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Annual Celebration of the American H. Society–Addresses, Toasts, &c.

The viands were plentiful and good. Fully three hundred sat down to the supper.

Among the toasts were the following : The Healing Art. This was briefly responded to by Mr.

The American Homœopathic Institute. This was followed by some happy remarks from the Rev. Dr.

—Professor Take said that the Homœopathists, above all, were especially indebted to woman.

An American vessel has been fired into by a British cruiser off Pensacola, Fla., and one man killed.

of this district do some thing to show that they too are a live and intellectual part of this great city

.”— We were requested by a prominent citizen this morning to head our notice of the great yacht race

inefficiency of the construction of the Ridgewood Reservoir and the improbability of getting the water to the city

days since, to see the works, the well pump, and along the line of conduit to Baiseley's Pond ; and were

gates, the influx and efflux gates, for the purpose of regulating the flow of water through the pipes city-ward

these times, so few of the superior class of amusements, that we shouldn’t wonder if this reunion were

The odds were decidedly in favor of the Excelsiors in the opinion of most the spectators, and they felt

Their friends were out in full force and the crowd of spectators was probably larger that was ever seen

The pitcher, too, is hard to beat, as some of the strong batters of the Excelsiors were compelled to

Even in ordinary traveling and every-day promenade, our American ladies affect a luxury of costume which

Many of our fashionable ladies here dress as if they were never to go out except to tread on carpets

to Congress a message covering a despatch from Governor Cumming announcing his entry into Salt Lake City

It is stated that the Mormon settlements were broken up, and the inhabitants moving south, in the direction

For some years a notion had grown into a belief that certain manufactories were prejudicial to health

months, confining themselves to factories in which sulphuric acid, soda, copperas, and chloride of lime were

animals, the commission find the proportion of deaths per cent. to be lower now in the surrounding population

than before the factories were established: from 1 in 58 it has fallen to 1 in 66.

enactment, decided on certain physiological purgings (if we may call them so,) that mark a new era in American

By its repressive policy, maintained for centuries, it has accumulated upon its vast area a population

these copper colored men may overwhelm the other races on this coast by their numbers—as limitless as were

We are also to remember that, while we write this, the population there in China comprises nearly four

From our American position on the shores of the Pacific, we cannot but look with deep interest on all

Lecturers, too, on the same important topic occasionally edify country and city audiences, and reap both

Some of our readers may remember with what promptitude and ability the North American Review for 1843

Our people were then much more thin-skinned than they are at present, though we are altogether too sensitive

From the North American and Chancellor Kent down to a host of news paper writers, the organs of public

the condition of politics and prospects of the United States—in a word that the lesson taught by American

As the author has solicited that this portion of his work should be revised, the American editor of the

There were several important matters brought up in the Common Council last night; for instance, the proposition

Wilson, directing the City Counsellor to inquire by what authority certain streets have been closed,

these things in New York may be imagined from an instance related last night at a meeting in that city

This is quite characteristic of the loose manner in which such appointments are made in that city.

Our Board of Education is composed of men of character and standing in the community, who were chosen

no interest of any kind save to do what their consciences tell them is best for the interest of the city

Let us repeat that we are proud of the manner in which the system is carried on in our good City of Brooklyn

made several very loose plays, and allowed their opponents to score 9 runs, and those careless plays were

They were also particularly unfortunate in having three of their men injured in the course of the game

Ketcham was substituted in his stead, so that at one time, no less than three men on the Putnam side were

threatened civil war in New Orleans has quieted down and peace once more reigns in that turbulent city

monied aristocracy this year, and our foreign friends must expect a regular invasion of dollared Americans

They will leave the city behind them, and sink the shop and have a good old-fashioned time.

and ask a portion of their commiseration for those unfortunates who for their sins are cooped up in city

In a graver vein is "The American Tract Society."

hundreds of lives are lost by criminal rashness and carelessness—now it is the fall of a building in the city

We were invited to accompany a party who set out on Tuesday to view the facilities of our Island for

But very few strawberries were sent to market from Long Island, and they had that day seen as handsome

increase in the whortleberry business, and the commencement of cultivating cranberries last year, were

Several of the farmers present stated that there was a general complaint that there were no accommodations

making billiard-tables, the enormous number of rooms where tables are let out for hire in every populous

the number of establishments one sees along our principal thoroughfares, and we believe that our American

It cannot be expected that in a city like this, partaking as it does of the metropolitan character of

BLACKWOOD for June has been received from the American publishers, Leonard Scott &Co.

We are a moral and religious people, as becomes the denizens of a "City of Churches," and even when the

The Health of the City THE HEALTH OF THE CITY.

