The New York Herald Newspaper, April 30, 1871, Page 7

ther are much hetter @r worse than other tegts- Jators. Two of my colleagues tm the Board of Su. pervisors were memopers of Congress. One of the abiest republicans in the present House served with mein the State Senate, and several others were members of One or both branches of our State Legis- iuture.”” ‘Is the manuer of jegisiating In Wasbingtow any | better than in New York 7"? i “The business inachinery of the House Is very de fective. The rules are needlessly complicated and retard the work, With the simple rules of the Albany Legislaiure, rigidly enforced, Coagress | could SHORTEN THE SESSIONS ONE-THIRD, { ‘The system of verbatim reports in the @tob- is also @ great evil. It stimulates speech-making. | otherwise sensible, utter columns of dreary | drivel which nobody hears or reads, The Ku Klux debate was a tedious bore.” | “Do the democratic members adwit that the re- | portea Ku Ki ux outrages are real??? ! “Of course Unere is sume foundation for the slate. Ments—outrages occasioually occur ip all parts of the Union. ‘The South has passed through a great convulsion, and its condition ts improving cun- | sianuy, We assert that any disorder that exists 1s within the consiol of the local authorities, and that federal interierence Ls unconstitutional and unneces- sary. TMB KU KLUX AGITATION to revive the oid ‘Kleediug Kansas’ | Republicans are j B on all the questions, and they can only be held to- gether by arousing the fanatical element of the | party. The radical Governors and the ofic als of | the Southern Staies were asked to aid the agitation, but they aii reused, except the Governor of Sout Carohua. One of THE COLORED MEMBERS of Congress iold me that he thought the agitation Was unwise and ifere was uo need of leg.siavion for mis State, but he was afraid to say so publicly, be- | cause he would be accnsed of betraying the party. Another coioced member sald on the floor that he ‘had no Knowledge of any Ku Klux aati he came | to Washington.” “What position do the colored members take in | Congress’ How are they regarded by the other mewbers ’*° “There are five of them; four are natives of the South, These tour vote with the conservative wing Of the republicans, and ave tnveiligent, Whassumlag and good rep! ntatives of their race. T have heard Southern democrats say that asa choice of | evils they would prefer being represented by their | OWN negroes than by Northern ‘carpet paggers.’"’ | “What do you think of the personnel of the | House?” “Lhe general impression 13 that this Congress is vastly superior to the last. Several new members | from the South rep! ut old families from districts | formerly represented by Northern squatters.’? “How do the democrats compare with the repup- licans }” “in point of numbers the repubiicans have a ma- | jority of trom twenty to thirty, bat they are mach INFERIOR TO THE DEMOCRATS in discipline and average mteliect."? “Who ts the administration leader on the floor rf | “Butler has strong, coarse intellectual power, and would be the recognized leader if he possessed the configence and respect of bis colleagues. This he | uniortuuately lacks, but he is still perhaps the most effective man in the House, Tbe vammering which Speaker Blame gave him would have crushed any ordinary nran, but ina day or two after he came Up again as iresh as eve: The passage of the ku Kiux bill was a virtaal triumpn for Butler. In | THE DISGRACRFUL ALTERCATIONS which occurred at the end of the session Farnsworth | had the decided advantage. Butler haa indiscreetly gent his intended remarks to te Glove ollice to be put in type; Farnsworth obtained one of the printed slips In advance, and was consequently prepared at all poiuts for Gutier’s attack. He buried Builef | under a mountain or Hlth, where he will swelter for | several monws before he can reply. THE REPUBLICAN LEADERSBIP | is generally conceded to Dawes, te has experience | and ability, aud is much respected, but Jacks the | vim of his predecessors, Thad Stevens and General Schenck. He seems tome io be too amtable and conscientious for a radical leader, and may be fercea to abdicate in favor of some more unscrupulous member of his party.” “Whom do you consider the other rising men in the republican party ?"’ | , “There are a considerable number of strong men { among the positive radicais of the House, any one | of whom would make a capable party leader if the position were conceded by his other associates," “How do the New Yora members compare with | those from other districts?" { “That is a delicate question, but 1 don’t think the | elty of New York need be ashamed of tts present ; delegation, ‘The three old members are certainly among the adiest men m the House.” “Are there any peculiarly noticeable men in tho House?” “THE HANDSOMBST MAN IN THE HOUSE 1s William T. Jones, of Wyoming, who was elected by the votes of women. Me is a young mau, twenty-nine or thirty years of age, with polished manners and regular features, 8 smooth, beardiess face, and a dreainy, jpogtical expression. He dresses witb great care and good taste. His predecessor Was an oid New York democrat, and was elected by 1,600 majority two years ago. The Legislature, ‘Which was unanimously democratic about a year ago, very unwisely conferred the franchise upon tue women of the Territory. At the election last fall Jones, the radical candidate, was elected by a large majority. He told me that THE WIVES OF “HE LEADING DEMOCRATIC OFFICIATS voted for him. The first use the women made of their new priv nege was to destroy the party that had eniranchised them. ‘wo democratic United States Senators will probably be jost by this ma- neuvre. Gratitude {#4 quality of whicn the temale mind js singularly destitute. “Appropriation bills are usually termed ‘bills of abomination.’ | suppose your Congressional Deli- clency bill wus no exception to the rule?” “Jt was like all similar bills. When it was sent in by the Searetany of the Treasury it called in the aggregate for only $90,0v0, but when it received the President’s signature tt had sweiled to $1,350,0v0. The additions were of various kinds; some were Meritorious and others were not. Among the items Which 1 conceived commendable, but which pro- yoke a good deal of discussion, were $200,000 for the coast wrecking service, $12,000 to the Sisters of Charity ior Tornildiog an asylam in Charleston which had been destroyed by the Union army, anid $12,000 for the aged poor of the Jistrict of Co- lumbia.”’ “Did not President Grant say, In presence of the committee, that he would dave vetoed that clause relating to the Sisters of Char.ty if it could be doue without defeating the whole billy”? “Yes; he made a remark to Dawes, Maynard and | myself, who were a committee appointed by the House to wait on him at the ciose of the session. I understood him to say that if the APPROPRIATION FOR THE ORPHAN ASYLUM had come before hun by itseit he would have | vetoed 1t.’” “What were his objections ?”” “Simply that they have no just claim. ‘What do you think about it—is there auy particu- * lar objection to that item 7” “Not the least; on the contrary, I think they have strong claims upon the justice ol the goverament, That appropriation was advocated by Mr. Dawes and sustained by a number of republicans in the House who had fallen under the care of the sisters walle sick and Wounded aurivg the war.” “What do you think the prospects are for tne | coming campaign “fhave no doubt but a iarge majority or the peo- ple of this country are hearuly SICK OF THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION, Mf we are prudent and discreet we can undoubt- | edly elect the next President.” “Do you think Grant will be the republican candi- Gate for "72 7" “IT think his chances for the nonination are bet- ter than any other man’s, lor the reasoa that tne dissatisfaction with his conduct is revreseuted by no single man, but is scattered among # uumber of chques. If the dissatisfaction could be crystallized in favor Of any one positive man, like Biaine ur Lo- gan, Grant could be easily overtirown.” | VESEY STREET WN! NCES. Vesey strect yesterday presented its fete day Aspect, a8 usual on Saturdays, and to # much too great extent on other days. Nhat street has, in come mon with others in the metropolis, always @ large Genuine business traMc, which, however, 1s sadly impeded by the motley throng of itmerant veuders of smail wares who muke it their lead+ quarters. Vesey x! on & market day 16 almost as bad a fete day at Jones’ as Wood, when the roads are Uned’ with ragged impostors of every ilk. AtJones Wood or a coun- try fair this kind of thing may be very amusing, but \ in & great business thoroughiare like Vesey stiect | it is far from being in accordance with the public | wishes to find oneself stopped at almost every step | by small ware stands blocking up te pavement. | Nor 18 it agrecable to an ear with any idea of hur } mony to hear husky voiced sehiers of “ot pee nits” and other street merchants calling out their ware Neither ts 1t pleasant nor picturesque ino leading thoroughfare of New York to find, aged cronies squatted on the faxes sinoking — anciwot “dudeens” a la Ballinasioe. All these people, be said, are earning, honesé livings, Perh: 80; bat certainly notin a place and manner agreea- bie to the wants o: the public. ‘The itinerant ven- dors of Vesey street seem to have squatted tere with an impunity which was for a long time ens gree by the squatters on the rocks around Central rk, bub with more power of making their pres- enve disagreeably feit, for they render locomotion in Vesey street very dimicuit. KIDNAPPING IN ORANGE, NEW JERSEY. Yesterday Judge David A. Depue, presiding Jus- dce of the Baxex County Cenrt, granted a bearing in She case of Mr, James Peck, on an application for a Writ of habeas corpus, to compel Henry Weaver, of Orange, to produce two of tis grandchildren. The case Was Postponed Uli Thursday next, 80 as 10 give the @hancellor time to show cause why te grand- parenté should not retain the custody of the cml- Oren, The jatter ure the heirs of the late Isaac M, Freeman. Not long ago the Court decided that Weaver, who is tavern keeper, was too ignoraut and oisrepuiable &@ person to have the care of young children, and so appointed Mr, Peck guardian. While ih charge of the Initer ther were Kidnapped sWO Weeks BK NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 30. 1871.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. — YACHTING NOTES. ‘The majority of yachts will be painted white the coming season. Rear Commodore Osgood’s new schooner will be lJaunched at Chester, Pa., to-morrow. {t is rumored that she will be baptized “Columbia.” ‘The schooner Palmer, Mr. Rutuerford Stuyvesant, will receive her new spars the present week. ‘The schooner Fleetwing, Mr. George A. Osgood, js stilt at New London, ‘The schooner Widgeon, formerly owned by Messrs. ©. ©. Dodge & G. G. Haven, has been sold to the pilots of the boat John D, Jones, sunk tn collision with the steamer City of Washington, atew weeks since. The easterly gale of Thursday and Friday pre- sented @ capital opporvauity to test the schooner Wanderer, which left this port on Wednesday for @ Soathern and Wes: india voyage. Yachtmen have been freely specuixuag upon the result, and trust tt 1s to the satisfaction of her owner, The Columbia Yacht Clob since the 10th inet, has displayed tts ciub signal by day on thelr house, foot of Fifty-seventh street, North mver, and ared light by night. This arrangement will be con- | wnued throughoat the yachting season. The wails of the Brookiyn Club rooms will soon be graced by a Iife-size portrau of ex-Commodore Kida, Mr. S. Hatch has sold tie schooner Valypso, The schooner Agnes, owned by Mr. Edwacd Harvey, of the Brooklyn Club. will be launched from | Poillon’s ship yard, foot of Bridge street, Brooklyn, oa Tueslay—possiviy to-morrow afeernoon, if in readiness, Jonn M. Sawyer, of the Brooklyn Yacht Club, has sold the sloop Vivid to the Viee Commodore of the Harlem Yaebt Ciub. The schyoner Sappho, Vice Commodore Dougias, is lying at the foot of North Seventh street, Wil- lamsburg. 1b is probable that she will be fluted with arail. A false one Was placed in position a few days since for the purpose taining the effect of the proposed addition, The joer work of the schooner Dreadnaught 1s almost entirely in place. The cabin panels are fin- ished in bird’s eye maple, ashwort, satin wood and | rosewood, producing a light, lively and pr etty effect. Toe ceiling isin white and lilac, with gold beads. Shoulda nothiug occur to prevent, her sails will be bent this week, when she wul be go on a trial trip, fhe schooner Halcyon, owned by Mr. James R. Smith, is lying at Vouillon’s, Brooklyn, and will be fitted with new spars. The malumast will be 78 feet and the foremust 77 feet in length, with topmasts each 34 fect. The old main boom will be used, bu the foreboom ts new aud 29 fect long. Her rigging will be of wire, and jer hull repainted and cabin newiy decorated, The schooner Mystic, W. G. Creamer owner, 18 lying at Glen Cove, where she ts undergoing @ gene: rat cleaning up. She will be down the Sound soon lo swell the number of the Atiantic Club vessels ready for the work and pleasures oi the year. ‘The sioop White Wing, formeriy owned by Mr. Ludlow Livingston, fas been sold to parties in Greenport, L. 1, and passed through Hell Gate hence last week, ‘The schooner Fleur de Lis, Vice Commodore Dick- ersou, of the Brooklyn Yacht Cluo and member of the New York Club, is stul lying up near Glen Cove, The schooner Lois, owned by Rear Commodore Monsell, Atlantic Club, is nearly completed in ner repairs. A new bow has been given ter and she has been hipped. It is rumored that the schooner Alarm, Mr. A. C. Kingsland, is to be thorongtly overhauled ana ngged anew in some purticulars, This favorite yacht, whose performances no one can easily forget, will be welcomed heartily with a suit of racing clothes. The schooner Alice, ex-commodore Kidd, of the Brooklyn and New York Clubs, 1s undergoing exten- sive alterations at City Island, Her stern has peen cul away and new timbers put in, running four feet on Keel and eight feeuon deck aft. Tnis will re- duce her shear materially, give uer finer ines than she formally possessed, and, without doubt, improve her speed greatly, Her stern will be finished in ex- quisite style, and when ready to be put in commis- ston the Alice will hardly be recognized by the Com- modere’s most intimate friends. She will be titted with a longer mainboom and more top canvas, and be completed by the Ist of June. lterations to the schooner Phantom, at Ny: are progressing rapidly, She will be out and Gnished for the June regatta of the New York Yacht club, Alreaay two-thirds of her planking is in place, and soon workmen will be put on her cabin, now all torn to pieces, The internal accommoda- come