Transcriber Notes Obvious printer errors and missing punctuation fixed. Archaic and inconsistent spelling retained. Unclear text in the ads in the original has been clarified by review of the same ads printed more clearly in other issues. The table of contents has been created and added by the transcriber. Italics are represented by underscores surrounding the _italic text_. Small capitals have been converted to ALL CAPS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Life of Stephen H. Branch. 1 A Melodious Fragment! 2 Human Devils. 2 James Gordon Bennett’s 2 Editorial Career. Peter Cooper’s Funny little 3 Grocery-Groggery, at the Corner of the Bowery and Stuyversant Street, in 1820. Advertisements 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: STEPHEN H. BRANCH’S ALLIGATOR.] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Volume I.—No. 11.] SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1858. [Price 2 Cents. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by STEPHEN H. BRANCH, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Life of Stephen H. Branch. McDonald Clarke had the dyspepsia badly, and would board at the Graham House while his money lasted, and then Goss would request him to leave. At the table he always created infinite mirth. I often met him on the Battery, (with his pockets filled with stale Graham bread,) and at Mercer’s Dining Saloon, at the corner of Ann and Nassau, and on the steps of the Astor, and while rapidly promenading Broadway, with his eyes riveted on the ground. I also saw him every Sabbath in front of Dr. Taylor’s Grace Church, at the corner of Rector street and Broadway, where he used to await the arrival of Miss Jones, and almost stare her into fits, and to whom he addressed such lines as these through the public journals: Her form’s elastic as a willow tree, Glorious in motion, when the winds are free: She moves with timid dignity and grace, While thought is thrilling through her sweet young face.