The New York Herald Newspaper, June 16, 1868, Page 4

4 “WEST POINT. Reception of the Midshipmen by the Army Cadets. Awarding of the Diplomas by General Grant. THE THREE “STARS” OF THE CLASS, THE GRAND HOP. WEsT POINT, June 15, 1868, West Point has been to-day an unchanging scene of brilliancy, beauty and attraction, The sun, which even in his most petulant humors has never been known to bear ill wit to diploma day, came from be- hind the eastern mountain tops this morning all glowing and smiling, with a clear blue sky before | Jhim and all about him, while a gentle, cooling breeze has served to temper his sometimes too ardent greet- ing. THE VISITORS, Steamers that came up the river, steamers that came down the river and boats that plied from the railroad shore opposite this point to the western Shore, all brought their quota of visitors by the hun- dreds, until by noon there could not have been less than a thousi post who had come persons on th merely as lookers on during tle ceremonies of the | day, Andwhere under heavens all the generals with one star and the gen with two stars came from would | even a cadet to ascertain, To be sure there were many whom West Point calis her sons, 1 who are known by sight to every pratflin for miles about nere, but who the obscure stars were was indeed a mystery, Besides, there were hosts of colonels and captains who didn’t look as though they had ever peeped into Casey or Upton tactically, and in default of better category were set down by wags as the disbanded of the State National G 1 to whom Fenton and Marvin gave some time ago everiasting leave of absence, without rank, pay or commutation whatever, But the ladies ! and were twice Chey seemed to spring up trom the ver you went, and were attired in as rainbow. In “Flirtation Wa} occupied every nook and resting place, and when t handing out the diplomas they formed in eof batile just in front of every unfortunate who happened to have secured a seat along the pathway, purposely to have a good view of the ceremonies. THE MUTUAL GREETING. The middies were the first to give the cadets a brotherly greeting from their ships this morning, and about haif-past eight o'clock the Savannah's dogs barked forth a salnie of twenty-one guns, while the national standard was run up to the masthead and the band on board played the “Star Spangled Banner.’ ‘The effect of this novel sight in these parts was superb, The echo of the cannons’ roar could be heard for fully a minute after the report rolling like distant thunder behind the mountain heights, and one echo scarcely had died away when it was fol- lowed by-another and another until the salute was Why they swarmed as thick as bee: as buazing. ground wie ended, while ever and anon despite the detonations that seemed to shake the earth at every shock, from out the cloud of smoke, which hid the vessel from view as if by a curtain of lace trembling in the breeze, the sweet strains of the land music came wafted to the shore clear and distinct. At nine o'clock Battery Knox returned the naval greeting with twenty-one resound- ing responses, and thus formal recognition of each e(her's presence was made by both the schools of the army and navy. ORDER OF THE CEREMONIES. Shortly after the salute had been given and re- turned the following order was issued:— SPECIAL ORDERS—NO. 69. HEADQUARTERS U, S. MILITARY ACADEMY, } Wesr Pornt, N. Y., June 15, 1868, The presentation of diplomas to the graduating class will take place to-day at three o'clock. At half-past two P.M. the corps of cadets will move from the south wharf under the command of Brevet Colonel H. M. Black, a8 an escort to the bat- tation of midshipmen to the general parade, where the ceremony will take piace as follows, to wit:— 1. Formation on the general parade (first class to be ye ee and arms stacked). 2. Music by the Navy Academy band. 3. Awarding of diplomas to the graduating class of cadets by General U. 8. Grant, commanding the army. 4. Music the Military Academy band. 5. Address hy Professor Henry Coppee, LL.D., Sec- retary of the Board of Visitors. Benediction by the chaplain. eral salute (thirteen guns) from the siege 8. Return of the two battalions to the front of bar- racks, where they will be dismissed. % At the close of the evening parade the corps of cadets under the command of Brevet Colonel H. M. Black wil escort the battalion of midshipmen to the south whart, By command brevet Brigadier General PITCHER. EpWAnp C. BOYNTON, Brevet Major, Adjutant. THE ARMY AND THE NAVY SHAKE HANDS. That portion of last evening's order relative to the meeting of the officers of the army and navy at the Superintendent's headquarters was faithfully ad- hered to at the hour mentioned—eleven o'clock; ana panctually to the minute the Academic Board and military stat, the Board of Visjters and the oficers’of the army and navy visiting at this post repaired to Gen, Pitcher’s residence, where the officers of the fleet were formality welcormed in a few words of greeting by the Superintende: A general introduction here followed, after which every body made himself per- fectly at home, and the army and navy chatted and refreshed themselves together as though they had ali been schoolboys under the oue master and bad never 1 separated from each other for a single day. ‘als Grant, Sehriner, Meade and Kobert Anderson were of the part; THR RECEPTION F THE MIDDIES. The cadet corps, pursuance of the order of the morning, given above, under commana of General Black, at two o'clock proceeded to the south wharf, where the midstipmen landed in their boats. The cadets drew up in line on either side of the ro and the middies, with their band at the head of their line of march, passed along the route, the cadets presenting arms the meanwhile, until the end of the cad reached, when they halted, and the cadets took the head of the march, the two bands prec On reaching the plains they were forn facing north and south, the Cadets to the right and the middies to the left of the seats placed for the ac- commodation of t column was AWARDING THE MAS, ‘where were seated General ( and the academic staff. The scene = at part of = the ceremonies was imposing in the extreme. The long line of cadets at “parade 8G the right of the stand, with the sun's rays ligtiting up their muskets and breastplates like diamonds; the dark outline of the midshipmen stretching rcle to the left, the OWES SOOM long white ribbon i the front | in; the crowd of visitors outside the of the facing sentinels; throwing their great shadows half ¢ leaving the other iit up by sun as if for cor the group of artilierymen near the fagstiut awaiting the signaLto make the rocky passes reverberate wit! 4 thousand echves—all combined to form a tableau that needs only to be seen never to be forgotten. As soon as the proper formation of the corps was mpleted the graduating class moved out from the rauks, stacked orms and marched in single file the front of the orator’s stand, whe hey f¢ m company order and received their diplomas ral graduate and ymias as the hon- ‘neral made no Pitcher calling out the name of @; General Grant presenting the dip ored ones stepped forward, The mark to the graduates in giving them the precious parchment, but when cadet