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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-07-19
Attention, Health Board.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
Referring 10 your seasonable words in relation
to the dilapidated wharyes and sewer open.
ings OF this city, beg TO cal your attention
to the fact-now apparent by means Of repairs
that are being madethat the sewer that enters the
river at James slip terminates under the bridge
that all the refuse matters brought down are neces-
sary left to accumulate and decompose at the mouth
or the sewer, directly under the ferry bridge and
houses, poisoning the atmosphere aud sowing the
seeds OF disease among the passengers who pass to
and from Long Island over this ferry This nuisance
should long have been abated by the Board Ut
Health. There Is none more dangerous foul exist
lnv.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-07-19

LONG ISLAND Characterization Dewitt,
who lives in the township OF Milo, Bureau county,
Ill., was born on Long Island. state OF New YORK,
March ~. 1869, and Is nov, consequently 10l years
Old. He has been confined to the house for toe last
three months from erysIpelas in his feet, but his
bodily health Is quite good. HIS memory and con-
versng powers are perfect. lie oiten tells OF MS
mother hiding the COW III the cellar TO keep the
British rom killing her. He remembers many events
many times. He lived in Ohio ana Indiana before
coming to Illinois. Was In Cincinnati when there
were but three houses there. lie has buried three
wives and Is now living with the fourth. Has had
thirteen children, OF whom but two survive. He has
been member OF The Methodist Church eighty
years.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-07-19

Qes are sent here by the Police Correctonelle for
short periods only, from eight to fifteen days.
There nave been but three or four cases OF small
pox during the ravages OF that dreadful se0urge.
OLD IN VICE.
Recently woman OF ninety-four years died In the
prison. where she was allowed to remain from mo-
tives of charity.
''fhs reminds me, Briyadier," said ], 'that among
tne Nttes pu0ttq,tsy saw one very old woman"
"fes, sir' replied my cpndlctor "she has been
here some time. she can leave the prison If she
WIN; but We will not tarD her out., She Is ninety
TWO or nnetysix years OF age she hardly knows
whlch, becoming too old TO be out in the clty.n
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-07-19

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALp:--
write these few lines in order to inform you that
am one Of the large number OF residents OF the fol-
lowing sreers-namely, Forty-third, Forty-fourth
and In fact, up to Fiiteth street-who inconven
enced by the cars Of the New Haven aud Harlem Rail-
roads. At some times whole trains of freight and
cattle cars block up the between those streets
which have mentioned. Cannot something be done
to remedy this nlisancea You would greatly oblige
me as Well as many others who reside In that vicn-
lty and who are annoyed In the same way.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-07-19
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
A Sensible Idea.

To THE EDITOR or THE HERALD:-
Is it supposed that any good reason exists why the
horse cars should not be provided with cowcatchers9
very light cowcatcher, built on sharp an gle,
would throw a human body clear Of the wheels 1t
seems inconceivable that several hundred dangerous
engines, when practically resemble so many ancient
scythe chariors on 80 many modern juggernauts,
should be permitted TO take possession OF the high
way without having any sheath Or guard for their
WneelS. nj, A.
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NEW YORK HERALD TUESDAY, 49, 187o-TRIPLE SHEET.

tons have also taken place In another quarter
For Malta ordinary letters win pay forty centlmes
FOR ten grammes; registered, eighty centimes for
100 grammes business papers ana photographs,
thirty centimes Tor l2D grammes; Journals and
printed matter, eight centlnes for forty granmes.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-07-19

Entire change Of pro-
grammc. Pierre Dubois, In
his great cannon feat. Last
week OF the Fren ch Wrestlers
and Mons. DsAtalie and Nile.
Angela. The Aartinettl
Troupe in the pant0mirne Of
N ons. DuchnIuvnAu, preceded
oy The farce OF the Terrible
Tinker, by the Company.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-07-19

by special correspondence rom Paris we are
enabled to present ID Tile anerlcan pubic tao Ioi-
lowing reporC OF the female pgaspn OF st. Lazale,
Faris IL Is IA affecting story-a story OK wo.han's
wrongs, her vices, degradation AMI punishment
having, however the oonsolIlg features vi the OK.
ercise Of charity religion ana iadicioas discipline
IN behalf OF the uniortutes taas GilogdhS hopes OF
repentance reform aad forgiveness il tue lutale.
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ADJUSTMENTS.

yVOOD's MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE.-GREAr sUc-
w OF forcing cold air into the theatre which keeps
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-07-19
FRENCH PRISONS.

