The New York Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1866—TRIPLE SHEET. i, True fatorme erctt CHURCHES OF NEW YORK, | 2xs:s- ag Face ind ey ain 3 "4 and in 1850, and the Church of sno} Destpelchty aianet, 0nns. Tinie street, adorned 5 the Most with its fe convent and 1638, Twenty-firet stzeet Leroy one; rth street, two; street, one; | Hi Batecmer, sheen, ‘os the dead known the men street, one and three oF four small ieeated 4 Uf New York on the 10th of as the exigen- n was to contain ashes who i si had bravely and Thorolcally defended the honor of Amer difierent paris of Ohurehes. In the year 1707 measures were adopted to erect Pres- byterian churches in this city, where the followers of Jobo Calvin, on their first landing, had to worship i private houses, They met occamonally for prayer and March, 1844, a Ea eR Dp ad Petit eg eT i wi few York | o ml , the cain ihe war of 1612. ‘The cor of Trinity church | copal chure! Bort for public worship, close to the corner of Kighth street e: that, ercised ; seen from uations: ‘Tomy juare, and on the THEIR ORIGIN, FOUNDATION AND HISTORY, on, It 2s hes Doon, dane, all shat can be sald le that Like 1 Siac age ay eae of December tue Chureh of eaten, in‘Twenty sr: ‘cases ould of the city. We find one of them at One Hundred and | vision of Dr. Cummings. praise in the Dutch church, Garden street, until they in thal dinectinn. “Oo coe eanion the Rev. William Fifty-fourth street; we find another, for the uso of sail whey por eer ero wore able to baild a church of their own in Wall street, ss 7 ors, at Pike street; fashionable locality of jon | proxi ~ Trinity Church---Its Sources | Quins, Catholic pastor, of Barclay, street cia them favre and tho sireeta “adjoining Mohurebes or 8 fd’ «more suitable alo purchased In Twenty-eight Hot far from Broadway. This they i in 178, ond im ication thougl imost at every corner; Sunday hen serv! street, Own Fe urch was a Presby- of Income, 0 application for a reduction of the rr be opetations | over, should a valor hance to pass by he cannot fall to | church’” was ‘erected, the ‘cornerstone having tion as may at any time have beon members of the con- pincigrs ms: terians increasing it was, found necessary to provide Of several charitable sociction, which bave no valuable | observe that there is great wealth among the Episcopal | laidon the 17th of April, 1853. It is now undergoing | sistory, may be summoned together. The Dutch, in those distril ions, who give liberally for the support of chai considerable alterations and improvement, and is under more church accommodation, and accordingly, on the aig thosmead dallan'ateons the poor of 0 ange fon of fied ind "ate iustly joorally for the support of char, | the charge of the Rov. D. Modlynn, ‘The foundation | @Fly times, adhered closely to the doctrines of Calvin | 141 of January, 1768, the Brick meoting house was dedi- Trinity parish, he recervod an iutimation that his request | temples that they have raised by their subscriptions and | stone of the Church of St Lawrence was laid on the 20th } and adopted in thelr churches the Calvinistic modo of | cateq, Im September, 1844, the foundation stone of Some of Its Lots Leased at Seve) could not bo complied with. donations,” Who cap’ calcula how taany mailios of | of October, 1881. The Church of St. Anne, in Astor | worship. In 1883 they were obliged to havo publio Wor | S26 church, ope hundfed and Hften fet long by slg ship on Manhattan Island im the upper room of a mill which was worked by horses, Everardus Bogardus was minister of this—which may be well called primitive— cburch, A wooden church on the East river, on Notwithstanding all that has been admitted and'written | dollars have been disbursed in ‘terians churches?’ Who can correctly deacribe the efforts and blessed on the 2d of June fol This are So PUR sudosio, choking wai forgeries | are bm, ania uP fumnn | Sh aly aod in Maryn often be on and see the ‘cikerfea ‘tee’ hundred dolar towatds paying fora | stone of the steeple, Wed in ite proper place? Tneco | taken down and ball one for, sion, In Astor pace now organ for the epistle side of the chancel and that the | churches, like the churches of every The Church of the Holy Seen, te Rocky escent aeneet, MR. ASTOR’S PROPERTY | init cule ee, cole os tz | aaa sua"anvonon “iu pre we | fain, Bhi tee, bs on rota ; j 9 ee EE cainal Maneian ‘of ‘Trinity is about | bave so nobly built them and ‘are resolved care- | in splendid style. The*Church of the Transfiguration, five feot wide, was laid on Fifth avenue, between Tenth and Twelfth streete, Thecost of erection was $55,000, and the chureh was opened for worship on the 11th of January, 1846, The lot upon which the ‘Brick phureh’? had stood was known as ‘the Vineyard,” and the irem railing which for so many years had enclosed the el@ $800,000; jeages income may fully preserve them, in Chambers stree become too small, was sold | fF the minister. In 1643, somewhat through nd the of sept ach” $1,000,000, Whet ts done with the present —_—— {0 1868, and ite dsb eld, and the Epjscopal church, the assistance and interference of De Vries, who paige rp nena ee bay cag t , Cai 4 nown as Zion churcl corner of Mott and Cross . J.T, Stranahan, Broo When the Eng- THE DUTCH CHURCHES. | jrcints-hom they aro, spent we cannot oay ee an SRR onze ber. strects, was nd opened for worship a8 the lish forces occupied this city ‘the “Brick church” wan ‘Transfiguration chureh on the 14th of May, 1863. used for a hospital. It was repaired and re- opened in June, 1784, In 1798 the Third Preabyte- rian church was opened in Rutgers street; it was com- structed of timber, but was rebuilt in stone in 1842 IS has recently been sold to the Cutholics and is now knows asthe Church of St Teresa, Wall stvest church was rebuilt in 1809, but it was partially destroyed by fire tm pyblished. There is contained in the Senate report of We should give St. Patrick’s Cathedral the most prom- 17 upon Trinity church, the evidence of several 8T. PATRICK'S NEW CATHEDRAL. Epieccpal: clgrgpesen wea cath, sated. that, the tnent place under this head, but as Bt, Peter's was the foundation, stone of this structure, which it is in The fc churebes built by Trinity had been ich neighborhoods, | first Catholic church built in this city we commence our | pro, to erect on Fiftieth and first streets, was St. Patrick’s Old and New| wherein resldgnts wold hhave been well ablo to pay foF narrative with an account of it. Tea bok eoliiod coy Tnid on the 16th of August, 1858, in the atk sao A an churches for themsetves. Brief Sketch of thi of the Catholic Church om immense multitude. Into ‘Most, Rev. Dr. Cathedrals. ‘by Dr, Muhlenberg, who, in bis examine. ¢ History of the Catholic Arehbishop of New York, preached the sermot tion the Senate committes, declared that Trinity | the Island of Now York,” by the Rev. J, R. Bayley— | suitable to the occasion. In consequence of tho rebel- ehurch had made no permanent the the site where the houses 43, 45 and 47 hat now etand. sat hechsenite, Hana snd. the r in- have old landmarks. The ! mow Bishop Bayley, of Newark—we find it mentioned {'liom, which absorbed almost every other interest of Poor. country, very slow indeed has been im the the Synod of Dort, were to be | 1810. The congregation immediately rebuilt it for the Mt. Pete's, Barclay Street, the Firat Catholic | sat showed fit Wu" gi¥be tof, aod te Scumilaarene one te aocoln of on tae ecu sr earns meets gn imahasa, sd, Bat er waded sci in atin