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——— ‘EUROPE. German Royalty Passing Quietly Out of Sight. The Teutonic Movement for a Universal German Republic. Popular Alarm in Ireland and Operation of the Gladstone Land Dill. By special correspondence and newspaper mail re- ports from Europe we have the following interesting exhibit of the Old Worid situation on the 21st of May. SAXONY. Royalty Passing Quietly Out of Sight~—Gere man Concerts aud Outdoor Amusements as They Should Be—Politics and the Bund Feeling—Effects of the War of 1866 and of “the Race for Dresden”—A Universal Gere man Kopublic—Revolutionary Symptoms and Exciting Radical Warnings—The Bullet or the Ballot—Religion Subservient te the State—The Holy Communion Sold for a Charch Fee. DRESDEN, May 18, 1870. Affairs in this little capital go on apparently as quietly as ever; the king and royal family live in retiroment—a matter of perfect indifference to the people, who continue to work lazily and amuse thomselyes still more lazily at the concerts and beer gardens, which are such indispensable accom- paniments of a German city. By the way, you have at home no places of public amusement of such good character as these, which are at the same time so cheaply accessible, At the open air concerts, for tnstance, given in summer at ‘the Great Garden, one pays from seven to twelve cents for admission to a feast of music largely selected from the classics, and o!ven including a symphony, executed by a band of very fair powers. Seats and tables are provided under the trees, and ‘one is expected to tax his purse to the extent of five ‘er ten cents more for some light refreshment. The American residents flock en masse to outdoor enter- tainment so guilelessly cheap and so innocently diverting. The class of Germans they meet there is usually very respectable, and scarcely ever of ag- gressive vulgarity. But although Dresden life appears to be pursu- ing its usual sluggish course, yet a strong current of political feeling among the native inhabitants under. ies this smooth exterior, Since tie war of 1866 the North German Band party have gained a considera- bie foothold here, Many people have waked to the truth that Saxony will be much better of when her antiquated king and court shall disappear, and with them the galling forms of government which now obtain. Not only has the Prussian or Bund party grown strong, but the indigenous Reform party, which 13. @ branch of the grand German party, aud would doubtless coatesce with the Pras- Blan a)sorbuonists to a certain extent, has also gathered force. For the past twenty years this body of citizens has been aiming at the attaiument of a Mere liberal constitution than then prevailed. At the beginving of the last Parilamen'ary session their demands cme to a head and the Ministry was called upon for a dra‘t of the long-promised constitution, Aiter some debate the Ministry demanded time for drawine it up, and in a few days brought forward a new and highly elaborated and de‘atled plan for the lection of night watches throughout Saxony. This was all ihat could be obtained from them, and the re‘ormers, it seems, were not strong enough to carry tie matter furcher, From wits may be inferred the farci.al character of the rogress of liberty in Saxony. The de! of the re- formers, however, has doubiless only s. od to aug. ment their forces, reflecting as it does on the King and his subservient Ministers, Tie monarchy has thus openly declared itself unfit or uawiiling to be adapied to our age Itis only a qu then, when it shail die forever. heard an enthusiastic German republican de- clare thas in five years all Germany woulda be one vast repubiie. ‘This was a man of intelligence ana wide information, and although his anticipations may be somewhat too eager yet it comes nearer the truth than many would suspect, At_ all events the government does not seem to regard the possibility of sudden outbreak as ulto- gether improbable. Shortly aiter the burning of the theatre last autumn attempts were made to burn a barrack and @ military storehonse, the lat- ter of which sneceeded and caused the gov- ernment @ loss of $1,000,000, The fire in the barrack was discovered and extin- guished before it had done any damage. About the same time placards were posted up during the night on the walls of Prince George's palace, of a nature derogatory to the royal fami.y, but were torn down by ihe soidiery a8 soon as discovered. It is now supposed that these events wi connecied with each other and emznated frow the republicans, although no one was implicated. Shortly afier their occurrence the governmen: caused a telegraph wire to be laid across the bridge between the old and new towns, communicating between the palace in the for- mer quaiter and the guard house ta the latier. This wire was laid underneath the pavement of the bridge, doubtiess for greater saety. From these signs if is not dificult to perceive a growing dissatis- facion among the people—a dissatisfaction which is becoming resiless and desirous of action. A suc- ces ful revo\utionary movement in France might seTVe @4 the signal for final action here, aad this may occur at any ume. Doubtless the best policy for the republicans would be to col:ect force endugh in the Parliament to effect the desired reforms. Bui the liberal Germans seem to place very little faith in the elections, and do bot go to the polis, seeming to preier the idea of sudden and entire renovatio and perliaps they are rigit, for the principles of government here are false tothe foundation, The leading maxim is that the people are politically heip- Jess and inust be conirolled by an eiaborate sysiem of