will be of the same character and style as ve- fore. ‘the sloop Qui Vive, Thomas Clapham, of the At- lantic Club, is on the ways at Roslyn, u. 1. Mer memorable race with the Dapline last year will be generally recollected. She will receive new sails and be thoroughiy retitted. ‘The schooner Madeleine, Commodore Jacob Voor- hus, Jr., of the Brookly§ and New York Yacht Clubs, led to Newport yesterday. She had been lying at the foot of Thirty-seventh street, North river, for two days, where her stores were taken on board. Saturday, April 22, while cruising tn the lower bay in astiff breeze, the fying jibboom and headgear of the Madeleine were carried away just olf the West Bank. ‘They have been replaced by a lieavier spar and gear, and Commovore Voorhis, not vo be caught napping in the coming season and ready for auy emergency, has ordered @ full set of larger spars to be got out, Ouishea and laid away for him. Already the Made- leme and schooner Tidal Wave, the latter owned by William Voorhis, have had several friendly trials of speed together, and the result m each case was { ston, but now of Mr. Henry Johnson, of the Manhat- tan Clu, is belbg Lhorsuguly overhaued at the toot of Thirev-fouita street, Souta Brookiyu. She will have new spars; mast, 6 feet; topmast, 24 feet; gal, 26 feet; boom, 5k tect, and bowsprit, outboard, 23 feet. Her rigging will be of charcoal wire, She wil be sent into the Water within a day or two, and got ready phowid she prove as good a bows in the present hands as-tormerly, the Mary Anna will be hard to | beat, The sloop Josephine, Sidney V. Lovell, ot the At- lantic Club, Is Meveasing the size of ber boom and gat, aud giving her # longer Lowspril, She will arry More canvas than beiore. lyn Club will bave we signas the couiug season. The ma- Jority of the owners have already deierimimed upon them, and so s00n as this important matter and tae business of time allowance ts settled the club will issue their new book for the use of members, The oificers’ signals have also been changed, and for the better. ‘fhe sloop Glance, owned by M. L, Swan, of Ovsver Bay, is at Potllon’s yard, Brooklyn, being filved With new spars, new cabin, cockpit and sRy- lights. Her spars are longer than the ld ones, the present mast being 47 feet extreme length; Lopmasi, 22 feet, gall iY leet, boom 38 Leet, and bowsprit, oul- board, 19 feet. She will also nave new satls, embracing jib, mainsail, gattopsal and jibvopsai. Her cabin Will be refitted and in hardwood. itis to be woped that Mr, Swan will have beuer luck with Nis present sails than with those of last season. Sawyer made him a sew sult at eat time, and ten days after delivering thei an audacious robber swooped down on the yacnt, Aud cleaned her spars of the eauvas aud sailed away, Iaving Mir, Swan disconsolate, A sweepstakes race for ail twenty-eight teet boats: has been devernuned upon, wud wiil be sailed ander the auspices Of the Brovkiyn Yacht Glib, Tue en- trance is Hxed at $100, the secoud yacht a: tie home Stakevout to save Lak amount. “Tits will prove a notable feature of ule season, and has been seb down for the Lota” of duly, the course being irom bay Kidge, L. 1, around the Southwest Spit and retura, Already there is quite an excitement aumoug the owners of stuall | yachts in anlicipauca of the event, the following having sigailed thew tatention of being at the staring point the day named:—Ya $ Bella. Nicito- | las Duryee owner; Jeaanette, William Taylor; Wil- ltam T. Lee (new), Chauncey M, Felt; Mar), Jersey uity Yacht Club; the new boat building on the North river tor Mr. Kirby, and the new Bridgeport yacht. The owners of sack boats Wishiug to eater, and thus sweil the list, can ascertain tull particulars by appli- cation to Mr. J. M. Sawyer, Wall street, measurer ob the Brooklyn Yacnt iu, The new sloop Maggie B, is progressing favorably ab Bridgeport, unuer the supervision of ler owner, Mr. Henry Bishoy. She ts forty-five feet mm Jength on | deck, and her spars of tae following dimensions:. Mast, 44 lect; topmnast, 20 feet; gait, feet; boom, 45 feet; the 100t of her jib is Bo feet. She will be in the first regatta of the A.iantic Club, The sloop West Wind, Mr. John W. Rich, of the | Brooklyn Yacnt Club, alreaay referred to in the HERALD, will be launched i about two weeks, Her traines are shutin and her cabin being worked upon. Her spars will be ready to put in place in ten days E. 8. Commander Lyman’s new sloop, building at MeGarrick’s yard in Brooklyn, is being planked. Sho 1s forty-eight feet on deck. Mr. John Kelinm 18 having built at Babylon, L. L., & sloop fity-.wo feet in lengtn on deck. She Will be of the best inatertais and ber spars of ine feel; boom, 45 feet; gait, 23 feet. The Hariem Yacht Club will have au exciting sea- son. During the monti of May they wul have a | Sweepstakes race Irom The Brothers to Throgg's Point buoy ana retura. The Manhattan Yacnt Club will be compelled to leave ine foot of Nanety-secoad street, Rast river, as their basin bas been shut in by a line of new ducks. They have not settled upon new grounds as yet. ‘The Hoboken Club is giving, at stated intervals, savory chowders at their new club house, Totten: ville, Staten Island, to appreciative crowds of bro- ther yachtmen. ‘Lhe sloups Addie V. and Peerless will have a pri- vate trial of speed trom Bay Ridge, L. L, to the Light- spip of Sandy Hook anc return, in a tew days. The yacht Frank C. Barker was launched from the yard of Jackson & Matthews, Greenport, on Wed- hesday, She is 52 feet long, 18 feet 4 inches beam, 5 feet hold and 24 tons buraen, Since the sale of the Club House of the New York Yacht Club on Thursday @ generous and public spirited offer has been made to the clab by ex-Mayor ©. Godirey Gunther. This gentieman, though not a toember of the New York Yacht Club, takes a warm interest in yachting, and has offered, tor the use of its members, his mansion at Bath, on the water side, with furniture and appointments complete, and free. We do not know the sentiment of the yacht- men On this proposal; but itis very gratifying as an evidence of the widespread interest in nauucal affsirs taken by our best cluzens, jensurer of the Atlantic Clua, New Yor«, April 26, 1871, ‘To THe EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— The HERALD of the 16th instant contained a jeter from an “Ex-Measurer of the Atlantic Yacht Club” on the subject of time allowances for yachts. The letter truly atates that the subject 1s of great interest at the present time, and until some better method 1s adopted for regulating sail and time allowances the result of yacht races, in @ sctentific sense, cannot be satisfactory. Where, asin the netghvorhood of New York, the races are commonly sailed in light weather, there is great temptation to the possessor of acrank, fine-ended boat to pack on to her an amount of canvas that does not relatively belong to her, and she may win a race through the mas accident of weather when she would be far astern of outers if she had sail only in proportion to her stability. The difficulty seems to be to decide on some simple basis ou which to determine the amount of A Reply to the Ex- eminently saustactory to brother Jacob. He could hold his own with William, and on one or two occa. sions eat to windward he Lidal Wave in spiendid style, developing wonderful speed. The name of tne sloop Richard Kelly, of the Atianuc Yacht Club, has been changed to that of Nancy. She is at the yard of