The New York Herald Newspaper, June 4, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. — OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND MASSAU STS. Volume XXX. No. 154 —— == AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, ' OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—45 Ananuing Sacai- mos—Siari NG bEAUTY. (@gRoapway THEATRE, Brosdway.—Sevan Davcurans TaN. erent THEATRE, Bowory.—Fast Wousx—Biacx rn NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Taw Pusat or Savor. WINTER GARDEN, Broadwey.—Camuto. NEW $ ol: iT BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery. ‘acaurn—Tim WALLACE'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Hair at Law. BARNUM'S MUSEUM, Broadway.—A Livine Atri @aton—-Fart Wowan—(iianrrss—Dor, OR THe CRICKET ON wax Haantu—Boons Pauiy. Open Day and Evening, BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanios' Hall, 473 Broad- end —Ermioriax Boncs, Danoxs, Buaiusques, 40.—Livs Nain. WOODS MINSTREL, HALL, Slt Brondway.—Erinortan Bones, Dances, 40.—Gueanwaxina, Tux Palace oF Soar. HELLER’S WALL, 585 Broadway.—San Francisco Mux- ornuis—Tus Dying Baxanp. HIPPOTHEATRON, Fourteenth street.—Equnsrnray, Qrusasn anp Acponatio Entsxtainuents—Tax Bue or Lire, AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Bat.uts, Pawrommes, BorLesques, &c.—Tam Katon Bor. VANNUCHI'S MUSEUM, 600 Broadway.—Moving Wax Figunes or Presipent Lancouy, &c. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open from 10 A. M. till 10 P.M. ) New York, Sa eo To the trial of the assassination conspirators yesterday the counsel for the prisoner Payne continued their efforts to prove his insanity Different guards who have had charge of the accused since his incarceration were ex- amined. One of them testified that Payne on one occa- sion exclaimed that he wished they would hang him, as he was tired of lifa To another he observed, in allusion to the evidence of his guilt presented in court, that they were tracking him pretty closely, and he wanted to die. The testimony in favor of the insanity plea in his case was far from being of a convincing character. Ex-Governor Farwell, of Wisconsin, was produced by the defence, and testified that when he hastened to the Kirkwood House on the night of the assassination to inform Vico President Johnson of the tragedy be had no knowledge of seeing Atzerott in the hotel. Marcus P. Moi of Troy, N. ¥., was produced by the ee Meat that he had seen Atzeroté and O'Laughiin in company with Booth at the National Hotel in Washington. He accidentally overheard a conversation between Booth and Atzerott, in which it wns said that if the matter succeeded as well | 5. with Johnson as with old Buchanan they would get | pretty well sold; and in the same conversation it was | remarked that the class of witnesses would be such that | nothing could be proven by them. He thought he had seen Dr. Mudd once before at tho National Hotol, when | he came excitedly to his (witness’) room, hastily opened } the door, and apol2gized, saying he thought he was in Mr. Booth’s room. He then went down stairs, and wit- ness followed him, when he returned and went up stairs, ‘This was in the morning, about ten or eleven o'clock, on the 3d of Merch. John D. Giles, barkeeper at Rullman’s Hotel, called for the defence, testified that he saw O’Langhlin im the hotel on the afternoon of the day preceding the agsassi- nation with Licutenant Henderson and others. They ‘were there during the afternoon, and returned ubout ten @olock, when witness went out with the party and was With them until one o'clock. O’Laughlin was in the Bouse on Friday night ail the evening, and was there ‘when the news of the assassination reached the house. During the proceedings an important disclosure in re- lation to the identity of Payne was made, one of his counsel intimating that his real name is Powell, and that | he belongs in Florida. THE SITUATION. One of the significant features in the progrese now #0 rapidly being made towards @ return to the happy aante-rebellion condition of publie enterprises throughout the country is the restoration of telegraphic communi- cation between the North and the different im Portant points im the Southern New York is now ogain in direct telegraphic con- nection with New Orleans, Charleston and ether principal cities of the South, The first despatch sent from the former ploce to the New York press since country. the restoration of the through communication was re- ceived by the Heratp on Thursday night. It narrated the circumstances of the surrender of the rebel ram Stonewall to the Spanish authorities at Havana; but, as this had been already anticipated by our Havana despatches, we did not publish it, ceived the second instalment of through telegraphic news from New Orleans, which is publiehed im this morning's Hanate, The last telegraphic despatch from Charleston to the the breaking up of communication by the re- bellion was one to the Herazp, in April, 1861, descriptive of the attack on Fort Sumter, and the firet Rewspaper one from there since the restoration of the Yesterday we re- New York press before lines, after an interruption of over four years, was