New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-04-01


York Post Office waiting Cor bsgsto arrive from Wash
incton in which they DO sent of TO their desti-
nation I. might be supposed that the Postoice in so
large town as New.York ought to be furnished with
the means of doing its regular business without delay of
this kind However this is great country and Its gov
ernment Is administered after fashion Of lite own.
GEOGRAPHY AND MUsIc-prof TIsslrrs adver-
tises mammoth Concert at the Tabernacle this eve
ming in which several hundred young ladies will sing
the Geography Of the World. The Professor himself
will also expound the proud City Of Babylon, and
throw new light upon Belshazzars feast As to the
Geography of the World informed that It to
be sung in no netaphonca NEUROLOGICAL or firioi
April sense but directly scientifically and explicitly oy
sereral hundred young ladies. The World will have
great reason be delighted with this we dare say 1t
certainly never was happy enough to have Its Geo
GRANNY sung in such fashion before and If Il doesn
smack it's lips IT, why we have no opinion OF its
taste at all any ordinary mortal would not only smask
his lips but treat the young people to an oyster supper
Think of hundreds of young ladies singing Geography
with all their souls under the shrewd direction OF Pro-
lessor TrBsIrrs Won't that DO the yeritabc music
of the spheres of which much has been said but
which people in general never got chance OF hearing
before
OBsERyAToRY-Mr. Lewenberg has issued
circular proposing to build Observatory and furnish
It with Astronomical instruments more powerful than
any in the world, which shall be wholly OF American
materials aud manufacture. lie suggests that the pro-
perty in Thirteenth.s known the Manhattan Water
Works cen be obtained az a site reasonable terms
NEw-YoRK AND LIVERPOOL SrEAMERs-The
Glasgow Citizen contains some information which will
be of interest to our readers relative to the new Allan
tic steamers now building in the Clyde.
The British and North American Mail Steam packet
| Company have ordered four immense timber steam
ships to be fitted out for plying between Liverpool and
New.York. Three OF these are being oult oy MI ~
Steel of Greenock and the fourth by that veteran IN
the art of steamboat building Mr.. John Steel OF Port
Glasgow who ia 1911 launched from his building yard
the first passenger steamer which ever Piowed the
waters of the Clyde The rst OF these leyiathan steam
ships will be launched early In march sue Is close
unon COO tons register and will have engines of $50
horse power The other three are OF the came size ana
are constructed on tho same model being over ali IN
length 3s5 feet In breadth OF beam SO ieet ana na'1g
depth of % feet These vessels are intended 10 ply
| fortnlgnty between Liverpool and New'fork, com
mencing on the LIST Jan. lsie'
This Is much later than this line has generally been
expected to commence its operations The FIRST ship
has been looked for here in May or June next The
above is however, probably correct
maker residing in the fourth story Of house on the N
W. corner of Church and Leonard sts, engaged In
trimming campheLe lamp, about o'clock last even
ing he accidentally upset it, and having lighted match
in one of his hands the time the gas took fire and In
an instant he was wrapt in flames and burned In the
moot shocking manner. The skin and nails OF hands
came off az also the flesh OF his abdomen and thighs
He conveyed to the City Hospital by Capt. Perry and
some policemen of the Fifth Ward in avery precarious
state The flames communicated with the bedding and
some clothing in the room where the accident occurred
The policemen however, succeeded in extnsushng the
| fire. before much damage had been done
BREMEN STEAMER WAsHIg0TON.-This steamer
Ia stil lying at the foot of Twelfth st. We learn that
the work upon her going forward with rapidly and
that she will be ready for by the first OF May al lar
thest The second steamer of this line which is to Do
nsmed the Lafayette will be finished and take her
place by the first OF September
gT$ Mr.. BRADBURY is preparing to give splen'
did Festival on the 2st for mis- areH previous to his
departure for Europe We understand that about a
thousand of his best young singers will perform on that
occasion.
I BOARD OF EDUcArIoN-Wed nesday.-Mr. Nicoll
from the Finance Committee reported in favor oil ap
propriatng $3.50 for fitting up new School in Ihir'
teenth Ward and including s400 for extra work and
$500 to architect for attendance. Dr. Walters ono oil
the Thirteenth Ward Commits sioners stated that the
Ward school officers considered the latter expense ne
cessary from seeing the superior manner in which the
First Ward School House built where the architect
personally superintendent to those In the Sixth Seventh
and Fourth Wards Adopted
/ School dpporionren, MIR. Blocker from the Com
mittee presented report providing for the annual sP
portonment The appropriated for the support OF
Public Schools the present year excluding the Public
Society Primary Schools Nos 81 S. 81 and So, and Col
ored School No. > all of which established since
the law of ls4i and contain AL .choarsD 10 s99lf3 80
being 81 20 tor each scholar and II cents lees each
scholar than last year. This amount raised by
s39ls3 50 from State Fund s39ls3 so City tax, and
sl20776 "a being onetwentieth of per cent? on the
real and personal property in the City.
The average attendance of scholars for the year. to
Feb j. was 2sQ75 being 1893 in the Public School
Society schools, e7e3 In the Ward Schools and SO
/ in the Corporate Schools.
The increase over the previous year was $780, viz
in the Public Society Schools l096 Ward Schools I'll
and Corporate Schools L.
OF the amount appropriated sl2i,205 is for the Pub
lie School Society Schools including the Aims House
School, (Which, on motion Of Mr.. Fellows specially
mentioned, so that inquiry may be had TO whose
charge it is under by law D s635OO for the Ward
schools and the balance apportioned among the Har-
lem, Yorkylle Manhattanyile and Hamilton Schools,
Schools of the Mechanics Society, N. y Orphan So
ciety Roman Catholic Orphan Watts Orphan, Protest
ant Half Orphan Roman Catholic Half Orphan, lnstita.
ton for the Blind and Colored Orphan Asylum. Re.
port adopted.
resolution was offered By Mr.. Bosworth, requiring
the Public Society and all other Schools to report to
the Board of Education particular account Of their
penditures every quarter. Adopted.
Mr. Denny presented resolution that 5000 be appro
priaied for the erection Of brick wall at the
the School in the Fifteenth Ward, rendered neces
ssry by the grading of the Sixth Referred.
The Board then adjourned.