te a ed corporation has not boon ome treopswho bad been sent over to the colo i, au many in Europe. became inoperative. It could not stone by stone the edigee was taken suits. Ite title t of ‘has been roe ‘of the i be #80 feet. from influence of those removed to Tm Church Built in New York, za poions +] nice to their stragzle. Ta Rebuiry, 1178, 8 Franch | andl, Of, he building will be Onn font te er of the wort evoy, a they | ‘mek church, mows for tao aang up in our law courts in connection mith 8 ship was taken by the British near the Chesa- | The body of the edifice will be 121 fect broad, and its | aia, of Sarat Gnd seeking an asy- ved, and on the Slat of October, Se ee ee 28 aS of ee ‘The vessel was sont to New York, then satay ubtr eee i a aie Jum for the rights of conscl x a rg them | fhe new “Brick church” on Fifth avenue, near THE JESUIT CHURCH AND COLLEGE, | tittle of the corporation. Charges have been |! possession of the English, for condemnation. There | 119 feet, and 64 feet from the floor to the crown of the bay mg ers = The edifice is described by Mr. Disosway, made from time to time against Trinity church with re- | was on board as chaplain a priest of the Order of | side aisles. Along the side aisles there are to be four- his ‘History of the Earliest Churches of New York i] s marble gard to the manner in which she has aispensed her teen chapels, eaeh seventeen feet high. There wiil be funds, ‘The question has excited the ire of foes and the | Sy Ansusine, named Dols Motte, . Belng allowed t | o10) Mer reilis sad eo pangiairinn aertig one andl BAe ee eee ane) ae Presb oom of Scat, We) have before us os we write | 6° np yae city, he was asked by his own eae church, oy grand or High alter is to bavo a lace oravian, yterlan, | * lets. relating to the matter. | men and those of his own faith to mass. vi forty-eight feet east of 1e 18 intersection zs a 2 3 3 ins To give oven a brie digest of them within the limits of | heard of a law against doing s0, ho a command, | of tbe, gave and transopt. | Behind | thls. wil ristian,” Lutheran, Huguenot, Ual- espace at our control wou impossible, an be a jessed Virgin, x ame si only remains to be said that, whatever may have been | {2g officer for permission, which was refused. Not | apd which Eto Be forty-eight feet long andthe same same privileges for their consciences as the Dutch did; and to the credit and honor of the latter it must be said that they acted towards thosg who held a different faith in a liberal and enlightened tanner. They extended the right hand of fellowship to the Epis- copalians, inity foundation at that time had no church, and the Dutch willingly gave up their church large, costly and noble. Cedar street church was in 1807; in 1835 the congregation removed to a urch in Duane etreet, which cost $40,000. But the ide of commerce soon overwhelmed them, and now range of business ge occupies the site upon which this church was bul The now worship in their spacious and handsome church at the corner of Versallst, Unitarian, Jewish and the merits of the various issues, the corporation appears | well understanding the English language, he interpreted | broad. The church will afford room for 14,000 persons | to the Episcopalians for a portion of each Sunday. The | Finh avenue and Nineteenth In’ i708 the uaker Meeting Houses, 8 to have succeeded in the end, and are now the richest | the refusal asa permission, ana accordingly celobeated | on ordinary occasions; and, wien there, is necessity Tor | installation of the first reotor of Trinity. church, took Booteh F pine seceded tn Oodar alenen, @ eeting 8, Syn Of Trnisy chereh loetfire need herdly speak, Every | mass, For this he was arrested and kept ia confinement | stat peopio will easily fad room in tho main body of | Pacted into ofloe as au. plecopal cleaymen, two min. | Bot, {ar fom Broadway, | A new congregation penne raga Ror Eat Pes at a, Se ecm | Sui emanent. Ts os saaw Gover nowtsot | ESTOS, anise Saoam fe mses oll | Mes acres eas we eres | Stan, Seamer oad oe Sere ts 5 i " and Nucel ae est ke. &e. ae. over the surrounding buildings, ‘The stranger arriving in | ™inistration. Bishop Bayley quotes these facts from | TV sccommodate more than 3,500. This will afford some | Governor Flotcher. "The —rere present by request of | obtained in Astor place, on which the church, as is rsecuting conscience cannot be charged against the the harbor, when he comes Gp the river, {5 pointed out the account in the New York Herat published at the »- idea of the gigantic structure tho now st. Patrick’s Cathe- originally stood in Murray street, was ee. ral will be when completed and fit for the celebration ip, and, um- stone for stone. The building was purchased CathoHes, fitted up as a Catholic the steeple of Trinity as a kind of landmark, and if he |‘time of the opening of new St. Peter’s church, the coi yutch of New Amsterdam. Among other sects who Mplacopal Ohwastes, should enter its haowed aisles, or stroll’ among the | nerstone of which was laid by Bishop Du Bois on the | of Divine worship. The building at the front will be en- | found an asylum in America from tho vengeance and | dor the title of St. Ann's chu ein adition TRINITY CHURCH. tombs in the churchyard, he may read names that will tered by three immense doors, much in the style of the | bigotry of European tyrants were the Methedists, who | to q pte aes t ay of ‘The sed 10 bring to his recollection the deeds and the fame of illus- | 28h of October, 1836, ‘The Catholics who lived in the | French cathedrals. ‘The central door will be fitty feet The history of Trinity church is long and interesting. | trious Americans who served their country well | city at the time of its evacuation by the English troops, | high, and two spires each 320 feet high, and several It goes back to a period anterior to the Revolution, and | and died to preserve its honor and independence. in 1783, began to assemble for the open celebration of towers will lend an imposing effect to the exterior ap- derives much of its attraction from the fact that this Trinity church, slnce its foundation, has undergone hich 1a pearance of the edifice, which will-be built of white wealthy corporation holds its title under English tg | ™any alterations and improvements. The first Trinity mass. They first met in rooms wi cou! marblo from the quarries of Westchester county. The id nglish grants | Church was built in 1696; it was enlarged in 1737 and | be had for the purpose. In 1781 and 1782, | interior space to be covered by the walls of the Cathedral or patents which have been, from time to time, subject- | completed in its present splendid form in 1848. It was] i, ig said, mass was celebrated in a loft will be 38,500 feet. Tho building will be jarger than ed to discussion and legislation in our State Legislature. | 80 enlarged as to take in as chapels St. George’s, Beek- ; Westminster Abbey, and it is worthy of notice that its Possessed of Immense wealth in tha.very centre of the | 22 siveet, erected in 2763; &. Paul's 1700; St John’s, | over ® carpenter's shop, near Barclay. street, | walls are to be even higher then the tower of Grace Avey, of the | 1807, with Trinity chapel in Twenty-fifth street—all its | “then,” as Bishop Bayley remarks, ‘in the | church. The plans have been furnished by Messrs. business part of our city, Trinity church can boast of an | chapels, St. Georgo’s chapel was destroyed by fire 10 | suburbs of New York.”” It was occasionally celebrated | J#mes