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with obstacles from all quarters, hardly yet surmounted; above all, they have had to deal—in this city

We think our representatives, and all who desire that the city should have an efficient police force,

We must have a force, of some sort or other; and if the present system were altogether demolished the

expense of maintaining the costly array of bureaucrats in New York, beside the police offices in our City

the suburbs of New York—will be one great inducement, if permanently secured, for swelling our population

could cross the upper ferries for two cents, we should doubtless experience a large addition to the population

recent establishment of a Mercantile Library shows their consciousness of the wants of a thriving city

In addition to this, all future schoolhouses—and indeed all buildings in crowded cities—should be built

.— The Medical Gazette, of Libson, asserts that all the persons of that city who reside in houses lighted

The City Government and the department of this district, however, were not as fully represented as we

They were—Messrs. James K. Leggett, Joseph Reeve, David C. Healy, George H. Hayward, J.W.

this side of the water, from the fact that the scene is laid in America, and the characters are Americans

To sketch the character of Washington in domestic life is a difficult task even for an American pen,

and crushed on a platform of the stairs leading from Navy street entrance of Public School No. 14, city

If they were made still wider, the children, rushing down with their usual precipitancy on leaving school

Fall of Rome has declared that it was not the barbarians who destroyed the buildings of the Eternal City

smoothed over, and in a generation are not to be discerned except by an increase of beauty in the city

find a large amount of valuable information condensed into a limited space, concerning the Central American

embnkment some twenty feet, when a neighbor, observing what had happened, came over to see how thing were

He was very stiff for about a week, and his chops were swelled so badly that he could not bray.

representative of the Sixth might find ample employment within the sphere of his legitimate duties, were

One of the justices of the city is hawking around the purlieus of the City Hall, and the politico-alcoholic

abuses enough now with some of the justices and their satellites the constables; but if the fee system were

Legislation for the City LEGISLATION FOR THE CITY.

expressed himself strongly in favor of the bill for shortening the terms of the various officers of the city

The financial department of the city is managed with great ability, and the onerous responsibilities

attending the enterprises the city has now undertaken, render the continuance of these officers to the

the child's scrofulous blood dissolved by want of life-force, the heats of summer, swill milk, and city

We have for some years preserved a file of the Jersey City Telegraph , which is justly regarded in these

little over four millions of periodicals of all kinds, Massachusetts, with only about twice the population

Warren Cleveland, we are enabled to present an abstract from the annual report of deaths in the city

This shows an apparent excess of mortality over that of last year of 2071, notwithstanding our city has

Of the victims of this disease 321 were native born and 393 were born, in foreign countries.

1459 were of foreign birth.

favorably with the mortality of other cities.

It is a growing opinion that it should become the fashion of all very wealthy Americans to own houses

decencies of life, and who find their chief amusements in the gambling houses and restaurants of the City

The population of China, the lecturer states was not less than 360 millions, inhabiting a country which

There was a dead uniformity in the Chinese character—the habits, dress, and tastes of each were the same

Progress and change were to him unkown.

—The Chinese were essentially deficient in the spiritual sense.

The Roman Catholic missions were commenced in that country as early as the days of Marco Polo, and some

Evangelicals, and we expect the religious hebdomadals will find themselves occupied as briskly as the English were

These “scenes” were originally published in Blackwood’s Magazine, where they attracted much attention

Here we have locomotives passing through a not overcrowded or populous avenue of the city, at a carefully

constituents, but this feeling, laudable as it is, may be carried to excess, and the interests of the city

the sense in which they did last evening, we may as well call a mass meeting weekly to conduct the city

this Atlantic street matter, but the firemen’s squabbles which occupied two thirds of the meeting, were

These subjects were introduced solely to make capital for the ensuing election; and they were discussed

After 1860 it transfers the power to fill vacancies from the Governor to the Board of Supervisors.

Its population and its productions, its mountians and its rivers have been shrouded in fable.

Park found populous tribes living on the spontaneous growth of the genial tropical clime; he fell in

possessing an exuberance of soil, equal to the prairies of the west, and able to sustain millions of population

for this additional convenience and facility of intercourse between the different sections of our city

from the usual means of travel on that day for such purposes as seemed good to him so long as they were

said would be necessary, Deputy Superintendent Folk sends the following short but satisfactory reply: CITY

Stanton, President of Brooklyn City Railroad, Co., whether, as the religious journals prophesied, the

After all the Puritanical outcry therefore, about the evils that were sure to result from this additional

.— Every American, after his triumphant "first appearance" in boots, is understood to be able to make

If it were not for this habit of impromptu speaking our meetings would be destitute of half their "spice

From the first we have labored to keep pace with the growth of the city, and during no year, we flatter

Unless the whole constitution of the world were altered our very existence depends upon our sensibility

foot while he was swimming with out his entertaining the slightest suspicion of the ravages which were

Without pain, this limit would be constantly exceeded, and epicures, experiencing no uneasy sensations

This of itself would be an accident of incessant occurrence if the monitor were wanting which makes us

When one looks at the hosts of our “city young men” who are prematurely faded by contact with day-book

