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ARTISTIC GLIMPSE OF BROOKLYN, N. Y.

when well bred and broken, bring from $75 to $100. Spaniels are in but moderate demand. Of pet spaniels, the King Charles stands at the head of the list. Hosts of them are sold every year, of impure breed and inferior points, at prices varying from $25 to $200. A perfect King Charles possesses seven distinguishing points of beauty-round head, short nose, long, curly ears, large, full eyes, black and tan color, without speck of white, perfect symmetry of form, and of weight not execeding ten pounds. The genuine are rarely found. One dealer in New York has one for which he paid 44 guineas, and not long ago one was sold at auction, in England, for the enormous sum of 525 guineas, or $2600.

SUCCESSION OF RACES OF MEN. Generation after generation takes to itself the form of a body, and forth issuing from Cimmerian night, on Heaven's missions appears. What force and fire is in each he expends; one grinding in the mill of industry; one, hunter-like, climbing the giddy Alpine heights of science; one madly dashed in pieces on the rocks of strife, in war with his fellow; and then the heavensent is recalled; his earthly vesture falls away, and soon even to sense becomes a vanished shadow. Thus, like some wild flaming, wild thundering train of heaven's artillery, does this mysterious mankind thunder and flame, in long drawn, quick succeeding grandeur, through the unknown deep Thus, like a God-created, fire breathing spirit host, we emerge from the inane: haste stormfully across the astonished earth, then plunge again into the inane. Earth's mountains are levelled, and her seas filled up in our passage. Can the earth, which is but dead and a vision, resist spirits which have reality and are alive? On the hardest adamant some footprint of us is stamped in; the last rear of the host will read traces of the earliest van. But whence? O, heaven, whither? Sense knows not; faith knows not; only that it is through mystery to mystery, from God and to God.-Carlyle.

A DUMB MOTHER'S ARTIFICE. Mary, Countess of Orkney, was deaf and dumb, and married, in 1753, by signs. She lived with her husband, Murrough, first Marquis of Thomond, who was also her first cousin, at his seat, Rostellan, on the harbor of Cork. Shortly after the birth of her first child, the nurse, with considerable astonishment, saw the mother cautiously approach the cradle in which the infant was sleeping, evidently full of some deep design. The countess, having perfectly assured herself that the child really slept, took out a large stone, which she had concealed under her shawl; and, to the horror of the nurse-who was fully impressed with an idea of the peculiar cunning and malignity of "dumbies"-seized it with the intent to fling it down vehemently. Before the nurse could interpose, the countess had flung the stone-not, however, as the servant had apprehended, at the child, but on the floor, where, of course, it made a great noise. The child immediately awoke and cried. The countess, who had, looked with maternal eagerness to the result of her experiment, fell on her knees in a transport of joy. She had discovered that her child possessed a sense which was wanting in herself.

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COL. SNOW IN THE BARBER SHOP. Colonel Snow, the temperance man, was a man of large frame, six feet six in height, with a voice like the tearing of a strong rag, and laugh like the neighing of all Tattersall's." He was the greatest "practical joker" we ever encountered; he was alway's "selling" some of Mr. Blessing's" patrons." Let us mention three or four of his amusing "catches." One day, when a steamer from Europe had been long expected, and apprehensions of her loss had begun to be widely entertained, "the colonel" entered the shop, and as he was hanging up his coat, exclaimed:-"Well, good news at last; the steamer is in-had a terrible time, though; brought away her pilot; carried away her smoke pipe, and all that; she had over three hundred passengers." "What boat was that?" asked a customer, eagerly, wiping the lather from his lips, and arrest"The Montauk, the ing the barber's hand. Brooklyn ferry boat!" answered the colonel, without moving a muscle, while the whole shop was in a roar. We recollect his saying once, when the place was full of customers, in a very Well, I never want to see such solemn manner, a scrape again as I saw in Wall Street about twenty minutes ago. There were more than thirty dirty, ill-looking fellows engaged in it, and every man had a weapon in his hand! 'Twas a sight you wouldn't want to see more than once." "What scrape was that?" asked two or three "Scraping startled customers, all in a breath. up dirt in the lower part of Wall Street," replied the imperturbable Snow; "the Street Commis"Sold sioner has set 'em at work at last." again!" was the responsive exclamation. Ono morning, not two weeks before his death, which was sudden and unexpected, he was in the barber's shop, as usual, when a gentleman entered, a customer whom he knew resided on Staten Island. "Were you on the boat, Mr. J-, when those two men walked off? A policeman was telling me about it. People saw 'em talking and walking towards the end of the boat before they did it. "What did they do it for? Were they drowned?" asked Mr. J. "O, bless you, no; they only came ashore! Perhaps they walked off the boat the same time you did!"—N. Y. Express.

