New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-04-07
City Items.....D eferted.

r. We smelt new growing grass IN the PARK
yesterday We DO not always feel thankful for the sense
Of smell when passing through that fine indescEbaby-
shaped Public Square.
PoLIcE-S aturday-EdwardD Dodge was arrest
cd for epbezzement In having called a. the Pis'on
Lunch at the corner of ihe Bowery and Division and
collected an account of $40 S. in the name OF bis en-
nover George Gordon. ishmopger in Catherine Mar
ket John Whitney was arrested on suspicion OF
having stolen parcel Of cloth from the premises OF
pinkney & Crsw William Robinson was found Sc
crcted in the dwelling No 357 Madsonst with the sus
neglected intention of robbipg Another fellow named
VIM Wilson was found concealed IN the premises NO.
3s4 Pesrst also under very suspicious Circumstances
Three BOYS named John Craven, Henry Brandt and
Thomas Luce arrested on charge OF having sto-
len $4,000 In prornssory notes and 500 in money De-
longing Mr.. Edward Luce, OF Newark N J. and taen
fed TO this city On arrestng these young rogues II
was a.cerained that they had spent Ssl OF the s!oo
stolen in articles Of clothing. Refreshments visiting
places Of amusement &c The balance, S9 and the
$4,000 in promisory notes were recovered.
Po11cE.-Sundav-J Bradford, Jas. Watson
and Jobn Keitipg were arrested charge ohaving
Gently broken into the store of Richardson and Co. in
Second.st Philadelphia and stolen theretrom large
quantity Of Hardware Cutlery. &C From me informs
tion received By Capt McGrath there s reason 70 De-
eye that the accused have for some time past been en-
gagged the commission of burgaries and other offences
OF magnitude. When arrested some oil the cuueiy
stolen from the store OF Richardson Co. was found IN
their possessiouA coored man. named Bob, alias no
bert Oakley was arrested fugitive from Phhadei-
phia where he has been indicted for two extensive
bur,laries committed about year ago. Inc ac-
cu,ed in this case rs we'll the preceding were
committed to be back for trial. strange gentle
man from the South named Mankine. while on vsit 10
of Mary Hodgen in Anthonyst, where he was robbed OF
SIPS The fact being made known Mol Hodges was ar
rested at her residence and Bell alias VIM Cox and
Elizabeth Cox in house The OF King and Hud
son ss charge of being the principal parties con-
cerned in robbing MIR. Mansine
CoRoNERs OFFIcE-Sunddy.-Th Coroner
was called last evening hold inquest upon the body
of James Priestly a native of Ireland aged about IS
years who while sitting in the Wright House No 81
Nassau-st Yesterday fell from his chair and almost in
stantly expired Death supposed to have been caused
by Ser apoplexy Also at the CITY Hospital on the
body of German named Matthias Killer, who while
standing on the deck of the soop Suffolk lying the
foot of James-s making purchase, his skull was frac
tured by the falling of the opmost OF the vessel which
had been broken by ship coming in contact with great
force under the influence of strong tide The deceased
was Immediately conveyed ia the City Hospital where
he died shortly aerward: Verdict in accordance with
the above Also on the body OF Jane Williams
native of England aged 20 years. who died suddenly yea
terday morning.
FROM HAYTI.-The schooner Margaret Bishop,
Captain Bishop, arrived this morning from Port Repub-
lean, sailed March II.
Captain Bishop informed By the consul. just be-
fore he sailed that the President would soon bring
the war with the Domincans to closely pacific adj
iustment we presume. All was quiet when the NJ. b.
sailed.
ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY PATRIOT GoNE.-At
Scpio Cayuea Co. N " March 18th, 1876, Elias Man
chester aged 81 years and months
The deceased a native Of Duchess county, and
soldier of the Revolution He fought the battle for free
dom and his blood crimsoned the plains Of Saratoga,
having been wounded at the taking of Burgoyne. He
encountered the per-epdured the hardships-suffered
the prvatons and shared the glory OF the times that
tried mems souls In consequence OF the high integrity
OF his character and The benevoence of his heart 1t has
been his happy privilege during his long and somewhat
eventtu life TO have lived in the midst Of ardent and
sincere friends and have descended TO his tomb in
full like shock OF corn cometh 10, IN MIS- season.
without enemy
He has left to his children and their descend
ants the nestimable legacy Of having lived and died an
honest man. which Is the noblest work of God
Auburn Journal.