1he Female Prison Of 81. Lazare, Paris-Wo O.
man, Her Wrongs, Her Woes and the Means
Of Her Reformatioa-''day Life" in the
French capi.al-How sna Where It is
Observation-Disclosures Discipline
and Religious Csnsolarion-
How The Inmates arc En-
ploysd and Controlled
Dress, Amnselnents
and Devotion.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-07-19

w cess OF forcing cold air
al a spring temperature.
MUSEUM q MKNAGERIE.
Open 3 A. N. TO f05$ r, NJ.
Ventilated by Steam Fans.
And where may be seen
LITTLE LULU,
The wonderful Dwarf.
The Internal Regions.
a large collection OF Birds
and Miid Animals And
l,OOO,0U0 other Curiosi,iss.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-07-19

NhO AnE THERE.
Indeed the flooring throughout the prson with
out exception, Is Of red tile. En- route We met
several prisoners, called TILES de seipice They are
selected to do the household work, ana are dstin.
Rusned from their fellows by being dressed in iight
blue, ana white caps. Tue part vi the prison which
e ifst visited was that OF the accused and the con.
aemne1.
Whenever woman is arrested In Paris, whether
sor crime or oiences against public decency, she 10
New-York tribune., 1870-04-25

exponent of either English or American
society. Because Sir Charles Mordaunts wife
was mad from disease or vice, we certainly do
not argue that the pure homes Of England are
all suddenly filed with Messalnas; because
our own fashionable girls exhibit themselves
in immodest dances or revel in the indeceDcies
of the Opera BOuffe, we do not suspect the
air to be tainted about well-bred women, or
feel disposed to doubt the integrity and purity
of our own wives and daughters.
immortality among women is found IN two
strata only of our social life in the lowest
class who fill the houses of prostitution In the
cities (eight- tenths of whom, by statistics In
New York and Philadelphia, are foreigners),
and in that spurious aristOcracy whose only
claim to notice consists in wealth and the vul-
gar display of it. Both of these bodies OF
women, by virtue of a certain unity OF ann
and fash demeanor, keep themselves glarlngly
before the public eye. They find their ready
organs, too, in some of our New York journals,
which willingly advertise not only the line
dresses of the latter, but the designations OF
their unnameable sisters. Hence, the name Of
American society has been gradually absorbed
by Anonyma and Mrs. Shoddy, and is de-
graded almost beyond help by the Stiffness of
the one and the vice of the other. Now, what
have these two women to do with the great
element of American domestic life2 Absolute
ly nothing They faunt out their little hour,
they help build temples to vice and to lnfan-
ticide, and that is all. Apart from them in the
cities is the great class of working women
the teachers, writers, artists tradeswomen; ;
and purer body Of women does not live
Healthful work for body and mind leaves no
room for the vagaries of passion. Utterly apart
from them, too, is the class in the cities which
most powerfully represent the culture and re-
finement of the country. But it is outside OF
cities, let us remember that we must look for
the strength and substance Of our national
lfe-in the quiet homes that stretch from ocean
to ocean, innumerable as their sands. In this
great national domestic life, the feverish, un-
easy few who call themselves society, on one
or two city streets, are never heard Of. Not
only virtue but mOdesty there is yet the rule,
and it is our honest belief that nowhere in the
world is God as sincerely wOrshiped, is the mar
riage tie as universally respected, and are women
as pure in thought and deed, as in the ordinary
family life of America. Our faith in Anglo
Saxon blood too, is strong enough to preserve
our old respect for British wives and mothers,
despite the lamentations over them of tpeir
own prophets. III
New-York tribune., 1870-04-25

We have more than once thought that the
people of France were to a greater degree re-
sponsible for Napoleon than Napoleon is re-
sponsible for the people of France. Every
publican, every soldier, every Mameluke that
gives his stolid, sturdy support to the Empire
is no less an autOcrat in spirit than the En-
peror himself In appealing to this class OF men,
Napoleon shows that Caesar himself may be the
greatest of demagogues. 1t is to such men
that the most astute monarch of the day has
addressed the proclamation with reference to
the Plebiscitum of the 9Th of May, the full
text of which we print elsewhere. The chief
feature of this remarkable paper is its direct
appeal to the people for the perpetuation of the
Napoleonic dynasty. Not for himself merely
does Napoleon, with even specious and special
earnestness ask for the suffrages of the
soldiers, sailors, and people of France, but
in express terms for hls son and heir. He
presents an issue-a very broad one, but one
for which his opponents are not prepared, and
cannot be, in the nature of things. The result
VIII bespretty much as its organizer orders it.
In the worst event, he would be capable of
making the vote effectually coup d6tat; but
this he does not need. France will answer
yes-that is, all the people of France whom i'm
perialism has not made dumb, and all whom
il has made worse than dumb.
New-York tribune., 1870-04-25

