New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-23
CITY ITEMS.


many Of thirty children from the ages of four aud Sk
wears 10 fourteen left the Office Of the Chdrens Ald
Society for the West on Thursday afternoon, under the
Guardianship Of Messr C. G. Tracy and j. Macy An
in,srcstn scene WAS witnessed the boat after the
cbild,en had walked in procession from the office,
neatly dre.sed and with happy, animated counte-
D.no.s r,erv one felt an interest in the party. The
.,,o vou,b Of some Of the children, and their art
L.. ,,.rrey Of telling their histories excited much
s,,.,hv One little girl, with full, dark eyes while
inca tear trembed on her check, in replyto ques
49,. ont 10 her by lady said that fader moder and
T,,I. brudder all dead but she hoped she would
con have fader and mudder again." They sang their
songs Of the West with much force and spirit. The
celebrated newsboy, Little Butch" was one Of this
party. lie escorted elder brother to the Office to
"see him ON his way" and then suddenly resolved on
accompanying him. He hitched his bundle of papers
under his arm after he had changed his attire, and
swapping hi fingers in his peculiar manner, said "he
would go West and see what Il newsboy could do
"amOng the natives there" When he joined the line
of the procession having slowed away his papers and
donned white hat, which overlapped his weather
embrowned face, he had completely got rid OF the
newsboy, and approximated to the farmers boy. He
Jeff in exuberant spirits with his young companions.
A baby named Pinkey" divided the attention OF the
company with "Lttle Butch The little creature
suffered an incessant persecution of kisses from the
little boys aud girls. Mr. Tracy giving them some
good counsel as the boat moved from the dock.
HoRsE Snow IL CoLUMBIA Coon Wednesday
last Chatham -Four Corners was alive with fast and
fancy horses The display took place in the grounds
ofthe Columbia County Agricultural Society, and was
highly creditable to all concerned The attendance
were the fastest and finest the county could boast Of.
"A Gentleman from Ireland has been figuring
quite extensively in this city of late, stopping at
Of oar best Broadway hotels eating the best Of din
ners drinking the choicest and most expensive wines
swaggeringly representing himself possessing an
annual income of some ,OOO and endesvoring by
all the arts of which he is MASTER TO push himself
into the circles of "Our best society," Our hero re-
Gently made the acquaintance of an accomplished
lady, having large possessions on the sunny side OF
Dixons line, and, by his impotence and blishments,
soon won her heart and the promise OF her hand and es-
tatss Very recently the Gentleman from lrelann'
with his $4,000 year, ordered dinner at his hotel
for ten at $40 plate TO celebrate his good luck inthe
matrimonial lottery. The manager OF the hotel con-
cuded before serving this sumptuous repast that the
distinguished gentleman from Ireland might as well
pay up old scores; he sent up TO his room bill OF
particulars for board wines washing &c. The bride
groom that was to be came down to the office of the
hotel and blandly assured tho host that it was all
right; that he had funds in two city banks which he
UNFORTUNATELY for hmself named and only wanted
little time to make arrangements for drawing 1t out,
when he would take great pleasure in settling the little
bill The landlord was still incredulOus, and dis
patched messenger TO the banks mentioned, who
soon returned with the not unexpected intelligence
that those institutions had no funds deposited to the
credit Of the gentleman from Ireland, and further
more, that they had no knowledge whatever of any
such distinguished individual from the land where the
shamrock and shileah so universally flourish. There
upon mine host waited upon this sham representative
of Irish wealth and gentty, and, in very plain Saxon
assured the Cet that he was an impostor and
scamp, and immediately sent up to his room for his
"plunder" sometimes called baggage, which he de-
posted in the lookup of the hotel to await further
developments
Report has ii that the dinner was not eaten, and
that the widow was not " taken in and done for by
the erich and Elegant Irish ginemsn, for which she
may perhaps thank the sagecy of hotel clerk, who
has very likely turned the current of the aiOresaidg in
tleman's thoughts from the pleasant anticipation of
walloping" his own wifes nigSers ON a cotton or
sugar plantation to the possible contemplation of an
inside and dismal view of the architecture of Eldrdge
street ar of the TOmbs.