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disc when carried in American bottoms. II
ten, fifteen or more per cent Of duties were
taken off imported foreign goods when carried
by American ships our merchants would very
soon import their goods under the flag Of the
United States. 1t may be said that such
discrimination in favor of American and
against foreign bottoms would give offence to
other commercial nations and cause them to
retaliate. Well, we are not afraid Of that.
They are compelled to seek market here for
their silks, satins, cloths, biouterie and luxu-
ries of all kinds, and it would do no harm If
we did not consume so many of these, while
our staples Of cotton, tobacco and other things
they must have. In fact, they could not
retaliate so as to do us any serious harm. Our
own interests, and particularly those Of our
shipping and commerce, are first to be consid-
cred. To discriminate largely and wisely in
favor of American bottoms in the carrying
trade between this country and foreign coun-
tries would rapidly increase our tonnage. 1t
is to be hoped Congress will drop all the crude
and little schemes for reviving the shipping
interests of the country, and especially that
monstrous one of bonus on tonnage, and
will adopt some comprehensive plan worthy Of
statesmen.
The New York herald., 1870-05-16

THE LAW OF THE LAMPPosT. People who
are in the habit Of trusting their papers on
top of the letter boxes because they cannot
put them in should notice that decision has
been given to the effect that the taking of
these papers is not theft. One Of the Celes-
tials, in want Of good reading matter perhaps,
helped himself to q newspaper and was taken
into custody, but the magistrate decided that
the paper, as it was not in the box, was not
in the custody ofthe Post Office, and discharged
the Celestial.
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City Government.

The problem Of our city government is
apparently very difficult one, and nothing yet
seen in the political shuttle of election time
promises any Improvement How to give lis
decent government, administered by decent
men, is question as unanswerable as ever,
for it cannot be pretended that one good name
on an Aldermanic ticket can save fourteen
names of hopeless material, some of these
being the names of the worst political trash
the city ever knew. Must it, then, be given
up that so far as the reorganization of the
Board of Aldermen goes, the new Charter is
failure, and that the corrupt councils in the
wards triumph over the better will of the Tam
many leaders? These facts must be conceded;
the democratic triumph has been regarded as
so certain that the opposition have acted on
the thought that effort was hopeless. Nomi-
nation therefore, is equivalent to election
for the democratic ticket. Instead, then, of
the people making certain persons Aldermen,
the certain persons are made such by COM
mittee, and the committee considers it's own
purposes and not the will of the people. This
will never do. This course persisted in will
draw the lines of political division here 80
the party differences will not be in political
opinion but in social position-character and
honesty.
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The New PosT OFFICE DIFFICULTY.
new Post Office is an excellent thing, or likely
to be, and the same may be said of the new
law giving the parks into the power of certain
Commissioners and requiring them to set them
in good order. 1t would be pity if a good
law and useful public labor should be brought
into unnecessary collision by wrong-headed-
sioners and the Post OGice builders will not
push their respective and hostile views of the
same subject to ill-natured extremity.
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The Arcade Railroad swindle Frustrated.
This morning Broadway property holders
breathe freer. The State Executive has
shown his integrity and Independence, and by
listening to the voice of right and justice has
confirmed to its legitimate owners the title to
property in Broadway, and eafectually demo-
lished the most stupendous wrong that has
ever been attempted to be perpetrated upon
the Empire City. Governor Hoffman seldom
takes step of great Importance without care
fully considering its results, and when the
Arcade Railroad bill was presented for his
signature he examined 1t critically, and, dis
covering its Infamous provisions, squarely
and boldly rejected it as unworthy place
in the statute book. The Governor reads the
HERALD, and thereby became acquainted with
the feeling Of the people in regard to
this gigantic job. The Importance to be
attached to this veto is seen in the fact that
the Governor is not obliged to give his reasons
for Withholding his signature to bills presented
to him after the adjournment of the Legisla-
ture but in this instance, in view of the vast
IHtcre5IS iuVoiVeu, hc ioiV 0"iAou uPol W uo-
part somewhat from common usage and state
fully his objections to this bill. His veto con-
denses the arguments which the Independent
press have advanced against the Arcade Rail-
road BILL and his reasons for vetoing it are un-
answerable. He disapproves of the scheme
as chimercal, the plan being new and untried
and condemned as a visionary project by some
Of the most skillful engineers, as it would en- .
danger the safety Of every building on Broad
way. For once the Albany lobby has been de-
feated, even after putting forth their most
powerful exertions to secure the support of
the country members to this Infamous swindle.
The Arcade Railroad bill is dead, never, we
hope, to be resurrected, and New York rejoices
over its demise.
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TIE RED RIVER EXPEDITION, programme
of the operations of which was announced
some four or five weeks ago, has been delayed
owing to the refusal Of the United States
authorities to permit the steamer Chcora to
pass through the Sault Ste. Marie Canal. In
another column Of the HERALD will be found
letter from our correspondent accompanying
the Canadian forces, and from his communica-
ton glance at the slow and bungling man
ner in which the expedition has been con-
Quoted can be obtained
The New York herald., 1870-05-16

