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Batchelor & Brown have taken possession of the old mansion of Gideon Lee ; No. 1 is occupied as a restaurant, and a new hardware store is soon to be opened next to the residence of Dr. Francis. This is the natural progress of events, and in due time even Fifth avenue will probably go through a similar experience.-Times, January, 1860.

COLT'S SUBMARINE BATTERY.-At the New York Battery there was an exhibition on Tuesday, September 18th, 1842, of Colt's Submarine Battery. A rational estimate of the number of eager witnesses of this fete would not be very much from 50,000. A brig of 300 tons burden was placed about equidistant between Castle Garden and the North Carolina; under it was placed the battery; Mr. Colt was three-fourths of a mile off, on Governor's Island, ready, with his electro-magnetic telegraph, to apply the electric spark at the concerted signal; the first signal gun announced the hour, and at the second the spark was sent -instantaneously the quiet brig was dashed to atoms.

The first notice of destruction the spectator has is a tremendous upheaval of a large volume of water fifty feet in height, bearing with it the fated craft with such resistless force that it seemed to drop into fragments like the dirt of a rotten log. The destruction is truly complete, and the fragments so scattered they are scarcely neighbors. This is a terrible missile to all floating batteries of a hostile foe, and as this and other trials of its power indicate, Mr. Colt has won immortality to his name, and is worthy of the patronage he has received and much more Daily Times.

MOVEMENTS IN REAL ESTATE. -The Tremont Temperance House, in Broadway, has lately been sold for $105,000, and is to be remodeled. Messrs. Bulkley & Coffin have purchased the New England Hotel, on the corner of Broadway and Thames street, and design erecting a large store on the lot. They paid $130,000 for the premises. The property on the corner of Park place and Church street, running through to Murray street, has lately changed hands, the purchaser paying a large amount for the property. It has belonged to the Hoyt family for many years. Four houses in Warren street have lately been purchased, with the design of turning them into stores. Among the four are the residences of Mr. Hoffman and Simeon Draper. The large building on the corner of Bond street and Broadway, known as the Stuyvesant Institute, and occupied as the Medical Department of the University, has recently been sold, and a larger and more imposing edifice is to be immediately erected on Fourteenth street, near Irving place. Its dimensions will be about 80 by 100 feet. We understand that it is to be built of granite, in the massive Egyptian style, and will form one of the most magnificent and imposing structures in the city. The plans are now in preparation, and will soon be matured. A few days since a sale was effected of ninety-six lots of the Boerum property in Brooklyn, adjoining the Williamsburgh line, which brought $115,000. This tract embraces some four or five hundred lots, and is probably the largest unimproved tract lying within two miles of the City Hall. Several smaller parcels of the same farm have been purchased for immediate improvement.-Tribune, February 14, 1851.

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CONTENTS FOR APRIL, 1890..

LETTER OF DOMINE JOHANNES MEGAPOLENSIS,

Early Life and Epitaph upon Him-Letter to the Classis of Amsterdam-Sad Condition of Anneke Jans-The Unpaid Salary of the Rev. Mr. Bogardus-His History and Marriage-Anneke Jans's Children.

NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF PRINTING IN NEW YORK,
Continuation of the Speech of Mr. Hamilton-What Constitutes a

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CONDITION OF NEW YORK IN 1757,

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Smith's History-Boundaries of the Province-The City-Fortifications-Churches--The Public Library-Government.

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Foundation of the First Presbyterian Church-Negro Plot-River
Free from Ice all Winter-Press Gang-Sale of Negroes.

DIARY OF DR. ALEXANDER ANDERSON,

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Broken Heads-Bellevue Hospital-Care of the Poor-Yellow Fever of 1795-Anderson Attends the Patients.

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Leisler's Government-Introduction of a Fire Department-Bankruptcy of the Merchants' Exchange in 1849-Alleged Dying Confession of Capt. Cunningham, Provost Marshal.

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