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t material wealth and power which it so exultingly contrasts with the simplicity and plainness of a former era, are but the products of the wisdom and energy of the leading men of that very era which they so much despise. Where are the Ds Witt Climton and Daniel D. Tompkins among their statesmen. Where is the Bishop Robert or Dr. John Mason among their clergymen? Where are the Alexander Hamilton, the Robert Emmetts, the Aaron Buers, the Kents, the Van Nesses, Van Rensellaers, Grosvenor, Livingston, Hoffman, &c., at their bars? Where is their Robert Fulton? These are the men who once gave tone and character to New York society, and who laid the foundation of that Alps of greatness on which the pigmies of the present day stride with such a conceited smirk, and look down with so many lofty airs upon better people than themselves. The mammoth newspaper of New York today is a wonderful contrast in size and pretension to the modest sheet of former years; but, except. In its purely