New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-13
A STRANGER SET RIGHT.

To ire Editor If The n. y. Tribune.
SIR: "What Charles Mackay says about Broad
way" and "the Avenue" if not very poetic, is very
Ike poetry in that it contains bit OF pure magma
ton.
From "Trnity" to "Grace" the brilliant white mar
bic rapidly" supplantng unsighty brick Is the excep
ton, not the rule.
The residents in Fifth avenue, says DR.. Maclay,
live in "wite marble palaces" Between "the Pa
rade Ground and Madison square there are only two
of these so-caled marble edces, of which IL yet
unfinished and the other is quite modest mansion.
Brown stone and red brick "thick as blackberies
But fortunately for the owners the material OF
these snowy fronts il not marble. Marble Is not
good material for the climate of New-iork. " Lus'
trous Paran' would o. bright for ages IN Egypt
Here il would soon be furnished and worn. Our mar
Bel a fine, homogeneous sandstone. Its superiority
over brown or red sandstone consists mainly IN the
absence of oxidizable metals and metallic oxides:
SITS
The taxes for 1853 will probably amount TO at least
So 500 O0C-to raise which the percentage OF taxation
will have TO be increased about 0ne.eighth above that
of last year. bringing il up, we should say at least 10
81 Is ard perhaps even beyond that startling figure.
The process by which the valuation of property IL to
be determined this year ION tho plan adopted by the
last Legslaure is much better than the one heretofore
in use Ii that under the old and rather deec
tive law, great amount of property was valued below
its real worth. The new law, which gives the WORK OF
valuation to twelve Deputy Tax Commissioners LOT
the whole city, instead OF two Assessors Tor each
better adapted than predecessor to get at an accu
rate estimate Of the value of property One clause IN
the law requires the Deputy Tax Commissioners 10 go
into the street and measure blocks and Iots-s thns
which has long been needed and has probably led 10
the detection Of great many underestimate in former
valuations. The Deputies have nearly completed
their work, and will soon be ready to report to the
Tax Commissioners, after which the books will De
open for the examination OF Taxpayers and VIII De
revised and corrected by the Tax Commissioners,
until the lst of July when the books will be sent 70
the Board Of Supervisors, and will be taken a. the
basis of valuation upon which 10 make up the taxes
for the year. tJournal oi commerce.
PROBABLE SrIcIDE.-A package OF letters was
found by policeman in the Trinity Church buryins
ground, Broadway, last Monday morning. They
were written IN neat German hand, signed " Gus-
fave p INIT and dated in the early part OF last De
tober Among them is one written in lead pencil, which
appears TO have been the proDptings Of depressed
mind. The most striking features of this letter are
confessions Of disappointed love when IN his native
country: felt himself exile IN America, ana com
plains of the non-remttsnce of 500 BY Conn q CO.
Of Wolfenbutel by which he was plunged IN mucn
pecunary distress; gives directions to have tins sum
delivered pom its arrival to Mr.. Werner Alorecht'
He saws he is % years of age and that he dies like
faded flower in the mountains gives his last signs 70
his dear Forentine and his mother and invokes tns
PRAYERS in his behalf of those who learn OF his SAD
fate Signed Gustaye Pehrt.' IL would appear
TINT tbf German arrived here the 9th OF OCTOBER
and put up at Helds Hotel, which, upon inquiry 6y
ali agent of the Metropolitan Police, IL found 70 DC
correct The bartender thinks he saw him IN Lon'
of the hotel as recently as ten days ago Beside t,
nothing further has been learned Of the writer OF .he
strange and significant letter. The Coroners reineu
Der 81 no circumstance Of such person being iouhu
dead nor there any fact TO chow that the suie'u'
was ever commiueo
FATAL ACCIDENT BIT rur ExrLosIos OF CASpHt.i "a
-Sarsb Ry;pe, a German gid IS years 2t aXc, Ve3