New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-09-17
CITY ITEMS.

Yesterday equinoctial day; the Equilibrium
out Of order it drizzy, and cold, and foggy,
and bleak, and Novembersh, and wintry, and other
wise disagreeabl Overcoats were not only handy
TO have in the house, but comfortable the body.
Fires not only luxury but almost necessity.
The drizzle kept pertinaciously stopping down until
ate hour in the evening" and all out of doors was SD
and dreary.
ACADEMY OF MUsIc.-A grand instinct takes
place this day at o'clock. The opera Of Lucia di
Lammermoor thesecond act of Norma and the last act
of La Travsta, will be performed. All the leading
artists appear during the performance in their fsvorte
roles.
EXCISE CosIssIosERs.- -Messrs. Holmes and Has
ket held meeting in the Common Pleas Court, oo1
Friday afternoon, and granted two applications for
storekeepers licenses. The next meeting Of the
Board will be held on Monday, the 10Th.
COMMISSIONERS OF PoLIcE.-This Board met yes.
terday afternoon at Police Headquarters President
Stiilman in the chair, and all the members present.
The matter first considered the appointment of
Captain to Gil the vacancy in the Sixteenth Precinct,
ocoafoned by the resignation of Capt Carpenter.
There were number Of applicants for the position.
the majority of the candidates being good officers
VIM. Jamison, who was promoted TO the rank OF
Sergeant at the previous meeting Of the Board, re-
ceyed the most favorable confederation and was al.
pointed TO GIL the vacancy Officer Jamisou was
member of the old force, and recently occupied a no.
ston in the Broadway Squad. Capt. j. win proba.
bly, be transferred to the Eleventh Precinct, a. Cant.
Squres for many years the commandant of the police
force in tina. District, WA some time ago sent by
General Superintendent Pilsbury to the Sixteenth
Precinct.
Inter the 9th rule, Mr.. Daniel Hasbrouck, one of
the clerks, dismissed the force lie WAS cbarysd
with participating in recent political Convention.
designations from Officers DAWN Of the Fourteenth
Precinct, +. II. Widey of the Steamboat SQUAD,
Woodbridge Of the Sixth Black Of the Twenty first,
Coon oi the Eleventh, and Wlckenberg of the fIsr.
Dor Police, were received and accepted. The Board,
sittr The transaction Of some routine business al.
jouned until next Friday.
NLW BUILDINGS Down TowS.-On the north sids
6i vail street, opposite Now street and on the pre-
cisc site Of the old First Presbyterian Church. two
new brownttone front buildings for insurance pur-
poses, have been erected by NJ Pearson Vice Presi.
cent Of the Relief Insurance Company. TIE lots,
winch are % by l2 feet were sold in Isij for about
*IrOOO. The buildings are five storiss high. The
present value Of the two lots ia 800 600 with the
Du3ng' SD wv. -Four insurance companies already
occupy them. o. the corner of Nassau and ST.,
On the site Of the old Express buildings, new white
marble building hes been erected. Il Is four stories
hish, fortirg or Nassau street. The Columbian Ma
Inc Insurance Company will occupy the first floor, at
an annual rent Of 5000. The basement by the New.
Amsterdam Insurance Company at s, go. Ten years
ago the lot on which this building stands was sold for
s5',oOo Before the new building was put up $4,000
wss refused for it, The new building viii cost 80 600.
NARROW EscAPE.-A day or two since, the
steamboat Syph, Of those old Staten Island Ferry
boats which ought long ago TO have been condemned,
sroke down, in some part of her engine, soon after
leaving New-Brighton. The boat, Of course, Was I'M
manageable and at the mercy of the current. As she
eriited in toward the shore, attempt was made to