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We think, for one, that preachers should not only have the liberty of preaching out-doors, in City or

But it seems that in New York city this liberty is withheld. The Rev. Mr.

In the mean time, a thousand places were in full blast through the city, for the sale of liquors, and

it, and does not cease to occupy it, for it neutralizes the dangers from France if the Suez canal were

.— Yesterday was an eventful day in New York city politics.

Benton is a specimen of a marked class of American mentality and physiology.

Their laws of peace and war were barbarous and deplorable.

So little were mankind accustomed to regard the rights of persons or property, or to perceive the value

There were powerful Grecian States that avowed the practice of piracy; and the fleets of Athens, the

The Romans were a sublime band of cut-throats.

And it was the received opinion that Greeks, even as between their own cities and states, were bound

—The South-Side Democrat , in an article on American Literature, says that in every parlor, boudoir and

wherefrom we scizzorise the following: Many consumptives are quacked to the verge of the grave in our cities

this Board, at its next meeting, the number of arrests and complaints which have been made in the Cities

Ever since the present quarantine laws have been rigidly put in force, the city has been comparatively

But inside of a city, through the houses and streets, are the most important requisites for safety.

should be a regular weekly course of disinfectants applied to the gutters of all the old streets in the city

what were we going to say!

But beyond that, and nearer home, with regard to city schools, even those in Brooklyn and New York, how

The people are not so quick and showy as city people; but the opinions of the latter are generally surface-opinions

Rightly viewed, there is no subject more interesting to country or city—none that comes closer home to

them out from the mere half-dead formulas they are now, and elevating them to live schools, forming American

.— The party that left the City Hall this morning for the Water Works was even larger than was anticipated

Almost every city official who could spend the time departed to share in the "exercises" of the occasion

The Courts were all adjourned—the politicians were non est and there was a plentiful lack of news and

Among the party were Ex-Mayor Wall, and Nicholas Wyckoff, Daniel Van Voorhies, Water Commissioners, Mr

While the company were standing on the banks of the canal, during yesterday's jaunt, Mr.

Upon inquiry among the engineers, we were told that the opinion there is unanimous as to the inefficiency

and that to be remedied—every thing on a scale fit for the people of one of the principal and most populous

cities of America—with, it remains to be added, that exception, the open canal between the Hempstead

Formerly there were a great deal more books published than the public cared to read, but at present the

Upon the whole, this Kansas business offers the most marked illustration yet of American politics—showing

what kind of people get the public offices—what real American Democracy there is in the land—who rule

Next an approving smile upon the State Arsenal, the City Armory, and the citizen soldiers.

what millions are to be benefitted by it, and how it must add to the sweetness and complexion of our city

Next a bit of advice to have all the public rooms of the City Hall well-ventilated.

The Mayor then speaks in warm terms of the Benevolent Institutions of Brooklyn—the City Hospital especially

Powell well suggests that the name of "City of Charities" belongs to us, as rightly as that of City of

proposal for substituting an arched conduit instead of the open canal required by the contract of the city

great flaw in a great work, and will be sure to result in enormous extra cost, in the future, to the city

its great work was accomplished; and the foundations on which our national liberty and prosperity were

then deliberately settled by the Statesmen to whom the American Revolution gave birth and on which they

It was fortunate that this motive existed, for the honor and reputation of the country were concerned

No other nation, it was true, had, at that time, abolished it, but here were the assembled States of

America engaged in framing a Constitution of Government that ought, if the American character was to

The slopes of the hill were occupied by cornfields and potatoe patches; the summits were covered with

rank vegetation and great forest trees, and the valleys were swamps.

There are also a large number of removals going on from city grave yards.

The establishment of the Cemetery has done much to populate the neighborhood.

populous village has grown up in the valley.

Un-American Sunday Force Laws in the Eastern District Un-American Sunday Force Laws in the Eastern District

We think, in cities like Brooklyn or New York, comprehending a million of people, of diverse tastes,

The un-American Sunday laws are the more objectionable, because there has nothing occurred to make a

We advise the Mayors of our cities and the heads of the Metropolitan Police to let well enough alone.

Americans are not exactly fit subjects for the sumptuary and ecclesiastical statutes of the despots of

People were not in a humor for oratory and lecturing, and all the Ciceros and Sheridans were compelled

prohibits colored persons, either slave or free, from entering the State—making an exclusively white population

No, not if there were the shadow of a hope that battling against this prejudice will ever succeed in

Yet we believe there is enough material in the colored race, if they were in some secure and ample part

A whole course of lectures has been delivered, the current spring, in New York city, boldly advocating

members of Congress generally, to visit the Western country, now becoming in extent, wealth and population

is a place where poor devils much do congregate, we proceed at once to say that, in any event, no city

is a large and robust country to the north of us, that must before long enter upon the stage of American

In North Fifth street above Fifth the contractors were for three weeks engaged in cutting their way through

A City Sweet and Clean! The Brooklyn Sewerage A CITY SWEET AND CLEAN! THE BROOKLYN SEWERAGE.

impurities—keeping all the houses and yards free from offensive matter—keeping, indeed, the whole city

sweet and clean—truly there is something cheerful in the vista thus opened to our great city.

have it devolved upon them, by legislative act, to procure plans for a general system, for the whole city

We see that the Mayors of Brooklyn, New York, and Jersey City, have presented a petition to Congress,

He said— “The American Government was a failure, and its dissolution was the question for white men as

was that all who didn’t give up every thing else, and come and bear testimony against Slave-holders, were

He too gave piety a good shake— “He thought the revival spurious so far as the American nation was concerned

confession of sins, which meant little, the same prayers, which meant less, and the same conversions which were

When he was through, Wendell Phillips related a little anecdote for the benefit of the American Union

gentlemen, some of them Brooklyn officials, some large tax-payers, and others interested, started from the City

An American Translation of the Bible AN AMERICAN TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE.

