The New York Herald Newspaper, January 2, 1876, Page 2

M ONDAY, JANUARY 10, FOR ONE WEEK ON THE | TA a oer: B. ROBERT in the great Speetac ul FAUST AND MARGL J. B, BOBERTS. and Machinery, geous Costumes Ali the beautiful Music. INCLDENT: THE MAGICIAN. THE BEAUTIFUL WITCH. FAUST’s COMPACT WITH THE DEVIL, « MAL VISION, A BROTHER'S BLOOD. SPECIAL On and after MONDAY APTERNOC the following scale of prices will be adopted for all the Matinees, OTICE JANUARY 3, including D sat WEDNESDAY MATINEES AND FO 3 ONLY. Reserved Orchestra Children under 10 years... Matinees Monday, Tuesday The dashing Burlesgue Actress BELLE HOWItT, in the beautifal Burlesque, THE FORTY THIEVES: A. TH. Sheldon, Therese Wood, Harry Stewart, Nellie Sundiord, Emily Maynard, Kate Halpin, L. R. Willard, H. Wilson, Berrell. reday and Friday, “¢ Mr. MATT MORK ANE TIRE CHA ANEW OLIO. A NEW TABLEAU. First week of the world renowned artists, BARNEY AND KEY, and ‘The new Tableaux enti RMING OF CUPID. 4 undiminished success of HE LIVING PICTURES, Mi WESNEX. Miss NELLY ST. JOHN. Wa an lav Mr. WM. BARRY. Mr. DAN KELLY, ir, CHARLES WHITE. Mr. CHARLES KNOLLMA THE BABY ELEPHA 5, Sketches and the c Tableanx, BROADWAY. Pi ccmag ® AND TUESDAY AND FRIDAY MATINE TEE ., The only theatre in New PxATINEES. MATINEE | York that presents new NES artists and new ucts every woek. MATI FRIDAY. TUESDAY. aes] SAM DEVERE, Prince of Comedians and Master Bai t of the World. THE POOL BROTHER: High Pedestal Somersault Clog Dancers, BOSTON BOYS, the Ethiopian Midgets and Song and Dance Artists. < WESLYN and CASEY, ‘Bong and Dance aud Irish Sketch Artists, playing 50 different «| instruments. Miss ELOUISE ALL the popular Balladist. Big, and Mile, BELLETTI, Iilusionists. fis JENNIE MORGAN, the great Operatic Soprano, La BELLE VICTORL teen of the Lofty Ba LUCY ADAMS. and LINTON, Mui ‘ketch Artists. TE SATTERLEE, iss SADIE DESHON, GIRARD, CHARLES WORLEY. ® TONY PASTOR In anew catalogue of original local Songs, together with bis Mammoth Company of Specialty Stars, ‘universally In: jorsed as THE BEST Orchestra Chairs and Private Boxes can bo secured either by letter, telegram or personal application for six days in Carriages may be ordered at 10 30, Yt imi THEATRE, OLYMPIC THE POPULAR RI vba 4 LADIES, CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND SOCIAL | Pe Meee i inde j AT A SALARY’ OF “00 PER WEEK, ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR GACH PEMFOR~ MANCE, f THE GREATEST NOVELTY EXTANT, THE WATER at THE WATER THE WATER The only Woman Fish in existenc Champion Lady Swimmer of the world. THE ACTUAL, MERMAID, an he MAN FISH. WONDER. nal wonderful Duat Act ng. writing. sleepin, atics WATSON. ATS WATS THE AMPHIBIO They will appear in their o eating, drinking, smoking, re playing. somersaults and ac while-undor a MAMMOTH ILLLUMINATED GLASS TANK. thing never before attempted by any lady intve-worla, Reappearance of the rent Olympic favoritey Ethiop! . be Pa om Comedian and orga. COURTRIGHT. f ba Mal {the favorite comes Reappearanee tis ADAM RICHMOND. of the distinguished French prima Mile. OLGA. Continued success of the glorious and gorgeous; epectede, Durlesque and pantomime, ance of the monarch o agaett Mr EM. First. appearan donna, FECT. IAL 80) AND CHORUS ferously encored. THE FULL MINIATURE DRUM CORPS hailed with repeated peals of approbation. FAIRY FOUNTAIN OF REAL WATER, declared a marvel of beauty. NTOMIME THE DEST PANTER PRODUCED IN maw rok MR. PAT ROONEY positively sings three new Songs. ; MR. JOH in his great comic skete HART “Wanted, a Nurse."* STANSILL MESSRS. HARPER ANT) ANS Old Log Cabin in Tenne nee GEORGE, 8. KNIGHT the Dog.” f h, “Man wit! in bis famous sketch, “Man, wi cy Cah Mr. Will M Mie Ida Greenfield. fenrietta Mollenhauer. NESDAY AND SATURDAY, Est AND SATURDAY. Doors open at aston... . cents I SEATS SECURED SIX DAYS IN A POSITIVELY NO FRE MPUHIRD AVENUE THEATRE, “ Between Thirtieth and Thirty first etrects. m INCREASED ATTRACTIONS every evening at 8 ofc Wednesday and Saturday Matinees at 2 o'clock. Freeman Sisters, French Twin Sisters, Wen Brij Devere Brothers, H . Frank Williams, Foy 8: J.D. Roome, RB. ing, Little Vie, Add Weaver a Lote of Fun. | No Vulgarity: THEATRE. — MONDAY, JAN. mounted with new ueiful evenery am pe chanieal effects; pronounced by OFEHOUS Vival of the favorite farce, YOUR LIFE IN DA! YERMANIA ASSEMBLY ROOMS, [201 Ci howers. hall. Tonight, J tival and app © who will introduce several Presid bhie in nique entertainment, atter whicl | Hopp, which will be opened by Father hington. Music by Wannemacher's ts Admission 0 cents, for lady and go: tennial SOR LOGRENTA, THE CONJUROR, CAN jes with his am Learned Birds. NE DANCE OF S00 T By W For sais at WILLIAM A. POND & CO.'S. Te PREDERIC ROBINSON, { ‘ot the Unton Square Theatre, nstraction in elocution and prepares Indies and prep for the stage. Address LOTOS CLUB, No. 2 Ir place. FOCAL GULTURE, READING AND ORATOR V OTA muh (nstreetion for gentlemen, ladies and dren; the feeble made strong; terms moderate, refere first clase 80 Sd av. ME ITALIAN SCHOOL B 1 C Grand Soiree Soctab\ under supervision of Mr. balls, concerts, &e, Apply to A. Ke SPENCER, 212 Br way. VOLONEL MONSTERY'S SPARRING, FE ‘Academy, No. 619 6th av.—Boxing taugh Sing. for tescliers. © Fr Usk vee trees Address SAVAND, Herald Upto “efice, | AXD 30TH ST. