The New York herald., 1847-05-25

Brooklyn, L. l., May 90, 1857
Affairs in Brooklyn-Common CsunciI-Brooklyn Fs-
male .academy-New City Hall-Chnreh Of the Holy
Trinity-Napy Burial Ground
field improvement exists throughout the older %
we'll tho other sections Of interesting city In
of public enterprise it painful confess that
metropolis is proverbally slow Our Common Coun
els drag their slow length along and and then by
stroke Of eccentric diplomacy hit upon advance
ment and then relax into the old beaten path again
The Council meets in the principal Of the old Ap
prentice Library Building, the Of Henry and
Orange streets This room is decorated with portraits
Of Mayors George Hail. jeremiah Johnson Jonathan
Trotter, Cyrus p Smith, Henry G. Murphy Joseph
sprague, and Thomas q. Talmage. These individuals,
together with the present Mayor B. stryker form
mayoralty chain they having respectively occupied tho
chief arrived cityhood During ell Of
these administrations the city has been destitute Of both
City Hall and Park II is therefore, you observe
high time to be up and doing" matter Of public
expediency Though the city has been thus remiss in
its corporate capacity the said Of ind
vidua enterprise Many evidences scattered amidst
us Of extraordinary private munhcence and spirit
The Brooklyn Female Academy is in the full tide Of
successful experiment. This Academy and the Prnci-
pals residence both capacious edfses built Of brick
and situated on Joraemon between Court and Clinton
streets
At the uncsn Of Court Fulton streets stands the
temporary wooden belry containing the city nrs bel
and by, the site Of the edihce, projected and
several since, the marble form OF
City Hall is gradually rising.
But short distance from this to the westward ooms
up church Of the Holy Trinity situated
on the corner Of Clinton street and Montagu Place This
eddce Of great TASTE erected Mt the expense Of
single individual and Is an ornament to the city its
architectural beauties many and every part Of 10,
when fully completed will afford evidence OF superlavs
taste and splcndor.
Dock appears be in process of great Advancement
metamorphosing that portion Of the city completely
corresponding changes occur in the Affairs OF those in
teressd in this stupendou work. they may have reason
to exclam, =" Am Giles, or am not Z! before long
,.tcn 70 arrange and decorate it, The Heights or at
least portion OF them not yet lnhapted remain hke
wise in status quo The breath OF popular opinion ap
10 be needed give vitality and to the
reoue measures to arrange and decorate these Parks
in a manner becoming our beautiful city Meanwhile
the citizens left to the Streets and the City Park
which slight degree more advanced to psrkhood
than any Of the rest which city map contains there
being some the species planted
and and there tuft Of clover springng up the
are-to-bc grass plots.
Immediately in the of the United States Hospital
there Is small cemetry in which the dead Of the navy
are deposited IL is tastefuy laid out being artistca
ly ornamented and regulated with shrubbery, grass
plots trees, vine-covered arbors, and shaded Seats
whereon the pedestrian vistant can sit while contem
plating the scanning the inscriptions on the
various memorials over the graves o ne aead Ia psss
ing from tomb to tomb many interesting nscrptions can
be read. Amongst others, sacred TO the memory OF
Tuniss Decker native of Rotterdam, and an o. seaman
on board the IT, 5. steam rigate Futon VINO ded Au-
s''' FAITHFUL below he did his duty,
But now he's gone aloftn
On plain white marble head.stone, beneath a low
bending weeping willow, appears thi modest inscription
MEMORY 6y
WM G KELLY
Born Oct. 9th 1920; Died June 4th, ls4s.
An afflicted mo memorial Of her poor sailor boy
On white marble head stone, bearing a chiselled
willow arl an urn, appears these words
sfcsed TO the memory OF Mr.. John smith, senior
boatswan in the U. 8. navy. Born in the state Of
Maryland A. d 1890 and died in the city Of Brooklyn
Oct 7th, ls43, aged % years
He died as he had lived,
In peace and charity to all mankind,
He left not an enemy upon earth"
Following these words Is n stanza, here omitted
On white wooden slab, initiating marble mead
stone, the following inscription is seen =
In memory of Vendovi, chief OF one OF the fig'
Islands lie brought to this country by the = .
ship Vncennes of the exploring expedition and died on
the lth Of june ls42, at the United sa'ss NAvA ho'
pital." ,,,,,,
letters--Vendovi