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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 13: business life in New York. (1844-1846.) (search)
t of that celebrated penitentiary of which she writes. At the suggestion of Mrs. Greeley, who had known Margaret Fuller in Boston, she was not only invited to become a writer in the Tribune but a member of the editor's family; Mr. Greeley expressly stating that he regarded her rather as his wife's friend than his own. Parton's Greeley, p. 258 He had lately taken up his residence in a large old wooden house, built as a country residence by a New York banker, on what New Yorkers call the East River, at Turtle Bay, nearly opposite the southernmost point of Blackwell's Island. The house had ample shrubbery and gardens, with abundant shade trees and fruit trees; and though the whole region is long since laid out in streets and covered with buildings, it was then accessible, as Mr. Greeley tells us, only by a long winding private lane, wholly dark at night and meeting the old Boston Road at Forty-Ninth Street. The only regular communication with the thickly-settled parts of that city--
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
The Lenape retreated across Fish River, which was probably the Detroit crossing of the St. Lawrence, and, making an alliance with the Mingwe, the originals of the Five Nations, they descended on the Mound Builders and, after a hundred years war, drove them south of the Ohio. The Red Score relates further how the descending northern peoples distributed themselves in the region south of the Great Lakes, and the Lenni Lenape finally separated themselves from their allies, going toward the East River, the Delaware, where the English found them. The record ends practically with the beginning of white settlements, and there is no reason to believe that the epic as a whole is anything other than a fairly accurate traditional account of actual tribal movements. The Zuñi creation epic, though never committed to writing, is several literary stages in advance of the Walam Olum. The Zuñi are a sedentary people living in the high valleys of what is now New Mexico. When Coronado discovered
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 20: Margaret Fuller. (search)
he ineffably sweet, benign, tenderly humane and serenely high spirit which they breathe in every paragraph and phrase. During a part of the time of her connection with the Tribune, Miss Fuller resided at Mr. Greeley's house, on the banks of the East river, opposite the lower end of Blackwell's island. This place, she wrote, is to me entirely charming; it is so completely in the country, and all around is so bold and free. It is two miles or more from the thickly-settled parts of New York, bearly two years afterward, Pickie talked to her often and lovingly of Aunty Margaret, proposing that they two should take a boat and go over and see her, —for, to his infantile conception, the low coast of Long Island, visible just across the East River, was that Europe to which she had sailed, and where she was unaccountably detained so long. Alas! a far longer and more adventurous journey was required to reunite those loving souls! The 12th of July, 1849, saw him stricken down, from healt
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing), chapter 10 (search)
December of 1844 that Margaret took up her abode with Mr. and Mrs. Greeley, in a spacious old wooden mansion, somewhat ruinous, but delightfully situated on the East River, which she thus describes:— This place is, to me, entirely charming; it is so completely in the country, and all around is so bold and free. It is two mileth of the house, where one can walk in all weathers; and thence by a step or two, on a lawn, with picturesque masses of rocks, shrubs and trees, overlooking the East River. Gravel paths lead, by several turns, down the steep bank to the water's edge, where round the rocky point a small bay curves, in which boats are lying. And, et, proposing that they two should take a boat and go over and see her, —for, to his infantile conception, the low coast of Long Island, visible just across the East River, was that Europe to which she had sailed, and where she was unaccountably detained so long. Alas! a far longer and more adventurous journey was required to reu
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company), New York, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York (search)
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York a city of 350,000 pop., on the West end of Long Island. Separated from New York by East River. Extensively engaged in commerce and manufactures and the dwelling place of thousands who do business in New York. The third city in population in the United States. The United States have a Navy Yard here.
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company), New York, Long Island City, Queens County, New York (search)
Long Island City, Queens County, New York a town of 16,000 pop., on East River, largely engaged in manufactures.
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company), Nova Scotia, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia (search)
New Glasgow, Nova Scotia a town of 3,000 pop., on East River, near its entrance into Pictou Harbor, about 90 miles N. E. of Halifax.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 58: (search)
ficulty and danger. Unwilling at such a moment to retire, yet too weak and indisposed to undertake the campaign in Canada, he continued as before to render auxiliary services. The general congress acquiesced in his decision, and invited Washington to propose in his stead an officer to conduct the perilous warfare on the St. Lawrence. The position of New York gave great advantage to the friends of the royal government; for the British men-of-war were masters of the bay, the harbor, the East River, and Hudson River below the Highlands; neither Staten Island nor Long Island could prevent the landing of British troops; the possession of Long Island would give the command of Manhattan Island, which had not as yet accumulated materials for defence. In Queen's county, where a large Chap. LVIII.} 1776. Jan. part of the population was of Dutch descent, and among the English there were churchmen and very many Quakers, the inhabitants, by a vote of more than three to one, refused to send
The Daily Dispatch: January 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Citizens' State-rights ticket.-- Peachy R. Grattan, P. H. Aylett, Geo. W. Randolph. (search)
rs not so disposed into their ranks. The examination in this case was to have taken place on Wednesday, but the Grand Jury postponed it till this morning, with a view to investigate the circumstances connected with the seizure of muskets at pier 12, North River. Another seizure of arms by the New York police. Capt. Hutchins, of the New York police, on Wednesday afternoon received information that the schooner Caspian, of Rockland, Me., Capt. Raymond Porter, lying at pier No. 23, East River, had on board a quantity of muskets bound to a Southern port. He communicated the fact to Superintendent Kennedy, from whom he received directions to seize the muskets as contraband goods. Procuring a gang of stevedores he went to the vessel, and finding only the mate on board, who made no opposition to a search, he removed the hatches and overhauled the cargo. In the hold, stowed away forward beneath an assortment of other merchandize, were found twenty-five cases of muskets marked "E.
The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1861.., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
Highly interesting from Pensacola — particulars of the firing on the Federal launch.[copy. Of the Mobile Advertiser and Register.] Pensacola, Sunday night, July 14. --The Advertiser and Register was telegraphed last night the fact, that a detachment of the Montgomery Mounted Rifles had fired upon a boat filed with Federal sailors. The Rifles, under Capt Clanton, have for some time been performing the laborious and dangerous duty of guarding the coast in the neighborhood of the East Pass of Santa Rosa Island, but without incident until Friday morning. About seven in the morning of that day, a detachment of the company under Capt. Clanton, discovered approaching the Island ashore, a small boat or launch from the blockading steamer lying a mile or two distant. The men immediately concealed themselves behind a ground of sand and a waited their approach to within a very short distance of the ambuscade, when they were discovered by the crew. The launch immediately stopped,
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