New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-17

proJect-seeus to be still kopeIessly er,sngei in the
Law.
lie widening and extension Of Antony-s, TO Chat
nhn'square urged by parties who desire to improve
property and morals in the Five Pon:s
In Connection with these is proposed raise the
grade OF feari, Anthony Leonard Franklin Cross Or.
snge Mulberry and ChsttAIn ats so q TO I'll up the
Investigations ten or twelve feet portion OF Orange
a. has already been raisei and the work ohoalj not
bsve been stopped
The widening Of Church 81, twenty-five feet on the
west tide Is sgnIn ay;sed bu; definite progress has
been made
lsPRoyEMEST ~ CHArHkM-srREEr.-We
learn that the owners of property in Chatham ST. are
atou asking permission al up the its low
est points between Oliver and Duane-ss Thi. is Ger
thnly avery desirable improvement. II level street
can be made between the City Hall and the Bowery
and East broadway il will enhance the value Of prop
erty in Chahamst Immediately besides being grea,
public benefit
TRIBUTE OF REsPEcr.-Mr. Richard S.
Jones who has been engaged for the last three or four
years az eclerk at the extensive foundry and steam
works Of Messrs. Mott Ayres being about to leave
he was presented. on "Wednesday evening By the
workmen of whom there are about 800 in the estab
lishrneni) with splendid gold watch and chain as
tribute of their esteem and respect
? SALE or A CLiPPER.-The clipper-ship Fly
ing Yankee has been sold by Messrs Brett, vose Co
for $4,000. Her has been changed to the Flying
Arrow.
RTM.PEaprr xraakS
since very respectable middlesCed gentosnan,
siding in the country this City on visit and
after few days dined evening at the house of
friend started for his hotel about midnight AMI
not nor heard from for more than two weeks
greatly to the surprise and anxiety Of his friends here
and al home. Dilicent search constantly
wsrded by disappointment, and the parties had about
concluded that the man drowned when the gentle
man with whom he dned received a note stating that
the missing person close prisoner in house OF
illfame in Duane ct. we believe Captain OF Police
informed of the fact, and in company with the
friend called at the house They asked the pris
oner They were denied admittsnce, but upon being
assured that the door would be broken down unless
opened. the inmates reluctantly yielded. After
search they found the missing in upper room.
under the surveillance of a double listed ruffan and in
state of mind that would have been study for ply
stefan tolunaiics appeared from his story and other
evidence that the way home from the dinner he had
fallen in with Cypian who induced him to visit the
sI:d house Being in merry mood, from the effects
of the Hcidsick he had taken dinner he paronizcd
the vince cupboard Of bis landlady rather freely.
treated bersly Newark cider cold in such places at
the price of genuine Tokay) and for the remainder Of
the night he the head and front Of the revel Of
course getting nbundanily drunk When the reckoning
no no N and ho
not a 1.-THE of the money. lie then forbidden to
leave the house Until The bill paid, and put
der charge of the Cerbeus above described. The
keeper of the house rcckoned upon his writing to the
country for money, when, to avoid exposure he would
pay the bill End leave quietly possible Instead Of
that however, he wrote to his friend and that gentle
being better acquainted with the mode of dealing
with the vampires, called in officer, paid the bill,
liberated the prisoner and arrested the mistress of the
mansion and some of her confederates. This may
warning to visitors from the rural districts
hundreds Of whom feeccd in these places every
year. but suffer the most outrageous depletion OF the
purse rather than publish their follies to the world.
CLERKs.-To The Editor of The Tribune:
1t has now become almost settled practice among
merchants to employ Clerks, paying them large COM
pensaon for their services If they bring TO the
establishment any considerable amount oftradc. Such
has become the anxiety of merchants to OBTAIN
such Clerks that very often the most dhonorable means
are resorted 10 20 accomplish their purposes IL Is
about years that the writer, who is an old obbng
merchant had in his employ man TO whom he paid
81 coo per annum He was highly recommended for
liz good qualities and particularly because he could
comm nj trade. The result Of experience. however
proved that he far from being good business man.
and the trade which he introduced was Of vary bad
charscer-about quarter Of his sales proving worth
ess
However ore Of my neghbors who was in the same
trade had formed different opinion, and without ask
ing for any Recommendation from his employer, en-
gagged him The result of this arrangement was most
disastrous the last employer IL s true that he had
large acquainance-and he controlled them, and sold
them lerge amounts Of goods-the most Of which were
never converted into anything but promises 10 pay My
object is, 20 worn some merchants aoou; employing
clerks who unwilling 10 refer 70 their present en-
ployers Yours respectfully
Nsic- York, Dec l6, 1852. An OLD MERCHANT.
The LATE CoUSTERFEITING CAsE.-Arred
of AnotAer Of the GanQ-Bfore Tctims Of he ViIdiqs-
In consequence of the publication IN the morning papers
Of yesterday Of the arrest OF four men TOR passing couu
erieit IS bills the Leland Bank, at New Lebanon,
Columbia County. About twenty persons who had
taken the spurious notes appeared quite early Yesterday
morning before Justice Osborne, with view OF identi-
ying the parties arrested, preparatory 70 preferrng
charges sgtinst them. Messrs w. Morgan Co. gro
GER OF No l25 Varckst; NJ. Goume, druggist, OF No.
5sl Broadway, and Mr.. Lew Adams, OF No 50 Catha-
rne-st ere amo ng the number who have taken the bills
and they identity some OF the parties under
having passed them One Of the notes was passed r,
Gently II the ticket Office of Butons Theater and the
individual who pcrpetraed the fraud, after receiving
81 80 as his change made his escape A few evenings
since well dTess ed female called the crockery store
OF j. A. Dellinger, No pa Hudson-st, AMI passed -
counterfeit bill the Putnam Co Bank, making her
escape before the character OF the oil could be acer
famed.
On "wednesday evening last, Officer Gleason aud ser
reant Martin the sixth Ward Police received inform
alton that some Of the gang 20 be found AZ re-
.pectable boarding house in Third ov. near Twenty
fsurhs In the Of the evening they called at the
house where Martin ented letter addressed TO one
OF the parties OF whom he in search, stating that