The New York Herald Newspaper, February 27, 1876, Page 7

NEW’ YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1876.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. $212,596,550 UNTAXED Church Property in New York City. Bi St Michael’ St. Francis’, St Stephen's, St. GabriePs, East 37ub st. Free Gas, Free Street Openings and No Assessments, on, Apostie, West 59tb st St. Jeromers, 230 ward... St Augustine’s, 23d ward, St Mary's, 23d wara...... German cbharch, 24th ward... Kingsbridge, 24tb ward... The Information Called For by the Legislature. FIFTY-FOUR THOUSAND LOTS EXEMPT. Totals ns «9250 | UNITARIAN. | Messiah’s Kast 34th at.......... 500 ‘Tho action taken by the State Legislature recently | Al) Souls’ 4b av. and 20th st. 4.65 in requesting the Tax Commissioners of this city to | Church, 45th st. and Madison av. 7.88 Unity ebapel, FE furnish a detailed statement showing all the rea] estate Third, 40th eho. ‘tm said city exempted from taxati the location and , extent of each plot respectively, hom Owhed as ~ ‘Mur as can be ascertained from the tax books, and such — es ‘ether particulars as they may be in possession of, has { Fonrth, ou ay. ane 45tb ‘excited much interest in church circles =. Chareb jane at. Many who have not given the matter deliberate con- Totals.. ideration will find in the statistics published below Totals...... hie tnueh tood for thought Much of the property men- | METHODIST KYISCOPAL, Jobn st 2 ‘ioned in the list 1s held under ninety-nine year leases PNM Bt 2 ‘mi $1 rent for the entire period. The property Greene 4.00 ie exempted from assessments for street im- | Hudson st . om provements, an instance of which may be par % 7 4 found in the history of opening Madison 26 ‘avenue, when assessments on church property B38 ‘to the amount of $30,000 was voted as a donation te the ee church and consequently an equal amoant voted out of B62 ‘the city treasury, Yet this opening very largely in- 2.89 ‘ greased the value of the property owned by the church, Hh Another concession to churches has been long prac- Righty-seventh ot ** Too Mised, and costs the city a great deal of money every 111th and 112th st 6.00 your, Thatis the custom of placing lamps in front of ber Ss au ‘houses of worship, such lamps being lighted every | j5ua s 6.00 wight, wo) ther the church is open or not, and the Norfolk st. 815 gs paid for by the people. Two lamps, and sometimes Silaenane oy 4 more, may be found before a church, and thereare be- Columbia st 110 ‘tween 400 and 600 churches thus supplied. Perhaps Sullivan at B00 $50,000 & year goes out im that way. A cburch in Eichisont rs ae Twenty-eighth street, near Third avenue, bas eight Pwenty-fourth st. 248 such lamps, four in front and four in the rear. Church, 17th ward. 2.95 Again, there is & special exemption of clergymen eee a re from personal taxation, an exemption that works fer Welsh church 267 the benefit of those who are well off and not forthe Fourth ay. . 6.38 poor minister who bas nothing to exempt. pad ever os oie In the following tables the property runs according Pitueth st... rer) to the numerical order of the wards, beginning with the 6.65 Wirst and ending with the Twenty-fourth, in the re- te eently annexed portion of Westchester county. The ‘Thirtietb st. ‘and first column of figures represents the lote and bun- | 7theys.. 123 Aredtiss of a lot covered by and adjoining the church or | THirveth s ‘oe etber Institution. These lots, however large andof Thirty-fou 223 whatever shape, are reckoned on a scale of 20 by 100 Fortieth st. 247 feet, or 2,000 square feet, say equal to one ordinary Te ane s so building lot. The last column of figures shows the Thirty-seventl £00 ‘valuation as estimated by the assessors, The foot _ Forty-first 5 B75 Aings do not in all cases agree with the items, ‘but the Plog oly Ae ditions are to be laken ag the real value of the tables. | jpiry 250 ESTATE iN FEW YORE CITY SxEMFT FROM Tax- Fifty- 40 e ATION. | Tenthav..... 1.00 The two following tables show the amount and value je Spee st. Ae ef property occupied by the federal and local govern- hments :— OCCUPIED BY THE CITY. Lots 202100... Valuation. lic parks, about.....,....24,000.00 $96,228, 000 ublic schools, about ‘960.00 5,000 ire Department, about. 87.50 1,276,500 W ‘otico Department, about. 57.00 1,683,000 ‘arkets, about. . 120.00 2)691,000 Albany ie iors. . _ 11,628;250 | Li6th and 17h ets. (African) jospitals e 8,267.00 2,980,000 Prince st. (Atrican). . roton Department. 1,131.60 3,302,000 Weet 16th st, (African)... urt houses and prisons... 6,028.00 7,978,300 | Bighty-fourth st (African). jnoceupied property .. - 1,136,000 | Milton #t. (Airican)........ TOS... 0 eeeeeeeereceeeeerees 2158 +++» $136,707, 050 OCUDYIED BY THE UNITED STATES. } PRESBYTERIAN, Lots, Valuation. ‘ow Post Office. $8,000,000 id Post Office. 400,000 Custoin House 1,000,000 ‘Bub-Treasury. 750,000, Assay Oftice. 250,000 ‘Coast Survey, Pine street. 40,000 pall. Penns $10,440,000 EXEMPT CHURCH PROPERTY. The following tables show the amount and value of Church property, n New York exempt from taxation | Mbe property of each denomination so exempt will be ound under its proper caption :— Nativity, av. i. Andrew's, 127th st. Ba ‘Trinity, Sth av, an 39 t. Michael's, 100 ; Ru Mary’s, Manhattanville....... 