id that on a certain occasion, he was called on
to aid a political movement with his subscription. 'Sir,' was his reply,
'I have no money to spare, but I'll come and sit up all night to fold
ballots for you.'

The Lorrillard estate was chiefly acquired through an immense tobacco
business which the patriarch of that house started nearly a century ago,
and which led to the purchase of large landed property. The original
identity of the name continues, and 'short cut' and 'ladies' twist' are
still sold under the sign and brand of the Lorrillards. We presume that
it is the oldest house in America.

The Stuyvesant farm was a vast but unprofitable tract of marshes in the
eastern part of New-York, but now covered by serried blocks, and among
the most densely populated portions of the city. Forty years ago, these
marshes were favorite skating-fields in winter, and here a lad was at
that time actually drowned by the breaking of the ice. Being out of
town, the drier portions were converted into an American Tyburn, and
here the murderer Johnson was hanged. Such were the Stuyvesant meadows,
whose worthless wastes have been raised to immense value by the growth
of the city.

Among those of our city capitalists who are more identified with general
benevolence, the names of Stuart and Lenox are chief. Messrs. Stuart are
two brothers, who are largely engaged in refining sugars, and who have
in this business made large sums. The concern originated in a small
shop, where, some fifty years ago, a Scotchwomen sold candy, with her
two boys as clerks. Instead of that little candy-shop, there stands on
the same spot an enormous refinery, whose operations employ hundreds of
hands, and whose purchases are by cargoes. What would the worthy mother
say to this transformation of her shop, as by some act of magic? But it
is the magic of industry and enterprise. The Stuarts use their wealth
with judicious liberality, and evidently mean that the world shall be
better for their living in it. Their contributions are large, and their
opportunities are great, for be it remembered, such men are under
incessant solicitation. Indeed, there are few things more fatal to one's
peace than a reputation for liberality, which lays one open to a siege
of begging faces and an inundation of begging letters, whose demands
would exhaust all resources. It is our opinion that, avoiding
ostentation on the one hand and importunity on the other, the Stuarts
contribute con