The New York Herald Newspaper, June 29, 1865, Page 4

‘QPFION H. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS jo. 179 ae AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY \Prr 10 be 4 eV ‘NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Tux Lirmz Bazavoor. Avorn GARDEN, Broedway.—Lovs. ALLACK’S, THEATRE. Broadway.—Ouiven ‘Twist. ‘RB, Broadway.—Eax.y O.osinc— Bowery.—Kxiguts or 81. Joun— Locxs. | @imurro THEATRE, Broadway.—Jxssin Baown INUM’S MUSEUM, Hroadway—Two Living Wastes Pecan Far 'WouanGuirress. Mapabaine. and oibone Bane "osama beta or New Baste a rae Ma 514 Broadway.— Erm tof OLLEGE, OR THE ILLER'S HALL, 595 Broxdway.—San Francisco Min- mIOPiAN BiNGING, Dancina, &0,—U. 8. G. LEY'S HALL, 201 Bowery.—Sam Suanrcer's Mix. etek Mente Canavan on Wer atok sas CAN wu ‘TRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Ratcers, ea, £0.—Tus Scour or Tux Potomac. SANT ‘UTE, Broadway.—Tae Travian anp Miviatonx Tuxatns. YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, Broad: — Tron tA IPS a. sate aad Hew York, Thursday, June 29, 1865. STHE ASSASSINATION. 6 Military court in Washington engaged in trying P summon conspirators met at two o'clock yester- dag afternoon, when Assistant Judge Advocate Bingham Prépecded to read his summing up of the evidence in of the prosecution, occupying nearly the day's session. He reviewed the testimony very minutely and at much length, and main- Wjed that it clearly showed that all of the pisoners arranged before tho court were co-conspirators {ufho plot, the design of which was to murder Presidont Llficoln, Vice President Johnson, General Grant, Secro- ;Seward and Stanton, and others, and quoted high JofBl Authority to sustain the position that, boing cogni- wis OF the conspiracy, and entering into it, they were all eqitly guilty, whether present at {ts execution t ft. C it owas also Joff, Davis, v a omond, and San- ee, thon f his agents in had planned, encouraged and assisted this assas- sigation plot, as well as the other infamous plots to burn .New York and other cities, to commit raids of murder and robbery along our northern border, to starve national soldiors imprisoned in the South, to introduce yellow fever into our cities and armies, and to carry on ‘wholesale burnings of Northern shipping and hospitals. ‘Tho evidence proved that Jeff. had hired menand paid ‘them to engage in these-nofarious and barbarous opera- tions, and had issued blank commissions for their use, ‘Ho also instanced the fact that it was in evidence that ‘one hundred and eighty thousand dollars as part pay for the work entrusted to the aseassination conspirators had ‘Deen deposited in the Ontario Bank, at Montroal, by Jake Thompson. yo the conclusion of Mr. Bingham’s argument, Mr. og, oounsol for the prisoners Mudd, Spangler and yoo! |, esked leave to read a paper setting forth that ‘ idence had been In some respects misstated by the for the prosecution, and requesting a review ove Pending a decizion on this request, the court Jejows ved till eleven o'clock this forenoon. THE SITUATION. ‘ent Johngon's health was much improved yes- ‘orday, and it is expected that he will be sufficiently ro- Covered to again attend to business to-day or to-morrow. The steamship Columbia, from Havana on the 24th instant, arrived here yostorday. The late rebel Secre- tary of War, General Breckinridge, was still in that Place, and, it is sald, advises all his friends ‘20 throw themselves on the mercy of President Johnson and apply for pardon, which It is supposed he dhas already done himself. The ex-Anglo-rebel blockade running steamer Lark but «afled from Havana for Liver- ed most likely to be sold. The little rebel, pesthole jassau is entirely deserted by the busy floating popula- tion which made it #0 lively in blockade running times, ‘and now, very justly, has become a dull and deserted ‘Place, many of its steres and public houses being closed for want of customers. Governor Hoiden, of North Carolina, has already ap- (pointed and commissioned justices of the peace in over Iehirty counties of that State, and the work ia still going on. One of the dutios of these justices will be to ad- ‘Minister the oath of allegiance to persons desirous of ‘voting at the election for members of the State Conven- tion. ‘Tho work of properly interring the bodies of national goldiers lying exposed on the Wilderness battle feild, which was commenced on the 12th inst,, has been com- yPleted, and a board giving name and regiment has been [placed at the head of the grave of every one whose re- ina could be identified. The examinations at the West Point Military Academy eon concluded, the Visiting Board have all left, He professors and others are rapidly leaving, and the } @ ere now in camp. « following troops arrived in the city yesterday :— sano First Now York cavalry, three hundred and fifty tmen of the Third and three hundred and twenty-five of Bhe Fifth New York artillery, the One Hundred and PRevonty-firet New York infantry, sixty men of the eventh Ohio cavalry, the First Vermont artillery and Whe Bixth Vormont infantry, the #txteenth and Eighteenth Wonnecticut infantry and the Fifth Maine battery. The government steamer Lackawanna, Captain Em- ona, from Mobile and Pensacola, arrived in tiris port rday afterneon. MISCELLANEOUS NEWB. Our Buenos Ayres correspondence to the 18th of May ves further particulars regarding the progress