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that the forcing system of school instruction is prematurely wasting the physical stamina of the population

forcibly expressed by the writer in the Atlantic, that we appealed to the Board of Education in this city

Boston in 1854, which resulted in the triumph of the physiologists over the cranium crammers, who were

find space to mention; but we do most seriously exhort every member of the Board of Education of this city

Few men can take so prominent a part in the politics of a city as the Hon. H.C.

occasion on which to express their respect for him, and their sense of the honor conferred on the city

—and is it not a shame that the city should have to pay for printing it and sending it forth to the world

Would that old Isaac Disraeli were alive, that Dr.

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

No nation or people will ever preserve the weight of influence to which they were naturally entitled,

It should be remembered that is is only in the vicinity of large cities that such fertilizers can be

Those who complain so seriously of this alleged nuisance, doubtless were aware of its existence before

direction; for those who by means of the vehicles now transport themselves beyond the limits of Jersey City

, will on the stoppage of the stages be induced to go no further than the city itself.

While the inhabitants of the cities have a right to spend the Sunday in a trip to the green shades of

Here, then, is one great argument for the consolidation of the police of the two cities and their suburbs

But the pictures of American domestic life, which are drawn with a discriminating and appreciative hand

named—as close to the ferries, for example; but not on any account the sweeping ordinance, now among the city

What proportion of the city ordinances do you suppose to be rigidly carried out? One in ten?

Give Us The City Cars, Night And Day GIVE US THE CITY CARS, NIGHT AND DAY.

We have heretofore favored the requirement from the Directors of the Brooklyn City Railroads, of the

The Brooklyn Railroad Consolidation have been vouchsafed by the city a most valuable grant, a monopoly

Oysters in Old Rome OYSTERS IN OLD ROME— The Roman ladies were so enamored with oysters, that they were

be blown by southerly winds directly landward, over the flats, to Flatlands, Flatbush and Brooklyn, were

contract—thus giving Cornell & Co. control over their third of Barren Island, free from obligations to the city

He says: American gentlemen have adopted as a national costume, broadcloth—a thin, tight fitting black

Varet street actually poisoned 12 head of ducks and geese in one morning, and their rotten carcases were

If so, it is very limited in its extent; for when a National Base Ball Convention was held, there were

As to the fashionable custom of decamping from the city, and pitching a new tent in a strange country

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 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.

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

emancipation of 800,000 slaves; and they would come together in much better spirits, he thought, if they were

said he had expected to see the great guns—Culver, Garrison, Goodel, and Garnet—but none of these were

Speeches were made in the usual tone, but no particular points call for special comment.

About noon the company took refuge in the church, where the exercises of the day were finished.

There is one feature in connection with these celebrations of our colored population that we wish to

Times , writing from Salt Lake City under date of July 3d, gives an interesting description of an interview

He charged us of the great Eastern cities with being as much polygamists as the Saints—“the only difference

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.

doubt that the object to which it is devoted is a good one and that such a Hall is much needed in this city

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.