The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-12-08

Mr. Lincolns career. Enough money is already sub
scrbed 70 pay Mr. Browne for the ssatuetwsny thou.
plete the monument The work tho statue will be-
GIN as once The money for the erection OF the monn-
yss r.nnE ou' .ne nc S' y
In very bad TASTE II not In selfish private motive,
eonsemplstes change 10 me location OF the monu-
REWARDS THE DETECTION OF lscEsDIARIEs.--Fhe
alarming OF fires during the present has
led the BELIEF that great many Of them the
suit OF ncsndarisn. The Board Fire Underwriters
holding this view has lately decided appropriate the
sum of $4,000 to be publicly offered in amounts not
exceeding $1,000 as rewards for the conviction aud
punishment OF persons guilty. OF ncendarisIn
within the limits OF the Metropolitan district
THE LICENSE BuRrAu.-%arshs Tappan OF the Mayors
Office reports the following to licenses granted by
him during the past week :--Pswnbrokers and second
hand dealers, IS; coaches s5 vendors, 6l; public
carts a26; sxpressmen, 49, drivers 27o miscellaneous
20; total licenses granted. SIS; whole amount re-
ceived, $l.7S9 60
RoxAS CATHOLIC ORPHAN AsYLur.-rhe preliminary
arrangements have been made for the annual ball at
tho Academy Of Music in support Of the Roman Cath
Ollie Orphan Asylum. meeting OF the Young Mems
Association has been held At the Peabody House, at
r:-President Jeremiah Qninlan; First Vice-Prosi
dent Walter Roche; second Vice President Charles
0'Connor; Corresponding Secretary, T. J. Flynn; Pc
cordng secretary, T. J. 0'Bren; Treasurer, Francis
Higgins The association now numbers among It's mem.
The ball will come of At the Academy OF Music the
evening OF January Id
DEPARTURES on TRoors For TExAs-Two hundred and
seventy troops le this city yesterday Texas;
hundred and seventy from Carlisle barracks, Penn
sylvanis, to Join the Sixth cavalry stationed ut head
quarters Austin, and hundred for the Fourth
airy, headquarters al Camp Verde. The following
officers Of the latter regiment accompanied the deach-
n W
deachnent Lieutenants Justiman Altman, W. H. Hicks,
w. G Bayliss, w. A. THOMPSON Fairfax Bayard.
Lewis Warrington ID. n Scott H. T. Winchester and
d. Lynch.
Pou0 RECORD the WEEK-rhe record Of the
number Of arrests made in this city by the police during
the week ending Friday, the 9th inst. stands fol-
lowssaturday, aoth ult, 224 Sunday. LIST inst, So;
az ia s s 81 a. Fdsy
9th inst, Ill. Grand total, l,25o.
MERCANTILE LrBRABY LrcruRr Professor r. Levison
delivered free lecture last evening in No. H.
Clinton Hall, before number OF young connected
with tho mercantile library class political economy
The lecture constituted the FIRST Of the SERIES and
devoted mostly 70 analysis rather moro acute
report Of the Secretary OF the Treasury The professor
commended that In his financial ut the Secre
t.ry had manifested more than usual Judgment insight
Of the Of the word money used the report.
Professor Levson Of the opinion that in the docu
ment under consideration the secretary had COMPOUNDED
the idea OF money with that of loanabe capital and
want Of logical precision c!oudncss Of meaning
been sngaed upon otherwise very able report Money
was one thing, and loanabe capital which might or
might not be money, was something else OF ntrnscaiy
different meaning. Some further crcism, sometimes
logical sometimes verbal, completed the lecture which
was one OF exceeding acumen and interest
HISTORICAL LEcTuRxs.-Mr Ernest O. Hopp delivered
the first Of hs series Of historical lectures last evening
in room No a. Cooper Building. The subject vas the
First Inhabitants Of America" topic upon which
great deal Of tneorisns and speculation has been
pended particularly valuable 20 far a. the settling
OF the vexed question concerned. Mr. Hopp discus
ssd with considerable erndon the state and peculiar
barbarisms Of the aborginas more than once limiting
ct the possible precedence OF certain sort OF oriental
civilization to the ages Of barbarsm through which the
aborgnees must have passed have 6st a traces Of
their origin and remote derivation.
The assomba9e or listeners, though enall--the room
being about half flled-was 4tten tive phe
livery OF the lecture, which contained little acute
though satisfactory speculation upon various points of
interest TO antiquarie occupied nearly hour and
one Of m intended series upon topics OF kindred import
MELANCHOLY AccDRSr.-About eight o'clock Friday
night a James Connolly, aged sixty years. inspector
attached to the Croton Aqueduct Department and resid-
ing at No. Ill East Fourth street. attempting to
First avenue Second street. he was knocked
down and run by . double team hay wagon,
turing both legs aud Of the passed his
body crushing and breaking his ribs Oicer voss, OF
the Seventeenth precinct, bad the injured imme-
datey conveyed 20 the Bellevue Hospital where after
lingering about fortv-dve minutes, he expired The
driver far could be ascertancd not arrested
KxocxED Down HoRsR AND RrDsa-Late last
night man giving bis name william smythe, and
from letters found upon his person evidently connected
in way at No. 4S4 Pearl street. knocked down
In Chatham square by man on horseback. who nme-
daely he saw the apparent Injury no had committed
Barter street. Smythc sustained an incised wound
from tho horse hoof tho left temple tho
geon does NOT consider u OF dangerous nature.