of the against Paraguay by Brazil, Uruguay and the Argon. Confederation. It was believed Paraguay would formidable opponent even for the three allied as it Was said that she had already an army of ixty thousand mem, which sho is capable of increasing to hundred thousand; @ considerable navy, and a large y of artillery and All the other necessaries for con- wed hostilities. The Paraguaysus still held the cap. jared town of Corrientes, Uruguay. In the meantime ihe allies were acting vigorously and maxing groat pre- Marations for a determined contem, Nowa from tho republic of Vonemela to the 7th inst fwistes that General Falcon’s inaugutation as President Hook placo on that day, Order had beentestorea through. jul che greater part of the country; but General puigar still engaged {n rebellious movements im one of the ovineo®, The Veneruclan Senate had fatified the oatiee negotiated with the United States and Spain. The tanding army of the republic is to consist of three onsand monyand. the navy of two steamers and two hoonera, ~~ ‘The Board of Tagingers and Foremen of the Volunteer i Will meet in Fireman’s Hall to-morrow evening, for the purpose of settling up all unfinished business of the old department. The use of the ball was granted them at the meeting of the new Fire Commis- sioners yesterday. Major General Dix yesterday sont to District Attorney Hall the decision of President Johnson remanding John McNeil and William Edsell, who were convicted bye military commission in Washington of obtaining money under false pretences, to the custody of the criminal officers of this county; by whom the charge will be investigated. The case of John Bennett, the alleged bounty land war- rant forger, was called on for trial in the United States C.rcuit Court yesterday, before Judge Shipman; but, the defendant neglecting to appear, his counsel was ordered to find bail in the sum of $8,000 om each of the two in- dictments, or else the bond for five thousand dollars which the defendant had previously given would be for- feited. The case of Savage, who is charged with passing counterfeit greenbacks, was adjourned to the next term, im consequence of the il} health of the accused. ‘The Tax Commissioners will send in the assessment rolls for the year 1866 to the Board of Supervisors on Monday next, a special meeting having been called for ‘that purpene. ‘The one hundred snd eleventh commencement of Oo- lumbis College was held yesterday at the Academy of Masio. The spacious building was orowded in every part on the cocasion. The ceremonies were very inte- resting. The programme of the exercises was fully car- Tied out, and a splendid orchestra, under the direction of ¥. B. Holmsmaller, contributed much to the pleasure of the audience. The proceedings were presided over by Professor Barnard, President of the college. The commencement exercises of the Episcopal Theo- logical Seminary will take place at St, Peter's church, in Twentieth street, at ter o'clock this morning. The regular service (the Litany and administration of the Holy Eucharist) was beld in St. Paul’s chapel at seven o'clock yesterday morning, after which the usual “breakfast reunion” took place at the Astor House, At half-past one o’clock the annual essay was road by the Rev. Jesse A. Spencer, D. D., rector of St. Paul's church, Flatbush, 1. 1., after which a business meeting of the association was held in the hall of the seminary. Bishop Coxe is announced to preach the annual commencement sermon to-day. ‘The regular monthly auction sales of coal in this city of the Ponnsylvania Coal Company and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company took place yesterday, the former disposing of twenty thousand tons of Pittston coal, and the latter of twenty-five thousand tons of Soranton, The attendance at both sales was large, and the bidding was spirited. There was an ad- vance over the prices of last month of from ten to fifty cents per ton, stove coal, which in May sold at from $6 75 to $6 873¢, bringing yesterday from $7 20 to $7 25. Justice Dodge yesterday commenced, at the Jefferson Market Police Court, the investigation of the charge made against Daniel M. Porter, a Jawyer, of No. 4 Wall street, by Henry D. Stover, of 164 West Twenty-second Street, who was at one time confined in Fort Lafayette, and who alleges that Porter defrauded him of about twenty thousand dollars, under pretence of using the money to procure his release, Mr. Stover's testimony at considerable length was taken in regard to the affair, after which the examination was adjourned. The police magistrates made the following among other commitmonts yesterday :—Sidney Thomas, keeper of the Morning Bell drinking saloon, in New Chambers street, on charge, while intoxicated and ina fit of jeal- ousy, of shooting his wife, inflicting a wound which, though severe, is not considered dangerous; Elizabeth Martin, charged with stealing four hundred dollars from. Dennis Hinchen in a disreputable house in Centre street, and Mrs. Helen Gratzen, residing at 74 West Houston street, on charge of appropriating to her own use over four hundred dollars deposited with her in trust by » soldier named Herman Hanson. ‘The recent sudden and mysterious disappearance of Smith J. Eastman, provision dealer, lately of No. 40 Broad street, in this city, is still a theme of conversation among his business and social conneetions. Nothing has