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The New York herald., 1870-05-01
Congress-Anoiher Weeks Fritferings.

Another week of valuable time has been
frttered away by Congress. There have been
no public measures of any Importance what
ever discussed or acted upon in either house.
The valuable time of the legislators of the
country has been occupied with nothing more
important than private bills or jobbing land
grants. The only measure Of great public
interest called up at all in the Senate seems
10 have been the bill enforcing the fifteenth
amendment, and it has not progressed beyond
discussion. while ia the House there has not
been even the shadow of any legisla-
ton more important than the removal
of political disabilities from nine Office
seekers in Texas. True, there have been
measures looking to a sweeping amnesty and
to tinkering of the finances introduced, but
they have been merely mentioned and referred
to committees that probably will never report
them again. AS far as the legitimate business
of patriotic, far seeing Congress is con-
cerned the past week is lost one. The
Senate has done nothing whatever, and the
House has passed the time in fning members
for absence-when the whole body might have
been absent with immense gain to the country
generally-and in experimenting on the iron
tariff.
The business that lies before Congress is Of
vast importance, and even its ordinary routine
business, such as appropriation bills and con-
tested election cases, is greatly in arrears.
The two houses have been in session FIVE
months, and should have had their business well
in hand, 80 that an adjournment could be
looked to early in the summer months. As
it is probably the session will be prolonged
until July. No bills reducing the burdens of
taxation have yet been acted upon, and, at the
rate in which the Tariff bill is progressing, it
seems unlikely that any decisive action will be
taken on such bills for some time. The recon
struciion business, although conducted with
the diligence which Congress gives only to
partisan legislation, is still unfinished; no
general amnesty has yet been declared, ST..
Domingo is still unannexed and the income
tax still hangs round the neck of the people.
We beseech Congressman to cease fining abb
sentees, entertaining Legislatures and tinkering
with finances--of which they know nothing
and settle soberly and industriously to work
The New York herald., 1870-05-01
steam ON the White Sen.

Farther and farther the genius of trade,
assisted by the forces of science, pushes its
way onward to the conquest of the world. The
recesses of Africa have been penetrated, the
burning deserts invaded, and the wastes of
Alaska partly settled; but it was reserved for
the present year to give actual form to plan
for the regular navigation Of the White Sea
scheme of company Of merchants resident
at Archangei, on the river Dwina. In old
times, when enterprising Sweden held the en-
tire seacoast of Finland, and was supreme on
the Baltic, Archangel was a fourishing COM
mercial centre. She has since been tempora-
riIy thrown into the shade by the rapid rise of
St. Petersburg, Helsingfors, Taganrog, Kevel,
Odessa, &C.; but her turn is coming round
again. The northern provinces of Russia
are by no means 80 inclement and inhospita-
BILE as most people seem to think. Soil and
climate both are favorable to hardy race,
and if communication with the interior and
southern provinces can only be completed the
governments of Archangel and Vologda par
ticularly might be made both wealthy and
happy regions. AS it is, population is lack
ing, but the extension of railroads and steam
boat lines will soon supply it along with the
regular transmission of provisions and manu-
factured goods.
At Archangel the Dwina river is four miles
in width and fourteen feet in depth at low tide
and there is clear track for steamers of
moderate size and burden from that point
down to the White Sea, thence to the Frozen
Ocean and around North Cape to the nume-
rous and thriving seaport towns on the Norwe-
gian coast This is the route suggested by
the new company, who propose to run three
steamers regularly during the six months
when navigation in those latitudes is
free. A capital of one hundred thou
sand roubles, or about sixty-fve thou
sand dollars, has been subscribed for the
construction and equipment of three small
steamers, which will begin their traffic so soon
as the railroad northward from Viatka to the
Dwina, now in rapid progress, shall have been
completed. The only aid asked for from the
government is about six thousand five hundred
dollars per annum, with certain postal and
trading facilities, and all that is required will
be cheerfully granted. That trade and travel
will be immensely increased by this facility,
and Archangel once more be made busy and
opulent mart, cannot be doubted. There are
score of active towns along the stated route,
and some of them have for hundreds of years
held the rank of sea ports. All that they have
hitherto needed has been an outlet, and now
that it is about to be supplied to them we shall
soon see the glow Of modern business life shin
ing there like new aurora at the far North.
dispatches from Archangel," --latest from
the North Cape" ssNews from the borders Of
The New York herald., 1870-05-01
May Day.