Mr. Lennox, BrooSlyn, receiving new spars and her Keel a light iron cover- i, ‘She wil have new sats, he sioop Orion, George A, Fair, of the Atlantic Cid, will soon be down from her winter quarters at Bristol, R. 1. Mr. J. E. Brinkerhof ts building anew sloop on the North river, upper pari of the city. She will be named the Favorita. The elegant sioop Addie water at Sumtl’s yard, Nyack, Monday, April 17. She looks as handsome as a picture, and her owner Is greatly pleased with her alterations, The addi- tion alt of nine feet affords room for a more commo- dious cabin than fermerly and two ‘Y staterooms. Her ballast was cast to shape and 1s oftron, Last Wednesday ex-vice Commodore Langley went on a trial trip with her on the Hudson aboat Nyack and returned delighted, Her sails set charmingly. Yes- terday the Addie V, sailed down to this city and anchored m the East river bs ge Wall street, that &@ governinent measurer could yisit her, This done she will be anchored off her owner's dence, Bay Kidge, L. 1, sneak from keel to truck The sioop Peerless, Vice Commodore Maxwell, At- lance Yacht Club, returned from a difck shooting expedition up the Sound the firs: of last week. Her periormance—and she was pretty thoroughly tested on this trip—gave great satisfaction to her owner, and suggested to him the alteration of the yacht’s trim, whica since that time has been done, She had been lying at anchor of the club house, Gowanus, unt Friday, whep she was taken on the ways at Stuten Island to be smoothed up, repainted ex- ternally and a bronze bottom given her. Her cabin 4s also Leing elegantly decorated, The stoop Alert, John Diamond, of the Brooklyn Yacht Ciab, was iauuched from tho yard of James Lennox the early portion of last weck. Her spars und rigging are set up, and as soon as her ballast 13 furnished she will be ready to go on a trial trip. The very best of materials have been used in her cou- struction, and she was bulit under her owner's per- sonal supervision and from his own model. Her mast is forty-four feet in length, topmast eighteen feet, boom forty feet, gaff twenty feet and bowsprit eigh- teen feet outpoard, She will carry jib, mainsail, jibtopsatl, balloon jib, small and large gafftopsails, Her cabin will be tinisued in white, with Tires rths forward and four aft. The sloop Flying Clond, R. W. Holmes, is at Nyack, on the ways, heing repainted, Her owner is Ho coae ine Mp at id Alongside ot @ latter is the sl Nymbus, Com- moore Peet, Atlantic Yacht club, which has recetved a thorongh overhauling. Her sails will be bent in afew days, and then Commodore Peet will make Nis first aquatic excursion of the season. The sloop Gracie, Messrs. Johnson and Krebs owners, of the New york and Atlantic Yacht Clubs, is at Henry Steers’ shipyard, Greenpoint, naving her cabin remodelled, She will also be repainted. The two prizes won by the Alice, ex-Commodore Kidd, of the Brooklyn Club, in the. Union and annual regattas of last year, are now about com- pleted, and will soon be delivered to that gallant yachtman, These prizes are olf paintings of his Yacht, and come from the easels of rival artists —Mr, A. Cary Smith, who painted the yachts ja and Bapobo, and Mr, J. E. Butterworth. doin M. Sawyer is fttinggwith satis a sloop butld- ing at Cape Vincent for A. D, Shaw, of the Montreal Yacht Club, and the Americ Consul at that city. Her model was furnished by Mr. P. McGtehan, of Pamtrapo, N. J. She ts 40 feet length on keel, 43 feet 6 inches on deck, and will have tne following spars:—Mast, 45 feet; topmast, 17 feet; gaff, 21 feet; boom, 44 feet, and bowsprtt, outboard, 1y feet, The sloop Onward, Mr. Wiiliam M. Braiser, the yacht that won the first prize of her class in the Brooklyn Yacht Clab regatta last se; i@ recelv. ing @ thorough overhauling at Lennox's shipyard, Sonth Brooklyn. She nas veen fitted with new spar: new wire rigging and new sails, fer mi Cte feet in length from deck, boom 42 feet, att 20 feet, and bowsprit, outboard. 16 feet, Her internal finish has also been redecorated, and that in good taste. ‘The Onward will attract attention among vessels of her class in the first grand Union regatta, Ex-Vice Commodore Langley, of the Brooklyn Yac ht Ciub, declined 4 re-election to that, position on the occasion of the annual meectinga few even- ings since, adopting that course tor the interest of the clab, Mr. John 5. Dickerson, of the yacht Fieur de Lis, was unanimonsly selected to fil the honora- ble office, and the retiring Vice Commodore was made one of the trustees of the cluo, a responsible and trustworthy position. The okt fayorite stoop Annie, now named Mary Anna, formery the property of Mr, Anson Living Was sent Into the place of resi- The Adate VY. looks the Ball that @ vessel js entitied to; then to charge her ata rate agreed upon for what she may have in excess. The method named by your correspondent Is simpie enough. It is to base the allowance on the area of midship section immersed; but as to its ace curacy it seems to me on a par witu the proposition to measure & man's height to find the size of his boots. If @ man owning a full-ended boat shoud decide to make her leaner he would ordinarily ren- der her incapable of carrying a8 much canvas and would require less; but with the same bullast he would immerse a larger section, and by the ruie suggested be entitied to more sail. [ tuink the pro- posal to leave jength out of consideration 18 one that would not ve tolerated in any club, It ts true that lucrease of friction ace crease of length, but that in a smooth. yacnt it counter balances the advantage of increased length ts contradicted by scientific experiment and common experience; hence the coutiruous lengthening of steamers, particularly the Atantic steamers, though im their case friction 18 manifestly @miuch greater Consideration and the advantage of length Jess on accouat of the extreme 10 which It 13 carried. Any practical method which can be employed to reguiate the allowance of sail to yacnts must per- Naps neceasarily ve lnperiect ; but [I see little ob- Jecuion to making the allowance of sail depend upon the area of the unmersed section calculated tu three or five places and averaged, though, perliaps, the formula would be more perfect it combined with the average beam, as | think tt will be allowed by ali who have given the subject attention that sta- bility (especialy m sinooth water) follows more closely iucrease of beam than it does increase of area of section. [ would suggest that a value should be put upona square yard of saul and excess charged accordingly. As the resistance to the soparation of particles of water uicreases With the veiociiy, some authorities stating the rule to be as the square of velocity, 16 follows that a long vessel with the same average area of immersed cross secuons as a suorter one | may be moving through the water at a faster rate and yet communicating only the same rate of mo- | tion to the water liweif us the slower vessel—in other words, only encountering the same resistance. ‘This advantage she spould allow for, and [ think that @ value should be ones upon each foot in length and excess charged for in races, as is done now in many clubs; out as a foot in length ora square yard of satl have a relative value and not an absolute one, and are of more service to @ small | yacht than to @ larger one, [ think in races the allowance agreed upon should be taken as for the largest yacht in a@ class, and the length of such yacht or the