New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-02-20


to be sent in twenty three numbers, payable in some
cases six months in advance in others the whole
year in advance. He gives receipts for moneys re-
ceived, stating stipulatons and signs his name
Chas Thompson, agent, &c. He is said to have been
travelling through New-Jersey for nearly year.
where he has Played his game successfully, and is
now pursuing his old articles at the various stations
on the Harlem Railroad. Our correspondent further
states that be was informed at No 40 Nassaust that
mole than FIVE hundred persons who had been duped
by this willy rascal had called there, supposlng 1t to
be No 40, but to their establishment, ascertalnsd
that there was no such number In Nassau-st., and
that 10 such Arm existed in New YOrk. This swind-
Ter is represented by correspondent as about 30
years old, feet 10 inches high, hair straight and
black, with an occasional gray one mtermingied,
Roman nose, black ewes, very genteel department,
converses thoughtfully and seriously, is acquainted
with almost everybody and every bodys business, and
finally covered with spacious mask OF rigid moral
ity and religion. Look out for him.
The sun is getting antiquated. A
Boston dasuerreotypis,, seized violently BY an at
tack of Yankee notions, has taken several pictures
by oxy- hydrogen light and they very fine indeed,
one of those that we have seen being little ahead
of any sunlgh! picture that we now rscolect.
w HAY oOSClNC, Ill tCloiCuNO w shO
late accident and loss of life the Erie Road, that
this Is the only Instance in sixteen months where
passenger has been killed on the Road.
An immense train is reported by The
Troy Wing as having passed over the Hudson River
Road on Monday II was more than mile IN length
and comprised IS cars and two locomotives.
The benefit given by Prof. Anderson
TO the widow of Michael Foster, nhe murdered po-
hceman,) yielded s SGT over all expenses.
Among the persons injured by the &C
cident on the Enc Railroad were Mr.. BuckporI, the
conductor, Patrick Flynn, the BRAKEMAN Mrs. Julia
Clareyie and daughter OF Louisville, Ky, and Mrs
James GfeilaD and dsug hter, OF Boston. The ped
cler Killed named X. s. Niddrake, OF Buffalo.
Thomas Downing keeper of an eatlog
and frsshment saloon az the corner of Broad and
"alsts ms sob, Peter w. Do wing, aad an IRISH
man named Thomas Mccormick were arrested on
wednesday Oh charges, the first of suoornation OF
perjury the latter two Of corrupt and wllful perjury IN
giving testimony IN suit recently tined In tue Court
o. common Pleas before Judge DAILY IL appears
snaI Mctormlck was brought upon the stand as
~iusss 10 snostantatc a claim OF Do wings
seainst John j. Lew, Who was the defendant in
the fNt, anu s~oTe that he had seen Levy a. Do an
US place, aho on the day after giving this testimony
ne Came INTO Court and asserted with apparent
repehisnce that he had pcrjurcd himself in regard
To that state meBt, and that Thomas Downing had
persuaded him TO commit such perjury This asser-
ton created considerable excitement in Court,
and Judge DAILY committed him TO prison. Yester.
day the jury in the case returned verdict in favor
OF Downing thus suostantiatns the justice Of his