We have been long hoping that the House
of Representatives might be shamed into
something like parliamentary dignity, and a
sense of its incalculable responsibility; but
after the sayings and doings of the Friday
evening session, hope, for season at least,
bids us farewell. Mr.. Eldredge said that she
"felt ashamed Of the evenings proceedings y
and we are glad that even one member had
the grace to be ashamed. The session in
question was entirely consumed in hunting up
absentees and in hearing their excuses.
"Where is Mr.. Ames p was the first INQUIRY.
"Mr. Ames is out of the city," cried tho gen.
tlemanly Mr.. Schenck, "On his own business.
"He is away making money somewhere
[Laughter.l "Where is Mr. Cox 7" was the
next interogatOry. Mr.. Cox answered for
himself by note: 81 am sick and gone to
"bed. Up all night with the Ohio people"
Mr.. Poland chad been making call with
"his wife upon his minister Mr.. Sweeny
was excused "On account of the recent birth
"of daughter" Mr.. Fitch chad been taking
"a BATH" These are specimens of the paltry
excuses offered and to finish, the House fined
sixteen members $40 EACH
We beg leave, with all the respect which we
can muster for the occasion, to remind Repre-
sentatives of a fact which they seem not
seldom to forget-that they are paid public
servants; and that no laborer is worthy of his
hire unless h8 well and truly performs the
service which he has undertaken. We call
these gentlemen Honorable" and by a polite
sort of fiction we admit that the people is the
obliged party, and should, like joe in the story,
be "werry thankful" that such great men con-
sent to serve us. But the truth of the matter
happens to be exactly opposite. These men
are in the House because they were personally
anxious to go there. In the great hiring of
public servants they made the most satisfac-
tory bid. 1t does not matter whether thew
wanted money or honor-at any rate, they
wanted to 90 TO Washington. Being there,
New-York tribune., 1870-04-25
Ne4u'alork Daily Grilbmr1G
MONDAY. APRIL 25, 1870.

The Emperor Of the French has issued his proclama
ton on the Plebiscun. == The vote the schema
i e has been taken in the presence Of the Pope. The
Police of Rome sezing the pamphlets of RauscheI
and Schwartzenberg. - Gen. Jordan is said to be al
Nassau = The English Government has, 1t is re-
ported proof OF Fenian conspiracy In London. 80 An
anti-Armenian riot has occurred in Constantnope. -
The Tyrolese churchmen preparing to seeede from
Rome.
The u. g. Senate not in session on Saturday; the
House refused TO with the Senate amendments to
the Income Tax bill. = An injunction has been applied
for in Philadelphia to restrain officer from col
lectng the Income Tax. 80 The mammoth blast in
Blossom Rock, San Francisco, exploded Saturday
g. The Mormons are buying large quantities of arms
and ammunition. - There is great freshot in the
Mississippi.
O'Day, identified with the Larkn butchery about
wear ago. has been killed - The steamships yenezue-
Jan and Cleopatra SAFE the former having arrived at
shis port the latter at Fortress Monroe Two Pres
l,yterian societies in this city have united - Fred
erek Douglass spoke to the cOored citizens last night
the Fifteenth Amendment. 80 Gold, Saturday l13a,
7ls Ss Thermometer, Saturday, 49, Ca so Sunday, As,
Is
New-York tribune., 1870-04-25
GOOD FOR TIE SOIL.


