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.— The Scientific American thinks that more die annually from a want of sufficient brain-work than from

Galileo and Roger Bacon both lived to 78, Buffon died at 81, Goethe and West were 82, Franklin and Herschel

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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.”

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

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

.— 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

They alleged that there were certain politico-legal questions likely to come before the Court of Appeals

Sickles and his co-laborers were sincere in urging them. If so, was Mr.

Judges, and city and county officers, have nothing to do with national politics, and national parties

parties nor amendments of charters are likely to reduce the ever increasing cost of our inefficient city

The only hope of getting a cheap and efficient city government is for well known citizens of all parties

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.