New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-21

Aston PLACE OPERA HoUsR.-Ihe Furniture Ocenefy
and Fixtures Of this House sold at O'Clock yesterday
by CoFFIS Il HsTDocE The aggregate proceeds Of the
sale amounted to about $4,000. Among the purchasers
were Mr. Warden VI o paid s5oo for the magnificent
Chandelier Mr. John Duer the purchaser OF the "a Sofas
at s. each the iron railing around the galleries was pur'
chased BY Mr. Nbo az average Of 90 cents per foot
Mr. Kmba ofthe Boston Museum paid 500 Tor the whole
of the parauette seats Mr. NblO bought large number
of complete opera scenes painted by Lego. for about
$500 Mr. I. w. Sea us purchased the whole OF the
plumbing work TO- 500, cost $500; johnson Brother
purchased the whole Of the Pa6xues for $40 cost soO
Mr. Kemp proprietor CT the Odeon, Wi.msburgh, bought
large number of drop scene fats &C. for 800 the act
curtain drop curtain sold for s35 TO aq1or dealer
who intends making bar from them The whole OF
the fixtures sold at equally low rate The sale was
concluded y O'Clock after the sale the process of re-
rnoval Immediately and when left the din
Of hammers and the noise Of poes and carmen resounded
through the building The whole Of the materials sold must
be removed BY Tuesday next.
~ Yesterday morning about 10 o'clock blind man
named Eli Dsnks IT, was tossed sad injured by nsd
at The corner Of John and Peass The animal pass up
Jshn4t, towards Broadway.
ALLEN ST. YOUTHS MISSIONARY SocIETT-This Society
celebrated its Sixteenth Anniversary last evening at the
Anenst NJ L. Church. goody number of persons were
present The business Of the meeting wascommenced by
Report Of the past year read the net receipts amount
ed to S7l2 a. The Report specified the different popular
fields Of Missionary enterprise open to the operatives OF
this Society," among which Africa Sandwich Islands
South America China and India. Revs Maurice d. Craw-
ford Robt Hatfield, and Mr. Mley addressed the meet
ing at length in advocating the claims OF this society to
their countensnce and support and united in advising all
preFen TO contribute literally both by contribution and
PRAYER 70 the aid of this The young men of the So
cety bore the expense sO each of constituting the fol-
lowing Bishops: Waugh James Scott, Simpson, Ames,
Baker and Morris and their wives life patrons of the
Society After the transaction Of the regular business
collection taken up, and after singing and benedicton
the meeting dispersed.
~ Rev Dr. Krebs sailed for Europe yesterday in the
packet ship Southampton Prof j. A. Marsh Of Boston
Joseph w Harper, senior and junior, G. b. Norton and
others Of this city and Rev T. Rice of Conn also
passengers.
t7 The sale of the Vanderbilt Ferry Interests men.
toned Yesterday was for the of OO Of which
$4,000 was paid down at once The property sold and
purchased embraces all the CommOdores property at New
BRIGHTON valued at two hundred thousand dollars all the
boats at the White Hall Ferry the lease Of the White
Hall Slip Of the Slip the north side Of the Battery all
his Water Right on Staten Island exendir from Sapson
TO New Brighton, distance nearly two miles the Quar-
autine Dock Mr. Vanderbis Mansion and all the ground
adjoining the extensive Dock Buildings all the north
side Ferry and Boats and the wharves at Port Richmond
and other places; all the leases of houses from St. An
drews Church in fact all the COmmodore's Ferries.
Ferry Rights Landings and property both sides Of the
Island 1t is intended to keep up hahour boats to
the Island and to keep down the faresf possible
duce the rates still further The purchasers are large
nronev owners on the Island Their first inducement to
run the Ferry was to put down the fare and to improve
their real estate.
Mr. CHARLES AsToR BRIsTED, Citys distinguished
representative at the high Court of Fashion who writes to
7he Home Journal from "Numero 20 Rue rbe de
Jouy" that he can find in Paris gloves 6 to wear
though be has "not bad hand and his glovebi exceeds
$500 per annum appears to have been fallen in with during
his travels by dear counymsn j. Ross Browne who,
in his Yusef just published, daguerreotypes him as fol-
lows:
oWhen first saw him, he the way from Florence
to Milan in quest Of pair Of psntloons Of particular
style No man in Europe understood cutting except Pan
tet There was set in Panaletti that made him inds
pensabe II had tried the Partisan taors but they were
deficient in the knees. 1t was his intention to proceed at
once from Milan 10 Lepsic for boots tine Germans were
the only people who brought boots to PERFECTION and de-
odeoy the best to BE- had At Leipsie lie expected
TO be obliged to return to Paris for shirts there was set
in the collar Of the Partisan shirt that suited him. Ills
medicine he always purchased in London his cigars he
vas forced to import from Havana his Lataa tobacco he
-as co,need TO purchase himself in Smyrna and this
partly the occasion of his present visit As to wines it
was nonsense TO undertake 70 drink any bat the pure J0
hannsberg- he generally saw bottled on the Rhine
he spent chiefly in Spain il the only country where
GOOD cream was be had bat the coffee was INFERIOR and
be sometimes had 20 the Pyrenees for want Of good
cup of coffee No mode OF travelling suited him exactly
in fact he dsked travelling Riding he hated because it
ioed him; walking because II tired him. the snow, be
cause il was cold the sun, because il was warm Rome
because Il was damp Nice because it was dry Athens
because Il was dusty. by the way, disked Athens my
self chiefly Oh that account Bimby right there But
twas impossible for him to live in America again. What
could any man Of taste do there No pictures, ruins
no society no opera classical Notwithstanding at
all except business and all sorts OF business he desped
N was ridiculous well vulgar way Of spending
life In fact the only decent people he had met with
the French might conrve to exist while IN Paris
Not that he approved altogether OF the French language
waned depth and richness the only language worthy OF
man OF sense was the Sanscrit As he had suited
himself in boots at leipsc he going to perfect himself
in Sanscr at the University at Berlin after which he hoped
70 recover the effects OF hard study by tour through
Bavaria which the only country on the face Of the
earth where the beer was fit 70 drink.
SrRASGERs-The following are among the arrivals al
the principal hotels:
METROPOLITAN HOTEL.
Hon f. b. Dean Wisconsin. J. Shsrpess Quebec.
Col. SchlgsT Osde1sbuTgh, J. Ramirez. Havana
Prof Warner, Amherst Capt Watkins Pache > :. Co
/ N Runev U.SN. j. l. McLGne, Maryland.
Can't j. b. Fsbe Francisco c. A. Buckley, New-OTesns
A. b. Sheales, England l. Deaderich, Tennessee.
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