Renwick, Jr., and William Rodrigue; and if they income which would even astound those English arch- | 1814, but was rebuilt in tho ensuing year, with assistance be executed to the letter, the Catholics of America may, bishops and bishops who, out of the revenues of the Es. | om Trinity church. St. Paul's and the North Dutch | in the house of the Spanish Consul, Don Thomas Stough- | in the course, perhape, of twenty years, be able to boast i P b ORs church were erected within three years of cach other, | ton, and, in 1785, in the residence of Don Diego de Gar- | of having the finest church in the republic, tablished Church in Great Britain, provide so plontifully | the former having been opened October 30, 1768. After | goqui, the Spanish Ambassador. Mr. Stoughton at that | THB CHUROM AND,COLLEGE OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, for themselves and their dependents, The federal or | General Washington's inauguration in the old: City Hall, | vio in Water street, Mass was celobrated in the 49 WEST FIFTEENTH STREET. q State acthorities cannot say that they have had any | Ne Proceeded to Bt Paul's, with his officers, and there In the month of October, 1849, the Rev. John Ryan nul shared in the religious services which were offered on | second story of a small frame house near his residence. | of the society of Jesus, bought eleven lots situated be- hand in making Trinity church a rich and powerful cor- | that memorable occasion. The General frequently re- | qn9 frst edition of the Catholic Bible published in the | tween Fifth and Sixth’ avenues, in Fifteenth and Six- poration; her right to her riches was conferred on her ppg ee ee ae, hands of he | United States was that of Cary, printed in Philadelphia | teeth streets, on which the church and college of St. when the population of Manhattan Island acknowledged | mains of the orator and lawyer, Thomas Addis Emmet. | in 1790. The act of Incorporation of St. Peter’s church | Francis Xavier were erected. The college opened in 1860 with ninety pupils, and the academic year closed that English role which became hateful to Americans in | Liberated after an imprisonment of five years in Fort | Was obtained in 1795 from the State Legislature, and three years later five lots were bought from the trustees | With one hundred and twenty scholars, On the 6th of tho days of Burke and Sheridan, and in the downfall of | Georxe, Scotland, for political ofences tn treland, Ue | of Trinity church at the corner of Barclay and Church | July the Right Rev. Dr. Hughes blessed and dedicated which Lord Chatham rejoiced with all the enthu- | jogal ability = caper him tothe foremost rank of | streets. Upon this site was erected ola St. Peter's church— the church under the title of St. Francis Xavier, and in it 1852 0 ial school for girls was built and dann of raklin r'» Jofron, Royal sae | Moy Sant eae Ghat one | Reet” he fan doris Seon | odes an fie kai Ser He placed under the control of Trinity church the King’s | o/*OrS ox: October, there will boa grand centenary | Charles the Third, King of Spain, contributed towards its | children frequenting the school are instructed in tho farm and garden. Benjamin Fletcher was Governor of | ceremony in St. Paul’s to celebrate the one hundredth | erection, one writer says, $10,000, but it is believed by Farm yore sane rronppinstacnl pene of an New York in 1007. Ia that year King William tho Third | year of ts existence. This, no doubt, willbe looked for. | others that the amount was, not so large, Rev. William ) ‘eT coor uen children as "cannot tient’ sobect issued a’grant of incorporation to the church, limiting al poe Roce Say Se snitny Rov Di. Troy, Archbishop of Dublio, received charge of | during the weok. The number of girls attending the its revenue to £5,000. The samo year a site for the Mit church in Broadway is older than the republic. | the church in 1787, and soon after proceeded to Mexico | school averages from six hundred to six hundred and fifty. churoh was obtained at the head of Wall street, By the Yet the republic has its Yumits three thousand’ miles | to collect subscriptions for its completion and adornment, poured ig 7 Beet a gps eee ‘act of incorporation the corporation consists of the | ®Way. and the church is to-day what it was in the Revo- | The Archbishop of Mexico, Don Alonzo Nunez de Haro, h ' Parochial school was’ wanted a house to worship in; but tho law recognizing none but the Episcopal church, or tolerating only those who ed some form of the English worehip, as the Dutch did, presented a barrier to thd wishes of the Methodists, But it did not prove to be an insurmounta- ble barrier. The Dutch pointed out to the Methodists @ means of evading the unjust law, and told them that if et apes a chimney and a fireplace on their chu it could not, in the eye of existing legislation, be regarded as a temple of wor- ship. The hint was taken, and the Methodists soon constructed an edifice in the way su; led by their good neighbors, the ful Dutch burghers. An incident somewhat similar occurred in Ireland in the times. The Franciscan friars were anxious to build a church in Clarendon Saas. ees but the penal laws enacted by the English Parliament had nearly frightened the friars from the accomplishment of their design, and they were on the point of abandoning it altogether, until they got the advice of an eminent Protestant lawyer—we believe it was John Philpot Curran—who assured them that if they built their dwelling house it_over the church, the law could not reach them. ‘The Franciscans adopted the advice thus given. When the Iroquois were persecuting, torturing and killing the Jesuits who had gone out among them as missionaries, the Dutch came to the relief and rescue of the Jesuits, One of them, who had come from Quebec, waa beat- en by the Iroquois with sticks, They tore off the nails of his fingers, and cut off the thumb of hia, right hand, After a captivity of nearly a year and a half he got away from his tormentors and came on to New Amsterdam. Governor Kieft received him kindly, gave him clothes, had his wants attended to, and procured him a comfort- able lodging id the fort. The juois, maddened at the in ii Beatin 1818. In isss new brick church erect ts Ly the conten enna = Dutch bepepeee church in Greenwich village, anc year the con, of Chambers street remo tothe Union Seiten church in Prince street, near Marion. Four years later the Lad ook’ | Pri street ae. of, and a fine church built in Twelfth street. The Associate Pres- byterian church in New York was built in 1987, in Nassau street, near Fulton street. This, however, ‘was sold, and a new one erected at the corner of and Grand eS eee treegpinccse a are a numerous and respectable body. Among them cluded several of our most wealthy and intelligent citi- zens. In early times, like many other sects, suffered for their stern defence of their religious conv! y coming to this free country, whose lawsare firmly to anything and everything that savors of oppression for conscience sake, they here found an dsylum, where neither the bigot mor the tyrant can harm them. His- tory informs us that among the earliest Prosbyteriam settlers of New York was a cl organ of that persuasion who came from the parish of libay, county of Mon- agi ‘Thisvgentioman, with a considerable number of bis ion, left the Ojd Country, carry- ing with him a deep resentment [oy Fe sentment which helped od swell tude bor ‘umphan! to the harbor of republican independenes, ‘These men were to Presbyterianism what Philip Embary and his followers were to the cause of Methodism. | who had studied in the same college with the Rev. Mr, | built for boys. The school was given in charge 1 Heuses uake: Society rector, with all the inhabitants from time to time inhab- | Site Gity igen ceed ppt aati ag Pe O'Brien in Bologna, recelved him wel Bev. Mr. O'Brien pg Reap prey rg eepaen ba Secdzecd. ais demand tos Dutch accion iver pa pi ease op. iting and to inhabit the city of New York and in com. | and importance under the free flag of a free nation. 