Fitzpatrick came for- ward With an empty sleeve dangling at his side (he having lost lis right arm two years ago in an artil- lery practice), he spoke afew Words of encourages ment to him, but in sueh a low tone of voice that his words could not pe heard, ‘Phe following are the names of those who regeived diplomas:— Savage, Hail, W. P, Batchelder, Bass, Morton, A. L. ‘ow Payson, Denison, D. $s. Pope, Knight, Deshler Dite! Hoxie, Barnett, Hoskins, Metcalfe, Dahigren, . Weeks, Mackall, Shoemaker, Kussell, F. Wy Morrison’ J.C, Forbush. Fitzpatrick, Marshail, Whipple, Maret Neath, Howard, Coom! Willard, Swigert, Wil Casey, Pope, J. W. Py! Fietoher, Clark, Thompson, Hamiiton, ed Kan Everett, Harris Johnson, Roe € 4 Fechet Kodman, Feragut, Hail, €. ¥ Brodrick Bodflah. After the ceremony of awarding the diplomas had been concluded Professor Coppée, Secretary of the Board of Visitors, came forward and in a clear, well modulated tone of voice delivered the following ADDRESS TO Turning first to the off! mic stam, by NEW YORK GRANT, GENSRAL PrrCHER, LADIRS AND AND FRLLOW CADEPS OF THE GRADU AT mong all the places endeared to a man vlation—the place of his birth, of his child- of bis education, of his courtship and ing he place where he has laid his kiadred in the earth to await the last glorious transfiguration and over which he has shed tears which were only checked by & Christian’s hope—there is in every per- Sonal experience one which is dearer to him than any other, which binds him more strongly, at which the lengthening chain of attachment which he car- rics in his life wanderings is locked and the key forever lost. Gentlemen, such is West Point to the old cadet; such it is to me and those among us who were educated here. We come back, men of years, to this beautiful Plain upon which we marched as boys, with the gray no longer on our shoulders, but on our heads, and our hearts beat warm with the old cadet feeling a8 ve look upon you, and, reoowalsipg cesemiblenecs to our former comrades, are ready to Call you by the old aames and nicknames, When we hear the com- mand to “fall inj’ we start to find our places, We look with some misgivings as we see your instructor of tactics go by, not quite sure that there may not be some negligence in us to report. One of my col- onfessed to me that he dreamed a few nights the could not get on his belts and was late rade, We have grown in great respect for | your distinguished professors, and I for one have not quite lost all my fear of them— it would recur during your recent examination—for most of them are the Same we had a quarter of a ceniury ago, In brief, feliow cadets, in the long line herhood I feel almost as much one of you to- ) arried @ musket or flourished a sword, ; ®ud with God to heip me L hope to be so in spirit un- Ul that supreme change shall come which will unfor- tunately ouly lack the slow march and the volley to Seal the career of a West Pointer who loved his cher- ishing mother fondly and devotedly to the e! I speak this not egotistically and’ personally; I speak for my fellows; pak it the voice of gratitude, of ack pledged, lor service al i with ent, of service God boess the nen, let me spend elaborating one nie ry short time ailott : ht of common interest to cadet in the words of our immortal W, | tics of the Revolution 1 known to you all, must be given to spe a lengt of ervi eneral Arnold's int ted all the ew incidents con- y of his treason and to the by Washington on that memorable with Major 1 with the di He then referred to it as a strategic polat and to the value of its position on the Hudson river, | Continumg, he sketched the history of West | Point as” military academy, and” spoke of the illustrious men who graduated — there. Keferring to the late rebellion, he — said:— ity a misunderstanding of the trae doctrine of States rights, by a perversion of that lofty and hon- orable sentiment noblesse oblige, some of the Southern graduates arr “i themselves against the yerninent, Lam not here to mete out their con- ion. Our only er ix that the percentage yas so small, All honor to those who stood firm, but noone who does not Know how the heavens trembied and the earth rocked, how tears and prayers and threats and hopes were brought to bear can judge of the struggle of Lee and the Johnstons and Stonewall Jackson and a host of others; but 1 am here to call your attention to the magnificent figiting of these’ misguided chiefs and to the im- mortal honor of the loyal West Pointers who sup- ported the government and won the final victory, At the beginning of the war the old fallacy was still at work; distinguished citizens were called to high is, and if the mills of the gods ground they ground them exceeding smail. .Look at our army list. Who leads the land forces? ‘The hero of Vicksburg, Chattanooga and the surrender of Appomattox; Grant, maligned, relieved from ac- tive duty, fighting through good and evil weather, leading a division, an army Corps, @ separate army, the whole arm; haere with set teeth until the end, and now the id rings with his name. Crazy Sherman who startled the country with the call for two hundred thousand men and was put upon the shelf until the whole country was inocu- jated with a like madness, Constant Meade, the hero of our great three days of July at Gettysburg. McClellan, the great organizer of the army of the Potomac. “Whom can we trust?” said Fees and West Point has answered by the deeds of her sons when other men were powerless or subordinate, The bead-roll of fame with few exceptions, the army list of erals and brevet generals. Gentlemen of the graduating class, let us come to less exciting topics, It is twenty-seven years since I came here as a cadet, and had a longer time been given me to prepare my address 1 should have been glad to tell you something of West Point in that day. I re- member clambering up the rocky path to the Hotel, and then, after an unquiet meal, going to the Superintendent's to uy sa Among other questions he asked me how much money I had. I rather ver- dantly named the whole amount, but told him I thought I would deposit half of it and keep the rest of it for my own personal wants. He coolly sugges- ted that I should turn it all in, as cadets were not al- lowed to have money. I shall not trouble you with my personal history; is it not recorded im certain ponderous books in F sige oftice far more minutely than is desirable? But 1 find great changes. Your Professors were young men, but ad whit more vig. orous or less exacting than t®-day. Your splendid barracks were not dreamed of. There stood the old North Barrack and the old South en nee, The former with central halls constituting posts Nos. 7, 8, 9 and 10, The fourth story was called the cock-loft. At the end of post No. ‘10 was the Post om id the guardroom was the first room at the entrance—a comfortable old place. I remember when it was taken down: I had @ chest made of the panelling of my room and a wa! stick of one of the stair posts, which rank high ainong my house- hold gods, The rooms of the South Barrack opened on both sides upon open corridors, in which the sen- tinels walked. I remember our distinguished president Major General Franklin) cutting @ martial Squre there on several