New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-02-27
Ciy LIENS.

- Memorial is in circulation asking the Le-
slatr-e reduce AID egusze the present tax on sea
men q: this port The memorial I. runsrsusy sisred
get many ,hink does go enough snd thef me
Retreat Staten Island-fo- TIE support Of which The
present tax is ev!ed-ousht be maintained without
enc.oachng upon the c3easer wages Of the sai!GEs
e DR.. ]. B. DoDs will give Free Lecture on
Mssmetsm ct Clinton Hall til, etteraoeH al ocoek.
Dr. D has long been celebrated at the East as an ex-
FOUNDER OF the phenomena OF Mesmerism having lee
,ure in Boston audiences of thousands Tor many nsa
succession. Those who interested In ne subject
will ind him vel! worth hearing
MAD. CosrELLo.-We have an amusing account
of TIE way when Punishment inflicted in our PeHi
,ersfiary. We learn secondhand from Dr. a'oFoccs
Physician 70 the Prison that on Wednesday, week
since Mad Costello si,iins in the Chapel IN heF
ordinary dress with four other women these last we're
IN prison dress making shirts for the kefsTs Mad G
was at leisure. The uext day he saw Mad c. again
when he supposed sue had prison dress on but Ii SO
!; rhoy concealed from sigh; b handsome cd'0
dress lace cap and snpv5 dau She was dong hoihins
trOugn her osiensole employment wss sewing On
saturday he her again. when she had PRISON dress
OF corered BY splendid calico rrGg? employed as
+ before-in tae Chapel.
Now have no, particle o; iliee!ing toward this
and would gladly hear ina, al prisoners are or
are be, treated with great kindness We OBJECT Only
to making farce Of Confinement in the Peni'en'iaFy
because the culprit has cash Let hear OF some poor
criminal being treated ike this and well call II square
and say no more on the subject
IEs The Cambria sails for Europe on Sunday
The packetship Gar-ick cleared from this port yeser
day and the independence goes the 9th Of March
Il There are now fourteen packets due at
this port The Massachusetts hss been out thirty I'VE
days.
~ The committee of scientific gentlemen who
went on to Boston inspect the Cambria previous 10
laying the kees of four this spring have re-
turned We understand that without waiting tor con-
tract be completed by Congress- the keea OF TWO VII
be laid down early in the ensuing month, and most ike
" The other before lis expiration.
FIRE-A shed in the rear of dwelling house No
l62 Stanonstreet slightly damaged by fire about
o'clock yesterday morning
~ The FIRE on Wednesday evening was il the
upper story shi;er Hail. which was considerably
damaged.
a. The thermometer yesterday morning al )
O'Clock stood Ii degrees above
Ey7 The sprc OF St. Pauls leans perceptioly TO
he North
gY Mr. Assistant Alderman Roberts inquired
very portnenty on Wednesday evening Why $500 was
TO be appropriated by the Board OF Aldermen for stand
OF coors for the Washington Guard when $3.50 had been
refused by Board for the erection OF shed at Castle
Garden for protection in bad weather othe United
States officers soldiers who landed there from the
various forts
Mr. Candee thought the Board OF Aldermen have done
wong in rejecting the solution build shelter for
the United States soldiers in landing at Castle Garden
The T. s troops stationed the forts have frequently
been OF great service city and the aid and ASSIST
auce they afforded the great IRE in July was worth
ave times much the of erecting the shed would
be He moved that the resolution be referred back with
instructions TIE Committee append to the reso
ton in favor of erecting the shed Castle Garden
Mr. Purser said he had been little curious to make
enquiry AS to the Of the rejection OF the resolution
In the other Board and he found it to have been caused
by mean feeling of seinteres There is some little
advantage derived TO the immediate neghborhood OF the
landing and the effort has defeat the proposition
to land at Castle arden, and compel the officers and
soldiers TO land Wntehal. An offer to that purpose
has been made By the parties TO the officers but rejected
The officers have sent in request to the other
Board asking leave the shed az their own
pense
~ On Tuesday night man named Phillips
being taken III e!ectory the l4th ward station
house was taken in there and provided with lodgings
and in the morning he was found dead. The Coroner
held an inquest bis body and the jury returned
verdict that the deceased to his death in conse-
auence of chronic disease produced by inemperance
and exposure. In his possession large portfolio
containing large number of spirited sketches the pro-
duct Is supposed of his pencil Quite number
of carcaures on various subjects showed that els
no mean talent Many Of his sketches were incomplete
and there were among mis- papers numerous memoranda
uns which no doubt intended for new designs.
The deceased Englishmau 81 years fage.
E-Sy9 An omnbus.driver lost his hat overheard
the other evening, going through of the holes in
Broadway, and gentleman very politely picked it up
and handed TO its owner john however, dicovered
after he had thanked the gentleman that ne was done
for-havng received old mouidy silk hat in place Of
his own respectable beaver
IY' The body OF Mr. Levy, one of the passengers
board the ship John Mnturn has been recovered and
brought this city The friends of the deceased
obtain the body on application Messrs Stanton &
Frost.
- JOBS L. JEwErT delivers a Lecture before
the New.York Typographical Society, at the Howard
House on Saturday evening, Feb. 18th, a, u o'clock
Subject The Second Advent
~ Rev [. A SAWYER, President Of Ohio Cen
trel College lectures again Clinton Hall this evening
on of Virtue and ts ation to Human Hap
p;ness Hear him
BROOKLYN AFFAIRS
iy- The usual lecture before the Lycenm last
night gave place TO which we Judge from the
programme mus, have been very interesting Miss North
n ~ o-tist don