re- ceived at the Hexaty office yesterday, and is as fol- lows. — Cuantxstos, $. C., June 2, 2865. Charleston extends the right hand of fellowship to New York. May the reunion links of common bonds never agaim ‘be separated. ‘The steamer Alhambra left this port at eleven o'clock yesterday morning with 2 heavy freight and maits for New York. New York warmly grasps the right hand of fellowship ‘which Charleston once more proffer, and hopes that the telegraphic chain and the links of national friendship, ‘Row once more happily restored, may henceforth be as @nduring as the existence of our glorious republic, 4 Our Now Orleans despatch of the 27th uit. gives full Getails of the conference in that city between the na- al and rebel officers which resulted in the surronder fof all the armed forces of the rebellion, military and west of the Mississippi river, The rebel troops to be paroled, disbanded and returned to their and the country occupied by national sokhers. Degotiations having been concluded, Generals Price, and Brent, the rebel commissioners, accot. by General Herron, who gues to complewe the ar- te of the eurrender, left New Orleans for the Mississippi region on the Qtth ult, It wae that some of the rebel Generale bad ro permission of General Canby to be al to take twenty thousand of their troops the Rio Grande into Mexico to the as- “of President Juarez, Five million do). pad orrivea at New Orleans from the North on the ptgamsbip McClellan for the payment of the i Soidibrs in General Canby's department. Orleans Advices by the restored through tole. wtate that General Sheridan and ty on Feider Inst. The rebel Gene- ral Hood has offored his surrender to General Davidson, commanding at Natchea. snes The recent amnesty proclamation of President Johasoa Created much excitement and was the almost universal topic of conversation im Richmond, on tts arrival there, ag stated in the despatch of our cgrreapondent, On read- ing it a large number of the seceasionists scomed tor the first time to realize the position in which they had Placed themselves by their rebellious course. It ia sald that « member of tho British Parlia- mont has offered General Lee the giftofs house tn London and suffeient means to support him luxuriougly if he will take up his remdence in that city; but the be- Mef in Richmond is that the national government will @ot permit him to agcept this offer, for the present, at least, but will require him to stand his trial for treason. The rebel Major General Hoth has taken the oath of al- legiance. Governor Pierpont is quietly but vigorously Prosecuting in Richmond the performance of bis duties as Excoutive of Virginia, In s recent proclamation he directs that magistrates in different parts ef the State designated by the military for the performance of civil duties shall continue to exercise thoir functions until more perfect civil organization shall have been perfected. The Twenty-fourth army corps, now stationed im Rioh- mond and vicinity, will shortly bave a grand review, after which a large number of the troops composing 1 will be discharged. Tho steamer Alhambra, which arrived here yeseorday, from Charleston on the 1at inst,, brought us our despatches containing important and interesting South Carolina news. The rebel Governor Magrath, of that State, was arrested at Columbia, and arrived at Charleston, under guard, on the 27th ult. Thence he was conweyed to Hil- ton Head on board a steamer, and it was expected that he would soon be sent to the North for trial. He'surrendered himself quietly, without any attempt at resistance. The rebel cavalry leader Wade Hampton, who it was re- ported advised the Governor not to allow himself to be takon out of Columbia, eseaped, and his where- abouts was unknown. Previous to his arrest Ma- grath had issued a proclamation to the people of the State in which he disavowed any intention of violating the terms of General Jobnston’s surrender, an- nounced Seuth Carolina at peace with the United States, and stated that any man or men who resisted tho national troops in the performance of their duties did so without his approval. Columbia, the capital of the State, was garrisoned byfa Union force, and the Citizens were presenting themselves in crowds to take the oath of allegiance. Other towns in the interior of the State have been properly garrisoned. Mrs, Jefferson Davis, her four children and sister and Mrs. Clement C. Clay, arrived in Charleston harbor, on board the steamer Clyde, on the 27th ult., on their way back to Georgia from Fortress Monroe. They were not allowed to land at Charleston, Secretary of the Navy Welles, Postmaster General | Dennison and their accompanying party, on board the i steamship Santiago do Cuba, arrived at Charleston on NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 41585. six licenses were granted, on the payment of thirty dol- lay orbs Bie Death epeenntn see So peat ed, till the Ofty seasions required by Law shall have bees hold. Inthe meantime the police, acting undor orders from Governor Featoa, will present to tne Grand Jury for their action ina few days the names of ail promi- nent liquor dealers who are engaged in