New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-06-06
CITY ITEMS.

THE ENLARGEMENT or THE BATTERY
n, "Wednesday evening the Board of Aldermen con-
od in the resolution formerly passed by the Board
n Assistants. granting to Henry Concklin the con-
tract for the enlargement OF the Battery The con-
tractor agrees to extend the Sea-waH SIX hunured
feet. to build It in substantial and workmanlAe
manner 70 I'LL IN behind i 70 the present ieYel O 'e
grounds to lay out such avenues as the City auoli
ties NAV direct-and 70 grade and sod the ne" poI-
IN all respects similar to the old The WORK Is 10 Dc
completed in three years, al cost to the Ci'y OF
az i52 and abundant security Is ohereu lol VIC
f,i,hf,l performance of the contract The City Is
however. to have the privilege of depoSitns on
the new ground such coal-aShes &c as may be col
cted in the streets during the years This rubbish
= now taken from the City in boats at an annual
.ypense Of from eight 70 ten thousand donars-So
tbst il will be sure that the enlargement Will not
cost the City anything It is intmated that IN the
First Ward one hundred buildings will be erected
during the year 1851 From these buildings from one
hundred to fifteen hundred cubic yards Of dirt has to
be removed. 1t is now carted to vessels, and Tue
carts thus employed have of late been of much an
noyance to our shipping. and seriously retarded The
the receipt and delivery Of goods at the wharves IN
the lowerp part Of the City This enlargement will put
stop TO this nuisance as the dumping ground easy
thousand cubic yards of earth
The opponents Of the enlargement object to the
action of the Board Of Aldermen the ground that
the resolution acted upon adopted by the Board
OF Assistants nearly two years since, and therefore
was not properly before the Board Of Aldermen The
question was referred to she Counsel 20 the Corpora
ton and he IS clearly Of the opinion that II quite
competent for either Board TO act upon any subject
transmitted TO 1t by the other though such &C
ton was had originally by members Of the Board,
! who may have changed in whole or in part by SUBJ
sequent election and that any such resolution or or
dnance so concurred in, will as heretofore, be valid
| and binding when approved of by the Mayor, As the
! act Of the Common Council
| This would seem to settle the QuestOn-fOr in ac-
! cordance with the opinion thus given, both Boards
have passed resolutions which had been transmitted
! by the former Councils. resolution. which origi-
mated in the Board OF Assistants AZ the time Of the
| passage of the enlargement resolution December,
ls49) was concurred IN by the Board Of Aldermen in
February last, and the provisions of that resolution
| have been carried out without being questioned
Twelve or fifteen similar cases are on record.
Ticket AUcTIoN.-Thc sale of tickets
ior he last Concert by Jenny Lind tonight, took
place Yesterday at Castle Garden. lie GRAND
7. Nl.s
vious to the sale, that the tickets were offered at
auction Tor the purpose OF giving every person far
chance.
Previous to coming to the Garden two persons had
| offered HIM certified checks for every seat IN the
house, at the prices fixed upon 81, 81 and s3-but
! this offer had been refused by Mr.. Bamum, because
he wished to accommodate the public, and to allow
all an opportunity to purchase tickets by bidding
on them The auction then commenced, and
| the three dollar seats in front were first Of
| fered. These were rapidly sold at premiums rang
| ing from 81 TO 81 75-the average for 1000 seats
| being about 81 IS. The 81 seats brought from
81 to 81 IS 49, probably averaging 81 l2f each
The 81 seats were then offered, and were bid of st
premiums ranging from so cents to 81 7j-averagmg
| full IS cents When we left twohirdS of the tickets
had been Sold and we doubt not every seat in the
house (5525) was sold before the auction closed.
The whole Concert must bring $4,000 to Mr. Bar
mum, and probably before noon to-day tickets
will be selling at SIS to 500 One ticket which was
bought for 1915 was sold by the purchaser on the
| spot for $ll ,23.
MAsoNIc-The Grand Lodge of Masons
IL now in session in this City The election Of Off
GERS for the ensuing year took place last evening, and
/ resulted fellows
Grand Master-R w OSCAR COLES.
Hepafv Grand Masfc-R w Nelson Randall.
Se5,ior Grand Wardea-R w Daniel ; Wright
JUNIOR Grcnd Warden-R. w William Holmes.
Grand Secrefary-R. w. James w. Powell.
Grand TreaSWer-R. w. GerarduS Boyce.
Grand Chapiai7s-R w. Rev. Salem Town, Rev
Alfred L. Campbell
Grand ParSUlrGnt-R. W ID. II. Van Slcl
Grand Tyia-R. w. Sewan Fisk.
The lee ISLANDs-The British brig Mon
arch, Capt Fielder, arrived this morning from Car
donas, reports that the 2lst of May lat Al A.
lon IS So he saw eight large cebergs one of which
was mile in circumference
The British brig Layinia, Walsh from Waterford,
Ireland on the 18th Of May in lat. A 49, lon so 80,
saw seventeen icebergs
70 The r. w. Grand Lodge of l. O. of
o F. of Southern New-York, commenced its regular
stated session at the Grand Lodge Rooms in Odd
Fellows Hall, last evening.
~ The County Superintendent OF Com
mon Schools, Mr.. McKeen, yesterday examined the
Male Department of Ward School No. %, Green
wich-av opposite Charles-St. The School numbers
LOO children, when all are IN attendance, and IS
now, we believe the largest IN the City Its arrange
ments are perfect, and the progress Of the scholars
very gratifying The house is large and handsome,
and was opened about the middle Of December 1850.
Tweniy-six teachers are employed in the different
departmentS-all females except five. In the Male
Department. there nine Assistants and the Prln-
cipal, Mr.. Francis McNally. The number Of boys
examined was $50, and the attendance Of girls yes
terday was ASP being total Of l,Oll. The boys
were exercised with great credit to themselves and
their teachers, in nearly all the English branches
and Compositions Of great merit were read by the
following Masters James B. Moore, ChaS. IL Har-
not, Alfred H. Smith, Lewis Z. Buchanan, Freder-
lex c. Harriet and Cornelius II. Whitaker. The
declarations were very well performed by Masters
Anthem Bamberger, Henry Taylor, James Weeks,
John Howe Samuel Lockwood and Joseph Pray.
road,rg S0allfng and ar1thrnatic he Smallq =