The New York Herald Newspaper, June 16, 1865, Page 4

defrayed the expenses of advertising for the year 1808, ‘Negro Suffrage—Demoralization of Our | their party will poll an overwhelming vote. _ NEW YORK HERALD. | frescreccatine gore: ee JAMES GORDON BESNET? EDITOR AND PROPRISTOR OFFICE MN. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STB, — SSS WINTR" QARDRY. Rrosawey —Looneme Bosata— Pauer Ue ar Navan Wor Farm Lane. BRU POWREY TREATED. Bowery —Mverumore Won @Aue—Cay oF fas Barris Finca A Gvrsers Keranus 110 THRATE®. Brondway —Mv Paucow Cuxna— eStnee batt tas woos WALLACK'S THRATRE. Broadway —Tas Tnom Wass. BROADWAY. ‘Beenteey.~Passun Pome POWFREY TURATER, Howery —Eamumspe—Uniocar Pouanrt- Vatasnine an0 Oeoom, SIBLO'S GARDEN, Sasteny <Oun ‘Puan of Savow. tiie Let hae ee OT a ee eet, woors * 1 4 —, MAtL. oe Rrevomee Parson on Soar. HOOLHY'S It Dl Rowery —Saw Amanrcey's Mim. eae ChB pees Foy or Fus—Unoe Toss AMERICAN THRATRE, No_ 60 Rrosdway.—Ransem, Pisrosiana Bem asgues, fee Tooruns NEW YORK MUSRUM OF ANA = RBZ TORE NPRRON OF ANATOUT, O19 Brendwey SS Our subscribers will confer a favor by reporting any of Our city carriers who overcharge for the Hanae emit their subscriptions, whenever practicable, by Post | There was a public examination at Tubby Hook school Ofice Orders, It is the safest mode of transmitting money | Ferterday. After the examination a number of eminent by mail j THE SITUATION. One of oupNew Oricans correspondents states that | twenty-five thousand men of the late rebei forve im the ‘Trans-Mississippi Department will shortly be in Mexio; ‘and be adds, significantly, that the sympathies of thelr leaders wil! not be with Maxintlina. Commander Fitzhugh bas furnished the Navy Depart. ‘Mont with an account of the surrender to him, im arrord- fence with the stipulations agreed upon between General Canby and the agents of the rebe! Generel Kirby Smith, of the interior rebel naval ostablishmont of the Trane- Missiesippi Department. On the 84 of June Com. mander Fitzhugh met up Red river Lieutenant Com. mander Carter, commanding the rebel tron-clad Mis- eourl, who surrendered his voasel, stating at the game time that it was the only remaining armed one the rebels had on Red river and Its tributaries, and himself, officers and men. The number of mon surrendered wap emall. Commander Fitzhugh proceeded on to Shreve. port, La., to secure the rebel naval property located at ‘that place. General Grant arrived in Washington from Chicago of ‘Wednesday night. At all the stations on the route, both @olng westward and coming eastward, the Genera! was Greeted with enthusiasm by the people. Accounts from Southern Tennessee and Northern Georgia and Alabama represont that the gueriila bands of rebels who bave been so numarous and #0 pestilent in that region have quietly dispersed and gone to their homes. Many of those men, who hare begn guilty of Dimost every crime against humanity, sow surrender bad anblushingly ask and cxpoct amnesty for all their past enormitios. ‘The examination of the graduating class of the West Point Military Academy was concluded yesterday; but the examinations of the othor classes will continue for ome days yet. Among tho rocont arrivals of distinguished military mon at West Point are those of Major Generals George Hi. Thomas, Slocum and W. F. (Baldy) Smith. Zieutenant Gencral Winficld Scott completed the @eventy-ninth year of his ago on Tuesday last, and in | Donor of the event and the distinguished chieftain, = | umber of his friends and admirers at West Point pro- cvcded to his lodgings and serenaded him. In return the General oxpressed his thanks, but declined to meke a 6peech. The Sioux Indians are again making hostile demon- Strations in Nebraska. On Wednesday morning of this ‘week five hundred of them attacked one hundred men of the Eleventh Ohio cavalry, fifteen miles west of Fort Mitcholl, and killed four and wounded seven of them. A Sumber of the Indians were killed. MISCELLANZOU3 NEWS. Rio Janciro papers of the 7th of May contain the speech of the Emperor of Brazil at the opening of the pational Congress. Ho al!udes to the difientty with the United States goverment in consequence of the seizure in Brazilian waters of the rebel steamer Florida, and of the interruption of amicable relations with Great Britain, but states that the justice of Brazil's protest fm the former case was admitted, and hopes that in the latter the proposed mediation may result oqually satisfactory. The termination of the war with Uruguay is announced, and silusion ts made to the pending hostilities with Paraguay, which the Emperor had no doubt, from the manner in which his appeal for volunteers had been responded ta, would be terminated with success to his empire. Don Podro also informs his Congress that he bas recognized Matimilian as Emperor of Mexico. Of the proscnt condition of his own empire, politically, internationally and financial! , he gives altogether a vory favorable view. Afguments on both sides were delivered yesterday, in