area of sau, as the case might be, multiplied by the amount: of al- Jowance aad divided by the length or area of sail of the yacht to which the allowance was due. Thus, if three yachts were in one class 60, 55 and 60 feet long 2.40 minutes per foot, and 2 multiplied - 60 and vided by 55 equals 2.18 minutes per foot for the other yacht; and the satl allowance, which weuid frequently be in favor of the larger yacht, would ve calculated in the same way. This method would show the relative value of the difference in lengui and sail area. ‘There is no doubt that small yachta Im light wings Nave frequently an advantage over larger ones, ov- tatoed by sail out of proportion to their stapility, and @ just allowaace of ume for length and the lia en the disposition of the owners of such t carry jwiLas abler craft, a3 well as conduce to proper basis. T am, very re- SECRETARY, »No rit for Yachting in Nerth Carolina. ‘The Wimington (N. Journal says:—We are authorized by the Commodore of the Carolina Yacht Club to state that, as far as is now known, there will pe no regattas at the Sound this summer. The earnest attempt made last summer by the club to eplist the attention and appreciation of the general padiic failed so completely as to discourage the idea of another effort this summer. THE STEAM BOILER EXPLOSION. Coroner Young yesterday empaveiled a jury m the cause of Henry Roan, the man who was killed on Friday evening by tne explosion of the steam botier in the manufactory of Messrs, Barrowclough, Brien & Co., Nos, 531 and 633 West Twenty-fourth street, and expects to hold an inquest on Monday If tp necessary witnesses can be procures, Decew Lived at 469 West Twenty siath rereele tor the season wil ail practicable haste. , foileowing dimensions:—Mast, 56 feet; Lopmast, 22 | and the allowance for length Was two minutes per | foot, 2 mnitipied by 60 and dtyided by 60 equals | bility to be charged for sail not due to sige would | JORSTY'S FAMILY CONSPIRACY. The Tragedy of “Kinz Lear” Almost Reahzed— Children Charged With Hiring an As Sasein to Immolate Thuir Fa- ther~A Strange Story. During (he latter part of the month of July last year an attempt of a most tendish character was made to burn up in his own house an elderly, well- to-do gentioman, named Samuel Whitehead, residing at Washington, 5. K.. a place near New Brunswick, one of New Jersey's preity + by Hollow’? towns, about thirty es from New York. At the time the story went the rounds that white te was sick aved a servant threw in on bis bed a Jot of old rags, aaturated with some burning Mud. The fre was extinguished, however, and the old gentleman escaped with sli:ht lojury to his feet. The occurrence cansed no little exciement, but it soon subsided, Subsequently, however, some facts transpired tending to show that Mr, Whitehead was the object of A CRURL AND MEAWTLESS CONSPIRACY, the conspirators being of his own flesh and blood snd having th view his utter immolation, the motive being greed for filtuy incre, Mr. Whitehead was the father of six sons and two daughters, all grown upand marned, One of the daughters was first married to a Captain De Voe and subsequently to a Mr. Theodore Willetts; the other to Mr. Witiain Yates, Both ladies are of fine persona) appear- ances and manners, and moved among the hawt ton ot Jersey and New York, There had been considerable tronble wvetween the oid gentleman and bis children, the upshot of which Was tat, as supposed, he made a will cating them off entirely in the disposition of his property. On his son-in-law, Mr, Willetts, however, he Toned with favor, This led to further trouble, and tt ap- pears one of the young Whiteheads, Samuel, JY. assaulted Mr. Willetts, was arrested, tried and se tenced to pay a fine of $500, This wi , term of the Middlesex County Court. | in the meaniime, not many days ago, there ap- | peared before a Justice 0 the Peace in New Bruns- wick one James Buxter, who had acted as valet de ebaraire to ola Mr. Whitehead. Upon oath he stated that | HIS CONSCIENCE HAD TROUBLED HIM for a long time past, and to ease his mind he made, | substantially, the following slatemen: He resided ig Belleville, Essex county; that on or about the ist of July, 1870, Theodore Willetts and his wite Sarah J. aud Annie Maria Yates, In the village of Washington, | 8. R., offered him (James Baxter) the | and @ house to reside in so long as he lived, pre- ; vided he would burn the louse of Samuel Wh head, and him with it; that the way this was to be eflected was In this wise:—Jaies was to get a boule at the last | freely before he retired; that this was done, and | then he poured kerosene upon the floor and lighted the same with a mutch; that Mr. White | head awoke and disc dis room on | fre; that he escaped from the room by & window, out on the roof of a shed, but not | belore he was cousiderably burned. That on another | ovcasion the same parties requested Baxter to el tice Mr, Whitehead to the barn and then kill hii | by striking lum on the head with a piece of iron wood, ‘That this part of the work fell through fro some cause, That on auother occasion the sar parties purchased a revolver and gave 1 to Baxter, with tie request that he should waylay Mr. White- head and kill him just before he reactied his home as he came from New York. Thatthis he declined to do, for the reason {atu he did kili Mr. White- head he was afraid that he himself would be put out of the way. Upon the strength of the foregoing warrants were issued for the arrest of the three parties named, ‘They were subsequenuy taken into cus- tody and required by Judge Scudder to give ball each in the sam of $1,000 to answer any indictment that might be found by the Middlesex Grand Jury at the September term of court. All parties express their entire innocence of the charges nade vy Bax- ter and declare it to be a case of wholesale blackmail on his and the part of others. The matter naturally excites much local interest. Mr. Willetts is the reputed owner of Willetts’ Opera House, in Brooklyn, and he, together with one of the Whiteheads and Mr. Yates, form an extensive brick- making firm near New Brunswick. Exactly why the former should be implicated is @ matter of par- Ucular surprise, a3 on the face of the case it 1s shown that he neeu hot have entertained any doubts about the old man’s disposal of his goods, The end is assuredly not yet. ¢ FOREIGN PERSONAL GOSSIP, ‘The Czar of Russia will, according to the German papers, artive at Kissingen abont the middle of } On his return he 18 to visit the court at Berlin. would call a beauty, but she 1s said to have a tender, amiable expression about her face, a graceful bear- ing and commanding form, The Duke o! Hamilton has been elected a member of the Londen Jockey Club, It is the Intention of the club to revive the Baden-Baden race meeting ‘this year 1p all its ‘ormer giory. M. Elysée Reclus, one cr the editors of the Revue des Deux, Mondes, ls among the number of insurgent Na- tional Guards who were taken prisoners at Chatillon, He 18 now imprisoned at Versailles. The ex-Emperor Napoleon has, according to tne London Daily News, veen unwell and confined to his room at Cainden House, Chiselhurst, for several days past. The Rev. Isaac Goddard, of the Roman Catholic church, Chiselnurst, ts a regular visitor at Camden House, but few other visitors are admitt ‘The neighboring gentry call and leave their cards at the gate, and men of foregn aspect apply for au- diences with the mperor every day, but one sel- dom or ever gains admission. Since it has become known that the Emperor has discontinued his walks the dood of excurstonists to Chiselhurst has ubated, but there is always such a sprinkling of people about the common on the lookout for the dis+ tinguished exiles as to render the daily walks of the Empress and Prince Imperial anything but private. ‘The Américan artists in Rome have been engaged as foliows:— Rogers is engaged on a “Sonnambula.”’ Yewell’s most important work last winter been a view o! Rialto’? at Venice. Charley Col 3 his hands full of orders of has man ; | the rich compositions which have alreany rendered | him famous, Innes has sent to Boston some splendid land- scapes, He 18 now engaged on @ large and inpusing view of St. Peter's and the Vatican. Bartiert has completed a ten-foot symbolical figure | of “Wisdom,” for the famlly monument of the Bene- | dicts, at Waterbury, Coun. tis to be cast in bronze at Munich. Dubois, landscape, painter and Mayor, architect, both from New Yor nd Candee, from New Haven, sent to Europe by Governor Engiish, are also among: the young and promising artists In Kou George Simmonds, the Knglish sculptor, has finished his “Falconer” for Centrai Park. [tis a tine figure, nine feet high, to be in bronze, and ordered by Mr. Kemp, of New York. Augustus St. Gandens, one of the most promising ol young American artists in italy, is busy execating a life-sized figure of an Indian. He has also been engaged upon cameos, for which he is already famous, Kunu Vedder's picture, representing a fte of young men and maidens, dressed in Florentine cos- tome, has been sold to His “Dancing | Girl,” also a superior work, has been acquired by @ New York gentleman. Renehart nas compi of the late Chief Justice Taney. trait of Taney as he sat upon tue ve in the robes oj office. The stacae will be erected tn Annapolis, Md. Renehart’s last ideal work is a nude ligure, life size, called “*Clytie,”* ved in plaster a colossal statue It is a faithful por. ch, clothed MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN ITEMS, A boy of eight years old a couple of weeks since was sent to prison fora month by three magix. trates at Tamworth, England. The poor little mite had thrown a stone at a bird, and missing, the bird, had broken & glass in a shopkeeper’s window, King Victor Emmanuel of Italy is reported to have made the following remarks concerning the present state of affairs in France:—“'T! ation of France makes me sad; bat what I deplore still more is to see the French ariay reduced to a state of moral and material disorganization.» Such a thing could never happen in laly, but if iseven should [ would not like to survive 1G’? An unfortunate gentleman, against whom {it waa roved at the Central Criminat Court, London, that e had married three wives—taking to himself a second and @ third while his first was still living: pleaded, in mitigation of punishment, that he had warried neither of them for money, and that he had up to the moment of being arrestea “been at the expense of maintaining them,'* ; The Gautois has the following account of the aineide of M. Dupuis, the former ches de cuisine of the ex-kmperor Napoleon, M. Dupuis was at first erroneously reported as the major domo of M. ‘Thiers, Says the Figaro:—A rumor that the intendant of the Chief of the Executive had com- mitted suicide by poison has been circulated in Versailles, The rumor is in one respect true, in another not true. ‘True, because M. Dupuls was foand dead in the room which he occupied at the prefecture: fae, because M. Dupuis nas never been M. Thiers’ intendant. M. | Dupals, who was about sixty years of age, has for | more than forty years been the caterer for (he houses | of Charles X., Louts Philippe and Napoieon Ii. ‘The events of the jast six m@uths seem vo have pro- duced @ Violent agitation in his mind. He followed, as @ matter of conscience, the chief of the execu tive to Versailles, put he did not conceal to his | friends, by whom he has beea much esteemed, tbat he thought himself deprived of the rank which he formerly occupied at che court, Like Vatel, tne famous chief cook of Louis X1V., M. Dupuis attached great impertance to his functions, an , he commitied nde from an tajured sense of digpity. A letter, addressed to Madame Dupuis, Was jouud > pear his bedside® m of $1,000 | | of ram and make Mr. Whitehead partake of it pretty | The young Queen of Spain ts not exactiy what one | | THE GERMAN GUNBOAT METEOR. Der Arriv thin Port—Her Appenrance— | Ao Account of Her Battle with the French | Vemel La Boovet—How the mans | quered—Hiat of Omeors, &r. { ‘The German gunnoat Meteor arrived at this port ; On Friday eventing last, and now lies at anchor in the | stream off the Battery. Considerable interest at- taches to this boat in consequence of her fight with the French vessel La Bouvet, outside the port of Ha- Vana, some months ago, A HERALD reporter visited the Meteor yesterday and heard an interesting ac- count of the battle above alluded to from the fret oMcer, who naturally look some pride in THR METEOR’s VICTORY over Lia Bouvet, the latter vessel being nearly double the tonnage of the Meteor, The meeting of the two boas at Havana was entirely acctdental, and the tight was not (as was generally stated) a preconcerted dnel_between the two, nor was there any challenge given by the captain of either boat. The Meteor entered the port of Havana on the morning of the 7th of November, and three hours later the Bouvet arrived, As war was raging between France and Germany a contest between tne two gunboats was Inevitable, and It was 80 considered by the crews of the respective vessels, The Meteor early inthe forenoon of the day above named left the povt and steamed out @ few iniles to sea, Dut as the “twenty-four hour rate” is in force tn Ouban waters the Bouyer could not follow without giving the legal notice, so that the Meteor returned to port, | THE FRENCH VESSEL in due w 4 the port, and twenty-four hours afterwards the Meteor followed, coming ap with La Bouvet avout twelve miles out to sea, Lhe thrst effort of the French captain was to rundown the Meteor, but in this he failed, and then both vessels ; coming broadside, the Germans sent some eight or | nine seventy-two pound shells into the Bouvet, the result being that tho Bouvet’s engine was smashed, j while the meu in te engine room were fearfully scalded, This ended the iigut; the French boat tm. | mediately Ss, | Which were only @ few miles distant, the Spanish | HEADING FOR SAPE WATE | law requiring neutrailty in waters six miles Jrom shore. During the Bouvet’s attempt to run down the German boat the rigging of ine latter was al- | Most completely torn away, so that she was unabl {| 60 follow fast enough to caten the er sels then again entered the port for The Meteor is a neat little boat aud looks well, though now nearly two years cruising. she hails | from the port of Kiel, and has been ON DUTY in English waters, at Oporto and the Cape Ve ; Islands, on the coast of Venezuela, where she r walned about a year, aud has more recently been at left the last named port about fourteen days since, touching at Charleston on the trip hither. | ‘The Me- | leurs heaviest hls wi successive changes in the government are constantly interfering with German commercial interests, Her oficers ‘are as follows:—Captain, Edward Knor First Oficer, Kuhn; Second Oficer, F. Bend mann; Doctor, — Wiedemann, besides First