New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-20
CITY ITEMS.

! TRACT OPERATIONS AT the monthly meeting
! Of the American Tract Society, on Monday, the
18th Instant interesting intelligence was commu.
Dicated, through the correspondence Of Mission
aries and others, from the Choctaws, from North
ern Bavaria Baden, Liberia China and else
where. The Society are about to stereotype
Garaudet's Scripture Biography for the Choc.
taws, and made an appropriation to aid in publish
ing Nelson's work on In6de.ity at Wossingen,
Germany. Thus American authorship penetrates
the old world and the wilderness of the new
world. The receipts of the Society for the month
Of January were-for sales, SIS 1854 in donations,
sl3 04O total s3l 1894 Total receipts for the last
ten months 5000, 1898. Grants during the same
period, 81, AL, 399 pages. Amount due within six
months on notes for paper, s43 1877. More than
one half Of the foreign appropriations of $4,000
has been RENTED, and the entire amount must be
raised and paid over before April l. The manu-.
featuring department is in state OF great activ'
ty A dozen or more steam presses are kept in
constant motion. The number of persons employ
ed is as follows: In the bindery, l33 girls and 40
men, in the composition room, IA men; in the
press room, ls men and 81 boys; in the eugrsv
ers room, 81 in the general depository, sales
room, messenger Office, &c, l9 making tota
of employees in the Tract House of 253. the cir
culation of the American Messenger, the monthly
newspaper of the Society," is 10000 copies 10
English and about $4,000 10 German. The num-
Der of Colporteurs, including those for the Ger
man. Irish French, Spanish and Norwegian popu
lation, is about 400, and should be increased to
lOOO Blessings on this powerful agent of civil
cation and evaDgelization.
~ THE MEETING IN OPPOsITIOE TO GAM.
BLING will be held at the Tabernacle this even.
ing, and we trust fully attended. We are assured
that eminent and effective speakers will be heard
there in addition to those who have permitted
their names to be given. The subject is one Of
great moment, for, next to Liquor, Gambling is
working the ruin of more persons than any other
cause. Let as assemble to night and see if some
efFectual check to its ravages cannot be devised
We believe there may be.
Eg@ CGtarin0 is again drawing crowded houses
at Niblos Garden. 1t would be in vain to attemp+
description of the dancing of Caroline Rousset
There is grace of motion, modesty of action,
about her dancing, that give it a charm not i'm
pafteu Dy any Juliet dItisSO' AhOsS VIM H"'O NV
seen her, and her fair sisters, should not let pass
the opportunity afforded by the reoPening of the
Garden.
EY~ Messrs. Hall & Son have taken advantage
of the interest excited by the Infant Drummer,
and are about to publish a Polka, bearing his
name 1t will, no doubt, have large circulation.
The music that bears his name should be unique.
u The new Methodist Episcopal Church, at
Hoboken, will be dedicated to Divine service TO-
day. Rev. Bishop James will preach at O'Clock,
PM, and Rev. D. w B artine at o'clock in the
evening.
ADMISSIONS To THE FREE AcADEMY-The
following table, taken from the roll book OF the
Free Academy, shows the number of boys ad'
mitted and rejected at the late examination