New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-01

time this opera can De gwen al preeent.
Tpy,rRIcaI-The announcements for the vcek ~
bnefy a. follows: At BurtOn's Mr.. and Mrs X. l.
Davenport in Hamlet, The Honeymoon" sad @
an. new play in rehearsal called THE Struggle Ssr
Gold" Al Larra Kcer|s Polly Msrshan comnsscss
an epssgeu eni. Mn. " Howard and Messs. II. A.
Perry and II. +. DAILY are engaged, to appear soss.
At Uallacks Jessie Brown for this week a.
manv more. of course. Attic Broadray Madame Tour.
raire and Mr. Melville in addition to the already exc.
lent company. Sam La,hrOp and Den Stone have tas<
Joint benefit on Friday At the MrseEm LATHE CordeaA
Howard will give number Of her best Representations.
with benefit on Wednesday, aud closing her engage.
NETT with the week. AT the Borery and the NafssA
notice features In Negroism the Byanb
and Christy & Wood have il all their own way, wiA
full houses.
BLIND PoLIcENTS.-Politica blindness ia q msfse.
tune; an official squirt is not ornamental but neither
Of these optical difficulties are at al comparable wiA
the distressing calamity now affecting the optics Of tss
whole police force of this city. II is not only snew
blindness, but q still worse disease, affecting ~
eyes that these official gentlemen cannot zee blssk
spot upon the very whest Of snow. II not only scc0
he paromen, but all their superiors. Even the So
perntendent and his Deputy blinded; in fact. The
Commissioners themselves bad oil a. their ma.
Not one of them could q street nuisance, uness -
big as the fve-story building where they hold Their
general headquarters in Broome street. This Is ev.
IDENTIFY proved to all who are not afflicted with tho
police nalady for they see within fifty steps Of the
aid police headquarters piles OF ashes and garbage aa1
snow and ice, filling the cutters that the sidewalk =
overowed with dirty water till it rs impossible for ~
decent footpad A policeman get over, through -
n thay IN around A do-an aimIar
sances in sight of that official ed6ee. II is lameutshs
to think of such calamity as this-of thousand msa
as blind as they are dumb while every ono Of then
ia under the obligation OF most solemn official oa1h
both 10 see and hear.
CIR According to the weekly report
Of tho City Inspector, there were 5Os deaths =
the city during the past week an increase OF 10 -
compared with the mortality Of the week previSss.
Ofhe whole number 335 of ten years Of age end
under and 81 inmates of the public institutions. he
following table exhibits the number Of deaths during
the past two weeks among adults and children ~.
tingushing the sexes:
Men. Women. Boys Girls rsS
Vel Wei : :aSi1: E F:S = s 15 Il ii IS g
Among the principal causes of death were the i'd
lowing: Consumption 60; commissions (infante), 81;
inflammation of the lungs 80; Inflammation Of he
brain, IL scarlet fever 81 marasmus Gnfantile VI;
dropsy in the head % measles, 26i Group, To- bros-
chitis II. There also deaths of spoplexy, Sd
congestion of the brain, of eryspeas, Of pusrperA
fever of disease of the heart, IA Of hopping cough.
81 of smallpox, premature births, &c stl-born asd
10 from violent causes.
The following is a classification of the dseAses, and
the number of deaths in each class of disease during
the week: Bones joints, &c, 4; brain and nerves,
hart and hl0Od. easala III:
lungs, throat, &C.. 1884, old age, 2; skin, &c., ssd
eruptive fevers 3d. stlbon and premature births, so
stomach, bowels and other digestive organs 5l sneer
tain seat and general fevers 30; urinary organs, l.
Total, 500. The number of deaths, compared VIII
the corresponding weeks in 1856 and 1857, wee -
follows:
n, Week ending march, ls5s............".."..so
Week ending FEB. "a, lS57..........'..........tN
Week ending Feb. ~, l85S........,......,.....r5
Week ending Feb "a, lass-. -
The nativity table gives 379 natives Of the United
States, g. of ireland, Sc of Germany, Of England,
3of France, of Scotland of Italy and the balance
of various foreign countries ..s
AFooL AND HIS MONEY SOON PARrED.-A most re-
markable Of nfauation came to light on Saturday,
the subject being a lone, lorn yirgnian, named J.
Franklin Langley Of Norfolk. 1t appears that Mr..
Langley arrived in town few days since and put up
al the aBtOr nOuft Coufoo VI ms Po'o"A"sAe~
tons on Monday e, enng last be fell in with two Young
women who called themselves Emma Howard alias
Catron, and Mary Bionis alias Russell. These fraa
damsels induced Langley accompany them TO place
kept by William Howard, in the rear Of No. q Elm
street. Wines were called for and Langley a. he now
alleges, was drugged. While in state Of semisupor
be became fearully and teuifcally infatuated with
Mary and offered her his hand in marriage. She pro.
tended 10 be desperately in love with him, and thus
0ained his confidence when she relieved him OF oil hA
money and valuables amounting altogether TO 81 700.
So infatuated had he become that he thought nothing
Of his oss and visited the place at subsequent pc.
Rod with view of finding her but this time moro
eff, ctuay feeced by Emma assisted BY the propnstor
of the house.
Dir. Langley, who is about 40 years Of age, upoa
coming to bis senses and finding himself robbed Of q
his ready money, applied to the police for redress.
Officers Elder, King Edsal Dryden and Eustace wero
deputed to investigate the matter. Howard and hN
pal Mary, and Jack Rnssel and his pal Emma were
taken into custody Saturday. Mary Morris gave
~ following account Of the affair TO reporter:
Emma Howard and were walking down Brood
way on Monday night last, when we met Mr.. Lang
ley. We passed him, when be bowed TO us, and we
went down Barclay street; he followed and suggested
that We had better have some supper before going
hone, so we took him down to the saloon corner Of
Fulton street and Broadway be sailed for suppersnd
three whisky punches; We then went 10 Mrs. low
srd's in Elm street. and from there took him TO No.
u Elm street kept by Dutch woman; we were
together until two o'clock in the morning, when Lang
lev wished more supper, IA he had been drinking
oil day, went out he gave me SlO and We then
went dow to the -aOOn of Fulton street and
Broadway and met Emma Howard again; we went
INTO the saloon and had some tea and tosst before
eft the Dutch wonsns told her 10 wait for us un-
III We got back when We returned the Dutch woman
would not let W. in Mr. Langley concluded then 10 70