the sale of liquor without licenses. Gustavus Webber, a patrolman of the Eleventh pre- cinct, went home last evening at eight o'clock, and, find- ing Mr, Albert Ainsley talking with his wife, shot him through the breast, killing him instantly. Webber fled, but finding himself hotly pursued went into a vacant lot on avonue B and shot himself through the head. He ia not expected to live. Mr, Ainsley was until re- cently employed in the City Inspector’s Department. Coroner Wildey will hold an inquest in the cage to-day. Jealousy is the alleged cause of the difficulty. ‘The following cases, among others, received the atten- tion of the police authorities yesterday :—On the nights of the 20th of April and the 8h of May ultimo fires were discovered in the premises No. 4 Erie Buildings, Duane street, ecoupied by Judah Pierce, John W. Freoman, Luther BM Fufler and William Findon, liquor dealers, und investigation of the circumstances leading to suspicion that the fires had been ignited by these men, or with their cognizance, for the purpose of defrauding the insurance companies, they were yesterday arrested and detained to await a full exa- mination. John Ward, alias Sparrow, and John Malloy, were committed on charge of stealing a gold watch and chain, on Friday evoning, in the vicinity of Mercer and Spring streets, from Joseph Dougherty, an attache of the Tombs, George Millet was locked up on charge of steal- ing a watch and chain, on a fourth avenue car, from Mr. George Weightman, janitor of Grammar School No. 47. Edward McKeever and Charles Perry wore committed on charge of burglariously entering the bakery of Mr. James Lewis, in Hester street, at an carly hour yesterday morn- tog. The stock market was dull but steady yesterday. Governments were firm. Gold opened at 137%{ and closed at 187 in the street im the afternoon, and at the same price at night. The commercial situation yesterday romained un- changed. The lower rates for gold had the tendency to retard transactions, however, and little was done save in afew of the favorite articles of speculation. Foreign goods were quiet. Petroleum was irrogular, Crude was heavy, but refined was Ormer, Cotton was heavy. Groceries were steady. On ’Change flour wasa shade lower. Wheat was quiet, Corn wasa triflo off. Oata were irregular. Pork was lower. Lard was unchanged, Whiskey was rather lo Reorganiza ties in the Empire State—War Democracy and Party Fac- tions. The outbreak of the rebellion destroyed the political parties and superseded the issues which had previously divided them. From that time to the fall of Richmond and the surrender of Lee the parties took sides on some policy ot the administration in Prosecuting the war. But with the close of the rebellion ail the party organizations and factions were set afloat, like so much drift wood in a spring freshet. The leaders on all sides were hesitating and unable to decide upon their future course. As the probable line of policy of President Johnson in arranging a settlement with the people of the 28th ult, where they were receivod by salutes from the fleet and other honors, Aftor visiting the fortifications and the various places of interest in and around that city, they proceeded to Savannah, accompanied by Admiral Dahlgren. At Savannah, which they reached on the 3ist ult., they were joined by Genera! Gillmore and staff, Here honors similar to those Peceived at Charleston were shown the distinguished | officials, and a like tour of inspection followed. A large additional number of the vessels of Admiral Dahigren’s squadron will shortly be sent North. The work of mustering troops out of the mititary ser- vice is being proceeded with as rapidly as possible. The whole number ordered to be mustered out of the Fifth army oorpa is thtricen thousand fiye hundred When | this is effected it will leave this corps with about fourteen | thonsand men in the fleld, The Board of visitors invited by the Secretary of War to attend the June examination of tho cadets of the West Point Military Academy have arrived at that pince and perfected their temporary organization. The list of members of the board, for the first time im five years, in. clides the names of gentlemen from the States of Alubama, Louislava, South Carolina, North Carolina | and Georgia. It is expected that General Grant, Secre- tary Stanton and General Sherman will be present | during a portion of the interesting examination exer- cises. Bermuda advices to the 31st ull., received here yester- day by the steamship Lucy, state that the rebel blockade running steamer Imogene had arrived at St. Georges from Galveston with one thousand bales of cotton. The Imo- gene has been quite successful within the past few months im blockade running between Galveston and different West India ports; but, as the rebellion in the Trans-Mis- aicsippi region, as well as every other part of the coun- try, is now ended, her last trip im the illicit trade has been made, The Imogene reported nine other steamers loading with cotton af Galveston te run the blockade when she sailed, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The cordial and enthusiastic attentions paid to General Sherman