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TIE ANNAPOLIS BOAT RAcs-ihcTHEa ACCOUNT OF THE
ACCIDENTS
ST. Jons's COLLEGE, ANNAPOLIS, Nd,
NAu IL 4

ST. Jons's COLLEGE, ANNAPOLIS, Nd,
May IL, 1874.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
In your issue OF the nth inst you publish letter
from the United States Naval Academy correcting
the despatch OF your correspondent published In
your issue OF the It'll inst. Permit me to correct
through the medium OF your columns, several mis.
statements Of facts contained IN the above mentioned
letter. one bolt or the bow 0utrgger OF the College
boat broke within the first ten strokes or the
race. another bolt In the up course and
In the nrst quarter OF mile OF the
fell into the water. At the time Of the culmination
OF the accident the academy boat was scarcelv two
lengths ahead, the College boat gaining steadily.
Only one bolt OF the midshlpmen's outrigger broke,
winch accident interfered but little with their pull
ing. The st. JOINS College crew was not picked
from rs members but nom the College Boat Club,
consisting OF twenty five members. ny publishing
the above you will greatly Obige
THE PRESIDENT or The Sf. JOHNS COLLEGE
BOAT CLUB
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Marine DISASTERS.

SHIP STAR or Tnr WEST. Henderson, with coal, from
Newcastle, r. April for Quebec, wrecked May ut
saved
BRIG ELIZA HUNTER tof Guernsey, a voyage from
Charleston to London was abandoned in lat Ion 50 49,
Crew saw vessel go down. and afterwards picked
by BRUSH schooner Emma, OF Lunenburg MS and landed
at - Johns Ant hpri TO- The Of the Eliza Hunter
Is Mr. Freckcr, OF Guernsey. The above
ported In the Herald OF the Eth inst in which she was called
an American vessel We have Of her sailing from
Chareston.)
sonR IRIS, Nye. from Savannah for saybrook, c. put
into Norfolk 18th inst leaking
kNasToN, Ja April 25-The bark Hannah H, reported
key TO become total wreck Folly Reef sold to-day
TO Mr. Orve OF Port Morant for f20 The cargo her
was sold 10 Mr. Henry Ford, OF Holland BAY, 80 punch
cons OF rum at q iod Ia bond several tons ogwood
43s I'd per ton; s4O0 cocoanuts, at 54s per 1000.
Misc elianeous.
Purser Mallory Of the steamship Ocean Queen, from
pinwal, has our thanks for fayors
Purser Jas Ford, of the imshp Ashland from Fer
nandina Will please accept our thanks for his attentions
Purser Young OF the steamship Barnes, from Sa-
vaDnah, has our thanks for favors.
PORT or NEW ORLHANs-rhe following Is statement of
the comparative number o. vessels in the port OF New Or
leans for years.
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Over in New Jersey, stretching from the Bergen
heights to Elizabethport and Perth Amboy, lies an
immense tract OF semi-submerged land or swamp
known as the Newark and Elizabethport meadows.
For years this property, chiefly owned by the de-
scendants OF the original settlers Of the "Towne on
the Passayak" and surrounding towns and villages
has been regarded worthless, and no regular
effort, worthy Of being called SUCH was made to
render 1t useful What to do with 1t, how to re-
claim it ana turn 1t into agricultural other uses
was long the great puzzllng question, and, indeed,
continues so to be to greater or lesser extent. OF
late years well-conceved plan was carried out by
a well-known capitalist OF the metropolis having In
view the reclamation OF large tract; and thus far
the plan though not entirely successful has never
theless been so much inclined that way that strong
hopes are now entertained that the
SOLUTION OF THE GRAND PUZZLE
is among the very likely probabilities. On some
portions of the reclaimed land, between the Hacken-
sack river and Newark, tolerably good corn was
raised last year. In view OF this and other facts the
owners OF the meadows are beginning to realize
that their property is Of some considerable value.
More particularly are their wits sharpened on this
point In consequence OF the passage, year or two
ago. by the New Jersey Legislature, Of certain act
known as ~ =
THE BRIGGS DRAINAGE BILL.
This bill gives some unheard-of and most extraor-
binary rights and privileges to Mr.. briggs, resi-
dent OF New Brunswick, and through him TO
company of cunning New York Spectators. Under
the provisions OF the bill which Is ostensibly
enacted for the purpose OF dyking draining and re.
claiming the meadow lands in question all the way
from Newark to Perth Amboy. some twenty odd
miles-the company Of which briggs is the figure
head Is empowered to take without the consent OF
the real owners thousands OF acres
THIS CoNFIsCATED PROPERTY
the company are required to lay out as folows-
Fifty feet in from the bay front is to remain
intact the next twenty Ave feet is to be DYKE then
space Of twenty-five feet, then another dyke OF
twenty-five ieet and the balance, fifty feet, to be
made into road. The following map Is perhaps
more comprehensive
''r-a R{uer or Ban Front
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Whalcmen.

