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<td class='c002'><a href='#bennett'>1</a></td>
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<td class='c001'>Richard B. Connolly and other Conspirators against my Liberty.</td>
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<td class='c001'>My Trial.</td>
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<td class='c001'>National Degeneration!</td>
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<td class='c001'>Does Mayor Tiemann know what became of the Lime Kiln Man? Most horrible disclosures! In God’s name, where are the People?</td>
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<div>Volume I.—No. 15.]<span class='padded'>SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1858.</span><span class='padded'>[Price 2 Cents.</span></div>
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<h1 class='c004'>STEPHEN H. BRANCH’S <br /> ALLIGATOR.</h1>
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<h2 id='bennett' class='c005'>James Gordon Bennett and Fanny Elssler.</h2>
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<div><span class='sc'>Fanny’s Parlor.</span></div>
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<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i> (Softly knocks)—Fanny, dear, are
you in?</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Fanny</i>—Who’s there?</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i>—Thy friend.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Fanny</i>—Thy name?</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i>—James Gordon Bennett.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Fanny</i>—Gracious Heaven! (She unlocks
the door.)</p>
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<div><span class='sc'>Enter Bennett.</span></div>
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<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i>—Good morning, sweet Fanny.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Fanny</i>—A kind salutation to my noble
friend.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i>—Where’s Wyckoff?</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Fanny</i>—I don’t know.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i>—Will he return soon?</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Fanny</i>—I guess not.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i>—Then come and sit in my lap.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Fanny</i>—I will. (She bounds to Bennett’s
knees.)</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i>—Now kiss me.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Fanny</i>—There! (Smack! smack! smack!
and the last on his lips.)</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i>—O! how sweet!</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Fanny</i> (archly)—You don’t say!</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i>—Yes, I do.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Fanny</i>—And so do I.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i>—Then give me another cluster of
kisses.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Fanny</i>—I’ll give you a dozen or a hundred, if
you will only <em>puff</em> me well, and fill the theatre
every night.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i>—Have I not <em>puffed</em> you well, my
darling?</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Fanny</i>—W-e-l-l—y-e-s. Wyckoff says I am
<em>increasing my popularity</em> every day. And
now if you will only continue to <em>puff</em> me, my
dear Mr. Bennett, I will hug and kiss you, and
love you ever so dearly. And do you know
that I intend to give your beautiful wife some
precious jewels?</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i>—Wyckoff said you contemplated a
splendid donation to my fair lady.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Fanny</i>—O yes, dear Mr. Bennett, the jewels
are all purchased, and your dear wife shall
have them soon.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i>—Hush! fair creature! Don’t talk
so loudly. Is the door locked? I hear footsteps.
Some one ascends the stairs. If you
are seen in my lap, old Mordecah M. Noah
will get hold of it, and put it in his Caudle
Lectures, which bite me terribly.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Fanny</i>—The door is locked, and you need
not be afraid, as it is only the servant coming
to bring me some wine and water, and to dust
my parlor.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i>—Well, give me one more fervent
kiss, and let in the servant, and I will depart,
and return soon, unless you expect Wyckoff.
It won’t do for us both to be here at the same
time, you know, eh?</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Fanny</i>—I hardly think it will, although I
love you both.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Servant</i>—(Knocks.)</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Fanny</i>—Busy! (Servant goes down stairs.)</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i>—Which do you love best—me or
Wyckoff?</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Fanny</i>—I love you the best, dear Mr. Bennett.
Most people call Wyckoff the handsomest,
but I think you are the prettiest man
I ever saw. Your voice is so sweet, and your
complexion so fair, and your features so Grecian,
and your smile so lovely, and your heart
so kind, and your figure so commanding, and
your eyes so expressive of a large humanity.
O, Mr. Bennett, I most dearly love you, and
now I desire to know if you love me, and how
much? And before you tell me, there’s another
luscious kiss on your fragrant lips. And
now, dear friend, do tell me how much you
love your grateful and affectionate Fanny?</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i>—O, I love you most ardently, and
I have a mind to give Wyckoff a touch of the
Italian, and marry you, and hide ourselves in
some deep mountain glen of my beloved Scotland.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Fanny</i>—O, if you would only do all that.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i>—What! kill Wyckoff, and marry
you, and desert my devoted wife and child?</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Fanny</i>—To be sure. Did you not say you
would?</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i>—O Heaven! Fanny! I am very
nervous. Your extraordinary fascinations will
ruin me, and I must fly.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Fanny</i>—Whither?</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i>—To my office.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Fanny</i>—What! Havn’t you the pluck to
kill Wyckoff, and marry me, and all my jewels,
and the vast possessions I have acquired
through my grace and agility?</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i>—Darm it, Fanny, no more to-day.
Give me a parting kiss, and I will go, and we
will resume this delightful theme to-morrow,
when Wyckoff is promenading Broadway, or
arranging your affairs at the Theatre and the
printing offices. So, good-by, my adored
Fanny—farewell, my precious solace and
incomparable divinity.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Fanny</i>—A fond adieu, my charming admirer.
Come again to-morrow, or I shall die.
(She cries like a female Crocodile.)</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i>—Farewell.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Fanny</i>—Farewell—my benefactor. O farewell!</p>
<p class='c007'>(He goes, and Fanny leaps, and dances, and
laughs, and screams, and wildly rejoices over
his departure.)</p>
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<div><i>The reader must now imagine the lapse of many years.</i></div>
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<div><span class='sc'>Bennett’s Office.</span></div>
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<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i>—Mr. Hudson, don’t let Ross &
Tousey have any more <cite>Heralds</cite> for their country
agents.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Hudson</i>—Why?</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i>—Because I learn that they have
got all my little private arrangements with
Fanny Elssler stereotyped, and intend to publish
my connection and black mail operations
with Elssler and Wyckoff, which will mortify
me extremely, and forever degrade me in the
eyes of the people, and of my wife and children.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Hudson</i>—I will see that Ross & Tousey obtain
no more <cite>Heralds</cite>.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i>—Give the order immediately, to
expel Ross & Tousey forever from our establishment.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Hudson</i>—I will. (Rings the bell.)</p>
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<div><span class='sc'>Enter Paper Superintendent.</span></div>
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<p class='c007'><i>Superintendent</i>—What is your desire, Mr.