En- gineer Pietter, Second Engineer Gi da and Pur- ser Reimer, wno are not commisstoned omlcers, oitivers and crew number fifty-eight. ‘The Meteor Will remain at this port probabiy about a week, when she leaves for Halifax. TH CUSiOM HOUSE. A Uniform for Tuspectors=Gre rease It has long been a matier of surprise that the Cus- tom House officials, whose duties require them to board vessels and take care of revenue interests uniforms. The simple badge which inspectors wear when on duty Is not sumicient to distinguish them from ordinary people, especially at night. When wanted by their superiors they are not easily found, and when it pleases them to shirk thelr work their dereliction is not easliy discovered. It may be very weil to have Custom House oficers detailed to do certain auty dressed in plain clothes; bat for inspectors there certainly should be provided a uniform easily dis- tinguishable by every one. It would certainly tend to the benefit of the service, and, indeed, to the men themseives, for obvious reasons. Impressed with the necessity of placing che in- spectors under the watchful eye of the public, and so improving their discipline and eficieucy, Coliec- vor tly wrote to the Secre- \ tary asury to ascertain his views on the matter, “and the result was that it Was agreed between them vo uniform those onicers. The Coilector will, ia a tew days, call a meeting of inspectors at the barge office, aud will there ask them to decide for themselves on the style of uniform, #0 that no dissatisfaction may be felt by any, It 1s considered ae, that they will agree on a dress of blue cloth, with buttons similar tw those worn in the navy, and a peaked cap to match. The ! price for each suit, which must be paid for by the wearer, Wil, It 18 supposed, not exceed forty dollars. Business in the Custom House is somewhat dull at present, the busy season being well spent; but it 43 heavier than it was at this period last year. The receipts trom customs to the Ist of April exceed those of the previous year to the corresponding time by $8,600,000, As tne duties are levied principally on articles of luxury imported from Europe this increase Indicates the rapid growth of our wealthy class, Perhaps 1t also indicates that under the administration of Honest Tom Murphy the reve- nue is faithiully collected, WHERE THE ALABAMA WAS FITTED OUT PORTUGAL NOT TO BLAME, Westport, Coun., April 18, 1871. To rHe Epirok or THe HERALD: Jn your paper of to-day [ notice an artic'e copled from the London Times stating that the Alabama was partially fitted outin the Azores, That is not 80, a8 the Portuguese authorities will testify; and she Was ordered away as soon a3 it was discovered she was taking in her battery and ammanition from an English merchant vessel in the Roads. They (the Portuguese) trained their guns from an old fort in rams on the Alabama, and tureatened to fire if she did not ieave, the autnories were, as it were, compelied to allow ber to complete her armament aud equip herseif from the English me antinan. But not one dol- lar’s worth did she procure from on shore; of that, we who were there a few days alter had ample proof. And her battery, crew and stores were take on board in the face of the protesé of the authorilies. At that time I was an officer on board the United States sluop Tuscarora, and we followed the Ala- bama from England via Cadiz to the Azores. ‘That tne great majority of the Portuguese were anxious for her capture J am certain. At a dinner iven by the officers of the Guards at Lisbon, and which the King and suite, also Captain Craven and officers of the Tuscarora were guests, his } Jesty remarked to Surgeon Richard (, Dean “that case we fell in with the Ai not be purucular to ineasure a maritime league from the shor ny Of his possessions to get iuto nea- tral Waters.’ Ido not think Bal” can saddle any of that claim on our Portuguese frieads, every one who nad any cause to test their hospitality du the late upleasantness can vouch for it. MASTER. PHILADELPHIA INTELLIGEVCE. Consolidation of the Camden and Amboy an Pennsylvania Ce Railroad Companies— The Morris Canal Leane—The VKox-taguurt Libel Suit. PHILADELPHIA, April 29, 1871, The transfer of the Camden and Amboy Railroad to the Pennsylvania Central, it 18 bellevea, will be fully effected on Monday next at the joint meeting of stockholders of both companies, that will be held at that time, mally agreed to by both companies and only await oficial ratincation, ‘The directors of the Lehigh Vilicy Railroad have burg to Jersey City, and directed its submission to the stockhoiders for a vote on the question, when, with the approval of a majority of the stock, the property will at once pass to the Lebigh Valley Com- pany, the canal company having approved of the Jease and directed Hts execution. ‘The Fox-Taggart libel suit has been bronght toa cloge, contrary to general expectation. Taggart, editor of the Sunday Times, was not sent to prison. He made a public apology for the offensive article, and lus son fifty dollars and costs, AN ALBANY HORROR, Three Versons Suffocated by Con!) G ALBANY, N. Y., April 2%, 1871, The dead bodies of John Donovan, bis wife and child, @ boy eleven years of age, were found this allernoon in the apartment at No, 26 Baasett street, lying beside the stove. An examination showed | they had been suitocated by coal gas. Thetr little | girt, aged three years, was found in an adjoming room gasping for breath. She was resuscitated, A CONVENT AT SCHENROTADY.—The Catholics of 4 8 taily have just purchased the large pro- verty belonging to the estate of the late award C. | Pelavan. tiey paid $25,000 for the same. ‘They in- tend to erect ‘convent on Lhe grounds aud make it + Cue of the great feaiurer of Sohenectaayy le, Kingston, Jamatca; Key West and Havana. She | ‘as at Venezucla, where the , The | about the docks, were not supplied with suitable | But Semmes got one of | his pivot guns mounted, trained it ou the fort, and | n ma ne hoped we should | All the propositions have been infor. | approved the jease of the Morris Canal, from Phillips. | and Judge Paxson fined him one hundyed dollars | T “MAY DAY.” The Syivan Glory of May—The Lesson of Rejuver nation—Ancient Customa—The Romans, the Celts, the French, Germans, English and Irish What It Means to Us. | — | The mouth of towers, the pertod when nature Hings aside the last vestige ot winter's withered raiment and stands forth ciothea in all the heauteous majesty of spr Hackneyed, od and trite are the songs of May. A hundred uiousand times In @ thousand yeara have its glories beer sung. Yet, even in its ballads, there is something. which breathes of perfume, something which speaks of resurrection, something Which is holy, pure and aweet—the Word of God. The old year jay down under its load of sorrows, The storm wust, the thunderbolt and the mountain wave role then anger ahove it, to quench at last i's lingering fire im their chill bosoms, Darkly the young year was born, A shower of cannon-hail rattied over the Earth and the wasn blood of the vieums was frozen to crit Another month, with w chili, hungry br lowed, and the Scourge walked on unabated, Next came the seasou of storms, hurrying under clouded, leaden skies, The rain month followed, like tard for the Wreakings of the storm, and at last THR LIVE SHOWS ITS RLP in nature. We are prone to think too lightly of May, +A tine spring day, sir; good day fora siroti inthe country; good day, sit, tor yachting.’ Is that enongh’ When we read the “Raven” a Une strikes ws. Aman ponders on the mere sug> gestiveness of Ia there, | there balm in Gilead 2 It has the ring of feart-anguish in it, When the storm god 18 at his Worst Man asks the same ques- tton of His heart, But ie asks In other words, and says ARE THERE FLOWERS IN MAY? _Man plunged in the heavt of city life may not feel Uys to the eestatic extent, yet when ne catches @ glimpse of Nature budding into Iife again his heart cannot reiuse to be glad. Let him shut bis eyes for | ® moment and gaze throngh the soul vista, He will ee there widespread fields, with the daisy and the the violet and the buttercup vying im pe and bea But he will see more. ‘rhe budding and blooming are but as types Wherein i figured the | REJUVENKSCENCE OF THE HEART. | With aul its blossoms of embellished youtu. We do ; hot think reflectively in these moments. The heart | 18 carried forward in an eestacy Whose thouzats are instincts and whose goal is perfectioa, Goal alas! seldom or never to be reached. It 18 out of this realm of enthusiasms puilt on the reality of the thrilling sense of springtide that all our notions of sMay honorings arise. Tne Romans | Jeted the petal-crowned goddess of blossoms im their ; Floralia, ‘The garden god was decked and the baser | histories of nis nature lorgotien, The Celts lit thelr | sacred fires upon their highest hills in thankfulness | to their sun-god that his face again would gieam | Upon ' THE YEARNING EARTH, Far over the world these tres of Baal and Bet were lighted, ail mm honor of the vernal nue that ; brought such promise of heart and body to the world—promise of a renewed life to the death of trees and flowers here, and proinise of a new life ta , the soul in the world beyond the grave, in @ Mayday articie the world looks for those landmarks which represented the appearance of | this hope and joy In past ages. Old English poetr: is tull of it, “Chaucer sings ina language whic | With all tts sweetness souuds like jargon to us. ‘There 1s, however, in him ail the feeling which tha simpler pleasures awaken in an almost pastoral age in perfection, He sings of “small fowies machea melodye,” aud we know that THE LINNET, LARK AND THRUSH, 1 all the blithesomeness of their tide of song, are int his soul. Sweet Spencer's “Faerie Queen” 1s nae turally filled with this, in France neither was thig spirit wanting, as can be seen in the carolies of the troubadours, where the ladies of the poets’ songs were likened to the flowers of May, OF MAYDAY CUSTOMS the oldest is the decking of the village maidens im wiputary flowers, The May pole came next, of which our Fourth of July Liberty pole’’ is a clear } Copy. So far back as the fourteenth century can | these May poles be traced. The peasant girl, crowned Queen of the May, is ao institution which parallel the Queen of Beauty at the tourneys of the nobis ol the land, She was at once queen and goddess. In her, @ virgin fresi in the nameless grace of gir | hood, must be recogni: the portrayal of the ancient \dess of the Pagans toned down by thi wetheticagl beauties of the Christian creed. For tel THE FAIREST FLOWERS WERE GATHERED; at ber feet the most fragrant branches laid. The hawthorn, with its vioom of suow; the violet, the primrose anid the virgin Illy, were her ; Unrone and crown. The village lads and lassea | danced and sung their chants, and the May Queei | through # life of atronhood to her oldest day: preserved us fresh as on the day of their gather! the perfume of these bt | a flowers, which hi faded to all else but herseif. In France, Holland and Germany this practice was observed until shortly after the Keformation tn the two last and ta the days of the first great revolution in the former, In England the custom died under the iron rule o the Puritans, Who rooted out 80 much of tha beauurul IN THEIR GRIM TRYINGS tw reach the severely good, as if goodness had any severity in its composition England’s May Day cannot be recalled without @ reference to Tennyson’4 exquisite poem. Jt 14 the sum of all others on thd + same k You must wake and eall me, Call me early, inother dear ; For to-morrow Will be the happleat day OF ail the glad New Year— OF all the glad New Year, mother, ‘The maddest, merrivst day— For I'm to be quecn of the May, Tin to be queen of the Ma; | Of late years the London sweeps appear to have | Mouopolized the May festivities in England. A tali bower of ivy leaves, with a crown of Nowers at the | top, is formed. inside this “Jack in the Green’? | capers through the street for peace, while a youth, and girl, clad in costume @ «a Wattean, dance to the music of a pan, pipes and dram. south of May, lark singe out his | a mi other, In Ireland bush’? decor and blossoms and dai before the house: well-to-do peoply left im THAT UNFORTUNATE COUNTRY. ‘The Inst are sentimental to a high degree, and it is not strange to tind yne of their most loved songs chanting the miseries of a forlorn condition in the fave of lovely May, as foltows:— ‘The daixy pled and all the sweets ‘The dawn of Nature yields, i rose pale and violet blow | month among Catholics to the Virgin Mary, An ale | leged miraculous appearance of the Virgin to a Utte | shepherd boy and fis sister at Loretto was the mov- | Gut where the orginal motner of a faith was to be honored, in What more appropriate time conid it be dove than in the erystal-dewed | month of May. And so im Catholic countries it ig happily calted THE MONTH OF MARY. | Unfortunately for Guiham little better than the memory of these poetic recollections can steal tn on us. Arcadian (imes it may bave meant May | and merry ow it 1s M ) MOVING MISERY. By @ terrible anticimax the # pst day of the calendar is embittered with the tumbling of farni« ture down stairs and the roiling of chattels up stairs, with the agonies of mirrors and crockery and the 1on if furniture joints generally, yh people, taking no pride in an- nm THE WASHSTAND OF OUR SIRE should become & source of vangiory tous, Mays day comes in with its iconoclast wagon drivers and ; car-borne terrors once a year, tilt America becomes: | a land of drabs. No wonder things occasionally get | mixed in the poetic mind, disturbed as it ts by thid | Visttation of peripatetic undomesticity. No wou | der, then, thar this should he the result of bia “mixed? feelin Let me sing thee, Day of Blossom ('asura, thle wagon's at the coor") ; Deep within thy lowing bosom edLitt this just w tue wore"), Maiden, all who kiss thee love thee jay the sky roll far aby a . Cebere, the parlor mirrors # mashed”). BREAKS (X THE ERIE CANAL. The Break at the Oxbow Increasing—Great Damage to Frrew=Mills and Bridges Swepd Awny=Bad Break at Fairport. RocassveR, April 29, 1871. ‘The break in the Erie Canal at the Oxbow 18 exe tensive, Fully 90,000 yards of earth have gone outy It will require fifteen days to effect repairs, Con¢ siderable damage was done to the farms, roads an buildings below. A bridge was destroyed, a dam carried away auc one or two barns swept aw: ‘The canal boat Barney Bird was carried the breach and lett a mile distant, somew damaged, Two men and a woman Were on th boat aud escaped injury, The canal authorities taking active measures to repair the breach. | earth will have to be drawn le | ‘rhere Js also a very bad break in the canal nea Fairport. Two or three boats passed through, fi wil take several weeks to repair the damage. Tt ti also reported that the waste-weor near Lyons BOUL OUe \