Renowned in song and story, May Day has
come to us from our English ancestors full of
pleasing thoughts and bright hopes. But May
Day in New York is matter of far greater
moment than it ever can be in Merrie England
or in our own rural districts. On this day
Gotham lays aside all poetry and becomes de-
cidedly practical. Childhood is banished; no
May Queen calls her willing subjects around
her feet upon the greensward; no merry carol
of joyous youths and maidens breaks upon the
ear. Such nonsense is banished from Manhat-
tan, and our people give themselves up unre-
servedly to the more engrossing task of seek
ing new abiding places for their household
gods. New York's May Day offerings partake
Of her peoples pleasures. The 'wreck Of
matter" is fearful in the extreme, and
would prove ruinous anywhere but in this
metropolis Moving Day is peculiarly New
York institution, and no amount of reasoning
can divest our citizens Of the absurd notion
that dwelling houses can be inhabited by
family but single year. Happily, for once,
we shall miss May Days usual turmoil, even
at the risk Of infringing the statutes. This
year our nomads have two days ia which to
make their journeyings, and tomorrow night
will see the city again quiet and recovering from
its annual family disturbance. One thing is
noticeable-for the first time in many years
there has been no rise in rents, but, on the
contrary, for the better class of dwellings,
prices have receded. This is pleasant fact
for the majority to consider, and it is to be
hoped that before another season the rents OF
houses occupied by the laboring classes may
inset with corresponding reduction.
The New York herald., 1870-05-01

A GooD THING AFTER ALL-The success
of Gould and Fisk in keeping the Erie road
detached from the Central monopoly; for we
can now understand that with both our great
State lines in the hands Of one concern there
would hardly be foot Of ground on this island
that the city could hold or that any citizen
could call his own. In the division and
competition of thess great railway powers,
until Congress shall take hold of them. lies
the safety Of the people.
The New York herald., 1870-05-01

arcade railway in London has just exempli-
fed the beauties of such structures. The arch
above gave way and buried in the ruins all who
were in the tunnel at the time. Imagine such
an arch the whole length Of Broadway caviug
in for mile and dumping the Broadway on
top into the Broadway beneath, and killing .
thousand people at crash Is it improbable
Do we put up such structures more subStan-
TALLY here than they do In Englanda
The New York herald., 1870-05-01
TRIPLE S Ii E e T
New York, sunday, May 1, 1870.
GoyrGlis or To.nlY.s naRlLD.


PAGE.
-AGv ri sements.
2-Alve tbs ments.
3-Wasiington: Territorial Government for Indian
1rib S; Res sgpatioa OF the Colombian Mlb.ser;
Naval Question in Diplomacy; The Winn peg
War and American Neutrality: Spicy Debate
Owe. he TariG Bhl-New York City Iuel /.
gen'e-Th New R5g{me: Organizat on OF the
Now Del Brooklyn City News-Obit-
uaiy-Heartlcs' Depravty in Jeisey-The
Tea,on Pottery Compllcalons-Fata Ken :
sene Accident in Newark-Telegraphic News
Items.
4-Pari' Fashions-Assoclation for Befrend NJ
Chidr N Re igi us Inte Ggence-The Woman
GU stol-BIs Signed b; the Governor-The
German II spi al and Dspensary-Old Word
Iltms-L)ng Island News.
5-1hal Railroad John Foley and Others End rse
the Rum OF Br adway-Moying Day-The
Great Carpet R0bD ry--Financial and Com.
ne cal Repor s-Proce dimes In the New
York Curtis Pharaoh ana His Hosts-State
Pris n Notify Rcc0rd-Marriages and
d aths -Adve riseme its.
6--Ediiori 8: Leading Article on the Resurrec-
ton o. the Anc.eIt East; The Mission of
Modern Civilization from the West-Amuse.
IN nt Announcements.
S-Felegraphc News from all Parts of the World:
Reeiclde Revolutionary Plot in Paris; Con-
spiracy to Murder Napoleon and Blow up
the Tuiler,es "No Popery'' Agltatol In
Great Br .ta,n--Serrano Resigns the Spanish
Regency; the Pasha Of ypt Burne Out;n
A Tu kish Reform Bill Traced 10y the Sultan
City Politics Pc soma! inielligence-Th Lane
Tiagedy-Fi e in Eighth Avenue-Army Intel
hgen e-Walsb's Ward, 'Murderer's Block,-
Business Notices.
S-AdvtrJ 3 men g.
0-Advertlsements
10 E rope: French Agitation on the Plebiscltum
and CilIzen ghts; ''Libery and Revolution
Face to Face" IRON Paris TO Algeria; Count
sma ck on the Relations to Rome anu the
Sch ma de- Fid The B!oomingdale Murder:
Third Day Of the Trial OF John J. Nixon for
the Murier OF Davil Sisco-- Another Jersey
Railroad Outrage--New Post Office at Trenton,
n J.-Shlpping Intelgen ce--Adverriseme
11-Adyertisemen
12-Advertlsem cnts.
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embrace the whole world in one grand con-
federation, in the bonds Of common brother
hood and universal peace. Then, indeed,
will "the wilderness and the solitary place bc
made glad, and then will the s'desert rejoice
and blossom as the rose."
The New York herald., 1870-05-01

