New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-09-22
City Items.

| rF' Saturday night was quite prolific OF exciting
events First there horrible but entirely chsrsc
teristc row At the Five Points between parcel of drum
ken negroes white men women. wsichmen. &c About
II. o'clock entered the store OF NJ Murray ~ the
corner OF Cross snd Orange eta. tie became abusive
wa. ordered out, bu, refused 60 when Thomas Neis
attempted 10 put him out. He assaulted Neiis With
stack when Nes rushed into the street calling watch
mob OF negroes assaied him. and general cnsuei
Knives. pistols clubs bricks and other weapons were
freely used Ten persons were badly hurt snd several
were expected 10 die Thomas Neis was cut ~ dread.
fully scro.s the breas, that he no, expected 10 survive
one Of the Police was also badly wounded
lin the middle Of the night there a tremendous
clanror of hrebeus and Of the drcmen hsd row
and i.ht in the streets enough fright the Isle from
her propriety and shortly after OF the most sub
timely magnificent ihunderstorms ever witnessed burs
ont Of Heaven upon the startled City All these concust
sons however did 70 clear the air Tor yesier'
day was vretched desoate day and the rain came orb
bling and pstering down with the most provoking equa
nimity All day the regular church going process
sous the streets silent and deserted and the City
was ~ quiet sabbath green fields and forests u one
were not obliged remember that il was the absence OF
sunny weather that produced good an observance Of
the dsv he might have had cause Of satisfaction AZ the
almost solem stiffness Of the streets
In the afternoon cleared up sorously and the sun
came out with cool and delicious sparkle and the night
set IN shining with frosty stars.
~ An ungraieful and wicked girl named Jane
Hinckey. alias fancy. wa. discharged from the City
Prison on Saturday upon representations that she greatly
wished to reform Mr. Bocart the Keeper. in accord
auce with her request her letter 10 Mrs Wood
pbianthropic lady and commended the woman to heras
H., moro In-tead gons MrS
Wood as directed she and stole three workmcns
shoves from three sborers and being caught with them
in possession was taken before the Police There the
note to Mrs Wood found in her pocket and she
reco mmitied 10 prison.
~ The company organized for the purpose OF
extending the Magnetic Telegraph between the Eastern
Cities and the Valley of the Missssippiis styled The
Atlantic Lake and Mississippi Telegraph Company
Henry r. Seden. Esq. of Albany has been recently
elected President; Henry OReiley, Secretary and
George Dawson Treasurer. The Telegraph VIII be eS'
tended Harrisburgh by the lst OF December The re
mander the first section. reaching to the Ohio River
at Pittsburgh and Wheeling, to be completed early IN
Spring The progress of the route thence Westward TO
the Lakes and the Mississippi will be accelerated to the
creates, practicable extent
The .New.York and Buffalo Telegraph Line is also IN
train of active execution From the materials advertised
for seems that the contractors Mesrs Paxton Butter
field Co Of Utica) are endcsvorng TO complete the
line from New York. via Albany and Troy, to Buffalo. be
fore January And is proper to add says the Al
bany drg-ts) that the section Of Telegraph which wss
put in operation during the state Fair between Utica
and Little Falls is part Of their contract and managed
under their direction Its but Just to say that the
worked well and the satisfaction Of very many visitors
l1- The steamer Niagara. on her way to Albany
on Friday met with trfing accident to her machinery
near Newburgh She landed her passengers there and
Cold Spring for repairs She will be on the river
early in tho presen, week Her passengers were taken
up by the South America.
ryr The Cleopatra steamer is one Of the most
comfortable upon the Sound and her officers are ever on
the alert for the quiet ease of their guests Mr. Monson
the geneany conductor who has charge of the Railroad
portion ofthe travel is also deservedly popular
~ About 100 members of engine companies
Nos and "A were engaged in disgraccfu tight in
Fulton st. yesterday morning at o'clock. thirteen OF
whom were arrested by the Star Police and yesterday
required TO find suretes in 800 each keep the peace
r9= Theodore Nugent lad of 10, who has re-
Gently been the City Hospital under treatment for the
dropsy and was discharged from that institution few
DAYS since, was brought to the Tombs Saturday
Ing where he died yesterday morning of that disease
rY" An English woman, about 30 years of age.
with an infant in her arms brought 70 the City Hos
ptal on Saturday night with her throat cut "a wound
which she had inflicted in Of delirium) but
she is likely to recover
l~gy' On Thursday evening Patrick Carroll on re-
turning to his house in Ezabeth.st in state Of ntod
cation began 10 beat his wife with broomsick and 20
abused her that she into the street. whittier he pur
sued her with such determined violence that she seized
brickbat and threw it, hitting him the side Of his
head He then reiTeaed into the house fastening the
door behind him. thus compelling her 10 pass the night
without shelter and in the morning. when she obtained
admission she found him lying the floor covered With
blood, senseess She Immediately informed the neigh
bors of bis situation and all the circumstances when b"
was removed TO the Hospital On Saturday the Physi-
clans performed the dangerous operation of trepanning
and entertaining hopes Of his recovery, Mrs Carroll
was arrested and committed to the Tombs The wound
ed man was alive at IL o'clock last evening but We were
informed by the resident Surgeon Of the Hospital that he
would probably die during the night from compression
OF the brain
rg- We were in error on Saturday in stating that
Engine Co No IA were first on the ground the fire In
Waterst We should nave gwen the credit 10 Engine
Co No. - and Hose CO. No. TO-
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