WnaIcmens
Arrived at Pemambuco April 8, bark w Morgan, from
Talcahuanho; procured refreshments and sailed for New
Bedford
Bark Tucker Capt Daniel Ricketson, sailed from
New Bedford May for the Indian Ocean, The following
persons compose her Geo Bourne first mate; VIM
Harris, OF Maapoise second mate; John vanderhoop
OF Gay Head, third mate boatsteerer; Henry Wader
New Bedford, boas!ecrers; VIM Pooker, Croghan. New
York. shpkeeper and boatsteerer Jos Brdsa do, stew
ard John Harding do, cook VIM Duane, do; Henry Bra
aon 90 John Monroe do; Cnas Allen, syracuse NY;
Charley Nnmboo Tahiti, Andrew Log do Frederick smith,
Dow Plains; Arthur lbberson, New Jersey Andrew A
Colin, Nantucket; Otis Fish, Falmouth and Jas Ellis,
.schr Petrol Capt Philip Reed sailed from New Bedford
May for the Atlantic Ocean Tho following persons conf
pote her crew :Albert Robbins, OF New Bedford, hrst
mate Geo u Ellis OF Dartmouth, second mate Geo w ss-
son, New Bedford boatseerer Jas bowen, do cooper
John Wilson, do steward Oliver Lee, do Benz Franklin,
do Andrew kanaca, do Andrew johnson, DO; John Finn
de; Francisco Espanos do James Larknhed, do James
Holiness do, and Alexander Morton, salem, seAmen.
spoken.
Bark Queen OF Scots (Br from New York for Bremen,
May H. 80 miles east OF Sandy Hook tby pilot boat james
Avery. koah
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TROTTlNG At ST. LOUIS.

ST.. LOUIS May IS, 1871.
match this AFTERNOON on the Abbey track. be-.
tween the irotting stallion Pilot Temple and the
pacing mare Cotton Picker, for $1,000 side, was
won by Pilot Temple. Time, 2:26x-2:24h. the
third heat heing walk over, the owner OF the Cot.
ton Picker declining TO 90, on the ground that Iot
Temple ran more than he trotted In the second heat
protest has been entered and the stakeholder no
hned not 10 give up the money.
the races Will continue four days next week, ana
OF the best horses the West here 10 con-
Test for purses. During the race an open stand,
which was much crowded, Ieli, breaking the leg 0f
MI. bcQuaDd, uncle Of the vocalist Rosa Erina,
disocatng me ankle OF John NJ. keid, oI Columbus,
Anq sllgbly lpluuQg several pLuerh
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THE NEWARK MEADOWS,
Is briggs Drainage Scheme a Fraud,
Snare and DelusiOn?

An Alleged Gigantic Jersey Legislative SWIM
dle-A Huge Job to Fleece Jersey Meadow
0wnors-Another Great Opportunity Slip
ping Out Of Newark's Reach-where
Are Her Men Of Intellectual
Grasp and Enterprise Inter
esting Facts and Figures
What Took Place in
Court on Saturday.
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ARRIVALS.
REPORTED by THE HERALD STEAM YACHTS.

