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Year: 1870

The Hudson Amateur Rowing Association will
have Its grand opening day on Wednesday, May Is,
1870. Preparations are active for the day and the
occasion Is TO be grand one, with exciting races
and good eating and drinking. The following Is the
ORDER


The annual review of the clubs comprising this
association will take place on the 18th day Of May.


Coxswains OF crews VIII report to the Commodore
at Pleasant Valley at one O'Clock p. NJ, ready for
view, ana assume position IN line according to the
Commodore Will offer suitable prize for race In
single SOULS, open boats, seventeen feet; open only
to members who have never won single scull
race


A first class dinner will be served Immediately
after the race assessment two dollars per man.


The Quick Club will have barge and crew in
waiting for the OF the Commodore during the re-
view


Should the day named prove stormy the opening
will be postponed to the first fair 6ay following.
Year: 1870

Defalcation I'm the Onlce OF tho North German


Consul in This City-Abscoudins Of a


Clerk.


1t IS is the OLD story STILL It repeats itself day-
temptation drst and inevitable ruin afterwards It
Is but seldom that week passes In which the pub
lie do not hear throughthe columns Of the HERALD
OF the clerks honored and trusted by their
employers falling an easy prey to the
vile tempter, who allures them into sin and
crime either by the intoxicating bowl or
through the artifces Of corrupted female beauty A
similar case. though somewhat outside Of the usual
routine, has lately occurred In this CITY, and its un.
usual character consists principally In the circum.
stance that the suffering employer shrnks from all
puDlclty ana nrmly declines to take any steps for
the punishment Of the confessed cuprit on account
OF his relations in Europe. who are SAID to rank
among the best families Of Prussia. And 1t Is for
this reason that the name OF the defauIter ia even
now withheld from publication.


:, ne was clerk In the Office Of DR.. Johannes Roe
sing consul General OF the North German Union in
TINS city. AS such 1t had become branch of his
duties to receive receipt for and enter into proper
books such moneys as citizens OF North Germany
residing in this country deposited for various pnr
poses with the Consul General. On Saturday May
:, the clerk spoken OF being absent for moment
thaler5 in gOld and wished the money returned to
The clerk not being at his desk the Consul General
nun, himself , took the receipt and began to compare it
spending with this particular receipt could be found
me receipt ifseif however, recognized as being
IN the handwriting OF the absent clerk having charge
OF this department. DR.. Roesng requested the lady
TO call again on Monday morning, and she left
shortly afterwards the clerk returned and
was Immediately asked by the Consul why
no entry had been made OF that sum or
money. Being thus abruptly surprised he at
once confessed tnat when he received the
600 thaers from the lady he was very much pressed
Tor money and to relieve himself from annoyance by
creditors he appropriated the to his own use
He stated however, that he had sufficient means to
replace the sum by Monday morning, and he was
allowed that term OF grace. But Monday came and
the hours lassed on to the near approach OF the
close OF the business day, and Yet the young, hand
some, elegant and stylish clerk failed to put In an
appearance. An investigation of the books
however, had been had, and 1t was ascertained,
to the great CONSERVATION OF the Consul General,
exceed 5000 in gold. or the Whereabouts of the
deiaul;er himself nothing seems to be known; he
has not been seen In the city since the Saturday
which revealed his crime. 1t is said that wine and
women and his general tendency to extravagance
had goaded him on to his iall. The dep0sitOrs viii
lose nothing.
Year: 1870

Another Keroseuo Horror-Burning Of tho
steamer War Eagle and Of the Railroad
Depot NJ Lacrosse-Two Lives Lost.


LACROSSE May Is, 1870.


early THIS morning barrel OF kerosene oil was
leaking on board the steamer War Eagle, and q man
'ried 70 stop the leakage, when boy passed along
with lantern. As he got opposite the kerosene the
bottom OF his lantern fell and set fire to the kerosene,
ana the steamer was soon enyeloped In
names which communicated to the Milwaukee
and st. Paul Railway depot and elevator
buildings, which were also consumed. In
consequence Of report that there were eight bar
rels Of powder IN the hold OF the steamer It was
impossible to get the to work to extinguish the
fire. The boat was full OF passengers, who made
their escape from the hurricane deck by jumping
into the river. AS far as learned only two persons
were drowned-a negro employed on the boat and
lad Of Lacrosse name not reported. Everything on
the boat was lost and all the freight In the depot
consumed. Not single thing was saved. The
damage Is very heavy, but cannot be estimated at
present.
Year: 1870

The body OF a drowned man, evidently q suicide,
was found in the water at vanderveer's Mill, near
New Lots, yesterday. Coroner Jones proceeded to
the place and held an inquest when II was shown
tnat the deceased had deliberately taken his own
life by tying a rope around his hands and another
about his body, the ends OF which he made fast to
the bridge and then rolled or the latter into tho
stream. His name was not ascertalned as the re-
mains were not identified.
Year: 1870

Tho Debate ON Infallibility.


