New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-10
CITY ITEMS


J E1TIssfos o. ALHAsT-sT. THROUGH TRfsrrr CguRcs
TARD.-ln the Board Of Councinen las; evening Conn
Gilman Frye moved to take up the minority and min,r
reports this question with view be stated to dssy
nate some particular day on which 70 act upon them
Couroilmsn Jackson bought both reports should be
ferTed back, the paes had been heard before h
Committee. Councilman FrJe said tAat such was the
case and there bad been meeting Of the Committee
this Bo,rt tie subeot bur the reason that tao
parties themselves minated that there was necessity
Of the meeting. Councilman Cooper thought as the mat
ter had teen fully heard before the Board Of Aldermen
there necessity Of referring back COunCiln N
Conover and two other members thought the par
ties should be heard and that complaints had been made.
Councilman Purdy inquired By whom The reply was
NJ Erben. Mr. Purdy then said that Mr.. Erben the
very who had urged the Committee Of this Board to
report without hearing ihe parties. Councilman Wild
said Trinity Church had moi authorized SIR Erben any
other individual to speak for il, and Mr. Erben had
spoken 10 the Committee, he did individual.
Councim.n Kennedy and Seely spoke the former with
much and tie latter with great severity at Mr.
Erben comiay to the meetings and occupying she menu
bers seats ana conversi5g with them. Councilman Cano
yer said he glad gentlemen coming here Both
| reports finely referred back to the Committee.
! THE TRADE SALE.-The Siziieth New-Yo4k Trade Sale
Of Books is announced by Bangs Brother Co. to
mence on Tuesday next the l5A inst and continue
ten days The catalogue presents imposing array ofes
from the principal publishing houses in the United States
including great variety Of recent works in the most i'm
poran branches OF science and literature. The Invoices
Of Appleton & Co., Francis & Co., Harper & Brsthers
Putnam & Co.. Barnes 4 Co., Mason Brothers, j. C..
Derby and others amply represent the city trade in m
various departments while Boston, Philadelphia and
Cincinnati furnish copious supply Of excellent literature
from their wellknown dstng lshed publishing houses.
more popular and truly valuable collection of books has
never been issued in this country than that published
since the last Trade Sale In spite of hard times cholera
and hot weather we shall LOOK for the usual jolly
union Of the brethren Of tLe trade, who will find the
urbane auctoneer with undated devotion to their inter-
ests and equally jealous with themselves for the wide diff
fusion Of useful knowledge.
Hany f man viii show us that we have made any mis-
statement Of fact inference with regard to the assault
upon Mr.. Hdreth Of Brooklyn, we will eheerfully cor
rect the same or will publish any of reasonable
length to our article but let be borne in mind that
TIE TRIBUNE will not undertake to print corrections of
the blunders animadveous upon the vulgar language
Of other papers
TIE FLOATING BATTERY.-Active operations have
Gently been resumed upon the large steam battery for ha
Dor defense in process of construction at the yard Of
the Messrs Stevens in Hoboken about sixty operatives
being at work under awning in consequence OF the in
tense glare of the The battery Is to be composed
solely of iron.
Mons and Mad Thillon sailed for Liverpool yesterday
in the steamer Africa
A FUGITIVE FEMALE ~ MALE ATTIRE.-A girl named
Frances Burnett neatly dressed in male attire, found
at O'Clock yesterday morning by Policeman Murray of
the Reserve Corps intoxicated at the of Thirty
sevenh.st. and Seyenth-ay Upon being questioned she
stated that she arrived in this City about two weeks ago
from Warren, Conn, and had been living with man
named John Gslpn, who keeps unlicensed rum-shop
for the accommodation of stagedryer in the upper part
of Sevenhay. and further that of the stagedvers
bad enere her and abusedher She also stated that
her parents dead but that she had brothers living in
Connecticut She detained at the Station House and
letter was dispatched to one of her brothers to come for
her. Galpn was arrested charge of selling liquor
without license and committed by Justice Stuart.
SURPRISE AND ARREsr OF RIVER THIEyEs.-On Tues
day evening Capt Walling, Of the Eighteenth Ward Po
lice received Information that led him suppose that the
soop China laden with 500 bushels of wheat aud lying
at the foot of Twonteh-st East River was about being
robbed by river pirates lie accordingly took with him
posse Of and last night at 10 clock, by of
rowboet, boarded the China, upon which they found
actively engaged in transferring the wheat from
that vessel board the soop Sarah Jane lying alongside
All hands were captured and yesterday locked up by
Justice Stuart for examination. Their John
Burns Jacob H. Jacobs the former master and the latter
pilot of the China Moody of the Sarah Jane and
Chas Cooper Joseph Byrnes JAS Carman and Terrence
ussey hands board these vessels About 25O bushels
of the wheat had been transferred from the China TO the
Sarah Jane and had the Police arrived when they did
the whole cargo would probably have been carried off be-
fore morning.
The FATAL AccIDLyr oS PIER %, f. R-Coroner
Hilton yesterday held an inquest at NewYork Hospital
upon the body of Hugh Murphy, native OF Ireland 40
years of age, who crushed to death Tuesday
morning between the Catharine Ferry boat " Ellen and
pier 81, T. r. 1t in evidence that the deceased
sleeping the edge Of the pier the boat entering
her dock, and that the tide swung her against the pier
jus; the place where he asleep and bein. caught
between the boat and pier he crushed to death The
jury after fully investigating the case rendered verdict
of accidental death His mi nies chiefly to the
head and chest
FATAL AccIDEST.-John Dwell laborer, in.
silently killed yesterday morning BY the falling upon him
Of embankment while digging cellar at the Of
Forty second ST. and Madson-av. The body extri-
Gated and inquest held upon it by Coroner Gamble.
Verdict " accidental death Deceased a native Of
Ireland a. years of age.
ATTEMPTED sFIcIDE.-Julia Wilson abandoned and
intemperste female, attempted suicide yesterday morning
by jumping into OF the East River docks She
rescued with much difficulty by young man, and taken
before Justice Welsh who sent her to the Pententary
vagrant paper yAth her and residence No. ll3
Greenes pinned her dress before she plunged into
the water.
ASSAULT WITH ISTESr TO KILL.-Henry Mckinley,
Edward Mckinley, John Doyle and Mary Reed,