New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-04-13

collmrs Of public reading by Miss Victoria Ran
dolpb, of whore powers We had oc;sson to speak
some weeks ago. She s a lady Of excellent acquire
ments and undouDted geDias, which, with proper cu-
tvatiop will ,ecure for her higHposition in the line
of her profession-if enc will remember to hasten
sloHly.
TIE CoURr or APPEALS AND The OLD POLICE
Yesterday Mr.. DsvereuI, counsel for McCdce aud
otters received from the Court Of Appeals tns remit
ti,ur IN tae csse of the Old Police. lie will file it in
few days and make the usual motion that the judg-
ment Of the Court of Appeals be made the Judgment
of the Supreme Court from which the appeal was
taken.
Bulls HEAD. Tho supply Of beef cattle thiJ week
is likely to be about the same as il week ago,
and TIE quality pretty fair for the Some $50
were yarded yesterday in FOItJ-fouTt. street, aud
nesily half Of them sold at prices shade lower thsn
last market raging from TO II cents pound net
OF course none but the very meanest grades of cattle
sold at the lowest fgure-such as are more ht 80 far
az Aesh is concerned to stock IA than butchers
stall. Coarse, strong Oxen, pretty well fed, sold
at prices equivalent to 10 cents pound, and
good fair steers for market retailing at lie, while
all such Sc our first Glass butchers viii buy If they
are to be had, brought Hole. Some Of the bro
hers declared the average Of tie market cent
pound lower than it last week others said half
cent and Others declared il was about the Fame. We
ssy there was q very evident Decline If not in price,
certainly in the estimation OF the weight of buocks.
The weather VAS very mild, ard flee for outdoor 3D.
spess 1t was expected last evening that the market
today would be about az it WA yesterday.
A LARGE Company or CHILDREs FOR The WEST.
A party of more than 50 children, mostly boys PES
terday left the Office Of the Chdrens Aid Society for
the Wsst under the charge Of Mr. II. Fredgen; OF
these more than 30 orphan boys Of about thirteen
years, and reary all of An affecting incident
occurred among this group in the office previous to
their dep One Of these lads burst toto tears and
on being asked the of his weeping, he said it
was wit Joy the immediate prospect of his leaving
the city, as he had been long time without hons or
frields Another with tears also on his cheeks, ssid
that be would have been driven through the extreme
Of necessity TO do something wrong and what neither
he or any of bis had DONE but for his rescue by
the Society. The company were q, usual on these oc
casions restly and comfortably dressed, though we
are well informed that the wardrobe of the Cairens
Aid Society almost exhausted and their funds very
low 1t would be we'll if the good friends Of this beue-
violent enterprise, would ss.st them in cheering the
orphans ard in placing them in good homes in the
land of the West
THE INFAMOUS TxPoLIcENAS.-Wer, late po-
cemsn in the Seventh Wsrd, who was broken for his
dssolute habits yesterday sentenced by toe Court
of SPECIAL Sessions 10 pay fine of go and serve 80
days in the Penitentsry for sssaung his wife in the
street. when she aked him for money to buy bread for
uerself and little ones
PRAIsEwoRrHY CoSDUcr.-on Saturday night last,
Officer Miner Of the Terth Precinc, while pstrollng
his beat learned that q widow canned Hoffman, living
in the Of No. AZ For'yth street in destitute
and dying condition. a. boon IS possible thereafter
the ofioe' hsstened to hsr spements a1d found her
quite detitute and her nfsl babe in starving condi
tor. Mrs. Hoffman hsd recently suffered surgical
operation TO be performed asd for want Of necessary
medical attendance, gsugrene had set in. Officer
Miner procured TIE sttstdsrcs Of physician, and did
everything in his poEer to render her conortsbe bu.
the poor woman was BE- ord earthly .kll. Ga Mondsy
from congestion Of the brain. The little orphan
was given in charge Of tn Ten Governors.
CKUsHTD TO DEATH.-A laborer, named GILBERT
0gey, was almost instantly killed at 5 O'Clock LIST
evening st the in OF construction in Wet
Thirty second street, lear Fifth avenue. Ogey vas
excsysting for the sever when a huge curb-,;one,
which be had undermined fell upon and crushed him.
The body OF deceased was removed to Bellevue Hos.
pital, to await the action OF the COroners.
TIE FALLEN STOREs.-The warehouse in West
street, noticed in yesterdays TRIBUNE, is wreck.
Yesterday morning the fret floor gave way with
tremendous crash, and was followed almost immeji-
stey by the upper floors and the roof. The immense
wooden beams we're snapped like pipe stems and the
several floors were precpitsted upon the other,
each resirg upon the bags of grain piled on the rext
below. The walls apparently stood frm although it
is considered that they in danger Of falling espe-
cialy the Cedar street aide The proprietors cay
that there has frequently been heavier losds stored 10
the buildirg which was believed to be strong enough
ard think the accident must have been csnsei by the
tide, which flow, under the buildings. and gradually
undermined some part of the foundation.
NEv.HAvES RAILROAD CoMPASY's OFFIcEs.-The
President and Treasurer of the Nsw-H.ysn Railrosd
have removed their quarters from Hanover street to
the new depot q. the corner of Fourth avenue and
Tventyseventh street where spacious and convenient
roorns have been fitted up for their accommodation
FoRGERI-Mr. Robert j. Thomas recently pur-
chased Of Smith, Crane s. Co., No. 4 Maiden lane, a
bill Of goods amounting to $50, aud offered in part
payment q check on the American Exchange B,nk,
dated April H. 1859 for 1907 purporng 70 have b.en
drawn by Peters, Campbell & Co, Bankers q. No. 80
Wal srea., payable TO James Smith ard indorssd By
James Smith, o. s. Carter & Kellogg, Carer & Co.
The Endorsements we're pected and upon investgs-
ton proved TO be fraudulent. Tnoms. was arrested,