Anne Hagar, girl Of twelve years. is teaching
co Ored school in yngna. Some Of her scholars als
upwards Of twenty years OF age.
The New York herald., 1870-05-01
ADJUSTMENTS rl-aOllOw EVENING.


FRENCH THEATRE hth ST. and 9th av.-TnE LADY
or Lyons.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE. corner OF Eighth ayen ue and
Esd sL--TnF TWELVE TEMPTATIONS.
WOODS MUSEUM AND MENAGERtE, Proadway cor.
Rcr Theh stM 'tnee daily Per- every evening.
NIBLo'S GARDEN, Broadway-THE DRAMA OF Mos
QUITO
BowERy THEATRE. Bowery.-TnR BEGGAR's PETI-
rios-rHe MURDERED WATERMAN.
BOOTHS THEATRE, zsi st.. between 9th ana sth avs
WIDOW HUSr-TooDLre.
THEATRE c)MIo E. sl4 Broadway.-Coarc VOCAL.
ism, NRGao AC1e, &c.
..wALLAcK's THEATRE. Broadway and 18th street.
MAsks AND FACES
OLYMPIC THEATRe. Broaoway.-Nrw VERSION OF
MACBETH
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. Twenty.four.h st.-FRou-
FR0b.
THE TANMANY Fourteenth sreet-GaAsD VARIETY
MRS. f. B. CONwA IS PAkK THEATRE. Brookyn.-
TnK DAUGHTER or The REGIMENT.
TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE, POI Bowery.-Coxro
PocALiea. NEGRO htSsTEELsY, 80.
BRYANrs OPERA HOUSE TaInmany Building 18th
sL-LLlAA1s MInsTRLLs.
SAN FRANCISCO MISsrRELs SIS Broa way-ErHro
r1As MISBraELsEY, &C.
KELLY Icons MINsTRELs 100 Broadway.-Fnow
FRow.
APOLLO HALL. corner 2Sih street and Broadway
THE NEW H1EERNICoN.
HO0LEYS OPERA HOUSE. BrookIyn.-HooLEYs MIN.
srRELs-BISls THE PfDLAa &c.
NEW YORK scum OF ANATOMY, 6Is Broadway
SCIENCE AND AaT.
The New York herald., 1870-05-01

the White Sea-" may ere long strikingly con-
trast In our columns with the regular budget
from Bagdad and closing quotations from tho
silk markets Of lsaphan.
The New York herald., 1870-05-01


soming of the desert along the Suez Canal,
in the steamboats, and telegraphs on the
Enphrates and the Tigris, in the railway enter
prises of Turkey and Egypt, in the advances
of Russia into Central Asia, and in the pro-
jected English railway from the Mediterranean
across Palestine and by the Dead Sea to the
Persian Cult, as a short cut to India.
What sublime picture is this Moses in
the dazzling light Of the burning bush on
Mount Sinai, in the distant horizon the star
of Bethlehem midway between Moses and
our time, and in the foreground the cross, the
steamship, the railway train, the electric tele-
graph, the free school, the free church, the
free press, and over and around all the free
and enlightened man, steadily clearing the
field and building up the waste places Of the
earth with cities and temples, schools and
factories, gardens, farms and vineyards, back
to "the seven churches of ASIA" to Judea,
to the land of Moab, to Nineveh, Babylon and
to the Garden of Eden. What glorious mis-
sion is this for the West, with all its potential
appliances of modern science! What field
for the English-speaking races, States and
colonies around the globe! 1t is high privi-
lege to be in the midst of the grand civilizing
movements of this latter half of the nineteenth
century and to be an active agent therein;
but what will be the grandeur and the glory OF
modern achievements hundred or less than
| hundred years hences They will probably
The New York herald., 1870-05-01

FRENCH THEATRE. l4th and 9th av.-TnE LAD,
or LYONa
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-29

THE ECONOMY MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION
This company Is now well established and
Is rapidly increasing its membership. Their
plan is 30 simple as to be readily under
stood, and so cheap as to bring the benefits
OF life insurance within the reach of all.
An entrance fee of $40 or SIS is charged.
and an assessment of ST Is made upon the
death of a member. Even if it cost as
much as the ordinary plan, the payments
are made so light as to put no one to in.
convenience; but experience has proved
that the cost by this plan is much less than
the common mode of insurance. We notice
that the entrance fee is non-forfeiting. and
is paid back at death, in addition to the
policy. if the member should die within
twelve months. Nothing could be fairer
than this. We advise parties desiring q
cheap insurance. to call at the Office of the
company, No. 1873 Gravier street. and ex-
anime their plan. Mr.. Louis Schneider. of
The well known firm of Schneider & Zuber.
bier, is the president and MIR. j. B. Guthrie.
secretary OF the company.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-29
The Victorious IA DuhO.