the Court of Appeals, at Albany, in the caro involving the conctitutionality of the act of the Jast Legistature providing for a paid fire department tn this city; but the decision of the court was not rendered, The Board of Aldermen were in session yesterday @flernoon. Resolutions were offered, ani appropri. ately referred, requiring the Hudson River Railroad Company to immodiately ropair certain streets Pyrough which their tracks run, or to be liable to payment of the exp-nses of the samo under »the suporvition of the Croton Aquedugt Department, v@nd providing for the Inying out of small parks at the Intersection of Broadway and Thirty-second and ‘Thirty Ach streets, and the erection thereon of bronze gtatues of Robert Falton and Samuel F. Morse. A Jengthy report was read and adopted condemning the erection of a pler, by authority of the Pilot Commission. ers, in the North river, between North Moore and Hubert atreets, Aresolution was adopted authorizing the City Inspector to release for ten years, at an annual rent of ton thousand dollars, the pretnises at present oceupied dy him. The resolution providing for a keeper of Dowl- ‘ug Green park was defeated. Several other mation -wore disposed of, and the Board adjourned till next Mon- ‘The Board of Councilmen were in sosaion yerterday, ‘and disposed of considerable routine business. A roso- Jution in favor of appointing a special committee to con- for with the Hon. George Bancroft in relation to pre- & memorial of the Lincoln obsequies was reterred & tho committce having that matter im charge. The Board concurred with the Aldermen in the appointment of s committes to prepare for the celebration of tho Fourth of July. Mr. Lent offered a resolution, besed upon the Comptroller's report, that over two thousand dollars of tha twenty thousand dollars appropriated for he ad: the Common Council was unexpended, of eivhteen thousand dollars bad igauiring me pum Using. The Mayor of ths city, in response to @ communica tion of the Common Council requesting that he take steps for giving a Otting reception to our returning soldiers on their arrival, has suggested that instead thereof all the voterans of the army in tho city on the Fourth of July be received by the civil and military authorities with every demonstration of respect and honor. In the Supreme Court yesterday @ case touching the Mabitity of landlords was tried before Judge McCunn, resulting im Qxing the responsibility of that class of the community, ‘The plaintiffs occupied frat foor stores on premives 87 Worth street, which were well tiled with rich silks and fine hosiery. On the floor above, occupied by other partins as offices, was ® water closet. In April last the pipes connected with the water closet burst, in- Juring by the overfiow the silks and other oods below, Damages were laid at $9,331 70, for which the jury gave 8 verdict in full. In the Superior Court yesterday, before Judge Robert. gon, the Strong divorce caso was again moved for tral; but, ag om the previous day, it was again adjourned, tn @onsequence of the illness of one of the counsel em- ployed for the defendant. In the same court a case important to railway compa- nies was tried before Judge Robertson anda jury. The verd'ct was for the plaintiff and against tho Eric Rail- read Company, the jury belioving the testimony of the former, that the goods deposited with the company were intended for transmission to E!mira, instcad of which they were negligently kept at the place of delivery— Horeeheads station—tiJ lost in consequence of a fire which destroved the stores there in January last, The defence set up was that the goods were merely left for storage tll the plaintiff had determined where to send them, There was large number of prisonors tried in the Court of General Sessions yesterday, before Recorder Hoffman, there being a number of indictments for high- way robvery. Heary Archer was convicted of a daring robbery committed upon Henry H. Waters, in the saloon where the affray oceurred between Friery and Lazarus, end was sentenced to the State Prison for ten years. The wheels and other property connected with the ope- rations of the draft im the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth ‘Congressional districts, in this city, were sold at auction yerterday forencoa, et No. 3 Third avenue. The attend- ence was not numerous, and the articles brought very low prices. A portion, but not the whole, of the Metropolitan pollee force yesterday douned their new summer uni- form, the materia! being blue flannel. NEW! YORK “HERALD, FRIDAY,” JUNE ‘16, 1865. Political Parties, The Hon. John Sherman, of Ohio, a brother | of the ‘amous General Sherman (who goes the | other way), and a leading republican member | of the United States Senate, recently delivered aspecch at Circleville, Ohio, on public affairs, in the course of which be pleaded not only the power and the duty, but the necessity, of grant- | ing the elective franchise to the loyal blacks | in tho reorganization