“ Under such a state of things the elaborate entrenchments which enclose the army of Davis on the Rapidan, and the formidable network of fortifications which encircle his capital are literally no defences at all. The protection of their railroad lines between the Rapidan and Richmond, and thence to Atlanta, in Georgia, is the first essential to the security of Davis and Lee in Virginia. Hence the mustering of all their available forces for the inevitable work of open field fighting, but the danger at Atlanta is also imminent. ”

“ The enormous rise in rents, so utterly at variance with the small rise in the value of labor, has this year driven an immense per centage of New Yorkers to a change of domicile. Those who have been accustomed to pay $12 per month for rooms, find themselves charged $20, and have, consequently, sought less comfortable quarters, where they can live at the old price or somewhere near it. ”

“ What nobler charity could awaken the hearts of our Lennoxes, Astors, Blunts, and other rich and benevolent citizens, than that of relieving an over populated city, decreasing mortality and destroying the infamous tenant-house system, in which property we feel sure that none but Shylocks and money grabbers ever invest. ”

“ We speak practically when we say that these houses can be contracted for and well finished at that price, and allowing a liberal estimate, rented for 10 per cent on the entire cost, which would be $200 and $100. To make the working of such a piau practical it must have the co-operation of the railroads and steamboats running to the spot, and while a low rate of commutation and swift time makes it possible for the humblest workman to spend the charge, and be at his city labor at the earliest hour, it will eventually reward them by increased travel. ”

“ Since the sober second thought has set in, after the grand splurge, our business men and shopkeepers are counting up the cost, and the opinion is generally arrived at that the great Fair has been a financial loss, and that the commercial interests of the city would have been largely gainers had a million and a quarter of money been raised and presented to the Sanitary Commission, to replace the Fair. ”

“ The contribution of all kinds are very fine and attractive and such is the change of feeling in Baltimore that the Fair cannot fail to command great success. As the Sanitary Commission extends its favors to all the suffering of either army, no consideration of politics should keep any one of charitable feelings away. ”

“ And here lies the fatal weakness of Jeff Davis in undertaking, against all the adverse circumstances suggested, still to maintain the prestige of his authority at Richmond. For 100 miles around that city the country is exhausted, and North Carolina has been so impoverished by Confederate foragers that the scanty supplies still held by her planters are hardly equal to the extremest necessities of her destitute people. The armies of Davis in Virginia draw their supplies of food mainly from Georgia ”

“ Within half an hour's travel of the city by rail and steamboat upon Long island, the Passaic river, the Raritan, the East river, and a score of other places, there is plenty of good ground that can be bought for $500 an acre. ”

“ Attempting to revenge herself on Miron, she plots a fearful death for his dearest friend, Urban Delaval, but discovers that the young man is her son time enough to save him, which she does, firstly, from the hands of the assassin, and secondly, by rescue from an inundation, in which final scene she loses her own life. ”

“ There is one thing in connection with this matter at which we never fail to wonder, and that is why capitalists do not esteem it worth while to enter upon suburban building on a large scale, and offer inducements to men of small means and mechanics to live in. ”

“ The manner in which they—we beg pardon, the spirits—tie and untie their arms and legs from the strongest binding, done by such eminent binders as Judge Whitley, who has bound over a good many Jersey men, is somewhat amazing. What they do is indescribable, and will sound like nothing when described, but so far has puzzled all the wisdom and acumen of their audiences, and defied even a theory. We shall wait in patient hope for the debut of Simmons, who makes his first appearance at the New Broadway Theatre, Wallack's old house, which has been entirely refitted by Mr. ”

“ This can be done by an addition of $25 per annum to the family expense, and the time consumed in reaching this rural home will not be longer for the clerk and working man than now in reaching the City Hall from 40th street; time that in the cars or on the boats can be profitably employed in reading the morning papers or something else. ”

“ The armies of Davis within this diminished empire, drawn from all the slave States, and variously represented as making a sum total of from 200,000 to 300,000 men—these armies are now mainly subsisted from the last year's Indian corn crop of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. ”

“ Grant, been introduced into the East, and with such advantages for aggressive operations against such, drawbacks and embarrassments to the enemy, as the Army of the Potomac has never before commanded. ”