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be converted for the accommodation of several of the city departments, was so far finished in this year that it was used as a cholera hospital, and, subsequently, by the Register, Comptroller, Street Commissioner, and surrogate.

Some prices for real estate, obtained at sales by public auction during this winter, are here noted: The corner of Wall and Broad streets, 30 feet on Wall Street by 16 feet 8 inches on Broad, $17,750; south-west corner of Broadway and Park Place, about 25 by 122, $37,000.

February 23 ground was broken for construction of the New York and Harlem Railroad, and in the course of the year this company ran its first car from Prince to Fourteenth Street. These cars were like stage-coaches, hung on leather, with several compartments and side doors, the driver sitting above like a coachman, and putting on the brake with his feet. My readers should remember that at this time railways on important lines, as from Schenectady to Saratoga and the short cut across the Delaware-Maryland peninsula, on the route to Washington, were operated by horse-power.

Mordecai M. Noah, who had edited and published The Advocate from 1813, then at 73 Pine Street, commenced the publication in 1825 of the National Advocate, at 45 Wall Street, but, being enjoined by Henry Eckford and others, he changed the title to Noah's National Advocate; being again enjoined, he changed it to the New York Enquirer, at 10 William Street, and, in 1829, James Watson Webb purchased it, merged it with the Morning Courier published in 1827, and established the New York Courier and Enquirer at 16 Merchants' Exchange, with M. M. Noah, James Lawson, James Gordon Bennett, Prosper M. Wetmore, and James G. Brooks as editors. Later Bennett was transferred to Washington as reporter of Congressional proceedings.

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