6.91 hese sie 168th s& and llth i { chet im bh ag sc ata 13s Seventy-third st 275 Sisoetalon, An a6 6.73 Forty-second st, bth and 6th ava 6.77 Ht Cloment’s, 108 Amity st. 8.90 000 | Oak a 10 09 Bu. Peter’s, West 20th st. 10.50 | om Beep] oa piphany, '130 Stanton si 4.00 scpobe't Siete See 224 ti ark's, Stuyvesant st........ 16.55 16,000 | SRG era + S08 ae Arie alesse t 7.06 250,000 West Fortieth 871 est a sageeeve W . Walvary, 4th av. and East 2ist st, 8.48 300,000 405 Bt Goorge’s, Ratherford piace.. 9.10 800,000 Chapel, 19th st. . 845 10, 006 pe 12.50 350,000 ” ae 170,000 Di Facts? chapel. G0:h 6. near ht 11,000 Forty-second st, between ad ‘ sa 00 sqeee: 4 WOM es tarverte iain OM ‘att WU pear Lex: 4 Forty-fifth sL, between 7th snd on ay. t 300 97,000 | _ Stb avs... ey bongey T"' "Fimes’, PHa'si ‘near 'Sd'av. =) 2.50 bo.009 | Pultieth st, between 7th and Bib Es Sepulchre, 74th st, near aL Pre eeroner ee) 2.50 pS epgPaeaN ogni + 6.10 69,000 | Forty-eighth st., between 8th an 260 15.000 |. 9th ave Gri ciiyietti SMP r 6.48 season) Forty-third st., between 9th and 200 Bo'o00 _ 10th avs Hig hyaipicedein, 9 5.80 350,000 , Forty-yxth st, between 9th and 2.62 125'009 | _ 10th avs. . 275 215 73'000 Washington a 10.87 2.00 50.000 | Samuel st... 10.65 600,000 wate Da’ ruy st. 29 100,000 Riverdal icc beoenasd (iiss 150,000 | West 25th st 7,000 Christ church, amd it. Mariner's, Oliver st. 687 Atonement, 28th st, near Madi- 259 fon aY.. + 352 110 TPhurch, Madison av. an . 463 213 Incarnation, Madison av. and 1.60 S6th st % + 5.55 15 Si John Baptist, Lexington av. 24 and B6th By... .00e0 0. . 403 213 between 30ub and Christopher st. 203 Ra + 290 | Chrystie et. 1.26 #4, Dear 6th av. 379 207 Bt. Timothy's, 63d st 137 A Barnet ay. wee 7,50 B79 f Ann's, 23d ward « $0.00 879 rinity, 28d ward eee Bb 449 Main Sireet church, 24th ward... 675 8.95 Bt James’, 24th word, ~ 88.12 8.95 Bt Paul's, 24th ward... + 19.95 206 Biverdate church, 241 ward. +.++ 16.34 aoe sngsbridge church, 24th ward... shins Sag ————__ | Twenty-thira st &70 -++++ 68880 $10,706,000 | Righty-third ot $20 ity. ee FORMED cama gs 12,000 | Forty-sixth a as an $32,000 | phirty-tbird si. an = anlhwores ig | Thirty-Grst st. Mie eee $e Pitty -tbe oe 0, of City Lots. Valuation. | Forty-secon aso $125, Forty-fifth st. 2.60 59, Fifty-Oret st 250 , o13 70,000 | 14ist st.. 6.30 Cortlandt av... 3.56 55,000 | Walker ot.. Bu Anthony" Ay aS 000 Totals tag i NAO s od ced 5 Second, av, and 1251 ky ynlogo | Thirty fourth st and 6th . 8.20 45,000 | ann . 472 65,000 ition 105th + 10.00 30,000 | Highbridge St. Paul's, 107th st. + 1287 65,000 | , German, Manhattanville... 5.00 22/000 | TOUS... ss ssrereeees Holy Ni Tenth 650 20,000 JEWISH ETNAGOGURS Annunciatlon, 131st % $0,000 | Henry st. 215 Bu Elizabesb's, Pal - 1.8 35,000 | Chry 20 [Also a farm attached | Alle 1.10 Bi. Mary's, Grand and Ridge ete. tg 140,000 | Kivingtor 8.75 81, Rose’, Cannon at 61 125,000 | Ludlow 1.10 St. Patrick's, Mott 40.00 - 400,000 | Clinton at. 60 Bt Francis Xavier's 241 15,000 1.26 Bu Vineent de Paul's, West 20d st 6.35 130,000 3.90 St. Columba’s, West 25ub at. . 6M 150,000 az t, Nichoina’, ‘2d #t........ + 4.36 40,000 2.50 + Foy edeemes, Spiawcasscsc 0). ajowp iw seskaa' 2 BEE cs BERE $) .ssz28ec8 2 3 Z S2225 §| 8822582S2SSSES2222822223 s5E8 BSSSSz ESSSS 53 2 g252:282225222222232 sks ssszeuees SRessszens! 22232222222323 £3 sg B sgesyey BBEES } g| 25sg8222582222223 8 222222222 € poop eS eS 2 = e2; BEE SE: 3823222222822 PSS. 35 i fS28s3e ne SESSuesk SE zezenst ‘2 3 223222222322222222222222222228 B st 15, g g 75,000 SESERESE Eecesseseeesesseecssseseesese22 WRBESESSESeeseessze¥s oe lade ¢ $417,000 said that tbe Chureh No. of City Lote, Valuation | , Church He of City Lots, Valuation. Sixty-third gt. and Lexing’n ay. tay 206, 000 I z E Ronse of Mercy. . ... eo aoe Fitth ay. and 43d at. * a7 660,000 | Howe for Incorabies, West Farms 300. 2, + Fe 0D |, TOMALB. cece «6,895.56 $7,791,600 22,000 | CEMBTERIES, 100,000 , Now Bowery, Jews.............. 214 $20,000 ———— | Gurmine and Hudsonsta, Hpise.. 85.67 160, $2,008,000 | Eighty-cighth st, Jews.......... 803 39,000 St Michael's, 104th st, Eptsc.... 8.00 6,000 $150,000 | ‘Trpity Cemetery, public drive. .300. 00 485,000 45,000 Neagle Cemetery. ~ 60,00 7,000 bo.v0g | Bleventh st, Jows. 15,000 70,000, T¥' . 60,000 18'000 | Nineteenth st, Methodist. 15,000 100,009 | First Street Methodist........... 1.29 60,000 2as000 | Marble Cemetery... : 21.25 120,000 ‘10000 Boman Catholic Cemetery, 17ib BEER) c Miavintorreneee sak + 41.51 150,000 } 700000 | Bighty-sixth Street, Jews. » £00 88,000 Righty, : ‘60000 | Morrisania Cemetery... + 2.50 30,000 Piip vents 150 260;009 | Boman Catholic Cemetery, Morrl- Forty-eighth at. 10.00 SARIN er serencs asia ton fexts+ SNES eed twenty -sinth sk 247 40}090 | Duteh Reformed, Morrisania.... 10.80 1 Fulrepeebarthe et en 901000 | Woodlawn Cemetory..........6,167.60 308, Twenty ninth st. ~ ee 365,000 a eye Paco ag $16 60,000 | POLAND.» -.seee sence easeenees e887. 70 + $00 No estimate | MISCRLLANBOUS—PRIVATE AND PUBLIC, 4.87 85,000 | State Arsenal, White st. 03 $90,000 875 6,000 | Masonic Hall 800, 000 7.50 91000 | Acadewy of Design 400, 000 12,000 | Young Men's Christian Assoc bir! ation. 600,000 sechbn bens caAD@O® 401,000 | State Ars 825,000 plea + | Oorporation........ 