New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-04-03

have been INTRODUCED IN the rallDg Enclosure, which
lighted up with dolb jets OF gas Wednesdsy
night for the first time and produced fine effect
The rubbish which az been long lying about the
moi umeht has finally oi-appeared, 80 that the new
onamebts,ion Of Union square no begins to show to
advantage. An additional Improvement would doi ,t-
less be maze by cod covering to the roll within the
iucIOeuie.
Enterprise Heck and Ladder Company NJ. | Of
Stspleton sta,ep Island brougb their new apparatus
from Sckles's n sautactory yesterday. The Company
psraded forty five men, under commsad OF Mr.. Rob
insos their Foreman.
Tia will of the late Deacon Colgate has been fled
in the Surroges Office but i contents are, at the re-
quest Of the executors withheld from the public for
the present We however learn that by the last cod
ell all charitable requests previously made were
voked.
TIT MANUAL OF THE COMMON CoUscIL for 1857
ia Just out 1t has become much a work Of neces-
city as the General Directory and it is fortunate for
the city that its compilation is but labor of love to
the best fitted and in fact, the only for the bu.-
ness-Mr David T Valentine the venerable Clerk Of
the Board of Aldermen. The present issus hiss the
usual careful record Of public Offices and officers Of All
grades the detail Of the various departments asyuns
schools and eeemosypsy institutions, courts, finances,
rates fares distances, licenses stage routes, aud
thousand and one small but important facts where
else TO be Obtained in accessible fom After setting
forth everything Of the present Gay which is of i'm
portapce for reference, Mr. Valentine turns 10 the
Past with that fondness, zeal, and Koickerbocker
pride which have marked him the genial "Old
Mortality of our rapidly growing metropolis. Here
be is pene ,tly at home, and scarcely escape
feeling of envy the manifest happiness with which
he burrows in the forgotten hierogyphics of the Van
Courtlandts and Van Dams of bygone age. 1t is In
this department especially that Mr.. Valentine has
dore the city immense good and himself credit
The old maps, drawings views of houses, and the
choice extracts from the writings Of the early fathers
which have been given from year to year in the Mau
ual are worth ten times the price of the book And
then the quiet in which he pops in, here and
there, some fact or circumstance illustrating the oden
time is tabtalzipg and makes feel like killing the
goose that lays the golden egg by committing bur-
eary upon his house, and at one fell swoop robbing
him of that vast store of good things Of which he will
only grant rs peep once year through the iudspen
cab Manual. In the book before us, there is a
CHAP of the original Grants of Village Lots from the
"Dutch West India Company to certain inhabitants of
document showing oil the boundare, of lots below
Wall street, with the and owners names. He
has also given maps OF the city in 1882 and 1857, with
several old stores end houses now passed away In
the letter press, have sketch Of Nev-YOrk fifty
years ago, and comparisons with the present day;
history of the buccaneers in the days when Captain
Kidd sailed up The Hudson livery appropriate in these
fbustering tmes); incidents of the War of 1872;
description Of the original grants of land; the great
contested election case in l70l, when the Common
Courc was equally divided for and against the famous
Leisler statement Of al the street opening and widen
ing since 1890; Instructions for carrying monthly
mail to Boston in 1872 when the route was marked by
barking trees; the deed of sale o. Staten Island ao
stract of the most ancient c,nveyances OF lands on
the i.land, ard many other things both pleasant aud
profitable to know. The volume is uniform with thai
of last year, and is very handsomely executed We
hope to chronicle many more of these comey arnuss
from the same respected and competent source.