of the late rebell‘ous | States, Ho bas very little faith in the success | of President Johnson’s plan in this business of limiting the voting to the loyal whites con- cerned. He fears that ihe spirit of the rebel- lion is too deeply rooted in the vast mojority of those who have taken 6r may take the onth to make them good citizens. Senator Sher- man, therefore, urges the right of suffrage for the loyal negroes; ond at least as to some of the Southern Siates he would hold them under military rule “until they provide onr only se- curity for the future, that the negroes shall have their share in reconstruction, as they have borne their share in the fighting.” He then indicates the dangers which ho thinks will follow from the denia! to the blacks of the right to vote. For instance, he says that “the Southern States gain by the freedom of their slaves fourteen new members of Congress and as many electoral votes. Not three-fifths of the bineks, their late slaves, but five-fifths, must be counted as their Congressional representative population. If you give the same men who revolted this increased political power, what safety have you? Suppose ten years ago they had had this political power Kansas would have been aslave State this day; and they would have had ample political power to subvert your government without @ resort to arms, We must have security for the future. All the evils with the only two alternatives—-the restoring to rebels vast political power, and the danger and vast expense of military governments.” friends of education were handsomely enterta ned at the bouse of Hosea B. Perkins, at Washington Heights. A convention of the glass manufacturers of the coun- try has been im sension at the Astor House for the past few days Youterday the delegates, on the invitation of sotme of thee New York friends, went om an excursion ‘up the North river to Weat Point, ‘The frat Hebrew free schoo! to be established in this City wae dedicated yesterday, at the odifco of the inati- bition, 36 avenne C, with appropriate ceremonies, A lar ce amber of persous were present, including several prominent Mebrew chorgymen. An interesting exhibiiion took place yesterday after. Roun, at the corner of Lowery eud Broome strect, in the Presence of @ pumber of fromen snd fire insurance com- pany officers, of a newly invented fireproof armor, A man encased im this armor remained for about ten min- nutes in the midst of @ fire of intense heat without suffer- ing any perveptible injury. A Ce. man soldier named Morria Miller recetved @ sup- posed futal shot in the neck from @ plate! yesterday af- ternoon while in the shoemaker shop of Joveph Cotsteia, No. 28 Greenwich street. The accounts of the occur- fence Vary materially, the wounded mas charging Colateta with purposely shooting him, while other testi- mon) imlicaics that the pmol a cidentally exploded While in Miller's own hands A coroner's investigation was held, and, im the absence of positive information, Colsiea was required tw give bei for bis appearance when called for, Dering on altercation last eveutng, at 99 Cannon street, vetween Miheel Coogan amd bis stepson, Michac! Gan- Bow, the former ‘Teceived a shot which resulted in bis death Gann 8 ant some other petons were lo hed ap to await the result of the Coroner s investigation, bich will Luke place to day Justion Motge, of the Jefferson Market Police Court, had under eramiuation yesterday the exe of a man calling himself John M Hodgson, who was eommitted ou charge of depositia at the Gulls Head Bask forged cheeks on the Cha:ham and Hagover vagks The inves tigats B was nat concluded. ‘The following case were disposed of by the police magistraics yesterday —Mary Brown, alias Frances Stan ley, aa alleged shrowd shoplilter, ebarged with stealing goods from & Broadway «ore, and whe, af w Weeks ago, while being conveyed from the Coert of Gneal Sesstoms to (he Tomes, maoage’ through the asrteteue> of eunfederates, to eocupe from the afer baving her in change, was afew days aco discovered im Yorkers, end was yeueriay Peorrestel, Lo ought beck to the city and recorumited to the Tombs When decovered and taken in charge she bed made all her preparations to sail for California, A German name! Nethan Maas was | comnmi'ted on the change of stesting warty two hundred | dollars worth of warring apperel from 112 Best Ponrtoenth stroct. Im the priseper's house, 106 | Ladiow street, were Gand paca © Kets represent tiny goods valued at ope thensand devam Charles A. Allen, alias Bammer Charley, war committed on charge of braking into avd attempting to rob, at an exrly hour yenterday muaine, the howe 206 Church wireet. Johu Reyuvtds and Jame: 0 onpeli were com mitied on charve of @oaling @ wateh worth one hundred dollars from Willard E. Dudivy, om the curser of Greene and Prine» etree. . Ayoung tam named Chartier Drown was yesterday arrested tn @ hours of quectionatie repute In Roosevelt street, on the charge of having, a tow higtte ago, broken Inte the house 85 Kad Raiiic