yet been heard of Mr. Eastman’s whercabouts. The excitement caused by his late escapade has led to the resurrection of an almost forgotten scandal in which he ‘was involved some four years ago, and with which the name of a young lady of Brooklyn was connected. The correspondence in this affair is published in this morn- ‘ing’s Henan. Some time ago two men named Daily and Welsh wore arrested in this city on charge of burglary in Syracuse, and were taken back to that city, convicted and son- tenced to the State Prison. Since their conviction Dally has made a statement to the effect that Welsh is the man who, on the night of the 2d of May last, killed Hon. Burr Burton, of Sysacuse, whose murder, until this development, had remained acomplete mystery. Welsh is now in the Auburn Prison, under sentence of ton years confinement. The Dry Goods Exchange, located at 49 and 61 Park place, will be formally opened at half-past eleven o'clock to-day. A now ferry company has recently been organized, which will ran boats between some portions of the lower part of this city, probably the Battery, and Bay Ridge, Long Island. Anumber of the spiritualistic fraternity of the city ‘went on a picnic excursion yesterday to Palisade Park, Weehawken. Though aspiritualists, they seemed to en- joy themselves with the same zest, and in about the same manner as do unspiritualistic individuals on such occasions, their proceedings consisting of the customary eating, drinking, music and dancing. A fire, the origin of which is not known, broke out yesterday forenoon in the American Drug Mills, on the corner of Washington and Morgan streets, Jersey City, totally destroyed that building, and communicated to tho buildings on each side and to the car manufactory opposite, damaging all of them to a considerable extent. ‘The total loss is estimated atone hundred thousand dol- lars. ‘The new steamship Nicaragua, intended to run on the toute between this city and Greytown, Nicaragua, was launched yesterday at the yard of Mr. Steers, Greenpoint, ‘There was a report in Aibany last night that a lock in the five mile level of the Ene canal at Schenectady had broken, and that it would require forty-cight hours to repair it. ‘The Vermont Union State Convention yesterday nomi- nated for Governor Paul Dillingham; for Lieutenant Governor A. B. Gardner, and for Treasurer John B. Page. Tho Convention adopted a serles of resolutions eulogizing President Lincoln and our brave soldiers, heartily en- dorsing President Johnson, and counselling the people of the Southern States to concede to the negroes the privi- lege of the ballot. Among the resolutions passed by the Vermont Demo- cratic State Convention on Tuceday was one in opposi- tion to negro suffrage. Mr, Frederick Seward has so far recoverod from the effects of his wounds inflicted by the assassination con- spirator Payne that he was yesterday able to take a short ido in a carriage. About st hundred of the late friends and supporters of Darcy McGee, the Canadian Minister of Agriculture, have published in Montreal a disclaimer of Mr. McGee's recent speech at Wexford, Ireland, in which he reflected upon the Irish population in America. They denounce Mr. MeGee's aspersions as ‘‘not only unbandsome and un- generous, but unjust.” They go on to declare that Mr, McGee is not a safe public guide and instructor, but rathor, what high ecclesiastical authority once described him, ‘‘a theorist given to writing eloquent impudence, and in the habit of subordinating the facts of a case to tho fancies of his mind.’” ‘The stock market was heavy yosterday. Governments wore firmer. Gold opened at 141, and stood at 1303 at twenty minutes past five P.M. A further decline took place at night, the closing price batng 138%. Toe Meat Extortiox.—Ordinarily it is quite safe to leave the relations between dealers and the public to the natural laws of trade. If dealers charge more than an article is actually worth, and continue their extortion for any time, it is usually seen that some wide awnke genius starts a shop around the cor: takes all the custom by selling for hal’ | There appears just now to be an exce this rale in the matter of meat, ina the extortion begins with those epecule can 80 easily combine on any price anc polize the market. If none of the legs ot | ments dlready in existence are effoctiv ‘ these combinations, it ought to be tull *o that the next winter may not pags 0°: ao out the enactment of a law aimed dio! this abuse, and fully sufficient to pr 'y a - hag people from this mow NEW YORK HEBALD, THURSDAY, JUNK 2v, 1865. ‘The Negro Race and Its Puture—Terrible Mortality at the South. While humanitarian philosophers, New Eng- land fanatics and party politicians are spending their time and breath over the question of con- ferring the privilege of elective franchise upon the emancipated blacks of the South, daily events are rapidly solving the problem of the future of the race and pointing with uncer ring accuracy to the fate that awalte it on this continent. Every report from the South brings to us an account of the enormous mortality among the negroes in every locality, Thus ® letter from our Charleston correspondent, which we published yesterday, in alluding to the previous acconnts of deaths among this class, stated that “there has been no change for the better, From ninety to one hundred is the weekly average” in Charleston alone. Also