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 406 NEW YOKE (CITY) been made to the trustees, of which the most important is that of Felix Astoin, comprising about 5,000 French works. The latest statis- Lenox Library. tics of churches are contained in the table be- ! low, besides which there are 25 or 30 in the new wards : DENOMINATIONS. Number of organization!. Number of missions. Number of edifices. Number of sittings. Value of edifices. Baptist* Congregational 83 4 13 4 80 s 28,000 2500 $1,705,000 450000 Disciples 1 o 1 600 26000 Evangelical 1

1 750 37.000 Friends German Evangelical Re- | formed.. j 3 1 3

3 1 2,000 700 375,000 82,500 Jewish 27 o 17 13650 1 545000 Lutheran 14 7 19 15000 425'000 Methodist Episcopal Methodist Episcopal, 1 African. j 40 5 18

44 4 40,000 3,000 2,161,500 120,000 Methodist Protestant. . . Methodist, Welsh Cal- ( vinistic... | 1 1

1 1 750 750 35,000 28,000 Methodist, Free Moravian 1 1

1 1 <> 800 1500 47,000 84000 Presbyterian Presbyterian, Reformed Presbyterian, United. . Protestant Episcopal. . Reformed 43 4 7 66 18 27 3 1 26 8 53 8 6 80 21 55,000 2,500 4,500 60,000 20000 4,550,000 105,000 275,000 7,500,000 2 320 000 Roman Catholic 40 1

o 40 1 56,000 750 5,400,000 100 000 Unitarian 8 ff 2 3500 400000 Universalist. . 3 4 3 3500 435000 Union 9 5 13 7800 625 000 Miscellaneous 5 18 1 700 so'ooo Total W 1S8 S41 224,250 $28 811,000 The miscellaneous churches and missions in- clude one Catholic Apostolic (Irvingite), one Christian Israelite, one Congregational Meth- odist, one German Swedenborgian, one Greek, one Seventh-day Baptist, and one True Ee- formed Dutch. There are also four societies of Second Adventists and four of Spiritualists. There are 356 Protestant (evangelical) Sab- bath schools, with 88,237 scholars enrolled, and an average atten- dance of 56,167, and 62 Catholic, Jewish, &c., Sabbath schools, with 27,589 scholars enrolled, and an av- erage attendance of 18,274. The press of New York in num- bers and influence takes the lead in the United States. The number of newspa- pers and periodicals, according to Rowell's " American Newspa- per Directory " for 1874, was 398, besides 10 semi- weekly and 20 weekly editions of daily papers, viz. daily, 28 (including 6 German, 2 French, and 1 Swedish), of which 18 were morning and 10 evening papers ; semi- weekly, 7 (1 Italian and 1 Spanish) ; week- ly, 156 (13 German, 2 Spanish, 1 French, and 1 Swedish) ; tri-monthly, 1 (Spanish) ; bi- weekly, 2 (1 German); semi-monthly, 20 (2 German and 2 Spanish) ; monthly, 168 (3 Ger- man, 1 Portuguese, and 1 Spanish) ; bi-month- ly, 1 ; quarterly, 15 (1 German). The whole number printed in foreign languages was 40, viz. : German, 26 ; Spanish, 7 ; French, 3 ; Swe- dish, 2 ; and Italian and Portuguese, 1 each. There are 7 special Sunday papers and 7 Sun- day editions of daily papers. Henry Hudson discovered Manhattan island in September, 1609, anchoring in New York harbor on the llth, and sailing up the Hudson on the 12th. The Dutch, in whose service Hudson sailed, despatched vessels in the following years to this region to trade with the Indians for furs, but the first settlement on the isl- and appears to have been made in 1623. In 1624 Cornells Jacobsen May was formally in- stalled as the first director or governor, and was succeeded the next year by William Ver- hulst. In 1626 Peter Minuit arrived as direc- tor general, with more ample powers for the organization of a regular government. The same year Fort Amsterdam on the S. point of the island, now the Battery, was commenced. Minuit purchased Manhattan island of the In- dians for goods worth $24. W outer van Twil- ler became governor in 1633, and William Kieft in 1638. In 1644 a fence was built nearly on the line of the present Wall street, and in 1653 the city was enclosed along this line from the East to the North river by a ditch and pali- sades with breastworks. Peter Stuyvesant, the last of the Dutch governors, arrived in 1647, and ruled for 17 years. Charles II., having
 * Including one Freewill Baptist