DEATH STRUGGLE OF THE ROUGH DEMO-
oRAcY.-The LAST act of the expiring rough and
tumble followers of Jack Morrissey, Jimmy
O'Brien and Wash Mclean was exhibited on
Saturday night at meeting in the Twenty first
ward. They stoned the democratic speakers,
threw half hatched eggs at the band and dis
charged fireworks among the one thousand
quietly disposed democrats who were present,
and thus broke up the meeting.
The New York herald., 1870-05-16

IMsnGRATIoN-STILL THEY CoME.-Last
wreck nine thousand Europeans were landed in
this city from emigrant ships, in search Of
new aomes From Ireland and Germany came
FIVE thousand, in about equal proportions,
while England and Sweden had the bulk OF
the remainder. So we draw from the best
physical and intellectual sources of the old
world-aud we improve all Wa Get.
The New York herald., 1870-05-16

WHERE THE MONEY WENT. District At
torney Morris is man who seems quite ready
to answer any questions his opponents over
the river may be disposed to ask. The last
query was as to the disposition of certain
public money, and came from ring man.
The District Attorney answers that the money
was spent in an effort to secure the conviction
of his questioners associates for the crime Of
swindling honest people of their votes. What
is the next question?
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l1-AdvertisementS.
l2-Adye yertisementS.

POLITICAL NONSENSE. Philadelphia
Age states that Gin city and country the demo-
cratic party is a unit in opposition to the
fraudulent and Infamous fifteenth amendment.
There is not break in the line" Well, what
will all that amount to? You might as well
talk about repeating the Ten Commandments
as to attempt to repeal the fifteenth amend
ment in this day and generation.
The New York herald., 1870-05-16
A Good Time for the Opera Goers.

After all the chickering's of italian opera
during the last winter and this spring we are
to have really one short season of the genuine
article Our fashionable people are not to go
away to the places Of summer resort before they
have tasted this most delightful of all amuse-
ments. The company is sort Of combina-
ton one, to which the best and most popular
singers belong. 1t is under the direction of
Albites; but that famous tenor, Brignoli, is
the head and front Of it. Brignoli comes back
fresh to New York. after successful tour to
California the South and the West. He will
lineage his sweet birds at the Academy of
Music tonight in ''Trovatore," when he, Miss
Kellogg, Gazzaniga, Petrili and Fossati will
perform. This cast cannot fail to fill the
Academy. Then on Tuesday evening we are
to have ''Martha," with Brignoli again, and
that charming, fresh and popular American
prSmo donna, Miss Isabel McCulloch, with
new importation from Europe, Miss Clara Perl,
who, it is said, has a splendid voice. With
''Lucia de Lammermoor" on Friday, and
succession of other attra ctive operate enter
tainments afterwards, the fashionable world OF
New York ought to be very thankful.
MORE LAST WORDs.-Mr. Sumner proposes
another law for the special good of the negro,
which he earnestly declares is, 80 far as he
knows, to be the last. This law is to give the
negro the same rights on steamboats,, railroads
and such places, as white men have. 1t is, in
fact recognition of the failure and INSULT
cheney of the Civil Rights bill. That bill gave
the negro the same rights as the white man
everywhere and, therefore, of course, gov
erned these cases; but it is found Ineffective,
and hence the present effort to give again, by
special law, what was fully given before. In
this necessity for iterative legislation we see
the futility of attempts to establish by legal
means facts that the people are not willing to
accept Negroes may travel in the first cabin
in Massachusetts because the people OF that
State are pleased to indulge themselves with
that little vanity of superior philanthropy; but
they will not elsewhere, despite great many
laws of Congress; for courts are in sympathy
with the people, and there are few judges not
sufficiently acute to find in the wilderness OF
the law plenty of valid points against an unpat-
atable statute.
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WOODS MUSEUM AND MENAGERTE, Broadway, cor.
nsr Thirtieth stManee daily every evening
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GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner OF Eighth avenue and
eSd sI-TuE TWELVE TEMPTATIONS.
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On THEIR Coop BEHAVIOR. hope the
Tammany leaders will not suppose that they
are altogether out Of the woods by the mere
possession Of the new Charter. If they do
not mean to honestly enforce that law they
will convince the people they are only trick
sters. That law meant political revolution.
1t meant new men. 1t is not enough to
give five good names and then saddle these
with bevy of the same material that filed the
Board of Aldermen before. The people want
not only other men but another class of men.
The New York herald., 1870-05-16

