New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-03
CITY ITEMS.

have to stand back. We shall bring up all ar
rearages to morrow.
" Aid. Bard, Aid. Wood, and AID Kelly
were reported yesterday morning as having in
tcrfered with the business of the Police Depart
ment by discharging from custody during the pre-
vious evening no less than seven persons who had
been arrested for lighting and disorderly conduct.
" SO, BETTIEI is engaged for three nights
and will introduce himself to an American audi
ence for the first time on Thursday evening, in the
character of Edgardo Bravo, Maretzek!
~ BocHsA's second American Promenade
Concert was attended last night by some two hun
dred persons, who looked lonely and desolate
enough, scattered the vastness Of Tripler
Hall. Indeed, though the evening was fine, the
audience was if anything thinner than on Thurs
day evening, when the bad weather kept every
body at home. The performance was good-far
better than many instrumental concerts at which
we have seen crowds in attendance. The pro-
gramme was pleasing. and the large orchestra is
getting into satisfactory drill Griebel the new
yiolinist, played solo with brilliancy and sue
cess. We donct understand why entertainments
Of so much merit as this should not be attractive
to the public at large
HEBRE@ BENEVOLENT SoCETY.-The grand
benefit performance of the Hebrew Benevolent
Society comes off tonight at the Aston Place
Opera House. In 9o,nansJ1.la will be given for
the first time, with BERrUccA as Anino to be
followed by the ballet of La Paquita
FRE.-Dec. l, l2} P. M-Mr. Gulliver's cabi-
net shop, 735 Greenwichst. Damage very slight
PesTMAsTER'5 SECRETARY.-The Postmaster o.
the City has appointed GEORGE w JESKIss, Esq.
his Secretary in place of Mr. Burdett, who has
been selected by the Mayor elect as his Chief
Clerk. Mr.. enkins critters upon the duties of his
Office today.
THE LICENSE LAWs-THEIR VloLATloN-Pro-
baby no Corporation ever undertook to regulate
any branch of business whereby certain class
were guaranteed an immunity from ruinous com
petition, without bringing upon both guarantors
and guaranteed the bitter denunciations Of host
OF men who profess to have the most active horror
Of all such privileges yet who never relax their
efforts to get themselves within the magic circle
Of corporate protection. Since date which no
manis old enough to remember, the Government
OF this City has been the prominent mark for the
shafts OF Wit the thunders of logic, and the gall of
inyective from these restless outsders-while
they were outsiders but when once dosed with the
paregoric of the peoples protection not one ofthe
Seven Seepers ever snored with more sonorous
proclamation Of Obvious happiness-no cries OF
Monopoly or mortal groan OF Vested Rights could
disturb their complacency, although they might
have been the obtrusive echoes Of their own cla-
NOR. The latest phase of this immortal inconsis-
tency predicates its agitation upon the carrying of
our good people up and down town for sixpences
Several months since, certain people with the
golden apparition of Fortune in their immediate
future) proposed to build Sixth. av. Railroad"
and thereupon, as was of course to be expected
the men who had vested their capital in Stages
organized powerful opposition, and after the
most active labors during the Summer, succeeded
in strangling the little serpent into topper which
will last through the Winter at least The pro-
iectors of the Railroad bear their reverse very
phiosophically, and reply to all questions that
they "were defeated because they didn't spend
money enough, rather left handed compliment
to the integrity of our Aldermen, and at the same
time bearing the character of promise that the
"root of all evil shall not be wanting in their next
ESSAY. The conflict between Stages and Railroads
having ended in brief cessation OF hostltles, the
excitement has turned into q new and singular
channel-that of overrunning the whole City with
Omnbusses The want of direct communication
from the lower Wards to the Hudson River Rail
road Depot at the foot of Tenth avenue was one OF
levers used to raise the Sixth avenue Railroad, al
though it would puzzle anybody else than char
ter seeker to force the notion into the DOMAIN OF
reason Before the President of the Aldermen had
! fairly announced the explosion of the Railroad
scheme Mayor Woodruff was beset by an ava
lanche of petitions for permission to run Stages
to the Hudson River Railroad Depot and IN
less than week he had on file the applica.
tons of enc hundred persons for licenses to run
lines of Omnibusses in various parts of the City,
butncary all for this one route Of Broadway, Four
teenth-st and Nnthayenue to the Depot. The
Executive, sore perplexed by this suddenirup-
ton OF license seekers, finally gave permission to
J. H. Ryerson to run p Stages on the above nam
ed route and we understand that five or six Of the
Stages will be in motion on Monday next. In the
mean time one OF the petitioning firms have occu.
pied the ground without license, and declare their
intention to carry passengers gratis, until licenses
shall be granted. They may do So but it Will re-
quire Il long and well.fled purse to play as such
sport for any considerable length of time. Already
TWO OF the drivers Of this line are lor have been
under arrested for violating their license law but
their defense ia that BY carrying persons fos moth
ing they come within the definition of private car.
riages, and are not amenable to the laws relative
to public vehicles. We doubt whether this con-
struction will be sustained while, upon the other
hand, should fare be taken whether by means ola
box inside the Stage, or by boy for opening the
door, or by any device whatsoever the proprietors
will be punished by penalty Of $50 and the dr
vers $40 for each ofense. Perhaps this matter
will work itselfcea- bat at present we can only