New-York daily tribune., 1858-03-20

tie 90 ~ v ~ alns About' A. he,eti say tss
wtn oerk would money D. bksy to Dc pad Out byg
| @ Wh.rr !. " smith A he is no' here believe he Il
oUsios, be Ia. no, the fies since l.t May
| Ie vss di-eured believe.
Wss there any eh,rEe against him ~h'n ne vi" discharged
rs .,,tth.. YOU wers mt IL Ia. Office rsep
- c eel wss sltsd A NJ BIT On tat dAy ''sl req A.
q lew th- voucher fr The r.ymsnt q A
O :, v 90 " Tor iin; one sal I' ts' nst
si.es 4, ~ Ir-G great taEorte IL tic CoEi.o e.
O. Ia, ri ,met,, al the voucher, shoui D.
IL i. ib,r this one ' hot 70 be hui! A
,te.,74r ps,resd ard on motion of Aid. Tt KrH
ref fired Il, the Comm tice on JOINT Accounts.
The STATE Y a1rchs H0sp'fdL-Ald MCSFED, Is
called M the report % grant certain grounds 10 th
Woman Hoe'ots and acherc to former action, not
withstandinz the" 'ei of hi' Honor the Mayor After
dscUs TIE paper was Teadoptec by all present
CrS.rIrr R.. odu o5.-Ah LYoss called up the
r.l,r 90 grown IL, Rus pavement of Broadway.
Tie rLperY v,re cal. One report was 10 favor of
tfc piGp 4 J. X. Ca;k tt. other in favor OF having
b'G,h l,OC,rd il eHcl way, one by each plan sub
tied 1t iiet 10 = Urt time would be sscertsiued
wt;,h we tie te-t. After a long debate aud some
amendments Ia the latter the subject postponed
TO Tue sdsy. TIE Board adjourned 10 Tuesday.
GEOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL SOCIETY.
A.aneetng Of the Council Thursday evening
M ApCHIpaIp RUSSELL in the chair an interesting
letter was read from the French Geographer, NJ. De
ID RoGuette Vice President OF the SOci6t6 de GS1gra-
pi,e acknowledging the second volume Of the Bule-
lin: suo stating tnat he was translsting for publication
il France two of the articles which had particularly
Interested hinthe learned essay of Prof Bache the
Gulf Stream, ard the paper by Lieut.. Bent, L. ). ~.
OIL the japanese Gulf Stream.
nj. DE IA ROQUEITT lnOunced 70 the Society the
recent death of their foreign associate Prof KILL
HAN, the distinguished Norwegian geologiH-a BIO
graph csimeu'oito. whom be was editing for the Geoog
icsl society OF FrdLce Of which Prof. keihan a
member. This nemoi aud series of the "Nouvelles
"Anrses 6es Voyage de Ia Geographic de Historic
" et de lArcheclOgie, with other recent works
Of ya.uc, would be fOrwa -ced TO New1ork through
the medium If the Smithsonian Institution, 10 whose
hberslty in transmitting s-ch publications without
e,per sc the " tier paid glowing tribute.
TIE CouI eli adopted resolution of thanks 10 NJ. de-
la Roquet!e for his donation, expressing. also taeir
spIr alton Of the desire thus ganested for cordial
cooperation between the Scientific Associations Of
France AID America and they recommended to the
Society, for honorary membership, M. JoMARD, the
venersoe and eminent French geographer, to ill the
vacancy occasoned by the death of Prot. Keilhan.
resolution Of thanks was also adopted to the
SmithsoDlaL Institution for the fa. es kindly fur
ed by that bo1y for the purpose of foreign exchanges
aLd the Curator Of the Society, Mr.. StraZin-ki,
0eputed 20 visit Washington, with the view of pro-
curing from the several Departments, and through
tie nteiy eton OF members of Congress- copies of the
Pacific Railroad surveys and other Governmental pup
catiOus beaing on the geography and stattcs Of the
county, to be included the parcels that will be dis
patched to the European Societies in the month of
May, in return for the very valuable donations recev
ed by the Society from Foreign Governments and AS
sOcistions.
A report was made by the Committee on Syrian
Explorations, announcing the completion of thelr
emeDs for course Of lectures AT Niblos Saloon,
be illustrated by maps and paintings and dissolvng
views or large scale. The Introductory lecture to
be by the President Of the Society, DR.. Hawks.
A COMMITTEE was appointed 10 consider the more
perfect organization of rhe sections which, onittng
the subdivisions of each subject, are a. follows:
Gt"ogs'' Snarmai Lieut. r. L. ee'
T0Togr0Tht Chsrnan.. V Poor.
H9dr0iogy.. Chairman Rev. Dr. H.wks
ZooloSy and b0tdny y....... Chairman IL A. ConcSling
Mcieooogy' m frIrrPnI'
Prcgres. grophcai Science CLsm.n Hon. Geors Folsom.
Com and Nnriyafion. .Charman......
Mines and MangJdefnres. Channan Marshal Leterts
agriculture Chairuan John jay
F.nGnce. .Charman......
MeyGi Condition. Chsirnsn. Arch Russell.
Inat Mnf"trs Chairman. d. Bean
Ioic1i Chairman. b. Dinsmore.
The next meeting of the Society will be held ut the
University On the evening Of Thursday next the 2jth
Of March when Mr.. Jay will read paper the lead
ing Stststics Of American Agriculture viewed in con-
iection with tho growing demand for breadstuiis in
foreign lalds TO be followed By informal cOnversa-
ton upon the topics belonging to the Agricultural
section.
The hope was expressed by members of the Council
that the Increasing importance of agriculture as the
prOnJ eut nstona interest of the country regulating
It's commerce ana aft citing more less the entire
people would induce the attendance on mat occasion
all gentlemen especially th-se connected with sgri-
cultural associations, WHO may be ready to assist tae
Society IN Culectrg toe returns OF every branch of
agricultural industry und exports and presenting the
results in a cea ar, simple and practical form.
The hear approach Of the time when the schedules
are to BE- prepared for another Federal census renders
it important that every suggestion in regard to them
should be ca. fully weighed before being submitted
10 the Government 81 Washington.