street, Brovkiye, and stolen therefrom about seven hundret dollars work of pro perty. Ail the stulen arvichs were foont Ie the howe where Brown was arrested, and several of the other im mutes were taken into custody All the accused were committed for examination. The Athletic Base Bull Club, of Phitudelphia, added another victory yesterday to their lis of triumphs re- cently achieved in this vicinity. They played mateh with the Resolute Club, of Brooklyn, at the Union groiuds, Williamsburg, aud defeated them, A fire in Harrisburg, Pa, yesterday morning, which te Aitributed to incendiarisin, destroyed aval thirty-one thousand dollars worth of property, ioclediag ® pertios: Of the Duily Telegraph printing establishment. ‘Tho total receipts of the Chicago Sanitary Pair, for the two weeks ending Scurtay, Jane 10, were on bundred and eighty-three thousand eight bandred apd ~ghty three dollars, Afresh impulse has recently been given to the gold — mining cxeitoment in Avira by reported extracnd. | Rary successes in differen! diggings Oue company, te stated, has rocentiy struck a load which ywkds @ the rete of « million and a quarter dollars a year The stock market was eeti.¢ aud booyent yesterday, Governments were finn, wit! wn coward teadse y Geld was very strong, and, afier sulllug at 147s, clowed ot | 1404 on the strent, At night the highest quotation was 147, and the lowest 14675. The rise in gold oceasioued wore activ ty ant beoyancy in commercial circles yestorday, abd, thourh business was not large, fair sales were reported in all the loading articles. Groceries were active and higher, Cottem was steady, Petroleum was steady, Un ‘Change Gur and grain were more active and prices were higher, but pro visions were irregular, being 25¢. @ STiye lower than on the previous day, but closing abyut the same Whiskey was heavy and le. lower. Tux Coxsrmacr Taut.—The evidence for the defence of the assassination conspirators has closed. The Judge Advocate General an- nounces that he bas still e few witnesses to ex- amine in relation to the general facts of the conspiracy. We hope that Judge Holt will not forget to include the very important testi- mony of Greeley and Gay in regard to the Conover letters, and Ben Wood, ex-Governor Seymour and his military and political otaff, S. L. M. Barlow, of the World, and James Brooks, of the Bepress, in regard to the amount of the rebel Canada fund employed to sustain copperhead journals, control the Chicago nom- inations and influence elections in this city. Let us have the whole truth of this matter. FREEEE + These are Senator Sherman’s views upon this important question of negro suffrage. The leaveh thrown out by Chief Justice Chase is rapidly diffusing itself among the radical ele- ments of the republican party. Senator Sher- man we have always ranked as a conservative; and, if he goes this road, may we not expect that the bulk of the republican members of both houses of Congress will be with him? In this event all the labors of the Executive in the way of reconstruction in the long interval to December next may be rejected, and such a condition of parties may follow at Washington as will keep the rebellious States in the nurse- ry for at least two years to come, involving “the vast expense” of continued military gov- ernments, In some way or other we must have this question settled in advance of the next Presidential campaign, as there is reason to fear that while the democrats against negro suffrage will absorb en masse the vote of our Trish and Catholic citizens, the masses of the Protestant churches, from sheer antagonism to the Catholic, will be arrayed on the other side. This is a division of parties of which the country has had quite enough, in the vicious Know Nothing, dark lantern movement which followed thé dissolution of the old whig party, and all honest and fair-minded men of all parties desire to avoid a repetition of this sectarian folly. Henceforth from sectional and sectarian parties, good Lord deliver us. We know of no better way whereby to reach the safe intermediate ground, between the radi- cal negro suffrage republican leaders on the one sido, and the ultra democratic politicians ‘on the other, than in the organization of that citizen soldiers’ national party to which we have already calied the public attention. Spoils and plunder through a long series of years sapped and brought down in ruin the old that I perceive may arise from a mixed voting , population are insignificant when compared | Les them organize and trium;* | The Question of Suffrage in Bngiand and the United States—Ghall the Segre VotemThe Nrorssity for a Comvention to Amend the Constitation, We print elsewhere a letter from Mr. Disraeli to his constituents in relation to the extension | of the elective franchise in Bugland, and one from Mr. Bright on the same subject These | euinent men—party leaders on the sides of this question—take hold of it with some | freedom, Mr. Bright urges direetly that the | liberal party shall withhold