Hudson?</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Hudson</i>—Let Ross & Tousey have no more
<i>Heralds</i>. They have offended Mr. Bennett.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Superintendent</i>—Is it possible? I’ll see that
they get no more <cite>Heralds</cite>. (He goes.)</p>
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<div>(<i>Hudson goes to Bennett’s private room.</i>)</div>
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<p class='c007'><i>Hudson</i>—I have given your order, and it
will be instantly obeyed.</p>
<p class='c007'><i>Bennett</i>—That will suffice. (Hudson retires.)</p>
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<div>(To be continued.)</div>
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<h2 id='connolly' class='c005'>Richard B. Connolly and other Conspirators against my Liberty.</h2>
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<p class='c009'>In 1855, Richard B. Connolly said he would
give me a clerkship in the County Clerk’s
Office, if I would not expose his unnaturalized
alienage. I declined his infamous proposition.
He then got Alderman John Kelly to read a
letter to the Board of Aldermen, declaring
that he was born in Ireland, and first landed
in Philadelphia, where he got naturalized in
Independence Hall, and that he valued the frame
that contained the evidences of his naturalization,
more than any piece of furniture in his
house, and invited all to call at his residence, and
behold its graceful suspension on his parlor wall.
I called, and his wife assured me that her husband
was absent, and that his naturalization
papers were in a trunk, and that he had got
the key. Alderman John H. Briggs called,
when Connolly was at home, but he was not
permitted to see the evidences of his naturalization.
Other citizens, and many of Connolly’s
<span class='pageno' id='Page_2'>2</span>most intimate friends called and desired
to see his naturalization papers, but he
declined to show them. I then went to Philadelphia,
and got certificates from the clerks of
all the Courts, that Richard B. Connolly, of
Ireland, was never naturalized in the Philadelphia
Courts, and I returned, and published
the results of my visit to Philadelphia in the
<cite>New York Times</cite>, and other journals, and also
stated that Connolly strove to bribe me not to
expose his alienage. At the election of County
Clerk, which followed these events, Connolly
did not vote, and when taunted with his refusal
to vote by his adversaries, he excused
himself on the ground that he had bet largely
on several candidates, and dared not vote.
This was the very small aperture through
which he crawled. And this is the scamp who
is to impannel the jury by which I am soon
to be tried for the alleged libel of Tiemann
and Cooper and Connolly’s most sacred friend,
Simeon Draper, with whom he was long a
clerk, and with whom he has been connected
in schemes of plunder and political villainy for
nearly a quarter of a century. From Connolly’s
notorious character as a sly and cunning
and treacherous rascal, and Jury Packer,
and ballot stuffer, and public robber, I have
every reason to believe that he will pack the
jury that will try me. And he has four
powerful motives for packing my jury, and
sending me to Blackwell’s Island: And firstly,
to avenge my exposure of his perjured alienage,
and secondly, to prove his fidelity to
his old friend, Simeon Draper, and thirdly, to
win the favor of Tiemann and Cooper, and
secure their support of him as Comptroller,
and fourthly, to incarcerate me while he seeks
his nomination and election as Comptroller,
so that I cannot expose his perjured alienage
and nefarious crimes, during his efforts to obtain
an office, which will enable him to steal
millions from the Treasury, and thus rob the
toiling millions of their bread and raiment and
shelter from the pitiless elements, and drive
many a lovely virgin, of sick and indigent
parents, to the horrors of prostitution. In
1852, he was almost penniless, but now he is
worth a million of dollars, which he has
stolen directly from the pockets of the honest
and laborious classes, for whom he professes
exhaustless love. With the Mayor and
nearly all the Executive Departments, and
Connolly, Draper, Sickles, Hart, and the
<cite>Herald</cite>, <cite>Times</cite>, and <cite>Tribune</cite>, and other journals,
and Peter Cooper, and Ex-Mayor Kingsland,
and other millionaires against me, it
seems almost impossible to escape a sojourn
at Blackwell’s Island, but I have confidence
in God and truth and justice, and I defy all
the powers of earth to vanquish my soul.
And I most fervently thank the Great Disposer
of Events, that if I am consigned to a
felon’s cell, it will not be for robbing the
friendless multitudes, like such thieves as Tiemann,
Cooper, Draper, and Connolly, who
may not be incarcerated and tortured for their
deeds of villainy while living, although a
terrible retribution awaits them beyond the
grave. Stephen, of old, was stoned for his
virtues, and Socrates poisoned, and the Saviour
crucified, and a poor, humble, and friendless
being like me, may be imprisoned, and forced
to die in a dungeon, for exposing the public
robbers of the present generation. But I will
not murmur at the terrible ordeal through
which I am about to pass. For my fidelity
to the people, I may lose my liberty. Be it
so. And when the public thieves have consigned
me to a lonely and dreary cell, and my
frail form slowly wastes away, and I am forever
gone, my absent soul will only crave a
humble mound, and the tears of the virtuous,
to bless and fertilise the pretty flowers that
prance over my grassy hillock, in the mild
summer perfume.</p>
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<div>Stephen H. Branch’s Alligator.</div>
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<div>NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1858.</div>
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<p class='c012'>STEPHEN H. BRANCH’S “ALLIGATOR” CAN BE
obtained at all hours, at wholesale and retail, at No. 114 Nassau
Street, (Second Story), near Ann Street, New York.</p>
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<h2 id='trial' class='c005'>My Trial.</h2>
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<p class='c009'>Mr. Sedgwick informs me that I will be
tried on the first Monday in August. I shall
be ready, and I dare Mayor Tiemann to meet
me on that memorable day. It grieves me to
know that my witnesses will overwhelm him
with disgrace, because his wife and children
will be degraded through all their posterity.