2 mo apred Bunop cod ‘Chapter of Pueble 2; os An. | fitted by their training and experience to. im| Paid a sum of money as ransom, which ended the matter | there appears to be somo doubt as to the date of the so far. The name of this it was Jogues, and he received the utmost attention and civility from the New Yorkers, who sent him home to France, But searcely had he arrived there than he requested to be sont back among the Iroquois, and, as De Courcey says, the Jesuit ‘‘had no sooner entered their castles in 1646 than he was cut down by a tomahawk.” Another Jesuit, manion with the Protestant Church of England; and the 8T. THOMAS’ CHURCH, BROADWAY. oles. He was also presented with some paintings, which | the ordinary branches of English education. The num- Tegal tile of the corporation was declared to be “The | _ This church has been told for one hundred and seven- | fo "placed ‘in the church." One of these is. the | ber of boys attending school dally is trom four hundred ty-five thousand dollars, the site being very good for busi- | painting of the Crucifixion by Joso Marla Vallego, a dis- | to four hundred aud fifty. In connection with the Roctor and Inhabitants of our said city of New York in | ness purposes. It was erected in 1820. We believe the | tinguished Mexican artist. It is in State of | church are various societies for charitable purposes; the communion of our Protestant Church of England, as now removal of the bullding wall be commenced this month, rovervation, and now hangs over the grand altar in St. Oonterence ot & Vincent fe iene ‘whose object 1s to ” ‘The vaults un¢@rneath, which contain the remains "8 chi % ‘terior and mass! visit and help the poor of the parish; @ mutual benevo- established by our laws.”” The powors frst granted to | (Wi Tit a coe wore not included in the sal, The re- gars eg gt the beholder an | lent society, composed of working men, having for its foundation of the first Quaker meeting house in New York. ‘Some authorities say it was in 1696; others in 1703, What- ever uncertainty may attach to the date, there is meme about the actual foundation, and it is now well ascertained that the Quakers of New York first met for public wor columns, presents this corporation were, in 1784, confirmed by the State | mains of Mr. Astor’sfamily and those of others had been | occlesiastical structure of i og object to assist by pecuniary aid the members in time of Leesa ope also ransomed from the Indians 1 wooden building in Little Green Legislature. ‘The corporate name was not thon changed, | transferred to Trinity Conetery some time before the | “Up to 180 New York Sory,tmposing appearance. oe | woknoes; a sodality for men, the end of which is the | by the Dutch, | His pacsace to France was paid, and Gov- Somes (then called Grown street). 10 170, but in 1738 it was altered to that of the “Protestant Epis- | silewasellected, | Baltimore. In 1808 Pius the Seventh erected, Balti. Koa of virtde sud Chriatian pier Tat sodality num- Se the house being much decayed, wat taken down, and 6 ” ST. GEORGE'S CH! . RI od more into archiepisco| see an lew Yor! one ~ a it up in its m copat Church in the Stato of Now York." The estate of | gf", GHOROH'S CHURCH, RITOM oeurch was do- | 70h tutragan sees’ The Rey. Luke Concannen was ap. | large library aud rooms for meeting. There is algo con- | _ How the wealth of the Dutch Chute came to be accu- ee ree oe arcued gx eeceapma the church originally consisted of two thousand and | gtroyed by fire. The former site of St. George's was in | pointed bishop, his consecration having taken Place at nected with the church another charitable association | mulated eats ped Se he Onk, and in 1824 the congregation removed toa finer sixty-eight lots, Since 1748 about three hundred and | Beekman strect, whore Trinity chapel now stands; but | Rome in April, 1808. He did not live to reach his see, | for the encouragement of the youth of the parish in the | lu! pels lr: Geows is nationality, | edifice in Rose street. In 1819 another house was opened at the corner of Hester and Elizabeth streets. wo dine the congregation increasing rapidly, and a grant of prop- | having died suddenly at Naples. The increase in the | study of Christian piety and the frequentation of the meeting houses have been built in Stuyvesant square mado a will by’ which, he left an immense and valuable twenty lots have been given away; there have been sold | oriy naving been made by Trinity church, the erection | numbers of Catholics rendered it necessary to erect | scraments. They meet once a woek, under the direc- f property calied the “Manor of Fordham’ for the support one thousand and fifty-nine, and six hundred and ninety- | of ‘the building in Rutherford place was commenced in | another church. tion of one of the clergymen, and number about three | f the ministers of the Reformed Dutch Church in the | aq Gramercy Park. The Quakers are a most esti 1846, and completed in 1848. ‘The cost was two hundred hundred members. They have a handsome library of | city of New York. The value of this property has never jk illastri ono lots remain. ‘These remaining lots are situate in the | Tot, 1 dollars, and the spires, which were not added ST, PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. iver own, which furnishes very useful readiog. tortie | been publicly disclosed by the authorities of the Colle. | B&4y of men. Like the ttusirious, Foam, Mey are Se giate church. any suits have come before our law courts in reference to this church and its estate; but there has been a constant and pergistent refusal on the fos of the ministers, elders and deacons to produce the ks or allow them to be examined ia any way. By the will of John Harpending, a tanner, made in there were bequeathed to the church the Tanuers’ Fi and also Harpending’s tan yard and several surrounding lots, for the support of the ministers. The lots are leased for twenty-one years each from 1861 and are valued at the enormous sum of oe The yearly income is esti- mated at $120,000. This ‘arge property is entirely within First, Third, Fifth, Eighth and Ninth wards, and arecom- | 441; 1858, incurred an additional expense of seventy thou- On the 8th of Juno, 1809, the cornerstone of this ca- members, and thus removes these young men from much al estate tn the city. . thedral was laid, and on Ascension day, 1815, {t was con- | eyii influence and wieked temptation, During thi Josed of vome of the most valuable real estato inthe city: | sand dollara Tho organ, which had boen put up ae seared by the Right Rev. Dr. Oheverss, Bishop of Bos. nuance and wi mptaiion, During the past bo.the War of Independence the rector and corporation tothe Sainte, Os ale — fae prlkor ye glass win. | t00, Who proached the sermon. Many of the Catholic noes ‘the == bape gy ‘association. There oe of Trinity remained true, not to the American cause, | Gow over ‘the principal entrance. This window | Clergy were present, |The New York Gaudi, of May 5 | sides, confraternities for women, boys and girls, cach Dut to that Power from which thoy had derived | was valued at two thousand dollars. The building | 181%, says:—‘‘Hus Honoy the, Mayor, und, Aldermen te having distinct Ubrarles, of their own. In, addition Weir grant and their riches, The Rev. Dr. Inglis, | Was altegether worth three hundred thousand dollars; it | About half-past nine o'clock the church was crowded. oe ae - —— al nen in. Maat vas insured f¢ fourth of that amount. 