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Glimpses of Gotham and city characters. . the handsojnest, best and most reliable Illustrated Paper publishedin the world. The best Artists that the country affords are employedon the j,per. ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS have been expended on the POLICE GAZETTE in improvements, andits large and rapidly increasing circulation shows that it is the kind ofpaper the people want. -o- RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Copy, one year, - - - - - - - $4 00 One Copy, six/ months, - - - - - - - 2 00 One Copy, three months, - - - - . - - 100 Order it/ from your Newsdealer, or send 10c. for sample copy to RICHARD K. FOX, Publisher,WILLIAM AND SPRUCE STREETS, New Yoek. AVERT, OMK3. BY SAMUEL A. MAGKEEVER, THE AMERICAN CHARLES DICKENS- / * PUBLISHED AT THE NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE OFFICE, NEW YORK. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1880, by RICHARD K. FOX,In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Samuel Anderson Mackeever. HIS LIFE AMD WHAT HE DID IN IT. In presenting to the public this series of sketches, whose appearance originally in the National PoliceGazette achieved immediate and pronounced success, the publisher is actuated by a desire to rescue fromthe ob avion into which similar fugitive works inevitably fall, some of the best productions of a pen so full ofpresen t performance and of future promise, that its loss leaves a vast gap in local literature. SamuelAnders on Mackeever was a historic figure in American journalism. He was a journalist only in the sensethat hi. ; labors were in the busy field of newspaperdom, instead of in that superior walk of literature inwhich far interior men win more extended fame, and to high