The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-07-16
CITY INTELLIGRNCE.

rpsoNAr.-tiencra Grant and i,nipv arrived al GOV.
ernors Island last evening aud arc ia. guese Of GEN.
era wsen commanding Fort Columbus. Governors
Island and will visit Long Branch to-day. General
is ea vouts from Washington to West Points, at
tend tho meeting OF the Army Board to revise nc
tactics OF the army, IN session AZ the latter pae
STATE APPROPRIATIONS REimIous PURPOSES. the
Metropolitan Police authorities have drawn up pet-
lion to be presented 10 the Constitutional Convention,
asking that further appropriations be made for Sec
tartan purposes by the state and that clause be r-
serted in the constitution to that effect The state pays
$4,000 per year for the support OF religious nsua
tic0s and o. this SPA 600 TO CATHOLIC schoo9 aEu
colleges.
ouA Cry MARKETS AND COUNTRY HucksrKRs. comp
troler Connolly, who has made numerous important
regulations In regard 10 city markets has just ordered
regulation In regard collecting license fees from
farmers who sell produce from their wagons, near
Washington Market Under the old system, It is said,
the city has been defraudea ont of large amount of
revenue The Comptroller has adopted system by
which he expects to make channel through which the
city treasury viii receive what properly belongs 20 IL
4 clerk will be stationed near Washington Market,
whose duty shal he to sell tickets to hucksc,s, giving
+hem the right 10 use the public streets TO sell produce
from their These tickets will be collected by
clerks appointed for that purpose. Zach wagon viii DO
from this source ought to BIO very large regu.
| lations vii, so into elIsct on the Is. proximo.
THr STREET ClEaNv1 COMMISSION The Street Cleaning
Commissioners yesterday at two O'Clock, in the
Mayors Office, the Mayor in the chair The usual semi
| the contractor. Nr J3.a Whiting, when, 10 the Alb
seEcs o. other bu;ius,- Commits toner's adjourned.
| AN EssuYr BETWEEN .aa1aEENr Considerable
excitement created roadway yesterday, growing
out Of /. is alleged event at the late cable dinner
TO the press. II is said that Mr. Cyrus Field, the
occasion referred TO- contradiced statement made by
MI Jones the Publisher OF OF the city papers in
regard the of the Atlantic Cable Company, to
which apology explanation was demanded and re-
fused. yesterday the parties accidentally met, when
Mr. Jones seized Mr. Fields olractory organ and gave
unweleon,e squeeze.
CR.ckKT--The match between the first eleven OF the
St George Club, OF this city, and eleven officers Of the
garrison Of Lower Canada which arranged come
OF the 7th and 18th ns at Hoboken, is unavoidab
| postponed.
A PrcurIAA Casa man named John W. Burgess,
who keeps q saloon al Easton, Pa, came to this city
yesterday and induced the Twenty ninth precinct police
70 arrset his wife, Aida who stopping At the Hor
man House-she, as ho alleges, having eloped with u
| man named Morehsad. The couple when arrested wer
brought 70 the station house, wherehe wife was cor
was on her way her sister Vermont, and thai
M Morehead was acting as her virtuous guardian and
hersoif, and she thought she did Burgess satisfied
with hersatement, made complaint against his bstte
half, and 60 went hn ways psscsably.
| AccpEsrs-rohn j. Cnsack, minor, who resides al
3ss East Thirteenth street aooidenIly fell from tree
which had been climbing yesterday, and broke his
arn ON examination II was found necessary TO have
| hun removed 10 Bellevue Hospital.
Ann Mcguire, who resides al - James greet Will,
ate mpting TO save her ot.ld from being run over
yesterday evening, Unfortunately slipped and fell
fractuTing Of her legs She Immediately con
4 veyed by of the Fourth precinct police to Belle
II vuo Hospital
I FIRE IN ELEVENTH AvBxuE--At haf-past two O'Clock
yesterday morning fire occurred in the kiBding wood
factory Of Chacs Cable located at the Of Eleventh
avenue end Twenty third stsSst which resulted In tho
destruction OF the building and considerable damage to
the machinery Tho loss In estimated at ST. 500 SAID 10
DO insured for the full amount The FIRE tho work
uf an inosndiary.
DsscaST BY FIrrErSTH EeEcrScT Police Yes
,erday Mr.. seuSmsn Kakcaes, Of No. 10 East EieVenb
street, appeared before Justice Dodge and made
| plant against Mia Louisa Turner, Of No. East
Eleventh street. aud Miss Amanda Wilson, No. III East
Eleventh street. for keeping, dsordsrly houses The
Justice ssued for The,r and placed in
the hands OF Captain Carcv " execution. That officer,
In company with Sergeant Hal yerty and posse OF
made descent on No IL ESst Eleventh street, and
street. last evening The folio wing parsons
Sergeant Miller with posse, on No. East Eleventh
ed az No3-John Ryan, Della Tr vner Catherine Hooper,
Smith, Mary A. Jones rhos K,ersn, Ban Dempsey,
Mary Forrest, Geo. Layantine, Vie Thcapson, Eiza
Sharp The following persons were arrested at No. H.:
Rosa Harrison, Mary smith, Jas Waeon, JDo! Hopper,
Mary Jackson, Andrew Brown, Jng Anderson, Mary
Brown. The entire bevy lockeat ap at tie station
house.
SrApBiSo ATrRtY-A named 1ksnard Cf.'ldbold
lately in the face it'll knife IN the bands Of
como unknown person Size OK First cnue
and Thrty.third street. He was tske6 10 peisvue
Hospital