There were so many venerable associations connected with the present rendering, (known as King James’

to most persons’ minds the proposition to ignore the current version, and replace it by a modern American

But if the substratum of this feeling were removed, what would be the result?

And yet the American Translation will undoubtedly be completed, with more or less exactness.

Rents are singularly low, in certain parts of the city, especially in East Brooklyn.

One reason of this is, that building speculations, up to about a year and a half ago, were enormously

Large tracts of ground were bought on credit, and rows of houses built in the same manner—the debts to

It has had the effect to cover several sections of the city with very handsome rows of unoccupied houses

Perhaps the principal reason after all, of the unprecedented growth of Brooklyn in population is to be

The Canal was viewed, and the points of merit and demerit, as between it and the proposed conduit, were

The poor cows were driven out of the stables, up South 2d street yesterday morning, and the drivers were

milk is concerned, I think it can be demonstrated beyond a doubt that, by taking any district in the city

hard to find), that there is less mortality among the children than in any similar district in the city

The officers were about two-thirds women, the remainder men.

He knew there were persons present, both ladies and gentlemen, who agree with him in these views, and

they wished to know whether such question as he wished to be broached and discussed, were in order on

These doctrines were received by the audience with considerable applause!

The hisses were only a few. The only objection made to Mr.

In New York and other large cities these associations are carried on with the most complete success.

In the Western District of this city they have an organization of the kind which is doing well, and we

jealously any attempt to bring in issues and topics extraneous to the prime objects for which they were

We were lately in a large company where the subject of Swedenborgianism being alluded to, a lady, not

The life of this man of the future (American Spiritualism is doubtless all from him), began in 1688 and

“That very night,” says he, “the eyes of my inner man were opened, and I was able to look into heaven

I saw those who were dead here, but they were living there; I saw many persons of my acquaintance, some

Many were attracted by curiosity toward him—some by sympathy.

enterprise to the present day, and we think that people ought to feel proud of it as an example of what American

The present issue contains a most interesting sketch of the City of Elms, as it was and as it is.

He says that labor is cheap now, the city bonds sell well, and unless matters are driven ahead faster

no Opera, no Theatre, no Museum, no good entertaining exhibition of any kind; and yet here we are a city

We are a city of residences—a city of young people—a city of rational and intelligent men and women;

in these respects far ahead of New York, which is a city of wealth, glitter, and fashion, heartlessness

For this city, above all in the United States, is the city for first-class lectures.

We throw out these hints, indeed, to produce that very result—and to intimate that perhaps our city might

A long memorial was presented from the "great gentlemen" and capitalists of the city, the sole burden

Nye said there were a great many obsolete laws which they were not expected to enforce.

The American farmer breathes pure air all day in the fields, but shuts himself up in a small unventilated

we have certainly found a cause for much of the ill health which prevails among our agricultural population

Under proper physical and moral training, were this possible, their health and comfort might be greatly

The filing of cast iron is, however, exceeding hurtful from the minute metallic particles received into

Were but one million of families enabled to spend fifty-six dollars each additional, it would procure

Our policy should be to prevent the accumulation of a pauper population around large cities—populate

In this connection he incidentally expressed the belief that were a few ultras of teh North and South

Brigham Young had abdicated, and that Governor Cumming, at last dates, was thirty miles from Salt Lake City

It only needs to be considered, for a moment, what a proportion of the parents, in great cities, bear

Then again—same source as above— "Of the deaths in New York City last year, 14,948, more than half of

the whole number, were of children under five years.

It is a proportion of infant mortality that is scarcely paralleled in any other Christian city; but its

The wretched poverty of the newly-arrived emigrant population, the damp, mouldy cellars in which they

Every city and large town had its association, respectable for numbers and ability, holding frequent

Speakers were invited—the Legislatures were memorialized—books and pamphlets were issued in great plenty

Its corps of writers were all enthusiasts—believers in “a good time coming.”

The Democratic Review writers were frequently quoted—some were present to speak for themselves, or as

They were invited also, by official invitation, to state their arguments before the Legislatures of some

works are finished, and the "liquid tide" runs through them, we shall not only have enough to supply a city

of 230,000 inhabitants—our present population, be it remembered—but the works can easily be added to

, to make a capacity for a city of a million people.

In all parts of Germany it is kept as a great day; whole cities, men and women, old and young, vacate

In a debate last Monday night, in the Common Council, the points were pretty well presented, as far as

The new project should not be, either, as too many of our American Literary Institutions are, solely

The speeches in its favor were delivered to empty benches; and it was eventually left to its fate, without