1e tho rector, got a see as a reward for his do- | Mitte bust of De utinee the first pastor of the old pi od the ee, besten oo and | dred children, divided into distinct and sey votion to King Goorgo, whose brutal obstinacy | church in Beekman street, was destroyed in the fire, | 27s'toi4 that enusmean Beng Dagens a a vred Va | Tate classes, and every week a large class of poor chil- had driven the colonies into revolt, This ecclesiastiohas | though strenuous efforts had been made to savo it. Two | fi ‘the outskirts of the city. This was in 1815. dren are instructed and taught the principles of the days after the fire the members of the Baptist Tabernacle | Sit was of the out he iy. J Christian religion. The poor of the parish are provided tended sense. The Huguenots. The first Huguenot chapel was erected on Marketfela street, or Petticoat lano, not far from the Battery. French Protestants assembled there from Staten Island and from New Rochelle to worship. L'Eglise du Saint Esprit, in Pine street, oj te the Custom House, was founded in 1704. and reser in 1741; but there is now no trace of this building. For one hundred and left after him a letter, in which he says that all the mis- | onirch passed a resolution tendering the uso of their ‘How buildings in the city have extended since that time | for py charitable donations, and ouce a year the pro- | the management and control of the consistory. The do- ears the held their religious services im ' 4 — | Our citizens can form some idea if they take a walk from | ceeds of a fair, held in the coll hall . | nor, a8 ap by thetr bequests, left special directions 1834 of the: ty and erected a white 4 sionaries of the Episcopal Church, without one exception, | church to Dr. Tyng and the hg 7 ee? the cathedral in Mull street to Manhattanville. The | yoda A ae eee ego a ba tar eer Roncuen should bo apyued to the paymant of in they oe property “ in Now Jersey, New York, Connecticut and other New | for afternoon or evening service, the salaries for the maintenance of the ministers of the meeting of the pew. | temporal affairs of St. Patrick's were conducted by the | for their Denent. The other institutions of charity church street, corner days after 7 costing sixty thousand dollars. This was subse- England colonies, had proved themselves faitnful, loyal | Potysey was netd, and in ten, minutes Aftysiwo thousand | tustees of St. Peter's, both churehes. forming but one | confided to the spiritual care of the Josuits are the | Reformed churches or congregations in the city, and to aventiy sold, and to replace it a splendid edifice has beam subjects in these trying times, and ‘had, to the utmost | dollars were subscribed, which, with seventy-five thou. | Corporation till 1817, when, by an the State Legis- | City Prison, the Hospitais, Almshouse, Workhouse and | 00 other pui forever. erected on Twenty-second street. "eof disaffection which | sand dollars insurance money, was considered a sufficient lature, ie tage Separated. About this period two | prison on Blackwell's Island, together with the House of | _ The English colonists were now beginning to pour into d of their power, opposed the spirit fection wi sum to rebuild the church, exclusive of bells, clock and | Jesuit FF were favorably known among the | Correction on Randall’s Island. Of the College of St, | the island in such numbers that it became n Jewe: ' jecessary, for the het of trade and commerce, that their lan- ould be understood; and a question arose as to had involved the colonies in tho greatest difficulties; and, | ryan. ‘The contract has been signed, and it'is probable | Catholic community—Rey, Anthony Koblman and | Francis Xavier our notice must necessarily be brie, J whether the English tongue should not. be ‘used in the Rev. Mr. Fenwick. For many years they had been | Since its establisnment the ber of though their joint endeavors could not prevent the rebel- | that early next year the new church will be ready for the connected with, St, Peter's church. hey subse blisnmen: numl students has lion, yet for some time they had considerably checked reception of its congregation, who meanwhile use Irving quently did a great deal towards the ercetion of always been increasing, and considering the number of In 1686 permission was granted by the city authorities to Jews to assemble for public worship. Their first syna- Dm ‘istens has gai tse! Dutch church, in which the mother language ly had 1 ‘Tho reverond gontloman is entitied to his opinion; | Al! eh perl previ. el How calhedrl. “One ofthe remarkable incidents in the tin of bene, 8. vay Seauning tnpuvetions * tee been bithertospoken, "When ‘the tater as formally | cue was in Mill street, which coon copie the ioe . ives of these clergyme Tom ‘ roached many of the Dutch and (ehich Beaver street now stands. It was an ugpretending but it will pass for very litde inthe present day. Mr. | quis church, on Madison avenue and Forty-second | thor of the «Age of Reason”” and “Common Sense,” as | fy Tsou, and is sae hundred and twenty foot long up one | over to the Haglan congtagetion, saptig © they Gene ing “if they were to have English, let them have English.” Dr. Laidlie, = Scotchman, in’ 1763, preacbed im the Middle Duteh church (now the Post office) the first English sermon ever delivered in a Dutch church in New York, and in 1808 was preached the last Dutch sermon. A minority of worshippers who warmly and firmly protested againat this rejection of the old tongue tested its validity by law suits against the consistory. But those suite were un- ‘The Dutch church of New York remmined obedient to the Class of Amsterdam till 1771, notwithstanding the °] ms of a party termed ‘‘Coetus,’’ This party in- sisted on a right to regulate and control ecclesiastical matters in a way Lawed pore 4 to themselves, But soon alter there was 8 Sy: which embraced ail the Dutch churches in the United States, Out of the funds of this rich establishment was built Lafayette place church, which cost $170,000; the church Inglis appears, from what we find in history, to have | street, in the Byzantine style of architecture, was conse- | he lay on his deathbed. “The clergymen were told by a | hundred and sixty feet wide. That year the number of been an ardent friend and admirer of the poor silly old | crated and opened on the of December, last year, by | Quakeress, who had embraced Catholicity, that they | students pte A to three Re and fifty. The muee ted to rule Americans against their will, | Bishop Potter. were the only who could do Paine any good: and | present number of students is five hundred, which fact rma dias wisdom ae : THE CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION, Paine himself, who believed that a visit from a priest | Slone speaks well for the institution. In 1860 the colle Shortly after General Washington arrived in this city he | at the corner of Madison avenue and Thirty-fifth street, | might prolong his existence for