New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-26
CITY ITEMS.


II After the rain Of Monday the sun rose yes
terdsy in bright and cloudless sky and the day
was lresh bracing and elastic, with promise OF
similar weather today.
RECEPTION OF SAM. HoUsToN Tho public re-
cepton to Hon. SAM. HoUsToN took place yester
day at noon, in the Governors Room of the City
Hall. The flags were hoisted as usual, and quite
large crowd of persons collected. The General
was introduced to many persons by Mayor KINGS
LAND, and was welcomed to the City on behalf oil the
Mayor and Common Council, by NICHOLAS DEAN,
ESQ. President of the Croton Aqueduct Depart
ment, who assured the General that his name
was already enrolled upon the page of fame, bat
that ne hoped there were still a few blanks left
upon which his future deeds might be recorded
in letters of gold. He then congratulated him
upon the part he had taken in the passage Of the
Compromise measures and gave him the assur-
snce that he was now in q Northern city, aud
that that Northern city was sound to the core
upon the great questions that were settled by the
CoUpromse--that she was opposed to agitation
and firmly resolved to maintain the Union. at
all hazards. Gen HoUsToN, in response TO this
address on the part Of the City authorities, re-
turned his sincere thanks for the honor they had
conferred upon him. He had devoted much OF
bis life to the service of his country, and he hoped
his conduct had been directed by right impulses
1.-The had ever sought power, it had been that he
might use it for the good Of all. He hoped the
period Of agitation had passed. He had never
doubted the integrity and patriotism of the peo
pie of the whole country, and had placed fall rell
ance upon their ability to put down fanatcism
within and invasions from without. The Union
has given us nationality and power, and without
it we can have no neutrality-suspicious. 1t we can
have no homeland without country and nome
be would rather perish than continue to exist
Amer these remarks numbers shook hands with
the General and welcomed him to the City. He
appeared to be gratifed with the reception he
had met With. In person, the General looks as
robust and active as he did fifteen years ago, but
when he addressed the public we missed the
sparkling eye and the animated expression OF
features that were wont to greet the hardy Pio'
neers Of the border, as they gathered around MIN
in the early days Of Texas.
DRY GooDs IN CoRTLAND-sr.-A New'Yorker
who left the City fifteen years ago would hardly
recognize the Cortland-st. of 1851. Commodious
hotels and spacious stores have replaced sne
cramped groggeries and tumble-doWn hucksser'
shops of an earlier day, and Trade vles with
Travel for the mastery. A single establishment
one of several-may be taken as sample oil the
new business Of Cortland st. in our day
The Dry Goods Jobbing House OF L. U. Will
son & Co. is at No. 70 Cortland st. extending
thence to Dey, depth of 223 feet. 1t IS i've Sto'
ries high, beside the basement ALSO q sales-rooml
and the cellar which is used as a depot Each
Door has it's statesmen, book keeper, SC and is de-
voted to some department Of the trade-to silks
or Cloths, or Prints, or Shawls or Sheetings' or
De LANES &c.-perhaPs two or three species OF
goods on floor, but each in its place, the design
being to furnish a complete assortment Of Dry
Goods from this single but extensive concern -
We believe il is the purpose Of Messrs. Wilson
4 Co. to connect with their present business that
Of Merchant Tsilors on grand scale, working up
their own fabrics exclusively and standing ready
&c Gil up Clothing Store from their immense
Stock as they now do one of Dry Goods. OF
course such a concern deals indiiiercnty and ne
oessarily in both American and Foreign fabrics,
but We noted that mach more than hall the stock
is American including ample supplies Of Merri
mac Prints, Manchester a. q De LANES, Ian
caster Mass Ginghams, Bay State ShawlS, &c.
a.. And, while there arc some fabrics, OF winch
the home manufacture hGS receded unasr the pre-
sent arid, not to speak Of Silks. which are now