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET.. AMUSEMENTS. ARISIAN VARIETIE! TEMPLE Evenings, 5 o'clock; Matine ‘Saturdays, A mane of beauty, music, di 18TH ST. AND BROADWAY. SENSATIONAL ART. Tuesdays, Thursdays and clock And lov jange o} ‘comical, fantastical, AUGHTY AUGHTY AUGHTY DU AUGHTY DU tique, strong Chorus and gorgeous ines. Immense hit of Wm. Forrester | and Geo. Atkins. | & | THE 3} with fall Corps Dram: Costu Miss Rosie Keene, | Opening Programme of the New Year. GRAND OLIO OF 60 ARTISTS uf yanovelty and variety. | 2 ARTISTIC: CREATIONS. | — uisite Ballet Divertissement, r UTTERFLIES' PARADISE. ERE, 12 NEW TABLEAUX. | $ BW lovely Coryphees. | 20 Female Mode! — ee | The Peerless Aerial Gymnasts. HARRY MONTAGUE, THE COMIQUE MUSICALE. THREE ARNOLD BROTHERS, the Protean Com! MYLES MORRIS, | THE INCOMPARABLE IRISH CHARACTER ARTIST. | THE GUIDE'S RETUR: ties. ‘An Army of Artists. Acknowledged finest entertainment in New York. Delighttul, tusteful, elegant, voluptuous, beautiful, ROOKLYD Lossees and Managers... Messrs. SHOOK & PALMER. MONDAY, January 3, aud BVERY EVENING this week and at SATURDAY MATIN Mr. JOHN E. OWES OUR BOYS, with new and handsome scenery and a very strong cast, DAY, January 7, E, OWENS. S in Byron BENEFIT OF MK. JOHN Box Office open daily from 8 A. M. to 10 Brooerrx THEATRE, BROOKL JOHN E. JOHN KE. K AS TH TH 1CK, THE BYRON'’S COMEDY OUR BOYS. OUR BOYS. OUR BOYS. WEEK, MORROW (MONDAY). SATURDAY. THEATRE. THEATRE. ONE COMMENCING TO- MATINEE STH AVENUE THEATRE. © Propristor and Monager Mr. AUGUSTIN DALY EVERY HOLIDAY NIGHT, AUGUSTIN DALY'S GREAT DRAMA, PppPrp. I u U EBEEEE Pr Pu naeeee, U UE P Pi U UE PPPPPP It i U KEEB P Ir U UE Pr pa ag 0 ue P TH "Qegege” CULT EEEFEE Miss Fanny Davenpor Mr. Jobn Brougham. Mr. Charies Fisher. Mr. James Lewis. Mr. D. H. Harkin: Mr. William Davidge Mr. Prank Hardenber Mr. Pi BATU! Dav, PIQUE. THE RIVER ATTIC SENSATION receives « TRIPLE ENCORE every might THE HERALD says:—“We may well complim manager) on A BRILLIA PIQUE. THE TIMES says:—"The elements of interest and suecess in PIQUE ere numerous and cannot be questioned.” Daly (as sushor at CESS."" THE TRIBUNE says:—"It blends comedy, sentiment ‘and sensation in a way that cannot fail to please.” VENING MAIL sa been presented on the Fifth Avenue of those works which not alone d success. PIQUE. THE STAR saye:—"PIQUR Is bik It Bids fair to bo the hit of the seuson.” PIQU THE EVENING GRAPHIC says:—"Mr. Daly has made another great hit. PIQUE is the best play he has ever con- structed, and the interest never fags for a moment. Tt has & plot of absorbing interest. It has every element of popu- Jur strength ” ‘Sach a play has never nce. PIQUE is one ves, but commands, Hy wenn to secure popal achieved.” nas been left undone jont that this result PIQUE. N. B.—Tho performance begins promptly at 7:45, and terminates at 11:15. . BOX SHEET OPEN two weeks in nivance. POLICE REGULATION. nC rringes he taking up. parties from the Fifth Avenue form on 28th st x tow Bro. (oress M, Broadway and Thirty-fitth street. HE S{EGE OF PARIS. THE ASSAS TION OF THE ARCHBISHOP. PANORAMA OF THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR. will be exhibited daily from, pias P.M. Admission, 50c. Children half pri OOTH'S THEATRE,—IT IS RESPECTFULLY ASKED by the management that as the grand procession inthe frst act of JULIUS UBSAR begins almost immediately af. ter curtain-rise, holders of coupons be in early oce their chairs that all may have an uninterrupted vi gorgeous display B™ THs ua LIST ABSOLUTELY No extras. OOTH THEATRE. JULIUS CHSAR, Doors open at 7}. Begins at 7%, Carriages may be ordered tor 11:15. SHAKESPEARIAN PAGEANTRY. Remarkable representation of JULIUS CHSAR! EVERY NIGHT and at the SATURDAY MATINEE. Production, in anexampled splendor, of the Great Tragedy. JULIUS CESAR, with paralieled congreg: tion of Shakespearians in the assignment of characters, in- cluding DAIUS CASSIUS, Mr.*LAWRENCE BARRETT «: Mr. F, ©. BANGS as MARCUS ANTONIUS, and Mr. EK. L. DAVENPORT as MARCUS JUNIUS BRUTUS. Mr. Milnes Levick (especially engaged to act the title part of the play) and the entire company of Booth’s Theatre, are splendid original sie, nd TABLE: Itivade AUX, a multitude ificent seenery. ALE of the play is a the BURNING OF THE Bony OF whirl! Al, Peg ale Nyy ie et be ats moay be had six 5 daily from Pe Mw ior Me weet COREE QitickgixG HAL MONDAY of participant aux’ ‘H Fran tablon SON Th 7 VON BULOW. ST NIGHT BUT TWo. N BLLOW will pity, Beethoven's Sonata (dedicated to Kreutzer) and Schubert's Introduction et Kondo Brilliante, with Dr. Dam. rosch; Soli Scarlatti, Ca A Bach, Sarabande et Passe Pied: Gluck, Gavotte rt, Minuet et Gigue; Chopin, Nocturne, Ballade, and three waltzes. Miss CRONYN vill appear at this Concert. WEDNESDAY, LAST NIGHT BUT ONE, VON BULOW will piny Selections from bie 7 AINT SAENS. ZN, sonts, $2. th's, 23 Union sauare. and 114 Broadway. ICKERING PIANOS are used by VON BULOW. (POLL THEATRE, STH ST., between 24 and 9d ara. APTERNOON AND EV! GRAND SACRED , YOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL, CO! , followed by a most refined Variety Entertainment one minute past 12, not infringing upon the Sunday law. MONDAY EVENING, JANU 8, 1876. Third week of the lial “anand legehe NTERTAINMENT tie Company G will be given by the best Acrobatic and Gy mu: tn the city MATINEE EVERY SATURDAY, at ilk WEST NEW MUSIC rar Cane, “DOWN AMON ter Times’ (walt zyhasb, de. °C 1 Keep. Little Comer Chamberlain, #0e.. "Evening Song. | Blake, 406. : Ri eo: “The Bobbing Tide.” Millard, 0c. » Wiegand, #c.; “The Sunny Side." tor sunday Be. Copies malied WM. A POND & CO, O47 Broadway ; branch store 49 Union square, New York N*= MUSIC. ULL DOWN THE BLIND’ “HEIL ~ debrandt Montrose.” “tol a, “De ve "Sines Terry why Mare. S)) others, at Ie. je Prince st. VHRISTY, MAZZOCCHID'S GREAT ORCHE: / THE VEIL AND SHADOW BALL, ARGYLE OTH AY. AND SOT 8T., 10 MORROW ENTRANCE ON 90TH ST. QUADRILLE AT THE RE. iL AND SHADOW A ANTE.” IT, AT ARGYLE ROOM OMMENCING AT 9 O'CLOCK. T THE GRAND Vell, AND sHADOW TO-MORROW NIGHT. ARGYLE '‘D STH ST., COMMESCING aly KOOMS, MIGHT, 1 TO VORKOW N ’ SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway and 14th st. SHERIDAN SHOOK Deheekcciiisee op) A.M. PALMER... polaegit , Every night, ROSE” MICHEL, the AN ¥ AND BEAUTIFUL “4 ‘and with aeast of : | ONE ML TRENGTI . | UNDOUBTED | including the following favorite names :— Messrs. C. R. Thorne, Jr., Stuart Robson, Frod Robinson, J. H.' Stoddart, John Par: selle, Eben Viympton. TB. Morris, Laan TRIUMPH. | der Thompson. W. H. Wilder, 8. Quigley, ahd Stieves Rove, Hytinge, Fanny jorant, Nina Varian (by kind permission of § Lester Wallack) and Augusta Raymond. SATURDA ry 8, EIGHTH MATINEE OF RUSE’ MICHEL. Seats secured two weeks in advance. WAbback's. Proprietor and Manager. Mr, LESTER WALLACK FIRST A RANCE - in two seasons of Mr. LESTER WALLACK. MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8. 