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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

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

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

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

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

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

if Ireland was the only country where such vices or weaknesses prevailed, and especially as if we were

strange assimilation, of the mercurial temperament and the generosity of emotion of the Celtic population

Robinson was the originator and patentee of the system which has been in operation in this city, and

the new law, and settle it for themselves by ordering the construction of the required works at the city’s

of the General Superintendent may be instantaneously made known at every Station House in the two cities

Without this, the police force of the two cities could never be united in its operation and effectual

Robinson, having now the exclusive control of the telegraph apparatus in both cities, designs to assimilate

He still holds his old opinion in reference to our American great men—namely, that Franklin was super-eminent

Gaskell, we perceive by our literary exchanges, English and American, is getting it, right and left,

authority” almost all of the stories concerning the cruel treatment to which Charlotte and her sisters were

latter days will rejoice with us that the author of “A Life Drama” is about to issue a volume of “City

Ticknor & Fields are his American publishers.

morning spent in “looking on” at Clarry’s, or Feeks’, or Cornwell’s, or Blachley’s, or any of the city

police-courts is time well bestowed, even though nothing were sought beyond the amusement of an idle

Let us then look in, for a moment, at his quarters in the City Hall, and see what is going on.

bold-eyed Amazons among our beauties, ready to return look for look with the most formidable gallants that were

Whatever may be the cause—whether it is that American girls, like their brothers, are too soon cut adrift

Her sufferings were extreme, and she must have often thought of his sister Rebecca's exclamation under

to life, as the time approached she would at times speak of it calmly, though in reality her hopes were

They arrived toward eight o'clock, but they were not introduced for some times in the chamber, lest the

This the doctors said would be the last, and the members of the Consistory were summoned.

All present were moved by the tokens of heavenly grace Rachel had manifested.

remarked, with reference to a particular person, “he or she is not a consumptive person;” as if there were

On the New York side they were received by Neptune Hose Co.

As they passed along the avenue, they were saluted cordially by their brother companies and took their

There was no speechifying on the occasion, but in its stead, fireworks were let off and the Empire Club

No. 1, were escorted to the house of Neptune Hose Co.

Speeches were made, during the progress of the entertainment, by R.H.

The Croton water is the purest supplied to any large city in the world.

purest airage and the finest water, more persons die every year in New York than in any other large city

The entire population of Fezzan did not amount to 30,000.

the ruling race to be Berbers, who had dispossessed the original inhabitants, and the little band were

Under the protection of a caravan, the travelers set out southward for the great city of Kano, the emporium

Fields of Indian corn were numerous, and the habitations of the people improved in appearance.

such an event is by no means improbable in the course of a limited number of years, English and American

Blackwood for August has been received from the American publishers, Leonard Scott & Co.

extract from it a graphic paragraph concerning the "Answers to Correspondence," which in English and American

There were scientific lectures and literary lectures and transcendental lectures and practical lectures—serious

he has retired to chere France and is attached to the Presse newspaper in which he expatiates on American

In a paper on “American Suicides” he takes for his text Senator Rusk’s unhappy end.

The peculiarity of American suicides is, he says, that they take place not among social outcasts, but

It is to be called “City Poems,” and is to be enriched by a portrait of the author.

In the “inner circles” it has long been acknowledged that in original genius no American writer can be

The ‘Guide-Book to New-York,’ calls the City Hall the most imposing edifice in Manhattan— The most imposing

There were our old friends whom we were wont to meet once a-week for years, in social conclave; the ‘

those were pleasant times, were they not? But this is neither here nor there.

We were all there, with our wives and families; and a most pleasant time we had.

After all the glasses were filled with sparkling champaigne of the choicest brand, Judge G——D rose at

never contemplate the tumultuous scene without feeling that here lies the true grandeur of the Empire City—the

[The Newark Mercury says] The Newark Mercury says, there are in that city, at the present time, some

The population of Newark is about 50,000, and when we consider that many of those who are out of work

have families depending upon them, we can image to what a state of penury and misery the population

of that city will soon be reduced, with so large a proportion of its numbers thrown out of employment

and that there was very little chance of the men obtaining work elsewhere, he concluded that they were

For example, the other day some thousand hogsheads of port wine were confiscated in England, and found

In this climate, and with the peculiarly high-strung and excitable American temperament, the practice

Great hopes were expressed at one time that the manufacture of native wines from the pure juice of our

the Democracy exhibited for their organ in their nomination of a Superintendent of the Poor, when we were

He was taken to the drug store adjacent, where his wounds were dressed, and he was sent to the City Hospital

A number of the idle boys were playing around the basin and climbing up the marble jet, and it was generally

The fountain in the City Hall Park was tried on Saturday, and a jet of water thrown to the height of

for all citizens who can do so, to entertain some of the distinguished visitors who will crowd the city

The "boys" were busily engaged yesterday (they must be excused, this time, if it was Sunday) in polishing

Morris, 144 Fulton street, this city.

