and American, is getting it, right and left,

authority” almost all of the stories concerning the cruel treatment to which Charlotte and her sisters were

latter days will rejoice with us that the author of “A Life Drama” is about to issue a volume of “City

Ticknor & Fields are his American publishers.

to cluster together in large boarding houses or large caravanseries capable of accommodating the population

dozen other extravagancies, and constituting, altogether, a peculiar and characteristic feature of American

Council are urged to incur the extra expense recommended by the Commisioners, for the sake of giving the city

first twelve miles of the work, to Baisely's Pond, will bring us a supply adequate to the wants of the city

miles of canal are only believed to be wanted in view of a very large addition being made to the population

of the city.

To sanction a deviation now would be to give the contractors the whiphand of the city, and it may be

morning spent in “looking on” at Clarry’s, or Feeks’, or Cornwell’s, or Blachley’s, or any of the city

police-courts is time well bestowed, even though nothing were sought beyond the amusement of an idle

Let us then look in, for a moment, at his quarters in the City Hall, and see what is going on.

if Ireland was the only country where such vices or weaknesses prevailed, and especially as if we were

strange assimilation, of the mercurial temperament and the generosity of emotion of the Celtic population

Robinson was the originator and patentee of the system which has been in operation in this city, and

the new law, and settle it for themselves by ordering the construction of the required works at the city’s

of the General Superintendent may be instantaneously made known at every Station House in the two cities

Without this, the police force of the two cities could never be united in its operation and effectual

Robinson, having now the exclusive control of the telegraph apparatus in both cities, designs to assimilate

The Croton water is the purest supplied to any large city in the world.

purest airage and the finest water, more persons die every year in New York than in any other large city

For example, the other day some thousand hogsheads of port wine were confiscated in England, and found

In this climate, and with the peculiarly high-strung and excitable American temperament, the practice

Great hopes were expressed at one time that the manufacture of native wines from the pure juice of our

Grundy will say, exerts an influence over American society, among the members of which approbativeness

The entire population of Fezzan did not amount to 30,000.

the ruling race to be Berbers, who had dispossessed the original inhabitants, and the little band were

Under the protection of a caravan, the travelers set out southward for the great city of Kano, the emporium

Fields of Indian corn were numerous, and the habitations of the people improved in appearance.

such an event is by no means improbable in the course of a limited number of years, English and American

Delhi still holds out, but Cawnpore, a city upon which the fate of the North West depended, has been

The pressure or "head" of water in this city is expected to be twice as great as that of the Croton in

which are being laid down in the 19th ward are far inferior in strength to those used in the sister city

In other parts of the city wrought iron pipes are being laid, and these cast iron ones it appears, are