New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-08-11
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,,c,,xxr ~ BRoApwAY.-Yesterdsy morning
.n, II o'clock three Of the upper floors tell into the
.o.o,a soor Of the building formerly known as Peses
Museum The second third and fourth stores OF IRE
brilsins were occupied by Mr. Kemp. an Auction and
Commission Merchant who bad large quantity Of iuf'
niturc and paper hsngings and number OF pAnoio's
stored in the deren, lofts The fourth hoor gave way
first from near the Of the room the goods sliding
down on the next door broke that through Also the
whole bringing up mos perfect wreck Of furniture
and crash Of pianos on the second door which imme.
diatelv over Francis Co : bookstore. The damage %
,be GOODS viii probably amount 20 or Sipo snd falls
mainly on class Of people who least able 20 bear
IL the goods having been mostly consigned 70 MY n
BY mechanics in moderate circumstances Two men
we're in the fourth story At the time OF the crash and
BY maintaining position on the top OF the isihg 'hs'
ter, fortunately escaped with slight injury
NEW CoURr Rooms AID OFFIcEs-The fitting
I'd of the old Aims House and R0tunda is now progress
ing The lower part Of the Refunds is to be htted mp
for the o.fces Of the Commissioner Of the Aims House
and the second story for the Commissioner Of the Gro
ton Aaueduc. Departmen,--;he dwelling part Of the
Rotunda on Chaubersst il TO BE- occupied by the SUI
perntendent Of Dat door Poor and room for the re-
ceu,ion Of lost children The basement Of the old Aims
House S 70 be itted up Offices for the Corporation
Counsel and the Corporation Atorneyon each side Of
Tho center porch a courtroom be erected equally
large az the r. :. Court with Chambers for the su.
nrerne Court The mode IN which the rooms occupied
By the American and Mechanics Institutes (Which those
institutions have been notified to vscste by lst Novem
her, has not vet been determined upon Aid. Crolius
. experimenting the work and the various rooms are
expected TO be ready in November
r,rxcu NJ rur STEAMSHIP OHIo-On Satur-
day. the 18th inst at y AM viii be launched from the
ship yard Of Messrs Bishop Simonson. between Fifth
and sixth sts East River the United Stsies Mail Steamer
Ohio She 4. about 500 tons burden and Is the first
vessel of the line established by Congress 10 carry the
mail between NewYor and New. Orleans via Charles
ton. Havana and savannah
CouP DE- so1uI.-An Irish laborer by the name
OF Nicholas Killer Tor some time past in the employ Of
Messrs Grnnel, Mnturn 4 Co while At work among
the shipping yesterday sun.struck He was con
veyed to the City Hospital where he expired about
o'clock last evening.
- In recording the movements OF great men
we must not omit the due notice OF the pergrinatons
of some small ones for though small in statue they are
sometimes great in importance. Such is the case with
Bsrnum's General Tom Thumb, who arrived in town
to-day looking remarkably fine OF his destination the
public will no doubt be fully sppnzed by the time he
has held secret concave with a certain manager who
Is somewhat celebrated for monopolizng those novel
ties which set the whole City agcg.
DRrvFRs.-The Drivers of the Broadway and
Aston place line of Omnibuses have had all they asked
conceded by the proprietors But II all manifest their
delight by annoying rival lines as the whip of No
@. did yesterday noon in endesyorng 10 prevent the
proper progress of an Eighhst stage shall hardly
rejoice in their victory We have yet to learn that
license to drive horses implies right to be insolent
and brutal
4 Man Drowned Yesterday afternoon. while
a man named Daniel Farley was attempting to get on
board the Empire state he missed his footing and fell
into the water between the vessel and the pier Every
effort was made 70 rescue him, but in vain.
DEATHS AT THE EMiGRANT AND MARINE Hos
PITFALLS August 9-Nchael Dollard, ~ arrived in the
Junior Chas p Crazy, % returned soldier,) in the
Fanny Forester; Charles II. Hull, - seaman.
IyQUEsT.-N Coroner Walters held an
inquest at the First Ward Station House the body of
a young man about % years OF age who found
dead in the of house No % Wsshingtonst in the
morning with his skull droadiuly fractured. From the
evidence adduced examination il appears that the
deceased fireman belonging TO the steamship
Hermann. named Thomas Flynn and as he had been
drinking rather too freely in the evening II u supposed
that he Tell down into the So violent the tall
that the basement door, though locked found open
and the lower part actually covered with his blood
The Jury returned verdict accordingly