The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-04-05
NEW. YORK CITY NEWS.
SATURDAY, MARCH 81, 1855.

very lew new buildings are "goiug up
but the rents Of dwellings have not been re
dueei This Spring, Notwithstanding the hare
times.
Next week is the Jewish Passover. It will
be observed among the lsraelites, in com
memorationef The departure OF the children
OF Israel ftpF Egyptian bondage and sla
very b
The Brsv6ort House, a fashionable hote
in New York, has passed into the hands o
a receiver. The furniture cost $50, 900.
was mo.tgaged for about $40, 900, and III.
last mortgage has moved for the Receiver
appointment.
The British station for enlistment of 70 foot
for powder" 10 serve in the Crimea. which
was recently opened in New York, has beer
closed, and the recruits who are described
as the veriest scum of the alien population
d~isbanded.
From some unexplained cause, the New
York Prohibiiory Liquor Law seems to hang
fire in the Senate. OF course, the s40,O 600
known 10 be in the hands oflhe lobby agents
Of The liquor dealers has nothing 10 do with
the delay.
Barnum continues to keep his approach.
ing baby show " before the people,n by
means of structures written under the rose,
and replies thereto, over his signature.
The great Snowman has lost caste terribly
BY his autobiography. II was worse than a
crime-lt was a mistake.
The following advertisement appeared a
few days ago in one Of the dsilies:
Nofiee.-If the gentleman who keeps a
store in Cedor Street with a red head, will
return the umbrella he borrowed from a Ia.
dy with an ivory handle, lie will hear of
something 10 his advantage.
The pressure in the money market does
not seen: 10 affect the ladies of New York.
Their costume, this spring, is more rich and
costly than .peremember 10 have seen it,
sump,uary laws as stringent as those exist.
ing in England and France fur centuries
ago, would save husbands and fathers a
good many thousand dollars a year.
Much exciie m en-, has been created among
the Cubanosr and fillibusteros here, by the
news of the garoting of Ramon Pinto, late
Secretary TO Captain Genera. Concha. The
charges Of treason brought against Pinto
seem 10 have been supported by very ques.
tionable testimony.
Some haltdozen plans for the New City
Hall are now before the Common Council.
There is any quantity of lobbying and in.
triguing TO get the contract. II will be a fal
job. The cost will be from 5000, 900 10
1000 900; and 'wenty.fv per cent. thereof
may De sci down as clear profit.
The extraordinary expenses 10 which many
firms in New York are subject in the shape
of store rents, may be inferred from the fact
that the stores of The Aster House fronting
on Broadway, (eight in NUMBER rent for
Sas,ooo. each corner store, about twenty
feet front, rents for $4,000. One of "The
Trade" in that location, has been com.
PEELED 10 close doors within a few days.
Al On Anli-Maine Law meeting held in
the Fourteenth Ward, on Friday, a series oI
resolutions was produced, which neither the
chairman, the secretary, nor any of the vice.
presidents could re sd. Whether the wri,
ting was 100 bad 10 be d%ecyphered, or the
parties to much Overcome" TO read, is mol
stated. Finally, the meeting adjourned in a
state of intense disgust.
Improvement" having ousted the veneer.
able DR.. Spring from The Old Brick Church
IN Nassau street, a magnificent place of wor
ship is 10 be built for him in 9Th avenue
The ground has been bought, and ii is sale
that The edifce will be unsurpassed even By
Trinity and Grace church. There seems tc
be 4 sort e. Evangelical ambition in New
York, to worship God in "frst class church
es in the fashionable avs1ues.
"Spiritualism" fourishes in New York. A
new Medium named Wolfe, formerly attach
ed to the Bowery Theatre, is said 10 be pro
ducing, or rather eliciting, the most astonish'
ing phenomena. Ii is averred that, in the
"~circle" over which he presides, letter.
from the Spirit land fall in showers over the
table, and pictures worth s25 10 500 each,
are thrust by Spirit hands through the floor
We should rather like 10 belong to tina, cir
Gle. The chance Tor a picture nigh, be bel,
ter than in an "At Union"
HobokeR has determined TO become :
city so soon as it can get a charter. The
fauns and dryads IRE 10 be displaced by
mayor and corporation. Where will the
~melropoiitans 60 10 breathe? II seems 10 u.
that The commercial capital will soon be ir
| The condition of one OF those unfortunate
toads sometimes found in blocks of stone
walled in, Theoretically sealed within
double circle of brick ard mortar. Its onl,
salvation is the "Central Park" Wiihou
that, it will be in danger of falling a victim
10 the same complain, that carried off Ca
Nicholas-atrophy of the lungs.
The Chevalier Wikoff is out in the Raale
with a contradiction of Mr.. Seule's assertion
that Louis Napoleon, just before his coup d
etat, proposed TO send a secret envoy to th,
United States, in order 10 see what chance
there might be of stirring up a revolution
among US. Wikoff cites a letter addressed
TO him by Prince Napoleon about the time
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