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Life of Stephen H. Branch. 1

A Melodious Fragment! 2

Human Devils. 2

James Gordon Bennett's 2 Editorial Career.

Peter Cooper's Funny little 3 Grocery-Groggery, at the Corner of the Bowery and Stuyversant Street, in 1820.

Advertisements 4

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by STEPHEN H. BRANCH,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

Life of Stephen H. Branch.

McDonald Clarke had the dyspepsia badly, and would board at the Graham House while his money lasted, and then Goss would request him to leave. At the table he always created infinite mirth. I often met him on the Battery, and at Mercer's Dining Saloon, at the corner of Ann and Nassau, and on the steps of the Astor, and while rapidly promenading Broadway, with his eyes riveted on the ground. I also saw him every Sabbath in front of Dr. Taylor's Grace Church, at the corner of Rector street and Broadway, where he used to await the arrival of Miss Jones, and almost stare her into fits, and to whom he addressed such lines as these through the public journals:

Her form's elastic as a willow tree, Glorious in motion, when the winds are free: She moves with timid dignity and grace, While thought is thrilling through her sweet young face.

A Melodious Fragment!

TO ALL WHO LOVE ENTRANCING MUSIC.

READER:--Did you ever behold the tumultuous excitement of the populace at a Race Course, as the furious steeds neared the judge's stand on the last heat? Then go and see Gazzaniga's reflection of the passions at the Academy of Music, and behold the glow and palor, and joy and terror, and stamps and screams of the excited and enraptured multitudes. Did you ever see the moon emerge from a tranquil ocean, or the sun descend a wild horison? Then see Gazzaniga. Did you ever see a peerless virgin at the altar, or on her journey to the sepulchre? Then see Gazzaniga. Do you remember the merry laugh of childhood, or your fond mother's gentle tones? Then see Gazzaniga. Do you lament Ophelia's sadness and mournful destiny, and the fatal grief of Portia at the absence of Brutus? Then see Gazzaniga. Do you love the murmurs of the rivulet, or of summer zephyrs on the moonlight waters? Then see Gazzaniga. Do you love the melody of the birds, and the hues of the pastures, and the romance of the forest, and the perfume of the foliage, and the silence of the wilderness, and the beauty of the vales, and the majesty of the mountains? Then see Gazzaniga. Do you love the security of a calm, or the sublimity of a storm? Then see Gazzaniga. Have you seen Niagara or Vesuvius, and admired and trembled in their glorious and awful presence? Then see Gazzaniga. Have you read and dreamed of Antony and Cleopatra? Then see Brignoli and Gazzaniga. Have you read Caesar's hatred of Cassius and Horace Greeley, and his love of Matsell and fat men? Then see Ullman and Armodio. Do you love to roam in dells and caves and deserts? Do you love the pensive meditations of genius in cavern solitudes? Do you love to gaze at Heaven's Panorama, in the silence and glory of midnight? Do you love your parent's admonitions, and the sweet tones of your brothers and sisters, and wives and children? Do you remember your early love, and pleasant rambles with your devoted and beauteous Juliet? Do you love to witness the reflection of your own heart? Do you love to shed tears of joy at the triumph of the virtuous, and to paralyse the vicious with your terrible execrations? Have you breathed Italian skies, and wandered by Italian streams, and fondly lingered on Italian sunsets? O then go and see and hear Gazzaniga, whose mighty soul reflects the smiles and tears--lovers and misanthropes--beauties and melodies--calms and storms--rainbows and landscapes--plains and mountains--cataracts and volcanoes--thunder and lightning--rain and hail--tornadoes and earthquakes--witches and angels--devils and demons--ghosts and hobgoblins, and suns and globes and caravans of Universal Nature. O Gazzaniga! Thy tranquil music is the echo of a Choir of Angels, and thy frenzied strain is the yell of a gang of devils. More than a thousand millions of human pilgrims rove in the romantic paths of earth, but in all this mighty throng, on its march to a common sepulchre, there is but one Gazzaniga in the delightful realms of melody.

Stephen H. Branch's Alligator.

NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1858.

STEPHEN H. BRANCH'S "ALLIGATOR" CAN BE obtained at all hours, at wholesale and retail, at No. 128 Nassau Street, Near Beekman Street, and opposite Ross & Tousey's News Depot, New York.

