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THE ICONOGRAPHY OF MANHATTAN ISLAND
 

Peter Cooper and 39 other prominent citizens and firma of
New York, in an address (written on vellum) to Prea. Andrew John¬
aon, ask liira to accept a coach and horsea as a token ot their high
appreciation of his fiddity to the country. The president repUed on
May 22, thanking the citizens ot New York, but dedining the gift,
in view of his belief that such presents should not be accepted by
those occupying high political positions,—Trora the origind docu¬
raent, aold with a coUection ot Johnson letters, docuraents, and
books, at The Anderson GaUeries, Nov. 26, 1919.

"Some ot our most prominent and InBuential citizena have
formed an organization for the purpoae of sustaining the adminis¬
tration of President Johnson."—N. Y. Times, My 19, 1865. See
also ibid; Jl 7, 1865.

"We are sorry that Governor Fenton has refused his signature
to the bill authorizing an underground railroad in this city [see Ap
7]. We have always regarded such a road as the only measure
which would afford substantid rdief to our over-crowded streets
and facilitate transit from one part of the city to another. It is
t room on tbe surface ot the rity to
s business requires. Being situated
surface is restricted and its streets
n shows that, even with i
iraot be placed in its stre
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perfectiy certain that there
accoraraodate the traffic which
on a long and narrow Island, it
are narrow. A cardul cdculati
population, enough railroads c
commodate all who wish to

traffic. This evil of necessity increases from year to year, and wiU
absolutdy corapd, sooner or later, resort to such a road as that
which the Governor has just refused to permit. We think his action
will be regretted by aU dasses of people in tbis rity, eicept those
who are intereated in existing and prospective street railroads."—
JV. r. Times, My 22, 1865. See also WaUter, Fifty Years of Rapid
Transit, 2S-39- See Ja II, 1866.
(         The Stuyvesant pear-tree in Third Ave. is in fuU blossom

for  the 220th season.—Lei/ie'j  Weekly,  XX:   147.    See F 27,
1867.
I         Pres. Johnson grants an amnesty to states recently In rebellion.

—Rhodes,-H/!(. o/t/. S.,V:  525-26.

"The French residents ot this city, professing the Jewish faith,
about eight years ago, organi2ed under the name of the 'Cora-
menanti [Comraunante] Israelite Francaise,' and met for worship
at a synagogue in Ninth-street. Tbe numbers being gready in¬
creased latdy, they decided upon erecting a more coraroodious edi¬
fice in Sixth-street, near Second-avenue. The building is just only
corapleted. . . . On Friday morning [May 26] the synagogue was
consecrated with the usual imposing ceremonies."—JV. Y. Times,
May 29, 1865.

The Fifth Avenue Baptist Church (seeF 13, 1841) is corapleted
-   on the south side of 46th St., just weat of Fifth Ave., on lots pur¬
chased in Oct., 1859.  Services were commenced bere In i860 in a
teraporary lecture-roora.—211/ Ann. Rep; Am. Seen. Si Hiat. Pres.
Soc. {1916), 145.

The atate cenaus ahows that the population ot New York City Is
726,386, which is 87,283 less than in i860.—Am. Ann. Cyclop.
(lit;), 615.
'         Gen. Grant arrives in New York and is wdcoraed enthusiasticaUy

by the ritizens. After a day of receptions, parades, dinners, speeches,
and serenades, be lett for Weat Point.-JV. Y. Times, Je 8, 1865.

A large meeting in support of Johnson's admlniatration ia held
at Cooper Inatitute. Gens. Grant, Logan, Blair, and Hunt are
among tbe speakers.—JV. Y. Times, Je 8, 1865.

The first Hebrew itee school, at No. 36 Avenue C, near 4th St.,
is opened and dedicated.—JV. Y. Times, Je 17, 1865.

The board ot aldermen grants to tbe City Gas Corapany of New
York, for a terra ot 50 years, the right to manufacture and aeU
gas, and lay the necessary pipes aod mains in the streets and
avenuea.-JV. Y. Times, Je 20, 1865.

The New York Dry Goods Eichange at Nos. 49 and 51 Park
Place ia opened for business.-JV. Y. Times, Je 30, 1865.

In some parts of New York the 17-year locusts are devouring
everything that is green.-—Leslie's Weekly, XX:  243

Barnum's Museum, at the south-east corner of Broadway and
Ann St., is destroyed by fire.—JV. Y, Times, Jl 14, 1S65; CoateUo,
267; L. M. R. K., IU: 9S2. See alao views and deacriptiona In
Harper's Weekly, IX; 467, 472, 473; descrip. ot Pl. 8ra, IU: 550;
and Pyne sales catalogue, items 121 and 122.

