New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-12-13


the Five Points House Of Industry ehldrsn under the
tuition and management; of Geo Henry Curtis musieisn-
viii give juvenile concert a; the Tabernacle wsdaes
day evening Dec 2lst
The children viii sing twelve original songs and the
audience viii be addressed by Mr. Pesse, Mr.. Carts and
others
SIr Giles gives the last of his Brooklyn Lectures tonight
Mr. Raphal finished his Course on Hebrew Poetry last
night
Dion Bourcicau gives the second Of his Winter Even
"ingh" OF Hope Chspel this evening.
The Rev Mr. Inskip speaks upon The True Doctrine Of
"Wornans Rights" at the Madison st. N Z. Church this
evening
Dolso IFS FIRST WoREs"-The waning year is ev
IDENTITY seeing what can do Who loveler nights
than Saturday and Sunday Poor old 81 from appear
ances is making arrangements to hold over Else, Why
this rehearsal OF nights for next August September Or
is defaulier and trying balance the boOks and leave
al right the Biologists used to say for its successor
Who Knows
At all events III never get the vote of the cos dealers
for another term butNwha ndous constituency
has in the poverty stricken districts-ths mid gentle De
oenberi The people that 1--we in ventlave" apartments
and rooy garre where there is lack Of air either the
Goody Bakes and Ruths of the streets and the lumber
yards ,
II always puzzled us to know how this month eoud bear
30 genial thing CHRISTMAS in its bosom without be
ing degree or two warmer. Certainly tho "Jsnnary
thew. should occur in December Pity the novelty % Of
the subject prevents saying more about limit
The OLD HEARTH Happening in at a store on Green
wichst yesterday where Maeria Medca is sold by the
pennys worth and the boat load CHANGED to
tie piece projecting between two huge piles OF boxeS-the
mantle piece Of an old fashioned fireplace.
Sole relic about the premises of the good old days they
IL. Ill hroLa haar h the dayse
the whirl of business had washed away "the household
gods" of Greenwichst And that building. now filed
will busy clerks and numbered up with roots and herbs
scarnmouy and gamboge house-a place sacred
to memory and affection Children were born within those
wei adults died there aioreme Round that hearth aud
within its sacred circle Of light those used to gather
who bound up in the sure bundle OF life and
love Blu, winter came and the sheaf was unbound and
they were sceredsome laid away in the garner OF death
and some waited to other fields by winds or waters Brow'
throbbing with anguish have doubtless rested that old
mantle hands ia and free have rearrange1 the ornaments
that decorated -hands perhaps that have since grown
brown and hard with oil-hands that long ago forgot
"their cunning"
There an unwritten history connected with that old
heath if the world only knew Il just such incidents as
make up the check work Of all humanity These mnemo
ncs of simpler and perhaps purer time are disappear
ing ore after another and that they are so is painful
thought
Tho Board Of Aldermen in session last evening but
there was not a sufficient number present to do much mis-
chief resolution by Alderman Ward was adopted, re-
questng the Controller toeport the street cleaning lot
out BY contract in accordance with section IL OF the amend
ed Charter and fso whether the parties the contract
are performing The work in full compliance with such agree
rnent entered into with the City.
A. MIGHTY ORGAS-Some interesting experiments have
recently been made the Crystal Palace Sydenham Eng
land with respect the power required BY organ to fill
the building and report has been presented to the Drec
tors on the subject As the central ransept alone covers
larger ar than occupied by the cathedral York some
idea Of the size and power of instrument which
should be heard in all parts of the building may be formed
The Committee report that the required for the nsru
mn would not be less than $500 feet the depth Of the
orcen 80 feet and its altitude from the ground lao feet
Tie cost would not be less than $4,000 and its
ton would extend OVER period of three years.
BE CAREFUL HOW YOU WRITE YOUR NAME.-A gentle
man, member of wholesale house down town, recently
called at one Of Banks pay note of $4,000 as due
that day. Having money deposit to pay it, he stepped
M 70 the desk and filed check for the amount But find
ing his signature little imperfect he pushed ASIDE the
check and filed another for the amount pre-
sented t. received his note Of $4,000, aud retired to
his counting house Presently of the officials at
the Bank stepped in and inquired Mr. - no"
many checks for $4,000 have you drawn todayF One
Is the ready response took up note Of $4,000 with
CHECK" We'll sir there have been two checks for $4,000
drawn by YOU presented at The Bank" As if fash OF
lightning had shod light his mind he remembered his
check ieced in sequence of slight defect which he
had neglccd TO tear up and had left the desk Some
reron it seems found the check there and procured boy
10 present IT, Tie paying teller suspicious that all was not
right either from the fact Of having just paid for that
amount or the imperecon in the signature which led the
drawer to r,ect II and write another showed it to the ot
cers who also did not like the looks of things. The teller
then turned to the boy and eyng him pretty sharply asked
him where he got the check when the boy instantly fed
and has not since been
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of $500 is offered by an aged friend to be awarded to the
author Of the best approved treatise of not less than 300 nor
mort than 400 pages on The Right Way or the Gospel
opped TO the Intercourse Of individuals and Nations as
more parcu ary defined by theauihor in The American
Messenger for December The premium is to be awarded
by committee consisting of the Rev. Joseph w. Parker
ID d OF Cambridge Mass the Hon. William j. Hubbard
of Boston and the Rev Asa d. Smith. ID. ID, of New York
and tha aged friend has pledged further sufficient to
rerpeua,e the circulation of said volume in the Evange
{" cal Family Library" Of the American Tract Society
Manuscripts may be presented until January 1853 and
nav be addressed post paid to the Rev Seth Bliss No Is
Cornb Boston or to William A. Hallock, No $50 Nassau
st NewYork
We learn that Mr. William Rushton of the well known
firm of Rushton Clark Co. Wholesale and retail druggists
recently Rushton & Aspinwall died yesterday Mr.
was one of the most entepng business men OF New ior