ROME, May IA, via PARIS, May Is, 1870
In the Ecumenical Council yesterday the discussion
Of the Lesser Catechism was closed.


The debate on the primacy and nfallibillty Of the
Pope commences to-day. The ultra-montane party
have great confidence in the result and believe all
win be finished within MONTH
About 100 members have given formal notice that
they will oppose more or less radically proposed
definition Of iniability.
Year: 1870




The law of kissing The monks of
the middle ages are said to have divid.
ed the kiss into fifteen distinct species.
1t appears that by the old civil law n
kiss had decided effect upon the po-
sitions Of the swain and his beloved in
case the match has broken of. All
gifts that had passed between the
lovers were ordinarily Gr the marriage
did not take place. to be returned to
the first owners. II, however, the lover
had, while courting, given his intended
a kiss, he was to lose half Of what he
had given. This though, was not the
case with the woman, who might kiss
as much as she chose without peril.
Year: 1870

A number Of people were watching
intently yesterday the fcats Of a man
upon the stccple Of the cathcdral--thc
ease and indifference with which he
conducted himself at the dizzy height,
provoking many expressions Of alarm
and wonder. This mans name is
De Lacy, and is in the employ of II W.
Dishlcr, the proprietor Of the Hull
lightning rod, on Jefferson street. -


De Lacy was employed in endcayoring
70 throw rope over the cross on the
steople, TO assist in attaching a light.
ming rod an the top Of the cross. The


man looked very small indeed, as he
let himself down with rope from an
opening in tic steeple There Is a his.
Year: 1870

thought. She seemed little worn and
weary, and there was a look about her
that made you think that in solitude her
face would be very sad. They say that
her married life is very unhappy, that she
is recklesslY extravagant, and her husband
close even to meanness, and terribly jealous.
| was standing behind pedestal of flow
ers, where j could watch her unseen, as
thought. Her hair was powdered, and
without a single ornament, and heightened
wonderfully the brilliancy of her magnif-
cent eyes. Her neck, which was round
and white as a Juno's, was flashing with
diamonds; and all her movements had
sort of naughty grace Suddenly she
glanced in my direction, and our eyes met
She started and colored; then her face
lighted up with one of her old sweet
smiles. / started forward to 90 to her,
but at that moment some one came and
claimed her hand for the next dance, and
went home just that one look she gave
me had set alImy pulses to beating wildly.
felt that she had not lost one lot of her
old power over me yet; and did not dare
to trust myself within the range of her
influence again, and revive the misery that
/ had been striving 50 hard to forget. But.
LII : : - Hs'- = ~H0 ater
Year: 1870

As soon as it was daylight l got up.
packed my things, and by six o'clock was
rushing on in the train to New York


Here the young man made long pause.


We'll p said Kate, gently, after wait
ing while.


Well he answered, with long sigh,
you must be tired, and there if not much
more TO tell. L never saw her but once
more, and that was after she was married
She sent me cards, but l did not 90 to the
welding which took place that very fall,
and was grand affair There was a long
description of it in the paper, and of how
the happy pair had gone to Europe
They spent the winter in Paris, where
they We're very gay, and the beautiful
Mrs. Ruler was mentioned in all the ac
counts OF the court balls 1t was at q
/ great party after she returned that | saw
her. She was the most distinguished
looking woman in the room, but less bril-
liantly beautiful than she used to be,
Year: 1870

LACROSSE. Wis. May 15.-At 1890
this morning, barrel of kerosene
oil was leaking on board the steamer
War Eagle. and a man was trying to
stop the leakage, when a boy passed
along with lantern. When he got
opposite the kerosene, the bottom of
his lantern fell out, setting fire to the
kerosene. The steamer was soon
enveloped in flames, which communi-
Gated to the Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railroad depot and elevator buildings,
which were also consumed.


In consequence of a report that
there were eight barrels of powder in
the hold of the steamer. it was impos :
sible to get men to work to extinguish
the fire. The boat was full Of pas
sengers. who made their escape from
the hurricane deck by jumping into
the river. As far as learned, only
two were drowned. negro employed
on the boat, and lad of La Crosse,
whose name is not reported. Every
thing on the boat was lost and all the
freight in the depot consumed. Not a
single thing was saved. The damage
is very heavy, but can not be esti-
mated.
Year: 1870

CINcINNATI, May 14-There has
been some doubt whether. under the
new municipal code, the Judge of the
Police Court could find Judgment and
sentence to Imprisonment in cases
where the arraigned party might have
demanded jury. The question came
up to day in h0beds corpus case be-
fore a Probate Judge, who decided
that the court bad jurisdiction.


