The Life and Adventures, Songs, Services, and Speeches of Private Miles O'Reilly [Pseud.] (47Th Regiment, New York Volunteers.) With Comic Illustrations by Mullen. From the Authentic Records of the New York Herald.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...life and connecting the Fort Gansevoort market-site with the sources of authority. From every street and engine-house, from every road and avenue, from every grant and privilege, from every police precinct and from certain of the courts and other offices, a network of tributary wires runs back to the City Hall, and is from thence re-distributed to the Tammany, 'Mozart, and Republican Headquarters. A cable, very fine in itself, but made of four thicker and seventeen thinner strands, connects this whole complex mechanism with the State Capitol at Albany--an exact and striking model of which was placed upon a pedestal some few feet behind the model of the City, just as the Capitol itself looks down from its lofty eminence when viewed from the foot of State street. This cable thus forms, as it were, the rein or guiding strap with which the master charioteers at Albany disport themselves while driving the " city team." The clock in the.cupola of the City Hall, we should add, had a musical box attached to its machinery, which, as time slipped on, poured forth such popular airs as " That's the way the money goes," and "Come, brothers, join the mystic ring," in one continuous melody. ONE OF THE MODEL-MAKERS ADMIRES IIIS OWN WORK. While your reporter was examining this model, a deep, gruff voice said, just close to him;" Curious, isn't it?" and turning sharply round he found himself face to face with a great burly figure of the live oak type, clad in solemn black. He was an elderly man, of rough and shaggy appearance, with masses of bushy grey hair, heavy and shaggy grey eyebrows; dark, piercing grey eyes, a heavy and curling beard running around his lower jaw; brown complexion, a short, thick, aggressive nose, and cheeks rathe...