The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1865-03-30
LOCAL NEWS.
NEW YORK AND THE VICINITY

Corn at the Evening TNchanre opened at
i5lq, soid up To l5u',, aud closed =, l5ol stocks
steady at about afternoon quotations. sales of
gold after cs made at ljl, and at Close Of ort
$3.50! II stood at 10 ..
Az AMrHBIoUs DEsERTER.-NestetlAy
morning sailor in the Government scrvicc attempt
ed to dc'ert by jumping from tug-boat which no
was employed, auI attempted TO swim ashore. lie
had taken of his shocs and cap, aud had shawl
around his neck and shoulders u screen him from
coEnition. lie WA, picked up by the bridge street
ferry boat George Law and handed over to tho police
HoRsF FOR GFSPEAL GRANr.-There is \
movement on foot to pnrchasc aud pIe,ent to General
Grant, the fpondii gray stallion "rutc Of Yelling
ton" The horfe /. owned by ~. jaime, o. svinnoy,
of Brooklyn, and is valued at IS ooc. The hor,e will
be exhibited at Central Park this afternoon ct four
O'Clock.
CAPTURE or A WHALE.-A whale, about
twenty five feet long, vu captured OF sandy Hook,
on Tuesday evening, hy a fishing fmAck, and TOW ed
TO the steamboat hpin, near the Quarantine Land
Ing staten Island, where It now lies.
New socIErY.--TAc "SeS York Association
for the Advancement Of Science md Arr" iAr name
Of which explains its object, was inaugurH'ed last
night al the Cooper institute. ssIes Of lectures on
scientific and moral reform subjects have teen an
bounced.
PASSPORTS. .-Gan. Peck, by direction Of
Gen. Dix, has issued order to tho effect that owners
and masters Of steamers and passenger ye1ols will
not bo allowed 10 discharre passengers whose pas
ports ARE not dul, ysed Masters Of such vessels
also required to see that passports n persons embark
ing lor foreign ports are also proper, vised. Tho
dc., however, does not apply IN immigrants.
How To HAVE "fUE" IN NEW YoRK.--
On Friday evening lat james fnith, Of Cincinnati,
who "a. stopping at the Belmont Hotel awaiting tho
departure OF Californis steamer concluded that in
the mean time he micht ~ well have little fun, and
| 20 strolled into the street, where he met Mary
| o'Brien, Of No. to6 Pearl treeL with whom he went
10 eating saloon IN West Broadway ~hcfo he was
robbed Of SLOOo BY hI colupanion. The latter then
went a spree with one Cathariue Fletrher and the
same night both women arrested and on satur.
day morning committed 10 therombs for o1cation
and di,orderly conduct ON entering the prisou
| Catharine Fletcher gave thOe in charge $40 70,
sAio keeping. The lomb' autnonues we're oonyineed
| money at the fAine tine notify ing the police that
they had 81 10 that had undoubtedly been stolen on
Saturday sfsetnoon oncei ,oid' OF tne tlith rds-
officer then pourbt Cntharfue Fletcher, who dis
charged sunday afternoon, and asked her what sh'
| had done with the money Hhe had stolen. The htteI
| replied that Mar O'Brien committed the lohhefy
The officer then arrested Mary O'Brien who .aid n n
Catharine Fletcher had induced her 10 get dunk and
defauu of 40 oOO bail earh, by Justice Kelly, and In
money was cent 10 the Commissioners Of ChsritiH
and Correouonh with request 20 WITHHOLD I ton
| 90 IA in their hands Yesterday. hr smith VIZ sau
| " ne House Of Detention 10 aset ths tTlA OF The
] pr soners,