New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-09
CITY ITEMS

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THy JAHuARr THAw-The cold term" came 70 a
DE- cisve end Saturday evening, when heavy, pat
terng esstery rain melted the tow inches Of in
our Streets flooding the whole city, and making thngs
uncomfortable generally as 10 stfe almost every
kind Of business except that Of the stage and carriage
drivers. All that day the air had been warm and
moistening, and never slusby streets moro dsa-
ereeable 10 the pedestrian. Everyt thing dripped,
steamed or spatered SO the rau all night was hailed
with Joy by all. Ii not exactly one Of Dame Ma
tures grand washing performances, where she takes
filthy -and.mud-dabbled town, foods il with mil
lions OF buckesuls of water, sweeps refaLe enough 10
found Coney Island into the sewers right
and left, and then, when all is clean and
shiny, sends tremendous northwest blast
through tie streets till the sidewalks ia The morn
ing are dry and drlcss an od-syle Flemish floor.
This time the OLD Dame foand her task an augean one
and allowed the rain 10 rest before Is was finished,
preiering to let the slower and gentler influences o.
sunlight pooh of the job. Whereupon the northwest
" ind, seeing that he not wanted shrewdly con-
tiDued his nap and So on Sunday mornisg there was
still plenty Of snow in the streets, and the roofs OF
hOuses and on the Brooklyn and Woehawken Hights
to I'll the air with moisture, and the morning was
warm enough TO produce regular January thaw.
Through the night and long after daylight dense fog
lay upon The North and East Rivers, seriously
impeding and rendering dangerous the passage
Of he ferry boats. Yesterday morning those
running 10 Wiliamsburgh were compelled
TO lie at their whaes for some hours to the incOnye-
niepce Of the crow6s wishing TO We have
heard Of ID accident occurring. After the sun got
fairly ont, the day was beautiful overhead, and the
temperature like that Of Nay But il viii take several
such days to entirely clear away the ice and in
TIE streets and it is more than likely that another
snow-storm viii herald another cold term, before
the thaw has inished its work Tie rain and change
Of temperature must have loosened great deal Of the
ice of the river, and ia Ccmmunipaw Bay and the
Kill Won Kul, that probably by to-day it will begin
to eddy into the slips, snd interfere with thc transit
both to New-Jersey and Long Island.
TuTATReAL.-At Laura Ko.nes tonight 1.-THE
Heat Of Mid Lothian viii be presented for the first
time, altered 10 suit the requirements of Miss Keeue and
Miss Agnes Robertson, who TO personate EGie and
Jeanne Deans Charles Fisher is engaged TO play David
Deans, Mr., Lesson for Dunlbiedikes, while Mark
Smith, Burnett, DAILY Levick Peters, and Misses Ma
earthly, Delsnd, and Wells, fill the other parts. When
this story was first dranstized the male characters
were more prominent, and such players az Macresdy
snd Iist0n were 10 them; now the sisters take pre-
cedence, properly enough, snd will be the great
feature. New scenery and new music have been pre-
pared for the OCCASION and long 70 full houses is
anticipated.
At the HIhter Garden the " OctorOon will be
continued through the week. George Holland will
have benefit Tuesday night, and Mr.. j. II. Allen
on Friday night Let both be generously remembered
NjiOs is closed for week to prepare for the new
English Circus on Monday next.
At Woilock's, A Husband to Order" ard " The
Irish Post /" for the present. The drama from
The Romance of Poor Young Man" will probably
be brought out this week.
AT BarHun,'s MaseRfa they have little ropewslker
only ten years Of age. Dramatic performances every
afternoon and evening as usual.
At the Old Bote,y Mr.. Sefton's engagement closes
tonight, and on Tuesday we have Ada and Emma
Webb, known as " The Fairy Sisters, and well in
doIsed in California.
The Ne~ BO,cery has acquired Mr.. Boniface, and
viii show him tonight Robert Bruce, in "The Lord
Of the Isles"
At NiJo's Saloon, George Cbristy has been doing
and will contiDne amusing extravaganza entitled
/" New-Years Calls" and the Juvenile Cryhorn
Concerts"
Mr. and Mrs. yandenhoff commence at Hope Chapel
tonieh, series Of Dramatic Readngs-the Christmas
Carol is the first
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