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NEW-YORK CITY.
Mayor Ely has vetoed the resolution of the Aldermen changing the name of the "Boulevard."
The number of letters dispatched from the New York Post Office, in open mails for foreign countries, during 1877, was 7,410,608.
James Douglass, jr., of Phœnixville, Penn., will lecture this evening at Cooper Union, in the free course, on "Egyptian Architecture and Obelisks."
In consequence of a blockade at the New-York slip, several of the Fulton ferry boats landed their passengers at the Wall Street ferry, yesterday morning.
Philip Schloppe, who was struck on the head with a metal scale by Frederick Feist, a fellow workman, died, it is found, from pyemia, and not from a fractured skull.
The Aldermen yesterday asked the Corporation Counsel for an opinion as to the extent of the liabilities of the city for money paid to the Excise Commissioners for licenses.
The American Free Church, of which the Rev. C. P. McCarthy is pastor, will hold its services to-morrow and hereafter at Trenor's New Hall, Broadway and Thirty-second-st.
The Coroner's examination in the case of Joseph Heil, the truckman who died in the Eldridge Street Police Station, Thursday night, shows that death was the result of a debauch.
Curious effect of the Excise law: Street musicians and beggars have suffered severely from the closing of the saloons, as nearly all their money was derived from frequenters of such places.
No time has yet been set for the payment of the first dividend by the receiver of the National Trust Company. It is understood that Mr. Mangam, the president of the company, is very ill at his home in this city.
The residence of Samuel Flatt, at No. 167 East Sixtieth-st., was entered by burglars early Thursday morning, and robbed of jewelry valued at $694. The thieves effected an entrance through a second-story window.
The standing committee of the Diocese of New-York, on Thursday, gave their canonical consent to the consecration of the Rev. Dr. Eccleston, Bishop-elect of West Virginia, and of the Rev. Dr. Seymour, Bishop-elect of Springfield, Ill.
Drivers of trucks and carriages on Third-ave. yesterday betrayed an apparent desire to go as near the Elevated Railroad excavations as possible without falling in. Failure in these attempts caused a blockade of cars several times during the day.
The Union Ferry Company, of Brooklyn, carried during the year 1877, between forty-four and forty-five million passengers, a number probably not exceeded by anyone company in the world. No lives were lost; there was no serious accident, and only one person met with bodily harm.
The bridge in the Central Park, at Seventy-seventh-st. and Eighth-ave., was erected for President Grant to walk from the Park to lay the corner-stone of the American Museum of Natural History. The same bridge was used by President Hayes last month when he formally opened the institution.
The Board of Police, yesterday, transferred Roundsman Brush from the Thirty-third to the Ninth Precinct. The resignations of Detective Kindelon, of the Twenty-first, and Patrolman Darwin, of the same precinct, were accepted. Detective Doyle, of the Sixteenth Precinct, was transferred to detective duty in the First Precinct.
The Aldermen have decided that no more rent shall be paid for the 8th Regiment's quarters in Twenty-third-st., and Mayor Ely has vetoed the resolution assigning the regiment to a new armory in Ninth-ave., on the ground that the premises there are unfit for an armory. So the 8th Regiment appears to be between two stools just now.
The cigar-makers held a secret and noisy meeting yesterday, but refused to tell what was its object. Some of the strikers went to work yesterday for A. Pollack, at Second-street and Avenue B. Over a hundred of the strikers gathered in front of the factory last evening, while the men were working. They hooted the men and shouted defiance to their employers.
The "magical entertainment" at Chickering Hall, on Thursday next, for the benefit of St. Anne's Church for Deaf Mutes, is by a gentleman, Edgar S. Allien, who never performs in public except for charitable objects; and there are few professional magicians who equal him. He performs the Indian box trick and the Hindoo basket mystery-considered among the most difficult of feats in magic-and also exposes "spiritual manifestations."
At the meeting of the Wine and Spirit Traders' Association, yesterday, a committee was appointed to urge upon the Legislature a repeal of the present Excise law. The offer of a lawyer to bring an action showing that the law of 1857 was unconstitutional, was declined. A member stated that the association's object was to prevent the passage of laws that would affect injuriously the liquor trade; its political action would be to defeat all candidates whose views were known to be antagonistic to the liquor interest.
The managers of the American Bible Society on Thursday appropriated $250 to the American Baptist Missionary Union for Bible work in India, and presented books to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, the American Board, the Methodist Missionary Society, the American Tract Society, the Seamen's Friend Society, and to various auxiliary societies, district superintendents and other individuals-the total value of these grants being nearly $9,000. The receipts for December, amounted to $17,490, and during the same time 76,482 copies of Scriptures were issued.
The programme of the fancy dress ball of Société Française de L'Amitié, to be given at the Academy, on Monday night, promises the overture to Masaniello by 100 musicians; a march by "a whole battalion of pretty young ladies," (of course it is safe to say so, as they will appear with their masks on); a carnival procession by 300 masks; a "lifelike representation of a Fontalochleau hunting party during the Court of Napoleon III," and at midnight, a ballet by Mademoiselle Ausis Letourneur and "fifteen exquisitely pretty coryphées." The tone of the programme suggests that the Christain name of the last mentioned danseuse has been unwarrantably abbreviated.
BROOKLYN.
Justice Walsh yesterday sent to the Inebriate Home, for six months, Christopher Wrinkle, a police officer, who was put upon the pension list, two years ago, after receiving a severe sunstroke.
Admirers of the front of the Academy of Design, in Brooklyn, who have been puzzled by the block of rough stone in the tympanum of the doorway, will be glad to know that it will probably soon give place to a fine bas relief as soon as funds shall have accumulated for the purpose. The subject will be Michel Angelo after old age had bereft him of his sight, seated among the sculptors, as was his wont, to feel of their work and judge it by the sense of touch.
The funeral of Daniel T. Willetts, a wealthy and well-known citizen, will take place this afternoon at No. 80 Columbia-heights. He was born of Quaker parents, in New-York, in 1815, and on reaching his majority he entered into the firm of Willetts & Co., Water-st., New-York, which had been founded and made successful by his father. For two years his mental vigor has been leaving him, and in September last, on the death of his daughter, he became insane.
Ithamar Dubois, the proprietor of a furnishing store at No. 328 Fulton-st., recently discovered that he had been robbed of goods worth several hundred dollars. Suspecting that Charles Buchanan, one of his clerks, was the thief, detectives were put on the case, and they succeeded in finding at pawnbrokers' shops goods valued at $350, which Buchanan had pawned. The young man was arrested and confessed his guilt. When brought before Justice Walsh he was discharged, Mr. Dubois not wishing to appear against him.
A little before midnight on Thursday evening, Elizabeth Moore of No. 291½ Furman-st., discovered that two men were in a bed-room in her house and ransacking the bureau. She quietly shut the door and
