The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-08-18
New York Items.

NEW YORK, August 1.-Two OHceIs
of the Twenty-Third precinct were con-
yeying a prisoner to the station house
Saturday night last, when they were sci
upOn by a gang of rowsies, and the
prisoner was rescued. An hour after
the officers arrested the ringleader Of
the gang and were again assaulted, but
being reinforced made good the capture
Two officers who reinforced them, how
ever, we're seriously injured. Frear, the
prisoner, was held in $1,000 bail.
An attack on the police was also
made by rowdies in Brooklyn.
The roughs are said to have declared
that they would clean out the whole OF
the police force before November, and
taken in connection with these and the
bloodier assaults committed not long
since, it seems probable that they are at
least trying 1t on.
The funeral of Sewell Fisk, high Of
fetal of the order of Free Masohs OF
this State, took place from the st,
AIMS church, OH Eighteenth street,
yesterday, with grand Masonic demon
strations.
Rev. Stephen II. Tying, Jr., and other
clergymen with city congregations,
preached open-air sermons i'll various
parts of the city yesterday, with geAer'
ally well-behaved and numerous audi.
ences.
The pest sloop Four Brothers, which
was seized by the revenXe officers, has
been tied to wharf in this city, where
thousands of passengers are landing
daily. Great complaint is made about
this way of doing things. 1t is request
ed that the Board of Health look to this
matter Immediately, as the yellow fever
and small pox have been OH board the
infected sloOp.
The bricklayers' strike still cOntin-
ues, and the much talked OF compromise
has effected nothing. New committees
appointed by the journeymen held a
conference with the Executive Com
mittee of the employing masons' associ-
alton last week.
Thus far the journeymtn have had an
abundance of money. More than 1900
eight hour men at work are taxed two
dollars each to sustain the strike.
The sentence of John S. Allen, impli-
Gated in the Callicott whisky frauds,
is understood to have been COMMITTED
by the President. He was sentenced
to the Kings county Penitentiary for
one year and to pay fine of $1,000,
The imprisonment has been RENTED
and the fine still remains to be paid.
The colored people of this city, at a
meeting Saturday night, completed ar
rangements for q demonstration in
honor of the late Thad. Stevens.
Mrs. Commodore Vanderbilt died
this morning.
Capt. Comstock, formerly of the Col
Inns Steamship Line, died yesterday.
The steamship New York, from Bre-
men, arrived this morning.
Five thousand dollars has been voted
by the vestry of Trinity Church for the
Northern Diocese fund, conditional on
the subscription of the whole amount
needed, $4,000.
The next National Unitarian will be
held in this city on October 9th. The
dicussion of the best methods for chris
tianizing the masses will principally
occupy the attention of the Conference.
Erastus Corning is candidate for
Democratic nomination to Congress i'll
the First District of this State.
Suspicious have been aroused that the
recent death of Mrs. Sarah J. Gamble, of
Clarkstown, Rockland county, New
York, was caused by poison, and the
body was exhumed and rigid investi-
cation is progressing. She left large
amount of property TO her husband, and
was, though Catholic, buried in
Greenwood Cemetery under an assumed
name.
At meeting of the master masons
to-day, Mr.. COuover stated that he had
been threatened with assassination. If
these threats should be carried out, the
result would be the abolition of every
Trades Union in the United States.
The general expression of feeling was
in favor of standing firm against the
strikers and for ten hours work per
day.
w. P. Mellen, formerly Treasury
Agent in tho Southwest, writes letter
to the Post, defending General Grant
against the charge of giving permits to
trade.
Tive cases of Asiatic cholera occurred
at Sing Sing.