History of the Introduction of Water into the City HISTORY OF THE INTRODUCTION OF WATER INTO THE CITY

As early as 1835, public meetings were held on the subject of a water supply.

relied upon as sources of supply for the city.

were to be laid, and eight hundred hydrants provided for the then wants of the city.

On the 27th of March the report of the committe were adopted.

of popular institutions while refusing sympathy to popular excesses, to embody the opinion of the American

school boys yet unborn, as it is by thousands now living, his reputation at the first of living American

He tells us that the defects of Murray were strongly impressed upon his attention while he taught grammar

Even the strongest Lecomptonists admit, sotto voce , that the issue in 1860 is between the two D's—Douglas

Every Congressman from New York city, and every Tammany man who visits Washington during the next session

years past Literary and Christian Associations of young men have been forming in all directions, which were

and Amazon, we have shown that she offers a climate genial and unrivaled for its salubrity, and a population

present disturbed condition of our relations with Paraguay, and the large space which the South American

General Duryea introduced a bill into the Legislature to provide the rites of sepulture for the American

These martyrs to American liberty were the soldiers captured at Fort Washington and who were afterwards

Some idea may be formed of their heroism, fortitude and devotion, when we recall the fact that they were

, at any time that they would abandon the American cause.

The ceremonies on this occasion were of an imposing character; the federal officers were invited to take

The reasons which we gave some days since for the speedy selection of one large grand Park for the city

Greenwood is located at the very extremity of the city.

It would not be necessary for any considerable portion of the city to take more than one railroad route

No equal tract can be found in or near the city, unintersected by roads. IV. It is cheap.

The city already owns the Reservoir and a large space around it, which will be so much less to pay for

It is an event to which the people of this city have looked with absorbing anxiety, and which the residents

of other cities have regarded with friendly interest.

labored to create the works, to the aldermen who have striven to make the celebration worthy of the city

For all these are citizens of Brooklyn; it is their own city which has been beautified and glorified,

To the delegations from other cities, and the visitors from abroad, we may indeed be grateful.

the presence of which is most to be feared, and the use of lead pipe may prove more hurtful than in cities

It is but reasonable to believe that we were at one time the same people and spoke the same language.

language, which he speaks quite fluently as English, and in which he says he thinks and preachers, were

very interesting and amusing, and we wish we were permitted to publish them.

Their proverbs, many of which he quoted, were curious and beautiful, some of them causing convulsions

Scudder will pardon us for taking such liberties with it, but its beauties were so many that we could

Each newly formed Board of Aldermen of the city of Brooklyn is in the habit of introducing itself to

Last night the old scenes were reenacted, with accessories There was the foul insinuation covertly launched

The bank notes were of course found to be worthless—all of them being on broken banks.

men, it appears, hunt in couples, and have succeeded in victimizing not a few store-keepers in this city

Thompson, was for twenty-five years a Missionary of the American Board in Syria and Palestine, and there

—This excellent periodical, which has received the greatest praise from English as well as American critics

.— A paper has been read before the American Geographical and Statistical Society, upon the Polar Discoveries

remarks, gave it as his opinion that the shad could be captured by hook and line if the fishermen were

CELEBRATION The celebration which is proposed for the 27th, in honor of the introduction of water into the city

, promises to be the most imposing demonstration ever witnessed in the city of Brooklyn.

Scarcely a manufacturing establishment in the city is there but what has indicated to the committee an

strikes us as somewhat strange that none of the many Temperance Societies and organizations in our city

At the meeting of the Committee this morning, applications for places in the procession were received

If this be so the city has been swindled by the commissioners, Engineers and Contractors to a fearful

They were informed that six or seven hundred feet of the loose stone fence, which constitutes the only

Now, however, when we are told that the vast expenditures of the city on this Reservoir have been thrown

They seem to have come round to Alderman Backhouses opinion that the city has had enough of Welles &

If the object of the New York authorities were to increase prostitution and depravity, they could not

The police of that city neither vigorously put down all such places, nor tolerate them, under inspection

favor of their Borioboola Gha Missions elsewhere; but to call the attention of the police of this city

" of their brethren in New York are having the effect of driving the frail sisterhood over to this city

Among the various questions to be decided by the Commissioners for locating parks in this city, we regard

If parks are to be "breathing places" or "lungs" for the city, let them be large enough for a good-sized

With a wide expanse of water on three sides of the city, and an illimitable expanse of open country in

Also, an inspection of it shows that no other spot of anything like the size could be found in the city

Add to this the cheapness of the land, and the accessibility of the place from all parts of the city,

with obstacles from all quarters, hardly yet surmounted; above all, they have had to deal—in this city

We think our representatives, and all who desire that the city should have an efficient police force,

We must have a force, of some sort or other; and if the present system were altogether demolished the

expense of maintaining the costly array of bureaucrats in New York, beside the police offices in our City