REPORTED BY THE HERALD STEAM YACHTS.
Steamship Caabra OBJ, McMickan, Liverpool May and
Queenstown 3D. with mdse and 762 passengers TO q
franekiyn. May la. 46 5 Ion IS ~ sgnalsissd North
uion steamer, do; 18th, lat H. lon 90 3D. North Ger
steamer, do 2th lat 4v 49, lon 63 90 9uion steamer
steamship Enn dBr lawson Liverpool April y And
Hurst May g. lb AN, passed steamship England and
pilot hrr carried from boat Nos; 18th, at
day. AM, National steamer, do, and steamer showing
blue light red light and rocket -
stcamshiD Ashland HooaA xAfnandina. ep houra With
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WORK Of the LABOR BURE AL.

Mr.. James Donahue, Superinte ndent of the Free
Labor Bureau, Nos. and 10 Clinic place, makes
the following report OF business for the weeS ending
May l3:-Appllcaton, Tor employment, l,i36; OF
these there were 173 males and 963 femaYes; male
help required ia; female 100; situations procured
for lO5 males and g0l females. Whole number OF
situations procured during the week, 1,008..
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BELOW.

shin American Congress Ghselin, from London, March
~, with mdse and passengers. 10 Grnne Mnturn Il Co
No41
ship Sunbeam Br), Holmes, Cardiff AZ days, with railway
iron to f. H. Wrght Co. Received pilot Nav r. 50 miles
r. OF Sandy Hook from boat Jas Avery No. g.
Bark James Welsh from Barbados (by pilot Chrstan
Bergh, No lb).
Wind at sunset NV.
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SHIPPING NEW S
Almanac for New York This Day.

Sun rises. -. 4 43 Moon rises. morn 10
Sun sets. .... 10 High water....eve 81
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OCEAN STEAMERS.
0Tc.


DATE OF DEPARTURES FROM NEW YORK FOR THE
MONTHS OF MAY AND JUNE.
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The Delaware Lackawanna and Western and Penn
sylvania Coal companies, members of the Operators
League concurTed In the concessions made by the
Delaware and Hudson Company. and consequently
stand III precisely the same position.
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The Ra9o for Suicide.

We have always noticed that particular
kinds of crime seem to come among the COM
munty at the same time. One day it is for
gerry that takes the field; another day it is
bond robbery again, wife murder or poison
ings or depredations upon express trains fol-
low each other in rapid succession. 1t looks
as though, by some fatality, the viciousness of
certain given times. Just now suicide appears
to be the prevailing mania. By drowning, by
poisoning aS9s by the rope unhappy vic
Tins are every day reported as Fastening,
by their own volition, into mysterious eter-
nifty. For the past week we have had to
record three or four of these cases. A gen
tleman once prominent in political life-a
man of fine scholastic requirements, with
noble intellect shattered by the reverses of
the world, immolates himself in a public
asylum. A lady of respectable family, har-
raised with despair 10y incidents and sorrows
of which, perhaps, her own heart was the sole
receptacle, is 'found drowned" in the river.
Even children, piqued at little domestic con-
troll, rush headlong to self-destruction, making
CHASTITY gap in the household and dismal
chapter in the hideous story of the Morgue.
How can we account for this? Only in one
of two ways. That suicide, like other promi-
nent crimes, sometimes becomes as much an
epidemic as yellow fever and other calamities
of like nature; or that the standard of morality
has fallen so low that the faith in God and
Christianity has abandoned large portion Of
our people. 1t is the moral coward who seeks
relief from the worlds calamities in self
destruction. Those who carry the standard
of faith and trust in Providence can endure,
in brave and manly fashion, the ills which
belong to the lot of every man and woman,
and await the release which death may bring
when it comes to pass that death is the only
portal Of escape from misery.
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Personal Intelligence.