occasions; and I remember, too, that post No. 1, on the second floor,’ north, where I walked some extra tours—of course undeserved—was very cool and breezy about Christmas thes just at tattoo, for the truth of which I appeal to my classmate General Ritcher, your excellent superintendent, Of the text books, of which you are justly proud, and sometimes I fear unjustly negligent, but few were written, . Prof. Mahan had only written the Civil Engineerin; and Field Fortification, since so greatly improved. Prof. Church's excellent treatise on analytical geometry had not seen the light, and the Calculus Was just out, We studied artillery in French, Prof. Bartlett had only written his dificult and excellent treatise on optics, which required such hard study that some of the cadets “couldn't see it.” Prof. Kendrick was an assistant in the department he now so worthily fills, Prof. Weir was at work in his studio upon his splendid painting, now in the Ro- tunaa, and I remember with = pleasure that he invited me as a tolerable draughtsman to come to see it. I had never seen such Pe Prof. Agnel was then second teacher of French, the good Prof. Berard being the first; and we all caught enthusiasm from his prompt and accurate instruction, and learn- ed the Janguage for itself and for its instructor. But you will accuse me of garrulity, aud I have somewhat of more importance to hg ee you. Bear a word of counsel from an old cadet. The paper now to be placed tn the hand of each of you by the tllustrious head of the army is the most valuable paper of its kind issued in America. It is the record of a totlsome, laborious life of four years; it is your letter of ©: dentials to the world and to all parts of the world. tis a reward for auty already done; but it claims from each of you @ promise for the future. Let no man think that his work here is accomplished fact, tied up, sealed, labelled and put away among the records forever, A thousand times no. You have here only jaid the foundation; It is nothing but stones: and mortar unless you build upon it. West Point is only one part of the great leulus of life, The differential has been made here, the seed planted; your mtegration is the work of life; t plant must burst into mature beauty; your measurements, your areas, your limits, all mus' come as natural resuits from what is here learned,or what yoo have here learned is worse than nothing. Have you sometimes found it painful and wearisome to learn those things of which you did not know the fature application? Have your heart and muscies etimes failed you in quarrying out stones, igno- of what building they are to be placed’ in, to are to give stability and beauty? but have faith, Everythimg you have learned here will be use! By your mathematics vill build bridges, 10 to | fight armies, compute the coming ‘tin the depths of the infinite dark, #0 for th st, use what you have learned here; fix yur levers, ply your implements, exert your ngth, and you may move the world again. There Valpit notion among graduates in my time were far superior: to all the rest of the *y louked with pity, and sometimes with . pon all others. Especially they regarded = and citiz ippointments with a distant id yourscives of this at once. You are : {high training, of strength and noble position; mat the sve men of cleverness, power and elegance in toe world by thousands, and Volunteers and citl zens in the army would improve far more rapidly if West 1 reated them with Kindness and instruct- ive cou Ido not know how to touch a subject a very seridus, and yet not without its comic si J mean the inarriage of young oillcers. I fear good advice would be lost, ahd between the ladies and their champions should be in a very painful i ininority, Once joore let me warn you not to get into debt. It avery worse than (hat recently abolished. It crushes a’man, It lays him open to the temptations of the Devil, and whut saith the ever to admired Wilkins Micawber:—“Annual in come, £20; annual expenditure, $19 198, 6d.; rest happiness. Annual tueome, £20; annual expendi: ture, £20 6d.; result, misery.” ‘The blossom 19 blighted, the leaf is wither Kod of day goes down upon the dreary scenc n short, you are forever floored.” i# ary ssuiues particular value when we refiégt how many omcers and how often all officers ‘hre called upon to disburse the public funds ft would dwell upon it were it not that in this respect, too, West Point challenges the World. [ts graduates have been renowned for their record of honesty and pro- vity in the disbursement of Heys Which, had they passed through civic hands, would have enriched their possessors, not only by the per- niage which an army officer cannot receive, but by wation and other improper use. Finally, my brothers, I feel that I am not trenching on the prero- gative of your excellent chi eo when I counsel you ognize and adore in all your doings Him who is Phaticaily the God of armies, the Lord of | Hosts. The Roman poet declared him happy who could discern the causes of thi DiMeuit, impos sible task, unless we acknow! and believe the HER riace of bh doubter, a ape vine phios: part in tie scheme of uina ‘Lon, He is redeemed from error and ignorance, he marches onward to biguer and more godlike stations in the realms of mud. When he reac ies in} sward search the limits of the finite, where reason fails, faith, the grand cor- | relative of reason, be hun in safety to thé oosom of Divinity, the source of all knowledge, THE BENEDICTION AND SALUTE, At the close of the oration, which was warmly ap- pisuded by the Apoctanaee outside the line formed by ‘he military, as the orator took his seat, the chaplain, the Rev. Prof, French, gaye the benediction, praying God to cherish and protect the young men who were about to go out into the world and fight the battle of | life as soldiers of the Union. The last word of | the benediction had no sooner been spoken than the seacoast battery near tle flagstail belched forth a saute of thirteen guns announcing that fifty-four additional names ad been recorded on the roll of honor of the Academy, The cadets and the midshipmen, during the firing of the salute, marched to the barracks, where they were dismissed, At the close of the pa- rade, ut one o'clock, the cadets again formed them- selves into a guard of honor to the midshipmen, and conducted thei to the boat landing, where they took to their boats and rowed to the ships at anchor in the stream, THE “STANDING” AND THE “STARS.’