But for Tiemann, and Peter Cooper, and Edward
Cooper, I have no sympathy, because
they have been recreant to the people, in their
appointment of thieves and assassins to the
most lucrative and honorable offices. Daniel
F. Tiemann has been a hypocrite and a public
thief, since he was Alderman in 1838. Peter
Cooper has been a public plunderer since he
was Alderman in 1828, and a heartless miser
through all his days; and Daniel and Peter
are training young Edward to imitate their
pernicious example. Peter Cooper is the father
of illegitimate children, who reside in the
vicinity of his Glue Factory, at Bushwick, and
Daniel F. Tiemann has long kept a mistress on
Randall’s Island, and committed other deeds
of hell, as I will prove on the first Monday in
August. Let there be no postponement of the
trial, as I yearn for a conflict, that will consign
the foes of the people to undying infamy.</p>
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<h2 id='national' class='c005'>National Degeneration!</h2>
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<p class='c009'>What a consummate band of scamps wield
the destinies of this nation. From President
to Treasurer, and Collector, and official Sexton,
all is black-mail, fornication, ballot-stuffing,
and unblushing robbery. Who can respect
a President, who will permit such a villain
as James Gordon Bennett to be a guest at
his table, and dictate his domestic and foreign
appointments, and demand the publication of
the “List of Letters” in his chameleon and
most infamous Journal, to the exclusion of the
<cite>New York Sun</cite>, which has the highest city
circulation, and which should publish the Letters
according to the Acts of Congress. Did
not Bennett first support George Law, and
then Fremont, down to the last hour of the
election? And did he not traduce Buchanan,
as no other man in America? And why does
Buchanan kiss the rod that strove to smite
him? And why does he permit him to visit
the White House, as his most distinguished
guest? Is it because he fears he will expose
the motive of his intimate relations with Daniel
E. Sickles, and give some curious reminiscences
of Fanny White’s notorious tour in
Europe, while Dan was his Private Secretary
and flying Minister to Spain? Ostensibly, it
was Buchanan’s fear of Bennett’s hostility to
his Kansas views, but in reality, it was his
dread of Bennett’s disclosure of hellish domestic
events, during Fanny White’s European
pilgrimage, that induced Buchanan to proffer
Bennett the freedom of the White House, and
that forced him to unite Bennett and Sickles
in perpetual friendship. I can show where
Bennett squints at Dan and Fan and Buck in
the <cite>Herald</cite>, which shook the White House to
its deep foundation. Two famous harlots long
kept Daniel E. Sickles and Emanuel B. Hart,
and the latter lives with a woman now, on the
principles of Turkish Free Love. Fanny
White kept Sickles until he went to board
with a dancing master, whose wife he soon
allures from the bed of her husband, and
drives him from his own house. He then
seduces their daughter, a mere child, who
became six month’s pregnant. He now fears
the law, and gets Bishop Hughes to marry
him to the lovely and youthful creature of his
seduction. He then introduces Mayor Ambrose
C. Kingsland to his wife’s mother, with
whom Kingsland has sexual intercourse. He
then asks Mayor Kingsland to give him a
certificate, that he had been married six months
before, to cover the pregnancy of his wife.
Kingsland hesitates, when Dan threatens to expose
his sexual intercourse with his wife’s
mother. Kingsland becomes alarmed and gives
Dan the marriage certificate, and all is tranquil.
When Dan became James Buchanan’s
Private Secretary, at the Court of St. James,
Fanny White visited London, and was very
intimate with Buchanan, and Dan gave her
passports all over Europe, as Mrs. James Gordon
Bennett. Bennett ascertained this, and
hence the long and bitter quarrel between Dan
and Bennett. Dan got the Hon. John Wheeler
to give Fanny White letters of introduction to
certain parties at Niagara Falls, as Mrs. James
Gordon Bennett. Fanny White now lives in
New York, and Dan is still friendly with her,
although she is kept by another. Emanuel
B. Hart was long kept by Eliza Pratt, who
got tired of him, and discarded him. He subsequently
took a notorious wanton, named
Louise Wallace, from a house of ill-fame, and
lives with her now, and introduces her into
the first circles of society. Sickles is now a
member of Congress, and the most influential
man under Buchanan in the White House, and
Hart was appointed by Buchanan, Surveyor
of the Port of New York, which is considered
next in importance to the office of Collector.
And yet there are no earthquakes. And the
people tamely submit to this monstrous degradation.
And these revelations may lead to a
scuffle of death between Sickles, Hart, and myself.
But if I were sure that my brains were
to be strewn upon the pavement, I would disclose
to the American people, that their public
servants are thieves, and fornicators, and
ballot-stuffers, and black-mailers. Public men
who will keep vile women, or (what is infinitely
more degrading,) be kept and fed and clothed
by concubines, like Hart and Sickles, should
be exposed and loathed by all virtuous minds.
And Buchanan should be more despised than
Hart and Sickles, for his known intimacy with
them for years, and with Fanny White, and
for his appointment of Hart as Surveyor, and
for chopping off the heads of a hundred worthy
officials, at the instigation of such a notorious
rake, and thief, and ballot-stuffer as Daniel E.
Sickles. Buchanan fears Sickles, Hart, Bennett,
and Fanny White! God of Heaven!
How the national morals have degenerated
during the present century. At a recent dinner
at the White House sat the President, Bennett,
Russell, Hart and Sickles. The President
sat beside Mrs. Dan Sickles—Bennett sat
next to Mrs. Judge Russell—Russell sat alone—Emanuel
B. Hart sat next to his Mistress,
and Sickles next to Fanny White. What a
mournful sacrilege! Violated shades of Washington!
Jefferson! and Jackson! O Vernon!
and Monticello! and the Hermitage! may thy
hallowed verdure be forever green and fragrant.
And paralysed be the monsters who trample thy
mounds, and blight thy pretty violets. And is
there an American, or a naturalized foreigner
whose cheeks do not crimson at a bacchanal
like this, in the sacred atmosphere of great
Washington’s mausoleum? What! Shall a
gang like this be permitted to desecrate the
halls and seats once occupied by the most illustrious
patriots that ever graced the earth?