1876, wi zs AMUSEMENTS. THEATRE. Sand 740 Broadway, below Bth st. k. W. BUTLER.......... : Pe OPENING OF “Tit CENTENNIAL YEAR. iste, | GIGANTIC ATRACTIO ’ A COMPLETE CH) Concentration of all the Specialties of tt First week of the engagement of the gr y and the Artistic inator of the Modern Style of Comic Singing, Mr. HARRY MONTAGUE, in his unrivalled Songs, Messrs. LORD Se Or im three NE 4 RICE, re- First appearance ot nowned Specialty Artists, Miss LILLIE HALL and Miss MI AL THE MASTER VENTRILOQUIST, Mr. . YOUNG. The beautiful pian Bean, onsitios AS ; OLD PL iMiamson, an wpulent planter. Mrs. Williamson. Miss Alice Kemp | Rosa. . Miss K. on the plantation, ON WEDNE:! Presented d¥' COMEDY AND ROMANCE, ANOTHER BLE entitlea Robertson ion picture to “Ca ry and appointments prepared d the following distribution of with new and beautiful se ecially tor the occasion, characters :— Colonel John White, his original character rt. LESTER WALLACK Mr. JOHN GILBERT W. CARROLL - Mr. W. SEYMOUR hook & Paimer.) iss ALA DYAS. 3s KATE BARTLETT Miss GERALDINE MAYE Mrs. Pinchoeck. Dora Thornhaugl Lucy Dorrison. The performance will conclude with t A QUIET FAMILY The repr c {ted in cousequence of the enrly pr A NEW PLA now in active pre} ‘PARK THEATRE, EVERY NIGHT, CRUCIBLE, OAKEY HALL s a CASHIER CONVICT, and the full compa: Matinees hereafter always Admission, $1; Reserved Seats, $1 5 __At Matineos One Dollar to all parts of the house. “BROADWAY AND 33D ST. ‘Mr. JOSH HART le Proprietor and Manager. Brilliant suce: 1@ great Spectacle, 100 DEMON STATUES and the FORMATION OF THE —_—__——__——__—4 every evening until further notice. Seats secured twelve nights in advan MATINEES Wednesday and Saturd) OPERA HOUSE, Broadway and 29th st. A BAD NIGHT'S | PIQUE. : Balcony, 50 cents, JPAGLE THEATRE, SEASONS, REST, oy PTATION, ie best company. FRANCISCO’ MINSTRELS. FRANCISCO NSTRELS. MINSTRELS. by th SAN CISCO MI 5. FRAY SCO [S8TTUtE OF ELocoTion, 46 Enst 10th st., New York. Professor PHILIP LAWRENCE. Ministers, lawyers, lecturers, actors, actresses a1 ing touch in a course of 10 'S SEC MATINER SATURDAY AT 2, teach- can receive the fi SONS (CoLUNBIA OPERA HOUSE, corner of West Twelfth street and Greenwich avenue. THE AMERICAN ALHAMBRA. Positively the cheapest, gremtest, most novel and best en- Immense snecess of the GRAND MAM-TOWN SISTERS. EMALE MINSTRBLS, lists, and our grent Spe- ts Grand Matinee tor tertainment in the city. DUTCH 8, Fourth week of the Mile. Louise Duval’s GREAT 24 beautitul, fascinating Lady Voe: cialty company. Admission 2: Tadi &DRETTY ASA PP GkaSD nd children every Si HOTTISCHE AT TH VEIL * D SoTH st. LOCK: DAISY” Se SHADOW AND OTH AY. AN! ANSANTE,” AY TO-MOR. MENCING AT 9 © f DANCING MUSIC IN THE WORLD AT THE EAT SHADOW AND VEIL “DANSANTE,” “ROOMS, 6TH AV. AND 3OTH ST., TO-MOR- ALOP AT THE GRAND 'DANSANTE,” ARGYLE TO-MORROW NIGHT, LL THE LATE: AT THE GRAND VEIL AND SHADOW “DANSANTE,” ARGYLE ROOMS, OTH AY. AND SoTH ST, TOMORROW NIGHT, COM: NCING AT 9 O'CLOCK. VLNING PARTY ENTERTAINMENTS, M. HARTZ can give his celebrated Magical Pertormance At private houses, clubs, ite. For terms apply at the Magieat Bazaar, 850 Broadway, near 14th st. a for charituble purposes M AGIC, V above combi Parties and Church Pairs. Henry st. Special arrangements IQUISM, PUNCH AND JUD’ popalar ‘entertainment for E: HE Address Professor i JUDD, Tat AM Ht. POPE, ractical instructio the dramatic professic tations. Address Stei lor reel. it at 1,383 Broadway. ANTED—A LADY OF GOOD ADDRESS, WITH $300 ‘or $900 capital, ‘to take an interest in Atbeatre al- TRE, Herald office. NG ENTERTALNMEN NA RAN- ready established. Address THE COURSE OF FIVE EVE. Readings LL. pu Recitations and Music. Assisted by her pupils ‘ath av, and 2d Mrs. AN. Da 1d frien ruary 1, 15 and 29, Educational Bureau, evening, He. Entertainments to commence at 8 o'clock. JNDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION COMPANY $20 BOND.— Buy a Bond, before SP, M. to-day, at 12 Bast 17th st. ‘Last day. ___PIANOFORTES, ORGANS, &C. T HAINES BROS.’ PIANOFORTE WAREROOMS d manufactory, corner Twenty-firs cond ent of first class Pin a few Pianos but little used at great reasonable term: regains, A HERE RENT, UPRIGHT. SQUARE AND GRAND « Pianos of our own make; also for sale and rent, a Pianos. in perfect order. WILL- 112 Fifth arenue, above Si number of fine second bat JAM KNABE & CO, ix: teenth street. ARTES AY, WEBER, CHICKERING AND OTHER « Pixnofortes 8100 to $100; $5 to $10 monthly instal- nents; erent sncrifie for cash. Waverley place, near Broadway. EN TH Ww t be sold regardiess Pearl st. Fulton, instalment; farlor Organs, 83 mon AK thy AYE OFFER their plan. Call or wdddrens at, Nu o x tiou Buildin bers’ Piano Fas ONDERFUL, * grand, a instalments. WATHUSHER HUMMING BIRD® PIANOS, orchestral and mediam Mianes, Tianos exch: i cash this week for, per contract HORACE WATERS & 80) PIANOS AND ORGANS LARGE Dis T TO CASH customers this week, at CHRISTIE'S Pactory, 78 Bar. Tow street, near Hudson. Three second hand Pia order, cheap, Call bere 0 dS, NEARLY NEW, MADE RY We ing brewen ae . & C. ken iron plate wanted for them. Call on or address BROKED PIANOS, 155 Bleoeker street. THE LECTURE | SEASON. RY DAY—AT 4 AND 7 PLM. yy Frasher Howard, author of t wlator,” {ilustrating wonderiul The CALCULATOR post free for» Ke MONCUR) <WAY.—MASONIC TEMPLE, street, Sunday, ‘and Religion in luding sketen Newman, Tyndall, Spen- d other Mdaders of opinion, be invited, role: versation leeta juxtey, Darwin, __ THE BALL SEASON OURTH ANNUAL GRAND BALL : in aid of the NEW YORK INFANT ASYLUM will be given at the ACADEMY OF Mts Tie THURSDAY BVENT dae y ickets may be obtained of the managers LM. Bates, 10 West nh at * NNUAL WALL Coachman s Hand C. w York, will take ge at Levi ‘%,, Mail January, 1876, Music by the eut band, uuder the direction of P. 5. B. BOYLE, President. 