New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-02-01
The Weather.

promise of night before last Ihe North hlVeT l.
frozen solid down within short distance of this
CITY. and the Erie Railroad boats can no longer
reach Piermont. The Harbor and Bay are full
of floating ice, which obstruct and embarass the
movements of the shipping and ferry-boats. The
Sound is filed with floating ice, and completely
blockaded up about Throg's Neck, so that the
Moheoan. which started for Boston yesterday
morning. was obliged to return without etfectlng
a massage There has been no boat or Mail from
Boston since Saturday night, and probably none
has reached Boston. The Housatonc route was
blockaded Yesterday, and we had only Land
M.;I from New Haven of Tuesday evening. 1t
= ~ anr;ons time for those who expect friends
from the Eastward.
pS. From the East at last
About II O'Clock last evening we were favored
nv Messrs. HARNDES s, Co. with Boston papers
Of Tuesday, brought express by them over land
the Sound being efectually closed, We clip the
following items mainly from the Boston Mail OF
Tuesday-second edition at A NJ
The Atlas of Tuesday morning has returns
from 10 towns of the votes cast at the election
held the day before in the Third Congressional
District They stand-for Abbott, Wing, o44;
Oseood, Loco, 2,O19; Abolition 546. Mr.. Alb
bolts net gain PSI, which renders his election
nearly certain.
IY The Mail says:
- No abatement in the cold this morning
Thermometer still coquetting with zero.
rEFThe Britannia is advertised to steam for Liver
pool tomorrow but how she is to get out OF the
harbor is question for the members OF the stone
house in Charlestown to solve. She is as appa-
rentlv locked in ice as we were last night IN the
arms of Morpheus. 1t seems to us that if our mer-
chants had hired boat to run down to the islands
during these cold nights, in order to keep the chan
mel open, they would thereby have saved money
and trouble.
sEP First rate skating on the ice in the harbor.
Two of our first men reported to have gone down
to drink, Yesterday through an in-hoe in the ice,
and come cut below the islands. They report that
the Goldfish do not perspire so freely as they did six
months ago.
CAPITAL TRlAL-The second trial of Abner Ro
gers, Jr. who killed Mr.. Lincoln Warden of the
State Prison, will be commenced this morning IN
the Supreme Court. George T. Bigelow and Geo.
Bemis Esqrs. for the prisoner.
FIRES IN MAssACHUsETTs.-The house, store and
barn of Mr.. Ezra Fuller, of Needham, were entirely
DESTROYED by fire about o'clock yesterday morning.
with all their contents. The house occupied
by Mr.. Fuller and by Lucius B. Nutting, and their
families had barely time to escape the flames, some
of them with nothing but their night clothes.
15YP The Norfolk Chronicle contains the details
of four extensive fires all the work OF lncendlares.
which have taken place different farms IN Thet-
ford and its vicinity on Saturday last. This dia-
bolcal and destructive spirit is saidto be rife in that
district.
FIRES IN MAINE.-We learn from Winslow's
Express that fire broke out in Bangor on Thurs
dav morning last which totally destroyed barn be-
longing to Ezra JEWELL together with three horses,
eighteen pigs and seventy tons of hay. The prop
erty was insured for from 1900 to $4,000.
About the same time fire broke out in Dexter,
Me- in q large woollen factory owned by Messrs.
Farrar S Cutler, which was entirely destroyed with
lis contents. BY this fire about 100 operatives, male
and female, are thrown out of employment. There
was 100000 insured on this property $4,000 at
the Etna Office Hartford, and the balance at the
Mutual, Worcester. The factory and machinery
cost 10000.
- The Frontier Journal states that large
stable, owned by MIR. Joseph Foss Of Weston, was
destroyed by fire on the 10Th nit A considerable
were one yoke of oxen, valuable horses, 81 tons
of hav 900 bushels oats, and seven barrels OF pork
Said to be the work of that reckless ncendlary, the
pipe.
- In Crawford, q few days since, double Saw
mill and Single Machine, together with a large
quantity of lumber, were consumed by tire.
PALMo's OEERA HoUsE.-As the new Opera
House is now one of the lions of the day, we
paid it short visit yesterday. 1t is situated III
Chamber-street, next the Arcade Bath, with which
it is connected. The decorations of the interior are
of the most tasteful and gorgeous description. The
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scenery generally, are in much higher style OF art
than such decorations usually are The drop
scene, which is very beautiful was executed by
Guidicni and Monachesi, the architectural scenery
bv Bragaldi and Mulin the landscapes by p
Grain, and the medaions and other paintings in
oil by S. Clannon. These works are all highly
creditable to the artists employed upon them. The
decorations have all been executed under the SUI
perintendence of Bragald The mode of illumina.
ting is beautiful and unique the side chandeliers
being formed to resemble clusters of coored can
dies The audience part Of the house is conve-
niently arranged, every seat being numbered and
cure to the holder of the ticket with the correspond
ing number, by which arrangement every person is
certain Of Seat The entrance to the pit is through
the centre of the boxes like the parqueHe of the
| French Theatre in New-Orleans where the most
fashionable ladies sit, and the price is the same
to all parts Of the house The Company is as
strong as Mr.. Palno has been able to make it with
the materials within his reach, and the orchestral
portion is unusually powerful and effective, embra-
cling thirty-wo of the best performers in the CITY,
with Rapett for leader. A band of wind instru-
ments OF Twelve members is also engaged for the
stage. The chorus consists of twenty -four perform
ers and twelve supenumeraries.
A sufficient number of officers have been engaged
10 preserve order in and about the house, and the
Railroad Company have engaged to run convenient
car after the conclusion Of the performances for the
accommodation of persons living in the upper part
OF the city.