arbicrary rules. ‘To this end the police are en- dowed with inordinate powers, and have much opportunity, if so disposed, to indulge in petty tyr- ntroversies between Joreigners and most invariably side with une latter; a strikes most people as ex ceedingly “know nothing” and” caiculated to repel ‘foreizuers; but tae doubtless pursue it on the principle or making hay while the gun shine ani keeping tie one biri ln the band rather than scieming for the ton the bash. This 4s not the oniy il effect of this govern.ng principle. The inenity of religion, to whatever oiner and Philosophical causes it may be partially ascribed, undoubtediy arives in great mea: from the de+ pendence of the Church upon the State. Churches here are government affairs, and supported by sub- Bidies, for Whicu the peoplo are taxei., The clergy are wel salaried and have num ees beside. By the. way, the custom still ot ministering the sacrament of th ins here of ad- Last Supper ata fixed price per head. gros n, or two and a hall cents, The o: course, are thus controiied by end with the govern- ment, though the former aie matuy. Protest- ants and the royal iamily Roman Catholics, ly omplete is ine supervision of the yovernment, je: me add that the ors all receive a list 0 year—the same for ail aving had long oppo feeling in this matter, [ can assure y this arbi- trary regulation of public wot ed to-day ‘we Should see at once a grea! ani) syriking chanze in the religion of Germany. Were of this petty regulating principle wanting. I could adduce instances where it borders on tie absurd. HOW TOURISTS FARE. Still, defictant as Dresden is in political liberty and the broader civilization of the United States, tt is by no means on that account uniltted for the resi- dence of the pleasure-sceXing, artistic, literary or musical Aincricau. He must, however, resizn some Ininor tdea3 of personal independeace and that of tue impregnability of his housenold castic. This done—and not counting the chances of litigation with grasping landlords and letters of apartments— he may live in com‘ort at a moderate sum, and en- joy, beside, the benefit of @ wor!d-iamous gallery of Paintings, the finest music in Germany and good Schoois for his children, The American who can afford to be “ied? to a moderate exient need not hesitate to place himself under the political bondage of Dresden. Patience removeth mountains,” was the old pro to-day we substi- tute for the word “patience” “gold.” And even to those of lesser means life here stil combines charms with cheapness, notwith-tanding that prices are ieche 3 on the increase, This is owing to the continued influx of foreigners of aii nationalities. ing is going forward in th allied English juarter witi unparaliied activity, and rents take a jump every pear at Kaster, which is “moving time” in Dresden. IRELAND. The Reign of Terror Under the English Coer- cion BilieHow Mr. Gladstone's Measure Operates—Social and Political Condition of the Istand—Radical Revolutionism and Gene oral Alarm—Rep: of the Union and Self. Goverament, or Complete Independence, Gonwy, May 18, 1870, ‘The counties and parts of counties I mentioned to you in my last letter as having been proclaimed ander the first part of the Coercion bili, are now, It appears from the Dublin Gazette of last evening, brought within tne spectal provisions of the second poe Part. This ts carrying suthority alittle too far. 16 was the general belief here that, the Privy Counoil Would mot have enforced tue second part of the act until at toast tuey had seen how tho first part would have worked, and until they had re- ceived further provocation, But nothing, as far as I am aware, occurred in the meantime to induce them to set the whole machinery of coercton in operation, The first part, one cannot help thinking, was severe enough, and the government can plead no excuse for enforcing the second. When it was known that the more rigorous pro- visions of the act were uot to bo applied, it was the general opinton that the Privy Council had exercised a very wise discretion in withhulding their appiica- tion. It was thought, ana thought justly, that to place 80 large a portion of the country under the full operation of the act would not only be vexatious, but would also be oppressive to innocent, unovend- ing inhapitants, who would be made to suifer for the crimes of a few. ‘The original pua- ishment was im my opinion, quite propor- tionate to the evils complained of, aad tno Privy Council will flud ous before long that tiey were mistaken im carrying tietr powers farthor. Mad they contented themselves with enforcing the first part of the act they would have.shown a dispo- sition to seek out the really guilty for punishment But now the innocent and the guilty are certain to be confounded together. I do not, I agsure you, exaggerate-when | say that in the worst days of tory ascendancy, when the state of the couatry necded the strong arm of authority to enforce order more urgently than 1t does now, the government had not greater powers, nor did they use them more un- mercifully than at present, Itis the general opinion that the people in the proclaimed districts will be driven into revolt, and, indeed, when tt is considered that their Mberties, and L miglt almost , their lives are threatened, such a result ought nol to ex- cite surprise, PENAL PROVISIONS, Let us see how fur, in the proclaimed districts, the liberty of the subject is abrogated. All persons are required, before tne 31 of May, to leave at the police station neavost their residence every description of firearms tiey have im thelr poxsses- sion. Should any person be foolish enouga not to comply with this clause