a» few days, sent for | was incorporated, with the privileges ot a university, Attended Trinity church; being a member and commu | was completed in June, 1866. It is built of Newark stone. Mr. Fenwick, be accom] Hed by Mr. Kohlman, | the Regents of the University of the Sta'e of New " Church of England; bat on tho Sunday | The congregation is wealthy and respectable, and mum- | went to the house of the infidel. “But as soon as Paine | The coufse of study comprises two distinct departments— seeee-00: ee. ase on e Sunday | pers about twelve hundred persons. saw his error,”” writes De Courcey, ‘‘as soon as hi the classical and tho English or commercial ‘There is morning, before service bogan, he sent one of his'gene- | To enter into a Miotailod description of each of the his plous visitors speak to him of ‘his soul instead €f pro- | hesides a preparatory class, in which beginners are rals to Mr. Inglis—whom he believed to be at home— | splendid up town Episcopal churches; to enumerate the | scribing a remedy for his physical evils, he imperiously | pared for either. tus clagsical course cemprisos Jd attend the church, and should | Vast sums that have been expended 1 their erection; to silenced them, refused to listen and ordered them out of | progresaive grammar classes, in which students receive with word that he would attend the church, and should | Y7.avcr i compute the number of worshippers in each | the room. ‘Paine was roused into a fury,’ wrote Mr. | {hat traiming which will enable them to apply themselves wish the rector to omit tho “violent prayers” for tho | Church, and to show the high respectability of the con- | Fenwick, giving an aogount, of | the interciow: ‘he | successfully to higher studies, and the under-graduates? King and royal family. Yhe rector not being at tome, greaptions. re’ would, in pone 2 er omg beeen | close i ore — mg” cone = 5 4 climes ‘are four in number. These are ete Dale. . well upon our space perm v y " the méBaage was left for and taken to him, but “he pald | shires o Tiaby temples majestically ral thelr pointed | while the bitterest inprecationa. 1 femly betey Te Paesyer eater lay nee ing to the little or no rogard to it,” We quote this statement on | summits into the blue, unclouded sky. The air resounds | such was the rage, in which he was at the time, t built a large synagogue In Crosby sreet, and. they ta * in y ' altogether 1 is about twelve tem} including @ ! ‘ery slorent one co Bixteccth aireot, ney give them 1 names as Emmanuel (God with us), Rod of Shalom of peace), Ansi Chesed (the men of beneve- Jy Sheary Shomain (the gates of Heaven). Baptist Churches. It is supposed that 1721 is the earliest date at which @ Baptist church was founded in this city. The Baptiste erected a meeting house in Gold street, and it was opened on the 19h of June, 1762 The Gold street mecting house and others bad been converted into stables for the British cavalry during the English occupation of frame building, but it was replaced by a stone house im oon eta Will streot in 1833, and have —correspond! to llation of Freshinan, Sophomore, Juuior abd Senior t if | classes, more universally knowi@in our American col- the Rey. Dr, William Berrian, who bas | with the sweet sound of the bell as it calls the worship- | he had hada pistél he would have shot one of us; for | jeges. ’ The commercial course, which is com in Broome street, near Broadway. A ‘brick church was erected in 1820 at the corner of eg and Chrystie streets; but this soon after became a ie. The Abys- sinian ‘church was composed of a number of from the cot ation of Gold street. The North the authority of i « 4 Baptist church” PP in per away from thoughts of worldly affairs, | he conducted himself more like a madman than | three years, comprises the various branches n Eng. | on Twenty-ninth street and Fifth avenue, $175,000. On | New York. “The Secon church” was orga = Written a valuable history of Trinity:church, Pod inekes him, im” the orerfowing | of & | rational creature, ‘Begone,’ says he; ‘and trouble me | lit education, Together with the study of the modern | lots, costing $82,000, between Forty-eighth street and | ized about the year 1790, In 1806 the congregation re- On the last day of May, in this year (1866) the leases | full and grateful heart, to acknowledge all | no more. Iwas in peace,’ he continued, ‘til! youcame. languages. A’ complete course of mathematics, chemis- | Forty-ninth street and Fifth avenue, there has been | moved from Rose street toa small wooden building tm granted by the corporation of Trinity to Mr. W. B. Astor | the good gifts he has received; to look with reverence | Away with you your God, too; leave the room in- | try, natural, intellectual and moral philasophy is taught | ¢rected a lecture room at an expense of #e Each 000. of the four pastors of the church has $5,000 annually. E year there is expended on the Fulton street meet- ing $2,600, and thero have beon distributed as donations to Dutch churches over $100,000. To the Washi _ square church, $1 to the church on Twenty-third “ on the place where, day after ‘week after week, | stantly; all that you have uttered are lies, filthy Hes, | in the differont classes, Connected with the institution will terminate, Whether they will be renewed to the | yoge ane year, he is reminded orihe ‘solemn duties he | and if I had a little more time I would prove it, as I ‘aid are several associations of a literary character. ‘Conapion- + Saine gentleman or not we are unable to say. Butit can | owes to God, to his family, to society. age = an poy! A im} raed Jesus ee. Pony £0," for ‘ous among these is the Xavier Alumni Association, com- ol erted that we I includ lars 4 | upon a church what feclings does not the sight of it en to Father Kohiman; ‘we have nothing more posed of graduates of St, Francis Xav College and be safely asseried that these leages include larse and | (iapirel By a true-hearted man, who knows nothing | hero. ne seems to be entirely abandoned by God.’ | otuer similar institutions of the country. it waa on valuable portion of the estate, and their expiry will | Yu!\nat je founded on unswerving honor and npbending | Paine soon expired in the angeish of despair, having re- | {zed in 1862. It holds its meotings every Tucaday even- the Gold ‘street congregation, had e put the church into the possession of property worth at | rectitude, a church must ways ‘be regarded as one of ised the ministers of Protestantism as obstinately as | ing at the college, under the ‘aisention ‘one of the pro- pend it was continned thero till 1819, least six millions of dollars. Under his lease Mr. Astor | the most’ interesting of oljects. Tho spire directs his | he drove away the Catholie priests.” fessors. It has for its object the continuance of the mental b, "$12,000 have been given, with ed by fire. The following year a fae heart and his hopes heavenward, The altar reminds In 1818 there were in this city about sixteen | training commenced during the collegiate course. Essays, | the wnderstading that the sum would be increased to brick church was constructed Macdougall street, holds possession of three hundred and thirty-six lots, | 1\t of the sacrifices that must be made on his way | thousand Catholics, mostly Irish. Ten thousand | Jectures, debates, &c., form the subject matter of the ordi | $20,000 when the debt of the church should be diminished | &nd in this the “‘Bereans on their worship. which were let at seventy-five tents per lot for a term