O, Father of Heaven! Do not abandon the
honest Americans, nor the patriot pilgrims to
these happy shores, who still are grateful for
Thy protection of their immortal Fathers, and
who will strive to elect men to wield their
destinies, who cherish Thee, and will legislate
for the honor and welfare and glory of their
<span class='pageno' id='Page_3'>3</span>beloved country. Do not desert them, O God!
is the fervent prayer of millions of noble
Americans, and of all naturalized foreigners,
who truly love Thee, and the free and sunny
land of their adoption.</p>
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<h2 id='limekiln' class='c005'>Does Mayor Tiemann know what became of the Lime Kiln Man? Most horrible disclosures! In God’s name, where are the People?</h2>
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<p class='c009'>William O. Webb, now Superintendent of
Potter’s Field, who was appointed by the Ten
Governors, sold and delivered last winter, five
hundred corpses to the body snatchers, and
has sold about the same number for several
winters past, for which he and others received
$17 for each corpse, forming an aggregate of
$8,500 that was received each winter. The
bodies are disinterred in the night, during the
favorable tides, and carried from Potter’s Field
to the Dead House, on the shore of Ward’s
Island,—sometimes in a sleigh, and sometimes
in a wheelbarrow,—and delivered to the body
snatchers, awaiting their arrival at the Dead
House. William O. Webb directs the grave
diggers to give no corpses to the body snatchers,
who died of small pox, or other contagious
diseases, nor badly mutilated bodies. Michael
Gilmore was an Assistant Grave Digger, and
is now a clerk of the Superintendent of Potter’s
Field. Wm. O. Webb’s salary is $800 per
annum—a house free of rent—a farm—fuel, and
provisions, from the Ten Governors—and four
paupers and a servant to manage his farm.
Sometimes he has fifteen paupers to work his
farm. Webb’s clerk receives $400 a year, and
his wife $200, and they have a large house
and extensive grounds, and a servant and fuel
and provisions from the Ten Governors.
Webb employs a boy, about sixteen years old,
who buries the dead, and who has $300 per
annum. This boy receives the dead bodies,
and selects such as the Doctors desire, immediately
on their reception at Potter’s Field.
Sometimes an arm or a leg is dissevered, and
sold to the Doctors. After the bodies are removed,
the coffins are sawed and chopped, and
packed in bags, and taken to Harlem, and used
as fire wood. The bodies are stripped of their
dead clothes, and the best part sold in the city,
as apparel, and the residue as rags, which constantly
exposes the city to contagion. The
Ten Governors are familiar with these facts,
and have some knowledge of what is done
with the money that is received for the dead
bodies. William O. Webb has long been the
warm personal and political friend of Governor
Daniel F. Tiemann, whose mutual relations
have been of such a <em>peculiar nature</em>
that, although Gov. Tiemann has often been
apprised of Webb’s monstrous proceedings, yet
he dared not advance a step towards his removal.
Webb’s expenses as Superintendent
of Potter’s Field are $5,000 per annum. A
respectable man, with the best security,
proposed to Mayor Tiemann, when he was
Governor, to assume the management of
Potter’s Field, for $1,000 per annum, without
the salaries, houses, farms, paupers, and
servants, fuel, and provisions that the Superintendent
and Clerk, and their wives then and
now receive, forming an aggregate of $5,000
per annum, exclusive of the $8,500 received by
the Superintendent and others for dead bodies.
And yet, such were the <em>peculiar relations</em> subsisting
between Gov. Tiemann and Mr. Webb,
that the former dared not accept a proposition
so favorable to the Treasury of the City, for
whose economical disbursements Gov. Tiemann
professes such anxious regard. One of the
grave diggers refused to sell the body snatchers
any more bodies, and informed Gov. Tiemann
of his determination, who exclaimed,
with much levity: “If you interfere with their
business, there will be no inquest held over
your body.” Webb sold the corpse of his
wife’s uncle, whose name was Brown, a builder,
and when Brown’s relatives desired his body for
respectable interment, Webb placed another
corpse in the coffin, and sent it to them, which
they interred as their dear relative. The
Lime Kiln Man was borne to Potter’s Field,
and when his friends heard the sad intelligence
of his death and pauper interment, they raised
funds, which they gave to Webb, with directions
to exhume and respectably inter him.
But Webb could not find the Lime Kiln Man,
and placed another corpse in a coffin, and
buried it, and when the friends of the Lime
Kiln Man came to Potter’s Field, Mr. Webb
led them to a grave, which he assured them
was the Lime Kiln Man’s. At my trial, on
the first Monday in August, I shall summon
the Doctor, and the body snatchers connected
with him, and the superintendent, clerk, grave
diggers, and all others engaged in this awful
sacrilege, to unmask the scoundrels connected
with our public institutions.</p>
<div class='figcenter id002'>
<img src='images/curlyline.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
</div>
<div class='chapter'>
<h2 id='bgr' class='c005'>Bennett, Greeley, and Raymond.</h2>
</div>
<p class='c009'>New York is the seat of Commerce, affluence,
intelligence, and journalism, and the
devil has placed at the head of the Press, three
such rogues as Bennett, Greeley, and Raymond.