of the act he exposes him- self Wo the danger of belng imprtzoned for two years, Under the twenty-third section residents are liable to arcest; under the twenty-nfih, strangers wandering or sojourning in @ prociaimed district are sable to the same treatment. Kesideuts or non-residents found out of their houses after sunset are liable to be brought before a magistrate, and ug og Shey pre able to prove to the satisfaction of the Court thal they were out on lawful business, they can be sent, there and then, to jati for glx calendar monihs. Sup. posing, however, he 18 Able to give an account of iit ail, he 13 liable, nevertheless, to be committed to atl uitil the next Petty Sessions should the account fall to satisfy the presiding maglstrate, Strapgers are to be examiued as to their place of abode, their business, their mode of conveyance, whence they came, thelr motive for coming into the district and where they intend going next. In caso they do not satisfy the magisirate (and this is no easy matter sometimes), or are unable to produce sui. cleat security f 1 behavior, they may be com- mitted to jail until they tind bail or until (he magis- trate condescends to discharge them, DANGER AUHAD, Being a s‘ranger your oorrespordent ma; erhapa, before long be reduced to the disagreeable neces- cessity of renderiag aa account of his actioas before some ‘“Jusiice Shallow,” who may be impressed with the idea that he ia a “suspicious looking” per- son, though I am sure | need not say that he is one Of the most harmless men alive. Supposing, in seme district where I was enttiely unknown, I hap- pened to be arrestea by some officlous constabie, Who might (not a very improbable supposition) be a3 anxious for promotion a; he is unscrapuious in the means of obtaining tt, how could I procure auy per- son to gobail forme? I m'ght be unfortunate enough to tucur his worship’s displeasure, and then it would be a very difficult thing to satisiy him. He would then, of course, under the act, have the power to send me to prison, which would, in all probability, be a more serious thing than his provincial expe- rience might lead him to suppose. If, however, he were rash enough to act thus ihave no power Wiratever to seek redress against the mjustice done and the only thing I could do would be to pro- test against it. i even this privilege, small as it 1s, would in Ireland be denied me; for the press or the couatry, once so loud im its denunciation of oppression, is 80 effectuaily gagged that no news- paper dares to whisper a word against the injustice, AMERICAN TOURISTS. Ican hardly think, for all that, there ts a magts- trate in the country, let lis politics or his preyudices be what they may, who would have the temerity to pat the extraordinary powers with which he 1s armed tn force against me. Persons supposed to be Americans, or to be in any way connected with that country, need not, I tink, be in Sy. alarm about the Cvercion act. Their country, or if it be no more, their connection, is ceriain, in my opinion, to insure them a free passport wherever they wish to go. Tue name of America in this part of the world, and, in- deca, 1 may say in Great Britain generally, carries some Welght with it, and ha3, in these times par- ticularly, a very great significance for Bagiishme n, By the people of Ireland it ts revered, while by the English offictals it is feared and respected; but I can- not say that they love it. Under these circumstances, 1 am not in the slightest apprehension with regard to the coercive Measures now oppressing the peopie of Ireland. GOOD OUr OF EVIL. Ina proclaimed district also the public houses must be closed at sunset, under a penalty of filiy rns and three months’ imprisonment. Now, submit that this enactment is calculated to do serious injury to honest publicans, who, as every one in Ireland knows, are certain to sell more after sunset than they are be- fore it. In fact, the princi; traMe with these houses is carried on late in the evening or early at night, and any law that prevents them from throwing open their doors at such hours to the pub- llc will deprive them to a great extent of the means of subsistence. Could no distinction be made be- tween the good and the bad publicaus? Some, no doubt, may be bad, but there are others who are, be- yond all doubt, good, and ought these to be deprived of the means of making an houest livelihooay Wuy the thing 1s absurd, ff 1t be not worse. But there is No use in pointing out errors in the bill which every one sees, witch are likely to increase the spirit of disaffection without removing or suppressing those crunes of which all classes of the people complained. A BAD CASE AND THE WRONG KEMEDY. That something was necessary to put a stop to those crimes we are all ready to admit; had the first part of the act only been enforced” it would have done ail that was fequired, but the infatnation that bewitched the Privy Council in enforcing the whole can only be explained by the well-known anxiety of some members of that body to coerce the people and dr.ve them into rebellion. RADICAL REVOLUTIONISM. To have recourse to such a rigorous measure shows, | not heip thinking, aweakness on the part of g: ment, which the people are by no means slow in recognizing. The governinent are in posses- sion of some very start‘ing imtelligence relative to Fenianism and to the disafiect:d state of the country rally, and believing, asno Coubt they do, that ‘ordinary measures were necessary to preserve e ‘hey had recourse to the act, oppressive and ble as itis. The state of Ireland at present 1s, ldo not hestiate to say, far more clarming than a superficial observer of men and things