A committee of seven. enobraoi,o
the President Of the Cham ber of Com
merce and Board of Trade, are to %
to Washington in the interest of the
enlargement of the Louisville Caual
Year: 1870

Time to me this truth has taught,


CTis truth that's worth revealing,)
More offend from want of thought,


Than from any want of feeling;
If advice we would convey,


There's time we should convey it;
If we've but word to say,


There's time in which to say it.
Oft unknowingly the tongue


Touches on Il chord so aching,
That word or accent wrong,


Pains the heart almost to breaking;
Many II tear of wounded pride,


Many fault of human blindness,
Hus been soothed or turned aside


By quiet voice of kindness.
Many a beauteous flower decays,


Though we tend it Ger so much
Something secret in it preys,


Which no human aid Can touch
So in many lovely breast,


Lies some canker grief concealed,
That il touched is more oppressed,
Left unto itself is healed
Year: 1870

Some rash fellow says the giving the ballot
to women would not amount to much; for
none of them would admit that they were old
enough 10 vote until they were too old to take
any interest in politics.
Year: 1870

President Grants message to the people
Dawes in his speech at Nashua, will rejoice
the whole country. 'Assure the people OF
New Hampshire that the successful collee-
ton and the economical ezpeniiture of
money during the present yess is an earnest
and pledge of what it shall be In the year
to come. Tell the people of New Hampshire
that during my administration there shall


be no ascending scale of public expenditures;
scrutiny shall disclose the possibility of
cutting off dollar, it shall be DONE" Ad-
ditional force is lent to this very important
message of the Chief Magistrate by the fact
that it was borne by the official who has
been most Jealous in scrutinizing and cur
| failing the public expenditures, and between
whom and the President there is, as now
| appears, the fullest accord.
Year: 1870

There will be considerable howling, very
shortly, on the part of the Democratic
newspapers, at the prospect of fair elec-
tion being held in New York, under the
new law of the United States regulating
and protecting elections for Representative
and Delegates to Congress. The most
corrupt and unscrupulous local Government
in the world has long had its own way in
the matter of conducting the elections in
New York and the nation has been dis
graced By system of robbery, plumber
and fraud which the notorious Rings" of
that city have organized and sustained.
A gang Of poth use politicians has gotten
control of the political government of New
York City, and. under the Tammany
management, the people of that muuicipa-
lily have not only been Heeced for the
enrichment Of band of plundel ers, but
no fair election was poss Bile, no honest
expression of the will of the people could
ever be heard; and, by the grossest frauds
at every step of an election. the returns
were made to be just what The masters of
the political situation desired. Majorities
have been manufactured to order; voters
have been spoken into existence by brig
ades; election returns have been falsifed,
and citizens have been as summarily
deprived OF their rights at the polls a.
ever we're the subjects of an imperial des-
potlsm. This horrible state of affairs is q
disgrace to the country, and its notorious
continuance has brought discredit upon
the name of Republcanism throughout
the world.


We may hope for some partial remedy
Of this evil in the application Of the law
which was enacted at the last session of
Congress, protecting the rights of citizens
in the elective franchise, and providing
tor an enforcement Of the Fifteenth
Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States Among other things, the
law provides it shall be misdemeanor for
any person at any election for Representa-.
tives or Delegate in the Congress Of the
United States, to personate or attempt to
vote in the name of any person, living or
dead or to vote more than once at any
such election, or to vote or to attempt to
vote at any place where he is not entitled
to vote, or when he is not legally entitled,
at all. This misdemeaDor is punishable
with fine of $500, or by Imprisonment
for three years, or both, at the discretion
of the Court. There are several other
provisions, needless to recapitulate. all Of
which stringently guard the purity of the
ot-box, 'nd protect the citizen in his
undisturbed legal right at the polls, free
from threats or intimidation.


Heretofore. such has been the partisan
character of many of the local courts, it has
been impossible to convict of their crimes,
even the most notorious of the ballot bog
suffers, "repeaters," and other bad men
who have made crime against the purity Of
the ballot their trade. Judges who were
kept in power by the votes and influence
of corrupt politicians, have been corrupt
and prejudiced themselves Under this
law, however, all offences against the
statute are to be tried in United States
Courts, and United States District Attor.
neys and Marshals are charged with the
enforcement of the law Alta California.
Year: 1870

WARNED UP.-The editor of a religious
weekly published in Arkansas uses the fol
lowing mild illustration in setting forth the
disadvantages of ungodly life: Suppose
you should be taken down to hell and per-
M ted to behold the terrible reality of suf.
fering meted out to the damned; suppose
ynu saw the smoking and frying spirits Of
your friends, writhing in the agony of ac-
turll combustion and lifting up their voices
FIR a drop of water to temper the heat Of
I elr swollen tongues; suppose you saw the
win ed cavalade of devils lowering over
them, splitting them upon heated harpoons
and plasteIing their cracking and shrivel-
ing hides with blistering birthstone; suppose
you saw all this and had the terrible pict-
ure burned into your mortal memory
would you any longer 90 shining along a
highway with suth tern linus. when by
switching off into the sha by-paths Of
Righteousness you might attain the nnspeak-
able delights of heaven without it costing
you cent of the toll you now pay to Dis
ease and Remorse p
Year: 1870

made ready for service. Again Payne
volunteered, and eight men with him.