16,000 Monroe st..... 118 $12,000 pape Christopher #t Par 26,099 | Totala.. Lectpioapes venth 404 bee Prow these Ogures it will be seen that nearly 54,000 250 8,000 " lots of 2,500 square feet are 250 15,000 j ot » square feet are untaxed. 228 125, we BAG 200,000 | TAMMANY’S ORGANIZATION. ‘Twenty-first st. $45 No figures. | twenty-second ee ried | The Committee on Organization of the Tammany | ie Ooo | General Committee held a brief seswion yesterday alter- Porty-third st... + 2% x noon, Part of the time was devoted to the collection Seventh (Westchester) si 6.46 and settlement of assessments tor the late election. Cores ay: The First Assembly District Committee was reported ee ae | organizea, with Justice Dufly as chairman. The other OTHER DENOMINATIONS. officers are ex-Judge Quinn and Thomas Foley, This Swedenborgian,...........++ m1 | report was adopted, By this arrangement Assembiy- Societies of Friends (Quakers)... 19.28 man Nicholas Muller and ex-Assemblyman James CTY ASSIONS, Healy hold the inside track against Senator Fox and New York Mission and Tract So- bis adberents, Inthe Fifth district, Henry Hughes ciety.... oy O86 | retires as chairman, to make room for Charles Quinn. German Methodist mi Mr. Hughes resigned. Howard Mission. A communication from the German Tammanyites Protestant Episcop was received asking for larger representation m the sion iso yeni ae General Committeo. The signers profess to be willing American Seaman’s Friend Sock vo co-operate with Tammany, but they want more en- GEE yao e tas weaves. ae) a couragemont for the “dangerous Teutonic element.” Five Points Mission. « 626 ‘The communication was referred toa sub-committee of Alexander Mission (King 6t.).... 1.69 00 | which Alderman Giion and ex-Assewblyman Daly are Mission school, West 12th stv... 1.50 5,000 | members, | Midnight Mission, Greene st...., 202 40,000 | CSN ne eon, am pend THE NEW ARMORY. | Presbyterian M | St. Peter's, Chureh st.... » 159 $175,000 Sisters of Charity, Barclay st.... 1.25 40,000 New Bowery and James et » 860 60,000 Mott street school. + G92 35,000 1.04 13,000 117 13,000 4.48 45,000 293 28,000 0.96 14,000 | 0.96 14,000 2.50 25,000 | 207 40,000 a 20,000 | 952.50 350,000 200 8,000 | 475 42,000 | St Mary’s school, Pitt st. 2.40 80,000 Sisters of Mercy, Houston st... 11.26 155, 000 Sisters of Charity, West 151 6.70 107,000 2.21 26,000 455 40,000 211 25,000 1.20 20,000 238 40,000 St. Ann’s school, 12th s 8.98 60,000 Schoo! in 15th st. ... 2.09 210,000 Sacred Heart, 17th et see 859 100,000 Schools in West 34th st. + 602 225,000 Christian Brothers, West 32d et. 6.10 65,000 Schools in East 86th et ......... 11.52 95,000 Sisters of Charity, West 43a st... 875 60,000, School in West 50th st........... 25 24,000 St. Mary’s Institute, 23d ward... 7.50 35,000 Mt. St. Vincent's Sisters of Char ity, 2th Ward... esses eeeee NTGI2 250,000 Totale...... ses esececoe+soe- -226L61 $2,476,000 OTHER PRIVATE CHARTTY SCHOOLS. | Trinity Church school, Protestant ig a « 209 $200,000 St Paul's, Pi . 000 | Bpiscopal Sunday school, Protes- i tant Episcop i 12,000 | | Ascension Chure! ‘20,000 20,000 150,000 200,000 $552,000 German, 47th st, Latheran. 16,000 German, 62d su, ‘Lutheran. 27,000 Union TI ical Seminary. 797,000 | Jewish school, av. ©. 133000 Park Industrial schoo! { 000 Batavia at, James st, Peck i Slip, Bowery, sis st, Broad- } way, Crosby’ st, , 50th | et., 9b and 10th ava 120.00 $1,436,000 | Trinity Church Infirmaty....... 262 88,000 St. Vincent's (R. CG) Hospital... 347 112;000 | Stranger's Hospital........ + BAT 30,000 St. Francis’ (R. C.) Hospital. ~ 690 100,000 New York State Hospital +855.00 620,000 Lying-in Ayer. ee +. 290 35,000 Eye and Bar Infirmary,No 2 « 2a ai ae | 95,000, New York Hospital (now going oh sete i tring 10.45 360,000 jos! we Ruptured and Crip- pled, 42d st. and 6th av. + 625 160,000 | State Woman’s Hospital. . 860,000 | Nursery and Child’s Hospital. 155,000 | Mount Sinai [ jeelron Hospit 250,000 | Hahnemann iy eral 12 140,000 Roman Catholic Found)ing Hospi- German Hospital, 4tb 250,000 Presbyterian Hospital, 4th av 600,000 Bu Luke’: 1,000,000 2) $6,155,000 COLLEGES. ! | Manhattan, Roman Cathole...... 12.88, $378,000 New York University..........-. 6.02 200,000 College of Physicians and Surgeons 4.92 ‘800,000 Columbia College... + 40,20 600,000 College of Veterinary Surgeons... 1.18 20,000, ‘St. Xavier’s, Roman Catholic.... 10.30 250,000 | St. Joseph Academy, Roman Cath. ol ans 125, 24 40,000 BL J oli. . } | | ef $1,433,000 | PRIVATE HOSPITALS, Roosevelt Hospital, in Ferry st., Totals. Society Library..... The chairman of the General Committee on New Armory acknowledges the receipt of subscriptions to the Seventh regiment new armory fund of $1,000 from | Brown Brothers & Co. and of $1,000 from Goorge Kemp, Esq. Sabscription committees are being organized among business nen in aid of the Seventh regiment project, The committee of bankers and brokers 1s as follows:— Vermilye & Co, August Belmont & Cv., Hatch & Foote; Work, Stron; Co., M. K. Jessup, Paton & Co., Fanshaw & Mulliken, Fisk & Hatch and Glenden- ning, Davis & Amory, and the Committee for the Metal and Iron Trade, Phelps, Dodge & Co., Hendricks Brothers, Pierson & Co., Lucius Hart & Co. and Pauld- | ing, Kemble & Co. A WAREHOUSE IN FLAMES. A firb broke out early yesterday morning In the flour, | known.” grain