would be led to suppose. Arms are, it is no secret, largely im- ported into the country. Men, until a week or two ago, openly deciared their sympathy and approval of Femanism, and one remarkable individual went so far as to say, from several platforms throughout the country, that he was six fegt two in treason felony. What was openly avowed before will now, with far greater bitterness and determination, be declared in secret. The Fenian organization, they say, is strong in Ireland, but_I am inclined to think that itis much stronger in England; for in thélatier place they have greater liberty for action and are far less likely to be detected in the execution of their designs. The English towns are la.ge, and they are populous; tie Irish towns are small and have a comparatively small population. It is casy to escape deiection m_ Englaad,’ but it is very dificulé m Ireland. Nevertheless, meetings are held here night a:ter night, ta the hotels, in the public houses, in private residences; men are learning their drill in the woods and ficids ot night; the laborers in the town and country are discussing over theit work the probability of a “rising’’ and the chances of success, ‘yhe consiavulary are by no means idle; on the con- trary, they are on the alert day and night; so busy are they, Indeed, that in one county a large number of them have sent in their resignation, The excuse they gave was that they were too heavily worked; bat it fs not, J think, unreasonable to su that other reasons, equally powertul, might have forced them to take that step. From their knowledge and experience they might have foreseen that troubled times were before them, and that the duties of their position would be at variance with their principles and patriotism. Whatever may be the cause or causes that led to their resignation may not be known, but it isthe general bellef that we here in Tre.and have stor jays before us, and that these days are not far off SELF-GOVERNMENT. It would, indeed, be difficult to say what is im store for us; but one thing is certain that the Irish people will not be satisfled with there less than a native Parliament, witha federal Union be- tween the two countries. ‘This is now the cry. The last act of George Henry Moore in Parliament was to give notice of his intention to open up the question of repeal; but by his premature and iden death the question, as far as Parliament is concerned, must iora time remain in abeyance. The Irish people will no longer be satisfied with half measures. They can thoroughly understand the intentions of England and the spirit in which she legisiates for them; but they do not wish to be legisiated for any longer by & ioreign Parliament, and they have made up their minds against it, it is strange, indeed, that in this latter half of the nineteenth century England should be driven to the necessity of governing Ireland by tyranny and coercion. Liberal Englishmen, as Join Stuart Mill, for exampie, see and are not slow to de- clare that this sort of management cannot last, and that if the Irish bone are dissatisfied with English rule it is the daty of England to give fp the task as @ hopeless one. Any other nation would have given up long since, but England has such faith in coercion Wat she considers it a panacea for all eviia, She will discover her error when it ts too late. NATIONAL BANK JOBS IN CONGRESS. Provisions of Twe Bills shat Have Beon Pushed Through the Senate, Giving Addi- tonal Subsidies to the National Banks Character of the Eforts New Being Made to Get Them Through the House~Kfrontery of National Bauk Oficors on the Floor of WasuInaron, May 31, 1870, Twoilis have passed the Senate this session that contain provisions for increasing the subsidy of the national banks. Both have been exposed by the HERALD and apparently killed, but they are now being resuscitated by the revivifying efforts of the old Treasury ring managers. Tuere ts so much money in them that the parties interested will not permit them to be shelved by a single exposure, When public indignation 1s excited to a certain point by an exposure of their enormities they quietly walt for it to subside ang then make another move. NATIONAL BANK JOB NO. 1, ; Farly in February last there was slipped through the Senate “an act to provide @ national currency of coin notes and to equalize the distribution of clrou- lating notes,” The tile of the bill gives no idea of ifs purpose, It should have been designated “an act to give the national banks $45,000,000 more mo- ney at the expense of the taxpayers.” The bill coveis seven printed pages, but the whole was epito- mized ip the HERALD of February 16, FAIR PROMISES. After this showing the job was smothered in the Committee on Banking and Ourrency and a report putin circukition that 1¢ would not be brought to light until divested of its objectionable features. If the promise so promptly put In circulation had been kept in good faith there surely would have been nothing of the bill left but its title. No one, how- ever, expected good laith from the National Bank Commitiee, aud no one need be surprised that the job has been couked up and reported to the House ‘in the shape of ‘bill 1,900, Lo Increase banking facill- ties and for other purposes’’—just $50,000,000 worse than when tt came from the Renate. it3 PRESENT SHAPB, The fires sixteen Mies of the bill now being manipulated through the House are word for word previsely the same as it came from the Senate, ex- cepting that the word “forty” has been struck out and “ninety” substituted, making the national bank additional subsidy $95,000,000, instead of $45,000,000, As it now stands, the bill contracts the curreucy