THE COLORED VOTERS IN THE SOUTHERN
STATES. The Trenton (Miss.) Gazette in an
editorial article on this subject AYERS that it
does not see how any party, contending for
the control of the government can ignore the
colored vote South, and adds
The Interests OF both races In the South ident.
cal and wisdom and sound policy alike demand
that we should make them our friends and thus sub
serve their interest," and consequently the interest of
the entire South.
This is sensible view to take of this ques-
ton, and the sooner our Southern friends,
ssnative and to the manner born" realize its
Importance the better for the South and all
who dwell upon its luxuriant soil-white and
black.
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ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.

ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.
&C GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and
Sd sI-TnR TWELVE TEMPTATIONS.
nsr Thirteh s-Matnee daily every evening
NIBLos GARDEN. Broadway-Tur DRAMA OF Mos
QUITO.
BOwERY THEATRE, Bowery-vETERAN OF THE OLD
GUARD-LloN OF NUBiA-GooD FOR NOTHING.
BOOTHS THEATRE ssd ST.. 5'h ana 9Th avs
FOX VERSUS GoosE-LosT ASHORE.
wALLAcK's THEATRE. Broadway and 18th street.
THE LANoERs.
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. Twenty-fOurth st-Fnou-
FRoU.
FRENCH THEATRE 18th st. and 9Th av.-TBE LADY
OF LYONS
THE TAMMANY. Fourteenth street.-GRAND VARIETY
ACADEMY OF MUSIC, 18th street-IrALIAN OPERA
OLYMPIC THEATRE, Br0adway.-TuE FAIR ONE WITH
BLONDE WIG.
MRS. F. B. CoNwAY's PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn,-
The LONG STRIKE.
THEATRE CoMIouE. 5l4 Broadway.-CoMIo VOCAL.
ISM, NEGRO ACTS, &C.
TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE. 2Ol Bowery.-CoM1o
vooALisn. NEGRO MrNsTRELsY. &C.
BRyANTs OPERA HOUSE. Tamnany Building Nth
st-BRYAN1's MINsrRELs
SAN FRANCISCO MINsTRELs, SIS Broa iway.-Ernro
Plan MINsTRELsEY, &C.
KELLY a Icons MINsTRELS. No. 72o Broadway
CHING CHOW Ill.,
HOOLEy'S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn.-HooLEY's MIN
sTRELs-PANoRAMA, PROGRESS OF AMERICA, &c.
CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 9TH av., between 5sth and
S9h ss.-TnEoDoaE THOMAS PorULAn CoNoEETs.
COOPER INSTITUTE, Astor pace.-LEoTURE ON NJ
rRoUs OXIDE, OR LAUGHING GAS.
-
NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 6ls Broadway
SCIENCE ART.
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BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery-vETERAN OF THE OLD
iUARD-LIoN OF NUBIA-GooD FOR NOTHING.
The New York herald., 1870-05-16

BOOTHS THEATRE, ssd ST.. between 9Th ana 9Th avs
Fox VERSUS GooSE-LosT ASHORE.
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wALLACK's THEATRE. Broadway and 18th street,
THE LANoERs.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-04-22
THE ATLANTIC MISSISSIPPI ASp OHIO RAIL.
ROAD BILL.