? Considerable disappointment was manifested by many of the visitors, especially by the immediate Iriends of the cadets, at the fact that the “standing ’ of the class, as in former years, was not announced. The names of the recipients of the diplomas were cailed tn alphabetical order; so it Was impossible tor | the visitors to know who led the class, who were | the “distinguished five” or who “heid it'up” at its | nether end, ‘The reason for the suppression of the | “stunling’ at present is that the graduates are to be kept here a week longer in order that they may entertain their guests, tiie midshipmen, and as, 4 graduating, the only thing the first class ci Know about ts their order 0; merit on the roll of tie examination it was iougat advisuble to pestpone its promuigation until the day of the departure of the practice fleet. On that day the graduating class Jemy and that of the fleet’ will be allowed together, and thas it is expe xd that the | grand time the two classes will enjoy together after bidding fareweli to their classmates at the sa! hour ma; tion, 5 gu ty for d- Massachusetts Minnesota lowa. owing to the fact en of last year's graduating class had been placed in the engineer corps, there were | now only three vacaucics in that branch of the army. It will be seen by these names who the fortunate en- gineers are. 1—Albert IL, Payson —John GD, Knigh' Richard L,. Hoxte. The Grand Hop. Wesr Point, June 15—Midnight. The grand hop given by the second class to the Gradiates came oi to-night with all that éctat which has ever been the distinguishing feature of like occa- Sions in previous years, Perhaps it would be out of place to say that for many weeks past the ladies have been making the most extensive preparations for the brilliant event; that delicate waists have been cruclly placed, even against the desires of caiet-loving hearts, in vices of fashionable manufacture and laced into breathiess compactness; that silks and sating and moire antiques have been assorted and praised and purchased over many a city counter, and then sent off to ¢he dressmaker’s with all sorts of impatient commands; that this evening hairdressers have been worried to death, and bored and scolded, and called pet names, that heads might be transformed into rats and mice, and waterfalls and honeysuckles, and many other natural and artificial shapes; that pretty little feet have been confidently placed in the rough hands of vile shoemakers, with a gentle request to put them on trial in slippers that would not look ugly, if they could, with such little reminders of beauty within them; that, in fact, mamas and papas have been pes to their wits’ ends to satisfy the dear girls in all that they wanted, wished for or cried for, and that all their wishes have been gratified and that every good looking girl in almost every part of the Union hag reccived a dozen invitations and doubly as many more for her female friends. THE CARDS OF INVITATION. They have a very excellent practice here when a grand hop takes place which might, at first mention, set the heart of certain ball-goers in the city ina x of economic gratification. ‘There is no entrance fee and invitation cards are only parchmen’s of form, which are not virtually to act the part of open sesames, He who would can enter, provided he passes muster, Not, indeed, that you must have @ oeriain color of kid or a pecu- liar off on your hair locks; but at the door- way you meet soldiers armed to the teeth, who look at you beneath lowering eyebrows and in a second decide your fate. They are keen fellows, are these same soldiers, and they can, as they will tell you, decide whether or not a man is eligibie to a view of the ball room doings by the mere “cut of his jib.’ If, however, they should by some mist in their eyes be mistaken in your ‘‘cut,” a card of invi- tation would satisfy them at once that they had looked sharply at you only by way of friendship, you know. And a word about these cards of in- vitation. They consist of finely — tint paper about the size of a lady's note, with a m ticent raised-work monogram of the title “United States Corps of Cadets,” the initial letters of each word being interwoven in a manuer as intricate as it was chaste in appearance. On the left hand side of the monogram, amid various fanciful adornments, the gures 68, and beneath it the word “from,” and directly beneath this the figures '69, indicate the ori- gin and design of the cards. At the bottom of the monogram the words of the invitation are engraven. A more tasteful card of the kind has not been seen at any previous hop. THE BALLROOM. There is no such thing here as a ballroom—that ts to say ab apartment built for the special pur of dancing. Owing to this fact, at the annual hops of the graduating classes the cadet mai rs have to choose between the main room of the academic building and the mess hall. Last year the former place had its day, this year the latter was favored, although, on account of the presence of the mid- shipmen, the second class had to form their German in the academic building this morning. It will thus be seen that there were two distinct hops. The mess hall, at least that part of it which is understood to refer simply to the room in which the cadets ordinarily take their meals, is a large room with no posts or aught to obstruct the giddy maze of a waitz, and is in every way the best apartment calcula‘ed to be found in any of the public bulidings for a bail or hop. The tables and chairs that usually made a part of its daily appearance have been of course removed for the occasion and the floor well a for the easy movement of the dancers’ feet. e walls are taste- tally hung with flags and by various ornamental means made to look us much like a Itroom as possible under the circumstances. hop proper commenced at eight o'clock and the Germans at eleven o'clock. THE Hor. Long before the our the hop was announced to fon the room was more than comfort as brifiiant an assembidge as ever a West Point cadet could weil wish to see. T have just left the ballroom and speak from what | have seen when I say that tie toilets of the ladies are all that could be desired in the way of taste and elegance, and they themselves, without using @ stereotyped phrase, exccedingly beautiful; and What makes their beauty more of an attraction and delight to the eye is its naturalness, the hateful powder and ‘paint, so often the prominent feature of a city ball, being re- markable in this instance only by their absence, As for the gentlemen, of course their attires do not de- pend upon choice, but military ‘ulation, The cadets, with their neat gray coats, bullet buttons, white pants and youthful faces; the middies, in their dark blue jackets, set off by their small brass but- tons, and the uniforms of the officers of the army and navy, with epauicts glittering under the bright ge. form a pleasing contrast to the general ih n ht color of the ladies’ dresses. The music is fur- ished by the excellent string and full band of the post, and that alone, to any person who has ever been here, is sufticient testimony that it is of the fon, eee order, To say the least, a coup d'wil of the ballroom is very brilliant—more so, in fact, than rsons used to balls tn the city can readily imagine. ‘here is not so much gaudy hue about the dresses, to be sure, nor such @ plentiful display of jewelry; but there is more solid attraction in beauly of face and feature and better taste dis. played in the toilets—an elegance — with. out loudness, a plainness without absence of solid richness, It was thought there would be at the ball a great jeatousy between the cadets and the middies, yell, there is; but it is of that friendly kind which admits of no dispute, no wrangle, no ill feeling, no action that could give oifence, Each cadet and cach middy 1s doing his utmost to act out his part well, and is even ready to oblige the other by a fair exchange of partners, partners being willing, and @ dance all round with every girl in the room. The