ite sapport from any ministry that will not agree to a “good mea- sure for the extension of the suffrage;” declares that “Lord Palmerston is the real difficulty,” and thaf when he is “out of the way” it wil! be easy to carry this great reform? Mr. Disracli, on the other hand, urges his constituents to sustain “the British constitution,” which docs | not entrust power to “an indiscriminate multl- tude,” and takes care that those to whom power is entrusted shall “beara duc relation to the moral and material development of the coun- try”’—that is to say, sees that there shall be no disturbance of the présent balance of power between the people and their betters. The ; leaders come up fairly to the issue, and this | question is accepted as the vital one that is now before the country for settlement. It is hardly possible to doubt that it will be settled in accordance with the liberal programme, by such an extension of the elective franchise as will make the people of England a more real and active element in the government of that country. England will very certainly not go so far as France, where universal suffrage already prevails; but she must inevi'ably give somo formal expres- sion to the sense of the whole people that the suffrage, with certain qualifications, is a right and not a privileze. In our own country also the question of suf frage iscoming up as a most important issue, and asa point on which the party struggles of the next four years may turn. Here, too, the question arises (color excepted)—just as it does in England—shell a certain class of the actual population and natives of the country be per- | mitted to vote? Shall we give the million or more of negro laborers of the Southern States, searcely yet shaken out of the shackles of slavery, a voice in the government of this country and in the choice of our rulerst It isa question filled with difficulty, Already an active party has taken up the care in favor of this extension of the suffrage, and an equally active and determined one will oppose it; and the indications are that on one hand the strag- gle will be pursued with the same relentless vigor that marked the. history of the abolition party; and on the other will be opposed with the same intolerance, bitterness and bigotry that has burned orphan asylums in our city, and put all the negroes that could be canght on the lamp posts. Kng- land has an easy solution of the question of suffrage that now agtiates her. It will all be settled by Parliamentary vote. But a vote in Congress will not do as much for us. It is even a vory nice question where the requisite power lies for the setilement of this case. Con- gress is in one way authorized to qualify voters, and the States claim the same right in virtue of their sovereign capacity; and if we consider that the question is one tor the States to decide, can we trust it to these sembryotie communities that were but yesterday in arms against us? ‘There appears to be but one resource. We must go to the fountain of our political power. There must be a convention of the people on this question of the suffrage, empowered to amend the constitution and settle the whole matter in a roqnlar way. There is no doubt national democratic party ; but the lcadors of the remaining Northern remnants of this party are a8 corrupt and reckloas as ever. The enormous accessions of power, spoils and plun- der, counting by thousends of millions, which the war threw into the bands of the republican party have utierly corrupted and demoralized ite diapensers and receivers of the spoils. Be- sides, as the democratic party, with iis Chicago platform, is high and dry on a lee shore, and as the republican party has Onished its mission, we must inevilably have a new organization of parties, aud they who are fivat in the field with & good reaping machine, in the shape of a new national platform, will get the cream of the harvest. Henee we call upon our returned sol- @icre, officers ond privates, to tnke the initia- | tive in the organ'zation of ancw national party, and to shape their course from their knowledge of ovr national dificulties, derived from their experience in the war. From such a party President Jolson would receive efficient as- tence in all salutary measures, and the radi- of both extremes could be flanked ond captured or dispersed without a battle, as easily as the rebels were flanked ont of Charleston. Govsusto Ctass.—For many had a governing class, distinct » in the pothouse politicians, by the manauvres of party , Managed to control entirely the belonged to the people. But the the war have changed that, and thoro ® thir promise that these political be purhed into obscurity. We and « better governing class in soldiers and sailors, The bun- fitz ie i Hp f i 3 é i g FE cal vt i i} ‘Tue Fats. Exections.