New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-26

known as the Lowber property, bought Of K. w.
Lovbsr by the city, for market site, at an sxorbitant
pr;ce. all belongs to the State, together with large
amount of land in that immediate vicinity, ~ well as
further north.
Under this act the Legislature have enabled the city
to obtain the land at merely nominal sum. Should
the city decline TO purchase many sales which she mas
effected 70 private PARTIES will be nvaldated, and the
Treasury win be heavily assessed for damages Id con-
sequence.
TIE Commissioners of the Land Office are now ex'
aiming the land grants both at Albany ana here'
They have employed Surveyors, who are at WORK
ascertaning the area, and defining the boundaries OF
the whole of this property and when it has been sur
veyed they will at proceed to sell it by private
sale to the city; or the city does not purchase they
viii dispose of at public sucont the highest bidder
ENTERTAINING THE BIG SHIP.-The Great Eastern
was visited yesterday by about IL 900 people. In the
morning, usually there Is sprnkling Of about twenty
per cent from the more remote country, and many
others from cities round about. Toward noon and
night the city visitors keep up the rush. The attaches
of the steamer generally very polite and oohgng,
but the crowd 60 large that the great ship cannot be
traversed in lees than half day. There are many
Canadian excursionists here. Some from st. Louis
and other Western cities have come to DO their ousi
ness, and zee the chip at the same time Inc ctle' Oh
Worcester, Providence, Springfield, Hartford, new
Haven, Albany, Paterson, Newark, &C., and all their
surrounding sm aer communities, also represented.
There are not so many from Philadelphia as the clti
Gems of that place will have better opportunity OF
seeing the Great Eastern at Cape May.
Among the visitors yesterday was the Oldest, or one
of the oldest, harbor-masters Gving-Capt Correga.
formerly of the u s. Navy, now Sc years OF age The
streetsnds and refeshment tents on the pier are In
full bas and to slappearances, are doing an excellent
business, while lot Of showmen in the vicinity Keep
up continued jabbering from morning till night, 10
nvegle country folk into their exhibitions The MOTEL
keepers are in very good humor with this lively state
of things. In the Ninth Ward, large four-story,
sober-looking brick hotel many blocks distant, mas
boisted the sign of The Great Eastern, and numer-
GUS smaller establishments have adopted similar titles
An excursion party, numbering about 600 persons,
under the management of Col. Sam. Cooley of Hart
ford, portion of whom came from Northern Vermont,
arrived in town yesterday morning, by the steamer
Elm City from New-Haven, and visited the Great
Eastern during the day. They returned last night by
the steamer Traveller to New-Haven and thence home
by the cars.
Visitors to the thp will find little guide book,
compiled by Mr.. B. S. Osborn, very useful.
COMPLAINTS FROM A GOVERNMENT WORKMAN
Mr. John Z. Fitzpatrick has given us certain informa-
ton concerning the management Of affairs at the Gov
enment works at Sandy Hook, which, if substantiated,
shows state of things not credabe the contractors
He says that on Monday he was discharged under the
following circumstances 1t is the practice OF the con-
tractors to board the workmen, making them pay Ia
cents for each meal. The provisions have been fire.
quently too bad to be eaten, and on Saturday Ftz-
patrick, being unable to make breakfast with the
food get before him. asked the proper authorities for
some butter. This was refused being contrary to
the rules. He made no opposition to this, but worked
az well as possible without breakfast The next morn
ing Sunday the meat was 30 utterly bad that all the
men at table cried aloud against the impositioro
Fitzpatrick upon this addressed them in an
ironical strain, saying that the food was quite
good enough for them, and that the only fault
TO be found with the contractor was that he did not
put the whole into one tub and call them to parake OF
it like swine; for they in United States pound
and ought not to be treated like men. On Monday
morning he was discharged "for abusing and cursing
Mr. McIntire." He denied the cursing entirely, and
protested against being discharged for no fault. The
time for which he was credited was 100 hours for this
he was to be paid at the rate of ten cents per hour the
lowest rate of compensation although his work had
been come of the hardest. There IS meals TO be
deducted at Ia cents EACH This would reduce the $40
to IS 10. Mr.. Fitzpatrick states however, that he
was paid only 81 o. and he thinks he has right to
complain that having been discharged for remonstrat-
ing against purid meat for which he must pay, though
he could not eat it, he was paid less than belonged to
BIN by the lowest computation of his employers.
TYE SUSPECTED SLAYER KArE.-For the last three
DAYS Deputy United States Marshal Thompson, and
Capt Faunce of the Revenue cutter Harriet Lane AS
sisted by Officer OKeefe have been engaged in break
ing out the cargo of the suspected SLAYER Kate, now
lying south of the pass in the Atlantic basin Brooklyn
At o'clock last evening" they had removed nearly all
the cargo to Wheeler's stores, where it will be ex-
smined at an early day. The first thing that the OFF,
Ger came across upon opening the hold was large ca
boose and utensils. Eightytwo casks of water were
emptied into the dock, and in addition, there was
found tank containing about 200 gallons of water,
and another cask which held about 500 gallons. The
following is copy of the manifest and the cargo as
q general thing, seems to agree herewith, although
there are many articles not enuWeraeeo III i' oaP''
Faunce thought she had provisions enough to last her
five years:
MAsIpKsrlO0 pipes of 200 boxes herngs casks cod
liquor baskets ch,mpagne, no hsbbs rice u boxes gin 70
bb beef bbs pork 10 kegs lard hslfbbs beef family
Dbl hams smoked beef boxes iron pots 81 iron pots,
pals boxes aAmode beef 80 water casks for oil bundles
hoop on bags nut Dbl salmon suns biscuit 80 bis navy
bresd tuns crackers bb vinegar keg sausages boxes
drugs incidence drugs and medicines 5000 feet u
Der cognac IL cordas rs boxes vegetables
boxes ees 40 hsbbls -four boxes soap boxes candles
The manifest Gets forth that the cargo is to be landed
at Cape Palmas the Leeward Islands, West Coast Of
Africa.