West Pointers are evidently endeavor- ing, even at the sacrifice of their own ment, to make the Annapolisites feel _perfectiy ome, and when a blue jacket is espied alone in corner he is pounced upon by a cadet, through whose good wes he is soon in favor with some bright-eyed damsel and dancing about the room with her as Uap) and as chatty as though he had known her from childhood. In many instances the courtesy of the cadets is finding its immediate reward, for many of the middies haye hade their pretty friends come to the Point for the hop, and so during the evening nearly every cadet has found his female acquaintances increasing in a very agreeable manner. FINIS CORONAT OPUS, Tt may be that d ing ata hopis not alabor. If this be true th jing is at fault; but I feel cer- tain the cadets and midcdies int enjoyment of the evening so far consider their eiturts to please the fair sex an actual labor of iove. In fact there can be no doubt that many of the fair ones take this not | by any means disagrecable view of the evening's jeasure their companions’ attentions, if soft ‘lances from downcast eyes and ia etd lost to inattentive ears during the intervals of the dance go Ly anything. But all pieasuce here below has its limit, aad walle the music is giving forth its ; 2 SLD, TUMSDAY, JUNE 16, 1 on dv TRIPLE SHEKT. melodies and feet are answering to the measure and | ap being made one the hours are uickly and the parting moment n soon | come. Then the sweet, sad strains of “Home, Sweet | Home” will deat in the night air with imereasin sadness a3 thought goes back to old ties that inv be broken, a3 hands are clasped and lips that trembie to tell the heart's secret press to lips that teil, Then there will be, as of old, mementoes given for mementoes received; buttons for dainty gloves, buttons for promises to be fulfilied, buttons for every- thing, buttons for nothing; and the throng will go forth from the halis, the lights sink into darkness, goodbys and Good bless yous be fervently spoken and the class of 163 have done its duty. A large number of French and Spanish naval om. cers were here during the day, Admiral Menequi among others. Major Generals Anderson, Pleasonton, Webb, Schriver, Hartsuit, Sackett, Meade, and Brigadier Generals Pitcher, Myer, Clitz, Sawtelle, and Colonel Jerome Bonaparte, were.present during the evening. FINE ARTS GOSSIP, The exhibition at the National Academy of Design will close next Saturday. At the last annual election of the National Academy Messrs. Inness, Hail and Lambdin were made academicians, and Messrs. Wood, Wyant, Law- rie, Parker and Perry associates. A section of arta ia provided for in the newly pro- Jeeted Nationai Institute. Most of the New York artists are preparing for their usual summer trips across the Atlantic, or along the American coast, or to the interior of our wide- spread territory. Gitford, McEntee and Bellows have adready left for Europe. Bradford will revisit the coast of Labrador, Dana, La Farge, and Cary Smith will make New- port their headqyarters. . William Hart and Lambdin will go to Germantown, Shattuck and Van Wlten will multiply their studies of the Connecticut valley. Guy aad J. L. Brown are going to Fort Lee. H. P, Gray will paas the summer at Pittsfield, Masa, Cropsey will remain at Waywayanda Hills, in Orange county, New York. Perry will undertake a roving commission among the farm houses of New England. Marshall and Ordway are going to Maine. Homer Martin and J, Hoyt will revisit the Adiron- dacks, Wood is bound for the most truly rural districts of | Vermont, Buchser is going to West Virginia—if he can get away from the picturesque attractions of Staten Island. Washington has just left for Virginia, Beard is going to Ohio, Whittredge will spend the season at Milford, in Pennsylvania, T. L, Smith is to summer at Onondaga. The Boston artists are also on the wing. Bricher “(who is to move to New York in the fall) will pass the summer at Campton; Hodgdon at Stowe, and | Gerry at Manchester, in New Hampshire. Butman will go to Bethel, in Maine, and Griggs to Newport, in Vermont. Edward Gay, of Albany, has moved to New York. | He exhibits in his studio a large picture representing a scene in one of the iron mining districts, Whittredge is finishing a picture of a scene in Lebanon Valley, and also one of his Rocky Mountain pletures, Linton has nearly completed the engraving of Rosenberg’s picture of Long Branch. A brother of Linton, scarcely less distinguished as a wood en- graver, is making a brief visit to America. Perry has made a little figure picture, which he entitles “Reciprocity.” A bootblack is polishing the boots of an orange boy, who nolds in his hand an orange to be given in payment by way of exchange. Wood has also lifted the blootblack into art—a little negro bootblack eating a watermelon at a cheap stand. The season has been so backward here that both the watermelon and the darky must have come from Florida. Photographs of Kaulbach’s grand cartoon of “The Reformation” may be seen at Schaus’ galleries. Kuntze ts finishing a statuette of Governor Jay. McDonald has made a good campaign statuette of General Grant, and is making a capital anatomical model of “‘The Horse." Lanut Thompson's admirable statue of General Sedgwick, for West Point, has been sent to Philadel- phia for casting. Interview of Salnave With the Corps Diplo- | matique—A General Attack to Be Made on the Rebel Position. ; Port AU PRINCE, June 2, 1868. On Sunday, May 31, the diplomatic body, consist- ing of the United States Minister Resident and the French, English and Spanish Chargés d’Affaires, had an interview with President Salnave, who declared to them his determination not to yield to his antagonists, aud to hold his position here under every circum- Stance, stating that any disaster which arrived to this city would be by the fault of the revolutionists, On the foliowing day President ‘Sainave visited Fort Bizoton and returned to the city atten A.M. The French man-of-war D’Estrées left for Norfolk, and the Royalist (English gunboat) went outside to prac- tice her lai uns. At six P. M. the English frigate Phebe and the American war steamer Penobscot arrived from Jamaica. On Tuesday, June 2, President Salnave addressed a despatch to the French Chargé d’Anaires instructing him to have the school of the French Sisters of Charity transported to town, and to advise his countrymen not to pass the pickets of his lines. A general at- tack by the government forces is expected on Petionville to-morrow. Repulse of n Caco Assault—Salnave Slaugh- ters His Prisoners—Attempt to Fire the Town=Review of the Caco Troops. Port av Prince, June 4, 1868, On June 2 firing took place on the Champ de Mars at ten.o’clock P. M. At four A. M., June 3, an attack was made on the town by the Cacos, who were repulsed with loss on both sides; they suc- ceeded in capturing the Fort Gommier, on Bel Air ‘Hill, but only held it about five minutes, All pris- oners taken by Salnave's troops were slain without mercy. The cavalry of Salmave attacked in their turn on the north road, near Droutllard, bat were defeated. The government put fire to the remainder of the north and northeast suburbs. The Secretary of State, D. Lespinaue, being sick, his