CITY ITEMS.
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IMrRovEMENTs.-We perceive that the city
powers that be" have seriously and favorably
taken into consideration the wretched and dis.
agreeable condition of Thirteenth street south
OF Pennsylvania avenue leading TO the canal
The curbstone is set from the avenue 10 the
canal on the east side, and workmen are now
engaged in laying the pavement and filing up
the frog and fish ponds that border on this
street. This is an improvement very much
needed, not only for the preservation of health,
but it will add much TO the value of properly
bordering on the canal in that vicinity We
hope the work will not stop here, but that it
will be continued until all those auagmires and
bogs which infest that low plat of ground south
of the Presidents house, and extending from
Thirteenth street to the mansion or the late
Gen. Van Ness will entirely disappear.


Doas.-We were requested to call the a,,en-
ton of the police to the n,olerable nuisance ex-
isting on c street, between Twelfth and Thir
teenth, consisting of about eight or ten dogs,
whose nightly howlings disturb the whole
neighborhood, and render sleep entirely out Of
the question. One colored man owns four or
five as we were informed, and we are not dis.
posed TO doubt the truth Of the assertion, for