I have personally known these desperate
jugglers for twenty years, and if the
reader is sceptical, when I brand them as unparalleled
scoundrels, let him refer to the files
of these editors, who fiercely denounce, and
clearly prove each other to be incomparable
villains, and in parallel columns, they assume
to be the censors of the public morals, and
anathematise rogues of every grade and country,
whom they strive to allure to the
embraces of the sacred virtues. The mighty
destinies of our country are in the grasp of
heartless black mail editors, and Bennett,
Greeley, and Raymond never unite in matters
of public good, nor in the election of meritorious
citizens to public office. And when they
scream loudest for the propagation of the public
virtues, and the creation of wise public
measures, their eyes are fastened on the devil,
and his imps, and overshadowing schemes of
public plunder. Their opinions have not half
the force and purity of the humblest citizens,
and yet, like foreign despots, they thrust their
heresies into our skulls, and in connection
with officials, as infamous as themselves,
(whom they elect,) they trample our most
sacred rights, and slyly appropriate the public
treasure, and violate all laws, human and divine,
and from whose editorial edicts there is
no appeal. And thus the public evils of our
country flow from such polluted sources, as
the <cite>Herald</cite>, <cite>Times</cite>, and <cite>Tribune</cite>. If these
three editors were as pure and patriotic as
they profess to be, they would unite in the
advocation of honest men for office, and discharge
their thievish correspondents at Albany
and Washington, (who are in collusion with
official robbers, by direction of their employers,)
and invariably oppose the election of
vicious men to office. Bennett, Greeley, and
Raymond, and other editorial rogues, never
advocate the election of a man to office, without
the pledge of a share of his influence and
spoils, which is the real source of our public
evils. They black mail on a scale of startling
magnitude and boldness. They watch, with
ceaseless vigilance, for facilities to seize the
pap from the private and public purse. They
level their fleetest and most envenomed
arrows at the subordinate municipal officers,
Mayors, Governors, National Collectors, Representatives,
Senators, Cabinet officers, and
the President, himself, whom they force to
yield to their demands, or they spread terror
into the camps of these public vultures. Bennett,
Greeley, and Raymond have obtained
their prodigious power, through the large
number of fools that read their nonsense, and
black mail philippics. If these idiots would
cease to read their vile and selfish stuff, and
patronise those editors who proclaim the
truth, and strive to promote the public welfare,
such men as Bennett, Greeley, and Raymond
would soon become the paupers and
loafers and scamps of twenty years ago, when
they had no place to lay their wicked skulls,
nor credit for a loaf of bread.</p>
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</div>
<div class='chapter'>
<h2 id='cooper' class='c005'>The Peter Cooper Institute!</h2>
</div>
<p class='c009'>In front of this sham Institute is painted, in
blazing letters: “These Stores, and the Story
above to Let. Enquire in office, 2d story.”
And Peter might have advertised a portion of
the stories above the two lower stories, as he
has rooms to let in every story of the building.
Even around the lecture room, in the
second and third stories, he has constructed
small rooms to let to any adventurer who
comes along. Such was his avarice, and so
greedy was he to gouge all the area he possibly
could from earth and Heaven, that he dug
as far towards China as he dared, and approached
Heaven’s dome, until his architect
warned him to stop, lest the whole edifice
tumble into one common ruin, so feeble was
the building’s foundation. And now, Peter
Cooper! I demand you to instantly surrender
your right and that of your heirs, (including
Mayor Tiemann and Edward Cooper,) to the
building known as the Cooper Institute. You
have made a great noise, for half a dozen years,
about your extraordinary philanthropy, and
you have publicly proclaimed, a thousand
times, that you intended to give your “Art
and Science” edifice to the city, <em>entirely</em> for
educational purposes. And you have got its
tax of $8,000 reduced with this plea. And you
have also got the Croton water tax removed,
although you have got a steam engine in the
building. And yet you still hold the property,
in the name of yourself and heirs, and from
what I know of your penurious propensities,
I could almost swear that you never meant to
give it to the city. Was not the building publicly
dedicated long since? And where are
the three thousand pupils, with green satchels,
with whom we all expected to see the building
teem? There is more cheerfulness and
utility in the deserts of Arabia, and the classic
ruins and crumbling desolations of the Ancient
States, than in the dismal and Shylock echoes
of your bogus and uncomely structure. And
why do you still clutch it to your heart, like
an expiring miser, his miserable dross? And
why did you so construct the building, as to
render it utterly inappropriate for students?
You have told beggars, high and low, for half
a dozen years, that you could not give them
a crum of bread, because you were devoting
all your surplus means to the construction of
the Cooper Institute. And now that it is
erected, and you have got all you desired,
(and have toiled thirty years to achieve,) in
the election of Tiemann, your son-in-law, as
Mayor, through your specious and fallacious
Philanthropy, and in the appointment of Edward
Cooper, your own son, as Street Commissioner,
by Tiemann,—after you have reached
the goal of your miserly and ungodly ambition,
and have got all New York in your
breeches pocket, I find you apply your fingers
to your infernal nose, and hurl defiance at the
people, whom you have bamboozled, and
evince a disposition to forever hold the building
over which you have raised such a clatter
for half a dozen years, and now actually advertise
the stores and rooms of nearly the entire
edifice, and of course, will put the rents
in your yawning pockets, in the name of the
President and Board of Trustees of the immortal
Cooper Institute, which illustrious
Chartered Body only comprises Peter Cooper!