office 1s con- ducted temporarily by the General Treasurer, Mr. J. B, Toussaint. The [oss in killed and wounded on both sides in the engagement at Fort Gommier will probably not exceed one hundred men, On the 3d Captain Bythesea, of the English frigate, Phebe, before leaving for St. Domingo city and the main, Visited the camp of the southern revolutioniats and a parade of avout twenty-five hundred men was made before him. Salnave Attempts to Compromise=The Rebels Reject His Terms—What is to be the Upshot ¢ * PorT AU Prince, June 5, 1868, Yesterday a deputation of generals was sent by Salnave to the army of the southern revolutionists to endeavor to effect a compromise, His terms were as follows:—That he should be allowed to keep the Presidential chair for his three years to run, and would consent to give the ministry to the southern generals, enter into this city and join with him in repelling the Caco These prepositions were indig- nantly refused by the southern generals, who de- manded in their turn as their ultimatum that Salnave should lay down his arms and leave the country. Heavy firing took place all night and still continued at daybreal nts Tam not sure whether Sainave will abdicate or fight it out. merican Minister, with Captain Eastman and the officers of the United States steamer Penobscot, Will be received at the palace by the President to- morrow morning. CUBA. Whereabouts of Santa Anna’s Jewele=Im- portant Revelation, if True=Obsequies of Nervaez—Health, HAVANA, June 8, 1868. Persons of perfect reliability in this piace now positively assert that the msignia, crosses, diamonds, &c., of General Santa Anna, which were pretended to have been stolen from on board the steamer Vir- ginia, Captain Deaken (who now commands the Virgo), at the time of his Excellentissimo'’s arrest last year, never came With lie baggage on board at New York, but in reality have been deposited in your city for the purpose of raising funds upon them, so as to have enabled Santa Anna to carry out his Yuca- tan expedition, ‘The funeral obsequics of Marshal Narvads, the de- caased Prime Minister of her Catholic Majesty, will be performed with great solemnity at the cat i to-morrow morning. All the troops have received orders to breakfast at five A. M., and are \ be each regaled with a brimful giass of Catalan wine, ao | a9 to fortify them for the fatigues of the march and (y better eaable them to overcome the depressing in- fluences of the exceedingly ot weather. The public health can almost be cailed excellent. No cholera and but entirely confined to the recently arrived part of the population. Pleasant northeast breezes occasion- ally, Thermometer averages eighty-six degrees in the shade. Tonnage still scarce, POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. Preparations in This City for the Presidential Campaign—The Popular Feeling—The Gather- ing of the DelegationsHow They Are to Be Provided For—Great Rush to the Hotels. With the first opening of the long delayed summer weather it would appear that the warm work of the political campaign had also sprung into life and activity. Tife political temperature has suddenly gone un to almost dog days heat, and there is no little and perhaps not groundless calculation made, tha’ as every dog has its day, the small cur tribe of the republican party have had theirs, and that it is all up with them in the future.’ The leaders of the party in power—a power which they very naturally desire to perpetuate, at least to run into another Presidential term—seem either to have exhausted all their enthusiasm, whatever little was excited by the nomination at Chicago of General Grant and Schuyler Colfax as President and Vice President, or (and which may. be more pre- monitory of disaster to them) the very idea of Chief Justice Chase being the favorite of the democrats for the Presidential stakes must be exercising a most depressing and damaging effect upon their spirits, The HERALD articles have opened the eyes of the poe of the whole country to the grand opportunity before them in the selection of a standard bearer in the coming campaign. Ina moment of false c: d_ impotent conclusion the republicans have n up th in of the sword as against the man of law and of justice, and at once their opponents take advantage thereof and, lo! “the stone which the builders reiected has become the head of the corner.” Within the past few days the movement, ather the broad popular feeling in favor of Mr, Chase, has extended itself, and now, whether in the shaae of the corridors of the City Hall, beneath the umbrageous screen of the trees that deck the Park, sitting in al fresco council upon the swinging chains or doing a littie bit of whittling on the rustic benches—not designed probably, as Goldsmith’s seats, for “talking age or whispering lovers made,"’ but for the discussion of the politics of the day—the warmest political contestants— wherever they asseimbie, are all for Chase—first and last, Sound cammon sense and practical argument have taken the place of mere political partisan de- bate, The democrats in this fight are all in the gap and they want the man they can win un- der to be their leader. It is pretty evident that the Western men are determined to keep Pendleton in the front rank at any cost. Their present intentions and resolves on this head, however, are all based on false deductions, and it is hoped by the Tammany chieftains that after the great council fire.is lighted on the 4th and they, all previous to the day of action, have had a “big talk”? together, that the folly of se- riously presenting Pendleton as a candidate for nomination will be perceived at once, and that, making a virtue of necessity, our Western allies will drop their “young eagle” like a “hot potato,” after giving him, PaTnADh like Seymour, a complimentary vote in the Convention, The Ohio delegation that will visit and remain in this city during the sitting of the Convention numbers some thou- sand men. The Pendleton Club of Cincinnati are over @ thousand strong. They have not yet positively located themselves as a body. An effort was made on their behalf by a deputation appointed for the purpose to secure the circus in Fourteenth street, almost opposite the Wigwam, as a place of meeting and discussion; but one of the proprietors was absent and no definite arrangement was made. The Masonic Hall on Thirteenth street, between Third and Fourth avenues, has been rented by the Western delegation as their headquarters while the: remain intown. The “Governor English Connecti- cut party” have secured ample accommodation in the Chanler House, opposite the Wigwam—a new nh rie that promises to be a centre point of at- traction trom its cont ity to the Wigwam durin; the proceedings of the Convention. Governor Englis! himeelf will occupy rooms in the St. Nicholas. The proprietors of the hotels throughout the city are on the qué vive in anticipation of a most busy time. At the Fifth Avenue arrangements have been entered into for the accommodation of the State delegations of Ohio, Indi Massachusetts, West Virginia and Illi- nois, The Ohio delegation is as one man, at the pre- sent time, for Pendleton. The democrats of the West have been deceived by false representations