by our citizens were centinued yesterday and Jast night. A host ef distinguished visitors called at his temporary residence in Twenty-third street during the early part of the day. In the afternoon he visited | Walker's studio, where he was shown some portraits of bimeclf and his principal generals, At six o'clock the @istinguished soldier was entertained by a private dinner at she rooms of the Union Club in Fifth avenue. Last } night the Union League treated him toa reception, at which he made two short speeches. The General leaves for the West to-morrow morning. Pai lars of the terrible powder explosion in Mobile | on the 25th ult., heretofore noticed in the Hmap, given in the despatch of one of our correspondents in that city, Two hundred tons of powder were exploded, cansing the death of several hundred persons, the injury of many more, and the destruction of eight blocks of | Southern States began to leak out, Chief Jus- tice Chase entered the political pool, with his judicial robes bedraggling about his heels, and endeavored to organize a new party on the sole idea of negro suffrage. The official announce- ment of Mr. Johnson’s domestic policy, coming as it did in this season of uncertainty, furnished a starting point around which all the political driftwood could gather, and then mould into practical shape, and settle upon the dividing lines and points of issue between them. Already this scattering political material has commenced getting into form, and each faction preparing to take its place in line on one side or the other. Thus the war democracy have commenced their consultations, and are taking the initia- tory steps for the reorganization of a party in this State. With President Jobnson’s clear and practical policy of reconsiraction as their basis, they are shaping their course, and will doubt- less meet in convention during the month of July or August at Saratoga Springs, or at some other point, and there formally and publicly proclaim their combinations and policy to the world. The political movement, which we now see in embryo, will then receive a name, as- sume a practical form and a living reality. Until then it wil be somewhat curious to ob- serve the drift of the several factions as they approach the points which will naturally be- come the issue. It is already evident that the Chase faction will swallow up the old abo- lition, radical and negro worshipping cle- ment. They are rapidly falling into. line in epposition to PresidentVohnson’s policy, and will thus leave the war democracy free from any entangling alliances with that disorganiz- ing element. That point settled, it becomes important to knew which of the numerous fac- tions and what political elements will be drawn into the party and combinations that the war democracy are now taking the initia- tory steps in organizing. While it is impossible to foresee all the points which may arise as the movement progresses, step by step, yet there are many things which musi follow as a natural consequence. Events have shown that Mr. Johnson's course is distasteful both to the seces- sion sympathizers in the North and the radical abolition or Ghase element. This leads us to the conclusion that the Seymour Regency at Albany, and its affiliating elements in this city, j as well as in all other portions of the State, will be left out in this deal. It is, on the other hand, probable that the Dean Richmond Albany Re- gency will be incloded in the war democracy programme, and thus the old democratic party houses and twe veseels, The lose 1 estimated at between seven and eight millions of dollars. Summer in the Park was fairly inaugurated yesterday vy the commencement of the open air concerts of the in the State will be effectually severed, leaving the rank and file to take sides according to their taste, As if circumstances had predeter- mined that precise result, the gulf between the season. The weather was dehightful, the Park looked | Seymour and Richmond faction has been grow- its loveliest, the music was deliciows, and the throngs of all classes of persons made the occasion a very gay and happy one. #treams of carriages, of equestrians and pedestrians, poured through the various avenues of this beautifol resort during the entire afterppon. The Street Cleaning Commission, consisting of the Mayor, Recorder, Comptroller, City Inspector and Counsel to the Corporation, yesterday opened the contract bids for keeping the streots im a cleanly condition. Seven dif- ferent proposals wore received, the yearly amounts for cleaning the streeis demanded by the different bidders ranging from three hundred thousand to five hundred cracy of iteelf formed thourand dollars, The decision of the Commission with Tegard to the acceptance or non-acceptance of aby one of ‘the bide will be announced next Tuosday. A German named John A. Stortz was yesterday ar. reigned before United States Commissioner Stilwell, on ing wider and wider ever since the Seymour junte ruined the party with ite intrigues in reference to the platform at the Chicago Con- vention. Here, then, we can see the complete bseaking up of the late democratic organiza- tion, with its two factions arrayed