New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-12
CITY ITEMS


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CITY ITEMS.
THE WEArnER.-A thick black fog came up &c
Tue.fay night, ami huog in murly folds over the eay
pniJ noon If Wednesday, stopping the feries to The
Eastern D,tris. Of Brooklyn and seriously impeding
the Other ferries on The nth and East Rivers Anef
noon |, lifted somewhat, and travel was resumed Ins
westber however continues detestahe, and the Jans
AIRY tbaw is as juicy and dirty as ever.
PutI's HEAp.-Tbere was no improvement =
favor of droyers in the cattle market yesterday, nnes
/, was that Grsl-cisss bulocks sold be more tfecy
a, ton cent? net pound that class being toe hight for
the a, uaod while the market quite ovcrssockee
with inferior Sorts some OF which sold at prices snfy
eouivale NJ to sac cents pound for the meat, and
rrsv GOOD fair cattle for market retailing were abnnd-
ant At 7 asc. pound. We call particular attention 70
onr cattle market report this week, where an aec'um
will be- found Of steer supposed TO be the largest eyer
faed in this counry his actual weight On The seases
in 81 ufed eopdton, being 3,452 poonds hls history
will repay TerussL
Tomorrow evening the Rev. j. z. Newman leetares
On Whitfield, before the New-York City Library AS
ISOLATION, IN the Rev DIR. BuchaIds Cn9ch, In Thir-
tenth street.
Prof j. Stanley Grimes, the we'll known lecturer OF
Entomology mesmerism and kindred topics, viii de-
liver lecture this evening, st Clinton Hal, before ne
Kane Monument Association Mr. Grimes processes
to have discovered the law OF the eonfguraon Of the
copueps and proposes to develope his theory on the
occssion referred TO. We have no doubt is viii DO
marked by plsusblty and ingenuity. should he src-
coed in demonstrating it to the satisfaction Of ths
scientific world the Professors reputation is made.
GEososY.-ProE J. Stanley Grimes,ectures to-night
in behalf of the Kane Monument Association, at Gin
ton Hall, upon new and interesting theory, concern
iDg the ply steal structure VI the earth.
FUsEpAL OF LIEUT. MAY-Tbe funeral Of Lieut,
G. W. May, late OF the New York Volunteers and snb-
seouently an officer uoder the Fiibuster Walker, took
place yesterday firm TwentysiSth street Dutch Re-
70, neo Church of which his father was formerly pas
to,. TIE remains were borne 10 Greenwood BY tAe
Scott Life Guard, and the mourning relatives.
MAYOR Woop AND TIE Mock AUcTIoEEERs.-The
Mayor is extremely soictous that the Common Coun-
Gil shall give him bureau for the protection Of swinded
str.nQers Yesterday be had an opportunity 70 show
hos he nteads to the cheating fraternity. Van
Sicklep the notorious mock auctioneer of No. Park
Row was arrested for s~indling eountrym TO the
tune Of $25 This fellow ia notorious, and nuisance
The Mayor merely required him TO refund the money,
and then ret him at liberty. This il just what the
.bolers will chee'fuly do whenever they are corner
ed meanwhile profting by the plumber of the scores
who don't complain. Why did the Mayor not revoke
the fellows license
ny
siosERAno,her batch of proposals. were opensS ycs-
teroay by the Street Commissioner aud the wing
contracts awarded: Regulating and grading Eighth
avenue, from One-huDdred snd-fourteenth street 70
One. twenty fifth street; awarded to Cor
Deus Smith, at $ll 232; time, one year; sureties,
Bartlett and Andrew Smith, Regulating and grading
Fifty ninth street, from Eighth to Tenth avenss;
awarded 10 Jeremiah ID. Moore, at $2,7l2 10; time,
eco days. Fl ling sunken lots Nos I29 70 l3l Man
haitian street. pear Hudson River Railroad; awarded
TO Cornelius Smith, at 81, 49, time, 30 days
COMMISSIONERS OF EaIGRATIos.-Tbis Board held
their regular weekly meeting yesterday afternoon ct
Castle Garden, President yerplanck in the Chair.
Present Messrs. Carrgan, Jellinghaus, Hunt, Curtis
and Purdy. The weekly statement shows that S73
emigrans arrived since the LIST instant The number
of inmates the institutions Wards Island $50;
at the period last year there were $780, Over
draft January l. 1860 ,653 l6. Aggregate re-
ceipts for Communication from LIST inst, 81 O6S Over
draft. Iltb inst $lOs5 10. No further business being
presented, the Board adjourned.
OPHTHALsIc HosPIrAL.-The annual meeting d
the Board of Directors and members of the New
York Ophtbslmic Hospital held at their rooms,
Tuesday evening, 10th inst The surgeons, Drs.
Stephenson and Gsrrish, presented their ANNUAL re-
port whereby il appeared that oil new patientswish
diseases OF the eye had been treated at the Hospital
during the last year. making 6l6 poor persons treated
at this institution since its incorporation in 1852. This
Hospital is located at No. Stuyvesant street. opposite
the Bible House, at the junction of Third and
Ninth street, and is open for the reception Of patients
every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, froa 70 3
o'clock.
GREAT DEFICIENCY THE SUPPLY OF Gas IN TIE
LOWER WARDs.-Numerous complaints have been
made Of the great want of light in the lower parts Of
the city. number of the counting rooms IN Broad
street Tor several nights have been obliged TO resort 70
candle light, and the street lamps feeby sup-
piled that every opportunity is furnsbed for robberes
well accidents TO those who Obliged 70 remain
down town alter dark. The Gas Company has again,
and again been informed Of the matter without nasing
any Improvement. A movement will soon be started,
however to redress this neglect, and supply the de-
fcieDcy by numerous merchants, who cannot be neco
veniene.d BY the repeated failures Of the Gas Company
TO furnish ali adequate light.
The JAEE-SrREKr HcxIcIDE.-0ffcers Van 0rden