New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-08-24
CITY ITEMS.

thanks 70 the founders pi thc CONSTITUTION !p t>!sAi
Ing the h1s Corpus tee operation OF which they
are the nisrs o: muck benefit They Will sso pass
resolution Of rreattool considerations behalf OF Co
lionel Stevenson through whose fare and diciPAne tHsy
have cot nd OF their greeuness and have been taught
s,nobatcsIlv 70 know beans'--and nothing else. We
understand that Banner viii bc presented 10 Col! Ste
venson on this occasion. representing that renowned
cb;,a;n IN the r;ds, OF his gallant band distributing
and black bresd 10 them The banner Will bear
,bc MOTTO on hospitsble thoughts intent The re
verse will b. solder stripped as', on 'enacre aeld
rerd
II ra;ued little yesterday and then a little
more and then little less and las, not At s!lthc
weather clearing up by degrees srd .he Thermometer
/ rising in the same way.
~ B1AsGY appears in the Gi>sIie tonight at
Niblo's She has achieved srca; triumph by her
q,isi,c performance OF this character Never have we
seen the press unanimous in is opinion of an ar
fist We are actually threatened with another Fanny Elss
Ter evcr-although this time the arts; snios,
announced snd entirely IN eralded and has made her
way to popularity by her own merit
An AxrtSLAygRY MEETING will be held
this evening a, the Wesleyan Chapel in kns.st. Mr.
Burr who long imprisoned in Missouri for aiding
fugitive Slaves wi! be present and the public generally
are invited 70 attend.
lSe The lady who was drowned in the surt nj
Rockaway on Wednesday was Mrs. T. EiuSsey, widow
residing at y Hudsonst She floating on the water
for si:ecn minutes crying for help, before she went
down The gentleman under whose care she WAS
made every possible effort to rescue her and taken
up senseess while another gentleman whose wife faint
cd in his arms had great difficulty in carrying her TO
shore against the current How lancntsblc that boat,
was not 10 be had in the lohc time of quarter OF an
tcur =. place cminently dangerous This is GER
tainly wrong.
MsRE TELEGRAPHING.-LamaC Clancy, who ran
away from Baltimore with considerable sum OF money
SC was teegraphed yesterday and arrested immediate
" upon arriving in this City We don't see why the
Telegraph is not going TO be powerful roguepreycnt
ye-cutting OF all chance OF fellows escape from the
scene his va!ny by any OF the swift modes OF con
vcyance except the hazard OF his almost certsin
rest at the stopping place and rendering his nab
/ bling by the honeo comparatively easy circum
stance In this OF the thieves can only opc
rate in strangely enough Iiaysy weather when the
Telegraph can't.
~ The Chmchman denies the rumor that Long
Island is to be divided into Diocese the approaching
meeting of the New.York Convention. This says that
paper is probably the coinage of some penny aincr
Church no new Diocese be created out OF another,
unless it contain, eight thousand square miles in
body Long Island has but thousand four hundred.
~ The Fo' Fourth Trade sale OF Bangs, Rich
ards & Plat commences thi. morning 2Oi Broadway.
Their Catalogue consists OF large octave volume in il
self and embraces are told, quantities OF almost
every article known the Booksellins and Bookmaking
business. The Trade need nor be informed Of the i'm
porance attached the periodical auction sales OF this
firm The articles to be offered this morning Sta.
tionery and Binders goods. The sale will commence
at eight o'clock The collection OF Books to be offered
during the week is said to be the largest that has ever
been presented Mt any single sale
- J ames Smith, Esq. an Attorney at Law Of
sing Sing Lett that place Saturday morning on board the
steamer St Nicholas in usual health and about f
teen minutes was a corpse No previous symptom WAS
given and his death probably the OF debility
as ne has been feeble for time Capt Frszee, of
the St Nicholas returned and left the remains Sing
Sing.
THE SHoorlNG CAsE.--The excitement among
gosspmongers Just now is the Shootng.case which
Cured the City Hotel few days ago. An examination
was had into the affair Saturday at the Police Office,
and the testimony OF Caroline Z. Wilson and William
Wilson cher cousin &c taken-Alcxander Wilson (the
brother being present and suffering very much from
several wounds in the leg. Caroline, who dc.
scrbes the fight at the City Hotel refuses to answer
whether her cousin had weapon or not on the ground
that she might crimnae herself and il appears pretty
e7ideu. that the story all told 1t would perhaps
be great deal better if such things could be kept
trely OF the paperswhich oughtto have something
OF more general importance to talk about. But this
is clearly impossible give the substantial portion OF
/ ,ba ritri in mia
is an orphan who for years past has been residing
with her uncle Philadelphia and about three weeks
ago She in company with three OF her cousins Messrs
VIM and Nicholas Wilson and of their sisters left
Philadelphia for the purpose OF making the Northern
tour during which they visited Saratoga, Buffalo, Nj
agara and thence by the way of Lake Ontario and the
| River 81 Lawrence Montreal. There had been for
/ some time serious misunderstanding between Alex
ander Wilson and his sister in consequence OF her
fusal TO execute in MS favor power of Attorney
tina, he might control her large estate in Louisiana and
the difficulty increased in consequence OF Miss w
having taken refuge with her cousin VIM. Wilson
Jr for the purpose Of avoiding the iEnportunites Of
her brother A quarrel had long been growing up
between Alexander and William. Jr. and Immediately
before the party left Philadelphia, something like
verbal challenge for field fight Is said 10 have passed
| between them On the return OF the Cousins this
civ they put up the City Hotel and while proceed
ing 10 breakfast about half past o'clock the
ing Of the ARRAY Miss w being supported BY the arm OF
Nj VIM Wilson, Jr. they met by Alexander, who
seems had traced them this city, and, words
ensuing the accused suddenly drew the revolver from
his pocket and fred He instantly snapped another cap
bu, the weapon missed fire. when Messrs Nicholas and
VIM Wilson, Jr closed with the assailsnt, threw him
down and after trouble, succeeded in d!sarming
him Il seems however! that while Alexander pros
rrate upon the door he severely stabbed by dirk
sheath knife in several places between the ankle and
knee Doctor Pratt, who called in al the tine, de
posing that the wounds deep and dangerous bleed
ing very proiusey. There Is much contradictory test
nlony in relation what hand it that struck those
blows One OF the cousins swearing that ne aiss
Wilson making motions if in the OF stabbng her
brother and that young lady, when asked if she saw
any one using weapon calculated 10 infict such
wounds declined 10 answer
John Barton, waiter in the hotel, swears positively
that ne Of me cousins approach and stab Aexan
der three several un,es we ne was held upon the floor
and describes dirk which ne used tor the purpose
and which corresponds with knife found upon one OF
the Wilson's after the ARRAY. At the close OF the lnyes.
rsadon the brother Alexander Wilson was held TO bail
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