that “fearful stories are told of the mortality of the negroes on the coast between Charleston and Savannah.” We receive similar reports from every other section of the Southern States, from Virginia to Texas. The reports in the departments at Washington, in reference to the deaths among the negro regiments, show & like result. All this reveals the extraordinary frailty of the race, which many have supposed to be more hardy than almost any other, and also showing their predisposition to disease and death. This feature is, now that they are assuming their new relations as freemen, devel- oping itself with great rapidity. They prove that the blacks, left to their fate and deprived of the watchful care and skilful nursing of their interested masters, are rapidly dwindling away, which must in a few years tell fearfully upon their numbers. Those not familiar with the habite and char- acteristics of the blacks, or who have formed their ideas of their endurance by the occasional accounts of the death of some negro centenarian, will no doubt be surprised at these reports. It is, however, only necessary to refer to facts within the reach of every person to prove that these reports develop no new thing, but only corroborate what close observation has long since shown to be a peculiar characteristic of the colored race in this country. Let us take, for example, their condition in this city. Here they have been as free as in any part of the country. They have had their churches, and found ready employment. They have been subject to no drawback except that which is the natural result of difference between two races. They have been able to gratify their tastes in every way that their means would justify, just as fully and freely as white people in the same financial circumstances. But what is the re- sult? Thirty-five years ago they performed the duties of scavengers, hod-carriers, porters in the stores, hostlers and coachmen, servants in private families, hotel waiters and barbers, almost to the exclusion of the whites. They could then be seen promenading Broadway every Sunday afternoon by the hundreds, fop- pishly dressed, and with all the display of the aristocracy. No arbitrary laws have since been applied to them. On the contrary, the leniency towards them has increased. Yet they have gradually disappeared. We now find but comparatively few employed as family servants or as waiters in hotels. The Irish andGermans have taken their place. They no longer mo- nopolize our barber shops, but are almost su- perseded by the whites classen We only see now and then one connected with the livery of our aristocracy; nor is the black man to be seen performing the more severe manual labor of the hod-carrier. At one time having the monopoly of labor, he has been unable to keep pace with the times or maintain his position, but is obliged to make way for others. Like the Indian, before the march of civilization, they have been gradually disap- pearing from all pursuits and decreasing in numbers, as the records show. The same result is true of all other Northern cities, The data prepared by careful statisticians show that the mortality of the free negro is, in the majority of instances, greater than the births. Thus in Boston the deaths among the colored population exceed the number of births nearly two to one. In Philadelphia, during a period of six months in 1859, there were three hun- dred and six deaths to one hundred an” forty- eight births. In New England the deaths among the negroes uniformly exceed the births. This is the locality where the negro is worshipped and made an idol, and therefore it is supposed to present greater advantages for health than any other locality. But it may be said that the climate of New England is too severe, and therefore does not furnish a fair example. But the statistics of the last two or three years show no better result in the South. The mortality among the negro soldiers in the Mississippi valley has been proverbially large. One regiment of eleven hundred strong, raised in one neighborhood, every man of which passed the surgical examination and was pro- nounced good, able-bodied and free from disease, were placed ina camp by themscives, in the very locality where they had been raised, and in less than six months over one-lialf of the number were under the sod. ‘These men were placed at no severe work, were not en- gaged in a battle, not a man was killed ihrough the casualities of the war. They were simply required to drill and perform the usual work of a soldier in camp, and had all the care in re- spect to cleanlinces and protection from the weather usually allotted to soldiers; but they dropped off one by one, until over one-half of their number were buried, and that, too, with out the appearance of an epidemic. In addi- tion to this Jeff. Davis, in alluding to the mor- tality of the negroes, about eighteen months before the collapse of the rebellion, announced that the exposure which the slaves had been subjected to, and the casualties among them since the commencement of the war, had re- duced their numbers at a fearful rate. It is, according to the best data to be ob- tained, safe to siate that of the four millions of blacks in the South in 1860 not over three millions are now alive. The census of 1870 will undoubtedly present an astounding result in regard to this unfortunate race. | The mortality from all