—The citizen soldiers’ and sailors’ party ought to be organized at once, #0 as to hold the balance of power at the municipal and State elections next fall. Both of these clections will be very important. Our city needs good government, and the State needs an honest Legislature, This city has sent many soldiers and sailors to the war, and that the matter of tho elective franchise ig in a very loose state throughout the country, and that it necds a very thorough revision in the light of our many years’ expe- rienco of universe! (white) suffrage. It is quite as important to sssemble a convention and settle this question definitely now as over it was to gettle the question of slavery. Upon that question deponded the future tranquillity of the country; upon this may depend. the purity and permanence of our republican insti- tutions. There is the widest diversity in rela- tion to the negro in the various States. Some give him a vote under property qualification, and some will not allow him to vote at all. He was always counted in the Southern States as part of the eléctive quantity, and so his existence waa assumed as a subject of logisla- tion, though, of course, he had no vote. All these differences should be equalized now. All mooted points relative to the elective franchise with respect to the white population should come before tho same convention, It may be well worth its while to inquire if some modi- fication of the suffrage is not needed hére. Whether, for instance, property is not more entitled to recognition in this respect than it has had hitherto, The revenue law fixes the value of a man at ten thousand dollars. [fa man is equivalent to ten thousand dollars for the purpose of taxation, why, in the other direction, should not ten thousand dollars be entiiled to some recognition in the way of a vote? This will start the question of taxation withont representation, as well as the delicate question of the sex of voters; but it is one that the mind of the country is at work upon, and must be sctiled soon. A national conven- tion is the proper body to fix all these points. Shall we have it? Our Movena, Weartn.—The other day we gave n view of the immense wealth of this continent in precious metals, In relation to that great wealth there is one very noticeable fact to be stated—it is that the portion of this wealth that is owned by the United States is the only portion that is practically accessible, or that is at least likely to have any carly development. The gold regions owned on this continent by Russia, England and France will not be worked to any extent for many a year; while ours—as in Idaho, Nevada, Arizona and California—are and have been for years in the most extensive operation. It is not in the pos- session of richer regions that we differ from those nations, but in tho energy and character of our people. It is this energy of the people that bas made our gold-bearing lands so immediate a source of wealth. England is the only country whose people at all resemble ours in this respect, and wil the British en this class tends to- wards Australia, eon & revival of the “gold fever” in, ge bate, re cent discovery in parts land, ‘never till now explored, of quarts reefs that crop out on ‘The Semmer Season and Its Gayctics. ‘The summer season fairly opens this wook, as far as the interests of country landlords and the enjoyment of country visitors are con- Almost every available nook in the hotels and boarding places at Newport, Cape May, Long Branch, Saratoga, Lake Mahopac and other favorite retreats is engaged. This week will, therefore, be the great moving time for metro- politan pleasure seekers. Thousands of people who have been tied down for the last four sum- mers by the vicissitudes of the war are now Jet loose upon the world, eager for ita old en- joymenta. Depression incident to a state of war kept some at home. The domestic sorrows in which war involved eo many had a similar effect. Heads of families or other cherished selons of the household were in the army. All these causes of stagnation in the social circle are now removed, and, as a natural sequence, the rush to the watering places is immense. Everybody wants to make up for lost time. Officers on furlough or mustered out of service will seek these quiet retreats for a season of rest and the civilized pleasures of olden times. Many Southerners who have been pent up by a four years’ blockade will gladly avail them- selves of the opportunity to visit once more those places associated with so many delightful momories of the haleyon days of peace and brotherhood. The watering places of the North will not absorb all the attention of travellers. There aro many spots in the South which were here- tofore insignificant and unknown that have ac- | quired a historic interest, such as the various battle ficlds, the springs of Virginia, the watering place at Old Point Comfort, the Newport of the Southern aristocracy that was. All these places will attractgvisitors from the North and hundreds from Europe, who will feel a natural desire to visit localities rendered memorable for all time to come. Tht amount of money spent at the summer retreats this season will cover numerous ample