O Peter! Peter! you are a consummate impostor,
<span class='pageno' id='Page_4'>4</span>and all the people will soon conceive you
to be so, unless you instantly disgorge the
property you long promised to give them for
educational purposes. And now, Peter, go to
the City Hall at once, and record the Institute
in the name of the people, who will ever bless
you for your noble philanthropy.</p>
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</div>
<div class='chapter'>
<h2 id='ads' class='c005'>Advertisements—25 Cents a line.</h2>
</div>
<p class='c009'>Credit—From two to four seconds, or as long as the Advertiser
can hold his breath! Letters and Advertisements to
be left at No. 114 Nassau street, second story, front room.</p>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>NOTICE TO FARMERS AND MARKET
GARDENERS.—<span class='sc'>City Inspector’s Department</span>,
New York, June 16, 1858.—In conformity with the following
resolution, the space therein mentioned will be permitted to
be used a place, by farmers and gardeners, for the sale of
vegetables and garden produce, until the hour of 12 o’clock,
M., daily—the use to be free of charge:</p>
<p class='c007'>Resolved, That permission be, and is hereby, given to farmers
and market gardeners, to occupy daily, until 12 M., free of
charge, the vacant space of the northern and southern extremities
of the intersection of Broadway and Sixth avenue, between
Thirty-second and Thirty-fifth streets, without infringing
upon the streets which the said space intersects, for the
purpose only of selling vegetables and market produce, of their
own farms or gardens, under the supervision of the City Inspector.</p>
<p class='c007'>Also, by resolution of the Common Council, The use of
Gouverneur slip is granted to farmers and gardeners for the
sale of produce from wagons.</p>
<div class='c015'>GEO. W. MORTON, City Inspector.</div>
<div class='c015'>JOSEPH CANNING, Sup’t of Markets.</div>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>NOTICE—TO PERSONS KEEPING SWINE,
OWNERS OF PROPERTY WHERE THE SAME
MAY BE KEPT, AND ALL OTHERS INTERESTED. At
a meeting of the Mayor and Commissioners of Health, held
at the City Hall of the City of New York, Friday, June 18th,
1858, the following preamble and resolutions were adopted:</p>
<p class='c007'>Whereas, A large number of swine are kept in various portions
of the city; and whereas, it is the general practice of
persons so keeping swine, to boil offal and kitchen refuse and
garbage, whereby a highly offensive and dangerous nuisance
is created, therefore, be it</p>
<p class='c007'>Resolved, That this Board, of the Mayor and Commissioners
of Health, deeming swine kept south of (86th) street, in
this city, to be creative of a nuisance and detrimental to the
public health, therefore, the City Inspector be, and he is hereby,
authorized and directed to take, seize, and remove from
any and all places and premises, all and every swine found or
kept on any premises in any place in the city of New York
southerly of said street, and to cause all such swine to be removed
to the Public Pound, or other suitable place beyond the
limits of the city or northerly of said street, and to cause all
premises or places wherein, or on which, said swine may
have been so found or kept, to be thoroughly cleaned and purified
as the City Inspector shall deem necessary to secure the
preservation of the public health, and that all expenses incurred
thereby constitute a lien on the lot, lots or premises
from which said nuisance shall have been abated or removed.</p>
<p class='c007'>Resolved, That the foregoing resolutions shall take effect
from and after the first day of July next, and that public notice
be given of the same by publication in the Corporation
papers to that date, and that notice may be given to persons
keeping swine by circulars delivered on the premises, and
that all violations of this order be prosecuted by the proper
legal authorities, on complaint from the City Inspector or his
officers.</p>
<div class='c015'><span class='sc'>City Inspector’s Department</span>, }</div>
<div class='c015'>New York, June 18, 1858. }</div>
<p class='c007'>All persons keeping swine, or upon whose property or premises
the same may be kept, are hereby notified that the above
resolutions will be strictly enforced from and after the first
day of July next.</p>
<div class='c015'>GEO. W. MORTON, City Inspector.</div>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>FRANCIS B. BALDWIN, WHOLESALE
and RETAIL CLOTHING & FURNISHING WAREHOUSE,
70 and 72 Bowery, between Canal and Hester sts.,
New York. Large and elegant assortment of Youths’ and
Boys’ Clothing.</p>
<div class='c015'>F. B. BALDWIN,</div>
<div class='c015'>J. G. BARNUM.</div>
<p class='c007'>F. B. BALDWIN has just opened his New and Immense
Establishment. THE LARGEST IN THE CITY! An entire
New Stock of GENTLEMEN’S, YOUTH’S and CHILDREN’S
CLOTHING, recently manufactured by the best
workmen in the city, is now opened for inspection. Also, a
superior stock of FURNISHING GOODS. All articles are
of the Best Quality, and having been purchased during the
crisis, WILL BE SOLD VERY LOW! The Custom Department
contains the greatest variety of CLOTHS, CASSIMERES,
and VESTINGS.</p>
<p class='c007'>Mr. BALDWIN has associated with him Mr. J. G. BARNUM,
who has had great experience in the business, having
been thirty years connected with the leading Clothing Establishments
of the city.</p>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>THOMAS A. DUNN, 506 EIGHTH AVENUE,
has a very choice assortment of Wines, Brandies, Cordials,
and Segars, which he will sell at prices that will yield a
fair profit. All my democratic friends, and my immediate
associates in the Boards of Aldermen and Councilmen are
respectfully invited to call in their rambles through Eighth Avenue,
and enjoy a good Havana segar, and nice, sparkling
champagne, and very exhilerating brandy. For the segars,
I will charge my political friends and associates only five pence
each, and for the brandy only ten pence per half gill, and for
the champagne only four shillings a glass, or two dollars a bottle.</p>
<div class='lg-container-b'>
<div class='linegroup'>
<div class='group'>
<div class='line'>So call, kind friends, and sing a glee,</div>
<div class='line'>And laugh and smoke and drink with me,</div>
<div class='line in14'>Sweet Sangaree</div>
<div class='line in14'>Till you can’t see:</div>
<div class='line in3'>(<i>Chorus</i>)—At your expense!</div>
<div class='line in14'>(Which pays my rents,)</div>
<div class='line'>For my fingers do you see</div>
<div class='line'>O’er my nose gyrating free?</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class='c015'>THOMAS A. DUNN, No. 506 Eighth avenue.</div>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>MRS. S. S. BIRD’S LADIES’ AND GENTLEMEN’S
Dining and Oyster Saloons, No. 31 Canal street,
near East Broadway, and 264 Division street, New York.</p>
<div class='nf-center-c0'>
<div class='nf-center'>
<div>Oysters Pickled to Order.</div>
</div>
</div>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>FULLMER AND WOOD, CARRIAGE Manufacturers,
239 West 19th Street, New York.</p>
<p class='c007'>Horse-shoeing done with despatch, and in the most scientific
manner, and on reasonable terms.</p>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>MCSPEDON AND BAKER’S STATIONERY WAREHOUSE
and Envelope Manufactory, Nos. 29, 31, and
33, Beekman Street, New York.</p>
<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Envelopes</span> of all patterns, styles, and quality, on hand,
and made to order for the trade and others, by Steam Machinery.