13, 1976, and anty of 3 Wednesday evening, Twenty-second rect iimore. Tickets, $1. MUNICIPAL = MUNIMICENCE. How the Property of the People Is Given Away. Gifts, Grants and Leases by the City from 1703 to 1875, Generosity to Churches, Asylums, Hos- pitals and Schools. Sectarian Appropriations Gener- ally Misunderstood. Title to the Site of the New Roman Catho- lie Cathedral. In these days of enormous taxation, when the Assessors are on the scent of every foot of soil and every share of stock and every dollar's worth of per- sonal property that can be made to pay anything into the public treasury or into the pockets of collectors, it is worth while to look into the facts about public prop- erty given away, orsold for a song, or rented for ninety- nine years for $1 a year, or in other ways placed out of the pale of real estate yielding gevenue. Everybody remembers that this whole island of New York was purchased Trom the Indians, in 1626, by Governor Peter Minuit, asthe agentof the Dutch West India Com- pany, for the sum of sixty guilders, equal to about $24 of our money. The company, as the chief proprietor, ‘was superseded, under English rule, by the Corpora- tion, technically called “The Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty,”’ as established in the first cnarter granted by the British government, That Commonalty became heir to vast quantities of land on the island, and that patrimony it has pretty effectually dissipated by sale and by giftand by sequestration for public pur- poses, until now it possesses nothing worth talking about of property that might reasonably be cold. GIFTS TO RELIGIONS AND CHARITABLE SOCIETIES. In their last report the Tax Commissioners tell us that “a great many words without knowledge havo found utterance in regard to the amount of real estate exempted from taxation, as well as to its distribution among denominations or sects. The total has been in- creased during the present year by the action of the Legislature in exempting such portions of the New York Hospital preperty as 1s not a source of income, The Commissioners have no opinion to express as tu the character and extent of these exemptions further than to say that it should be a claim of remarkable and exceptional character which justifies the exemption of property frem which income is derived.” GRANT TO ‘TRINITY CHORCH, The earliest grants of property rightfully belonging to the people were made nearly 200 years ago. On the 224 of April, 1703, the city authorities gave to Trinity the old burying ground on the west side of Broadway, just below Rector street. As this is the earliest ‘‘secta- Tian’ gift, if it can be called such, we copy the deed cn- tire, with the original spelling and punctuation ;— To all Xtian People to whom this present writing shall come the present Mayer Alderman and Common- alty of the City of New York in America send greeting to our Lord God ev@rlasting: Know yee that wee the said Mayer Alderman and Commonalty of the City of New York aforesaid for divers goud and valuable causes and considerations us in that behalf specially moving have given and granted and by these presents for us aud our successors doo give grant and confirm unto the present Rector and inhabitants of said City of New York in communion of the Protestant Church ot England as now established by law and to their aue- cessors forever all that buring piace of the said city near and adjoining to the ground of Trinity Church on the west side of Broadway as it now standeth in force with the hereditiments and appurtenants thereunto belonging. To have and to hold the said vurying placo and premises with the heriditainments and appurtenancs unto the said Rector and Inhabitants of the said wre | ot New York in communion of the Protestant Chu of England as now established by law and to their suc- cessors for ever to the benefit and behoof of the said Rector and inhabitants of the said City of N Y in com- munion of the Protestant Church of England as now estiblished by law and to their successors for ever. They the said rector and inhabitants and their suc- cessors forever hereafter appropriating the same for part of the public churchyard of Trinity churchyard aforesaid and a burying piace for any of the inhabitants of the said city and enclosing and keeping the same in good repair at their-own proper costs and charges and demanding taking and recetving vo their own use from the imhabitants of said city for the breaking of the male or female of the age of 12 Years and upwards the sum of 3 shillings and no moro and for every corps male or female under the ago of 12 years the sum of 18 pence and no more. In testimony whereof the said Mayer Alderman and commonality of the said city have caused the seal ‘of the said city to be herounto affixed witness Phill French Esq present Mayer of the es of New Yor! this 22d day of April in the 2d year of the reign of our most Gracious Sovereign Lady Anne by the grace ot God Queen of England Scotland France and Irland Defender of the faith, &c. Anno Domino 1703 PHILIP FRENCH The ground above described is now—and has been for many years—covered with large warehouses, and is ex- coedingly valuable, The next grant to Trinity was mado May 21, 1751, and wasa plot of land adjoining the burial ground or near it, and ts described as being 394 feeton Broadway and in the rear 467 feet, ‘‘additional water lots.” The river shore was then not far from where the rear walt of Trinity churchyard now stands. Two streets were to be cut through this now grant, cach to be forty fect wide, These aro now Rector and New Church streets. For this property Trinity was to pay a yearly rent of £5 Us. In 1823 the rent was commuted for about $200. The first Grace church wits built on this prop- erty. It is now covered with large stores and ware- houses. In 1773, on November 18, a grant was made to “the rector, &c., of the Charch, of Englana’’ (Trinity), ex- tending their boundary 200 fect beyond the then exist- ing water front, for a space of 624 feet up and down the river. The rent was £31 4s. per year. In 1834, on