The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-01-22

and s!s
tera :ucceeded and Miss Mary Taylor appeared in the
which she the beau
Fairy Boat" She was enthusiastically applauded by
the entire house, and the boxes in particular, which
were filled to the utmost capacity We shall have an0-
Their repetition this evening Of the comedy, Look
Before You Leap" Also the opera Of the Carnival
found highly attractive.
Blangy 10 creating the Same enthusiasm in Mobile
in New Orleans She deserving Of all the praise
she receives.
City Intelligence.
TnE WEArHER began to fall last evening
son with the range at the same hours on wednesday a.
follows
Jam IL NJ. srM. 5pM.
We take Il: above from Deiaour's, Wall street, and
low within degrees it did on the previous day
The weather. Notwithstanding the cold, is extremely
bIs.. We he'd light driaaing snow and some slsst
about 10 o'clock PM, accompanied with keen north
wind and was freezing at the same time heavily The
rivers were beginning to fill up rapidly In the evening
GRACE CHuacH-We have had occasion, frequently,
to call the attention of the authorities to the present con-
diton Of the ruins Of old Grace Church. in Broadway
that j, likely to result from allowing the old build
ing to remain in it, present condition The expo
sure to the winter frost and rain has had an evil
rallyporous and therefore much susceptible in
jury from the weather than those of solid granite We
would call the attention of the authorities forthwith to
this dangerous Dussnce which threatens the lives OF the
foot in this quarter Of city and which has
~ to remove these old walls It is remarkable fact
that when the late fire in this part of Broadway caused
s e1 snd 10
the street, splendid range Of new stores and
private dwellings have been rebuilt at either
prize. Old Grace Church Is not only dangerous sort
Of customer" in Broadway ct this season. but very
Church which is the Of 30 many fashionables
We trust that something will be done about this matter
| New Tract HousE.-The new edi6ce erected during
the past year by the American Tract Society," at the
Of Nassau and Spruce streets is an ornament to the
and neghborhood in which fronts The style Of
the building is unpretendng yet from the very work
draw the attention of persons passing through the street
The building is FIVE stories high, extending 90 feet in
story divided into four stores one Of which is used by
the Society for its retail business The others are rent
cd for various kind. Of business Tn: second story =
can Board Of Foreign Missions, the American Home
Missionary Society, and committee rooms. The third
floor IL used for Offices Of the secretaries OF the Society
for assistants copysts agents and coporteur
a committee room, and large packing apartment The
bndery, where % and SO females at present
ploysd and whose labor is aided by the Of the mo-
the printing ofce, in which the arrangements' for
light, &c, are complete Five power printing
ing OF more than half q million pages day, are
busy in their work. Thirty men and boys employ.
ed in his department On this floor is also the wood
wings and vaults for drying rooms, storage and other
purposes, and engine in which steam engine
Of ten horse power The building is heated throughout
by steam pipes The Croton water and gas introduce
ed throughout the building. Besides the rented
hydraulic &c and one hundred and thirty persons n
the executive manufacturing, and commercial depart
ments whose entire time is devoted to the business Of
the Society.
IssH Poor ball will be given for the benefit Of the
Irish poor, at Castle Garden, the 10th February.
! INcREAsE OF PAuPERs-EMIGRANrs Measures are in
progress to bring this subject before Congress this
done So as to this city Of the many abuses That eH
s in relation to paupersm and to add to the comforts Of
the emiErant
Rors.-Ws took occasion to notice in yesterdays Her
aid the fact of the removal of several bodies from the
German burial ground in l2th street to Wlliamsburgh
and the curious appearance of Of the bodies that
been exhumed after IL years retaining the same appear
as ct the time OF its being deposited the buria
ground. There appears to be difficulty among the
friends of OF those who had been buried and the
sexton-as well the aborers who have been employ
ed in digging up the remains Of the deceased
who have been represented as acting in an un
remains large crowd of Germsns collected yesterday
and threatened to attack the men employed and the
ten was taken in charge and conveyed to the station
house for safety The police in attendance to pre-
the peace Some of the friends of the deceased
whose remains had been long deposited here assert tina
u
dies, unless they receive fee of dollars There
appears be something wrong in the entire business
The peace OF the city, however must be preserved.
LECTURE uy EoYrrIAH ASTIauITns-Mr George r
Glddon last evening delivered his seventh lecture
Egyp tian Antiquities, before the members of the New
York Historical Society, at Mechanics Hail. 472 Broad
way: There was larger than usual audience present
The topic Of the lecturers remarks tho Pyramids
their sZe mode of construction uses snd other fact
connected with these age-defying monuments. The py
rsmds supposed TO have been the sepulchres
the kings of the first twelfth dynas,es MIR. 0ddor
entered upon the statistical architectural and erogly
pbical facts connected with them They built BY
the children Of Ham. The great py ramid built
small rocky hillock Of the Lydia range; il is con
structed chiefly Of blocks of cut limestone, varying
size from feet inches to feet 10 inches height ant
width and of various eng his The chambers in the in
terror faced lined with blocks OF stone of Immense
size The material of which this largest of the Pyramid
Ia built Ia estimated 10 weigh 900 900 TONS and forms
pile $50 feet high with base covering about Is
ground Some Of the immense blocks Of granite used II
this and the other ncghborng pyramids, were brough
distance of $40 miles down the river RATS, and con
ton by aid OF buocks, pueys and the sinewy arms Of
the laborers. BY calculations based upon Established
data il is found that if the material used in constructing
the largest Of the pyramids converted into bricks
they would be sufficient TO build the whole city OF Pha
delpha; the beautiful polished limestone with which
was faced nishing msteral of which TO construct tn
churches and other public edfces and If the Material
OF the whole OF the exisng pyramids, used in thu
construction olighhouses they would furnish enough
Of these light up the whole OF North and Soutl
America ON the Atlantic and Pacific shores and the
Mr. 0iddon illustrated his OF the method pursue,
In thn of tha Pv Inv haar.