New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-04
NETWORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
letter from President FilimOre-Donations-
Lake Championships. BrOdhead on the

Letter from IfeEiuent NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Lake Championships. Brodhead on the
Character and DInnners of the Dutch.
The regular Monthly Meeting of the HISTORICAL
Society was held at its Rooms in the University
last evening-Rev. Dr. DE WITT, First Vice
President, in the Chair The minutes Of the last
two meetings were read by the Recording Sec
rotary, NJ. b. Field, Esq, and approved. Hon
LUTHER BRADIsH, President, then assumed the
Chair.
Hon j. W. BEEKMAN Domestic Corresponding
Secretary, announced the reception OF number
Of letters one Of which, from President ILLMoRE,
was read. 1t is as follows
WARRINGTON, Nov. o, 1850.
SIR; have the honor to acknowledge the receipt OF
your favor Of the It'll informing ofmy election
an Honorary Member OF The New-Yerk Historical Society
Permit me through you TO tender 10 me society my warm
upon me- and beg you to assure the members OF my best
wishes the lhe Society IN enterprise
IN which il is engaged. have the honor TO remain
Yours truly, MILLARp FILLMORE
James w Beoknau, Esq
Corresponding Sec'y, &c New-Y ork.
Mr. GEO. II. MOORE, Librarian, announced the
donations of the month, amounting to considera-
by over hundred volumes. The donations COM
prise-from Washington Irving, complete set
OF the new edition OF his works issued by Put
nam; others from D. Appleton x Co. Nathan APP
peton Of Boston; Hon. Il. Z. Winthrop the Sec
rotary of State of Y erm0nt; Rev. DR.. GrlsWold !;
and from Mr.. D. B. Van Houten copy OF the
original edition Of the History OF the New York
Nero Plot in 174l-2. This work is now eX-
ceediDgly rare, and the copy presented to the So.
ciety, although not quite complete, IS donation
oil great value.
LAKE CHAMPLAIN.
Mr. MOORE remarked that during the month he
had received letter from Charles +. Thayer
asking for information with respect to the Indian
Name Of Lake Champlain, in order to give new
appellation to what is now called "house
Point" "a place rendered famous IN the North
Eastern Boundary negotiations. Mr. Moore sad
he had never met with any name Tor Lake IMAM
plain The RcheIieu or Sorel River IS called by
Champlain the River OF the lroquols, and the
earlier maps show that the L axe was then known
labout 1909 to Europeans the 81 axe OF the lro-
auois" After the death OF Arendt Van CorLear
it was called by the Dutch and English Corlear
Lake from the circumstance Of his having been
drowned there A sketch of his HE viii be
found in O Callagbans History, vol |. P 322-
He is called by the author 4" one OF those cha.
racters who deserve to live in history" And
% it was in honor of his memory that the In
dams addressed all succeeding Governors OF
Ne1-York by the name OF "Corlear- pom
Popple's Map of the British Empire in America
1739 the axe is called g Chan4plain, .Chamble,
Sorel or Iroquois. Champlain discovered and
gave bis name to the Lake in 1909 The name
Chamble is from that Of another French officer as
well as SOTslf COIN Vi nllOLu " CtS a.
the Regiment Carignan Salcres, which had dis
tinguished itselfin Hungary, in the war against
the Turks. and which won new laurels IN the con-
tests with the Iroquois il America
Mr. Moore also announced the circular OF Mr.
John Bernhisel. agent OF the Norman population
Of the Territory Of Utah, respecting the enter
prise Of collecting library for their use.
After the transaction OF some incidental bust
ness the special order of the evening was taken
up. v,.r,
A long and able paper upon The Dutch in the
Netherlands, and the Dutch in New-Netherland,"
was read by JOIN R. BRoDHEAD, Esq The pro-
dnction is Understood 70 be portion Of a forth
coming work by the same anthor. commenced
with historical statement of the early struggles
Of the Dutch under the tyrannical usurpetions OF
Philip II. ofSpain, and the Crusade proclaimed by
Pope Gregory X1II-down 70 the formation OF the
Dutch Republic The Dutch said BIZ, Brodheed,
were seIfreliable meui tho hope Tor independence