December 22, the Common Council passed a resolution vesting the property in Trinity church, It is now the biock west of Greenwich street, and has four buildings of value to boast of. ‘This is all that Trinity has had from the city, and sho paid liberal rent fot all except the old burial ground, Her vast possessions th the Eighth and Ninth wards were given by private Individuals or came by regular devise over which the city had no control, REPORMED DUTCH The original Christian church of New York has not fared very lberally among the beneficiaries of the city, possibly because, “like Trinity, she had valuable carly possessions that placed her im easy financial cir- cumstances. The first charch was in Pearl, near Whitchail street, built im 1603. The next was in Gar- den street (now Exchange place) and tho third is now the ald Post Ofice building, As tothe earliest grant wo find thaton the 1th February, 1765, the Mayor, Aldermen und Commonalty granted to the Reformed Protestant Dutch charch a plot of land in Montgom- erio’s ward, described as “an irregular piecs of ground Tuwning from (With vet, 407 feet to Thomas (Duane street), along Street 461 fect, along Queen (Pearl) street inches to King George street, The rent was £70 a year. It is At easy to deter- mine tbe lines described, but the land was somewher about the junction of William and Pearl streets, There were conditions in the grant providing tt@®@the land should be used only for churches, sehools and minis ters’ dwellings. No church, and we think no school was built on the premises, but im 1790 the chureh pur- chased the whole in tee for £1,000. There are no val- uable builfings now on the land, ‘THE “RICK” PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, veeks after the lease above described, February 25, 1768, a lease wax gran’.d to the Presbyterian con- gregation, subsequentiy known a#s the Brick ehureh, Dut tn the lease called “The English Presbyterian church, according to the Westminster Confession of Faith.” The property is so well remembered that cription is hardly necessary, It was the bounded at first by Ann street, Kip (Nassau) street, and the High Road to Boston = (Park row.) Beekman street afterward took off a shee, and the ¢ cut off by the extension of George (Spruce) street. The Tent was £40 a year, but in 1785 it was reduced to £21 5s, It was on this ground that first arose debate about cof Church property for sectilar business. About small building was pat up inthe rear of the nd rented for stores, offices ruse M forfeit the wh t, and the clauses restrict tern angle was and #0 on. gittsuse to church aud burial purposes only were cited. Nothing resulted, however, aud the charch held quiet possession until 1856, whem the congregation d cided to move their place of worship to the fashion. able quarter of Murray Hill. The Brick church bleck was sold and the city claimed the whole property erthe Proceeds; but inasmuch as the congregation could, by only 4 nominal use of the premises for religous pur- poses, maintain possession indefinitely, a compromise was effected, the city accepting $67,509 for its rights, while the church took the remuinder of the $250,000 for whieh the property sold, Tho Times is now the prin- cipalowner. ‘On the 23d July. 1810, the Mayor, &e., made a sale to the irick church, in consideration of $1, aud, “to promote the benevolent obj: of said wrustees,”’ “do nt, bargain, sell, release and convey to them and ir successors in office forever, for their free use, Occupation and enjoyment,”-a lot 25 by 96 feet, in Augustus streot (City Hall place), ‘in trust for the solo use and put of erecting a building on the said promises for a charity school.’ Whenever the prop- erty ceased to be used for that especial purpose it was to revert to the eity, KING'S (COLUMBIA) COLLEGE. This institution, founded in 1754, received from tho city, in August, 1770, for the yearly rent of one pepper- corn, certain water lots on the North River, in front of the College grounds, between Barclay and Murray Streets, extending 200 feet al The prop- erty was never used by the coliege, and not long ago came back to the city. THE HOUSE OF REFUGE. This is now a public institution, but it was started as @private corporation, and chartered as “The Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents,” Novem- ber 1, 1824. The Common Council agi if the so- ciety would get from the United States government a conveyance of its interest in certain property used for an arsenal at or pear the junction of Bloomingdale road and the Old Post road (now the southwest corner of Madison square), the Corporatien would grant addi- tional ground for the erection of a House ef Refuge, on condition that itshould be used for the society and no other purpose. Many of our readers will remember the old building, standing at right angles to Broadway. The old poplar trees that shaded the front are still in the square, showing the situation of the edifice, The Society bought the United States property for $6,000. When Madison square was opened the city exchanged for the Refuge pepe oy in Twenty-third street, near First avenue. In 1852 the city, for one dollar, granted tothe society about thirty-six acres on Ran: dall’s Island, where the Refuge remains. The Twenty- third street property has passed tnto private hands. DISPENSARIES. January 16, 1828, the city, for $1, conveyed to the Managers of the ‘w York Dispensary a lot, 50 by 89 fect, on the corner of Centre and White streets, In 1837, a grant of 20 feet additional on White street was made fora like consideration, This is the most important of some vight or ten dispens: March 26, 1830, the Northern Dispensary re for $1, a grantot the gore of Jand at the junction of Grove's factory and Christopher street. The institution is there now. NEW YORK ORPHAN ASYLUM. November 18, 1849, a gore of no particular value, on Troy street, was sold to this society for $1. The chief endowments of the asylum have come from the State, ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL, On the 10th of