in antagonism in this new condition of things. In regard to the incoherent elements of the late republican party, the war demo- power which gave it success during the war. In entering upon their new combination it is probable that the Seward-Weed faction will go with them, especially as long as Mr, charge of intercepting and opening a letter from his | Seward remains Mr. Johnson’s Prime Minister. father, in Germany, directed to Mr. Ferdinand Thomas, of this city. The examination of the case will be con- tinued to-morrow, In the complicated and long contested case of the This course would seem unavoidable from the very nature of things. Since Governor Fenton comes from democratic stock, he and all those estate of William H. Merchant the Surrogate yesterday | democrats who left the party on the free soil entered a decree declaring the probate of the second will to be revoked and readmitting to probate and record in his office the first will, by which the claims of the two fistors of deceased are set aside and his entire estate given issue, who have not been thoroughly swallowed up in the Chase negro worshipping policy and completely lost in its demoralizing dogmas, to two young ladies named therein, to one of whom it is | Will also form an element in the new organize- alleged he was engaged to be married. tion. Thus we will have the war democracy, At the meeting of the Commissioners of Charities and | the Richmond Regency, the Seward-Weed fac- Correction yesterday A. Oakey Hall was appointed Coun- fel to the Board, ata salary of fifteen hundred dollars o your, At the meeting of the Excise Commiesioners yesterday tion and the independent portion of the free soll democratic element forming @ party in quovort of President Johnson’s gdministration, the balance of, and making an organization not only formida- the late secession copperhead faotion, tiie Sey- mour Regency and the Chase-Sumner party, which will be forced to seek an alliance, offensive and defensive, in eome form or other. There ia no other alternative left them. They Played into each other's hands during the war, and both indirectly rendered all the ald in their power to Jeff. Davis while the rebellion held out, and it is but natural that they should go together now that the war is over, with such papers as the Post, News, Tribune and as their organs. Thus much the signs of the times indicate in the programme of the new party under the auspices and lead of the war democracy. Let us watch and wait the practical developments of the day. Foreigu Immigration—The British Colo- my of New Zealand. We have just received from John B. Bennett, Esq., Registrar General of the colony of New Zealand, an official copy of his report to the Hon. Frederick A. Weld, Colonial Secretary, dated at Auckland, December 20, 1864, giving the statistical exhibits of the colony for 1863. The following is a copy of the note from the Registrar General accompanying the report:— Reowrnsk Gawunat’s Orrice, A Feb. 28, 1865. } To rom Forror ov ras H«naun, New York, America:— Smm—I have the honor, by direction of the ral gov- ieerane (tents ieee by mail the al ics of the have the colony of New Zealand for the 1863., honor to be, sir, your most obedient servant, JOHN B, BENNETT, Registrar General. Notwithstanding the great preponderating influences which lead foreign immigrants to visit the American shores in the pursuit of fortunes and permanent homes, especially now that peace is covering the land with its radiant beneficence, it is interesting to examine how far other nations have succeeded in colonizing remote portions of the globe, and in inspiring barbaric people with a knowledge of the blessings of civilisation. One of the favorite colonization schemes of the British government in past years has been the introduction of Euro- pean people and the English tongue and British ideas in the colonial possession known as New Zealand. This colony consists of a chain of three islands, with smaller isles, in the Pacific Ocean, between latitude 34 12 and 47 20 south, and longitude 178 39 east, about twelve hundred miles southeast of Australia. The area of the colony is ninety-five thousand square miles, or nearly the extent of Great Britain. In 1849 these islands had a European population of a little less than thirty-two thousand, while the estimated population of the aborigines was about one hundred and ten thousand. This, it will be seen, was the estimated number of the population of the colony some sixteen years ago. i The document sent from New Zealand is full and comprehensive, and in typographical execu- tion will compare favorably with any work of the kind emanating from the government printing houses in the old European capitals. We learn from the data here furnished that the popula- tion of European descent in New Zealand on the 31st December, 1863, exclusive of the mili- tary and their families, was 164,048—viz., 105,978 males, and 58,070 females. The immi- gration, over seas, to New Zealand in 1863 amounted to 45,730; the emigration over seas during the same peried was 10,610—showing an excess of immigration over emigration of 35,120 souls. Of the immigrants there were 14,378 