The New York herald., 1865-06-21
City Intelligence.

BIDS STREET CoSTRACn.-Thc office Of Street Com
missoners Tweed and Cornell presented lively appear
yesterday forenoon upon the occasion of the open
ing of the bids for certain street contracts and awarding
the contracts bidders. The apartment crowded
with gentlemen the follow
ing the lettings made az far as could be ascertaned
last evening"
Dredging pier 81 E. r. Isaac Orr. 50, ,075
Rebuilding pier a. T. r., j. Hsndix. ......... $3.50
Rebuilding oushcad north sde or hvng'0n street. o71
Repianking and rofcndering piers SO and 81 e R.,
nas xere Te0%ss nss 1eosSsd for
from from Ts nss y s% s 'ss% S ss
satterhs and assing Eleventh avenue from Ffty third
TO Fifty ynnth street, curbing, guttering and tagging
Eghticth street. from Third avenue to the East river
curbng gutterng and tagging Fifty second street, from
Fifth to Eighth avenue cuIbing guttering and tagging
Forty eighth street. from Ninth to Tenth Upon
the latter mentioned cases decision has yet been
reached
STREET INSPECTORS Since the contract for the clean
ing Of the been let by the Street Cleaning CON-
MISSION the Office Of the Street Inspector has experienced
general depression the way Of business prospcctvcly
1t still carries the inspection and the ceaning but
duties will be transferred TO the contractors the
lst proxmo and the employees Of Mr.. Booles Office
and their G"ens that iher services will
not required after that date BY this change In pro-
gamme about fifteen hundred men will be more or less
affected, and many Of them, probably, for umc al
least thrown out of employment II would seem that
the policy Of the workmen should be TO submit grace
fully the transfer cultivate the acquaintance Of the
contractors. and at least give them Trial and be
that there exists actual difference before they
resort TO measures which, inaugurated, only end
in their discontinue The contractors upon the street
work will have to employ men and OF course have thef
choice as to whom they shall take on and whom reject
All the laborers who have shown their fitness for their
positions ought to nd places in the new work under the
Contractors And IL only for the aborers that the pub
lie cares The district officials who have heretofore
nd
" other pursuits Thus far there has been no
actual rupture between the contractors % ana sne worx
sary II the cleaning Of the streets is well performed by
the contractor IL is all that the public have any interest
and the street Cleaning Commission will be 70 get
themselves into dish Of particularly hot water.
A THOUSAND MrlEs 10 KSocKED DowN.-From the
day that Sampson jawed the Phstnes 10 death, mules
have been sensiby raised In the estimation Of mankind
The war has thinned their ranks the days Of the
nath have been followed by the days Of the steam horse
track and still the mule Is valuable and In de-
mand An obstinate animal, and proverbally contrary
in disposition still, when II comes 70 hard pulling, up
and steep and rocky roads the descendants Of the
father OF all rabs'' comes in play most oppcrtuney.
stables corner Of Tenth and Twenty third street.
In this city, The sale will be resumed on the
sh and continue on ne i2h issn ana 2o.h & OF next M
from thousand.
LECTURE ON FRxrnAsoxRy will be delivered by Rev
Samuel Bell d. D., Past Grand Orator Of the State Of
California at the Cooper Institute, tomorrow
ing, at eight O'Clock. The lecturer comes we'll recon
| mended.
RurcEn rExAss IssrrTrTK-The Twenty eighth an
nua commencement Of the Ruger Female Institute will
occur at the Broadway Tabernacle Thursday, the
ercises commencing at two o'clock r. NJ A meeting OF
the trustees Of the Institution will be held In the parlor
over the lecture room, quarter Of hour earlier
| A CAIipoRSA HuyrxR AND TRArPTR IN Tows.-Men
ton was made In these columns yesterday Of the ap
pearance upon the streets Monday Of q strangely
atrcd perscnage who attracted such q crowd wherever
he journeyed that he compelled to retreat TO al
tie threat that he would eat any or boy who wa
presumptious enough TO attempt 70 follow him. Il
turns out TO have been Mr. Seth Kinman the Caforni
hunter and rapper who, just previous TO the death
President Lincoln presented hm unique and interest
ing chair formed from the antlers OF the wild elk
the last bequest Of any kind made 70 Mr. Lincoln Mr.
Kinman has had rather evenuul life He was borI
\ in 1915 In Unicn county, Pennsyvani4 and Removed
70 Illinois early 1880, where, during the Black Hawl
war Of 1882 he took part in Captain Adams company
in the defeat Of General stilinsn Rock river and Il
| another fierce battle with the Indians ~ Syca
more creek He followed trapping and hunting In tb
West up TO 1913, crossing the Rocky Mountain
| in IsI2 In 1sls he journeycd overland 10 Cafornis
where in Humboldt county he still resides, when a
home with his wifc and three children In 1857 Nj
Kipman presented an elk horn chair OF his own manu-
facture 10 james Buchanan But was not this &C
which gave that parsonage the nickname OF 0ld Buck
whether Buchanan rewarded Mr. Knnan history doe
not record but had President Lincoln lived he woul
have received substantial recognition Of presen
| upon which Mr. Lincoln placed much value MRS Lin
coin has taken tho chair 10 her home in the West wher
| Mr Knman followed the remains OF the President, an
has just returned Mr. Kinman H. still In the city.
he has formed the acquaintance VI the policemen IN
civil way and had the liberty or The streets granted hin
ho will be further annoyed His beard and hair ar
Tho Admiration Of ali the ladjee and the evuTle N