and feed warehouse of Marsh, White & Co., Nos. 80 and 40 East street, causing aloss of about $25,000, At half-past three o'clock Officer Smith, of the Thir- teenth precinct, noticed smoke issuing from the win- dows on the second floor. An alarm promptly brought a detachment of engines to the scene, but the flames gained headway so rapidly that reinforcements were called. Two large elevators in the rear of the building were quickly consumed, and the entire building was soon burning. For nearly t hours the dremen worked before they mastered the fire, which was con- fined to one building, bunt the stock in the adjoining ‘one, Occupied as a storage warehouse by Lawrence & Co., was seriously damaged by water, The loss is esti- mated as tollows: é Warehouse and elevators of Marsh, White & Co., $10,000; damage to grain and feed contained in the samo, $10,000; stock in warehouse of Lawrence & Co. damaged about $5,000. The buildings are both owned MA Charlies A. Coe, who is fully insured. The stock of arsh. White & Co. is insured for $47,000 in various compan! ca, LONG ISLAND WOODS ON FIRE. A fire, said to hav large Jarge quantity of timber, and hired & ‘the neighborhood had dropped a were flames and to prevent them communicating with their buildings, a number of which were in imminent dan- ger, There ig as yet no estimate of the loss, but it must be quite heavy. A NEW STEAMSHIP IN PORT. ‘The English steamship Jobn Bramal), Captain New- ‘tmgton, which arrived in this port yesterday after a protracted voyage from the Mediterranean, is about taking ber place in the United States and Brazil Mail Steamship (Star Ball) line’ The John Bramall met a succession of westerly gales the entire passage and had been for seven days west of latitude 36 ~. Jongi- bade 65 She follows the pioneer vessel, Nellie Martin, which recently left here for Para, Pernambuco, Bahia and Rio Janeiro, calling at St, John’s, Porto Rico. The John Bramall is to leave Brooklyn for her new station on the 8th of the coming month. She is of 500 tons, and much resembles in appearan joneer verse! above alluded to, of whi as seeey be followe sister ship, the J. 2,700 tons, which will leave a month later. SUICIDE IN WASHINGTON PARK. other business ana been caused by sparks from a locomotive, has been raging in the woods and fields along the line of the Sag Harbor branch of the Long Island Railroad, in the town of Bridgehampton, since | Friday morning. At last accounts it had burned over a extent of terrtory, causing the destruction of a | of the residents of ed in the atiempt to stay the progress of the ce the ‘a description | appeared im these columna She will | with the latter's journey through Central Africa, from by a B, Walker, of | east to west; the numerous explorations in South and \ | noticed Dwight, LL.D. D, Hitchcock. General J. G. Wilson, Professor Parker and others, Thirty-five gentiomen were elected mem- bers of the society just before the President began’ bis address, | were shown to the number of @ dozen or more, | pecuhar style of architecture employed by that peculiar people was well illustrated and explained by Professor Gardner, who, /t will be remembered, headed an ex- pedition through that country last summer, AMERICAN GROGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, CHIEY JUSTICE DALY'S ANNUAL KEVIEW OF EX- PLORATIONS AND DISCOVERY, The annua! meeting of the American Geographical Society was held last evening at Chickering Hall, cor- ner of Eighteenth street and Fifth avenue, the Presi- dent, Chief Justice Charles P. Daly, delivering @ very jong, lected for his subject the “Explorations, Discoveries and Geographica) Work of the World in 1875.” tunately, the speaker was so Nmitea in time that he war unable to read ai) he bad prepared upon this inter- esting subject branch tice as could circumstances, He utmost attention by the eptire audience, which, in point of intelligence, eultnre and socia) position, has seldom been surpassed ip this city. Conklin presided. but docidediy able, address. He se- Unfor- Bevertholess, he did nearly every discourse quite as much jus have been expected under the was listened to with the of his Colonel F. A. Among the more prominent personages present were the Rey. Alexander Mel. Agnew, Professor R. When Judge Daly bad concluded bis remarke a series | of stereopticon views were shown, al) of which were | bighly interesting as @isclosimg the most prominent features of that | once occopied by the Puebias. of these views was one showing @ cafon on the Colorado River, where the crystal waters of that his- toric stream flow placidly between solid walls of perpen- dicular rock 6,000 feet high. ber of natives of the country were exhibited, and it is safe | to say that none of them were very well calculated to | inspire the beholder with very great reepect for their race, on the shelving ledgee and peaks of which the Pueblas were | lages, the ruins of which are till extant, | peculiar “country in Colorado Among the first Vortraite of a great num- Lovely valleys, enclosed by great walls of rock, wont to build their bouses and = vil- The JUDGE CHARLES P, DALY'S ADDRESS, Indge Charles P. Daly, at the opening of nis address, Jour Je73 completed the first quarter of the latter half of the nineteenth century, a périod dis- tinguished by the