First Ward.

CALYIN BALIS. HARMON C. WESTERYELT. Second Ward. Second Ward.

CALEB S. WOODHULL. GEORGE F. NESBITT. Third Ward. Third Ward.

JOHN A. UNDERWOOD. WILLIAM DODGE. Fourth Ward. Fourth Ward.

ROBERT MARTIN. DAYID T. WILLIAMS. Fifth Ward. Fifth Ward.

ROBERT JONES. WILLIAM ADAMS. Sixth Ward. Sixth Ward.

CLARKSON CROLIUS, JR. RICHARD H. ATWELL. Seventh Ward. Seventh Ward.

CHARLES W. SMITH. JAMES NASH. Eighth Ward. Eighth Ward. SYLYANUS GEDNEY. CHARLES P. BROYYN. Ninth Ward. Ninth Ward.

MOSES G. LEONARD. WILLIAM D. WATERMAN. Tenth Ward. Tenth Ward.

ELIJAH F. PURDY. DANIEL WARD. Eleventh Ward. Eleventh Ward.

ABRAHAM HATFIELD. CHARLES J. DODGE. Twelfth Ward. Tu-ilfth Ward.

RICHARD F. CARMAN. GEORGE W. ALLERTON. Thirteenth Ward. Thirteenth Ward.

HEZEKIAH W. BONNEL. PETER ESQUIROL. Fourteenth Ward. Fourteenth Ward.

JOHN STEWART. JOHN B. SCOLES. Fifteenth Ward. Fifteenth Ward.

HENRY E. DAYIES. WILLIAM Y. BRADY. Sixteenth Ward. - Sixteenth Ward.

EDWARD D. WEST. WALTER MEAD. Seventeenth Ward. Seventeenth Ward.

FREDERICK R. LEE. JOHN PETTIGREW.

PRELIMINARY ESSAY

WATER, as one of the elements alike of animal and vegetable life, has always been an object of man's attention. In the early ages, indeed, it was reverenced as the substance of which all things were supposed to be made, and the vivifying principle that animated the whole hence rivers, fountains, and wells were worshipped, and religious ;

feasts and ceremonies instituted in honor of them, and of the spirits which were believed to preside over them.

This custom is not extinct among Pagan nations for the " Sacred Ganges" yet ;