A WOMAN'S ANSWER.

A writer, illustrating the fact that some errors are lifted into importance by efforts to refute them, when they need to be treated with contempt and ridicule, observes that all the blows inflicted by the Herculean club of certain logicians are not half so effectual as a box on the ear of a celebrated atheist by the hand of some charming beauty. After having in vain preached to a circle of ladies, he attempted to avenge himself by saying, "Pardon my error, ladies. I did not imagine that in a house where wit lives with grace, I alone should have the honor of not be "You are not alone, sir," anlieving in God." swered the mistress of the house," my horse, my dog, my cat share the honor with you; only these poor brutes have the good sense not to boast of it."

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ARTISTIC GLIMPSE OF BROOKLYN, N. Y.

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VIEW OF BROOKLYN, FROM THE FOOT OF WALL STREET, NEW YORK.

ARTISTIC GLIMPSE OF JERSEY CITY, N. J.

The stranger, visiting Jersey City for the first time, is forcibly struck with the transition appearance of the place, and this fact is not less forcibly impressed upon the mind of one who sees it after the lapse of but a few years. The advent of the Erie Railroad; the location of the depot of the Cunard steamers, together with the rapidly increasing amount of travel over the great, and, we might say, the only line of southern transit, have urged on the march of improvement in such an unprecedented manner, that the transient visitor scarcely recognizes the place as he passes through its streets. Under these circumstances, it will not appear surprising that we have found it difficult to select material for illustration. There are as yet no striking public edifices to arrest the eye and ornament the city, although she promises much for the future; and the scenes of to-day are so rapidly giving way to the improvements of the morrow, that our sketches will only serve to show our readers of a year hence, not what Jersey City is, but what it was. They will serve a valuable purpose, however, as a reminiscence of the past, with a glimpse of the future. We well remember when an old wind-mill standing upon a narrow point of land which jutted out into the Hudson River from a background of low, wet, marshy ground, with a collection of a dozen or less squalid, ruinous frame buildings, represented all of Jersey City, and we have often regretted since that we

did not preserve a sketch of the scene, as a memento with which to compare its more modern appearance. The regret is vain, however, yet it will serve to show that the present sketches may, like good wine, improve by age. A glance at the history of the place, will convey a more vivid idea of its growth than any words of ours, and we hasten to give the best we have been able to obtain.-There is no doubt that the river once flowed completely around the three islands which now constitute the more elevated points of Jersey City and Hoboken. However that may be, at the time of the early settlement of the Dutch, two of these were connected with the main land by a narrow isthmus, and this peninsula, then called Paulus Hook (the Areseck Houck of the natives), was granted by letters patent to Abraham Isaacsen Plank, by Sir William Kieft, director-general of the Dutch West India Company, and his council of the Province of New Jersey, in 1638. In 1698, it was conveyed by Plank's heirs-at-law, to Ido Cornelisse Van Vorst, in whose family it remained until 1804, when Cornelius Van Vorst, one of his descendants, conveyed it to Anthony Dey. The amount of land sold by Mr. Vorst was the whole of the city east of a line drawn from Morgan Street, about the centre of the block between Washington and Warren Streets, to a point striking the Morris Canal at Van Vorst Street. The boundary was a ditch, but as this was rather indefinite and fre

