New-York daily tribune., 1859-06-02
CITY ITEMS.

CITY ITEMS.
BULLS HEAD.-There material change in
the cattle market yesterday from what prevailed on
Tuesday The general selling rates remained about
the same through both days, and fall half cent
lower than the previous week-that is, the best at IL
cents with very small proportion of the very large
supply Of really rstcss bullocks at II cents pound
net The total number yarded for this weeks market
was 2700, and all sold at an early hour in the
afternoon Our regular cattle market report gives
the particulars Of the sales.
AcADynY OF MUsIc-SUMsER SEAsoS-The price
of admission for the Summer season fixed as follows:
Admission to Boxes Dress Circle and Parquet 81 re-
served eeats 50 cents extra Madame Corliss will ap-
pear on Friday.
TB,.TrIcAL-Laura Keene has concluded some Of
her engagements for the next season, among them
bliss Ada Clifton for leading Juvenile business and
burlesoue and Mr. Thomas Baker to direct the music
Mr. Couldock has his benefit at this house tonight,
playing "Bob Tyke in wortons School Of Reform
Felix A. Vincent, well and favoraby known to our
stage will appear for the first time in four years. He
PLAYS, also in the afterpiece. Miss Keene's benefit
occurs Saturday night.
Charles WalcOt has benefit tomorrow night at
WaIack giving "The Knights Of the Round Table"
and an afterpiece in which George Holland will
appear.
SomETHIsG ExrRAoRDIsARY-AS OPERA SUsG By
AYATEURs TO-sIGHr At THE METROPoLITM THEA
TER.-Dr Wards opera, "The Gipseys Frolic," win
De performed tonight at the Metropolitan Theaer by
a company of amateurs-charming youthful volces-
and singing for the Mount Vernon Fund. This has
been long on rehearsal brilliant and fashionable
audience will doubtless be present.
GRAsp MUSICAL FEsTWAL-The grand Musical
Picnic TO be held in Jones Wood on Monday and
Tuesday next is good in the right direction.
We ike TO see people help themselves, and the public
will no doubt Join with in good wishes for an un-
dertakiDg like this iD which the best musicians OF
city lend hand for the benefit of their Widows
" and Orphans Fund" The festival is given by both
our musical societies, in conjunction with each other,
and offers unusual amount of attraction, comprising,
does some exquisite selections of classical and
military music together with ample opportunity for
dancing and other epjoyments-the whole under the
Immediate direction of Messrs. Theo Esfeld and II.
B. Dodworh while Messrs. Kruger and Weber will
lead the "Teutonia Maennerchor," and "Uhland
Sangerbund" who have kindly volunteered to assist
their professional friends the occasion The arrange
ments to secure order and comfort on the grounds,
are also on the most liberal SCALE
FESTIVAL or THE STEUBEN SOCIETY.-The Ger
mans Of the Steuben Society propose having grand
Fourth of July festival consisting of series of pic
mics and concerts the 27th 2Sth and 29th of June,
aud the Sd of july at Jcness Woods.
The REGATTAPRIzEs.-The addition of the outside
schooner prize makes the awards for the victories of
the present year in number, the schooner plate
comprising three pieces. Messrs. Tiffany & Co.,
who have received the orders of the Club for several
years have prepared for the contest of to-day prizes
which in ambitious character are hardly equal to
those of former years but actually superior to
them in the actual intrinsic value of material and
labor employed. The standard of silver used by this
house is the approved proportion observed at the
English mint, and confirmed by the best metalur
cists as not only more durable than any other but
more susceptible of finish.
The soup turreen and pair of vegetable dishes
which compose the schooner prize are vessels OF
plain silver, simply ornamented in antique and char
acteristic designs. The turreen modelled after the
famous vessel in the Dukes collection at Stowe,
weighs 65 ounces and is Is inches long, ~ wide and
81 high uncovered the adding an equal proper
ton to the complete affair. The only ornamental
ton is the chain aud ball border around the foot,
the top of the stem, the rim, and the crest of the
cover, The GOube-domed cover Is surinOunted Dy q
recumbent figure of Triton blowing upon the buccina
or twisted shel-hon which is familiar to students of
the antique At each end the head of a spoonbi is
deftly fashioned into ornamental handle.
The vegetable dishes of the ordinary oval
shape weigh thirty-fve ounces each, and in dimen-
sions are ten inches long, eight wide, and, inclusive
Of cover three and a half high. Like the tureen,
each is tipped by Triton, and ornamented by the
ba-and-chain border. The value of the entire prize
is $780, The general design, though sngulary plain,
will win universal admiration The spirited execution
of the Tritons an spoonbs develops artistic skill
worthy of all praise. We commend all our readers
who are "cooring their meerschaums' to study of
the the independent old seagod footing his horn in
his Summer attire Of scales and brne-soaked hair.
The plumage Of the birds too is chased into wonder
fully feke perfection, and one can see with half an
eve that the artist has chosen border that is very
ike the heavy rope-cables of yacht.
The first regular prize, punch'bowl, circular IN
form of dimensions eleven and half inches at the
rim and three inches at the base-though deeper
.Lan the yschtsmen of that day thought necessary is
still closely modelled afGer the shallow Pompeiian pa
terra 50 admired by the restorers. Its handles are
the common Pompeian ornaments, and may seem to
the professional eye quite like Celebrations of the
rudder of a Roman galley; each handle Us sup
ported by an exquisitey modelled mask, representing
a fish head. The borders of the popular egg and
dart pattern but additional ornament is notable in