of | through the world. The longatsle representa, as it were, | Irish Catholics had arrived within the three pro- ary oxtrotean, ‘The a, Francis Xavier's debating society | t t xtont. Churches not within the limits of the | From this church several ather churches havo spru ninety years. Baildings, producing high ronts, havo | the road over which the Journey of life is to be made, | cedingsyears. ‘The Cathedral in 1818 owed $69,000, which | 1s composed of students of tho coHlege. Its object ia | city have been largely by pecuniary contribu. | and the ists can now point to some of the and the tower symbolizes that strength which one m had been borrowed to build it. Interest at the rate of 7 per | the cultivation of eloquence and by means of literary | tions. ecclesiastical buildings in New York as their property. been erected on those lots, and, if one can attach credit | nave 4 battle successfull inst the vices and | cent per annum was paid on thi bu discussion to accustom ita members to with ease | Garden street church was o} in 1693. Tho reader | The Baptists are rich, and they give liberally for be- to the returns that have been made, it seems that Mr. defeat the allurements of | the age. A ohare, 2 eon ~ a of k nee and fluency on useful and interesting su! It holds “> ane Gay, who cnee the dally expansion of the Sais cotet tem weneloc! bea aa tyiee et ; ; dee d ¢ erection of a seminary. ei amu! eo hears body Astor's income out of the houses, as reported to tho | indeed, isa grand and imposing sight, Tt reminds the eats or See of fen Rig! its meetings every Thursday morning, and is presided | City, will, bo amused whem eid te as Teint | fhe foundation stone of Dr. sas tee. Hou of “ pe ” husband of bis wedding day over by one of the professors. The students’ library in Inspector of Revenue, has, in one year, reached the | mont when, standing at the altar, she received the plight- ti connection with the, library societies of the College ie almost fabulous f $1,300,000. What a magnificent | ed troth of him who, for ever after, was to be her shield, cannen, died at his residence, No. 612 | select library for the use of the students, containing tune for twely tus! Me. Astor may, perhaps, get | hor all. It brings back to the recollection of children | Broadway, on the 6th of February, 1825, and was buried | several thousand volumes, among which are man; ewal of bis le Bat if there be a richer man in | the moment when some y-haired, venerable pastor | under the cathedral, not far from the altar, For two | valuable and rare works. The Coil possesses a ric! ‘ommunity We venture to say Mr. Astor has nochance, | patted them upon the bh nd bade them follow the | days his remains lay in state in the central aisle of St. | museum, containing a well arranged cabinet of m he wife of the happy mo- ‘too far up town."’ It was then only Dutch church in the city, had been erected at a cost of $27,871, and ‘was taken down in 1807 and @ now one erected on its site, This new church was destroyed in the great fire of This ceremony tok place on the 11th of October, the stone being laid at the corner of Fifth avenue Forty-fifth street. The church accommodates an hundred persona. The style of architecture is worship, entitled “The Church of the Divine er u 1836. The church at the corner of Liberty and Nassau 4 Mr. Astor there are several other tenants, from ths of rectitude and of honor, Sometimes it brin Peter's church. Thirty thousand persons visited the | man: logical. mena, an extensi streets was opened for public worship in 1720; it was im- | The front 's of cut stone, and flanked by two towers and Whom tierehisae sisted ae they fall Muse Ait the | Before the mind of the warrior the charge, fury and foree | church on the oceasion. For two years after the death | shells, and one of the finest botanical collections im the | Proved in 1764, and in the revolutionary times it sorved | ®.spite, the latter one hundred and eighty-five feet high. financial business of the estate is conducted at the office | of battle as he looks upon the shattered banners | of Dr. Connelly, the see remained vacant, Its affairs | country. In addition to the philosophy class thore is for | the purpose of'a riding school and a prison, Aftor the | The building is close to the and when - | in Fulton street, that frequently find thelr placo on the walls of | during that period were administered by the Very Rev. | students who desire a fuller course a post-graduate clas, | War of independence had closed this church was re. | trely comaiones, in all its details, will be a great orme- ‘ ‘t givea de dalled seconns of Mer number of buildings'| old cathedrals. More frequently it recalls the foe y Py Kev. a ‘yy ng eae where they may ily themselves a second Fort the ome iy! public worship, - im 1844 it ae — 2 + ee oom = arg 4 , in the possession of the church, fro hich tion to occasion when, se Ce , Was Bel the to ‘matural ~ ase ye government, and is now, as we hav ere have been pla en 7 fn pF oe OF irch, from whieh her rents | whole congregation to some memorable m whet jary’s study of W, @ full course of ethics, which em- | lease by Pyeng en ves formenty seoes | of the Fourth Gervenener Crurch ond Socwty, asian, ns of our paper; but we | amid ® “sea of upturned faces,” theysaw the minis- | Bishop Connelly in the diocese of New York. Dr. Du | braces the fundamental principles of civil, political and may say that these buildings are in Barclay street, | ter standing in the polpit and embod: py eloquent and | Bois was a Fronchmaa, born in Paris, in August, 1764, | international law. The lectures on these are Broome street, Barrow street, Clarkson | glowing words the sentiments that thrilled and throbbed | He was consecrated on the ‘20th of October, 11 in the | delivered in Latin, and besides public discussions before Tion street, Clarke street, Chambers street, frrough tho hearts and minds of his andience, Thyg it | cathedral of Baltimore, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, | the faculty the students are required from time to time reet, Canal street, Desbronee t, Domi- | will ever Be, and ought to be, as | as man believel in ar bim a cross and Dr. Da Bois, soon after he | to read English dissertations and essays on the various Fulton street, Greenwich st Hamersly | that beautiful and divine faith that fixes and fosters his taken charge of the , made avisitation. He | topies proper to the post-graduate course. street, street, Harri treet, King street, Mor- | belief in the immortality of the soul. Such are the sen- | computed the number of Catholics im the city = ton stroot, Murray streot, Renwick streot, Reade street, | timents which one must feel when marking the progress | at that time at fifty thousand, one hun- The Datch Churches, 0. used as ‘as “the Middle Dutch cburch,’’ and around the spot on which it now stands may be seen the signboards and business plates of hundreds of wealthy merchants whose forefathers in churches on the banks of Scheldt. As the Dutel Ipuhe foundation ston jone of the “Nort! corner of Fulton and Wiliam streets, was magazines and books. —_— ry Methodist Charehes. rt The Methodists, who are a large and intelligent body, 4 ‘ have several fine churches in this city, and their earliest Sullivan street, Varick street, Vestry | of church the new and idly rising up-town . | dred and @fty thourand in the laid on the street, Vandam street, Watis stevct, | tion ot Unie great ehye—a ly tthe Yeas than a. | There were bus