New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-23
THE CITY.

THE CITY.
Ev-Gov. Seymour is at the New York Hotel.
Thirty-one fires occurred in the city between
Dec g. 1868, aud Jan, l9. 1869. .--'~---~ ..-f
grand carnival will take place at the d Eli
pire City Skating Rink, on Thrdaye next tuesday even
ing
Company /, 18th Infantry n g., have tlle neil
annual hop on Monday evening at Apollo nan n VIII
liant affair is in preparation. -,
The Hon. William M. Evarts Will preside AT
the bauGuet OF the Yale Alumni to be gwen al Doi
monico's next Friday evening.
Horace Greeley has promised to be present o at
the NeWsbOys Lodging House, No AZ Kplace1 neA'
Sunday evening, and address the boys
The regular meeting of the WOrhngmen's
Association held at the Cooper INSTITUTE IaS' CHING
No business Of Importance was transane'eu'
Archbishop McClosky will deliver discourse
on next Sunday evening at St. Patrcks CathedraI pro
ceeds to be devoted to the relief OF the poor W
the st. Vincent de Paul Society
DR.. Peaslee delivered a very Interesting leciuIe
nc the rooms Of the Young Mems Christian AssoSlao
No. l61 Fiftrave last evening on 'he Injurious -
liquors and tobacco 49,
A meeting of the ex-members of the Wash
ington Grey Troop be held next Thursday evening"
2Sth ns for the purpose Of forming veteran CORPS
connection with the present organization
The Society for the Relief of the Ruptured
and Crippled is about to erect brick building % ~
brown stone aud Ohio stone trimmings Oh the conei u
FOTty-sec Ond-st. and Le1lngtonaVe.
William Grfiths, living in Newark-aye,,,
Jersey City and employed by William Babeock OF Jtr t
City, yesterday AFTERNOON ie from Oa Gs Si INV and died
i'm a few moments The body was sent to the Morgne
fire occurred last evening on the first floor
OF NO. d aSd rare BOOKS loss on stock 5000 insured
The basement occupied by James 4. Boyle as
bTdns Is owned by Alexander Hamilton and damaged
to the amount OF $1,000. Insured
Coils. Augusten Castellanos and Ricardo
Pjmente and Capts Lorenzo JirvieneS, Abeardo IrcO
aud Jose Antonio Cutra OF the Insufgent Army OF INC
Island Of Cuba arrived by the steamer star aud stripes
YorE Sybpatiizers with their cause viii be kindly vel
coined at rooms Nos. IS and ls Metropolitan Hotel
While Policemen Rem$en and Frazer 1 were ON
morning, they wGr6 Approached BY two men Ous &
whom fred pistol at the officers They then He'd one
gan was arrested and locked up In the ForyseYenths
The Rev. Herrick johnson, D. D., of Phila-
delpa, will preach under the auspices Oh Ihe ho, h
Mes Christian Association, tomorrow evening ~ inc
marble Church Ffthave, corner OF Iwehi! ln1nsI.
meeting at No iGi Ffth-ave when among other eHeT'
cises, an essay WIN be read by the rev William l.
Sabine; subject" our American Sunday"
A large number of Polish ladies and gentlemen
were assembled No. Deanceys last night TO cele-
brae in tung manner the II .S a5d
delivered eloquent address during which nc was ire
quently interrupted by bursts OF applause AuIosscS
we're also delivered by Messrs. AuOHs CLaikO"skL ana
others.
The loss occasioned by the fire at the Derby
Art Gallery than was at hrst estimated
Many OF tie works of art to which moneycd value can
hardly be attached, cannot be repaced and there were
rare books and engravngs valuable because out OF print
sarony Co., the photographers on the floor above sns
tanned no by either fire OF water as was al nfst re-
ported.
Taken to the Morgue Friday, Jan. %, from
seventeeuth.st, between Second and Ihrdaycs., the
body OF an unknown woman aged about ~ years, feet
inches high who fell dead IN the street Had light
brown hair mixed with gray Had check scarf black
alpaca dress gray balmOral, brown pctucoat striped
stoctjngs black WOODEN shawl bonnet black vail and
laced CATERS The body was placed IN the AoTRue TO
await identification .. ---- --.-,.