about $24,000,000 and adds fully $4,725,000 per an- wm, in goid, to the taxpayers’ burden, There are fe eral gulis Incorporated in the last ten one that itwill give more cugren to thi another that 1% promotes Ys Beustption ot West; spévie payment gnd funds a portion of our national debt at lower raie of Interest. Its main and only object 18, however, to give tie national banks $96,000,000 more mouey. The question is, shall the bill ihe NATIONAL BANK JOB NO, The second pohoing for increasing the national bank subsidy is found in tho Senate Funding biil Uhat passed that body on the 1ith day of March and is now pending in the House Ways and Means com mittee. It provides in effect that the United States shali borrow frora certain national banks $35,700,772 4n currency; and that the United States shall pay the national banks for the use of thesame, avnually, the sum of $17,671,859 in gold, being at the rate of a trifle less than fifty per cent gold interest, anauaily, for a currency loan, or cohslderably over titty per cent if the interest 18 paid aiso in currenc; 1 wish to be exact in this matter, and will, there- fore, restate the scheme, 80 that there can be no shadow of doubt as to its character. The ninth sec- ton of the Funding bill provides that the national banks may have given them, in addition to the $300, 000,000 already received, the sum of $357,007,221, that being the sum of national greenback currency nee according to Mr. Secretary Boutwell’s last monthly debt statement, The terms of this mu- nificent gift are as foliow: The banks pay into the United States Treasury to secure circulation, cur- rency EA Ten per cent additional. (A$ Sa, $57,007,221 85,700,772 Total currency payment,.........+..+.++ $892, 707,993 The banks receive frcm the Treasury for Circulation, IN CUFFENCY.......++ +0004 $357,007, 221 Balance rematning in Treasury........ $36,700,772 Now as the banks are to pay lato the Treasury for bonds to secure circulation the sum of $392,707,993 in currency, and receive in return for circulation the sum Of $357,007,221 in currency, the amount remain- ing, $35,700,772, is the sum really loaned to the United States, and for which the national banks are to receive United Stutes bonds to the amount of $392,707,993, that are to draw $17,671,859 in gold interest annually from the taxpayers’ Treasury. THE WITNESS STAND. These national bank swindles are absolutely as- tounding, almost beyond belief. I wish to be very careful not to misrepresent the matter, and to prove tne truth of my statements | bring a number of dis- tinguished witnesses, among them one of the most thorough-golng lawyers in the Union. In his cele- brated national bank speech General B. F. Butler gave the following graphic account of the system:— Let me state the way a national bank got tteelf into exlst~ ence in New England. A company of men got together 430,060 in natioual bank villa aud went to the Regtster of the Treasury und bought United States five-twenty bonds at ‘They stepped into the oflice of the Comptrotier of the Uurrenoy and asked to. bo established as # national bank, and recelved from him $270,000 in currency, without {ateres' upon pledging these bonds of the United Sintes they just bought with their #30),000 of the same kind of money, ‘Now Iet us balance the books, and how does the account stand? Why the United Btates government receives 30,000 in national bank bills moro from the banks thau it gave them in bills; in other words, {t borrowed of the bank 30,000 in currency, for watch, in fact, it paid $18,000 a year in gold interest forthe use of this $30,000. Let’ me repeat. The difference between what tho United States received and paid Out was only #80,000, and for the use of that the government Pay on the Bouds doposited by the company, bought with the same kind of money, $13,000 a year interest in yold. And this is the aysten which ‘ts to be fastened forever on the country as ® means of furnishing a circulating medjumn. nly using round numbers for the purpose of iliustra- tion, if an actual and not a feigned occurrence, The speeches of Congressmen William 8. Holman, Thaddeus Stevens, 8. F. Cary, Wiliam D. Kelley, Demas Barnes and others contain similar illustra- Mons of the national bank system and 1ts workings, ‘The bank mentioned by General Butler vo tilustrate the system has six percent gold bonds for a basis, ‘The banks provided for ta the bills now pending in Congress will have four and a half per cent gold bouds for a basis. This accounts for a small ditie- rence in the profits of the two classes. UNITED STATES DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY NATIONAL BANKS. In the above I nave correctly described the opera- tions of the system as it affects the national banks. There are, however, a few of those cleemosynary in- sltuttons that are still further favored. I aliude to poe Aa States designaied depository national NK Ss Hon, John A. Peters, director of a national bank at Bangor, Me., undertook, by a bit of special plead. ing in the debate on the floor of tne House of Kepre- sentatives las: Saturday, to show that the depository banks were having a bard time. He sald:— As 8 director of a nationai bank situated in the city of Bat gor, a place containing 20,000 inbabitants (a bank whose alti ation 18 a very fair illustration of that o¢ the country ban! generally which nae depositories), 1 know it {s very doubtral whether the holding of these public funds on deposit is a farthing’ advantage to the banks. I know that the banks like to have them. "I know they like the name of being desig- nated as public depositorics, I know that the bank with which I have been associated, and other