accounts is increasing. The negro in the South is noted for great inat- tention to all the necessary precautions for health, The master, interested in him as pro- perty, always watched him with great care, often warded off disease and cured severe at- tacks by bringing to his aid medical skill. But the negro thrown upon his own resources becomes negligent, carcless about his habits, and droops and dies, oftentimes without any apparent cause. Such, at lenst, is the testimo- ny of Southern planters, and such are the con- clusions to be derived from the official data in the departments at Washington which have ac- cumulated since the commencement of the war. These facts are #0 overwhelming that they have led many of our public men to the conclusion that in less than « century the colored race will be no more numerous in this country than the Indians are at present. From all accounts the negro bids fair to disappear with greater ra- pidity than the Indian ever did. Facts are stubborn things, and we commend this view of the negro to the abolitionists of the North. Tas Mnsrary Court ar Wasamvoton—Joupas Bronam ve. Revexpy Jounson.—Before the military court appointed by President Johnson tor the trial of the conspirators concerned in the plot involving the assassination of Presi- dent Lincoln, the Hon. Reverdy Johnson, coun- sel of Mre. Surratt, one of these alleged con- spirators, put in as her defence the other day a lengthy document to show that this military court has no lawfal jurisdiction over the case. He contended that Congress had not granted, end could not grant, any authority for this court; that it has no legal existence; that the act of the President in appointing it is @ mere nullity, and the usurpation of a power not vested in the Executive, and conferring no au- thority upon the court thus ereated. These absurd propositions—of the same cloth as the secession plea—that the general govern- ment has no power to resist the rebellion of a “sovereign State” ‘against the laws of the Union; this preposterous argument of the long winded Mr. Johnson has been very effectually torn to pieces by As- sociate Judge Advocate Bingham, in the open- ing argument for the prosecution, from the con- stitution, from the laws of war and the laws of Congress, from the precedents furnished by George Washington and other respectable exe- cutive officers, from the expositions of the law in such cases as this as laid down by Chief Jus- tice Marshall and other respectable authorities, from the war powers exercised by President Lincoln, approved by Congress and ratified by the people of the United States in President Lincoln’s re-election, Judge Bingham has com- pletely demolished the false assumptions and the quibbling and pettifogging copperhead chop logic of Mr. Reverdy Johnson. Of course Mr. Johnson, in his own judgment, has done the best that he could do for his client in attempt- ing to prove the court before which she is under trial as a nullity and a usurpation; but to make this plea hold water Mr. Johnson was compelled to ignore the rebellion, and to re- quire the members of the court to recognize it as a legal fact that during the last four years the country has been in a state of profound peace, and that all this time no such thing as military law has superseded the civil courts this side of Mexico. This he has failed to do, as Judge Bingham has shown; but, as Mr. Johnzon had no other defence to offer in be- half of his client, he had no otber alternative than to deny the jurisdiction of the court. Conprtion or THE Sours—CwancE For InvestT- went.—In order to show the impoverished con- dition of portions of the South, especially Vir ginia, we publish the following note and accompanying advertisement from the former Sheriff of Appomattox county, Va.:— Arromatrox Coont Va., June 22, 1865. ew ‘Yorx HeRaup:— Dr. ‘please find an advertisement which I would bo glad for you to insert in your paper. You can frame the notice to suit yoursolf, and I will make this arrangement with you—t will give you for your services $50, if sold. If you should not wish to make this arrangement yourself, you can turn it over to some agent for the sale of real estate. We have lost everything nearly that we have, and I am obliged to sell fo to support my family. Please send me some copies of your paper with the advertisement in it. Yours truly, D. HIX, Late Sheriff of Appomattox county, Va. Here is the advertisement:— NOTICE. I wish to sell one hundred and sixty acres of land in this county, within eight miles of the place of General Lee's surrender (Appomattox Court House), and about the same distance from Dumplin's on the Southside Railroad. It is conventont to churches, saw and grist mills; two thirds of the land ia in timber; the improve- ments havo been torn down; there aro @ few frult trees upon the place. Price $£00. Iwill take in payment goods, waros or merchandise. For further particulars appl at the office of the Hrnaw. WM. D. Appomattox county, Va. Our only terms for advertising are cash, We are no real estate agents, and therefore cannot oblige ex-Sheriff Hix by undertaking the sale of his little estate. But as he is desirous to sell, and to reconstruct his family affairs upon a new basis, we publish his advertisemen: as it is gra- tuitously, in the hope that he may soon find a purchaser. The place is valued at $600 in gross, but, throwing out the $50 