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THEY to whom memories and traditions of the city of New York are known and dear, who love her fame and place, the noble setting of her familiar scenery, and the very stones of her streets, have long deplored the lack of civic pride among her inhabitants. Smaller cities of the New World have wisely cherished their inheritance from a fruitful past and communicated it to successive generations. The stories of the "Boston Tea Party" and the "Boston Massacre," for example, have been spread so widely by persistent and most proper efforts of the Bostonians, as to become part of almost universal knowledge. The night adventure of the pseudo-Indians is known, and Crispus Attucks (A half-Indian or mulatto, killed in the affray on the 5th of March, 1770, known as the " Boston Massacre." He was charged with being a leader in the riot, and his body was borne by the surviving participants to it, and buried in the public burial-ground with the other victims.) has become a child's hero. It would be matter for surprise, however, were the average New-Yorker, born and bred, to discover acquaintance with the " New York Tea Party," which, without the cover of night or Indian disguise, sent one of the laden tea-ships out of our harbor back to England, and upset the cargo of another into the waters of the bay; or had he so much as heard of the battle of Golden Hill, (The high ground between Cliff and Gold streets near John. In January, 1770, some British soldiers sawed down a Liberty-pole which the " Liberty Boys " had erected in celebration of the repeal of the Stamp Act. This action involved frequent and almost daily conflicts between the " boys " and the soldiers ; and in a conflict soon after the soldiers were worsted, and the affair was from that time known as the battle of Golden Hill, where was shed the first blood of the Revolution that followed. Memory of the Gouden Bergh, as the Dutch called it, survives in the name Gold Street. Cliff Street perpetuates the name of Dirk Van der Cliff, and John Street that of another ancient worthy, John Harpendingh, who gave to the Dutch congregation the ground for their North Church.) wherein

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