May, 1840, a conveyance was made by the city to the Anglo-American Free Church of St. George the Martyr of bac an lots on the west side of Fifth avenue, between Filty-tourth and Fifty-titth streets, in consideration of one dollar in money and the further consideration of — receiving from the corporation of Trinity church a rfect title to the block bounded by Wash- Thgton, West, Duane and Reade streets (Erie Railrond building), to which the church laid claim, November 20, 1851, the Common Council allowed this grant to be transferred to St. Luke's Hospital on condition that the managers should comply with the covenants of the original lease. COLORED ORPHAN ASYLUM. December 29, 1842, the city conveyed to the Society for the Benefit’ of Colored Orphans, tor $1, to be used only tor egitimate purposes of the society, the enstern end of the vacant block on Fitth avenue, between For- ty-third and Forty-fourth streets, running 250 feet West on cach street. A plain, cheap building was put up, but during the draft riots,’ im July, 1863, the mob of reckless negro hunters drove out the little children and burned their home. Early in 1866 the city conzented to the salb of the society's property, and yave the pro- cceds to build an asylum up town.’ The burned site is now covered with costly dwellings. KOMAN CATHOLIC ORPHAN ASYLUM. August 1, 1846, aconveyance was made to the tras- tecs Or managers of this Society, for the consideration of $1, of the block (now two blocks by the opening of Madison avenue) between Fourth and Fifth avenues and Fifty-lirst and Fifty-second streets, on condition that the society should crect an asylum thereon, the plans of which might be approved by the city. vis now 80 occupied. ST. FATRICK’S CATHEDRAL. ‘We now come toa property that has been the cause of much discussion, not always by any means tem- perate, and about which no one svems to know any- thing Certain. . We allude to the blocks between Fourth, Madison and Fifth avenues and Fiftieth and Filty-arst streets, on one of which the unfinished cathedral stands. The ground is the very chvuicest in the erty, being just at the crown of Fifth avenue. Adjoining blocks are now assessed at nearly $1,000,000, houses and all, and these two blocks are rated at at least $1,500,000. it 18 widely believed that the land was given by the city; but we have excelient authority for saying that it was acquired by regular purchase.” And yet tie city gave a title for a song, or else there is some considera- tion, or owner, or transfer not on record. To show how it stands new we copy the Cathedral conveyance in full, from Conveyances, liber 620, page 364 “This indenture, made the lth day of November, 1852, between the Mayor, &c., of the city of New York of the first part, and tho trustees of St. Patrick's Ca- thedral, in the city of New York, and James R. Bayley and James B. Nicholson, new trustees, &c, of the second part; Whereas the said parties of the first part did by a certain indenture, under their common seal bearing date the Ist day of May, 1799, grant, bargain and sell unto Robert Lyiburn, of the said city, mer- chant, and to his heirs and assigns for ever, all that certain piece or lot of land, parcel of the common Jands of the said party of the first part, situate tn the Seventh ward of the said city, and de scribed in the survey and map or chart of the said common lands filed in the office of the Clerk of the said city by the No. 62, bounded on the west end by a certain road laid outin the said map called the Middle road (now Fifth avenue); on the east end by another road laid out im the said map called the East road (now Fourth avenue); on the north side by a street of sixty fect in breadth (now Filty-first street) between the said lot hereby granted and released and lot No, 65, and on the south side by another strect of the like breadth (now Fiftieth street) of sixty feet between the said lot hereby granted and released and lot No. 59, containing 1 breadth and at each end three sand three links (200 feet, less about a qua:ter of an inch.) and in length on each 8) thirteen chains and ninety-iour links (920 feet and about half an inch over); subject, however, to certain yearly rents or sums of money to be paid to the said parties of the first part and their successors by the said grantee, his heirs and assigns, forever thegealter as by Telerence to said indenture ur to tbe counterpart thereof sealed and aelivered by the said gramtee and now in possession of the said parties ol the first’ part Will more fally appear. And whereas, the said parties to thes¢ presents of the sccond part now are lawlally seized 01 the said premises granted and conveyed by the aboye mentioned indenture of conveyance, as they allege, and have paid to the said parties all the arrears of rent now duc upon the said premises, and have atso paid to them the further sam of $83 32, in leu and dis- charge of all and every the rent and rents which would herealter become due and payable to the said parties of the lirst part upon the said premises, under and by virtue of the sail grant. Now, therefore, this indenture witnesseth that the said parties of the first part, for and in consideration of the said sum of $83 32, do hereby for themselves and their successors and assigns, remise, release and torever discharge the said partios of the second part, their heirs, executors, ad- ministrators and assigns, irom every covenant, matter, clause and thing in Che said tndentare or counterpart contained relating to the payment of rent for the said premises thereby grauted, and of and from all actions, suits, costs, charges, payments, damages, claims and demands whatsoever, in law or equity, for or concerning the said rept, In witness whereof, &e. . A. C, Kixestaxo, Mayor.” It appears that Lylbarn paid £405 money of New York down and was to pay annually four bushels of wheat or its value in money. In default the eity might re-enter and possess th ad. He seems to have faiiea about the time of the war with Great Britain, and how the land was disposed of or to