New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-11

BTgnoh, Morell, Revere, Giulio and others.
The NEw-YORx POST-OFFIoE.-When Mr.. Post
master Fowler into Office, about three years ago.
there but % City Letter Carriers and if the up
town resident got letter from his downtown friend
in two days after it posted be was counted fora-
nate. Since that time the City Post Office hes been
improving; although not so rapidly as the exigencts
Of the public required. Mr.. Fowler Is now about to
uauguIatc new feature in the system and to improve
the business Of letter collection and delivery in New
York, very materially. At present there are four
deliveries daily below Canal street. on and after the
18th Of May there will be four deliveries and four col.
ectOns daily 10 Fify-fourth street. At the same
time, four Branch Post Offices will be established in
the following locations No. 100 Spring street, No.
439 Grand street. No 1863 Eighth avenue, and No. 400
Third avenue At these Offices the Carriers Of the
upper districts will assemble receive their packages
and depart Citizens may also there deposit letters
for the mails the city, Two express wagons will
be employed 10 carry letters from the Office in Nassau
street to the Branch Offices, and TO convey to the
Main Office mail letters collected by the Branch Offices.
The working force will be increased TO 30 Letter Car
rers and 20 Collectors, and 900 letter boxes will be
placed in safe and reliable places throughout the Oty
North Of Maiden lane and Courtandt street, the fol-
lowing rules are to be pasted upon each box:
soTIcE.
Letters deposited in this Box for the Mails, will be
taken TO the Post Office without charge.
The Postage on Mail Letters to be delivered within
the United States, must be prepaid by stamps.
Letters for delivery in this city, south of Fityfourh
street, charged TWO CENTS each, which includes
the Gamers fee, and may be prepaid or not.
No LOOse Money must be put in this Box. Money
70 prepay Letter for city delivery, for foreign
country mult be ncosed with the Letter in sealed
envelope and marked "Pad Letter"
This Box will be opened four times each day, viz:
Between q and 10 a. IN. Between Il and p IN.
Between l01 and - d. IN. Between and - D. n.
And the Letters taken Immediately to the POst-Oice.
City Letters will be sent out by the Carriers which
leave the Post Office at a. M, p n. and p IN.
ISAAC v. FOWLER, P. NJ
South of Maiden lane and Courtlsndt street the
notice is affixed to the letter boxes with the
cepton that the hours Of the last collection be-
tween and g p. H." instead Of " between and 81
This difference in time is necessary from the fact that
in this locality but few stores open after those hours
NEW Muse, &C.-IlOrace Waters has published
the following pieces for the Piano.
Geraldine, by Thomas Baker, the capital leader at
Laura Keene's)-a Tempo di Mazurka, with we'll
conceived introduction. Pointed spirited and modern.
La Belle Georgienne-H. S. Saroni. Dir. Saroni a
superior musician, has given a fluent and melodious
waltz.
The Lover Leap Gallop, by II. S. Saroni: spirited
bit of dancing melody.
The Kitchen Fire-balad by Oscar Soak In q
great majority Of cases the accompaniment Of songs
and ballads in this country not only commonplace,
but logically bad, and dramatically yile The pres
cnt ballad, however is correct to accompaniment
and harmony; excepting in bar %, where there is a
concealed fifth between the extreme parts which
might easily have been avOded-n the same way
Weber does in similar passage in the second motive
of the allegro of the overture to Der Freischutz
Had the bass been G instead of c, and the treble
made TO correspond, the passage would have been
good OF the popularity of the melody, Of course we
cannot afford prediction. Hit or miss, such is the
unalterable law OF melody-to be determined by the
public only.
These pieces of music from Mr.. Waters come to
us bound and yet loose for they incloScd nicely
and tightly in Ivess Patent Spring Binder and Music
Holder which, owing TO its metallic spring back
holds sheet music rs well as # it were bound, and
thus is a desderaum for evory professor and amateur
Of music.
-Mcssrs Firth & Pond have published S3r'r
Spring, by William Mason-a piece which has been
much admired at his conccrs-and may be- commended
for its texie arpcggoic grace and beauty. The plan
of engraving the notes of melody in the large char
GCtCls ana tnclI rays through lhc NdIOuS OOONtS III
small nocs-thus showing at Il glance which il the
lion and which the tigers good thing, and il here
adopted. 1halberg does the same thing, and 50,
Gottschak.
The Four CENT MAS-Thcre is q story told about
the -Four Cent Man to the effect that certain lawyer
in the vicinity of Nassau street, who had tedious
referee case gave the pcrpaetc vender of stationery
$50 to retire from business for thirty days Accord
ingly the deatenng echo of his hOae tones ceased to
be heard for time along that thoroughfare, and one Of
the morning papers stated that severe cold detained
him at his residence. Meantime he observed in
the County Clerks Office at Brooklyn filing copy OF
deed of real estate. On the morning after the eXpra
ton of the thirteth day the of early pedestrians
were again saluted with the rich hamones of his So
POROUS voice but the referee case had been concluded
They say the -Four Cent Man bringing upa son in his
WAYS, whom he employs as q kind of roper in. The
youngster cries his traps cent higher than the old
gentleman which naturally sends all the customers 10
the latter; but this IS sell.
Among the passengers in the steamer Canada, Tor
Liverpool, are the Rev. William Butler, wife AID two
children. Mr.. Butler goes out TO India the repre-
sentative Of the Missionary Society of the Methodist
Episcopal Church
Judge Slossons decision against the conductor of the
New York Hotel Is reported in our Law Intelligence
this morning. We understand that this will not result
in the closing of the house. Mr.. Cranston intends
appeal.
Etv- poISrs NrsSIoN-S,rE Oh THE " OLD BRYw-