New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-01-13
Cirs ITEMS.
"WEDNESDAY, Jan. u

WEDNESDAY, Jan. u.
FIREs-A ire occur ed GA Monday evening about
half rAsi O'Clock ID ne tsHtrg ~ Cbey-s; Bat Is WAS
e1an.ulshsi viii ireux damage Abon. N o'clock
asi night Ere aroks oui IN The millinery store Of Mr.
Daniel Hoyf Lsvi-si snd bef1rs tie flame. eouii be
ertr-ushel The en- ire contents % tie store vere 'esiroy
eJ The Gre suprossi b have been the work % IN
cendlSry
AccrDEsT-As the driver ri 4 valuable span Of
horses and teauuil carriage Was passing along Tweifh
S. 2tog, O'Clock his morning on hii way % one Of the
boats o tie purQose q delivering them 70 the gentleman
who haa purchase item yesterday. the horses e
opeHng which had been maze Tor connection with the
public sever 10 frUn q the rev building Of Horace But
er The carriage considerably famAged. while the
horses we're ln1rcf severely and bad not been relieved
from their awkward situation 81 late hour his morning
CouSTERFEIT BANK NoTEs.-A number Of coun-
ert bark Hotes rurqorlg % 5e ssuet By the Warren
Bsnk Of Dsrvers were raised and sverkeepers
In tbs City las; evening Merchants AID dealers general
Is csaro be TOO cautious about bills on he belJensned
Bank
Po1Icg-David Crowley. William Gield and
Francis smith were urresfed snt detained
charge Of stealing quantity Of confor.er caps gloves
&c from Mr. J. Higgins Mary hgsins was brought
up on charge Of steal dress ron the yard 81 premises
~ Cherry-s owen o. Ho-sy was locked up 70 answer
for stealing pair % pants from John NJ Armstrong.
Michael McLcughia. aged u years was also taken Into
custody and detained o. for having attempted 70
stab his mother
FREE LABos-Mr Bowie OF our City intro
duced in the House on Monday morning the follow
ing resolutions
Resolre5 o. the serSie concgr That the Public Lands
being the property Of the People, should be he'd
AMI appropriated for ihrr common use and benefit
Resorkd o. the Senate concur) That our senators be
instructed and chr Representatives Ia Congress be re-
quested 70 use their best obtain the passage Of
law TO prohibit the Public Lands, Aad 10 cause
them 10 BE- surveyed into lots o limited aAniIes for the
use Of actual settlers.
The LOST FoUSn.-Our readers will doubtless
recoect that IN October published account OF
the mysterious dssppeara CO q stranger calling himself
Dana who lett va Sc, containing over 800 10 sod >nd
silver coln AZ Mai. Smiths Hotel. 10 this village On
Tuesday Of this week. ragged and emaeAted aF
ueared al the hotel asked for his vae and ne gave
such minute AMI exact deception Of ~ contents Is
showed him 10 be the person who left a. We was seen In
the village MONDAY. and sept In barn on Monday
night lie gave asugulsr acc1ant Of himself lie says he
Is shoemaker, aHi earned The money he had Win Alm'
working al ms trade u Newhu-ypOr Mas where M has
brother residing, named Aaron Dana. lie says ne eit
Newburyport and nts fs State. lie recoects be-
Ing in this village october ,F7 and going out n the mor'
ing to some grocery and drinking two glasses Of beer
Where he went What ne 49, after Hat, he mas no re
collection until about month Stree consciousness return
ei and he found himself at Newark, J. SICK and mos
naked He recotctef being here, and started Tor ths
place. which he reached Monday ~ the condition above
described Though he exhibited cOnscisusness. his mind
"a evidently weak ursou1d and his body laboring under
disease II therefore thought advisable to place I'm
n the Asylum Of this place, until his friends eoul
receive information AMI take charge Of him lie eonsenied
10 20. and Is now In good hands HIS money : 10 inc
savings Rank fBrs,tleboro' Ph0nix.
TRIUMPH OF CHLoBoFoRN--We learn that Dr.
Gilbert assisted by several distinguished members Of the
Profession. removed cancer occupying one entre o!eat
from woman residing IN this city, and who was sn'e
the action Of cluro1rm during me operation she
manifested no scusbfy ani has since stated tnlt ne
ft no palm except little tvinge toward TIE close OF me
OPERATION when the elect 81 the choroiorm began to sub
nfr1 cred
/ insensiblllfy restored fPhlsi y Am Monday.
ExPLANArIoN-W well remember that when
the newspaper three four years ago. were In the
habit Of Publishing The VOTES taken on boa-f Of steam
boats the Leo Foco editions s~ore 10 their rage that
all steamboat travellers wings, The Locos staying At
home and mnding their business. NOV this; We take
Il explains Mr. Polts veto Of the River Dill DO cares
not how many steam eats are killed BY snAgs
and sawyers he thinks they are sVWhgs lie has no
notion Of letting The public money be used of saving wing
votes. lfFeh'ee-
| LANE SEMINARY.-It appears from letter in the
Boston TrGreier. tats Cincinnati, January 3 that the
Court IN banc have decided that the SUIT Of DAVID X
Kemper rs Lane Seminary. Is barred BY the statute Of
Limitations The object Of the suit Was 70 Gust the present
Professors OF the Institution rom their chairs on the
grounl Of an alleged vi0tou o the charter, ISL IN lie
failure 10 exact manual labor from the students and 2nd
ln the appointment Of Professors vhl arc not Presbye
/ rlans under the care ~ the General Assembly
RopBgRr-The dwelling OF Mr.. Sherman Dick
ermar of Auscrlz entered Thursday night last
lars The money was taken rom trunk under me bed
Mr. d. was woke up ~ the noise and seized shovel Win
which be struck one Of the They both succeeded
however In making their escape. HUDSON Repnb llih
ssow.-Preyou.y % last Wednesday the
ground was as tAre A. Il is On midsummer wednesday
evening and night about three inches Of snow eh and To-
day Thursiay) II dancing about as we-e TOO glad 10
tarry long within he memory Of man We doubt II there
has been In northern Vermont such srO"ess WINTER As
''' F''''''' IS, Johnsbury Cyi.) caledonlan, s,h.
| TIE WEArHER-Win is just setting IN
snow fell TO the depth elsht Inches saturday
nshtjust enough afford capital sleighing ana every
one seems inclined make the most OF H. Tie ar Is SUI
neiently cold prevent the rapid melting Of the snow.
lBraiileboro (yt) Eagle, lith.
| EcLIPsEs rs lSis-There will be six-iour OF
the sun md two OF the Moon March g. partial telp.e
Of the sun visible March 49, total eclipse Of the hoon
partially visible. April s. eclipse Of the SUM- Invisible
Aug IS another cell pse OF the Invisible Nept ~
total eclipse OF Moon. visible sept n, eclipse Of the
i sun, invisible.
| DEATH PROM lNTEMPERANCE-lhree souiers
belonging 10 the s2d RECT died Halifax on Christmas
night through excessive drinking. they having gone 10
bed in state OF nox cation. Il Is said that t"v OF t.e
others came nigh sharing The same aie-a sergeant nav
ing had pin, and ah.f Of spirits pumped ron Ms $40
mach I've" u's"'eAS-'
RATHER CoLD-At the Exchange TINS morning
the thermometer stood three degrees oeo" zero In ia
street a O'Clock below AZ earlier hour Il was As
low a. 10 below zero At ocoek this ern0on In stale
street. il WAS degrees above o. Boston Trans. iitn'