as to the — feeling in New York, Pennsylvania and the astern States in this connection, and it is expected that in good time the Ohio delegation will wheel into Ine under the national Chase banner. At the Chanler House, opposite the Wigwam, North Carolina, Georgia, a portion of South Carolina and Virginia have comfortably located themselves, the “Old North” having provided any amount of “Scupper- nong” to contest the palm with young Catawba, should the delegates, as is not unlikely, turn from the discussion of politics to the discussion of cobblers. At the Metropolitan Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Missouri will have .a temporary habitation and a name, The Pennsylvanians will turn out strong, and asthe Key Stone State willleave no stone un- turned to insure a democratic triumph in the person of Mr. Chase, the delegation have secured Irving Hall as political headquarters during their sojourn here. The St. Nicholas will entertain the New York, Michigan, Nebraska and portions of Indiana, Ohio and Connecticut delegations. The Astor House will have several of the New England and Southern States located within its walls during the days to be So pregnant with the fate not of a party, but of the whole country. The other hotels of the city have been applied to for accommodation, and in a week or two more we shall be better able to locate the va- rious delegations and the many honorable men who will be assembled within our city during the sitting of the Democratic National Convention of 1868. Dedication of a Republican Campaign Wig- wam ie Twenty-Second Ward. The Union Republican Association of the Seven- teenth Assembly district held a Grant and Colfax ratification meeting last night in West Forty-sixth street on the occasion of the dedication of a new wigwam. Bunting and buncombe were the predom- inating attractions of the meeting, and several com- panies of Grant and Colfax guards ‘marched in and then marched out again.” The chair was occupied by George P. Bradford, who made a few appropriate remarks on accepting the distinguished position; and, after the reading of lists of about twenty-five vice presidents and thirty or forty secretaries, resolutions were adopted ap- proving the principles enunciated by the Union Republican Convention at Chicago; endorsing the nomination of Grant, and anticipating 1m his elec- tion a guarantee of a faithful and patriotic adminis- tration; charging the present disastrous condition of the country and the delay in reconstruction upon Andrew Johnson, and the closing resolution being couchea in the following choice condemnatory terms: Resolved, That the so-called democratic party 1s responsible for all past attempts to hinder and de- feat universal suffrage; for the enactment of odious laws abridging the rights of colored men as guaran - teed by the constitution; for the infamous slave laws; for the war against the government avowed- ly waged to perpetuate African slavery on this continent; for position to the enlistment of black soldiers to ald in suppressing rebellion; for cruelty, culminating in riot, murder and bo Mg burning in our city, and we therefore respectfully suggest to the distinguished Chief Jus- tice of the United States — that vitation to that party to take ground which should assure us against all attempts to subvert the principle of universal suffrage es- tablished in eight, and to be established in all, of the Southern States, is a vain attempt to make the “stream rise higher than its fountain; an attempt to put “new wine into old botties,”” which can have no other result than the breaking of the bottles and the spilling of the wine. Several campaign songs were sung, one or two dedl- catory odes of decidedly mediocre merit were read, speeches were made by Douglass Campbell, Z. K. Pangborn and others, and a letter of apoloy ure orting to have come from General Sickles, but un- fortunately signed D. 8. Sickles, instead of D. BE. Sickles, was read. The meeting adjourned shortly after cleven o'clock. the in. Chase Among the Germans. To THE Epitor or THE HERALD:— In reading over your article in the Sunday edition of your journal regarding the sentiment of the Ger- man population touching the probable nomination of Chief Justice Chase.for the Presidency, | cannot but express my surprise at the exactitude with which you give the opinion of us German Americans in regard to the above question. Truly, we Germans, claiming to be hard thinkers, embraced once the banner of the republican party as the best ond only means of accomplishing our cherished principles—liberty, equality, fraternity. But when we see in what 4 reckless manner the chiefs of the republican party devote their influence in the interest of their party schemes, when we see men idolized as the champions of this partywho would not be tolerated in any respectable drawin, m, when we see our own personal liberty jeopardized by the acts and legislation of this party, then 1 think it is high time to rise from our lethargy and ask our- ae the plain question, what will be the end of all this? The nomination of Grant for the Presidency meets with. the disegprovel of @great many German re- publicans, as he is, in our opinion, no guarantee whatever for the eradication of the many evils which have befallen the party, a@ claqueura of Teutonic origin excepted, who have Ro weight, however, neither by their aselesa writing to the Leipale Gartentqude, nor by their uacless few cases of yellow fever, | clamor; nor do we feel inclined to go over to the deimoeratic party in case they should nominate Pen- dleton. The nomination of Chief Justice Chase secu not only the votes of at least one-half of the repub. cans tn this State, but also most of the others, espe- cially Missouri and Pennsylvania, The republicans of Alleg! county, for vow Ff dueaheny , for instance, would gladly Whichever party wil nominate Chase deserves the thanks of every patriot, as we see in him not only the eminent statesman, but also the man who is able to rise above party consideration. In him lice strength and success. With Pendieton as the demo- cratic nominee the cause ts lost beyond redemption. Judge Chase in VirginiamA Matrimenial . Alliance in the Case. Our correspondent in Richmond, Va., communi- cates under date of.June 12 as follows:—“Judge Chase during his official stay in this city has won golden opinions from all parties, His character as an upright and fearless statesman so justly estab- lished in his splendid record in the impeachment trial is fully confirmed by his conduct here. 1¢ may be proper to say here that public rumor saya that one of the Chief Justice’s danghters has captured one of Virginia's most brilliant sons—one whose Position and talents, if linked with such a Northern, source, might be most fortunate in its public effecta, Itis only necessary to state that rumor begina the name of this gentleman with a—in order to in- form all who are familiar with Virginia politics or literature who this captive is. Mlinois. REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS, The following are the republican nominations for Congress in this State, so far as they have beem made:— At Large—John A, Logan, of Jackson county. Districts—Second, J. F. Farnsworth, of