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of New York has had the natnral tendency to draw to Jersey City a host of manufacturers, who avail themselves of the limited taxation and other facilities of the place, to make here what finds a market in the Empire City. More than one-third of the inhabitants do business across the water, and morning and evening, a continuous stream of passengers throng the boats and pour through her streets, and this living stream so rapidly augments that increased accommodations have been found necessary from time to time, until the ferry and railroad companies have united in the erection of an immense depot and ferry house. The incipient step to this undertaking was the taking a space equal to about ten acres from the river, which was done by docking and filling in with the mud and dirt dredged from the river. This alone cost $140,000; the cost of the buildings is estimated at $60,000 more; making a sum total of $200,000. The main building or depot, is of brick, except about 180 feet, which is built over the water, and is of wood. The entire length of the building is 500 feet, by 103 feet wide; the height of the roof is 43 feet, exclusive of a cupola which runs the entire length and serves to admit light and ventilate the interior. The roof is formed of one entire arch, without any central support, and is made of corrugated galvanized iron, which forms a finish both outside and inside without painting. The front of the depot on Hudson Street, is 125 feet in width, two stories high, with handsome towers at the corners. The second story is devoted to the offices of the assistant superintendent, freight agent, conductor, and other officers and agents of the company. The cars run into the building on five different tracks, and the boat comes a sufficient distance under the water front to shelter the passengers in passing from one to the other. On each side of the depot are two slips, with handsome and commodious ferry houses for the accommodation of ferry passenand they are so connected with the depot, that in case the "car boat" should be in the slip, railroad passengers can take either boat without exposure to the weather. Altogether, the arrangement and plan of the building reflects great credit upon the architect, Mr. Job Male.

quently involved disputes and misunderstanding, a surveyed line was established. The compensation was an annuity of $6000, the purchaser having exclusive control of the land, ferry privileges, etc. After a few years, however, the legal heir of Van Vorst sold his whole right and title to the property for the sum of $40,000, retaining the old homestead, and a large amount of real estate which was then in Harsimus, but which is now embraced within the city limits. The old manor-house, one of the oldest buildings in the State, is still standing, and is an interesting relic of past times. It stands upon the site of the residence of the first patroon. In the year 1804, the property changed hands several times, and on the 10th of November of that year, Associates of the Jersey Company," were incorporated by the legislature of the State, and the whole of Paulus Hook was laid out into blocks and squares, and sub divided into building lots. A map was made of the new city, and on all old deeds, the lines were located by "Mauguis Map." In 1838, an amended charter was obtained from the legislature, which incorporated all that part of the township of Bergen formerly called Paulus Hook, and all the inhabitants within its limits were declared a body corporate by the name of "The Mayor and Common Council of Jersey City." In 1839, a supplement was passed, extending the area of the city to embrace what was then called Harsimus, and in 1840, Hudson county was created, which embraces Jersey City. The new court-house was erected in the town (now city) of Hudson, about a mile from the 'ferry, and here are also situated the offices of county clerk, surrogate, etc., etc. In 1802, Major Hunt and family, John Murphy and wife, and Joseph Bryant, numbering thirteen persons all told, constituted the whole of the inhabitants of Paulus Hook. They occupied one house with its out-buildings, which was kept as a tavern for the accommodation of travellers crossing the ferry. In 1825, the number of taxable inhabi-gers, tants was 118, of whom only 36 were freeholders, In 1829, there were 1025 inhabitants; in 1840, 4090, and in 1850, 11,437, while the census of 1855 showed that they had increased in five years nearly twofold, or numbering 21,000 souls. This rapid increase is unprecedented, except perhaps by the city of Brooklyn, and is owing entirely to the juxtaposition of the Empire City and the facility of access thereto. In fact the increase of the census of Jersey City has been in exact ratio with the increase and development of the ferry privileges. When Major Hunt kept the tavern in 1802, the means of crossing were confined to skiffs manned by rowers, with a pair of sculls each; the next advance was the employment of pirogues, or periaugas (a small craft, with two masts and a lee-board). These were followed by double steam ferry boats, built under the immediate superintendence of Fulton himself, and were called respectively the "York" and the Jersey." These in time gave way to the "George Washington" and "Richard Varick," and they in turn to others, until at the present day we have a handsome fleet of first class boats, unexcelled for ferry purposes. The average time in crossing is four and a half minutes; the distance, a little over one mile. This case of access to, and intimate connection with the city

