New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-29

weary iee' or We distributed netting ia IN m
OF ground lie meny cabbegss just tran, ,aei
The only real benefit Of t-se stools TO tle boys who
inside Of them and kept them half hidden
in mud so that the inclination to sit upon them
efecualy checked alter trial. But nIw We have
another 'mprov-lent; the ,oo. are al plsd mp. and
somebody has got fine lot of fre-wooi for he
There now no seat in the Park the unfortunate
with small children who there fin As little proy
ion Tor rest as did the dove forth by Noah and of
the Park must be by them abandoned Ii Is be
eved tina: the inventor and remover of the stools per-
eotng plan for sending electric currents at intervals of
hsfa minute along all the chains in the Park lest
reckless boy should enjoy the pleasure of swing thereon
the wires are also connect with the posts and fences TO
prevent people from leaning against them We believe the
public still have permission to walk through the Park pro-
vided they going and from business and are not too
inquisItye around the City Hall
THE Ericsson This ship is lying at her dock in
Wliamsburgh Just above the Grandst Ferry Important
alterations are going in her machinery at Hogg Della
matters foundry which the owners confident will con
sderaby increase her speed She is to be ready to sail for
London on her first passenger trip, after the first OF
july at which time the Improvements now going on will
be completed and she will be in order throughout Capt
Ericsson and some of the principal owners will go out in
her to Europe She can accommodate about two hundred
passengers The ship is open to public inspection.
HUDSON RIVER kAIIkoAD.-lHt stattiloht n"" SoHig
the rounds of thapapers that the double track between
New York and Albany will be finished and in in few
davs i no, correct The following is the statement
a. miles from New York Red Hook and miles from A.,
banv 10 Cas,con completed and in operation ?! miles
from Poughkeersie to Cold Spring, and miles, from Cas-
teon TO School ck will be completed and in operation in
the course of about four five weeks From Cold Spring
n Carsons ard from Tvo to Hudson comprising about
= miles will be completed some time in the The
L ;lirnt bo N al
next year.
Tpy ARrUsIoS-A petition presented to the Legis
lre Of this State at the recent session BY persons
members or Ginning to be members of The American
A,rnion" complaining of corruption and mismansge.
MT in the affairs of that body. The petition stated that
Tho nronery which should have been equitsbly divided
,onc all the subscribers had been retained by few per-
on vino by fnesse got themselves appointed managers
claimed redress and asked for nvesg atom There was
Committee appointed by the Legislature to inquire into
,bs sub;ect consisting of lonorables ID Taylor of New
York r NJ Champaign OF Allegheny, and A. VI Chpp of
Fo This Committee met yesterday at the Astor House
q, nroceed with the inquiry. The petitioners were repre-
sond bv Mr. Shannon and the Art MON by Mr. Cozzens
do President and others The Chairman of the Committee
br; av stated to the parties the nature of the inquiry when
the netiton was read by the Clerk Mr. j. S Nsew The
Cbsrmanthen said thathis was hefstmeeng ofthe Com
nec and that nothing further could be done at that time
than merely TO arrange the mode of proceeding and
M whether both parties would require the aid of coun gel or
NOT desultory conversation then ensued, during which
N Czzens stated that the Art Union had understood that
counsel would be necessary, and that in consequence
Nessrs OConor and Fullerton had been engaged Mr.
onnop said that counsel had been yet engaged on
be mart Of the petitioners but he supposed this could be
soon arranged 1t then agreed that both parties should
anrear bv counsel and the Committee adjourned o'clock
NJ this day the purpose ohearng evidence in support
of the charges made in the petition
ANTIQUITIES OF NEw-YoRK.- is fast age, and a
r,r,icularv fast city. The word antiquity has a very
new meaning men erect houses and consecrae churches
TODAY who will live their work set down in engrav.
rrs and described curoses of the Olden Time in New
York II is not go years since the first civilized man
anded upon island and we are now rgreng the loss
Of many valuable relics of antiquity, and carefully preserv
inc be forms of old structures which have flen beneath
the sceptre of Progres-no; the tootn of Time But
rs these things may appear to others they really old
rs Our life of enterprise and unrcmitting activity
condense years into months and centuries into decades
Our fathers are the slowco ches Of former century and
opr Grand hers the misty shadows of prehistoric age
Existence in this Babel of the West mountain torrent
born Of q thunder stOrm-a full stream at its birth, an
nneuous and RESTLESS and often unexpected
aud unnoticed termination.
The Manual OF the Corporation" for this year con
Times with the praise worthy zeal of former volumes the
Valentine has been in the City Hall for nearly quarter Of
a century and has been Clerk of the Common Council
depuy and prncpa since 1888 and for all this period he
has been engaged in collecting everything Of interest which
he could trace in public private records tradition
Selections from the thus collected have appeared in
successive volumes Of the Manual with old maps engrav
inps of old edccs &c transcripts from the journals OF
the Burgomasters the early laws of the English, &c.
The historical portion of the Manual for this year embra
as boorapbca sketches of the Mayors of the CITY from
1908 to Is3J Among them Thomas WilIett the first
English Mayor; Sephanus Van Cortland the first Mayor
born in this country Nicholas Bayard the active opponent
Of Leer's Rebellion and subsequently himself tried and
condemned for high treason but saved from death by
King; James Duane, the first Republican Mayor Col Va
rick Edward Livingston Dewitt Clinton Marinus Wlett
Csdwalader d. Golden Stephen Allen, William Pauldng
Philip Hone Walter Browne Gideon Lee &c. The family
connections of these and the other Mayors is a toler
able index TO the Knickerbocker pedigree OF many
Of our oldest houses Mr.. Valentine presents, vui
Gus interesting particulars of the settlement division of
lands making of streets &C. by the Dutch He has also
searched ont curious trial for Witchcra Court Of As
sizes October 1865 which Jacob eser was one of the
Grand Jury The compliments were the Constable and
Oyerseers of the town Of SeatacOt in the East Riding Of
Yorkshire upon Long Island and the defendants Ralph
Hall and wife The indictment declares that Ralph Hail. Of
Seaalco did by some detestsble and wicked arts com
monty called Wchcraft or Sorcery, macously and felo
nousy practice upon the person Of George Wood by which
arts he as is suspected sckened and not long after died
&c The accused plead not guilty and tried the u
rvs verdict being follows I'VE having considered the
case committed to our charge against the prisoners and
having well weighed the evidence find that there
some suspicious by the evidence of what the is
charged WITH but nothing considerable OF value to take
awav her life But preference to the man, find nothing
consider able Of value TO charge him with" The Court