from the United Kingdom, and 30,367 from Australian colonies—or more than double the number that entered the colony from the mother country. The births in 1863 were 5,115; deaths, 1,983. The number of marriages in 1863 was: 1,485, being an increase of 394 over the pre- vious year. The shipping tables show an “in- wards” for the year of 1,154 vessels, of 419,935 tonnage; and a total of “outwards” of 1,094 vessels, of 394,665 tonnage, being an increase as compared with 1862 of 341 vessels, with 118,570 tonnage, inwards, and 311 vessels, with 106,018 tonnage, outwards. Of these, 245 vessels, with 171,947 tonnage, were British; 742, with 173,863 tonnage, jcolonial; 110, with 51,447 tonnage, American. The total value of imports in 1863 was £7,024,624—-an increase of £2,398,592, or 51.84 per cent over 1862. The total value of exports in 1863 amounted to £3,485,405, against £2,422,732 in 1862—an increase of 43.86 per cent. The two main articles of export were gold and wool. The value of gold exported in 1863 was £2,431,723, against £1,591,389 in 1862—being an increase of 52.80 per cent. The value of wool exported in 1863 was £830,495, against £672,226 in 1862—an increase of 23.17 per cent, Total revenue, ordinary and terri- torial, in 1863, £1,266,908, against £1,115,162 in 1862—an increase of 13.60 per cent. The mat- ters of public debt, post office, joint stock com- panies, legal and criminal statistics, the judi- ciary, education, saving banks, meteorological observations, &c., are all appropriately referred to in this report of the Registrar General of New Zealand; but the details would be unin- teresting at this distance. Although the above presents a very flatter- ing exhibit of the progressive condition of this colony of New Zealand, yet there is a remark- able fact in regard to immigration ascertain- able from these statistics, and one that justifies us in declarations upon the subject heretofore made. We have always contended that the proper place for a permanent domicile of the emigrant from the Old World is upon the soil of the new. Coming here he enters upon a new life, under, institutions moulded to suit bis changed condition, and in the formation of which he soon bas a voice. On the other hand, the immigrant to the colonies of the Old World, situated in remote portions of the globe, or even upon this continent, as in Canada, entersa new and untried life in « country burdened with laws unbefitting his condition and origi- nating in old countries where there is no actual sympathy for those who encounter the trials and hardships inseparable from a pioneer’s life in the New World. Hence we find it rarely oc- curs that emigrants from Europe who are in- duced to go into the Canades remain there over one winter season, but make their way to the prairies of the American Great West, or to the more congenial clime of the South, where they settle and become good and thriving citi- zens. It is true the war stopped very nearly all foreign immigration to the South; but many foreigners settled there prior to the war, par ticularly in the State of Texas, where « num- ber of flourishing settlements were established. In the case of New Zealand wo find that the immigration from the Old World was more than one-half less than that from adjacent British Colonies, showing that the immigrants to those Colonies had been disappointed and become dissatisfied with the state of things there, and ore endeavoring to better thelr condition by gomg from one colony to another, Ike do many lost children of Iarael. It is eafe to say that if these immigrants trom the Old World had come st once to republican America they would have found themselves in a few years much better off than if they had nd wan- we see in the future an immense tide of immi- gration, both from the North and from Europe, flowing not only into the far West, even to the Paoific coast, but into the rich plantations of the South. The latter will occur after a while, but the status of the negro has to be settled first, In the meantime let those in Europe who desire happy homes, under « benignant government, growing more powerful and more benefloent every day, turn their eyes to the shores of republican America. The Boston Musical Splurge. Cotemporary history teaches that Boston is a great place. It is, in fact, an institution, Bostonians being the judges. It has been self styled the “Hub of the Universe” —that is to say, all creation is supposed to revolve around it aa the grand centre, But, after all, Boston is to New York what Salem is to Boston. If the “Hub” were to fall into decay, Salem would no doubt assert its heregitary rights to succession, as the representative of “hubism,” if we may be per- mitted to coina word. Washington is known as the city of magnificent distances. New York is acknowledged to be the great emporiam—the capital, the heart, the brain of the country. Philadelphia is the City, par excellence, of Brotherly Love and somnambulism. Baltimore. is the Monumental City; Cincinnati, the Queen of the West, and New Orleans, the Sovereign of the Gulf; but Boston is essentially the city of great pretensions. Boston makes occasional flourishes; but it is for