The view of Jersey City given on another page, was taken from on board one of the ferry boats, and gives a fair impression of the appearance of the place on approaching it from the New York side. One of the most prominent objects is the new depot and ferry houses above described. It will be seen that there are five slips, two on each side of the railroad slip, in the main building. The Cunard docks are seen to the right, together with two ocean steamers, while on the extreme right, the spire of the Presbyterian Church is a prominent landmark. This church is an object of considerable interest, it having originally stood in Wall Street, in the city of New York. When at the call of mammon the edifice was taken down to make room for more profitable buildings, the stones, timbers, etc., were marked and numbered, taken across the river, and erected on the present site, where it now stands, the perfect embodiment of its former self. Upon a tablet over the main door is the following inscription:-" Presbyterian Church, erected Anno Domini MDCCCXLIV." In another of

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one hundred trains arrive and leave within twenty-four hours. While the want of space prevents us from speaking of the Morris Canal, with its constantly moving freights of coal from the mines of Pennsylvania; the manufactories of all kinds which contribute to the wealth and add to the importance of the city; the introduction of gas to light her streets, and other kindred improvements, we cannot pass her last and most important undertaking without a brief notice. We refer to the introduction of water and sewerage. In March, 1857, the Legislature passed an act "for the appointment of commissioners in relation to supplying Hoboken, Van Vorst and the city of Jersey with pure and wholesome water." The first commissioners were Edwin A. Stephens, Edward Coles, Dudley S. Gregory, Abraham Van Boskerck and John D. Ward, and they were empowered to appoint engineers, cause surveys to be made, etc. On the 22d of July of that year, they secured the services of William S. Whitwell, who was one of the chief engineers on the Boston Water-works, and he immediate commenced the work of examination, drawing plans, making estimates, etc., of various sources which had been spoken of. After the proper investigation, it was decided to bring the water from the Passaic, at Belleville, a distance of eight miles, and operations were at once commenced. The water is raised from the river into a reservoir, by means of a steam pump of great power, and after traversing the meadows in iron

the small illustrations we have given a view of Montgomery Street from the ferry. This is the principal thoroughfare. Commencing at this point, and running westward the entire length of the city, it continues on over the marshy grounds to Bergen Hill, crossing which (passing through the city of Hudson), it at length merges into the turnpike road to Newark, over the "Jersey Meadows."-Passing up this street and turning to the right at the first corner, you have before you the busy scene represented in the picture on this page; a scene which many hundreds of our readers will recognize as the rear of the N. J. Railroad Depot, and the terminus of the Erie Railroad. The constant arrival and departure of trains; the coming and going of innumerable express wagons; the transfer of freight and passengers, and the hurrying to and fro of the employes of the companies, make this point an attractive object to the most cursory observer, while the shrill whistle of the locomotive, and its hoarse cough as it starts upon its journey, or "backs and fills" in the making up of trains, mingled with the lowing of cattle and various noises emanating from the stock cars; the ringing of bells; the rattling of wheels; the shouts of the newsboys and noise of the busy hammers from the adjacent workshops, form a chaos of sounds which fill the ear with convincing proof of the activity of the scene. The New Jersey, the Erie, the Morris and Essex, and N. J. Central Railroads, all have their termini here, and nearly

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