whom ‘does not We unravel the mystery. many unce the city for giving these valuable blocks away for sectarian The Catholics deny that it was a gilt, but affirm that it was houestly bought and fairly paid for. NURSERY AND CHILD'S HORUITAL On Aprit 1, 1857, a plot embracing over tive lots on the Filty-tirst street, p Third and Lex- fngton avenues, Was leused to thy y und Child's Hospital for the rent of $1 a year. 1s66, a fitther lease of sever lots in the same bl ie to the same institution on terms The hos- pital is in operatror NEW YORK STATE WOMEN’S HOSPITAL. On the 4th of January, 1859, the eity, under authority of an act of the Legislature, made a grant te the Board of Governors of the New York State Women’s Hospital ofa block of land contaming thirty-two lots bounded by Forty-ninth aud Piftieth streets and Fourth and Lex. ‘on avenues, Jor the consideration of $1, so long as {fora hospital, It ts so used. Ss) HOME AND ASYLEM OF THE PROTESTANT Kris. coral enenen. On the Ist May, 1861, a leave was made to this s of twelve lots on the southwest corner of Lexing avenue and Forty-ninth street, the rent to be $i per year. The home is in operation. PROTRSTANT CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER, On December 31, 1564, the following plution passed the Common Couneil :— 4, That the Churel: of the Redeomer, jon for site has been referred te have permission to vccapy the lots 1 as nt aite for a suring the p whieh they wsure of the ure This plot is on the southwest corner of Kighity-seeond street and Fourth avenue and etbraces twelve lots. Tt Was suld for taxes, subject to redemption on the ustal terms, KMAN HOSPITAL ry 9, 1866, 4 lease was executedty the city, ily years at 81 per seventls street, be The hospital is y Iween Lexington and Fourth avenues vn operation, CHAPIN HOMK TOR AGY On Octover 8% font ot $l per y Sixty-sinth anil Sixty-sey Lexington avenues, Was mace tothe managers of this yastitution. The home is open, ASSOCIATION FON THE IMPROYRMENT OF DRAP MUTES. Un July 26, 1870, « lease was made to this sovrety, for ninety-nine years, fora rontof $l per year, of twelve : of Lexingtou avenue, between Sixty-seventh aud Sisty-eighth streets, LADIES’ BAPTIST HOME sOCTETY. On the 23th of November, 1870, a lease was made to D AND INFIRM. r ninety-nine years ata of thirteen lots, between th streets and Third and this society of ten lots between’ Sixty-seventh and | Sixty-ninth streets and Third and Fourth avenues Binety-nine years at $1 a year. = HAMNEMANN HOSPITAL. On the 14th of January, 1871, a lease was this imstitution of Fourth avenue, between Sixty-sixth and Sixty. Streets, for ninety-nine years at a rent of $6 a year. SCHOOL OF THE SISTERS OF MERCY. rent ee 3, 1866, a lease for ninety-nine years bed lots in the ominally for an ind the Sisters of Merey. lustrial schvol under the charge FOCNDLING HOSPITAL OF THY SISTERS OF MERCY. On the Lith of December, 1870, a lease was granted by the city to the Roman Catholic Arch! for the use of the Sisters of Mercy, to main’ nding hospital, of the block bounded by Third and Lexingtom avenues and Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth streets, con- ning thirty-two lots, This was for ninety-nine years at $1 rent per year, HEBREW BENEVOLENT socnery. On October 29, 1860, a conveyauce of twelve lots on the southwest corner of Twenty-seventh street and Third avenue for the consideration of $1, to be used by the above society for charitable purposes only, ‘On October 17, 1864, a further grant of Sve lots adjoin- ing was made tothe same society for $1, the proporty to be for the use of an orphan asylum. MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL. On November 30, 1868, the Mayor, Aldermen andCom monalty leased to the ‘directors of this hospital, fos about ninety-nine years, at $1 a year, a plot embracing thirteen lots on the east side of ington avenue, be tween Sixty-sixth and Sixty- h streets. MISCELLA There have been some leases and conveyances that are of small account, such as a lease to the Publie School Society of the old Arsenal in Centre street, @ lease to the umission Society, a grant in Hamiltom square (now closed) of a plot for the Washington Mona- ment Association, and others; but we have specially noted all important concessions of land (not of money) to private corporations, The list is long enough, but it embraces much less property than people generally pose to have gone that way. CITY STATISTICS. The police arrested 1,692 persons during the week. There were 556 deaths, 436 births, 43 stillbirths an@ 97 marriages in the city during the past week. THE CASE OF GENERAL WEBB, To rue Epitor or Tux SrrincrieLD Rerosiicax:— To-day’s Republican says:— The caso against General James Watson Webb with reference to the $45,000 of the money he received from the Brazilian government in satisfaction of claim for & vessel, which he does not account for. before United Stat®s District Court at N rk. The question now is, What shall be done wit Webb for refusing to tell what he portion of the motes’t “ie ‘anys that the, money the owner of the vessel: that the United States has ne claim upon it; that it went to Brazilians who hell in the settlement of the case, and that he won't if he goes to Jail for it. For the general reader, who neither knows nor cares aught in regard to my case, this is all well enougl he Republican gocs everywhere, and is read by as many of my trie asis any other paper in the United States, I am unwilling that its readers should deem me capable of treat- ing thus lightly a matter which involves my official con- duct in Brazil during the eight years I served as ‘‘en- voy extraordinary” at that court. So far from ‘‘refas- ing vo tell what he (T) did with chis, the larger portion of the money,” 1 answered under oath as follows:— Answer to interrogatory number three. I transmitted the dill for £5,090 to the Hon. William H. Seward, the then See retary of State of the United States, in m letter dated Oo tober 1,1867—of which a eopy appears st page 145 Ex, Dec. s2the claimant to recelys the same. | T pard over ta ¥ to ih of th ; ably to a written statement from niuel Wells, directing me to pay the same to th t statement, ‘after erasing tho names of the Brazilians, I enclosed to the Hon, William H. | Seward, with my ‘despatch of the Ist. of October, 1867 (Ex. Doc, 52; page 142). It directed me to pay the surplas over £5,000 of the claim, when collected, to certain Brazilians whose name: re mentioned, being the t the surpl I had previously, on the }2th of April, 1867, made a communication to Mr Seward, the Secretary of State, on the subject (see Ex. ‘52, page 142). To this Mr. Seward mi no dissent. In tee sponse to my despatch reporting the settioment I. receis Ne. Seward's despatch of December 7, 1867 (see Ex. Doc, o2, pase 156), in whieh he said:—"You hi shown much energy and sagacity in the settlement of this claim.’