commission which he would give us, it brings down the price to only $450 for one hundred and sixty acres of land that must always remain histori- cal, for it lies within eight miles of the spot where Lee surrendered. “The improvements have all beon torn down.” This is but another among the many indications we daily re- ceive of the way Virginia is punished for enter- ing into the rebellion. But now the war is over, and the work of devastation is ended, there is nothing to prevent the recuperation of Vir- ginia, if her own citizens, aided by Northern and foreign emigrants, go to work and help build her up. Good lands can be procured there at from one to five and ten dollars per acre; and, with the infusion of new life and en- orgies, the fortile soil of the good Old Dominion may be made again to blossom as the rose. Bontat or Unsnown Bovis.—We published 8 letter from Coroner Collin in our issue of Tuesday respecting the identification of bodies, which reveals a very curious fact, and one that immediately suggests a great want in this im- mense metropolis, which could be readily sup- plied and which ought to be attended to by the authorities at once. Itis stated by the Coro ner that three hundred bodies of unknown people upon whom inquests were held had been buried last year in Potter’s Field. Not one of these, it seems, was claimed or identi- fied, and yet few, if any of them, could have been wholly friendless. In the case to which the Coroner specially refers, in Dover street, it appears that there was a mark on the arm of the deceased (the letters L. J. L.) by which he might have been recognized had any notifica- tion been made of the fact; but, in the absence of any means to do so, except the accident of finding ite way into the papers through the re- porters, which did not happen in this instance, the body was buried, as hundrods have been before, without identification. Surely there is some branch of the city gov- ernment—the Board of Supervisors, we pre- sume—which could provide a remedy for this great evil, The Coroner should be enabled to advertise’ all cases of unclaimed bodies, and thereshould be some place allotied where such bodies could be exposed to public view for a day br two. The idea is outrageous that three hundred people should be huddled into name- lesqpauporw’ graves in one year in « olvilised community like this. Such a disgraceful fact Would probably never have been known out side the Coroner’s department but for the com- munication of Coroner Collin. Now that ithas been made public we trust that the evil will be corrected. Suwme om as Cry—Tom Taxaraes— Every place of amusement in the city is in the full tide ot success. The theatres are crowded every night, no matter how hot it may be, with audiences full as large and mach more enthusiastic than those that make the winter nights so paying and so pleasant, The same summer tide of success rises in all the minstrel halls too, and fills every one dreadfully fall every night; and all this in spite of the accepted tradition that the winter is the great season of city amnsements, and that in the summer every one who can afford to be amused takes to the hilis and streams. Are all the people in the city, then? Has no one gone to Saratoga, Newport, Cape May or the Catskills? If we only noted the size of the audiences we might suppose so; but it must be noted at the same time that the audience at each theatre is entirely different from the one usually seen at it in the winter. New York has, in reality, two distinct and separate sea- sons. The winter season is the city season— the season of the fashionable residents, and is well bred and brilliant with the reign of taste. But the summer season is the season of our country cousins, who come to see us “on purpose,” or who take our city en route from point to point. December draws out the Metropolitan aris- tocracy—June and July draws in the aris- tocracy of the country towns; the men and women who come for dissipation and delight ; the farmer on a spree ; the merchant in search of dry goods and hardware—the whole cata- logue of country cousins. With those country cousins the city is now more than usually filled, and the theatres feel the benefit of it. The style that pleases now is a little stronger than that which takes well in the winter. Hence the vociferous applause at entertain- ments that are received very quietly in the winter, and the ready response of sympathy with the strong acting that the winter will not stand at all. Tae ‘Taearumnt o PaisoNERe—Tar Prisoners—Tar Resecs En- DEAVORING TO JusTiryY THEMSELVES.—One ot the Richmond papers has published a report, five columns in length, of a committee of the late rebel Congress, on the condition and treatment of our soldiers formerly prisoners in their hands, and express a hope that the Northern papers will copy it, in order to “remove many false impressions and unfounded prejudices” which it supposes to exist in the minds of the Northern people. The people of the North need no farther evidence on this subject than they have presented to them in the relative ap- pearence of tho released rebel and returned Union prisoners now seen on our streets daily. The rebels who have been wintering in our military prisons are now being returned to their homes, looking far heartier than when they were captured, while our own troops are returned to us from Andersonville, Salisbury and Libby, ragged, maimed and ruined in health. The illustration presented by the con- trast is sufficiently forcible for our eyes. ‘Tae Krxe or Itaty AnD THE Por or Rome.