New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-29
GEN ERAL NEWS.

At about noon on Saturday Messrs. Mason g.
Co.'S extensive vestory chair factory. occupying lots
Nos Is6 l55 and 100 Avenue c. was consumed. The
Atlantic Foundry in the partially destroyed.
and the upper stories OF the tenement dwellings Nos
ls4 and 1872 were demolished by the falling Of the walls
of the chair factory The tenants. generally, narrowly
escaped with their lives but several severely and
two MORALLY injured The pecuniary loss is estimated
at about $4,000.
The body of supposed murdered man,
thought to have been Italian, was discovered on
Saturday a wood on Long Island about mile from
the Bath and Coney Island Railroad depot. There was
pistol shot wound in the body. which was lying face
downward and the head had been nearly severed from
the trunk by cut the back Of the neck The muir
derer has not yet been discovered.
The survey of the Hudson River, north OF
Waterford to Lake Champain. is likely to prove a
failure in consequence OF defect in the bill authorizing
it which directs the Auditor to draw the warrant for
the appropriation Of 5000. and not the Controller,
who is the only legal custodian of the general fund.- out
Of which the appropriation was made
The Charleston Courier of the Oath says that
the number of bodies taken from the .fated monitor
Patspsco is 49, only one Of which. that Of Joseph H.
johnson son Of Fleet Surgeon Johnson has been recog
nized Another body had the initials c. Il. T. marked
on one of the stockings The bodies have been buried
on James Island.
At meeting Of citizens held in the capital of
Alabama on the 18th instant, petition was prepared
70 be forwarded to the President praying him either
to permit the Rebel Governor to call the Legislature
together to appoint military Governor, for the
lief of the people.
The police authorities have received instruc.
tons to present the of several prominent liquor
dealers who have not taken ont licenses to the Grand
jury for Indictment with view Of definitely settling
the question of the consrtutionaty OF the Excise law
One thousand breach loading carbines OF the
Joslyn model the same number OF bayonetsheaths
ooO sets Of infantry acouternents, and 1000 gun.
stocks were shipped from the arsenal in Springfield to
Washington on Friday and Saturday.
John T. Ford, proprietor of Fords Theatcr
vas on Friday Internationally released from the Old
Capitol Prison where he has been confined since his
return from Richmond, few days after the sssaS'
snation Of President Lincoln.
The Post Office Department has contracted
for the CONVEYANCE Of the mails daily and back the
route from Lincoln, CAL to Portland Oregon including
intermediate points, the service to commence On the
1st Of July
Thefurniture establishment Of Willard Everett
& Co. in South Dedbam, Mass. destroyed by IRE
on Friday. including great amount Of lumber. The
loss Is estimated at $4,000. which is insured for
$4,000.
Henry Ward Beecher, and distinguished
gentlemen Of this city have been invited by Gov Pier
pont to be present at the ceremonies attending his
assumption Of the gubernatoria functions at Richmond
Va
The Mississippi Rebel Legislature met at
Jackson on the Goth inst, and directed Gov Clark to
appoint three Commissioners to visit President johnson
and confer with him the subject Of reconstruction
Mr. Edward A. WhitlOck Of Mott-Hayen was
run over and instantly killed Saturday afternoon. his
foot having slipped he was stepping into Harlem
car at the the Twenty. ,xth-st railway station.
Tue Osbon court martial me. On Saturday