activity which has prevailed in every branch of inquiry, but particularly in geographical ex- ploration and discovery. After cursorily enumerating previous efforts in this direction he called attention to the evidence of a newly awakeved interest in geo- gTuphical exploration, which may be eaid to have begun with the founding ‘of the geographical societies in Paris in 182-, mm Berlin m 1828, and the establishment | of the Royal Geographical Society of London in 1830. ‘Then, as illustrating the growth of the spirit of enter- prise in this direction, Judge Daly said When it commenced the map of Africa was, with the exception of the northwestern projection, above the Gulf of Guinea and the Nile region, almos' blank from the Mediterrancan to the country in the vicinity of the Cape of Good Hope. Of the 17,000,000 of square miles in Agia about 12,000,000 were cither entirely un- kngwn or wholly cut of from all intercourse with mankind, The congition of Australia, witb an area of 8,000,000 square miles, 18 best expressed by quoting the language of a geographer, of that day, ‘A corner of this huge mass of land,” be says, ‘ia all that is wenty-five years ago the European popula- tion of Australia was estimated at about 50,000; it is now over 1,600,000, or thirty times as great. Tho second isiand in ig of size, and one of the most fruitful m the world, Papau, or New Guinea, is referred to by the game geographer, Murray, as almost ® terra incognita, having generally, he then sald, “Deen viewed only by navigators from a distance,’ and in respect to the next great isiand, Borneo, he fon the population of the colonies there under the utch at about 9,000. In 1870 the population of the Dutch colonies in Borneo was 180,253, The settled portion of the United States then embraced 800,000 square miles, beyond which was an area of 2,500,000 square miles inhabited by savages, and almost un- known; for wo knew littic of it then beyond what was known in the time of Jefferson, with the exception of Major Long’s journey an& Professor Nicollet’s ex- ploration of the head waters of the Mississippi. This was the state of things at the beginning of the period referred to, been done since, and especially within the last twenty- five years. 1p Asia, the opening of the whole of China and Japan within the pnst.twenty years; the acquisition by the Russians of nearly the whole of Turkestan and the in- | auguration of a policy on their part, which either by | country south of Abyssinia, between these lak ae © the extensive explorations by them in Northern ria, and of the rivers that flow into the Arctic; the many journeys, explorations, geugraphical and O- logical, made through Southern Arabia, Persia, Afghun- istan, Beioochistam and the northern regions of India, and explorations of the like character in Burmah, Siam or wilitary conquest will throw open the whole and Cambodia; the settlement of the French in Cochin- | China, and journeys to a a greater extent in Man survey of Palestine and the cutting of the Suez Canal. In Africa, tbe discovery of the great lakes, as well those which are the reservoirs of the Nile as thoso lying south of the Equator; the exploration of the nd the eastern coast, and the discovery of the great range of mountains in that region, with their snow-capped peaks, the highest elevated land in Africa; the mili- tary occupation of Abyssinia and of Ashantee by the Engtish; the extensive journeys and researches in Northern and Northeastern Africa by Overw Richardson, Rholfs, Schweinfurth, Miami, Nacht}; and othe the various expeditions and individual Journeys along the western coast and the explorations ‘of its immediate interior by Ou Chaiilu, Bur- ton, Baines, Blyden, Gandy, Guasfeldt, &c.; the two journeys across Central Africa from east to west and west to east by Dr. Living- stone, his journey from the Ca, ation of the Zambes) and of the countries by which it ie watered, bis discovery of the great network of rivers and Jakes in Central Alrica, below the Equator, which be was pursuing at the time of bis death, and the fol- owing up of that exploration by Lieutenant Cameron, Southeastern Africa, from the Orange River to the Limpopo, and from that point along the eastern coast apd its juterior, as far as the parallel of Zanzibar, | which, with the exploration of the imperfectly kuown arte of the Island of Madagascar by Grandidier and Bruno Von Faldem, aged about forty years, residing } alline, ig but @ very general statement of what has at No, 63 Seventh street, was found by Officer Burns early yesterday morning lying unconscious on one of Mercer street police station and later wo evue Hos- ital, where bis wor was pronounced fatal It was earned that since the deat ‘ago, he had acted recklessly, gambling and intimating weapon was found. He 1s said to have very respectable relations :n Germany. RECORD OF CRIME. The residence of Mrs. Owen, No. 176 Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn. was burglariously entered yésterday, during the temporary absence of the family, and $92 worth of clothing was stolen. Uriah, alias “Manny” Wright, aged twenty-six years (colored), was arrested on Buffaio avenue, Brooklyn, yesterday, on suspicion of having stolen a horse and ‘wagon, valued at ), belonging to August Meister. fobn Held, charged with seeing, @ watch, valued