The ladies were charming as ever. Their sweet smiles never can be affected, even by a panic.

wilderness; the forty days allowed Nineveh for repentance; the forty stripes with which malefactors were

Charter and Ordinances of the City of Brooklyn, issued by authority of the Common Council, Brooklyn:

We did not certainly, though we were somewhat astounded to find the little book adorned with anatomical

diagrams: but we cannot say that we were at all impressed with this symptom of the increased elevation

with no inconsiderable amount of nonsense mingled in their daily lives; but one form of nonsense they were

The audience were all delighted, applauded vehemently and went home, talking of the eloquent orator and

The People and the Press were wiling that it should be tried, and waited patiently to see what would

mentioned that the revival movement which has attained such importance in New York, has extended to this city

The only fault observable in the arrangements was that the seats were placed too close to each other

The participators, however, were mostly laymen—who, with others of the audience, comprised many of the

As we have said, they were pointed, brief, impressive and effective—but apart from the occasion and circumstances

Porter’s remarks were designed to show the nature, reality, and importance of the object which had called

In one house, we were assured that a child was ill of this loathsome disease, but on enquiry we found

If the one half of the Eagle’s pretensions were valid, it would not need so often to assure the public

North, of this city, answers in the affirmative, in a pamphlet just published.

If we were disposed to be hypercritical, we should add, that this remark is too general to apply to the

consideration of a matter of this kind would be to elicit truth—to get at the facts wherever facts were

In this and the neighboring city, we have seen how Legislatures will interfere with local affairs, even

under the Constitution; what would they hesitate at doing, if a precedent were established in Kansas

violated directly it is established; for the very essence of Popular Sovereignty would be destroyed, were

support of Common Schools in this State is $8,403,139, of which nearly one-half is expended in the cities

Referring to the American Almanac, we find that the sum expended annually in Massachusetts is $2,346,309

and 293 female; 100 private schools, and 46,000 children residing in the districts, 35,817 of whom were

There are 29,511 volumes in the school libraries of this city; 13 frame school houses, and 17 of brick

The cost per month per pupil in Kings County towns is given at 92 cents 9 mills, and in Brooklyn city

and Germany, during the past century, is such that, while formerly one out of every thirty of the population

The Union Prayer Meeting begun three weeks ago in this city is continued this week in the Reformed Dutch

.— In 1857, no less than 149 deaths from congestion of the lungs were reported in this city.

The year before there were 105, and in no former year more than half as many as last year.

Plainly, then, either pulmonary disease has gained ground in the city, or the Health Officer this year

Pieces of rib bones were found measuring nine inches broad.

Four teeth were brought up to Jamaica for inspection, one measuring 17½ inches around, with roots 6½

moment, of ancient reminiscences of many halcyon days passed with our friend Cauldwell, when we both were

Winter, and the money was apppropriated for the building of Arsenals and Armories in some 14 different cities

For the Arsenal in Brooklyn $40,000 were appropriated. 14 lots were bought for $12,000 last fall, on

The new Arsenal will doubtless be an ornament to the city, and will supply a desideratum long felt.

The military of New York, and this and the neighboring cities, are likely to attend almost en masse .

participate, while a host of celebrities in the way of Governors of States, members of Congress, Mayors of cities

and prepared for dancing, and every available flag, banner, standard and kindred adornment in the city

Buel, of 61 South Seventh street, is the agent for the sale of the tickets in this section of the city

B., each purchaser will be entitled to ten tickets for bread for distribution to the poor of this city

Magazine for the current] HARPERS’ MAGAZINE for the current month is one of the best numbers of an American

has applied to the Counsel of the Police Board for a compendium of all the ordinances of the two cities

every policeman in New York with a small book containing this collection, so far as relates to that city

The Counsel’s report relative to this city is that “there are no ordinance of the city of Brooklyn particularly

In this “City of Churches” we are a law into ourselves; we have (in most parts of the city, if not in

The first point visited was the pump well, where men were seen working hip-deep in water, eleven hours

Here were two steam engines constantly at work—one pumping out water (from the excavation where the well

All were satisfied with the stability and strength of the work, and the thorough manner in which it was

traced back to the Creation itself—made his company as pleasant, as his subsequent conversation on city

Our Eastern District has no parks; but the old portion of the city is better off.

The views from some of its elevated points sweep over a wide distance, comprehending city and county,

Then there should have been a fuller selection of American native trees.

The City Park, on Flushing avenue, by the Navy Yard, is getting to be a really pleasant ground.

over the spot, and from whence noxious exhalations continually rose, the present condition of the City

City Young Men—the Masses CITY YOUNG MEN—THE MASSES.

About Brooklyn and New York, (and doubtless other American cities, just the same,) there is no problem

prophetic of something of the same sort, here in Brooklyn, in the future): "The experience of our city

We have beheld streets crowded with lads and young men armed with pistols and muskets, who were waging

As a general thing, the masses, (probably two thirds) of city young men, in common life, hold themselves

One imagines the millennium would be at hand if a Bible were in every household, or a church or a school

That great American institution, the First of May, already begins to make itself felt.