The victorious American yacht Sappho
is said to be one of the finest and fastest
of all American or English yachts Her
dimensions are: Length of keel, l13 feet;
length on water line, 1885 feet; length of
deck, 1875 feet; length over all. 154 s feet:
beam, n feet; depth of hold, II feet. She
draws IL feet Of water aft, and forward:
carries squaresail, staysail, two gaff top
sails, and has great buoyancy and stability
by form, both of which come from a good
model, and 65 tons of ballast, slowed with
fine judgment. In her model she carries
out the American idea of construction.
Her bows are very long and fine, and her
lines forward are nearly straight.
She has very little concavity. One pc
culiarity forward is her bowsprit, which
is built in her, thus securing one-third
more strength than by the usual plan.
with one-tLird less weight. Her stern is
all dead-wood, and drags no water, leav-
ing a narrow wake. She stands up we'll.
is remarkably quick in stays, is well
barred and nearly as strong as crystalized
Ok; built of oak, locust and hackmetack;
finished on the interior with hardwood
cabin, and in every way graceful and
elegant craft. She was built by the Poll
ons of Brooklyn, New York, for their own
use, but was subsequently sold to Mr..
William Douglass, Of New York city, a
yachtman, who, by the tone of
his correspondence with his English rival,
and the evident desire to obtain a fair
rial of his schooner has secured the a.
,roval of all American yachtmen.-Neao
York Herald
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-29

INTERNATIONAL HoTEL-NIAGARA FALLS
This truly splendid establishment offers
perhaps better inducements to tourists dur
ing the summer than any house in the Union.
Situated in the immediate vicinity of that
greatest of all natural curiosit1es, Niagara
Falls, it affords, from even its windows, rare
views of the wonderful cataract. And being
under the directionof most accomplished
caterer and agreeable gentleman, Mr.. James
I. Fulton, it is conducted upon the very best
principles by which the comfort of guests
can be attended to. Stopping at this hotel,
persons from this city will be sure to find.
throughout the whole summer, the very best
ana most agreeable society. The tables are
always supplied with every delicacy, and the
service is unexceptionable.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-29

WASHES New FURNISHING GooDs.-The
amount of taste displayed by Mr.. B. T..
Walshe, No. ITO Canal street, in the selec-
ton of his spring stock this season, has been
a matter of considerable comment among
the habitues of Canal street during the past
week. Such beautiful cravats and ties.
splendid undergarments, gloves, handker-
chiefs, etc., rarely has been seen on this
side of the Atlantic. while his prices are so
reasonable that those splendid goods are
placed within the reach of every one. Be.
sides the above named goods, MIR. Walshe
has also general assortment of seasonable
goods for children, which parents would do
well to go and inspect. Mr.. Nalshe be-
lleves in quick sales and small profits. His
goods are always IS stylish as any to be
found IN the country. and having been
expressly for his sales, are re.
liable lG every respect. Go and look at
them.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-29

The aged Professor Silliman took a
homely-looking specimen of. New Jersey
coal, and said he would make test and de-
termine its quality. The next day the own.
ers OF the grand discovery waited on him
again, eager to hear the verdict which was
to make or mar their fortunes. The Pro-
lessor said, with that impressive solemnity
which always marked his manner: "Gen-
tlemen, understand you to say that this
property is situated upon hilLtop-conse.
quently the situation is prominent. 1t is
valuable-immensely valuable-though as
coal mine am obliged to observe that it is
failure. Fence it in, gentleman, fence it
in, and hold to it through good and evil
fortune till the Last Day; for l am con.
WINGED that it will be the best point from
which to view the sublime spectacle of the
nnal conhagration. l feel satisfied that if
any part of the earth shall remain unin-
iured after that awful fire, it will be this
coal mine of yOursl"-Mdrhc Ttrdin.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-29
The Bars Mt the Passes.