— It is understood that an armistice has been entered into between the King of Italy and the Holy Father of Rome (who repudiates the kingdom of Italy as a usurpation) to the effect that no bishops of the Church in Italy shall be required to take the oath of allegiance to the crown, but shall simply be called upon to enter into a written agreement not to vio- late the laws of the kingdom. In other words, the King admits the spiritual claims of the Church, and the Church agrees to be neutral respecting the temporal claims of the King. This is a compromise which admits the Wooden Horse into Troy, with bis huge shell of a body full of armed men. Whether they will be permitted to come out or not is the question which now remains to be solved. We apprehend, froma significant outbreak of the populace at Naples against a passing clerical party, shouting “Long live religion,” that Italy, between Church and State, will soon be in a condition which will render it an uncomfortable country for travellers. An Asronisnnvo Dscoveny.—One of the cop- perhead journals of this island has made the astounding discovery that while our foreign commerce—exports and imports—has greatly fallen off during the war, the commercial ex- changes of England and France with the world at large have greatly increased, and that if thie business goes on at this rate it will not be many years before our forcign trade is entirely wiped out. We think so, too; but we are very sanguine that we shall find the soil and climate of the Southern States still adapted to such staples as cotton, sugar, rice, tobacco, pitch, tar and turpentine, and that with these accessions te our trade, and with two millions of men changed from consumers and destroyers to producers, we shall perhaps turn the tables right side up again. The great mis- take of the copperheads is that they will have it either that thore has been no war to disturb our business affairs, or that the war is to last till the next generation. y Sions or a Gatnentva Stonw.—The old monarchical establishments of Europe are beginning to be feverish and shaky. There are various signs of this now visible from Eng- land to Austria and the Mediterranean. Among the latest is the revolutionary conspiracy just discovered in Spain for the overthrow of the Bourbons and the union of Spain with Por- tugal. The leaven of our grand and success fal war for the Union and popular rights in various forms is beginning to work in Europ ‘The confidence of the people in popular siehts is revived, and kings and crowns an@ oligar chies are in danger. Practice axp Tusa —The Tr oconary nice littie theory to show that to agitate the question of seat0 suffrage. This teary i rl tna gn ee country has already aa an assumption proved thus:—The negro had « vote all the time, only as the negro did not come in ittmediate relation with the governmen* litically, as bis master or owner, who hn. swal- | lowed up his political existence, stood hei w evn no that master or owner cast the negrce# Now the relations are altered; the m knocked out of the arrangement; the ~\ recognizes directly the political exis’ © the negro, and thereby has given the 1 tight to cast his own vote, Well, thou, Neer ee ee iT EnEEnEI Lea ie a tiaaas enasnasnseempamnesmaemmmniah IIT AtDinnyrys) sree uw ais AGT WIGAN PON Pa pa I RRA UR eS pS Re ALOR eR, “Berea Y Opem Air Seance—Strange Scenes. “We are bat mortal” ise saying often quoted, the ‘Meaning of which is apparent A class of men mag fancy themselves of a celestial organization, aad claim Telationship with the various saints of the calendar; but thetr earthly inclinations will break out sometimes even im spite of themselves. Yesterday this was well exem> plified in number of spiritualists, becoming suddenly Oblivious of their ultra-mundane character, condescen® {ng to proceed on one of those harmless combinations of love and lager usuaity styled « picnic, Af nine o’clock in the morning the Weehawken ferry out carried a precious freight towards the Palisade Park, situated on the Weehawken side of the river. Youth and age, beauty and (must we cay it?) home’ ‘ess composed the ingredients for the excursion Haw ing arrived safely at their destination they debarked an@ climbed no fewer than one hundred aad shiuty-two stegy in order to arrive on the ground intended for the scene of their festivities, Panting and puffing they attained the necessary elevation, and proceeded in parties to low the bent of their inclinations, Whither this led will duly appear. ' Btrange, there was pone of that ghostliness we were i tooxpect, The cheeks of the demwiselics wore as ruddy, thelr eyes as brilliant and their voices as musical as if they were really human. This may bave been a debe. sion, Dut it certainly seemed very like reality. 