T ~ 1 e. d. IL
Cathedralby the Most Rev. DE- McCloskey Archbishop
Of York to morrow, at o'clock p. N, for the bene
q s P9e Or Y PAUL attached to the Cathedral The an
nua report Of this excellent Society makes the following
poor, $252 5O visits made to the poor at their homes;
i226 Situations procured for number OF persons ana
many children projected and cared for.
During the "a hours ending at 10 o'clock yes
terday moppg there we're persons arrested there
were three suspicious persons taken IN custody IL were
locked up for being drunk ana dsordGFy ~ dor Deins
drunk 10 for being dsorde ~ Tor violating coIloih
ton ordinances for RECEIVING stolen gooGs g d
aud battcry 81 for petty larceny or arson iQr g,ad
larceny; for feloniOus ASSAULT TOT reckless uIlVhE
for va9Tancy for pocket picking and3 for nGmeless
crimes OF these there were 81 males ana 10 icnaes'
Jacob Cook, a cOlored boy, was arrested in
the SuTingst cOlored school yesterday morning on
6e lad Taced the he'd In his apartment the second
floor Of No 50 LauTeust against the door eadhg To he
apartment Of his parents and then set fire to IT, hoping
this that his parents had threatened 10 nave
the Lad awokc before the fire had made much headway'
and eXtingmished 10. The young desperate was COM
mited TO the House Of Refuge by Justice Dodge.
Among the arrivals in the city are Gov. Page
OF Vermont Gen. VIM. McKinstry Of Missouri and tho
Hon H. A. TIden Of Eew'Lebanon at tho 81 Nicholas
Hotel; the Hon. Galusha A. Grow, Pennsylvania Gen.
Wager swayne T. s. A., Gen. J. g. Fullerton So. Louis,
Mr. and W. j. Florence. at the Fifth Avenue iotcl
Gen. L. W. whitaker Gen W. g. Ely, and Col Gatcke OF
Connecticut and Cen Stannard Of Vermont at The Metro
politau Hotel Gen GOicOur Of Brazil at the Wcsmlns-
Ter Hotel Capt G. NJ Fauntleroy Of Virginia, at the
New York Hotel
A meeting of the Soldiers and Sailors Cen
eral Committee was held last evening at No CSC Broad
way Capt. 5. S. Uuty occupied tho chair, and Capt
John Nugent acted az secretary Delegates were present
from Is Assembly districts The Committee on pcrfna-
nent organization reported the following az permanent
officers OF the Committee President, Cen John COch-
rane First VcePTesideut, Capt. Daniel j. Hogan; Sec
President Capt. 5. 5. Umy; Treasurer Lieut. Chas. f.
Spaudng; Secretaries Capt Michael Cregan and Capt
Robert Laffan; SergeantatATms, Sergeant VIM IoDiD
On motion. the rep Ort was unanimously adopted,
BROOKLYN.-A Brooklyn capitalist has be-
come interested ia the White Sulphur SPRING., ~ y,
property aud s now erecting new suit VI hotel build
ings on liberal scale.
John G.. Eden, who was arrested on Thurs
day morning last on suspicion Of hnng his store, and
causing the death OF two children Is still held iu custody
hour last night and several witnesses were examined,
but the prisoner not present The feeling against
the prisoner strong and the case Is extremely
pciOus one but 1t appears TO be impossible 20 obtain
positive evidence. The jury will meet again Monday
afternoon next.
The subject Of introducing q dummy engine
on the SOuth-side Railroad through South Eighth-st
Broadway, and Boerum.sts., l.. D. discussed at n
ell on Thursday night number OF parties objected 10
the use OF steam, being under tho impression that IL
would tend TO deterOrate the value OF property, while
Others thought that by the introduction OF steam the
vain ~ al tate he ffaa