the most part upon the reputation of exotics. It has a Bunker Hill monument which took nearly a century to erect, and which was ultimately danced into completion by Fanny Ellsier. It has a Faneuil Hall of historic memory, now almost fallen into disue- tude, whose doors were once closed against Daniel Webster—the greatest New England statesman and orator—because his genius was too great and broad to be compressed within the narrow compass of Bostonian ideas. It has its famous Brattle Square church, with @ Revolutionary cannon ball inserted in the wall. An ister-mural park, which, with native modesty, it calls a “Common,” which not many years ago was the common pasturage of Athe- nian cows, endowed, of course, with aspirations far abowe the ordinary bovine tribe. Its sub- urbs are delightful—and here nature has been bountiful to the “Hub;” but its streets furnish an apt illustration of the narrow and crooked ways of life. Then ithas an organ—the Alpha and Omega of Boston pride, the jewel of its soul; but the instrument was built in Germany, and it unfortunately happens that they have no one to play it. Boston has won the elephant; but it does not know what to do with him. When the great powers of the organ have to be demonstrated, they send to New York for an organist, and we are always ready to supply the demand. Boston gave a grand musical festival last week. Eight hundred performers made the Music Hall resound with harmony; but it was New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other cities that furnished the principal material, vocal and instrumental. Without the aid of Mrs. Van Zandt and the artists of the German Opera the selo singing would have been very far below par. Without the auxiliary force from the orchestra of the New York Academy, and a few professional players from Phila- delphia, the instrumentation would have been unequal to the task of interpreting the symphonies and oratorios. On Saturday last there was a grand concert given at the Music Hall to develop the capacities of the monster organ, for the special delight and astonishment of visitors from abroad. The visitors supposed that they were to be treated to something immense; but it turned out that they were grievously disappointed. The capacities of the instrument were not developed at all; and they had to console themselves with attending an organ concert at a Catholic church next day, by invitation from the pastor, which, it seems, they thoroughly enjoyed. There is a story told of a man who, upon being asked whether he could play a certain piece, replied that he could not, but he had an excellent musical box that could. This is the case with Boston. If she cannot get up a grand musical festival on her own material, she has several musical boxes in other cities that can, and she has availed herself of them to some purpose on the occasion of the late grand splurge. Euicration to rae Sotta.—The Southern States are now open, under the new dispensa- tion of peace, to the industry and enterprise of the country, and will, no doubt, also invite much of the skill and labor which is crowding upon us from abroad. That there will be a large emigration to the South there can be no question. And that it will combine the most valuable elements in the development of that region is equally true. The climate and soil of the South are without parallel perhaps in the world. Under the system of slave labor—now happily defunct—the soil was never half de- veloped. Millions of acres of good arable land have never been touched by the plough or sub- mitted to skilled labor. Whole tracts of coun- try in Virginia, Maryland and the Carolinas, which have lain from immemorial time under denee foreeta, have been cleared by our armies, from the necessities of war, and thus prepared for culture. These are but few of the reasons why the Seuth presents at this time a splendid field for the emigrant, whether from the North or from Burope. The Southern States are re- lieved forever from the incubus of slavery. White labor bas no longer to contend with in- voluntary servitude. Therefore the white laborer bas an advani never before enjoyed. The disenthralled or at least the indus triously inclined portion of them, will give their labor at comparatively modest rates, for they must earn a living, and will be glad to obtain ists among the free negroes very readily. : The idea that white men could not endure the climate Of the Southern States bas been dis. labor. There is a golden opportunity now offering for a large emigration to the recoa- structed Southern States which, we have ne doubt, will be very generally availed of. The old pseudo aristocracy is obliterated. Indus try and intelligence will find their proper ap- preciation henceforth in Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, the Carolinas and the other South, ern States, as they now enjoy in New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvanis, Ohio and Indiana, snd men must be more dull to thei. interest than the progressive spirit of this age indicates if thoy do not avail themselves of the chance to make the half desolated South bles- som like a garden under the new dispensation of