We copy the following from the Price
| Current:
The government dredge boa, " Essayons. y
AFTER having been in. port for repairs, has
been taken back to Pass-a.rOutre, we un-
derstand, to resume the work of dredging
at that point. 1t is now some two years, or
more, since this boat was placed at Pass-a-
FOutre, and very sangulne expectations
were entertained by those in charge of her
that she would accomplish much good by
deepening the channel so that vessels of q
large class would experience no difficulty in
passing the bar. Much to the disappoint-
ment OF all. there are no evidences that the
channel has been at all improved notwith.
standing all the outlays which have been
made, both Of time and money. As an evil
dence of this we have only to note the fact
that for the past three or four days bark
drawing only twelve and half feet of water
has been stuck fast on Pass.a.rOutre bar.
AT the Southwest Pass, on the other hand.
where there has been no dredging done for
some years past, we have had no complaint
OF lack of water on the bar for many
months, and ships drawing nineteen feet of
water find no difficulty in going to sea.
This proves concluslvely at what small
expense, comparatively speaking, the bar at
the Southwest Pass can be kept free for the
largest class of merchant vessels; and it was
".'A AoA AAOWiCuSC VI Vic advantages
which it presented that our merchants,
some time since, solicited of government
the transferring of the Essayons 70 this pass.
This reasonable request was not complied
with, rs is well known, and out of Difference,
1t was said at the time, to the wishes of the
government engineers having the work of
dredging the passes in charge. The result
was that many vessels were long delayed on |
their voyage, and heavy expenses were in
Cured, when they might have been saved |
had the request of our merchants been |
granted.
The distractions to navigation over the I
par at the Southwest Pass are caused, as all |
VINO have investigated the matter at all
must know, the rising upon the channel |
OF mud lumA and if the Essayons can
ever be made available for any good, it Is
lor the removing the tops of these. Many
persons OF long experience, in respect to the
Passes at the mouth of the river, believe
that she might do efficient service if thus
employed, and the time has about arrived,
we think, when some attention should be
paid by government officials to the views of
such parties by placing the Essavons to
work at the Southwest Pass. No additional
expense would be incurred by so doing.
and the wants OF commerce would be
greatly subserved thereby.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-29

Messrs' liable d Dalton, No. lis Poydras
street. manufacture tin and japanned ware.
are agents for that splendid cooking stove
known all over the Union as 1.-THE Times
Stove;;" Bramhall, Deane & Co.'S European
ranges and broilers, and that valuable cover
ing for houses, the Asbestos roofing. They
also deal in stoves, CRATES and every
description Of house furnishing goods. We
advise such of our >readers as wish to pur-
chase good articles in all these lines to give
them q call.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-29
TAX COLLECTORS NOTICE.
OFFICE STArE TAX COLLECTOR. !
First District, City Of New Orleans,
State of Louisiana Nav % la70 \

The following named parties are hereby
notified to call at my Office, No. 126 Caron-
delet street, room No. 81 Davidson's
Court, and settle the amounts set opposite
their names, for taxes due the State for
1869, within TWENTY DAYS from date, or
will proceed TO collect the same according
to law:
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-29
9eiu @rlsxns $epnbliea,..
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE UNITED STATES.
aFflcAL JOURNAL OF the STATE OF LOUISIANA.
Written for the New Orleans Republican,
THE SUICIDE.

The railroad agent was man whose might
Lay in his looks, words, suavity and grace;
His face all cheek, his person only face
His movements each denoting chiefly
sleight;
And while al listened to the ornate phrase,
Voiced in word-music, velveted with
smiles,
Touching the saving so many miles,
He after sank into the liquid praise
Of the Great Sleeping Car, how furnished,
couched-
How spleniored, toned, sleep-baited-so
he vouched.
s.Ah!" then said one, in solemn voice and
deep,
sheu-waste no more breath, huff sed
i join the famous caravan of dead,
And would be executed in my Sleep"
SACKS.
New Orleans, May %, 1870.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-29

Chang, the Chinese giant, is said to take
much enjoyment in eating. It requires q
space of twenty minutes for a mouthful Of
food to 60 from the palate down the alimen.
tary tothe stomach.
The New York herald., 1870-03-13
CoACHMEN AND GARDENERS.

COMPETENT MAN WANTS A SITUATION AS
II coachman and gardener IA rst class gardener and
excellent haed with horses and good careful driver Is
married, with small family eight years reference from his
lass employers Can be seen 4si Wess 45th st. u
addressed TO GARDENER TO the above number be
tended to.
The New York herald., 1870-03-13

AT 66 EAST 9TH ST., SECOND DOOR WEST O
n roadway-M anted, two very first class MILNE RS
high wages and ateady employment also apprentices
ar 10 erranGs. ! =