After the fire, tbe property was sold to James Gordon Bennett,
who erected the Herdd building on the site (see 1866).-JV. Y
 

Times, Ja 6, 1895.    Barnum opened a temporary

Broadway (see S 6, 1865).                                                                  13

The old Warren mansion, near the intersection ot Charlea and Aug.
Bleecker Sts., which was built hy Sir Peter Warren about 1740 —
(q-v.) and later occupied by Abraham Van Nest, ia torn down.
Its lawns extended to the North River.-Stone, JiiiJ. ofN. Y. City,
590; JV. r. Eve Past, Ag 31, 1881. See also L. M. R. K., UI: 953;
descrip. of A Pl. 5-b, IU: 866, and Man. Com. Caun. (1854), 528.
A riew of the house as it was in 1864 is in Greatorei, OldN. r.,
opp. p. 68.

The 7rst Regiment at this time occupied or uaed ao armory —
at the corner ot 13th St. and University PI., alao the old Centre
Market Armory. "In the summer of 1S69, they removed to a build¬
ing on 32d Street, which afforded better facilities than the old
Arroory, but even this was inadequate to thdr wants. In the tall
of 1870 the 37th Reglraent, which occupied the Armory on Broad¬
way between 35th and 36th Street, was disbanded, and soon after
tbia the 7i3t Reglraent obtained poaaeaaion of the building and re¬
moved thence [thither]."—Whlttemore, Hist, ofthe qist Regt., 80,
89. The site ot this building was that later occupied by theHerald.
For a short time the regiment occupied a building on the aite of
theNew YorkTheatre, on theeastside of Broadway between 44th
and 45th Sts., and tor a tew years was in the skating-rink at I07tb
St. and Lexington Ave.—Letter to the author from W. G. Bates,
colond of the regiment. In 1892 (q.v.) the reglraent erected its first
building at the south-east corner of 34th St. and Parii Ave. See also
L.M.R.K.,UI: 923.

ComptroUer Mattiiew F. Brennan reports to the state aaaeasor   26
the assessed vduatlon ot property in the county ot New York, aa
fixed by the board ot equalization, aa followa:
 

Years
 

ang
 

1863
1864
1S65
 

Assessedvdualion by ike I
ofequdizationoflaxesa
 

$550,078,778
571.078,798
549,624,306
547,416,031
576,000,161

' ■^'595i°4o_
 

Be also shows that for a number of years this county has paid
nearly 40% ot the entire quota ot the sale tax.—Frora letter-book
of comptroUer's office. No. 153, p. 19.

The temporary museura which Mr. Barnum has fitted up at
Nos. 539 and 541 Broadway is opened to the public.—N. Y. Times,
S 6, 1865. The building is known as "Chinese HaU," and the
new rauseum consists of five large sdons and a lecture room.—
Leslie's Weekly, XXI: 7. See also sketches ot the museum in ibid;
XXI:  20.  It was destroyed by fire on March 3, 1868 (q. v.).

The synagogue erected by the Congregation Bnai Jeshurun in
34th St. is consecrated.—A'. Y. Times, S 15, 1865,

An embassy from the Bey of Tunis arrivea in New York on its   '
way to Washington.—JV. Y. Times, O 5, 1865.

New York City has a fund of about $60,000, to be appropriated
to the support of tarailies of raurdered policeraen.—Leslie's Weekly,
XXI.  35.

"At this moment in the city ot New York, there are raany
thousands ot stalwart and educated men wandering the streets,
utterly unable to procure employment, even though thdr ideas of
remuneration be ever so modest. This arises mainly from the vast
influi of labor suddenly let loose upon the community by tbe mus¬
tering out ot our armies, and by the hard but truthful tact that there
is a prejudice in the minds ot employers against returned soldiera."
—Leslie's Weekly, XXI:  39.

The corner-stone of the Church ot the Dirine Paternity is laid
at Fifth Ave. and 45tii St.—JV. Y. Times, O 12, 1865. See L. M.
R. K., UI;  937.   It was dedicated on Dec. 3, 1866 (q. v.).

The spire oi St. Paul's Cburch, which was scorched at the burn¬
ing of Barnum's Museum (see Jl 13), has been repainted.—LeaUe'a
Weekly, XXI:  71, 76.

"A discovery ot a deposit of dura has been made on First
avenue, between 47th and 48th streets, in this city. It was found
10 feet bdow the surface of the earth, in layers between the rocks."
—Leslie's Weekly, XXI:   82.

"It is stated that Mr. Hiram Cranston, proprietor of the New
York Hotd, has purchased the ground bounded by Fifth Avenue,