Ex-Mayor Rice, OF Boston, Is among the arrivals
at the Filth Avenue Hotel.
Ex-Governor W. 9. Smith, of Vermont, is sojourn.
ing at the Brevoort House.
Mr.. j. p. Cowardin, Mr.. Ernest Witt, Mr.. @. A.
schanter Mr.. Nj. p. Handy and Mr.. w. s. Gilman,
members OF the Virginia Legislative delegation,
have come to this city for the purpose OF making
arrangements for the International Exhibition.
They are staying at the Filth Avenue Hotel.
Mrs. Senator Sprague is sojournlng at the HOR-
man House.
General G. W. Cass, OF P1ttsburg, has taken quar-
tiers al the st. Nicholas ho ell.
General Arson Stager, OF Chicago Is at the Fffts
Avenue Hotel.
Mr.. Alexander Mitchell. Member OF Congress from
Wisconsin, has put up at the Holman House.
Mr.. l.. A. Bgelow, OF Boston, Is among the latest
arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
colonel James, OF California, has arrived at the
Grand Hotel.
Colonel E. u. Judd. OF the United States Army, Is
quarsered at the st. Nicholas HOTEL
Judge Spencer. of syracuse, Is sojourning at che
Fifth Avenue Hot
Senator Carpenter, OF Wisconsin, has left the Hon.
man House for home.
NJ p Jewell, brother of the Governor who Is to
be- has departed from the Fifth Avenue HOTEL home
ward bound.
will be OF interest TO fashionable society. MISS Ma.
talie de Loosely, daughter OF the late Chevalier de
Loosely, for so many years Austrian Consul General
In this city, was married on the 18th of March IN
Vienna, Austria, to Baron Max de Kuebeck. Nom.
Der OF Parliament and son OF the for eight years
Minister OF Finance Of Austria. The ceremony took
place the private residence of the brides brother
in-law, Mr.. Theodore Havemeyer, OF New York.
temporarily sojourning in Vienna. Among
those present were the most distinguished
personages In official and social circles OF
the Austrian capital among them Count de Beust,
the American Minister, Mr.. Fay and Mrs Fay, mem-
beers OF the Diplomatic Corps. Admiral Cnevaier
de Tegethon, the hero OF LISA, gave the bride
away and Miss Blanche de Loosely, the youngest
sister, the only bridesmaid The newly married
couple started Immediately after the reception on
tip TO Italy, aud their return VIII reside perna-
nenty III Vienna. Mr.. and Mrs. Havemeyer, nee D0
Loosely, and family, are expected home In New Lork
this summer.
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YACHTING.
The Queens Cup-It Must be Sailed for ~
Won.
Npu Wong Anrl a f0T1.

Won.
NEW YORK, April 8, I6Tl.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
Permit me as member OF the Yacht Club and q
lover OF fair play few words in respect to the ex-
traordinary CLAIM made by Commodore Ashbury
and some OF our Yacht Club that he or any per-
son competing for the Queens Cup can force the
Yacht Club TO designate its champion schooner me
f,rst pertinent inquiry Is, how was this Cup wonf
Wny by the America sailing against many vesses In
the next place, would the defeat OF any selected
yacht prove (what the Cup intended to prove) that
its international possession IL proof OF lis intcrna-
tonal superiority The simple result in that event
would be that in q successful contest Tor one
English vessel against one American vessel the Eng
lisn vessel won. Besides the Yacht Club might make
q very Serious mistake In designating champion
schooner. Yachting. like whist, IL OF course dc-
PENDENT upon four-nfrhs skill and one-lith LUCK
The luck OF yachting is In tide, wilma ana wcatners
the rest il skill and seamanship. But the cnaa~
lenger sailing against the Meet Is sure to nnd Mhas-
ever be the weather, some one vessci among tne
feet that can under the same circumstances compete
with it. Again, how is the Yacht Club 70 decide
which is the champion schooner Is any yacht owner
rolng to vote for any other yacht than his ownf
Each yacht owner in the squadron believes a. he
ought that his yacht Is tho fastest. He bought
bu,lt 10 believing or intending 1t TO be the hstest
Suppose therefore, tho Yacht Club cannot agree
upon champion schooner. how Is the Queens Cup
to be sailed for by n challenger Tho intention OF
the gift coupled with the way In which 1t was won;
ana considerations OF fair play, certainly suGgsss
that In an International trial OF skull chaHeD0sf
should sail against the whole squadron. and not add
to the chances OF HIS luck th0s Of having YapAt Climb
jealousy or management make q mistake n select
ing cnamp,on, 4. Q. IL
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Marrying and UnmarryIng.

