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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

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

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

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

The Sunday car discussion in this city was, while it lasted, as our readers are aware, productive of

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

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.

To-day he writes to the Tribune , stating that his views "are precisely the same that they were two years

, when, in connection with the controversy concerning the running of Sunday cars in Brooklyn, they were

If these views were not heretical in '57, they are not in '59."

—The excitement simultaneously occurring in so many cities as to how far amusements may lawfully be infulged

bier of the outskirts, as he would be by the poisonous spirits vended in the obscure rumshops of the city

The only result of the Sunday car controversy in this city that can in any degree be regretted, is that

write line upon line and precept upon precept for the instruction of the saintly directors of the City

Car Question, after a thorough discussion on the part of the speakers, preachers, and writers of the city

Brooklyn, by general consent, has received the appellation of the City of Churches, and in common with

were habitual attendants at places of worship.

, rather than to the consolidated city; and that the proportion of churches to population is greater

We need go no further than the Sunday car discussion in this city to illustrate our meaning.

Sunday Railroad Travel—Proportion of Churches to Population Sunday Railroad Travel—Proportion of Churches

to Population.

That the non-church-going class, even of the City of Churches, is a majority of the population, is a

The population numbers about 200,000. In other words, there is one church per 1428 people.

The inference is, that only about one third of the population are habitual church-goers.

To show that his censures on this species of literature were merited, he read an extract from a Sunday

.— The result of the meeting last night of the Brooklyn City Railroads, was, in effect, that the cars

We are more and more confirmed in our opinion that the time has arrived when the Brooklyn city cars should

must also present a freeholders' petition, and keep lodging accommodations for man and (except in cities

For example, the mechanics of this city, every section of it, the Eastern District, (Williamsburgh, Greenpoint

Moses in the wilderness,) but the five-sixths of the solid body of the people of consolidated Brooklyn were

Gentlemen of the City Hall! and gentlemen of the Railroad Directors' Committee!

.— The Board of Directors of the City Railroad Company will probably take final action at their meeting

Please see an article by me in the forthcoming number of the N A North American Review for February,

William Sloane Kennedy (1850–1929) was on the staff of the Philadelphia American and the Boston Transcript

; he also published biographies of Longfellow, Holmes, and Whittier (Dictionary of American Biography

William Sloane Kennedy (1850–1929) was on the staff of the Philadelphia American and the Boston Transcript

; he also published biographies of Longfellow, Holmes, and Whittier (Dictionary of American Biography

Boston friends were raising money to buy a summer cottage they hoped would improve Whitman's failing

Later the decree was altered, and O'Reilly was sent to Australia, where he escaped on an American whaler

On July 12, 1874, he wrote for the first time to Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground

Raymond, | Editor New York Times | New York | City. It is postmarked: Washington | Feb | 2(?)

William Sloane Kennedy (1850–1929) was on the staff of the Philadelphia American and the Boston Transcript

; he also published biographies of Longfellow, Holmes, and Whittier (Dictionary of American Biography

Traubel (1858–1919) was an American essayist, poet, and magazine publisher.

Traubel left behind enough manuscripts for six more volumes of the series, the final two of which were

William Sloane Kennedy (1850–1929) was on the staff of the Philadelphia American and the Boston Transcript

; he also published biographies of Longfellow, Holmes, and Whittier (Dictionary of American Biography

For my own sake, as well as yours, I wish it were!"

William Sloane Kennedy (1850–1929) was on the staff of the Philadelphia American and the Boston Transcript

; he also published biographies of Longfellow, Holmes, and Whittier (Dictionary of American Biography

According to Hartmann's Conversations with Walt Whitman (1895), the officers were to be Bucke as president

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

Boston friends were raising money to buy a summer cottage they hoped would improve Whitman's failing

Boston friends were raising money to buy a summer cottage they hoped would improve Whitman's failing

It is indeed a fester, a well-populated blotch, an immense raw to that part of our beautiful city.

diseases (diseases from local causes, bad air, &c.), are the ones most to be dreaded in summer, in cities

and makes it a serious contagion, depopulating neighborhoods, and sometimes large wards, towns, or cities

a discontented thing the human soul is, that it has also been said (in whispers, when no strangers were

near), that the reason why the common ordinances of our mother, the City, vital for her decencies and

Fugitive Slave Law, the Shaster, the ark of the covenant, the heart of the political Bible of the American

Then the Deputy Marshal and his eleven resisted, with revolvers and "muscle," but were taken notwithstanding

things, the Deputy United States marshal telegraphed to the government at Washington, what calamities were

There were fears that the bad blood and angry passions which this matter was causing would lead to collision

But these musical furores were spasmodic in their nature and possessed nothing in common with the steady

We never knew of an instance where the members of that family were not made happier and better by it—where

cursory manner upon music and its influences, it occurs to us what a pity it is that we have as yet no American

Your stick-in-the-mud population is incapable of becoming so agitated, or of understanding the extent

There were then 4,000,000 adult white men in the Union, of whom 100,000, or one in 40, left for California

On the 1st of April, there were 150,000 adult white men in this State; 12,000 (some say 22,000) or one

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

intellectual classes retire to rest some hours after the mechanic is folded in the arms of Somnus, were