When the Assembly, on Saturday, came to
vote upon the bill which removes all restric-
tons on the Right of Suffrage for Blacks but
those which bear equally on Whites, Mr. Will
liam ID. Murphy Oem.) of Albany saw tit to
deliver himself as follows:
al shall vote for this BILL not In Difference 10 the XVIII
Amendment but because the State OF New-York has the
constitutional right to regulate the subject OF sufra
for herself The Constitution Of the United States does
not confer upon Congress the power TO regulate this
question, aud hence the adoption OF the XVIII Amend
ment Is usurpation OF authority for which there a
no constitutional warrant The regulation OF the
question of suffrage has always been conceded to the
States and, until the agitation OF the question involved
in the XVIII Amendment. the right to regulate the
question was questioned either by Congress or the
people, am willing, however, TO take from the Black
man the $3.50 qualification under which ho str1l
ees placing him upon equal footing with the White
man at the ballob0x; and do this because Slavery no
longer exists In this land Tho Property qualification
o great wrong, and should never be imposed in free
country. l shall therefore vste Ay"
Comments by The Tribune. ....
When Slavery did exist in our State, Whites
and Blacks were allowed TO vote on equal
terms. The Democratic party imposed the
"great WRONG" Oh the Blacks in 1921. when
New-York tribune., 1870-04-25
LESSON OF TIE LAST MURDER.

1t is deplorable fact that there are thou
sands of men who, having nothing else to do
will get drunk and, as many of them when
drunk are riOtous, it has always happened that
in this City an unrestrained liquor traffic has
always led to the greatest number of breaches
of the peace in the hours of respite from la
Dor. There was therefore, practical kindness
in the rigor of the Metropolitan Excise law,
which, being rigidly enforced for two years,
produced results as remarkable as they were
gratifying. The nights were quiet and the sun
days decorous, only because the saloons were
effectually closed.
A year ago, Tammany influence became so
powerful in the Board of Excise that, the law
falling into allegiance, the change was lmme-
diate and marked. The Democratic triumph in
the November election following, there was no
longer any pretense of enforcing the law and
it being naturally assumed that, no matter what
the statute might prescribe, there would prac-
tically be free rum under Democratic supre-
macy, affairs went rapidly from bad to worse,
and we are again beginning to experience to
the full extent the evils of an untrammeled
liquor traffic. For weeks past there has
not been Sunday free from disgraceful broils
in saloons Kept open in defiance of the law.
Yesterday these weekly bacchanalian quarrels
eliminated in diminutive riot and murder.
A party OK rufians, who had doubt
tless spent the night in roaming among
the rum shops, ended the protraeted
debauch in q saloon in King-st., which they
reached at o'clock in the morning. They
had been there but few minutes when gen.
eral fight occurred, in which one OF them
was stabbed and killed. The life thus
lost may have been of little value,
but the manner of its taking deeply concerns
tho community. The law yet declares that
places where liquor is sold shall be kept closed
upon Sunday, and also between one and five
O'Clock in the morning on other days; yet here
is a general disturbance and a murder in a
liquor den within Illegal hours. 1t is a startling
proof, and one not unexpected, that under
Tammany control any excise law pretending
to limit the liquOv traffic is sham. 1t is also
evidence that we are about to have a carnival
of crime as a corollary of Democratic suprem-
acy in the State
New-York tribune., 1870-04-25

Is there not hint to the contractors who
promise us the removal of He'll Gate in the
result of the novel engineering by which San
Francisco has got rid of the chief obstruction
of her harbor, Blossom Rockf There was net
only ingenuity displayed in devising the plan,
hut energy employed in executing it. We 90
not mean to intimate that these qualities have
never been melted by the Hell Gate obstruc-
fions. We hope, further, that there is no
ofense in wishing that the San Francisco en-
cineer has made enough money off his success
1ul venture there to justify him in coming this
way and taking look at our haI5or.
New-York tribune., 1870-04-25
Elsewhere we give extended extracts from a

Elsewhere we give extended extracts from a
paper of importance by Col. Adams upon the
subject of American Interoceanic Ship Canals
lie believes that of the entire number of
projects submitted to the public for uniting
the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the Tehuan-
tepec, which is the most northerly, and the
Darien, the most southerly, are perhaps the most
feasible of theirrespective kinds. The Darien is a
"thorough cut "project the Tehuantepec route
proposes canal with locks. He shows reasons
for encouragement concerning the Darien cut
which the Government is now engaged in sur
yeying, and prefers the Tehuantepec route
which was used by Cortez as a road, and has
been surveyed by the Mexican Government,
within whose domain it entirely lies. He also
alleges commercial and political advantages for
The latter route.
New-York tribune., 1870-04-25
AMERICAN FAMILY LIFE.