4 SEANCH. Various were the ways in which the exourstonists em- joyed themselves. Having ‘‘shuffied on this mortal coll,” down by soclety for the carrying. out of ploalcs an vont. lown by society for Ing out nics, am ble Hac should, Some ired off after the manner of the entrance of the animals into the ark—‘‘male and fe male of every kind.” The pairs sought the most se cluded portions of the grove, from which fact we are com strained to believe “the tender passion’’ is really born, and even spiritualists are subject to the attack of that naughty blind Cupid, who did not own mother. “Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,” and why not the spiritualistic They seemed, too, to follow the conventional laws e& lovemaking—tender pressures of snow white fingers, am interchange of loving cos and encircling of slender waists; in fact (we blush to tell it), we saw several cases of osculation. fome sat down and admired the tooral-rooral scenery, and no doubt went into raptures, and ‘email blame te m,”’ over the ce of the Hudson, studded with how white yachts. But others would carry @ little oe thelr persuasion with them and held a séanoe. There, on the green sward, they sat down in a recta. gular manner, leaving a large space in the ceuire as the Platform of their operations. The séanc* was opened by a long, thin gentleman, evidently a medium, rising from his squatting posture. His bair, dark flowing looks, waa, after the manner of the craft, combed behind his ears. “Much learning had made him very pale, and Jean anc leaden-eyed.'" Wi # a one, oe to his seyection, when, from a green bag, he wi val styled a “fiddle.” He done 1 long bow across tho strings, causing the emission of a most doleful concatenation sounds, and having scraped a peculiar sort of discord. ance, no doubt a symphony, actually commenced singing acomic song. His voice was chral, and sounded like that of the Witch of Endor. @ effect of the sony was anything but amusing. The comicality of it coub- not be soen, and every one looked most lugubrious. The gentleman, Cassius-like, with the ‘lean and hes- look,”” having concluded his musical performance, gry the kindred spirits applaud anda twin, a6 regards appearance eoeraet ‘an oration. From the ent interpolation of technicalities this was quite ua- intelligible to us. It was intended to prove that poverty ‘was better than richos, and the question was with azest which no one unacquainted with the sul could assume. Hero the séance was interrupted by the Intre- duction of a compound of rain water, old boots.and cigar buts, known es lager bier. ‘This quite put antop to both o1 and music, and all red to satisfy the crar the at hunger snd thirst with « light and, we hope, th er ie nee one had | oped to. Ft schy ey table lon of ev: re 'e rapping; ‘But we suppore the absence of « table was the cause of our curiosity being ut ed. Amy Sounds of music from the prompted us to enter, when we beheld—horror of her- rors!—the spiritualists oe treading the intricacies of a quad as if they were denizens of ov. ‘sphere. Tho orders, lands across,’’ “Ladies « &c., were fulllied with wonderful preciaten. By this time we were prepared and 600) a venerable at tesa og a Peoama hat evidenuy tended for one of a race of giants, ite seeela. deed oat eet bs 1e lec! em oF time.! atisted us that he had been looking « some one drinking, and we excused the and—left. & & 3 The costumes of the exoursionists were not very pr culiar, with few exceptions, some of thors monstor hata before referred to themselves.o.. ladios’ and gontlemen’s heads, from which wo wore lt to imagine they marked some high order of spirit-ualisn: this idea being carried out by the acti tloman who spoke to us. A colored dress embroidered with black : fi of a “‘scup,’’ or ing bucket, to “| poe ba ir, and were Dyce raled om the ronn gal jour in the 16} r. hope this glimy oof carthiy ‘atiairs will canse think better of us poor mortals, and them ofa 1° Sfford us a little amusement like that of yesterday, dresses and s good cast make this timely revival one oi the most attractive pieces of the season. The scene ~ the temple in the second act is admirably designed an“ executed, and the final tableau of the piece thrills a: excites even the toughest of the veteran playgoers. M) Newton is not an absolute mistress of the Scotch dialec and aw that is not an absolute essential It would be wi to drop it altogether. The little song in the second act given by the same lady with exquisite sweetness, Concent at Invina Hatt.—A grand concert is to com» © off at Irving Hall on Saturday evening, the let of Jul for the benefit of Isaiah W. Gougler, of the One Hu: dred and Twenty-soventh New York Volunteers, wounded soldier, poet and musician. Mr. Gougler he published several vory meritorious compositions. He \ much disabled by a wound received at the battle « Honey Hill, and is therefore a worthy subject for publ’ patronage on the occasion of his first concert, excellent tenor voice of the latter draws many admirers to hear bis ballads. The comicalities of Birch and the soneen compen aay Saeed The Income Tax. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Ieee in the Henan some person affirms the correctnes of an article of mine published a few daywsince, and add what he deems another and more important error; he ts mistaken. The income law to which he refers wa: amended March 3, 1865, and the amended law applies + fore, in our pressat income our it not exempting six hundred Income liable to taxation coeds six hundred dollars. with the Commissioner of only law, law. is i Hr commissioner ne ‘To mistake thus is human, take would be divine, and, ina high wart; and J. JZongwart; Trustees, F. Staff, G. Wei Williaa Roibmesn, F. Buehlo and F. Stersbach. The Maine Tele Bediow and Wil . O'Brien, of Thomastor “ (At a suben o. wor Phe Coe «18 and 1, " endue wi