banks, have made very little use of these government funds, because they must be ready to pay over without notice the last farthing belong- ing to the government. THEORY VS. PRACTICE. The ‘alleged uncertainty of these deposits, as repre- sented by Mr. Director Peters, exists in theory only. ‘There has been a steady United States deposit in the designated depository national banks of not less than $15,000,000 on an average during every minute of the last four years. In May, 1867, the amount was 23,360,908, Same month of present year $11,202,647. ‘ake the present deposit and examine both sides of the transaction and see how it works. The desig- nated national banks have now deposited inthe United States Treasury, to secure government de- posits, $16,263,500 in gold bearing bonds, upon which they receive $975,810 per annum, in» gold, for interest. The United States has now deposited in tue designated national banks $11,202,647, upon which it receives no interest, Deduct the lesser from the greater and you find that in this deposit account there is a balance of $5,000,863, in currency, in favor of the designated national banks, and that they receive $976,81U inter- est annnally, in gold, from the taxpayers’ Treasury. “Stripped of all financial suoterfuge this United States deposit account stands, in round numbers, a8 follows:—The designated national banks deposit with the United States Treasurer $5,000,000 in cur- rency, and receive in return about $1,000,000 in gold annually on account of interest on deposiis—equal to thirty per cent. BNORMITIES OF THE SYSTEM. Such are some of the enormities of the system that is sought to be fastened upon the country unttl thrown off by the bloody revolution that such ne- farlous schemes are always sure to engender, Even the liberal space allotted me in the HERALD will scarcely enumerate them. The occasion that was thougat to call the national banks into existence has passed away, and they, too, should pass: away— into the grave with the many other abominations, which, aneng the ware, arose in monstrous de- formity, the birth of gree and speculation seeking to fatten upon the nation’s misfortunes. A Rake BiRD.—Among the curious incidents of the recent hail storm was the fall of a large sea bird, beaten down by the hailand wrecked in the garden of Mr. Andrew Atkin, at Moorestown, Bur- ington county, N.J. The bird’s wings measured fully fivo fect irom tip to tip, It was presented by Mr. Atkin to the Society of Natural Sciences in Mount Hoily. It is doubtless a species of the genus albatross, the larger species of which measure from six to tivelve feet from tip to to tip. The albatross is helpless, except on the wa- terand onthe wing. Its favorite haunts are the waters near the capes of South Africa and South America, and large flocks are seen near Behung Straits and Kamschatka, It is sometimes seen, though seldom, off the coasts of tho United States, ‘The forced landing of an albatross so near Philadel- the is another testimony to the wide reach and vio- nce of the storm of Sunday week. ‘The writer of this notice having caught the albatross with @ nook and line off Cape Hora, never expected to pee the landing of such a bird in New Jersey.—Piiladelphia Ledger, May 23. The Opening of the Season, Military and Otherwise. fi ecaeeemeanaaanaomaanerd The Beception of the Board of Visitors To-Day— The Colored Cadet Question. and How It ‘Will be Decided—The Graduates and ‘Who They Are—Death of 2 Voteran. 7 West Potnt, May 31, 1870, ‘The “season” at West Point will be opened to- morrow in the usual military way. Now, I use the word “military” advisedly, for everybody who hag ever been here knows perfectly well—and everbody who has never been here, but will be some time or another, will know—that tne “season” at this place depends a great deal upon tho “tactics’’ that are pursued bf the powers that be in command over the cadets, West Point cortainly has natural attrac- tions enough to make it a very degirable place for city people to go to in summer time, outside of all other considerations; but the fact te- mains, nevertheless, that the military folks and the military ways hereavouts add a great deal to ita loadsatone qualities, if I may so speak. People who come up here for fresh air and BRACING BREBZES AND MOUNTAIN SCENERY, and all that sort of thing, can prate as they please about them, but Idoubt very much if they would fina half the enjoyment here were Uncie Sam to remove the military academy to South arolina, and thus reverse the order of things; for, be it sald, sotto voce, events just now look as though South Carolina, in its blackest mood, were destined to outcrowd every particle of pale com- plexion on the post, I amfree to confess, however, that there are many persons who have plenty of money and know howto spend it who come up here long before the head and front of the military doings and misdoings at West Point thinks of get- ting himself into annual examination order; but they come for all that, with the determination to enjoy the military part of the season when it does come about with just as much gusto as do those who stay in town untli the very day when ‘the ex- amination ts suppoyed to begin, This belng the case, you can easily imagine what a flutter of excite- the official announcemént of the opening of the season creates among the visitors wio stow them. selves away in this vicinity for days’ ahead, as well as among those who only await th> promulgation to pack up thetr duds and leave tho city for Wos Point as fast as boat or car can carry them. Tnis year it 1s a repetition of the old story; the visitors are dropping into the hotcls one by one, and the orders