For a year or two past, the articles in The
Saturday Reriew upon social topics have gained
for that cynical and shallow journal increased
notOriety by the virulence and wit of their
attacks upon women. Wife, maiden, mother,
and old maid have each been held up to ridi-
cule with a rancOr and malignancy only to be
explained by personal spleen; the more gentle
and womanly the type of woman, the more
implacable and yenOmous was the assault.
Now, this puerilo and almost catfish splitting
Of ill-will, which might provoke reply if it
came from a man, becomes only amusing
when we know that it emanates from one of
the maligned sex. Whether hell can furnish
no fury like woman seorned is hard to tell !;
but we do not need tais instance to teach us
that woman here, disappointed in the happi-
ness or love which has fallen to the lot of her
more fortunate sisters, is apt to regard them
with about as much justice and temper as did
the immortal Sairey Mrs. Prig when she pos
sessed herself of the whole of the salad.
In one of the last numbers of The Revie,r
this Gentle Savage pOunces as usual upon the
latest disgusting scandal, and glOats over it as
evidence of the hopeless condition of her SEX
The Mordaunt trial and the cowhiding exploit
of Lydia Thompson are the especial incidents
which she selects, and from which she argues,
with true wOmanish logic, that all English
women are strong-minded ballet dancers, or, if
not ballet-dancers worse. She fairly whoops
with exultation, like Camanche over fresh
victim, at the pitiable spectacle of the
miserable blonde tramps and the crazy Nor
daunt woman, first shrieking out the usual
feminine triumph of " / told you So" and then
trying her brain to invent new and more filthy
epithets for her sex, for the fast young
"peeresses and tripudiant matrons," as well as
the gve-and- take, loose-zoned age (" in which
they live She denOunces all English women
as animals, and as animals either wallowing in
nastiness or peering wishfully over the brink
of it, and then, by q reasoning which we con-
fess ourselves unable to follow, throws the
blame of this condition of affairs upon the long
retirement OF the Queen after her husbands
death. "While this continues she predicts,
English society will present happy combi-
"nation of all the sin of Versailles and the
"insolence and brutality of Saratoga board
"ing-hOuse." 1t appears to us outside bar
barians that if English women were only held
out of this slough of corruption by the chance
of an annual drawing-rOOm or ball at Buck
ingham Palace, their tenure of virtue must
be very slight indeed. But, however amusing
her sketches may be, they carry with them no
evidence of truth. We would be as 10th to
receive them as accurate pictures of English
homes as the prurient uncleanness of Ouida's
novels. We protest against the mistake made
| by this woman and those of her stamp on this
side of the Atlantic, when they take the thin
| and impure crust of fashionable lio IA tho
New-York tribune., 1870-04-25

In the discussion of the proposition in the
Senate so to amend the charter Of the North
Pacific Railroad Company as to make up de-
fciencies in the original grant of land, Sen
atOr Howard well remarked
"The American people demand three Pacific Railroads
at the North through the center and another Al
the southern part Of the United States and these rail
roads they will have whatever may be the feeling Of tho
Union Pacific, however its friends serVitors may b
moved by envy in regard to what been called com
peting line"
There should be no envy between these
three great roads. There is certainly room
enough for all, when it is remembered that
they are five hundred miles apart. Senator
Taayer, however, living on the line Of the
Union Pacific, promptly denied the existence
of any envious feeling on the part of that
road toward any other road, and declared
himself to be i'll favor of the construction of
the other contemplated roads. This is the
view of a liberal statesman, looking to the
interests of the whole country.
New-York tribune., 1870-04-25
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, MONDAY APRIL 25, 1870

Slavery in New-York was dying out. 1t re-
newed that "great wrong" in 1916, and persisted
in it at the election Of 1860. When our late
Constitutional Convention met Tin 1867, Slavery
was stone dead; yet the Sham Democracy
fought desperately for the perpetuation of the
d" great wrong" heaping insult and obloquy on
the Blacks by all manner of epithets and impu-
tations. Beaten in the Convention, they appealed
to the People, and again voted down Impartial
Suffrage at our very last election. The votes
against Equal Suffrage were 282,4O3, whereof
not so many as the odd 403 were cast by Re-
publcans And this very Legislature tried in
December to defeat Impartial Suffrage by with
drawing the assent of Ncw-York to the XVIII
Amendment. Such being the recorded facts,
we submit that Mr.. Murphy has been and is
acting and voting with party which he ought
to be ashamed Of-nay, which ought to be
ashamed of itself