Patented April 8th, 1856.</p>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>COREY AND SON, MERCHANT’S EXCHANGE,
Wall street, New York.—Notaries Public and Commissioners.—United
State’s Passports issued in 36 hours,—Bills
of Exchange, Drafts, and Notes protested,—Marine protests
noted and extended.</p>
<div class='c015'>EDWIN F. COREY,</div>
<div class='c015'>EDWIN F. COREY, <span class='sc'>Jr.</span></div>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>J. VAN TINE, SHANGAE RESTAURANT,
No. 2, Dey street, New York.</p>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>S. & J. W. BARKER, GENERAL AUCTIONEERS
& REAL ESTATE BROKERS. Loans
negotiated, Houses and Stores Rented, Stocks and Bonds
Sold at Auction or Private Sale.</p>
<p class='c007'>Also, FURNITURE SALES attended to at private houses.
Office, 14 Pine street, under Commonwealth Bank.</p>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>CARLTON HOUSE, 496 BROADWAY, NEW
York. Bates and Holden, Proprietors.</p>
<div class='c015'>THEOPHILUS BATES.</div>
<div class='c015'>OREL J. HOLDEN.</div>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>TRIMMING MANUFACTURERS.—B. S.
YATES & CO., 639 Broadway, New York.</p>
<div class='nf-center-c0'>
<div class='nf-center'>
<div>Fringes, Cords, Tassels, Loops, Gimps,</div>
<div>and Gimp Bands.</div>
</div>
</div>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>WM. COULTER, Carpenter.—I have long
been engaged as a Carpenter, and I assure all who
will favor me with their patronage, that I will build as good
houses, or anything else in my line, as any other carpenter in
the city of New York. I will also be as reasonable in charges
for my work as any other person.</p>
<div class='nf-center-c0'>
<div class='nf-center'>
<div>WILLIAM COULTER, Carpenter.</div>
<div>Rear of 216 East Twentieth street, New York.</div>
</div>
</div>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>GERARD BETTS & CO., AUCTION AND
Commission Merchants, No. 106, Wall street, corner of
Front street, New York.</p>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>W. W. OSBORN, MERCHANT TAILOR,
9 Chamber street, near Chatham street, New York.</p>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>SOLOMON BANTA, Architect, No. 93 Amos
street, New York. I have built as many houses and stores
as any Architect in this city, or the United States, and I can
produce vouchers to that effect; and I flatter myself that I can
build edifices that will compare favorably, in point of beauty
and durability, with those of any architect in this country. I
am prepared to receive orders in my line of business, at No.
93 Amos street, New York.</p>
<div class='c015'>SOLOMON BANTA.</div>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>ROBERT ONDERDONK—THIRTEENTH
Ward Hotel, 405 and 407 Grand street, corner of Clinton
street, New York.</p>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>WILLIAM M. TWEED, CHAIR, & OFFICE
Furniture Dealer and Manufacturer,</p>
<p class='c007'>No. 239 Broadway, corner of Read street, New York. Room
No. 15.</p>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>FASHION HOUSE.—JOSEPH HYDE PROPRIETOR,
corner Grand and Essex street. Wines, Liquors,
and Cigars of the best brands. He invites his friends to give
him a call. Prompt and courteous attention given his patrons.</p>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>WILLIAM A. CONKLIN, ATTORNEY AND
COUNSELLOR AT LAW, No. 176 Chatham street,
New York. Any business entrusted to his charge from citizens
of this city or any part of the country, will receive prompt
and faithful attention, and be conducted on reasonable terms.</p>
<div class='c015'>WILLIAM A. CONKLIN.</div>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>HERRING’S PATENT CHAMPION FIRE AND BURGLAR
Proof Safe, with Hall’s Patent Powder Proof
Locks, afford the greatest security of any Safe in the world.
Also, Sideboard and Parlor Safes, of elegant workmanship
and finish, for plate, &c. S. C. HERRING & CO.,</p>
<div class='c015'>251 Broadway.</div>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>JAMES MELENFY, (SUCCESSOR TO SAMUEL
Hopper,) Grocer, and Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Pure Country Milk. Teas, Coffee, Sugars & Spices. Flour,
Butter, Lard, Cheese, Eggs &c. No. 158, Eighth Avenue,
Near 18th Street, New York. Families supplied by leaving
their address at the Store.</p>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>BOOT & SHOE EMPORIUMS. EDWIN A. BROOKS,
Importer and Manufacturer of Boots, Shoes & Gaiters,
Wholesale and Retail, No. 575 Broadway, and 150 Fulton
Street, New York.</p>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>J. W. MASON, MANUFACTURER, WHOLESALE and
Retail dealers in all kinds of Chairs, Wash Stands,
Settees, &c. 377 & 379 Pearl Street, New York.</p>
<p class='c007'>Cane and Wood Seat Chairs, in Boxes, for Shipping.</p>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>BENJAMIN JONES, COMMISSION DEALER, IN Real
Estate. Houses and stores and lots for sale in all
parts of the city. Office at the junction of Broadway,
Seventh Avenue, and Forty-Sixth Street.</p>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>FOLEY’S CELEBRATED “GOLD PENS.”
For sale by all Stationers and Jewellers.</p>
<div class='lg-container-b'>
<div class='linegroup'>
<div class='group'>
<div class='line'>OFFICE AND STORE,</div>
<div class='line in8'>163 BROADWAY.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>JAMES DONNELLY’S COAL YARD,—Twenty-sixth
street and Second Avenue. I always have
all kinds of coal on hand, and of the very best quality, which
I will sell as low as any other coal dealer in the United States.</p>
<div class='c015'>JAMES DONNELLY.</div>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>EDWARD PHALON & SON, 497 and 517 Broadway,
New York—Depots for the sale of Perfumery, and
every article connected with the Toilet.</p>
<p class='c007'>We now introduce the “BOUQUET D’OGARITA, or
Wild Flower of Mexico,” which is superior to any thing of
the kind in the civilized world.</p>
<div class='c015'>EDWARD PHALON & SON.</div>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>SAMUEL SNEDEN, SHIP & STEAMBOAT BUILDER.—My
Office is at No. 31 Corlears street, New York; and
my yards and residence are at Greenpoint. I have built
Ships and Steamers for every portion of the Globe, for a
long term of years, and continue to do so on reasonable
terms.</p>
<div class='c015'>SAMUEL SNEDEN.</div>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>JOHN B. WEBB, BOAT BUILDER, 718 WATER STREET.