Human Devils.

Some ,000 have been expended in building fences, and improving the forest grounds at the corner of Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets and the Sixth Avenue? We have received a card, heralding a "Palace Garden," signed by De Forest and Tisdale, Proprietors. Mr. De Forest was the Treasurer of the Crystal Palace Ball, and Mr. Tisdale is the Treasurer of the Hunter Woodis Benevolent Society. A few loaves of John Hecker's bread, distributed among the poor, was the only charitable result of the Academy of Music Ball, and none of John Hecker's bread, nor of any baker, nor any necessaries of life were distributed among the indigent, as the result of the mighty and lucrative Crystal Palace Ball. Both of those Balls were given by the public--for the benefit of the Poor--in the name of the self-constituted members of the Hunter Woodis Society, and De Forest and Tisdale, who control the vast receipts of that Society, now open an Ice Cream and Lager Bier Saloon on a scale of unprecedented magnitude and magnificence, while the poor creatures are starving, who own all the surplus funds in the vile grasp of the Hunter Woodis Society, and of the outside scamps, who partially control those pauper funds. De Forest and Tisdale beckoned me last week to their gorgeous chariot on Broadway, and told me that they were "snags," and through dagger eyes, and ferocious gestures, and stunning declamation, threatened my utter annihilation, for my recent exposure of their plunder of our generous citizens, and the private paupers, whose funds they withhold and squander. If one of the huge villains of these devilish days in which my lot is cast approaches me with menacing look or attitude, he will be a dead thief before he can implore the God of truth and justice and mercy to forgive him for his awful crimes. Where the ,000 that were doubtless received by the Managers and Treasurers of the Academy of Music and Crystal Palace Balls; and where their vast private collections have all mysteriously vanished, will never be disclosed to the poor of this, nor of coming generations, but, at the Throne of God, these consummate villains and infernal scamps will have to confront the famishing creatures they have robbed and starved, when they will be convicted, and condemned, and hurled from Heaven's resplendent heights into a gulph of yelling devils, who will pinch them, and prick them, and bite them, and lance them, and roast them through wasteless ages.

O, what I hear, and what I see, Makes me from earth yearn to be free.

James Gordon Bennett's Editorial Career.

"The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor, Is king o' men for a' that."

And who also said:

"O, wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!"

"I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die."

Or Iago:

"This is the night, That either makes me, or fordoes me quite."

"Lord, we know that we are, But know not what we may be."

But darm the rhyme. We want bread and butter. I have been starving on truth and poetry, and I intend to lie, and cheat, and black mail, during the residue of my days. Do you understand me?

Peter Cooper's Funny little Grocery-Groggery, at the Corner of the Bowery and Stuyversant Street, in 1820.

PETER BEHIND THE COUNTER.

SUNDAY EVENING.

T. B. JOHNSTON has a complimentary benefit at Wallack's Theatre on Saturday evening, the 26th of June. I shall go early, and take a front seat, and enjoy his extraordinary comicalities, and I advise all to follow my example.

Advertisements--25 Cents a line.

Credit--From two to four seconds, or as long as the Advertiser can hold his breath! Letters and Advertisements to be left at No. 128 Nassau street, third floor, back room.

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.

F. B. BALDWIN, J. G. BARNUM.

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.

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.

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.

So call, kind friends, and sing a glee, And laugh and smoke and drink with me, Sweet Sangaree Till you can't see: --At your expense! For my fingers do you see O'er my nose gyrating free?

THOMAS A. DUNN, No. 506 Eighth avenue.

J. VAN TINE, SHANGAE RESTAURANT, No. 2, Dey street, New York.

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.

EDWIN F. COREY, EDWIN F. COREY, JR.

CARLTON HOUSE, 496 BROADWAY, NEW York. Bates and Holden, Proprietors.

THEOPHILUS BATES. OREL J. HOLDEN.

BOWERY NEWS DEPOT, NO. 177 BOWERY.--Constantly on hand, Daily, Sunday and Weekly Papers, Monthly Magazines, Play Books, stationary, &c. &c. English Papers per Steamers. All orders punctually attended to.

BENNETT & CARROLL

TRIMMING MANUFACTURERS.--B. S. YATES & CO., 639 Broadway, New York.

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