A striking instance of peculiarly primitive
ideas upon the subject of matrimony was
brought to light on Thursday in the Superior
Court. A young couple, recently married,
thought it just as easy to get unmarried. Like
asking the minister to marry them, they thought
all they had to do was to ask judge to unmarry
them, and the work was to be as quickly
done. Introducing themselves to the Court,
which they did openly, they asked to be di-
vorced. Upon tho Judge asking on what
grounds they sought divorce their only re-
ply was that 1t was by mutual consent
''this and nothing more" Neither had charges
to make agains. the other. The green-cyed
monster had not disturbed the serenity of their
young welded lives. Peccadilloes there were
none. Neglect, harshness, crnc!ty-there
were mono Of these. Incompatibility OF tenn
per, that dernier resort Of divorce applicants,
had not rufied the smooth waters Of their
matrimonial existence. All the Judge could do,
of coursc-and this he did-was to discourse
to them briefly upon the nature Of marriage as
q civil contract, as defined In the law; upon Its
solemnity, as set forth In the pages OF Holy
Writ, and upon the inutility of their applica-
ton by telling them no could DO nothing for
them.
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The Fuss In the Custom House-Breaking
Up of a Hard Winter.

The Fuss In the Custom H0usc-Breaktng
Up of a Hard Winter.
The fuss in the Custom House continues. 1t
is like the breaking up of a hard winter among
all parties. The fuss in New Hampshire gave
democrats reason for national success. The
fuss in Connecticut gave republicans similar
encouragement. The fuss in an executive SEES
sion of the Senate of the United States gave
encouragement in this wise-that the majority
knew their own business and were not to be
sold out at auction.
The whole matter looks like the thawing out
of severe winter season. The river is open.
Both republicans and democrats are floating
down with the tide and capering with
the eddies, like cakes Of ice, hither and
thither. They touch this shore and
that shore, and upon neither do they
gather pearls to help them upon
future political ventures. The republicans
take the old war issues, and the democrats,
jeff Davis, with his Selma ante-rebellion
enunciatons, as their platform for national
business. The democrats can never succeed
upon platform like that. JEFF declares he
has never asked pardon for his peridious
deserton of the republic. Probably the
republic will never grant pardon to JEFF Davis
so long as he remains in his present rebellious
frame of mind. JEFF Davis has friends in the
democratic party, and he ia entitled to the
kindest consideration from them. Let these
friends clasp him to their bosoms (for he is
worthy of every kindness from his infirmities),
but do not let them attempt to make hero Of
q man who, sad failure among his own
people, can never be the instrument Of pro-
claiming ruler over many.
The fuss in the Custom House is very funny.
The outsiders say that the removal of Mr..
Grinnel and giving his place to Mr.. Latin is
Young America movement. Ask an old
republican what it means and he will reply,
s'We intend to run this thing ourselves" No
grave, no epitaph, no mausoleum to poor old
Mr.. Grinnell! Republican Young America
has concluded to run the machine themselves,
and prepare the pathway for lively cam
paign in 1872 for the reelection of plain old
General Grant.
In the meantime, what are the democratic
leaders doing? Floating down stream, like
crows on a cake of ice, feathers dipped, and
waiting, like Barnaby Ridges raven, for the
cry Of Scrip" The young republicans are
alive to changes, and General Grant has their
support in his present operations in regard to
the New York Custom House.
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L RIPLE SHEET


