New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-25
CITY ITEMS.

CITY ITEMS.
Tuv.re,c.I News IrTms-Mn. John Wood,
the yery popular comsdienne will no! delight New.
Workers during tic comb 6 season. Tn the iSso OF
Dec N Der she sails by tho Africa Tor Engl@d ono
will Immediately appear at the Haymarket rheaser In
the farce of "JsDDy Lind in which she created Q
sensation here last Winter.
Miss Laura Keene has not yet completed her ar
rangemens for the season but she will first produce
French play, which was acted this Summer m Paris.
Mr.. G. W. CouldOck will perscnse the principal char
acter, an old man who Is forger.
-" The American Cousin" will be performed for
the LAST time on Saturda, night when Mr.. JEFF, rsons
season closes 1t has been exceedingly profitable and
it erted that the three partners in the enterprise
Mrs. John Wood, Mr.. Joseph Jefferson and Mr.. John
Duff will divide, as the net profits Of the season some
thing over twenty thousand dolars
Mr.. c. w. Couldoek, after the close Of the present
season at Laura Keepes viii act with MISC Cushman
for four weeks at Niblos Garden, after which he win
retu n to Laura Keene's for the Winter season.
Mr.. e. A. Sothern, yesterday copyrighted the lett
ter by the reading of which, in Of the Of
Dundreary in the american Cousin, he has made
30 great q senedVOD Inc iutIouuOuoh Va WIG ioesoA
was original with him.
THE GYaNAsTIC ToURSAMEET.-Something novel
in the way of gymnastics will be done at Nibos Gar
den on Monday next Prizes viii be offered by the
management to the amateur gym asts OF the CITY, for
the first excellence in each of the several exercises
usually practiced in the gymnasiums certain time
of each evening of the week will be devoted to the
trial. which will be presented before the audiences in
addition to the other performances The prizes for the
horizontal bars parallel bars rack bars, double rings
trapeze and the Indian clubs will be competed for on
consecutive evenings. number of the beet nateur
gymnasts of the city will join in the contest, which
will doubtless prove very interesting one.
WALLAcK's THEATER.-Next week q novelty will
be presented at this house. which can scarcely fs TO
prove attractive. Miss Jane Coombs aud Mr.. George
Jordan will appear in play, supported by good
company. These artists have won great popularity
here aud elsewhere, and their appearance with the
added attraction of drama, will doubtless be the
signal for series of crowded houses.
The POLICE UNIFORM Considerable dissatisfaction
bias existed among the pstromen of the police force,
since the advent of the present system respecting their
uniform. The Commissioners appointed certain tailors,
some of whom the men were forced to employ. This
action gave dissatisfaction inasmuch the felt
that the Commissioners were overlapping the powers
conferred upoE them by the Legislature The police
men had earned their pay, and they felt that the right
to tay how they should expend it was their own.
Some of the official tailors in addition, cheated the
men, and they had no redress. The Commissioners
have lust issued an order that will obviate all this diff
Guilty They have resolved to purchase the cloth for
uniforms for the at wholesale prices and to sell 1t
to the men in small quantities they need it, at the
same rate allowing them to choose their own taiors
but enforcing the regulation to cut This makes the
men feel as though the Commissioners really had
interest in their wel-beipg. Ii lie rumored that the
Commissioners have determined to purchase cloth for
overcoais for the force with the Japanese present. and
that the captains and sergeants have magnanimousy
resolved that the part of the force shall
ceive the whole of the money.
COMMISSIONERS OF PoLIcE.--At the meeting of this
Board yesterday afternoon, Capt. Seaman late of the
Fourth Ward, was dismissed from the department on
motion Of Mr.. Acton. The Captain charged with
neglect of duty, and bis trial failed to give an ade-
quate reason for his absence from the StationHouse
at the time specified. He stated that he sick and
remained at the house of friend all night in the upper
part of the city but refused give the name of his
friend or bis residence. On motion of Mr.. Bowen the
Superintendent was directed to cause the Captains of
the various Wards to report the number of houses of
lfame in their respective Precincts, and the
of the owners of said houses, and by whom and how
many occupied. The resignation of Erasmus A. Kutz
of the Twenty-frst Ward received and accepted.
REPORT OF ASSESSMENTS FOR THE CENTRAL PARK
ExTENsIoN-The land taken for the Central Park ex-
tension extends from Northumberland sixth street to
Onehundred tenth street, and from the Fifth TO
the Eighth avenues, comprising nearly 20 acres. The
Commissioners appointed by the last Legislature to
assess damages and benefits resulting from this work
have nearly completed their report and it will be ready
to be presented to the Supreme Court for confirmation
next Wednesday when persons considering themselves
aggrieved by the judgment of the Commissioners can
appeal for redress to that tribunal The damages for
property taken will amount to about 81 ,0OO Of
which one-third will be charged upon the private
property benefited by the extension and the remainder
upon the city at large which the proportion is sup
posed to derive of the total good resulting from the i'm
provement The assessments for benefits to private
property commence on the south side of Fifty-ffh
street and extend northward from Fourth to Ninth
avenues to One-hundredand sixth street, where the
area widens to the Third and Tenth avenues as
far as fifth street. Thence to
One fifth street tits again narrowed
to the Fourth and Ninth avenues. The number Of
assessments is upward of 10000 varying according to
the locality of the lot from 50 to $75. The heaviest
assessments of course fall upon property in the iume
date neghborhood Of the extension aud the largest
Awards are made on those lots which would have
ted he IA Of tha had moth