The enemies of this important meas
urc, now pending In the Legislature, as
sail IL upon the ground that ID involves
a gross and wantOn sacrifice of the
States interest i'm the four companies
which IL Is proposed TO consolidate into
one. They tell us that the tax paying
people of this Commonwealth have I'M
vested six millions of their money in
these lines of improvement, and they
call upon the representatives of the
people not to permit a mammoth cor
porltion to swallow IL up. Let us ex-
anime this objection calmly and dis
passionately, and see upon what foun-
dation it rests. The Bill proposes that
tho State of Virginia shall sell and
transfer to the new Company To be
created certain claims held by the state
against the Norfolk and Petersburg and
SOuthside Companies, and also the
stocks held by her in the four conf
panies owning the line between Nor
folk and Cumberland Gap. The claim
against the Norfolk and Petersburg
Road amounts to Sl40,OO0. The claim
against the Southside Railroad COmpa-
ny will be due aud carry interest in
about twenty years. The nominal
amout of that claim Is 500, 900. What
its present value Is, or what il would
bring if exposed at public auction, il
would be difficult TO say-probably not
more than S30O,0OO. The stocks
held by the State in the four compa-
mics are as follows;
In tho Norfolk and PeteTskuFg Company tl, soo, 90
IN the houthslde Company eo2 90
| In tho Virginia and Tennessee Company a,Suo,ood
| 10 tbs N.yginis sod hsuiueky Company .ok.c's
What is the present value OF these
stocks? They have been held by the
State for about twenty years; have
never paid one dollar OF dividend into
tne treasury, and are not likely to dc
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-04-22
A Strong Cement for Iron.

TO four or five parts of clay, thor
oughly dried and pulverizcd, add two
parts of iron filings free from oxide,
one part of peroxide of manganese,
one half of boraX. Mingle thorough
ly, and render us fine as possible; then
reduce to thick paste with the neces-
sary quantity of water, mixing thor
oughly well. 1t must be used imme-
diately. After application, it should
be exposed to warmth, gradually in
creasing almost to white heat. This
cement is very hard, and presents com
plcte resistance alike TO u red heat and
boiling water.
Another cement is to mix equal parts
of sifted peroxide of manganese ant
wcll-pulverizcd zinc white, add slIfli
cicnt quantity of e6ntfiercial soluble
glass to form a thin paste. This mix
ture, when used Immediately, forms ;
cement quite equal in hardness ant
resistance to that obtained by the frs
method.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-04-22

the development of determinate hut
very variable amount of carbOnic oxide,
a very poisonous gas.
I'd. A similar development takes
place, but in a less degree, In sheet-iron
stoves raised to a red heat
3. In rooms thus heated, the carbonic
acid naturally contained i'm the air, and
that derived from respiration, may be
decomposed, and produce carbonic
oxide.
4. The carbonic oxide may arise from
several different, and, sometimes, con-
current causes, as, the permeability of
the iron to this gas, which passes from
within outward the direct action of
the oxygen of the air upon the carbon
of the iron heated to redness the de
composition of the carbonic acid in
the air by its contact with the heated
metal, and the influence of organic
dust naturally contained i'm the air.
5. The effects observed in n room
lighted by four windows, and two
doors, one of which Is frequently OPEN
ed, would be made manifest and grave
in ordinary rooms, without ventilation,
In consequence of the presence and
decomposition of various kinds of or
ganic dust therein present.
O. Consequently, stoves and heating
apparatus in cast or sheet iron, without
interior Innings of fire-bricks, or other
refractory substances, which will pre-
vent their becoming red-hot, are dam
gerous TO the health.
NM. st. Claire Deville and Taoost
have shown that the air in contact
with the external surface of cast-iron
stove may become charged with pro-
portion of earbonic oxide equal ia
'0007 to '0013 of its volume. Expert
ments on RABBITS show that carbonic
oxide has the property of expelling q
part of the oxygen contained in the
blood and that the small amount OF
'0004 will cause the expulsion of '45 oi
the oxygen of the blood. Though
| sheet-iron stoves are less dangerous, on
this account, they are not so harmless
as DR.. Carrot supposes, as they are open
to the grave objections of the sudden
elevation of temperature of their ex.
ternal surface, and of then decompos-
ing the carbonic acid of the air. II
has long been admitted as n fact In
| science, that iron, at a red heat, decom.
poses carbonic acid, takes portion o.
its oxygen, and transforms it into car.
bonic oxide. The experiments showed
that the amount of carbonic oxide
formed was notably less in a mois
than in "a dry air; this justifies tho
common use of vessels filed with wa
ter on stoves and furnaces.-Annudt q
Scientific Discovery.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-04-22
ApERsoNAL NARRATIVE.
BY TIIos. DUNN ENGLISH.