at $300, from Mortimore wn ned of No. 51 Joralemon street, Brooklyn, while in @ liquor store on Myrtie ave- nue, was held to await the action of the Grand Jury by Judge Walsh, Jobn Broderick, aged thirty years, living in Na’ Street, Brooklyn, was examined before Justice Wals| yesterday for stabbing Mrs. Bllen Smith, an elderly woman, in the face on February 18 The assault was and an) oked. Broderick was held to await the action of the Grand Jury. MISSING MEN. Up to yesterday evening there were no tidings of Joho W. Totten, missing butcher, who haa not becn seen at his home, No. 478 Eighteenth street, South Brooklyn, since Jast Wednesday afternoon. He had, it is believed, a large sum of money in his possession, and foul play ts feared Mr. Totten, who was in good circumstances, was of most abstemious and temperate The police are also looking for a young man, twenty- three years of age, who nas been missing from his home in Hicksville, L. L, since Monday, the 2ist inst, He is very respectably connected and had « considera- ble sum of money in bis yn. He was confined in an asylum tor the insane about a year ago, and it is possible that bis reason may have again been de- throned He is described by his father, whe does not ‘wish that his name should be published, as having fair complerxton, biue eyes, or whiskers, weil formed, five feet nine inches; wore brown overcoat, ntaloons, gray plaid business coat, roand top hat and gaiter shoes, . FOUND DROWNED. The body of an tnknown man was found in the water af the foot ef Gouverneur street, East River, yesterday. Deceased appeared to be about forty-five yeare old,’ five feet ten inches bigh, had sandy hair and goatee, wore biue Gannel shirt and drawers; black pants and jong boots; no coat WEEKLY STATISTICS. ‘The police made 1,478 arrests during last week. Daring the last week there were reported im the city 000 8.58 250,000 + 12.56 500,000 | 4 25 45,000 Cooper Institute. . + 11.28 800,000 Mott Memorial... vecaisce LS 40,000 Totals..... Cote ee $2,085, 000 ASYLUMA AND REPORMATORIES. rufan), Children’s Aid Societ) am $150,000 120,000 65,000 14,000 260,000 | 225;000 50,000 160,000 75,000- 35,000 60,000 108,000 200,000 ' 176,000 | tea 160,000 at 150,000 tes 180,000 Kemmcoes omen ccs eRe man ylum. « Lenox Home for Women... 62 160,000 40.20 350,000 660,000 Sheltering Arms... 111,500 | black Colorea 150,000 Home for ¥ 80," Juvenile Delinquents’ Asylum... 446. 16.000 Deaf and Dumb Asylum... 5,350.48 800,000 Female Guardian 1% 10,000 Children's Aid Society. 140 16,000 Roman Catholic Orphan Asylam, Prince st......++ 7.60 130,000 St. Bernard’s Home, 246 40,000 &9L 100,000 888 100, 000 1,60 20,000 10,30 90,000 5.18 75.000 107 25,000 743 140,000 655 70,000 815 80,000 a3. oo \ Fao, | the seats in Washington Park, with &® pistol shot | from Start’s early irney to the last ones of Warbur- wound in his right temple, He was coriveyed to the | ton and Forste: | | | Plorations of the Arctic to within sight of the eighty. | through whore united labors so inu | Of this vast region has become known—its great moun- tain ranges, extraordi: deeply javereuting civilized people o' Yardy srt ea nt | settled, and, fin and silver—a regivn so vast meridian that it will be twent; Fiveral in providing it has bithert® been, To these geographical labors. explorations within this ib various parte globe must also be pp eget, reeenrebas of 2 ta other aerial disturbances; the in elucidation of the difficult su been done in Africa. I may ext refer to the numeroas explorations @round and across the great continent of Australia sarveys of large portions of thi Coast of Papua or New Guinea and explorations in t! jnterior by Beccaria D’Albertis, Meyer, Van Rosen- berg and Macleay; the explorations in Formosa by Steere, DeGendre and others, and the settlement of colonies and the establishment of governments by the English in New Zealand and the Fiji Islands; the e: third degree ere of north Jatitude, inelading the discovery of the long sought northwestern passage and of 1t8 inutility; the exploration of the Antarctic circle as far as the seventy-third degree of south latitade and the remarkable discovery that the ice-bound region: boch of the Arctic and Antarctic, were, ata former Neriod of the work hisvory, covered with a luxuriant vege- tation, and that ™ great abuudahce, which tropics, or in the more southern part of the temperate zone. And, finally, to our own explorations of the great Western jon between the Mississippi and the Pacific © by Frem: Emory, Simpson, Marcy, Stansbury, Sit- | arcy, eaves, (| vse Beckwith, Whi Williamson, ‘arke, Warren, Ives, Reynolds, Macomb, Mullen, ‘Wheeler and other gallant, efficient and distinguished military officers conducting reconnoissance or expe- ditions across its plains, companied in these @: by sci vo whose labors we are indebted for our knowledge of ite geology, agricultural resources and natural acne Amoug Strictly scientific works by civilians I shou! also enumet | lowed by King and Gardner's belt of te Whitney’s sarvey of California, vad an baa. 2 across the Nor Hay and = = Ga: dener’ sure: Mountains, and Powell ‘8 of the great eanyons of the Colorado, of the geography pographical 'y canyons, wonderful geyse: rains of @ prehistoric and fomnt? whom we know but little, its lakes, of tint rn bas yielded