New York items.
--The New York correspondent of the Baltimore
Clipper, of the 3th inst., says:
‘
The Navy Agents here continue very active in forwarding supplies and reinforcements for
Port Royal,
Fort Pickens, and
Ship Island.
The transport
City of New York has left for
Hilton Head.
The
Marion is loading for the same place.
She will sail about the 14th instant.
Part of her cargo will be 300 horses.
The
Ericsson will complete loading to-day, and will sail on Thursday or Friday for
Key West.
The sleigh riding last night and this morning was superb.
Third Avenue has rarely witnessed a merrier scene than was presented there all last night.
All the fast men, and fast women, and fast horses in town were out, and a good many dollars must have changed handout the hotels between Union Square and the
High Bridge.
Our city shop-keepers have inaugurated a small speculation by raising the prices of cotton goods.
Six penny calicoes are a ‘"levy;"’ spools of cotton five cents each, three cent pieces of tape, six and eight cents, and so on.
The citizens of
Brooklyn are greatly alarmed at the appearance of small-pox in the most crowded portion of the city.
Last year there were 500 deaths in New York from this disease, and 306 the year before.
The morality in
Brooklyn was in about the same proportion.
The
United States Commissioner this afternoon, on the application of the
British Consul, issued a warrant for the arrest of
John Dean, charged with the murder of Dan'l
Roach, at
Kingston, Jamaica.
Dean was a sailor on board the
Powhatan and killed deceased in a drunken frolic.
There would seem to be two parties springing up for and against the
Stevens Steam (
Robeson)-Battery,--the one landing it to the skies, and urging the
Government to advance the necessary funds to complete it as soon as possible, the other denouncing it as continued a humbug, ...
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