New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-01-27
CITY ITEMS.

II This is the day of ST. Chrysostom, the Goid'
enmouthed bishop of Constsntinople, perseeuted "
death in the year 407 who preached against the dSp'
est gains of merchants in his time and gave away MS
revenues the poor that be was known as John inc
NmsQiyer FIJI ssn, for the imitation OF this grea' Oy'
where poverty crushes the souls OF thousands ana uann'
them TO crime and despair Think OF H. lovey women
who in splendid saloons make night iairer than Jay
within sound OF the very music to when your gay ee'
sro ,roving NAV be crouched shivering mOtheress
children in whose hearts even chdhoods hope IS dead
or more sorrowful and awful still beneath your win
dows 20 backward and forward, women not oldor nsh
Yourselves ike you once cherished on mothers oosoms
and smiling Joy and love up into mothers eyes no" 'on
I, shame and infamy dOuby motheres- trenches
And all perhaps, wrought by poverty, OF when you
have scarcely more III ian heard Does not the hough
make the light DINNER and cast doubt over pleasures
before 90 sweet and keen q, we know not thst we
arc all of one blood and heart that children OF baeNes
wreehedness IN street and hoye and haunt OF wee are
brethren and sisters to that glowing beauty Tor whom
life strives how yanly TO be one long festival and me
common air must be tinctured with perfume Today
how many will follow the daily habit OF the noble OLD
ssia. with whose name We begun Would to God thA'
this might he day OF aims siving-not oniyo tha' IN
dvidus charity which but remedies the present III ana
does nothing 10 prevent It's recurrence but OF that 90
cal and Universal Charity which will put an snd to POI
verify forever aud dry up the great sources OF wee Of
crime and Of wretchedness
UNPARALLELED SPEED IL ADVANCE oF EVERY
THING Til. Erpyess with degree Of swifsness never
before heard Of yesterday published letter rom
Washington by the Camden and Amboy Railroad ana
steamer Iadependence at least halt hour before the
Independence had reached the wharf In this City ms
beats lightning The Express ought to take out patent
for It's process. !
CONFUSION Oh TosGUEs.-Our reporter yester'
dsy afternoon in his account Of the case oil marta
Grouse German INN grant makes her talk Irish. We
suspect that he Is Hbernian himself and translates
every language bis ss,vs dialect naturally a. ne
oresthes.
SNAKES At THE FIVE PoIsTs-Two or three City
papers have been for the last day or two Pho'ophzng
about certain snakes ssd make their rendezvous 1t
the Five Points One might infer from this that snakes
were to be found in other psrs OF the City which
far from being the There are the rai'is'nsfes a
gambling houses the sadsr that haunt not only in GER
tain brokers shops but other places too numerous to
mention hose blacklist Of black snakes that seduce their
feud. wives to say nothing Of the snakes in the grass
that 20 shout everywhere II people were less gnors u
AZ 70 all these snakes they would not be bitten often
MERcAsrILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION The .cth
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Der Of members At the commencement Of the present
year was 2443. During lS45, oos new members joined
the institution The receipts Of the Treasury in the
last year were t5o63 u expenditures si5cs 40 bal
snce on hand s744 81. There were added to the Ii
Drary 10 ls46. 1888 volumes which makes the whole
number 2.623.