Cauldwell purchased, and Page went to California, where he died some years after. At the time when Mr. Cauldwell became connected with the Mrrcurij, it was a small sheet, with a comparatively limited circulation. He immediately went to work with etiergy and vigor to make it the foremost i)apev of its kind. It was the pioneer of Sunday journalism, and from tliat time to the present its circulation has constantly increased, and its sales now number 7"),0fl0 copies weekly. The best humorous writers of the country have contributed to its columns, and here appeared the brilliant sketches, written by men of whose life and history the world knows nothing, but whose norm de pbnne, are household words, and known the length and breadth of the land. Among these w.'ie 'Mh-pheus C. Kerr," (Robert H. Newell) whose witty papers were the delight of Abraham Lincoln ; " Doesticks," ( Mortimer G. Thompson) ; Charles F. Brown, known the world over as " Artemus Ward ; " Joseph Barber, author of a long series of racy papers under the name of the " Disbanded Volunteer,'" and a host of others whose i)roductions were the delight of the reader, and made the Sunday Mercury a welcome visitor to many thousands of households. I'n'ler liis skillful nnd energetic manngenient.

the paper has increased its size to a Journal of fiftysi.x columns, and two of Hoe's perfecting presses are re(iuired to work off its regular edition.

In the early part of the year 1848 an association of householders, of whom Mr. Cauldwell's father was one, purchased a tract of land north of the Harlem River, and laid out the village of Morrisania, His father, as well as his brother-in-law and himself, joined in the purchase of one share, or an acre of land, and Mr.