Last year, at this time, it will be remembered we were all talking about yellow-fever, and though by

good luck and the proverbial advantages possessed by our city in consequence of its healthful location

themselves to be so absorbed by their private griefs as to neglect in any manner the interests of the city

Cleveland’s report would make but 79 deaths in the city for the past seven days, full fifty less than

Stout parties were observed to look preternaturally solemn about the middle of Bangbible’s discourse

themselves, half an hour after, that they had not been asleep; and the interesting images of their father were

observed to wriggle about as if that portion of their anatomy unusually wanting in winged cherubs were

It can hardly be wondered at that the good people of Rutland the other day were excited by the proceedings

Comparatively few of our citizen soldiery were out.

Abel Smith of this city; also Mr. William M. Harris, of the Board of Education, and Alonso H.

published in another part of our sheet, the occasion will be celebrated in an appropriate manner in our city

The great event will be of course the laying of the cornerstone of the City Armory with the interesting

We mean the arrival on the American shore of the Atlantic Cable.

be a triumph in the arts of peace unalloyed by any such considerations—it will be a rivetting as it were

The principal directors and officials of the company were proceeding to Valentia, and advices from Ireland

Two of these—the American ship Grotto, of Bath, bound to Scotland, and the British ship Suzanne, bound

to Liverpool—were obliged to make this port on account of having lost portions of their crews.

The survivors of the crews and passengers were landed and both vessels sent below.

The difficulties which surrounded the attempt from its inception, and which were too formidable to be

of the expenses of the ground &c., the surplus, if any, to go to the Fire Department Funds of the Cities

.— Two laborers employed in laying water pipes, named John Eagan and Patrick Hays, were prostrated by

They were taken to the City Hospital and recovered yesterday, sufficiently to go to their homes.

warned, some will undertake to bathe right in front of houses along the shore, in violation of the city

Two of them were arrested yesterday by Capt. McClane to make example of.

Their names are John Grady and Patrick Downs, who were taken before Justice Blachley and fined $5.

even think of or care for the gaunt physical want and heathenish spiritual ignorance that make the city’s

characterized as the finest in the country, and showed that when our extraordinary manufacturing facilities were

developed, that then and not till then would Brooklyn attain that commanding position in point of population

All our hopes and prospects were dependent upon a water supply, and the speaker was unwilling to permit

While we were about it, he went in for doing the thing up right.

At least we have noticed that most total-abstinents were great imbibers of strong Java and the Chinese

Everybody goes “on his own hook,” and thinks no more of his neighbors than if they were natives of Timbuctoo

If there ever existed a city whose resources were undeveloped, whose capabilities were misunderstood

If our magnificent water front were properly improved and if all were done with it that could be done

, we should assume a rank among the cities of the Union far different from what we hold at present.

But of one thing we are assured—that this great city's wharves will one day be crowded with shipping

Kalbfleisch all lightermen were prohibited from entering the city except to discharge their cargoes.

establishment, foot of Division avenue, and the varnish manufactory in the 8th ward as nuisances, were

has vastly increased, and that a regular stampede has taken place which threatens to depopulate the city

the other side of the Rocky Mountains, but that our own States will be more or less affected as they were

The new territory will be populated as if by magic and what is now a wilderness will be thickly studded

with cities and towns.

The harpies of the watering places were coining fortunes out of their visitants and it was time that

Some of our elder readers may remember what newspapers were thirty years ago.

In the city they were dull, dreary sheets, containing a little stale news and commenting prosily thereon

In the country they were still worse.

Little, dingy sheets, containing hardly anything but advertisements, their conductors imagined they were

The readers of those days were easily contented and what would now scarcely be tolerated for a moment

Our city has been healthy beyond a parallel, and, as yet, none of the diseases of summer have been developed

There is plenty of time yet next month for disease to make its appearance in our midst, and our city

Some of our streets, especially in this section of the city, are disgracefully filthy, and in the hot

in time, if we would not be criminally negligent of the interests of the sanitary interests of our city

May the present good heaith health of our city long continue—and in expressing this wish, we respectfully

ruffianly and brutal villains, such is the extent to which political chicanery is carried on in our great cities

The ring was formed, the principals stripped, and the chivalric combatants were ready for the mill.

Some four rounds were fought when the Police arrived and arrested some twenty of the spectators, while

The principals were stripped and eager for the fray, when the unstrategic approach of Captain Shaurman

They were locked up for examination. This is the finale of this disgraceful affair.

usually make their appearance, and every care should be taken, not only by the health department of our city

We would enjoin then upon all persons the necessity of co-operating with the proper officers of the city

In it will be found articles upon the trade of every maritime country and city in the world; copious

been formed for the purpose of providing gratuitous and safe public baths for the residents of that city

In all the great cities of the Old World, say they, these wants of the people are much better cared for

than in the Metropolitan cities of the new and the free world.

Besides, no city is better situated to afford its inhabitants the refreshing and healthful pleasures

In the earlier periods of our city, the many secluded places along the shores of these streams of themselves

Those who were present at the German fete , yesterday, at Myrtle avenue Park, in which the Williamsburgh

convivial and friendly talk with each other, or invested their spare cash at the tempting booths that were