In the crash of 1887, came down
with the rest of the falling timbers.
| failed for u sum ut which men of
business in these days of colossal for
tunes would smile. But l could say
with Mercutio, 1t is not deep as "a
well, nor rs wide rs barn-door: but it
will do,n BY careful management on
the part of my assignces,. L was. ena-
bled To pay ali my debts, and have n
surplus of over three thousand dollars.
That was not all. l had n thousand
acres of land in the mountains of
Western Virginia 50 poor that my as
signees had not taken it into account.
/ had accepted 1t two years before TO
secure q bad debt. Mt the rate of fifty
cents per acre, and was coniidentially
assured by n country merchant from
that neighborhood, that l had been
badly swindled in the transaction. !
was told il was succession of rocks
and hills, covered with the timber so
huge that IL would be difficult to clear,
and yet worth nothing to chop down,
not being accessible to n market. That,
save my three thousand dollars and III :
wards, was all l possessed. 1t Is true
| that my creditors, in acknowledge
ment of what they termed my "hand-
some conduct made up "A purse of a
thousand dollars; but Indignantly re-
fused that. There / was, after having
worked hard for ten years, TO begin
again, seven thousand dollars worse OIL
then when started. But had health,
strength and pluck L was not yet
thirty-three years old; and L was moi
devoid of hope. Only, what should
do?
forgot to add among my moveablC
property, the most valuable part of my
posscssions-a wife and three children
two boys, aged respectively eight ant
six, and u little girl, not quite five
years old. Then there was my library
n little modest plate, and my household
furniture.
Alter all my affairs had been settled
my father-in. law, who had given m'
temporary employment as clerk, cam
: to the house one morning TO talk owe
/ matters.
, "Joseph,n he said, ~ have set asid
, ten thousand dollars for each of IN,
five daughters-for ono-half of what
am worth will go TO my son; and di'
not intend 10 touch your wife's share
But Sybil and. ,"-Sybil was my VIII
-" have talked 1t over. She want
YOU To have all, but won't risk that
II you strike some definite plan, tina
at all suits nre, can add five thousan
j. to your little might, and
n mo, no ~ | answered. am yer
n much obliged TO you, but have enoug
- for my purpose.
O "And what is your purpose ?"
h am going into the woods. No
d know that land | have in Nirgini;
g am going to settle ON that"
y Nonsense You'd starve TO deaf
r, there in less than a year. How do yo
expect 20 live ?"
"Oh III farm little, and raise ca
Il tie little"
Q "And suffer a great deal. You rcall
: mustn't drag Sybil into such hole 1
: that. She Is not fitted for il"
9 "she is fitted for anything that
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-04-22

sweet fhttls CFa me week Agothy langh gave iov,
Fen to hearts which HES troubles DO often annoy
Bat how sad 10 see thee now
'Tis true indeed we arc all now denied
Thy fond And lrving parents hore and pride
When life did bloom on thy brow.
Deaths icy shade wells an radiant check,
Han closed eyes full q affection, 40 Tsb,
And silenoed Vo'ea n innoeent love;
Thy beautiful. tiny hands doth Ito AT rest
Folded asEoss an ever siuless breast.
Thoa bright little angel In heaven above.
No moro on earth IN see the haste
To fold thy aru,s In fond embrace,
Aroana my neck, and seem al rest;
Nor bear thee lausA ~ ofl befufe,
And scream with Joy At The front door,
" Here como aunt Lou aud uncle West"
Whilst with us her many charms were such.
That all, N ho kiirNf hisr, I'D love her much,
and her parents i3d almost adore hsr,
50 tho ANGELS OF Heaven callrd her above,
Mhsie she waitn tn greet them With heav an'y lore
May they rsAsh Tho llaaao VI li,is Cora,