My Boats are of models and materials unsurpassed by
those of any Boat Builder in the World. Give me a call,
and if I don’t please you, I will disdain to charge you for
what does not entirely satisfy you.</p>
<div class='c015'>JOHN B. WEBB.</div>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>ALANSON T. BRIGGS—DEALER IN FLOUR BARRELS,
Molasses Casks, Water, and all other kinds of Casks.
Also, new flour barrels and half-barrels; a large supply
constantly on hand. My Stores are at Nos. 62, 63, 64, 69,
73, 75, 77 and 79 Rutger’s Slip; at 235, 237, and 239 Cherry
street; also, in South and Water streets, between Pike and
Rutger’s Slip, extending from street to street. My yards in
Williamsburgh are at Furman & Co.’s Dock. My yards in
New York are at the corner of Water and Gouverneur
streets; and in Washington street, near Canal; and at Leroy
Place. My general Office is at 64 Rutger’s Slip.</p>
<div class='c015'>ALANSON T. BRIGGS.</div>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>FULTON IRON WORKS.—JAMES MURPHY & CO.,
manufacturers of Marine and Land Engines, Boilers,
&c. Iron and Brass Castings. Foot of Cherry street, East
River.</p>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>BRADDICK & HOGAN, SAILMAKERS, No. 272 South
Street, New York.</p>
<p class='c007'>Awnings, Tents, and Bags made to order.</p>
<div class='c015'>JESSE A. BRADDICK,</div>
<div class='c015'>RICHARD HOGAN.</div>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>J. N. GENIN, FASHIONABLE HATTER, 214 Broadway,
New York.</p>
<div class='clear'>
<hr class='c013' />
</div>
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>GENIN’S LADIES’ & CHILDREN’S OUTFITTING
Bazaar, 513 Broadway, (St. Nicholas Hotel, N. Y.)</p>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>WILLIAM M. SOMERVILLE, WHOLESALE AND
Retail Druggist and Apothecary, 205 Bleecker-st,
corner Minetta, opposite Cottage Place, New York. All the
popular Patent Medicines, fresh Swedish Leeches, Cupping,
&c. Physicians’ Prescriptions accurately prepared.</p>
<div class='c015'>WM. M. SOMERVILLE.</div>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>A. W. & T. HUME, MERCHANT TAILORS, No.
82 Sixth Avenue, New York. We keep a large and
elegant assortment of every article that a gentleman requires.
We make Coats, Vests and Pants, after the latest
Parisian fashions, and on reasonable terms.</p>
<div class='c015'>A. W. & T. HUME.</div>
<hr class='c013' />
<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>THE WASHINGTON, <span class='sc'>By</span> BARTLETT & GATES,
No. 1 Broadway, New York. Come and see us, good
friends, and eat and drink and be merry, in the same capacious
and patriotic halls where the immortal Washington’s
voice and laugh once reverberated.</p>
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<div class='line'>O come to our Hotel,</div>
<div class='line'>And you’ll be treated well.</div>
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<div class='c015'>BARTLETT & GATES.</div>
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<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>EXCELSIOR PRINTING HOUSE, 211 CENTRE ST., IS
furnished with every facility, latest improved presses,
and the newest styles of type—for the execution of Book,
Job and Ornamental Printing. Call and see specimens.</p>
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<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>CHARLES FRANCIS, SADDLER, (ESTABLISHED IN
1808,) Sign of the Golden Horse, 39 Bowery, New York,
opposite the Theatre. Mr. F. will sell his articles as low as
any other Saddler in America, and warrant them to be equal
to any in the World.</p>
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<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>H. N. WILD, STEAM CANDY MANUFACTURER, No.
451 Broadway, bet. Grand and Howard streets, New
York. My Iceland Moss and Flaxseed Candy will cure
Coughs and Sneezes in a very short time.</p>
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<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>JAMES GRIFFITHS, (Late CHATFIELD & GRIFFITHS,)
No. 273 Grand st., New York. A large stock of well-selected
Cloths, Cassimeres, Vestings, &c., on hand. Gent’s,
Youths’ and Children’s Clothing, Cut and Made in the most
approved style. All cheap for Cash.</p>
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<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>J. AGATE & CO., MEN’S FURNISHING GOODS
and Shirt Manufacturers, 256 Broadway, New York.</p>
<p class='c007'>Shirts made to order and guaranteed to fit.</p>
<p class='c007'>J. AGATE, <span class='padded'>F. W. TALKINGTON.</span></p>
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<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>BILLIARD TABLES.—PHELAN’S IMPROVED BILLIARD
Tables and Combination Cushions—Protected by
letters patent, dated Feb. 19, 1856; Oct. 28, 1856; Dec. 8,
1857; Jan. 12, 1858. The recent improvements in these
Tables make them unsurpassed in the world. They are
now offered to the scientific Billiard players as combining
speed with truth, never before obtained in any Billiard Table.
Sales-rooms Nos. 786 and 788 Broadway, New York. Manufactory
No. 53 Ann Street.</p>
<div class='c015'>O’CONNOR & COLLENDOR, Sole Manufacturers.</div>
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<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>S. L. OLMSTEAD, IMPORTER, MANUFACTURER
and Jobber of Men’s Furnishing Goods, No. 24 Barclay
Street, corner of Church, New York.</p>
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<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>C. B. HATCH, HILLER & MERSEREAU, Importers
and Jobbers of Men’s Furnishing Goods, and Manufacturers
of the Golden Hill Shirts, 99 Chambers Street, N.
E. corner Church Street, New York.</p>
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<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c014'>L. A. ROSENMILLER, DRUGGIST, NO. 172 EIGHTH
Avenue, New York. Cupping & Leeching. Medicines
at all hours.</p>
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