New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-08-29
v0L. HI. NO. 100.

mencement celebration was opened at this tirse-
honorcd institution Tuesday last by the FIRST
annual meeting Of tic newly formed Society of
the Alumni. Judge STORY, one Of the Vice Presi-
dents, in the absence OF the venerable President,
JOHN Quincy ADAMS, took the chair. The chief
feature of the occasion was the Oratien by Judge
STORY, which, the Boston Advertiser says, "was
devoted to consideration of the duties, difficult
ties and dangers of the scholar at the prcsen,
day, presenting view Of the various impulses
which would give too much Importance. with this
OF that mind, to the study Of the past, the pres.
snt, OF the future, and portraying, the peculiar
feature of the literature and energy of this day,
that enthusiasm which looks more to the projects
and hopes for the time to come than to the ounda-
toas Of those in times past The Post says:
+" He enlarged upon the ephemeral character of
,hespopular literature which now ovcrspreads the
land, and also upon the spirit of ulsraism, in
ethics, politics, and theology, whick had mani
tested itself in the literature of the age After
the Grafton, the Society set down 20 splendid
dinner, at which were made Addresses by Presi-
dent QUIsCY, Dr.. B1eELow Prof GEEELEAr,
Gov DAVIS, WAsHINGTos ALLsToN, R. H. DANA,
Jr., Mr.. BANCROFT and others. Mr.. billiard
read a Poem, Of which the Advertiser speaks in
terms of commentator.
TIE ARMY.-Tn the National In,eIligencer of
Yesterday we End thelaws passed for re-organzing
the Army and making appropriations, and as there
has been much confusion about them, we subioin
the chief items OF interest:
Sec. [. The bill for organization directs that as
soon as the reduction can be effected, each COM
pany of dragons shall consist of 80 privates re-
tanning its present complement of officers,
commissioned officers, &c.-that the I'd Dragons
shah be converted after 4lh March, into rifle resi
ment-that each company of artillery and infantry.
shall consist ef 40 prvatcs, retaining in other
poets its present organization.
Sec II. Abolshes the offices of Superintendent
Of Armories at Springfield and lIsrpcr's Ferry
and confides the superintendent hereafter to ord
regulars to pay of armorers, &c, and Of military
store keepers-of which latter ten only are to be
retained. The remainder { l3 we believe) to be
discharged with three months pay.
Sec. III. Aboshes the office of Commissary
General, and transfers its duties the Quarter
masters Department.
Sec. ". Abolishes one Inspector General, three
tyo surgeons and ten Asst Surgeons,
ali to be allowed three months pay
Sec Y. Provides fer competent person to he
employed by the ordnance bureau to supcrintend
the manufacture of cannon forthe United States at
n compensation not exceeding that of Major of
Ordnance.
Sec VI. Restricts the allowance of extra and
double rations.
10 AGxse or Co1NERs have been detectedin
Steuben County. About four weeks ago as we
are informed,) man named Heyt was arrested in
the town of Wayne or Tyrone for stealing q yoke
of oxen. In order to escape punishment, he gave
the officers information of the whereabouts of ex-
tcnsive bogus manufacturers in Steuben County.
Eight or nine have already been arrested, among
them are Mr.. Barge and his three sons, living on
the Bath road leading from Wayne Hotel. Dies
and implements for carrying on the coming busi-
ness upon quite an extensive scale were found IN
BIS barn. According to Hoyt's statement they
had made in three days false coin the amount of
5000 Henry Thompson, of Tyrone, and a law
yer named Leferts, Of Havana, are alse among
the arrested, and they have al been committed for
trial, together with two or three others. The coin
they issued were Spanish milled and American
half dollars. Penny DEM
the CITY Council passed an ordinance laying of
number of new streets in the northern part of the
city, One of the streets was called Tyler. Mr..
McGunnesle moved to strike out Tyler where
ever it occurred in the BILL and insert HARRISON.
The motion was carried unaaimonSly Poor
Tyler! there is none, save Fogg, so mean as to DO
hirs reverence. Nearly every distinguished man
in the nation has street in the city named after
him. excep, Mr.. TYLER if he may be called dis
tinguished. st. Louis hep.
TRADES UsloN TrRN-Osr.-There has to-day
been quite turnout of the weavers and laborers,
who are professcdly dissatisfied with the prices
that they receive for their work, but probably
really more discontented at having too little to do
They were about two hundred and fifty in NUM-
Der, displayed flags and banners, and were accom-
pnnied With music. Rumor says, Though do not
youch for the truth of the matter, that some vio-
lcnce has been offered to such of the weavers as
have thought proper TO mind their business IN re-
ference to ieining these strollers through the
streets 1t said that their looms were broken
and other Instructions interposed to the progress
of their abors. These are no times to quarrel
about prices. The greater matter Is to eotaln
employment. These turbulent exhibitions augur
no good to the peace of the community, and should
nut the authorities on their guard.
TPhila. Cor. Jour. Com.
STAGE Acc1DEsr-We learn from the Rom
ney, Va. gntelligencer that the mail-coach, with
eleven passengers, was descending Sandy Ridge,
on its way to Winchester, on the 18th inst, one
of the fore wheels came off, and the coach becom-
ing asengased was thrown over the precipics,
with the passengers in it, making several complete
turns in its downward course A Mr.. Janney, OF
Loudon County, who was riding on the top OF the
vehicle, was so much injured that his life is de-
SPARED of. None of the passengers in tho inside
OF the coach were injured in the least.
EIn Monroe County, Georgia the gold bust