issued to-day will have the same effect as those of previous years—that of in- creasing the crowd. These orders I did intend to give you in full; but Ido not think that the readers of the HERALD would be very much entertained by them, They always put me in mid of a weekly newspaper published in your city which mnéver changes anytning of its con- tents from year to ear but the = dates of its correspondence and head lines, I don’t know when the first exam! n order was issued; but as far as I can learn I believe it wag close on to seventy pg ago, and that order did not differ materially rom the order which was issued to-day for the in- formation of everybody, male and female, concerned. ‘rhe original order not have had that peculiar pee style about it that its successor of later days bristles with, but then the general form was the same, and so to all intents and qegers the old one, With slight variatt would be just as good now as any that has ever followed it; and I this with all due respect for the great and powerful men at the head of this institutton, who believe, in their heart of hearts, that West Point is a place where NEWSPAPER OORRESPONDENTS ARE ONLY TOLERATED through the extreme condegcension of those who wield the sword of command. The order of to-day, I may as well say, substantially states that the Board of Visitors will be received by the academ:c and military statf at half-past eleven A, M. to- morrow, and that after being ‘shown uround” fif- teen guns will be compelled to pulf smoke and make an awful noise tn their honor, and that after this exceedingly appropriate thing there will be areview of the cadets at the comfortable hour of five o’ctock, The order tn reference to the mode in which the ex- amination will be held is so technical that our readers may as Well be spared the pains of wading through it, THR COLORED CADETS. ‘You have heard a great deal lately about the highly colored addition that has been made to the military household of this place, and as far as | have read 1 ceriain papers I do not think that the whole trath has ever been told about the novelty. Since the newspapers first began to talk about the arrival of Howard, the colored cadet from Mississippi, at the post, he has been fortified in his resolve to try his luck before the faculty. by the advent of @ frend and brother from South Carolina, who goes by the extraordinary uncommon name of Smith, with the prefix “James W.”” I had along talk with both of the youngsters to-day, and I certainly learned a great deal that rather surprised me. In the first place Howard, who, being, as General Ames calls him, the Cy iro of his race at the Academy,” ought to be better posted than his companion as to the feeling which his arrival created, stated to me most emphatically that the stories retailed about bis being persecut and cruelly dealt with by the cadets are wholly destitute of truth. He says that he has been used as well as any other plepe, and that the only thing he has to complain of is that they don’t trouble themselves about him at all—that 1s to say, he Is left severely alone to himself, and there is no doub! about the fac: that the in‘roduction of a colored boy into the corps has created a WIDESPREAD FEELING OF INDIGNATION among the cadeis, but, like sensibie fellows that they are, they are making the best they can of wiat can’t helped, and that 13 by not interfering with the stranger im any way wha'- ever, They can bo made to arill with him, but they cannot be made to associate witn him, Howard 1s a rather clever boy for one who never weut Lo school before the latter part of '67, but from all I have seen of him I do not think he will be able to go through the severe intellectual examination which every “piebe’? hag to go through successfuliy be‘ore’ he can don the gray. I saw a specimen of his oy darren ina letter today, and 1b certainly 13 not mach to boast of outside of a pri- mary school, The letter was addressed to an estle mabe lady in this neighborhood, who has done him many acts of kindness siuce his arrival here, and in it he refers to the Now York 77 tune. And woutc think it? He actually spelled 7ribune with » “i” wherever he mentioned it. If the fol a Printing House Square can stand that I’m sure the falouity here will not. Seriously, the suddea infu- siou of this negro—let’s not mince words about it— element into the West.Point system may work o great deal that is bad: but! believe, from wnat L have seen and heard, that if people who are not prejudiced Jook at the thing in its proper light there iced be no tear of A NATIONAL CATASTROPHE from the innovation, But there is just this about it, Which is Weil understood here, and'that is that there is a certain sect in the count:y who will cry out “murder” no matier whetver the colored boys are deait with fairly or not. I Know they wili get fair play from the professors, and as far a3 I can nige iv is their intention to be as lenient with” them at the examination as they can be consisi- ently wito their duty; but will their decision, if | it should be given against the boys, “bo accepted by the advocaies of negro equality as ajustone? Ido not think it will, and the profes- sors Ieel the delicacy of thetr. position accordingly. ‘The indications are that if they detare the colored boys disqualified, according to all the tests usually made with white plebes, they will be denounced by certain powerful political cliques as having suc- cumbed to a “copperhead” sentiment, and if the boys are pronounced acceptable other almost equally powerful parties will say that they did not have the courage to face the radical music, It ig easy to be perceived, therefore, what