The embarkation of their second attempt
was made from Fort Sumpter, and as be-
fore, all having been made ready, Payne,
standing at his post in the hatchway, or
dered the hawser to be cut off-whsn the
boat careened and sank instantly Payne
sprang out; two OF the men followed him;
the other six went down in the boat'and
perished. Pr


Again the boat was raised and made
ready for action, and her owner, Captain
Hundley, took her for an experimental trip
i-to the Stone river, where after going
through her usual revolutions, she dived in
deep water, and for hours, and for days
the return Of poor Hundley and his crew
was watched for aud looked for in vain.


After near week search she was found
inclining at an angle of forty degrees, her
nozzle was driven deep into the soft mud
OF the bottom. Her crew Of nine dead men
were standing, 81 ting, lying about in her
hold asphy yxiated. Hurdley was standing
de d at his post, candle in one hand,
while the other had grown stiff with d. ath
IN his vain efforts to unclamp The hatch.
Others had been working at the keys of the
ballast, but the inclination at which the
boat had gone down had jammed the key
50 that the men could not cast off the heavy
weight which held them down. Their
deaths had been hard and lingering.


Again this fatetul vessel was made
ready for action and volunteers being called
fo. Lieut.. Dixon, Twenty-frst Alabama
Volunteers. native of Mobile, and eight
men, volunteered to take her against the
enemy


The new and powerful war ship Housa-
tonic was selected for attack, and on
quiet night the bravest crew set out from


harleston in this terrible, nameless tor
pedo boat, that never manned craft before


We all know the fate of the Housatonic
Brave ixon guided the torpedo fairly
against her, the explosion tore up the great
war ships sides, so that she went down
with relrly all her crew within two min
utes.


The torpedo vessel also disappeared for
ever from mortal view Whether she went
down with her enemy, or whether she
driited. out to sea to bury her gallant dead,
was never known, aud their fate was left
all the great day when the sea shall give
up its dead


But within few weeks past divers 10
submarine arm or have visited the wreck of
he liousatonic, and they have found the
l'ttle torpedo vessel lying by her huge vic
tim. and the daring men who went to war
Houston Telegraph.
Year: 1870

execution as in this vicinity during the present
memorable day to all OF us, as the day Of the ter
rble thunder storm. On Wednesday evening an
other electric storm visited u.s. but it seemed less
violent and the lightning less vivid but the electric
fluid on that evening did its full share OF execution
and played one of the strangest pranks we have been


DIR. G, w. Spencer, the well-known dentist in our
city, started at about IL O'Clock with his we, from


rehearsal Of the Cantata Society which Mrs. Spen-
Ger had been attending The doctor and his lady
were in a buck wagon drawn by a pair OF valuable
hotses owned 6y Ine ne bon m asnd .Se
storm broke furiously and the doctor drove at top
speed. Just as they reached the foot OF the hill in
came terrific fash OF lightning followed without
interval by great clap OF thunder. The lightning
blinded the doctor and rendered him for the mo
ment insensible. When he recovered himself he
discovered that one or the horses was lying notion
less on the ground, and at the same instant dis
covered that Mrs. Spencer was not in the wagon
He Immediately sprang out and ran back, and dis
covered his wife sitting helpless in the mud some
fifty feet back on the road. She uninjured, but
stunned and partially insensibe, and could not
divine how she came there. Neither she nor her
ming until the making OF the discoveries mentioned.
Mrs. Spencer speedily recovered herself, and
nor ~ her " husband nG f felt s" any ' inconvenience % nee
yesterday as the result OF their fright'ully
mediatey went to their house, which was very near
at hand and the doctor turned his attention to the
fallen horse. He found the animal still living, and
ness OFF him BY this time man from the house
arrived and they succeeded in getting the horse on
his feet. He was too eak to stand, however, and
fell over an embankment forty feet high. The fall
did not kill him, but he could not be removed until
last evening" when he was taken TO the stable. He
totally blind and suffering from the lockjaw.
He may survive, but will probably be comparatively
worthless.


On the same evening, we are informed, the resi-
dence OF MIR. A. G. Cubbage, in the Sixth ward, was
visited by the electric ud but fortunately without
serious results. The lightning entered the window
OF the bath room, tore large hole in the bottom OF
the bath tub, and passed down through the floor
the flooring to extent. 1t is thought that the
fluid was attracted to the window by the metal plug
Of the tub. living the window sill.