FACE.
acknowledgements
2-Advertisements
S-Ine Miners War: outbreak Among the Labor
ers at scranton; Several Killed; Proclamation
OF Governor Geary-Easter Sunday: How the
Day ID to he Observed in the Churches of All
Denominatlons-Our Pugnaclous legislators
news IRON Washington O0ituary-Miscella
bany-Fires Elsewhere-Good Friday: Ser
vices In ST. Peters, st. Georges and Plymouth
Churches-HOrse Notes.-The Army OF the Ten
nessee-Jentral Brdge-Have the Whole or
N0ne-Eagewoo Institute Alumni.
o.-Proceedings In Congress Land Tenures and
TItles-Ihe Courcs-A Scene in the Grand
Opera House-Tbe Cool Conspiracy-The In
come Tax question-Clever Capture-An Ex-
Densive spree Philadelphia Items-The Sui
eide OF Mrs. F0x-Mr. Lanin and His New
Appointment The Peace jubilee In Brooklyn.
0-Editorials: Leading Article, 1.-The Democratic
Party and the Issues OF the Rebellion-The
Warning Voice OF the Late Electlonsr-Per-
sonal lnteliigence-Ya chting-Amusement An
nOunccments
y-rhe Rouge Revolt Two DAYS OF Bloody Fight
Ing Before Paris A Reign OF Terror in the
Clty-News IRON Central and South America
Herald Special Report from Panama-Cuba
Tie Rebel Guerias at Work Surprise OF a
Spanish Column-Mtscellaneou Telegrams-
Business Notices.
S-The Navy: The Register for ls71-Equaty and
Justice: A Female Ku Klux in Massachusetts
The Frear stone-Abundance of Seal O-The
Brooklyn Homeopathic Lying-in Asylum
0-The Cnsenden Tragedy: Continuation OF the
Trial OF Mrs Far-F.nancial and Commercial
Representatives, and DeatnS-Adyertise-
ments.
1O-The Gallows: Execution OF Andrew Brentlin-
ger Tor the Murder OF His Wife, In Allen
county, Ohio-The Sleepy Hollow Crime
Mother SOmerby's Chlckens-The Camden
Parricide Respited-Crushed TO Death-A
Horrible Death-Shpping Intelligence-Ad.
verilSemen s.
Disbursements.
12-Advert1SementS.
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A Novel Scene mt the Grand Opera Hous

A Novel Scene MT the Grand Opera House.
A novel scene was enacted at the Grand
Opera House on Thursday night. An officer
from the United States Court, armed with a
copy Of an Injunction in one of the Erie suits,
for the purposes of serving it upon Mr.. Jay
Gould, proceeded to that gentleman's resi-
dence, but not finding him there, concluded
that he must be at the Opera House, and
wended his way thther. There he found the
object of his search, upon whom he served the
paper in question just as Mr.. Gould had left
one of the boxes. There was some confusion
at the moment, the officer being knocked
against Mr.. Gould by the pressure of the
crowd. After the officer had accomplished his
mission and gained the street he was ar
rested by policeman in citizens clothes, who
produced no warrant, and taken to police
station, where charge of assaulting Mr..
Gould was lodged against him, Bail was ten
dered for the accused. This was refused, how
ever, on the ground that the Superintendent
of Police was not present to approve Of it.
The officer was, therefore, locked up for the
night. Yesterday he was brought to Jefferson
Market Police Court and discharged on bail.
This affair has caused considerable amount
of talk and speculation in the courts, and the
probability is that the federal authorities will
not overlook it. The Marshal is incensed that
his deputy should have been treated in the
manner described 'Hear the other side" is
a good maxim. Mr.. Goulds version of tho
story remains to be told. Let the truth be
disclosed. This Erie war must not be fought
in this way. 1t should be conducted with
gravity and decorum, and, 1t is to be hoped,
decided with justice to the litigants. Un-
seemly demonstrations cannot aid the cause of
either side.