fortunes, It is not too much to calculate the number of visitors to the different resorts at one hundred thousand. The length of the season will pro- bably be about twelve weeks—say from the middle of June to the end of September. Hotel prices, though more moderate this year than last, will not be less on an average than thirty dollars a week for each person. The extra expensos—such as the keeping of car riages and horses, boating, billiards, and the other ef cateras indispensable to kill timo— will easily bring the sum up to fifty dollars a week per capita. This expenditure would amount, in a season of twelve wecks, fora hundred thousand people, to the respectable sum of sixty millions of dollars—about the in- come of many a European principality. This is @ very moderate estimate of what our summer enjoyments cost us, But this year no one will grudge the expense. We have been eo long tiod down to the drudgery of city life, and op- prossed with the dismal vicissitudes of war, that people will fiy to the country and its plea- sures as gladly as the lark springs up to hail the freshness of the morning. The Eng!ish Scare About Canada. Ono or two brief extracts from Canadian and English papers chow that the confederation scheme is still on the tapis, and hopes are en- teriained of its succesa. There are strong efforts made by annexationists to throw obsta- cles in the way of confederation, but they do not come from this elde of the line, The public mind generally is getilng more enlightened on the position and p ts of Canada in regard to its connection with the Uniied States. It may be set down asa matter of fact that soonor or later the British posses- sions on this continent will become an integral portion of this republic, and no human agency can prevent that result. But at the same time it by no means follows that we desire the an- nexation of Canada. If her people are willing to come to us, well and good. That is for them to decide. We shall not refuse, neither shall we seek such an alliance. Most assuredly we have no disposition to make the annexation of Canada a casus belli with England. Canada produces nothing that wo do not produce in ihe States—either grain, cattle or minerals, It is a fine ice country, it is true; but we have a plentifal crop of that article ofecives, and we keep our icehouses at home. Therefore there is no necessity for any unusual solicitude on the part of the British government on that score. Canadians are migrating over the border now under the encouraging influence of the new order of things, and no doubt they will con- tinue to do so, because their interests direct them here; and emigration from Europe will continue to flow to the United States in a larger tatio than ever, notwithstanding the efforts of the tergiversant D’Arcy McGee to turn the tide into Canada It is shmply impossible to divert Irish emigration from the United States to any of the British provinces, and the attempts of agents of the British gov- ernment, or of Canadian interests; such as McGee, must prove futile. Ties of family, the natural instinct of that people for free govern- ment, and hereditary hostility to British rale, will bring them here “though the heavens fall.” ‘The anxiety concerning the absorption of Canada into the United States is not » matter of to-day. Years ago the same feeling took pos- session of the English people. Long before the Canning-Monroe doctrine was mooted the London Times, of the date of April 5, 1817—just after the war with Groat Britain resulted in that country being a second time whipped by the young republic—published an article to this effect:— ae eine warfare with Tnited States will be offen- ive if’ not against our islands in the Western hemie- phere, at least against the British possessions on the con- finent; and who can say how long Canada will be main- tainable against the renewed attacks of this ambitious ‘and inv! republic? We may reckon, therefore, on the 1 lity of our Western dominions. For the same reagon It becomes a matter of very anxious considera- tion how far it would be politic to reinforce » population which, ae considered aa the garrison of an untenable We have already exprossed our fears that, underany addition of force which ws can bestow upon the Canadas, ‘he dofonce of them will be moat precarious in a fuvare mations. This article, be it observed, was written five or six years before Mr. Canning expacased his views to Mr. Rush upon the ideas which were ted, the worthlessness of increasing the de fences of Canada, and the policy of directing emigration to some other colony were urged At the same time tho “manifest destiny” of thie continent to be held and governed by the United States is not denied. After a lapse of forty-eight years how mueb stronger have these arguments become! England, therefore, instead of troubling her self about the defence of Canada to-day, should leave the destiny of that colony to be sottied by the logic of events, and should apply the money about to be devoted to the protection of the Canadian frontier to reducing the burdes some taxation of the British people, or to the amelioration of Ireland, in order to make the unhappy inhabitants of that country, if not loyal to the British crown—which it is against the order of nature that they could be—at least more comfortable, and their lot a little more endurable. Canada, at all events, is im no danger of aggression from this country. Not even the overwhelming hosts of the Fenians are likely to molest our British neighbors a long as England demeans herself towards this country, settles that little Alabama claim, and makes proper apology for her shabby conduct towards us during the re bellion. Beriigerent Ricets.