New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-01-21

including whst properly are it, suburbs, Brook
yu. MllliamsbDrgh, jersey City AMI Hoboken.
BROOKLYN especially Is such-'oF the whole
number If inhabitants m Brooklyn IN 1900 was
SIS There are nOw m Brook IN 1880, and
this growth, II must he pcrc lyci AZ 7 glance, Is
due mainly 10 New.Nork
IL The exports from this City in 1900 were Of
the value about OF nineteen millions of dollars.
hose tor ihelesr 1880, OF the value Of fiD three
Millions The imports tor the same wear at this
Iost reached the enormous valve If hundred
and eleven millions OF dollars
H. The number of licensed cirtmen Is a good
indication OF the active business IN the City.
For ltCl there were l.CO0. there sre now 3 PCS
There are moreover g3j other caTtmen, whose
special business. under the name OF dirt cart.
men, II Is 10 transfer the high TO the low
grounds, To an III whayes, make new streets,
&c Omnibuses, unknown IN the earlier day,
but rendered ecesSary by the stretching ont OF
the Clly on one narrow line, now run IN various
directions 20 The number of 5Sl performing tho
distance Of three miles each trip, mos! OF them
for The moderate prlce Oi SIX cents
". OF Churches and other places Of worship.
there were, IN 1901, thlrty-two where now there
are two hundred and sixty.
V. OF Public Scbools-that is, open TO all and
at the public expeuSe-there were none then
now there are some $50. educating annually some
SO.tC0 pupils
There are many other topics that laid IN my
way. and concerning which would gladly speak.
The progress IN machinery and Ia machine shops
end ioundres, Is especially noteworthy, and the
progress and Improvements IN that most efficient
agent Tor the diffusion OF kno edge-the PRINT
ing-press-commend themselves particularly to
me from former association; but must pass
them by
But there is one establishment now about to
be opened TO the public use, OF which must say
a word or two-fhe Ast0r Libyayy. The origin Of
that YOU all know. IL Is the noble creation OF
man whose own vigorous mind and energetic
character unaided by much early education.
made for him a name and place among men
which the ofliest might envy. Dying, and In
ORDER 10 insure 10 others advantages he himself
had lacked, he hequeahed 100000 for public
hhraD. where all men, OF every degree, pursuit
and cal ing, might seek knowledge, ana get UNI
Outstanding. The building Is now finished, and
az soon a. is walls are sufficiently dry, the
hcots. already numbering more than 10000, and
to which aCcessionS are making, ald to be made
continually, wal he placed IN IT, and II will then
be open tor the use OF all. BY 4 most fortunate
coincidence, and through the exercise OF that
rare $. raCIty which Mr.. AstOr possessed OF hnd-
ing the sh man for the thing in hand, the III
brarau cnoSen by him before his death, MI JOS.
c. Cocswell, Is exactly The man, possibly the
only man in the United States ior the place
His heart Is III the work, and to great zeal and
lie adds a knowledge of books IN all languages
and IN all departments unequaled, 1t mag be
said undoubtngly. by any other man IN tho
United States lie Is. besides, as methodlcal,
exact and cautious the most STRAIT laced
business man and It Is not too much TO say,
that IN his hands, and by his skill, economy ana
knowing how to bIde his time IN purchases, ne
has more than doubled the value of the original
heoucst This will not be deemed eyIayagant
when add, that the cost OF the 10000 volumes
already purchased, comprising the choicest Sc
lection of books, in all languages, many oil them
most magnificent IN plates and binding, VIII
not average more than one and quarter doH~
pr rolu,ne The books In the Congress Library,
lust burned, averaged above - volume, ana
those inyour own Demilt Library viii average, as
| am informed, nearly So The Astor Library, Tor
the people, Is one of the prOudeSt trophies oi
which New-York can boast IN the hall century
Just closed.
But It is time TO bring this retrospect to aclose
"A retrospect which, however full OF lntete"
in facts, cannot have been other than weaIisome
in the detail Its moral remains 10 be applied
We have seen in the hall-century Just ended
how great the progress Of Newly oTk-keeplng
pace therein only with the progress of our coun-
iry Shall the close of the hali-century OF which
the first year is now about expiring, witness TO
our descendants and TO all future time that the
efforts and the tolls, the trials and the trumphs
appreciated by its children Shall the close OF
the year 1900 find this City as far ahead IN wealth
and power IN the means of education and the
means OF comfort, In the enterprise that advan-
ces and the arts that adom civilization, as this
present period is ahead OF that fifty years ago.
These are questions which nearly concern us.
for we IN part, and those whom we are to tram
and influence, must answer them.
have faith in that future, because have con-
fdence in the present Wnh our growth IN
wealth and IN power, see 10 abatement In those
qualities, moral and physical, to which so much
OF our success is owing ana while mus true "
ourselves, true TO the Instincts OF freedom ana
10 those other instincts which Win our race
seem to 90 hand in hand with Freedom-love oil
order and respect for law (as law, and not be-
cause it is upheld by force(-we must continue
TO prosper
The sun shines not upon, has never shone
upon, land where human happiness Is 90 vide
ly disseminated, where human government Is so
little abused 50 free from oppression, so in'isi'
be- intangible, and yet so strong. Nowhereei else
do the institutions which constitute State rest
nnon so broad base as here, and nowhere are
men 90 powerless and Institutions so strong. In
the wilderness of free minds discussions VIII DC
cur and in the unlimited discussion IN wfitinB
and in speech in town meetings, newspapers
and legislative bodies, angry aud menacihg ran
euspe will be used irrtatlons wall arise ana De
aggravated and those Immediately concerned
i'm the strife or breathing its atmosphere, may
fear, or eign to fear, that danger is In such not
breath and passionate resolves But outside
and above and beyond all this is the People
steady, industrious, self ossessed-caring little
for distractions and less for abstractionlss, PUT
with one deep common sentiment, ana Win INC
consciouspess. calm, but quite sure and earnest,
that in the Constitution and the Union, as
thew received them from their fathers, and as
they themselves have observed and maintaineo
them. is the sheet-anchor of their hope, the
pledge of their prosperity, the palladium OF tnei
hberty: and with this is that other conscious
ness not less calm and not less earnest, that, IN
their own keeping exclusively, and not IN that
of any party leaders, or party demagogues, or
nolitjcaI hacks, or spectators, is the integrity
IF that Union ond that Constitution. Ii is IN the
strong arms and honest hearts OF the great