The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-03
City InfelIluGnce


HIS IMPERIAL MAJEsTY THE EMpERoR HAru CoNTRIBu
roR 10 THE CRYSTAL PALACE ExHImr1oN.-The schooner
Prince brought the following articles the contribution
of Emperor Faustn T. of Hay to the New York Crystal
bags coffee, bundle Brazil wood
do chocolate nuts do, lngwood,
/ package yellow wax, package silk wood bark
! case water potts. l DO repperwood bark,
2 boxes soap, bale Hayti hemp,
pieces lignumvite, can castor OIL
Iacksgc starch, ! do honey.
l do. miner al coal, block marble,
/ bundle rosewood bark, piece MAHOGANY.
The last named article weighs nearly three tons
CLINTON HAu--The Mercantile Library Associate
located in This building, do no. intend before
The first of Muy in the ensuing year. 1t will t,ke at
least that length Of tmc to get ready cdicc
is their intention 10 mos the A,ior opera House and
erfc aro er building on the lot Nothing yct has been
done in tn. way CT demolition have the committee
as yet seeced design he lecture of the above
society has been divided OF n,o apartments which are
being ed rp Offices, and will be to let tn differ
ent occupants This alteration has taken time to
eject from the peculiar shape of the lee it
very little adapted for the purposes for which it is
Intended and the interior OF tae Clinton Hall build
irg may be said rather to have been built than mod
fed to meet its altered circumstances
To epumerate all the mo,ings in snd out of New York
city during The ast week and yesterday, would ee an i
possibility; it has been almost general turn out but
does not appear so great rs It actually was from the
fact thst many moved On Saturday and the
Sunday which the real first cf May, thus dividing
the number, which, il the moving had been IL on a
single day, would have been considerably swollen above
what il yesterday Notwithstanding this, however,
the number yeselday was >e,y Urge aud began almost
feoie do light and bad not finished long after sunset
The ferries to BroGiyn and williamsburg ere like
we well attended during the whole of the day. many ia
miles being determined to try their luck the other
side Tic moving has certainly been very general and
the city extends upV ss may expect to look
ufon uuon tqnae as the central pcin lhe retail store
keeIere down town gradusY moving up Broad Ray
ard the stores end private houses in the streets below
Chambers street being fast transferred into large
wholesale warehouses. This gradual encroachmcnt OF
Increasing commerce is developing itself on grand
scale ard with the utmost energy i assuming to itself all
tie lover districts Of the city This nas caused great
charges among n class of stor. keepers who are not
generally inciined to take srch steps.
TIE OlD BIBLE HorsE -Workmen busily engaged
durirg the day in clearing out the remaining portion of
the fixtures ard other materials belonging to the Ameri
can Bible Society that bad pot been previously removed
10 their new premise, up Town The old building in
which has been for many years in their possession
will tie occupied by the Baptist Bible Society bat pre-
yiouey to entrance there viii be ADDED another story to
the present building.
ANNIVERSARY May l3th--Five Points House Of Indus
try, at the Tabernacle, y. O'Clock, p. NJ.
CayDipATrs FOR 1Hr BAR. :. Mcssrs II II. Burlcck John
Patterson and Albert Matthew we're appointed examu-
fox candidates for admission TO the bar Thursday
rext
FiRsT ToAT THHorGn FROM ROCHESTER The boat Fuse.
b;a Capt. Charles Vaughan belonging to the Ne York
and cencste Valley Cans Line mich loaded at Ca.
nawargus 20 mics south OF Rochester, arrived at this
port sunday, at ~ O'Clock, with full load of -four
copspued to iosz Cary and is the first boat through
fiom Rochester this spring,
rn,NGEes' rRIBB-1he book and job printers of thi
city turnd out Yesterday on the strike AMI fixed he
head quarters ~ Tammany Hall In tho evening they
held meeting at Fountain Hall, in the Bowery near
Grand stree, which largely attended anu much
enthusiasm was exhibited by those present
FATAL AccpYT An accident Of fat tai nature oce red
ycsteiCay afternoon in tie Twentieth ward in conse.
qrtnca of horse alta ,hed to wagon in which sIr
John MuIkin and wife being the OF Beecker aud
Bark stftcts taki0g fright aud running away Mr. Me-
hin WAS thrown 70 .hc rayemett wit" o. ,oh .,..a.
10 be almost Dssntly killed lis BODY was taken IN
by The Twentieth ward police on which Coroner Gamble
vii bod an inquest this morning Mrs Murkin being
daneeroG"'v Injured was carried 70 tbe Hospital
FUNERALS Several Of our bcnc yolcnt societies we're
Sunday paying their last tIbae OF respect Ie
ceased brothers OF their respective orders Among Others
We noticed the New York Catholic temperance Asso
ca,op the members of which attsnded ia considerable
numbers preceded by Msnahans brass baud. The ori-
en Excelsior and other lodges OF the Free Masons like
wise attenccd tie uLera OF deceased member OF their
order to Greenwood cemetery, accompanied by shelton
brass band; and the Hudson Hose Company No 81 per
formed similar duty towards colleague
HoAxrD-It sometime, happens that Fire Companies
eager 70 wait for the sgnal fro the fire
BELL through audabe desire TO be first and foremost on
tie spot. This overwecning zeal nioriy ia often
ade the subject Of practical jokes and in this way NJ,
Ia Iprine Company were deluccd ON Friday night by
messenger who cane post haste with the noss a ire in
Madison street, near Roosevelt. or started No. a. with
cpcer, drawn by the juvenile members If their conmn
nifty ana these latter adnonhed 10 raise no shout
ing that they might steal unexpected march, not
the cyen but on thor rival engine companies and be
first IN the field They accordingly made the way to the
appointed spot with unaccustoIned silence, aad only
arrived II 6nd that they had beeo hoaSed The alarm
wes fal cne there was no fire. and they had Accord
na to bend their steps back chewing the cud Of rsec
tion Moral Frcmen, zait for the bell and les all start
fair fngne Company No. 2s we're similarly hoaxed bat
found out their in time not however, before they
had started.
ACCIDENT Yesterday afternoon, officer Logan of the
Second Patrol District, attached TO the Chiefs Office
severely injured In consequence Of being struck the
head by large sign which fell from the old building
in Of demolition at the OF Fulton street
and Broadway. He removed by his fellow officers