* Andin my official report to Mr. Seward, tho then Sceretary of State, enclosing him $25,000 for the claimant, L accounted for the balance by saying:—“I exhibited Mr. Wells’ letter; and, instead of asking him for $25,000 in gold, I agreed to accept a bill on London for £5,000, leaving at the disposal of the party with whem 1 treated any surplus which might be obtained.”” With this despatch before him, and a bill for $25,000 in his possession, Mr. Seward wrote:—"You have shown much energy and sagacity in the settlement of this claim.” Yoo will thus perceive that I do not ‘refuse to tell what I did with. the money,” but when asked, ‘Wha are the Brazilians to whom you paid the surplus over and above $25,000 by the written order of the claimant?” my response 1s, “I cannot, with honor, disclose their names; and the question is not relevant to the issue before the jury. If you have any curiosity ‘on the subject inquire of the complainant, who made the contract with the Brazilians.” This is construed into a “contempt of court,”’ and the government more my committal to Ludlow Street Jail. Your obedi servant, J. WATSON WEBB. Sprinorrety, Dec, 27, 1875. STORM IN THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. SUDDEN AND TERRIFIC PEALS OF THUNDER GIVE RISE TO SUPERSTITIOUS FEARS—THE DYNASTY AND PUBLIC MORALITY. Hoxouviy, Dec. 12, 1875. We have been treated to two heavy thunder storms within a month. The first took place on the day that the remains of King Lunalilo and his royal mother were removed from the mausoleum in Nunanu (No+ vember 23), where the Kamehamehas rest, to the mausoleum erected at Kawaiahao; in accordance with the will of Lunalilo, THE CORTEGE, with the remains, left the valley during 4 drizzling rain, which ceased as the procession moved out of the valley. Peal upon peal of thunder startled the crowd, who believed that God was firmg a salute because the authorities would not. The rain was said to be tho tears of God over the best and truest King; that rain never falls on the day of burial of a king, unless He be a true king, of the bluest blood. Before the remains had reached town the sky was clear and the sun shiningy but still tne thunder of heaven rattled from time to time. Just as the remains were being taken from the car by the pallbearers, to be carried to their last resting place, aterrific peal of thunder burst forth, which caused everybody to stand still, and the crowd was hushed until some old retainer of the late King burst forth ina mele (song), reciting the history ofthe Lunahilo family, when it was taken up by the crowd, and the wail could be heard distinctly nearly a mile of. ‘THE NATIVES PREDICT ill for the present dynasty, which Hi and good navuredly laughs, showing that and travel have happily rid him of “old womo: jables.”” THE SECOND STORM took place on the 8th inst. The thunder and lightning were very sharp and vivid. ALLEGED NRRCIERISM. A Protestant charch at Waikiki was struck by light. ning and the steeple demolished. The natives, mm roa- soning as to the cause, suggested that it was because @ Mormon elder had been permitted to preach trom its pul- S Another suggested that “agen tneir her had peon after the ewes of the flock. Wi a woman spoke up and said, “Yes! you know he was after rs. “That! , and Mr: and Mra. ” so,” saul another, and congregation have settled down upon this as the correct cause. “Wo have not heard of any accident to Plymouth cbureh and must, as a consequence, to be consistent, believe that Beecher is innocent. ‘This tx about as good reasoning a8 I have seen set forth in support of innocenee, AN AMERICAN WHALING CAPTAIN. ALLEGED COMMISSION OF AN OUTRAGE IW AUSTBALTA. Sypxay, N.S. W., Nov. 19, 1875, Whilo the bark Bartholomew Gosneld, of New Bed- ford, was at Solomon’s Islands, two Tahitians belong» ing to her crew, to escape the cruelty of the officers, ran away and took refuge ina high tree. On their ree fusing to come down the tree wns felled by order of the captain and the top striking the coral rocks mangled one poor wretch in such a frightful manner that speedy death was a merviful release. The other Kanaka was so badly bruised that it is a wonder he survived only to become a maniac, and was conveyed to Bay of Islands. Such, in brief, is a statement published in New Zea- Jand, and as Captain Wills, of the incriminated sbip, is now on his passage bome to New Bedford, he should have an Opportunity of dewying or explaming a charge so damning as to disgrace the flag be sails under. VENEZUELA, THE REPUBLIC OF Privapetrnia, Dee To THe Eoitor or tHe Heraty;— Ihave news from Caracas by cable ap tothe 158 inst,, and cam assure yon that the reported invaston of Venezuela, as stated by your correspondent, dated at New Providence, State of Guiana, November 23, pab- shed in your valuable paper of this day, is not trae The country is perfectly quiet at present, for the election of a now President in Angust next a8 the incumbent cannot be re-eiceted tor a second term, two yours, nor any of his relatives up to the fourth of consanguinity or affinity, as per ll « the constitution of Venezuela. Yours respect! . JON DE LA COVA, Consul granted ten lots on the northeast side ol) oy “a - = ars Sie