The New York herald., 1845-11-13
Catv Untell1uence.

FuRrurn PARrrcuIAas OF rus FiRE. Mr.. J. Giroud,
Of Engine Co. No. ~, residing at 81 Broadway was du
ring the fre severely injured upon the head by the
falling of brick from one OF the buildings whiie burn
ing When the explosion took place, the following per
were thrown in all directions william King OF Hook
and Ladder Co. No !, and cask manufacturer at NO
N No Wan sres. VIM Heath a VIM % Gss wa Var
sonof No 80 Engine, resides at SO Robinson ST. Anthony
Welch. stone cutter No. 5sa Washington street, and
Jeremiah Brown, the assistant foreman OF Hose Cart No
When the explosion occurred, Mr. Clark, assistant
foreman of Engine No a. the lower stairway of
No. 26 and Geo L. Cooke (of the firm Of Cooke, Anthony
Mahony, So Cedar streeD also member Of A. wasin
the second story both were blown into the street Mr.
burns no ae s% %
during the fire gold watch worth $780, which was re-
turned to him in the morning by colored man.
We are happy say that last evening the persons in
ured all in state Of recovery and danger is
apprehended the part Of any. With regard to the
eel Of which our reporter spoke Yesterday we learn
served in spirits and can be seen at the Second Ward
Hotel
IsrEREsrINo MOVEMENT THE OFFicERs OF
previously kept their desks and performed their business
in the Marine Court room, received avery sudden no.
their desks were taken out and placed upon the walk in
the Park. The officers took it very cooly, and posted
upon their desks small placards. giving notice that they
would be punctually attended to- Matters remained in
stau quo until yesterday morning. when warning was
found from the Street Commissioner, posted upon each
desk commanding the owners to remove them within
limited period This is certainly an interesting dfcuy
We certainly think that the officers ought not to be
e ced from their usual places OF business without pro-
vision being made for them elsew here
TENTH WARD STATION HoUsE.-The officers of the
Tenth District have fitted up their station room with
much neatness In place of the usual dirty hunks pro
vded for them, each officer has provided for himself
cot bed which s kept in good order the floor has been
carpeted utensils have been provided for making coffee
in the night and they about fitting up reading
This enterprise is certainly very crcditable on
the part of the officers.
"MEN WAnr ED ron WHALING. Passing along South
street yesterday, we noticed flying from number Of
second story windows large flags bearing the above in
scription Time has been when the idea of going
felt the parental yoke CALLING him too heavily. Hun.
dreds Of boys have run away from home and shipped
as
body, and there is much difficulty found now in pro
curing hands The only way in which good men may
more of object than now is Greenhorns and some-
times old sailors, have been deluded by faterng
spending years in the hardships Of whaling voyage.
And they have often returned and when the bills were
settled was found that the debt and credit ha SIDE
turned of without cent If the whalers will but deal
perfectly honorably with their hands they will find no
difficulty in procuring good men for the business
IMPOSING PRocEssoN.-The funeral of Mrs. Rebecca
Cropsy which took place yesterday afternoon from her
late residence No $50 Madison street presented sight
rarely to be met with. Mrs Cropsy the deceased was
member of one Of the many Temperance societies O.
city, and her sisters in the turned out in great
numbers to convey her remains to the place OF inter
ment. The procession Of ladies numbered some two
hundred, moving solemny along, two abreast Each Ia
dy white rosette on her left breast The whole
formed solemn and imposing sight.
THE FRENCH LEcTuRER.-M Boquet, the French Lee
urer listened to last evening at the Society Libra
ry by small but respectable auditory His subject was
of religious character and drew together Catholicism
and Professionalism. 1t was in the French language
FAsHIoNABLE INrELLrGENcE.-A grand ball is to come
of next week. given by riche," one of the
'upper ten thousand" on magnificent scale One thou.
nd hayeb
and miliners are busly engaged making new dresses
for the ladies' The Mazourka Quadres to be intro
duced
RArFLING PoULrRY AND GAME.--This practice,
quite universally established among large portion OF
the countless threepenny groggeres of our city, has
evil and should be in somsway abated Transparencies
and other alurng devices ntendedto arrest the aten
ton Of the thoughtles: pedestrian may be seen in all
Chatham street. Bowery Grand, Catherine, Canal, and
indeed, most populous thoroughfares abound with
Chief Of Police than whom we know none more active
in his vigance) would do well to deploy respectable
threatening consequences which must surely result
from too much Of his official and patient forbearance
We have before alluded to this matter and hoped to be
spared the necessity OF farther interft renee.
WILD Boar HuNrING.--We are glad to see that this
ancient of the chase is revived in these lat
ter days Of money and speculation We yesterday were
witness to hunt of this description, and in the cOunte
of the principal actors could trace the thrilling
sensations which read animated the sportsmen Of old
way and Chambers street, where drove Of hogs
paraking of meal which the philanthropy Of some ct
o hs
and teeth engaged In dissectng the meat that ad
hered to large beebone, when he disturbed in his
luxury by of that class between whom and the boar
breed there is irreconcable hostility, we mean that
class Of Duchmen who parade the city, crook in hand,
and with surprising dsxtsry by tho aid Of the crook,
transfer bones rags other unconsidered trifes from
the streets to their baskets One Of these worthless the
sportsman in question: observing the boar engaged with
Ia nd air i'm ada tpI
surely to pick up the fragments which were thrown
around intending at the last to take the bone from the
ieed in his endeavor to get the bone, for the boar
with in his mouth; the Dutchman uttering excams
the @ pgand now the chase began n earnest the puch
man settling his stock that in the excitement nothing
should fall overheard. Away they went down West
Broadway the pig about 80 yards ahead occasionally
turning his eye on his ursuer and seeing him still pur
suing, would redoube his exertons AT the corner Of
West Broadway and Leonard street, the boar rushed in
among another batch Of pigs, thinking in this way to
fool the Duchman but he mistaken, for he had him
in his eye The sportsman now thinking victory with
in his grasp, crept up slowly behind the boar but the
boar observing this trick darted away with renewed
ergy still pursued by the Dutchman who gave another
continued the chase AT the of Lispenard street.
the sportsman ppad and was near falling at the same
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like, appeared to disregard this accident and did not
stop to recover them he merely made an observation,
taking the latitude and longitude OF the locality so that
he could the lost treasure at his leisure and ut
tering again Ousky wousky continued the chase appa
renty very much excited grinding his teeth and strk
ing the air with his crook The boar continued down
Canal where he stopped at the Of Hudson pursu
ed by the Dutchman almost exhausted with tho fatgues
Of the chase, the boar rohing at the mouth On the ar
rival of the sportsman the boar took in his mouth the
bone which he had dropped for moment and again start
ed the Dutchman again uerng ousky ,oousky but the
chase destined to end and the Dutchman to re-
ceive the reward Of When the chase had
continued about two blocks further the boar again halt
ed apparently much ftgued and again dropped the bone
to rest the Dutcbman again reached him. when tho boar
again seized the bone but but few rods when
he let it fall and proceeding little further came to
dead stand and faced the Duchman his instinct and
Perence in the Of the world teaching him that the
bone and not himself the object of pursuit. The
Dutchman transferred the bone to his basket 70
minutes stood speaking at the boer very angrily We
could understand what he said but every word sound
ed like "ousky Uousky"
MAGNETIC TELEaRApH.-A meeting of the stock
holders of the New York and Philadelphia Magne-
tic Telegraph Company was held on Saturday, the
sth inst. at Washington. From the proceedings