New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-15

no other than this, so long as Travers continues
70 manufacture IT,
To.NIoHT.-Mr. Eisfeld's Second Classical
Quartette sOiree will be given This evening in
/ Hope Chapel Noone whose musical taste is in
any degree cultivated should fail to be there.
u Tie Gears Reception" last night was
ather slim affair About a o'clock about go
Of the unterrfed were in attendance, and the
curtain was rolled up. A President 40 Vice Pre-
sidonts end 90 Secretaries were appointed, and
then Gen. Cass was intr dnced lie did not come
to make speech, he said, but we thought that
had the "Old Wigwam" been a little" fuller
that we should have had one at least two hours
long AS It was he spoke about half an hour, but
the " noise and confusion prevented our report
er rom taking rerba'im report but it was fal
Of " Democracy" " Union" " Liberty" and such
Ike phrases, which have always passed current
among the frequenters Of Tammany. Gen. Cass
was followed by his colleague, Senator Felcb, by
Mike Walsh, and by Ned strshan, all in about the
same strain, except Ned and Ike, who were "a
little more So At o'clock the meeting ad.
ourned, and the fountain head of Democracy was
dark and dismal as ever-notwithstsndng the
"grest light which had been shedding its lustre
around it for two hours. At no time was there
over GOO persons present. including the boys and
the tooth pick girls. The fact is, the Meo-Drama
Of "Cass & Co.. and the farce Of Saving the
Union," are worn out, and will not longer draw
overlooking houses. The managers will have to
lay them aside and bring out some new sttrac-
tons.
ALMOST A TRAGEDY-NOTHING LACK
ING BUT CoURACEA case ofhre tened and supposed sui
eide, uprsmey udicrous in its nature to light very
recently and is too good to be lost 1t appears that
Thursday morning two gentlemen, members OF highly
respectable mercantile firm doing business in the First
Ward, called al the Coroners Office and informed Andrew
Beakley ESQ the Deputy Coroner, that hour two
previous they bad found in their store addressed
them by young foreigner clerk in their employ In which
no stated that when they should pese that letter be- the
writer would have terminated his existence and desgna
ed Abingdon square or hotel not far from the City Hall
where he would consummate his design. Mr.. Bleakley
told his inormans that he placed but little resnce In the
clerks pretended determination commit suicide but the
merchants thought differently, and insisted that Mr. Bleak
ley should 20 hotel which they designated, and see
the young man there, and SO, when he came-wha'
accommodations he had, &c &c The three accordingly
the hotel examined the register, and found on
the name Of the youngster he had entered the evening
previous and the propretos Of the house said had left
hat morning early. Mr. Bleskley, however, insisted on
going the which he had occupied TO satisfy hmsef
whether the had left He was shown up, and found
the door locked the inside which satisfactory proof
that there He shook the door violently for
time ard called the lodger TO open it, At length
Mr. g. received loud groan in to his repeated
calls for admission which all the satisfaction he could
obtain He procured chair and looked through the glass
the door, and there stretched full length
he He then renewed his application for admission
the room, and at the same tine asked II his name was
Doodle" Being answered in the affirmative he persusd
ed Doodle to open the door, which sooner done
Than the latter again stretched hmsefOn the bed and when
his friends entered be appeared writing In the agones OF
despor and nothing audible could be heard from him in
questions asked him, but grOaHs For few mo
he deceived the whole party who considered that be
almost gone. Mr. Bleakey asked him where his pis
toll poison was, and commenced uncoverng the sup
posed dying man, when To- between the sheets lay single
bsfeled pistol with the muzze pointing from his person
Convinced that the after all sham, Mr. Bleakley
turned the merchants and said, Gentlemen you need
entertain fears that this is seriously Inclined 10 CON-
nit suicide for thus he has grossly humbugged you
His original Intention confined Mr. B. undoubtedly was
10 end his existence but he lacked the moral courage and
think when examine this shooiing-iron iha,
will appear that bullets sugs, or other deadly missiles
therein contained"
The merchants could not suppress hearty laugh at Mr.
BIeshevs version Of the sham tragedy and Doodle him
self apparently returning 10 conscousnes' was noticed to
grin from one Of his mouth The fact s that Boo
de was 60 heartily ashamed OF what he had written to
bis employers that when caught he determined 10 assume
sp air OF desperation sod impress them with the belief that
he WIS serious regarding what he had written them He
acted his part well for time, but when he was rdcued
by Mr. Blebkey who among other things, told his EN-
Movers that he had cheated the Coroner out OF job he
had TO strike bis colors and appear himself again The
DEPUTY Coroner finding the job Improbable one TO him.
le the employers and employee iogehertook the pistol
in his hand and started his office to examine the conens
but on the way he individual whom he pro-
cured 10 discharge at board AS Mr. Beakley pognoI
Gated contained nothing but slight wadding, which
the explosion Of the cap the tube blew out
Doodle il appears had made will, bequeahing vae
ty OF ewelry and other effects to relative, showing
corcusyely that at first he meditaed seltdestrucon Il
has that this young man who made such an
ass OF himself has been sadly disappointed in al adventure
where fair lady" concerned, and which al ume'
rendered bin partially delirious
What has become o. Doodle since this dreadful exposure
csme to light we unable to say but Is hoped tna'
Richard himself again. and that he has been reinaIea
10 his situation which he previously filed with much Gre
| dit TO himIelf.
/ "a We publish the following letter at the
personal request of the lady whose name IS sign
J ed to it;
/ To the Editors Of The Tribs~e;
BROOKLYN Friday, March a.
| GENTLEMEN Ibeg of you the favor to be allowed TO
say 10 the Public that while truly grateful to those
kind persons have money TO relieve the wants
myself and children through the hands OF the Editor OF The
Herald am constrained by regard for my own feeings