peace and freedom which Providence has vouchsafed to us. THE WEST POINT EXAMINATION The Board of Visitors invited by the Hon. Sceretexy of War to attend the examination of the cadets of the United States Military Academy, in June, 1865, consinte of the following members :— 1. Dr. Daniel ¥ Be bye peeve ie in New York. mr . Hon. John F. . Colonel John M. . Ambrose P. ar Esq., Maine. . Right Rev. H. W.'Lee, lowa . Hon. J. D, Lyman, New Hampshire. Dr. A. G. Mackey, South oan 1 dimes Bias Connecticut; jonel sf General Robert C. Schenck, Ohio. Governor D. L. Swain, North J. B. Thomas, Esq., California, . Hon. M. J. Wilkinson, Minnesota . Wyliy Woodbridge, Esq., Georg» In the absence of several members, wuo are expected, to arrive to-morrow, the board has been temporarily or-. ganized by the election of Major General Schenck aa president, and of Colonel Conkling as secretary. ‘Major General Sherman is expected to stop at the Potas for a few hours at least, on his way to Ohio. Secretary Stanton and Lieutenant General Grant have signified thetr intention to be present during the examination, whieh will continue about twenty days. LIKUTENANT GENERAL SCOTT. The Board of Visitors at the Military Academy, on the firat day of their season, paid their respects in a, pody te Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, and were received tyr the General with his accustomed cordiality. He his guests for the respect which they had been pleased t@ pay, aa he expressed it, to his age, remarking that hohe@ attained his seventy-ninth year; and he added that he should avail himself of an early occasion to return the , visit, The presence of mombers of the board, for the first time in several years, from the States of North Caroe lina, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana, was remarke@ upon by the General with especial pleasure, A few days’ residence at the Point has already effaced nearly ali traces of the General’s recent illness, and his numereus admirers may now look forward with confidence to his outliving his friend Humboldt, who, it will be remegs- bered, passed away at the ripe age of ninety. A NOVEL FEATURE AT WEST POINT—INAUGURA® TION OF A BABY CUP. ‘The graduating class at West Point for the pres sent year have developed a singular idea; they have started a baby cup, to be claimed’ by the first of their number who earns the proud title of father. The design of the goblet is as original as the idea, and graduates employed Messrs. Starr & Marcus, of Je street, to carry it out forthem. The bowl of coup of silver, polished so as to resemble burnished steel. ie ta a twelve pound cannon and it will answer the double beri any ofa fe harrinnvage Pay This is uy Lew goa bh in turn is supported by cannon of the same material. four medallions, repressing Cupid, and . The cannon is surrounded by the emblems the four branches of the service—the ’ poe . zm infantry and engineer corps. Underneath shovel of tho engincers is their a ‘us try—which, not inappropriately, bas been aclected the motto of the cup, The pedestal, like the bowl, is nished silver, and the whole is surmounted by an airably executed figure of a cadet in full uniform, pee en the names of the sixty-nine members: a Our Park. RECOMMENCEMEN? OF THE OPEN AIR CONCERT#—w BRILLIANT AND FASHIONA! SPLAY—s YEW USEFUL SUGGESTIONS, ETC. 3 Tn acordance with the announcement of the. Park Com- missioners, the open air concorts were resumed yesterday afternoon, under the leadership of Manager Harvey Dod worth. The day was all that could have been d bright, sunny and warm, but yet not so sultry as to der moving about unpleasant or laborious, A light freshing breeze counteracted the torrid tendency, Kept Fahrenheit at a very enjoyable figure. Pilgrime from the lower regions—that is, from the business quam ters down town—who had been sweating and under all the discomforts of a during their matutinel business peram! were very agreeably disappointed on reaching the to find a temperature so different and #0 delightful. Being the occasion of the first concert of the seasom, the attendance was of course unusually large. Mecegim barouches and elegant one horse conv through the various entrances by the hu: Equee- along the bridie paths in scores, and pedes- trians, male, female, adult and juvenile, were present by the tens of thousands. The Park never presented a mere Pssnog mg arp animated . Many of the flowers were in bloom and the air with their varied perfumes. The crystal waters of the lake sparkled the clear sunshine like beds of precious silver, and bere on their bosoms hundreds of graceful and dozeng swans f filled with pertiss And vent inental partion The nite wore deeb: lees thinking of Moore's mellifiuous lines:— Oh, come to me when daylight sete; ‘Sweet then tome, Over the Hd se z tea. ‘hen mirth’s at and love begins, Beneath thi ray, With sound of lutes and mandoline, To steal hearts awa; When all’s so In Heaven and o'er the sea, ae. ‘The muric took ip the old under prt bene gre nt wlan edeated \eBotworin ant com corps of assistants. 5 The newly mown Hit 4 FE) x j ‘ i 43 il Hl fil me BRET EEE observant visitor. Tomedied at a trifling outlay. or tower, @ Fo