four churobes.ia the ohyy mg, |, The Dutch settlers brought their religion and thelr in- | 94'of July, 1767, and the edifies was opened on the 25m { street and Warren street. ~— Those | century, has grown from & stall village to be the capital | St. Patrick's, the oid Church of St. Mai in Sheriff | dustry to Manbattan Island from the mother country. | of May, 1769. "The cost. was about 000. In 1842 : thoroughfares include the very t business | of a trade that reaches round the world—that | street, bought from the Presbyterians in 1826, and Christ | Their venerable temple known as the North Dutch | Considerable improvements wero thade in the interior of streets, The figures mentioned aly state the | counts ite lation thousands, and in twenty | church, in Ann street, purchased from the jane the building, which, we believe, fs about to be taken entire value of the property to be about six tuillins | years’ may "oe caniee to count them by millions | in 1821; The Chureh of St. Mary's, corner of Grand and | °hareh, at tHe corner of Fulton and William streéts, dates | down, The church in Lafayette piace was ae Of dollars; but this is exclusive of bonds and mortgages | that has ite great commercial and political interests to | Kidge stroets, was built in 1832-83, the old one on She~ its foundation almost as far back as those days when they | 1839. The congregations of the collegiate churches almost entirely derive their support from the minister's fund. The North church costs $9,000, and a rent of Lafayette place church costa $7, more ever received. The su of the marble church on heh ange ha $10,000, bu = any return aa to the amount of ite rn da ‘ministre have In dariem and Flatbush Dutch ministers efficiently carried on their ministrations. fad wore @mounting to more than two hundred thousand dollars, | be defended ‘at ever: and nted before every | rilf street having been burned in 1831, Christ church im | turned the hanti unds of the Indians Tots from which Trinity draws «rental of soventy-vo | civilized government. ‘Our churches remind us of much | Anno street was ound to be insecure in 1433. It waa, panircevhenndl fichipesteres tron > bona eared cents each are situated in Hamersly sireet, Charlton | of our groatness, and of the whole of that civil and reli. | therefore, discontinued as a place of worship. and ste} aise parte street, Varick strect, Spring street, Greenwich street, | gious ay which is the glory and the pride of Ameri. | were taken for tho erection of St. James church, te the law, Tho Dutch tot this up as giving them a right Hudson street and Vai n street, ‘an have an | can republicaniam. James street. It was completed in 1837, Im 1834 St. | to hold and possess the island; but, wishing to live in accurate idea.of what these seventy: nt lots may Tt may be interesting to the reader to know how the | Joseph's chureh. corner of Barrow street and Sixth ave- to be agricult and ool be leased for when the old lease fails out, but, with | Protestant Episcopal churebes are distributed through- | nue, was opencd. ie same yoar the German Catholics | Pe iyrists traders rather than sol- the present demand for houses, and ‘the enor- | out the city —Harlem, two churches; Manhattanville, | commenced the erection of St, Nicholas’ church, on lots | diers, and determining that their new colony should be a mous rents asked and received by landiords, there can | one; avenue C, one; Second avenue, one; Third avenue, | purchased from Joho J. Astor, In Second street, between | successful one, they came in this way to establish a be no doubt whatever that the charch, under a renewal | one: Fourth avenue, o rifth avende, two; Sixth | First avenue and avenve A. The church of 8k Joba the foothold on the oot whet, left | Of the leases, will be a gainer to a considerable extent. | avenue, two; Ninth Madison avenue, two; | Baptist was built in 1839 in Thirteenth street; Bt. Paul's, | *ong footho! soil which, left ine state of nature The mmall umn of two hundred and sixty.nine doliars | Lexington avenue, herford place, one; T Harlem, in 1895, and the Church of the TransfiguratiaD, by the rude Indian, opened up to them a wide field for year is all that Mr. Astor pays to Trinity for all the | yeite piace, one Henry ‘streot, one; | in Chambers street, in 182 ve eranoe, jots he holds. ‘This is about seventy-five cents for each. | Hubert «trect, ine; Forsyth streot, | __ Dr. Hughes was Consocrated Condjutor Bishop of New Jens aid “ sae bevy a wave y tn tan It was calculated last year, when rents were moderate, | one; Amity s ; man stfeet, one; Ham: | York on the %h of January, 1858, ond in 1842 Dr, Da negotiations were opened by Governor Minuet with the that Mr Astor recetved an income of one hundred and | mond street, one; Varick strect, one; Hudson street, | Bois, whose health bad beon failing for some time, died | Indians. The result was a treaty by which the twenty- sixty-eight thousand dollars out of these lots. Itis Mr. | ono; Stuyvesant street, one, Mulberry street (church | at his residence in Mulberry street. On the #th of May, | two thousand acres of land composing Manhattan. Island Universalist and Unitarian Churches, ‘These seots have also fine churches, The Universaliets fn 1837 rented a house of worship to the West Baptias church, and held therr religious services in a public hall in Forsyth street. Latheran Charente. ‘The Lutherans built a small church in 1702 at the com ner of Rector street and Broadway, and it remained it use till September, 1776, when it waa destroyed by the Astor's “lot” to be singularly fortunate, After the lapse | for colored persons), one; Chryatie street, one; Mi 1841, Dr. Hughes biessed the new Chareh of st Jobn . also those of Orchard street and Vandewater street Of a few years the leases given by Trinity to several par. | strect, one; Madicon street, one: Pike street, {ioating | the ‘Keangelist, a the comer of Fiftieth street apd | Were handed over to the West India Gompany for sixty | Gy ‘Seaton ‘church was erected in 1843, | fire that occurred in that your, It was not rebuilt, and ties will have expired. ih» property will then go back | church), one, Fourteenth street, five; Kighteanth «treet, | Fifth avenue, und om St. Patrick's Day, 1842 the addi- | guilders, This remarkable bargain was made about bh mond ‘Mission church we shen Seah ebay in 1806 the Episcopalidms bought the ground and erected Reformed 1768, Bloom thereon Gra@e church, which now stands withias fy blocks of Union square, and as one of the q tmudsomest aud faabioaabte ig the omg, ——— = A into the hands of the Trinity corporation, Who wil! thas | one; Twentieth street, one; Twenty-first street, one; | tion which bad been made to St. Patrick's Cathedral, it) lam become possessed of real esiais worth nearly tweaty | Twenty-second streot, one; Twenty-Afth street,’ one. *| forming the tow sanctuary and sacristiea The Church > aerate veep William Poon effected hie tenty millions of dollars. They own St. John's Park, ja the | Tw pinth street, ono; Thirty-first street, owe; Thirts Vincent dé Pati (mowtly used by French real. | ° ¥" ans at Shackamaxon, The old Dutch charch, Yrouty ot Hudsow, Beach, Laut aud Varick irgute | Ofth eirect, two, Thirty sovouth sroey ous, Forty-tourte | di (a Vanal sirool Was completed in 1642, aud en | the oldest ou the island, was founded befure 1040, Ibis me 1837, German reh 1 Franklin street chureh 1807, gence a Serch tthown xs the south church) 1813, Bare sige gouge 181%, Hougog gargs ghurc