The New York herald., 1866-09-04
CITY INTELLIGENCE.

Cry TAI SArE-A largo amount OF real estate situated
different parts Of the city, was sold yesterday at the
/ City Hall, at twelve NJ in default of payment by the
owners Of the assessed thereon for grading
gng &c. According to the conditions Of sale the
lots knocked down the persons who offered
take them for the lowest term OF years. who paid
the amount Of the and charges on
them At the end Of two years from the date Of sale
leases will be given for the period for which the proper
I ty sold unless redeemed within that time by the
In the latter the buyers will have their
money returned with interest at fourteen per The
catalogue embraced eight hundred and eighty different
items, some OF which comprised from three to ten
houses and lots There we're not more than a dozen
persons present at the sae and the property bought
for terms OF from sly to thousand years. The
sale was adjourned = half-pas one to to-day.
| WHERE WERE THE PoI'rE 9-Between twelve and one
o'clock, yesterday, two engaged in a fight at the
of Ferry and Jacob streets. The combatants
were in what is technically known "haf over''
condition, and being from the Emerald Isle quite
pugnacious They were pretty equally matched, and
consequently fought with determination 1t give
and take with them, rough and tumble for upwards of
half an hour when their faces were pounded almost TO
jelly, the blood streaming from Their wounds, yet they
stood mp TO their work until they both fell exhausted
The affair brought together crowd Of two three hum
dred persons who inst cad Of preventing breach OF the
peace actually encouraged the combatans to renewed
efforts strange fact in connection with this affair is
that the locality is one of the most requented In the
lower part OF the city, and within few hundred yards
of station house. yet police officer knew Of the
affair till the parties had been taken away by their
friends.
VALUABLE RELIC FROM IRELAND. lone of the passen-
gers per Manhattan which arrived at this port
on Wednesday last brought with him sod of turf
about the size Of a brick, which is hun
dred years old and which is preserved with religious
II once formed portion Of the old Augustipian
church in tho city Of Limerick, and used part Of
the materials required The erection of the altar and
probably used in other buildings at that ne to
prevent damp and insure dry receptacle for articles of
precious metals other valuabes. IL found, with
number OF others sim lar in size and shape years
ago, by workmen engaged pulling down portions of
the old church WALL and Is regarded by us owner pos
sessng considerable historic value and to the Irish in
this city quite curiosity from their green isle.
The SLAUGHTER OF THE INNocesrs--THE DOC Pound
business Of the public dog pound at the foot
Of East Twentyfh street, closed on last saturday
according to edct of the powers that be- There
received at the pound in eleven week. since the 18th OF
June, when it opened d, ,S19 dogs hundred of
which redeemed; the remainder, about 700
drowned Alas, poor Tray
A CONFEDERATE COLONEL TRouBLE.-Colonel Ives
formerly EngineerinChief the staff Of General Lee
and Ad.de.camp to jeff Davis, and educated at West
Point few years ago, had his reputation damaged
by the circulation story, which stated that he had
outraged young lady Of good family, and thereby
dangered her life Since the Of this story the
Colonel has been residing in England Of which country
he is now cinzen. He lately returned TO New York,
where the scandal has again been revived Colonel Ives
yesterday proceeding down Wall street when
stable attempted to arrest him. mob Immediately
collected from which the Colonel only escaped by de-
livcrng himself into the hands OF policeman Again,
while in Spring street, he surrounded by crowd
principally composed Of Irish-who gave vent to their
feelings by hooting, &C. and might have resored to vio
but that the Colonel hastily rereated to Paiges
Hotel He there addressed the crowd declaring himself
innocent Of the charges preferred against him and sue
ceeded in convincing them Of his guiltlessness
The lady implicated In this declares herself ready to
affirm under oath the whole story FALSE Colonel Ives
married sister Of Raphael Semmes