Kanes Third, E. B, W. Washburne, of Jo Daviess; Fifth, BE. @. Ingersoll, of Peoria; Sixth, B. ©, Cook, of Ottawa; Eighth, Shelby M, Cull ofSangamon; Ninth, Amos C. Babcock, of Fulton; Twe'fth, John B, Hay, of St. Clair; Thirteenth, Green B, Raum, of Saline. All are renominations except Babcock and Hay. Letter from Senator Fowler, The Lexington (Ky.) Observer makes the following extracts from a private letter from Senator Fowier, of Tennessee, to a gentleman in Lexington: WASHINGTON, June 3, 1868, My Dear FrIEND:—Your letter reached me this morning. Iam so much pleased with the letter that {reply at once. 1 acted on the great trial from a firm conviction of duty to my couniry, to the accused, to myself and to God. I separated myself from every person and devoted mysetf to the study of the questions in- volved. I am satisfied that my conclusions were correct and in strict accordance with my oath and the laws. a * * = * al Tam under the necessity, from my organization, to decide in the spirit of my oath, not for party pur- poses. I can have no interest in a scheme to usurp my government by a few bad, bold conspirators. ‘The whole House of Representatives is under the lead of those good old democrats, B. F. Butler and John A. Logan, They are the same men that ee were in 186) and before. In our house, Wade Sumner and their satellites lead the revolutionary movement here, But I must not detain you any longer on this sub- ject. As to Mrs. Stover, have scen Mr. Johnson once in two years. I have seen Mrs. Stover once im the same time, Nota word except an exchange of courtesies at a Statedinner. This 18 all. Nota mes. sage of any kind, either spoken or written, has -between us. There is no more ground for such a lie than if it had been told of you. It is not only ridicu- lous, but mischievous and malicious. T wish you to say to —— that I am very sorry to say that I have been compelled to vote as I did for the acquittal of the President—not of Andrew Johnson, but of the office he holds. It was not for metodo as others pleased. I acted for my country, and have done what I regarded as a good act. My conscienee and my reason euprove it. Posterity will do justice to my judgment if the present will not. Isl hall be im Lexington this summer. | Accept my thanks, good friend, for your verg kind and good letter. ‘Let me hear from you soon. Yours, truly, JOS. S. FOWLER. Political’ Notes. “Chase!” “Chase!” is the burden of the letters we receive from all parta of the country. One corre- pondent writes:— “Chase will carry thousands of conservative re- Publicans who can get no inspiration from Grant.” That “every good war democrat will vote for Grant rather than Pendleton.”’ That ‘Chase will draw largely from the repubil- cans.’”? That “three conservative republicans where he now writes will go for Chase rather than Grant—and@ so will I” adds the writer; “but don’t—don’t ask me to swallow Pendleton.” That “Hancock can’t stand a newspaper canvass, He is not great where well known.” That “Chase is the man for the Conventton.” That “that old rad. —- —- —, of Cincinnatt, says “Hurrah for Chase!” “So say we all!” It ts sometimes amusing to witness how history sometimes repeats itself. All remember the story of Washington and the cherry tree. The friends of Grant seek to ‘match’ it thus: When Ulysses 8, Grant was a little boy, his father bought him “a hatchet. Ulysses was so delighted that he went about hatcheting everything he could find. One fatal day, after things had been going on thus aad 80 for more than a week, Ulysses cut down one of his father’s favorite pear trees. When the old gen- tleman saw the ruin of his favorite pear tree, he went to U, S. and said: “U. S., who cut down my favorite pear tree?” ‘I cannot tell a lie,” said Ulysses; “Ben Johnson cut it down with his hatchet.” “My dear son,” said the old gentleman, spanking him, “I would rather have you tell a thou- sand lies than lose so fine a tree.” A Georgia radical paper ‘says General Grant, hav- ing served his country faithfully and successfully aa a military man, the people are now consenting that he shall go the “grand round.” See him on the grand round. A sentinel halts, “Who comes there?’? “A friend.” “Advance, friend, and give the coun- térsign !” Grant advances and whispers, “Radical- ism.” “Dat's not it,” replies the sentinel, who hap- pens to be an honest German, “It’s Liberty! I pute you in to guart haus.’’ The Nashville Unton—ultra democrat—decries the Chase movement, and says no single journal of character, outaide the New YORK HERALD, advocates it. That, perhaps, is all the newspaper influence the movement, which the Union describes as sensa- tional, wants. The Hgraup went for Grant until alt the rag-tag and bobtail radical crew went yelping after him, clapping a radical plaster on his back, his shoulder straps, his eagle buttons, his stripes andehig stars, and everywhere else, until he finally stumbied and fell into the bosoms of Sampo and Dinah, where, in the word of Sumner, he sticks. ‘The Richmond Whig speaks of Judge Chase as @ “man of energy, work, experience, management and Sagacity; his mere opinion will have great weight with reflecting men. The separation of his fortunes from the republican party is an indication that it ts unsound, unsatisfactory and insecure. it has dis- concerted the radical leaders, and they scarcely know how to act or what to say, It has fallen like a bombshell among all the politicians and wire- workers and has caused a halt’ and a parley in the democratic column. Judge Chase has produced @ sensation that no other man could have aroused.” The religious papers and correspondents are gee ting exercised about Presidential candidates. A cor- respondent. of the Richmond Christian Advocate (Methodist), writing from this city, declares that um less “the democratic nominee for the Presidency be a Northern Methodist he will be beaten.” He assigns as a reason the large number of communicants of that Church in the North and West and the open and avowed connection which it courts with radicalism, Grant is said to be a Methodist, and has already made ‘a bid for that vote, Chase is also a Methodist, and his nomination, it ts sald, will divide the Methodist radical vote. The Louisville Courier having been accused of lukewarmness toward Pendleton, admonishes the friends of the latter that they are making him the representative of a faction instead of the exponent of the views of the democratic party. It regards the Convention as a field for the exchange of arguments among statesmen, not an arena for the exhibition of political champions, The Charleston Courter learns that a respectable colored minister of Camden, feeling under sonte obit- gation to a candidate not on the radical ticket, deter= mined to cast his vote for hiw in the election that haa just closed. He supposed be was a free man and had the privilege of voting as he chose, but was informed “by the proper authority” that uniess he abandoned Nis Intention and voted the radical ticket his meeting house would be natled up and he never allowed to enter it again, Asa good man he determined not to do anything that might lead to a disturbance and he ylelded up his freedom, at least ao far aa not to vote for his friend,