—Five European Powers recognized belligerent rights in the so-calleé Southern confederacy at the commencement of the war. Of these only one has withdrawn that recognition, so far as we are informed, and that is the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Perhape we can hardly blame the great maritime Powers for recognizing a right which was in & manner acknowledged by the action of our own government when the Southern ports were declared blockaded. The Netherlands, nate rally enough, followed the example of larges Powers, but it is greatly to her credit that she has been the first to make the amende, We hope that the othet Powers will now follow hes example and do the same. Musrary Squansies.—The criminations and recrimmations of successful and unsuccessfal generals are wofully out of place at the close of a great war. Newspapers do not care te publish documents containing charges and counter charges of this character. Such letters and papers belong to the archives of the Was. Department. History may, perhaps, make use of them ; but the true history of the war will not be written for many years to come. Dur ing the war there has been glory enough for all the generals, and the people appreciate them all at pretty nearly their real values We object to the display of military dirty linem in tho public press. Personal Intelligence. LIKUTENANT GRNERAL WINFIELD SCOTT. ‘The completion by Genoral Scott, on the 18th inst, of his seventy-ninth year was made the occasion of @ handsome compliment by Brigadior General @. W. Cullum, Suporintendent of the Military Academy a@ West Point. On the evening of that day General Cullum, accompanied by Major General Schenck an@ Colonel Conkling, the President and Secretary of the mt’ P athjonnaadap sitting at the Academy, and ty er officers, proceeded to Cozzen’s Hotel te offes his congratulations to his old commander. The splendi@ band attached to the post—probably the finest in the country—arrived soon after and surprived the Iilustrioas chicftain with ‘“ Hall to the Chief,” followed bys num- ber of exquisite operatic airs, which were received with great delight and applause by the large and fashionable company at present sojourning at ths hotel. The com cluding picce was “‘ Auld Lang Syne,” during tho pes formance of which, and for some time af! these who were seated near tho old hero noticed that p> peared to be lost in deop thought. It was remarked 4 the party that the Goncral to bein hea than at any provious since last summer. taking leave of A Geralege rg in tow sente: tonchingly 6: the faterview had al led him and associates, and tho hope that attached friends and a grateful would yet celebrate many annivorsaries of the day. Serus in calum vedeas. Axornen Rorewarken at Niagara Fatis.—Mr. Leglie, who announces himself as an American Blondin, pre pores to repeat the attractive experiment of taking @ ropewalk and a wheelbarrow over Niagara river. His a rangements are made, and his rope is ready, and he pre poses to fight it out on that lino all summer. His first passage was announced for: yesterday. City Intellige: '~ New Ustromas ror Tux Poucmern.—Yesterday was the day on which the Metropolitan police were to have ap on duty in their summer uniform. Those one precinet, ir, were enabled to do so. clothes are made of blue flannel, are light and airy—is fact, rather too airy for a chilly day, some think—an@ look, and undoabtedly feel, comfortable to the wearers, ‘The uniform is also Vag tamed hag peters Body ‘The entire force will be dressed in flannel by the 20th the present month. take this evening, with ‘The ceremony, entitied apne eral of the Am cient,” another cl performance, liar to f l iF j [teil : Hs i i if | i H ai i es ij Ff if i ? Pa tit | i {| i ; i ! i Es : i af ii % & i 5 rr i ae i . ceil wt pia U Fe H a i af i +i i i morning. ‘A Seamaw Dnowsm—Recovent of tae Boor.— Thomas Jordan, employed a@ cook on board the sloop John Stev fell overboard on Werdnesiay and wae drowned. His body was resovered yesterday afte: having been found in an upright powition, with Wildey beid Retoras Feuate Ix errrore.—The twenty sixth annual commencement of Tiutgers Female Institute will be held at the Broadway Tabernacle on Thursday, J: a two P, M. The raidrese to the on 3 8 Gan Dy. Barnard, the Presideut of Colambig rege,