in gold the one Mundredth years before we obtain unless the government is more ite exploration and survey than and of the , the millions it beyond maps of the ae 5 Bumerous measurements of Dr. William Aaams, Theodore M. | Iwill now enumerate what has. forthern Asia to the free intercourse of the world; | ial extent in Corea and to | juria; the Euphrates expedi- | tion; the continuation ot the great survey of India; the | upwara, his explor- | Laoyc and animals then existed there | found now oniy ia the | ng, ac- | civilians | American | 1 what had been done in the United States—vin, the Wheeler expedition, the Biack Hills, Hayden’s sarvey and Professor J. W. Powell’s exploration of thé lorado; the other expeditions in reference te the prehistoric inbabitants of America’ Next was re viewed the Arctic expeditions, the voyage of the Pans dora; likewise meteorological and earthquake distur+ bances and the voyage of the Challenger, The draiming of the Zuider Zee was also described, as were also the Asiatic expeditions, Then followed the treatment of the Cameron expedition, which was succinct and mas- terly, and that of the Marquis De Compeigne to Ogowa River in Central Africa; Mr. Donald McKenzie’s jects in North Africa, Rev. Charles New’s in Africa and Playfair and Nachtical and North Africa, The address concluded with brief allusions to Mr, Jobn Forrest's Australasian jour- ney and the recent explorations in New Guinea, | The address was exceedingly abie, and was heard with the most profound attention from beginning to | end by the large audience assembled, | PACIFIC MAIL V IRWIN. THE CHARGE OF EMBEZZLING SEVEN BUNDEED | AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS FORMULATED AGAINST THE EX-AGENT OF THE PACIFIO MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY. The investigation of the case of Richard B. Irwin, ex-agent of the Pacific amship Company, who is charged with embe 000 of that company’s fands, commenced y morning before Judge Bixby, in the office of Messrs, Vanderpool, Greem & Cummins, counsel for ution, at room No, 1k | Tribune Building. Mr. F. W. C. Bellows, formerly Vice President of the Pacitic Mail Steamship Company, was sworn, and testi« fied in substance to the following effect: — In reply to Mr. Vanderpool Mr. Bellows said that t= 1870 he saw Irwin in the company's New York office; Mr. A. B, Stockwell was then President of the corpora- tion, The deponent identified a letter written under date of December 2, 1871, by bim to the defendaat, im which the latter was requested to come here from ae Francisco, mm order to ail tle company in procuring § subsidy trom the United States government for we Chinese portion of the line. Irwim came on te Neq © pros | | York in December of the same year and the deponent | saw him in the company’s office. Six m check# were now handed in, dated May 24, 1872, I should say that was his signature; seen the checks before; (bey were drawn. by me as vict president of the company and president pro tem.; they all paid; they were drawn by order of Mr. Stockwell, the President; the amounts af the checks respect ively are $050,000, $50,000, $25,000, $10,000, $10,000 and from the company, but the aeponert could not frow memory give the amounts. Mr. Vanderpool gave notice that he would require te | ¥ ‘n, {n the sums respectively of $25,000, $45,000, 000 and $40,000. . Roterring to the six checks already In evidence, the personally to Mr, Irwin or if he gave them to Mr, | Stockwell for Mr. Irwin. The deponent was asked ifbe knew anything ofa check for $110,000 and oue for Judge Fullerton did not want these checks spoken od in that way, and Mr. Vanderpool made a note of the objection, so that he might subsequently produce the he knew or was informed, MR. IRWIN NEVER GAVE ANT ACCOUNT to thecompany asto how he employed the money ponent saw Mr, Abert at New York in the month of May. The books of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company were now brought in, and thereupon Mr, Vanderpool mentioned, tothe deponent, Mr. Bellows turned to the check ik and found there upon the National Bank of Comm The entries relative to the six ecks are in the handwriting of Mr. Jobnson, Treasurer pro tem. First saw the when these were brought to de- read, wherein his inability to attend these proceedings on account of sickness was ulleged a8 a reason for bis absence, . and compared them with the book from which it was contended they bad been taken. Ex-Judgo Fullerton | believed that the checks could not have been cut from boay of the checks did not correspond, The prosecution wanted to call Mr, T. T. Johnson as their next witness, but he being absent Mr, Vander- them one by Irwin to Stockwell, dated on the 23d o April, This letter was in substance a renuncigtion by Irwin of bis position as the company’s agent on the vable to the erder of Mr. Irwin, Tho deponent were drawn upon the Bank of Commerce aud weté $5,000; Mr. Irwin received other checks than the abové produced four other checks that had been paid t¢ deponent was not perfectly sure if be banded them | $50,000, the latter known as the Abert check, remaining checks. The depouent stated that, so far as proceeds of the above named various checks. The de- handed alist of the checks, including the iat four 1872, and amounting in the aggregate to $750,000. ponent to sign. A letter trom Mr. T. T. Jonson was Counsel for the defendant examined the six checks the book, as the margin of the check book and the pool submitted some letiers written in 1872, amon; Pacific coast To this letter of resignation Mr. Svock- well wrote @ reply on the same day (both be- ing dated jn New” =York), asking Irwin j to retain his position as agent — antil the following August, ss he (Stockwell) intended at that time to visit San Francisco, In another letter of | September 23 Irwin consented to this, and therefore re- mained im the company’s San Francisco office for thi be- | time being. On the 14th of November, 1872, Mr. Stock- well wrote to Irwin, who was still in San’ Francisco, and definitely ACCEPTED HIS RESIGNATION as agent there, and on the 2ist day of January, 1873, a change in the Californian agency was effected by the | ingression to office of Mr. 8. K. Holman as acting agent. Further proceedings were now (noon) adjourned un- til next Saturday, the 4th of March, at 10 o'clock A M., | in the same place, | THE POLHAMUS ROBBERY. | THE OLD LADY'S VERACITY QUESTIONED AND j THE PRISONER DISCHARGED, ~ The robbery of $10,000 from Mrs. Ann Polbamus baving occurred in the Twelfth precinct Detective Clark and Roundsman Byrnes were sj delegated by Inspector Thorne to “work up” the case, but the | success they have met with is not very satisfactory | even to themselves. On the arrest of William Geer, alias Howard, &c., their suspicion was strengthened by the reception of a package by Mrs, Polhamus, con- taining some of the jewelry said to have been stolen, from an unknown source, It was enclosed in a paper, on which was written, “Mrs. Fox, Revere House, New York,” and was stamped ‘‘Adams Express Company, | Philadelphia, Pa.” ‘The package contained the keys of the burean from which the money was said to have been stolen. How- ard’s connection with (he package was so strong that | Judge Wandell thought it incumbent upon him to hold him from day to day for examination, to give the police every opportanity to obtain evidence wuigient to hold him for trial Mrs. Polhamus took great pains to im- press the fact upon the minds of Judge Wandej) and the police that the $10,000 stolen was all the money she had in the world, and uniess she got it back or a | portion of it she would bave to enter the Workhouse, She was willing to pay $100 reward for the reco’ of the money. Judge Wandell could not sce why Mrs Poloamus should leave the money in the burcau on the identical day of the robbery when, as she herself stated, she was in the habit | of carrying it about =ber person —or j keeping it sewed up in the ticking of her bed for years, and it was strange she should have put it inte the buredu on this day, and stranger still tl should have learned of that fact. Th Judgo Wandeli thought enti betruthful He bad a vague spicion that Mrs. Pol- ee as lying and using the Court for purposes of er own, | Yesterday morning the accused was arraigned for the ed third time, and lis counsel, George Schwab, determ:! then to obtain his di barge or procure a writ of habeas corpus. Judge Wardell also determined to satisfy pim- self as to Mrs, Polbamus’ veracity and ordered her to be searched, She protested aud asserted im the most | Solemn manner that she had been robbed of all the | money she had in the world, but finally consented to | allow two women to search her. In twenty minutes , after the men announced the discovery of nine | bank books *epereceeas the sam of $12,570 in va- rious banks. Judge Wandell then said that Mra Pol- hamas, having lied to him most egregiously from be- inning to end of this case, he was compelled to disbe- | leve ber statement of the robbery in every particular ; and to discharge the accused ior want of evidence. | Mra. Pothamus tried to —s that when she eas had no more money than the $10,000 she meant liter. yo what she had said. The watch and chain (both | fc id) were left with her for safe keeping, she said, bye jady friend now travelling in Europe. It is beliew that sneak thieves did really enter Mrs. Polhamus’ rooms, ander the impression that she kept a large amount of money there, and took what they found. The tdea then struck her, it is paren of circulating page no that she ng been robbed of $10,000, so as jeceive her many heirs, who, spe ines, are anxious for deaths Wes Re ead RUBENSTEIN. | THE POLICE WARNED OF AN ATTEMPT AT RES~ CUR—THE PRISONER'S VORACIOUS APPETITE. | Yesterday forenoon Superintendent Campbell, of the | Brooklyn Police, received the following communica tion, which appears written in a disguised hand: — RUNTENDENT CAMPBELL — Dean Sik—Allow mo to Congratulate you with the tidt on) ae of opt a sea Mo cooteanes muderet Sa ay tafaser thes tine sad gng the Repesrs, ccd Rar re and Rese Py trn respectfully. 'k CLTGRN WHO RROW SS Though the Superintendent did not attach much jm- rtance to warning, «| which he look voor Joke, be thowed' vo ite kee r. Suneon, who remark: they were ead: pi Beaty per Sa a ste but which received. ‘At a lave hou: on Priday night a by violent ins in and % relieve him @ glass of ‘be ished the re and was restored to health. He was up at six o'clock in the morning and eat ravenously of fish, fried eggs and bread, The keepers that be “feeds like . we mag hd attribute bis sick: to