New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-19
CITY ITEMS.

q new and appropriate building will be immedi'
atelv erected. The owner of the building on the
northwest corner Of Broadway and White st. in
tends to take down the building now standing,
and to erect in its place a new building, in the
Romish style, with freestone front on the two
streets. The new building is already leased to
the Broadway tank for term of years. The
building on the southeast corner of Broadway
and Johnst. is to be demolished, and anew build
ing is to be erected, and leased to the Il" Mercan-
tile Bank" The new building will be Of free
stone Al feet on Broadway, 10 etfront on John
St, and five stories high.
r. The U. S. storeship Relief arrived yesterday
morning at this port, in fifty days from Rio janet
70. There was nothing Of Importance stirring a.
Brazil. The following are the officers of the Re
lief; 1t. CONG, B. j. Totem; lst Lieut., Passed
Midshipman A. Barbot; Purser, John B. Ritten-
house; Surgeon, George Mausby; Passed Mid.
shipmen, H. N. Crabb, w. Van Wyck, Andrew
w Johnson; Captains Clerk LIST Lieut.. G. Bar
BARN. Surgeon Thomas Williamson comes pas.
senger from the Brazil Squadron; and also Mid
shipman Thomas H. LOCKER, Bearer of Dispatches
from the Z. s. Minister to the Court of Brazil
THE OPERA.-Ernani was sung on Monday night
to a very meager house, the tempestuous Verdi be-
ing insufficient to satisfy ears lately filed with
the golden melodies of Rossini. TRUFFI sang deli
ciously, and looked magni6cently, so that her at
tachment for little ErnaniForti seemed like
throwing herself away, and we could not proper
ly sympathize with his tragic end. Rosi, the
ponderous, and Avignone, the shaky, took the 9TH
er parts, and sang them creditably, but Truth
seemed to stand above and apart from them all
~ From some cause, which we did not learn,
Mr.. Duggan was prevented from delivering his
Art-L Lecture on Monday night, at the Academy Of
Design Mr.. Parke Goodwin, however, who was
called upon at the last moment, gave his Lecture
on "Goethe" as a substitute. The pleasant pic
ure.gallery of the Academy of Design was filled
with large and intellectual company Of ladies'
and gentlemen.
THE JERSEY CITY MURDER-The Coroners
Jury called to investigate the causes Of the death
OF Mr. Donlevy have returned a verdict to the
effect that the deceased came to his death by
drowning, or by some other means to them I'M
known, by the hands of two men-whereupon,
put it into the hands of an officer.
EFP The announcement Of the Cass Ball ap
pears "by authority" 1t is to come off at Tam
many on the 9th of March. Bogardus, Storms,
Sickles, Dillon, Camp, and hundred others,
figure among the Committees. The tickets are to
be 81. We cannot learn whether Prince John is
70 be invited to attend this festive gathering OF
the Hunkers. We hope he isnOt to be overlooked.
A SPEEDY DELIvERY.-The mails by the Afri
ca were received by the NewYork Post-Oihce at
- O'Clock on Saturday night They contained
100, O95 letters, which were assorted and ready
for delivery in eight working hours after they
were in hand. At the same time, the regular bu
sness of the Post Office was progressing as usual
e The Grand Jury of our little neighboring
City of Brooklyn have gravely presented the
crowded state of the Fulton Ferry boats as a
nuisance, and have recommended that other Fer
res be forthwith established According to re
cent decision, the City on this side of the water
has something to say on that subject.
CooLIEG.-On the borders of Croton Lake
about 10000 tuns of ice have been stacked up
during the past cold weather, and when the hot,
sultry weather comes, next Summer, 1t Will be
brought to the parched denizens OF the city over
the Harlem Railroad.
H Ri Rev. Carlton Chase, DID, Bishop Of
New Hampshire, has been invited by the Stand-
ing Committee to perform Episcopal duties In
this Diocese for the next three months. He has
accepted the invitation and, after the 2Sth OF this
month. will remain several weeks in this City.
ODD FELLOWS SoIREE-At the last session of
the Grand Lodge of |. o. of o. F. of Southern
New.York, it was resolved to give Ball, under
the auspices of the Grand Lodge, and proper
Committee was appointed to carry the resolution
into effect
" We learn that Messrs Goupil & Co. have
bought Leutze's large picture of Washington
Crossing the Delaware for seven thousand dol
lars. 1t will arrive here in September next, and
will, of course, be exhibited to the public
THE ST. LAwREScE-This frigate, with the
goods for the Worlds Fair on board, is all ready
to sail, as soon as orders from Washington are re-
ceived to that effect. She has on board about
one-half as much as she is capable of carrying.
GREAT MoRrALITY.-The packet ship Column
bus, which arrived at this port on Friday last,
had seventeen deaths on board during her voyage
from Liverpool. Between thirty and forty of her
passengers are now sick at Quarantine.
MORE BUSINESS RUMoRs.-We understand that
the sum of $4,000 was on Monday offered for DR..
Chapin's Church, at the corner of Murray and
Church streets, for the purpose of converting 1t
into Bank building.
QUICK VoYAGE.-The packet ship Devonshire,
on her last voyage from New York to Portsmouth,
made the run in fourteen days and six hours
Thisis almost equal TO the voyages made by the