THE K1pSAPPERs AT CoLUMBUs-We learn from
the Cincinnati Gazette Governor hartley has issued
his proclamation offering reward of $500 for the appre
henson Alexander c. Forbes and Jacob Armitaee the
persons engaged in Kidnapping Jerry Phinney The re-
C Tsrd will & % y R " SHO saSe
to be hoped Villains may be brought TO Justice
The Cincinnati Herald says The people Of Column
bus learn deeply ncensed by the late outrage IN
that place perpersted by kdnappers The excitement
has extended Cincinnati Sunday morning one OF our
most respectable citizens started for Louisville IN COM
pany with two citizens of Columbus in pursuit of the
convert the good people of this city into pretty Jealous
Abotonists We rejoice at the increasing sensioty OF
the citizens OF Ohio. transaction over which they
would have slept three years ago, now arouses ther
deep indignation
A FATHER MURDERED BY HIS OWN SoN.-We
have Just been informed, says the Huntingdon (Pa)
Globe that aged citizen named Irwin who resided at
the Penusyvauia Furnace, the line dividing Hunting
don and Centre counties murdered by his own son
on the 9th ult II appears from what We could learn
that the very much addicted TO intemperanco
and while laborug under tit of mania potu seized and
held his father with hand and with the other inflicted
several deep AID mortal wounds with an AK upon his
face. The father lived but few hours
CT~ Another brutal and disgraceful outrage &C.
cured few evenings since at Montreal The cougrees'
ton of the Episcopal Chapel in Grfentown, had just left
the house The close Of service Sunday evening and
the Sexton and his brother were locking the door when
they upon by gang OF about thirty ruihans-
The Sexton knocked down with piece OF iron. and
afterward beaten and kicked in shocking manner
that bis recovery considered doubtful The brother
escaped AFTER receiving few wounds, and alarmed the
neighbors who to the Of the Sexton. The
villains however had all decamped
ExPLosIoN-The bakery and grocery store of
Mr. F. o. Wech, the market was blown up by
gunpowder last evening Only some five pounds of pow
der left in keg exploded yet the repor, was quite can
nonike and the explosion forced entirely out the lower
story of side and end of the building and consdera
bly, shattered the remainder. Fortunately no person was
in the building when the explosion took place
cleveland (O) Herald, March 30.
NAvIeArIoY-The steamboat Helen Strong Capt.
Capen arrived here Friday night She does not seem
to have suffered greatly from her perious cruise through
Lake Erie after the close of navigation
The John Owen. Capt Davis, returned again Saturday
evening having gone few miles below Erie. She
! brought mail, but no New York papers.
The Harrison also arrived here yesterday afternoon
from Toledo. Detroit Adv. Both ult.
B We had a Northwest wind yesterday,
which moved the ice up the lake. leaving opening
the American shore. The steamer United States en-
braced the opportunity and left for the West about
noon and probably had not much difficulty 10 getting
through. Buffalo Express, 3d.
r Nathaniel Hawthorne, the popular writer,
has been appointed Surveyor Of the District of Salem
and Beverly.
r. Maj. THOMAS c. LEGATE died on the 18th
nit at Gslena Ill. Msj. L. entered the U. S. Army in
1872 and with Gen. Scott the Northern frontier,
In some of the best fought battles Of the last war
E The Chicago Journal says that nearly eight
hundred miners have left Gaena and the lead district
for the Lake Superior copper mines during the last Fall
and Winter.
~ Mr. Charles Aud and Samuel L. Aud, bro
theirs were found dead the Prairie, near Melrose Ill,
on the 5h nit They left Merose the 9th OF February
last a OF ntoxicaton, ano supposed to have
frozen tn death while in that condition.
General Notices.
q Park Meeting for National Reform.-An