New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-22
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TIE CITY.

The City MISSION Dlleclois lnttt IulS dlVSl-
noon at 8, in the BbleHouse.
Clerks Aid Society bail, in TTenor's Rooms,
No i27 Sixth-ave., this evening.
"Grace" says that the Rev. Mr. Potter has
not been made rector of Grace Church.
Mayor Hoffman was elected, yesterday, chair
man OF the Sinking Fund Commissioners.
The Excise Board revoked two liquor licenses
yesterday. Seven vendors were tried.
Fools" by the Rev. p. S. Henson, 10 the
Btanton-st. Baptist Church, this evening
Messrs Lord g. Taylor are Slid to have taken
the Old MaisOn DOree for an uptown store -,
Pixies Opera House advertisement on tlis
page is correct; that ON the sixth page lncoiree"
George VIM. Biesele pulled over Kettle Oh
coffee at No 65 Laurensst, and was scaideu 10 uo"sn
MI c. b. Brewster, son OF the rector oI HH VIZ
Church In tins city, has been chosen class orator ~ i'
Major Gen. Robert Anderson will preside at
The Cooper Institute Washnson's birthday Temperance
celebration.
MARY Corrican died at No. 243 East Twenty
second,st. having been burned by the explosion OF d
kerosene lamp.
Hiram Nichols was found destitute and dying.
yesterday Fftetst and Elghthave The ponce tOOA
him 10 Bellevue Hospital.
Mr.. Thomas Carrigan has received from the
Idfe-savnc Benevolent Association silver medal and
90 for saving boy and man from drowning
Coroner Schimer held an inquest over the
body Francis Mc(raW, who had fallen from Oau OI
hay and sustained o compound fracture Of the skull.
Last years money order business in our Post
Office exceeded that OF 1866 by S35O6 TO- Inc numoeI
IOs,224.
An auctioneer who sold share of the New
York Society Library on Saturday for go erroneq3Gsy
STYLED share. IL Is one OF those thal are SUBJECT
10 annual dues
The thousands of citizens whose pockets have
been picked on the city railway cars are invited 10 NT
the Frstaye police station early this morning ana 10 ala
Capt. Mount in cOnvcting gang OF ear pickpOekets
The Wiegand murder inquest was concluded
yesterday The Jury rendered Verqct agd,nst Ausl
committed. The other prsoeers, Henry Pauh ana VIII
Christian, were discharged
Mr. Edwin Booths new theater, on Sixth-ave.
and Twentyhird-st, is to be four-stoy brick building
with granite front. The auditorium Is TO 3e ~ IeeI
entrances, each 20 feet in width.
Charles Herman, young German cigar
maker, committed suicide last evening by hanging MN MN
self with clOthesne evidently purchased Tor tuat
purpose in his the bOardinghouse No Al Marion
st disappointment IN love a III N WIN scid ms
Coroner Rollins held an inquest yesterday on
the case Of Alexander sadfedt the lad who committed
suicide ON Monday afternoon by hanging himself Win
AT No 103 FOurth-ave The father, mother ana sister
were examined but they could not assign any motive for
the act.
The Rev. DR.. John Cotton Smith delivered
lecture in the Church Of the Holy Trinity last evening"
entitled Dante, His Relations TO the Great Questions OF
cur Age The lecturer sketched the great FlOrentine
poets life, and considered the character of the Goem
porary master minds Of the age Of Bonface VIII He
Then surveyed the civilized world of our time.
The First Metropolitan Land and Building
Association nominated officers last evening as follows
mendanger Secretary, Robert Grove; Treasurer John
W. Farmer. Board of II Directors was also nominated
The Association has 100 members ITS ful number is
600 shares 5000 each, payable in weekly Install
ments OF 81.
The Central Temperance Organization dis.
cussed last evening the prOprety OF procuring one OF
city heaters every Sunday evening, for Temper
anee meeting T9e plan SaS suggested 9 ae
meetings in the Park Theater Brooklyn. Tony Pastors
Opera House named suitable, and Committee
directed to report at the next meeting the result OF
their negotiation
Detective Officer Irving arrived in this city
yesterday having charge Thomas Riley, accused Of
hardware store on Eghthave. and who in the following
August shot Patroman John oBrien, that officer having
attempted him in John Reynolds saloon at For
ty-frsts and Ninth-ave. The prisoner who Is sald 10
be not the man, was committed last night to cell at the
Police Central Office.
The Board of Audit considered the claim
yesterday Of the washington ms Co to be refunded
Of taxes by the Tax Commissioners and paid by
pany as part personal property; the claimants also
presented clam for s2Cs with interest to May
1867 under similar circumstances These taxes the CON-
pany paid under protest claiming ina u t o az VI
Congress United states stocks were 1ree from a1O
and the claim sustained by the u 3 supreme Court
Decision reserved
The Rev. DR.. II. Vidaver was installed, last
evening lecturer OF the congregation mai Jeshurum at
The synagogue in Thiry-fourthst DR. Vldaver was IN,
trodnced by DIT Raphael who for 90 years has presided
over that Congregation who. the occasion Of his
withdrawal last evening, in consequence Of the infIm
;ngy of the mutual duties OF the congregation and ITS
new lecturer Having been formally dtrod t Dd
another Judaism appealed TO the intellect as wen as 10
beart and in that respect differed from most other
Religions The interest felt by the mai Jeshurum
gegaon in the installation OF the new lecturer was IN
Piled by the full attendance and the least pleasing
episodes Of the ceremony the vocal effort Of the
chorsters
Mr.. James Z. Mills delivered a very inter
esting lecture last evening upon The Drift Of Long
Island" as illustrating its geological history. He be-
leves Long Island be the product of glacial action
part of the northeastern portion Of the North American
continent in moving seward encountered near
which i crowded up before itself form .'.Is
ing the basis Of the island, at the same time
which now stretch north-eastward from Greenwood
The evidences OF this glacial action Mr. Mills has found
Oh Long Island ana also on cape breton Isldnu, eae
cOrrObOratng the indications Of the other The new and
important fact shown by recent investigation on Long
Island and not manifest so far as known on any 9ther
part Of the American continent IS That AT the time OF TINS
action the land sinking and that 1t subsequently be
entirely submerged, rising again In course OF uhe
70 its present position
NORTHUMBERLAND O'Goman will lee
lure in the Academy of Music this evening.
Prospect Park was visited by 10000 persons
last week-l0OOO ON Saturday.
Fx-MavOr Z. A. Lambert was a victim of
the car pick-pockets on Monday
The sale of property for unpaid water taxes
was continued in the R0tunda of the CITY Hall yesterday
The end Of the list for 1860 was reached
The Y. NJ. G. Associations Christian Conven-
ton will assemble in Dr. Cuylers Lafayete-aye PTesby-
terrain House Of Worship this morning at 10.
The most remarkable arrest under the Excise
law was that Of Charles BOnkamp Of Foureenthst and
ffthave He had been licensed to sell malt liquors, but
his license having expired he had quit the business but
had forgotten TO take down his sign and for exhibiting
liquor sign without license he was taken into custody
The jury in the case of Lawrence Ehrhardt,
the alleged murderer of Hermann Gross, returned at
about eight o'clock last evening and reported that they
bad been unable TO agree They were then discharged
The prisoner through counsel, then pleaded guilty OF
taansaughter in the fourth degree. The plea having
been accepted Judge Tappan passed sentence OF imps
eminent In state Prison two years,
At the Board of Supervisors meeting yester-
rosol,4{ou vpas offered requesting DELANEY,