a strait the faculty is in; but trom whatI know of them tcan safely assert that they will do their duty in the matter fear- lessly, without fear or favor. Then let the galled jade wince; the withers of West Point will be un- rung. “THE GRADUATES.” ‘The class which graduates this year is one of the largest ever examiued at the Academy. fitty-nine members, whereas the class of last year only numbered thirty-nine, when it donned ; the gray for the blue, and it has the proud honor, 1 betieve, of having had only one “killed” in the fight during its four years of mingled struggies and triumphs. This is certainly a distinction which a class may well be proud of; for @ class that can suc- cessfully weather the scholastic storms of a West Point life for four long years, and only jose one man by the wayside, although beset at every point by military strategies best known to professors, must, indeed, be @ class of no ordinary merit, The follow- ing are the names of the class:— State. N.Y. Indiana. | N.Y. IN. Ye it numbers | if 2. 2. 4 a. m. Es 21, B. 2. z a u Ohta, é intr. a. seusesrerssesassacees: 0. Ohio. THE OPENING HOP. The grand event of the opening of the season, th hop at Cozzens’ West Point Ho'ei—just a m.le below be post—takes place on Thursday night. All the cers of the Point will be on band, aud New York is to add from iis fashion and beauty to grace the occasion. The preparations for the event are being made on a scale of exceeding magnificence, and cf- forts have been put forth to induce the Speeniana- ent to allow the graduating ciass to participat> in the festivity. If they are successful the heartaches of the ladies after the ball wul only be equalled by the number of buttons that: cadet uniforms will be shorn of. DEATH OF A “VETERAN.” Everybody who hasever been to West Point will regret to learn of the death of old Mr, O'Maher, the father-in-law or General Gilmore. There 18 not a graduate of the Academy living who did not at some time when ne Was a caret xoow. the good old man, who always 1 word ant pleasant sinllé for everyody a a RE ore Aaottact wich hi He fiad wo? his way to the hearts of every Ger and soldier WhO ever was on the Point since enetal Thayer first brougit him here, and his death is mourned with unfe'gned sorrow. The fol- lowilpg order was read-to-day on parade concerning the sad event:— 2 ‘SPROIAL ORDER-—NO, 56, HEADQUARTERS UNIVED STALKS MILILARY ACADEMY, } Wret Porn’, N.Y. 1, 1870. With s&dnoss the Superintendent ' anno to the oitic ra, S fe \d cadets at the Mili Aca tet the death oi clerk, Hé died Tast evening at ¥ t p'clogk. oh, Toe ying at the exp!- ars of seivice he Mali- uates will long enerizh the ei Born on the 1th of November, ration of fifty-three consecutive memory of She whore. greet Ligdnoes of heart ‘anv wos memo! 8 ind Urbanity and poiished manner have endeared him to all with whom he has becn associated, By his atrigt mtegrity In the varied responatbiltiies of his station, an jt) ischarge of every duty rtainin, a Position, and his lifelong ‘unsullied honor, Be ‘bas lot ‘an example most worthy of imitation. ‘The funeral ‘wil take place from his Inte realdence to- at — o'clock in the —, at which all offl- corps of cavteis and his friends are respectfully ta- mmand o: tend By oomrevel Brigadier General PITCHER. Epwanp 0, Boxnton, Brovet sajor and Adjutant, DESPERATE ROBBERY. A Diamond Broker Gagsed, Chloroformed and Robbed in the St. Nicholas Hotel. The latest achievement of crime is also one of the most daring and adroit upon record, and it was re- served for two mterlopers in the criminal circles of this city to achieve this bad eminence. A man dark ta complexion, with a dark mustache and goatee, evidently an Italan in adver. sity, called on Joseph E. Isaacs, diamond broker, at No. 57 East Thirteenth street, Tuesday afternoon, saying that he was stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel, where he desired Mr. Isaacs to call and examine some diamonds and jewelry which he had just brought from Cuba and desired to sell, at the game time giving him a card bearing the inscrip- tion ‘Carlo de Dejalis.”’” Mr. Isaacs promised to comply, and according to his agreement calied at the hotel at ten o'clock yesterday morning, where, pre senting the card which had been given him at the ofilce, he was shown up to room No, 450, on the fifth floor, ‘There he found his acquaintance of the previous day awaiting him. viting him to be seated Dejalis left the rooin, but iin- mediately returned .with a carpet bag, which he said contained the jewelry, and pretended he could not open it, saying he had tie wrong key. Alter a time he proposed that he should cull on Isaacs at his ottice at cleven o’clock; but that speculator objected, sayimg that as he bad taken the trouble to come to the tel would rather examine the articles there. Dejalis thereupon left the room, us he sai, to get another key, but almost instautly returned with « inan in- stead ofa key. Isaacs for the first time bocame 8: picious of his surroundings and en-leavoied to leave the room, but the second man barred his passage with a drawn dagge: which he threatened to plunge into his heart if he mace the least outcry. On the instant Dejails tripped him to the floor, at the seme time pullins open his mouth and stuit- i it with @ towel saturated with chio- reform. Isaacs instantly became unconscious, when the two desperadocs. bound himj hand_ and foot, and, taking from him $200 in monoy end a dia- mond ring, but, strangely enough, leaving a diamond bro # diamond scarf pin, and his watch aud chain, took their departure. They locked the door behind them and, abandouing ther baggage,, which proved to be only a carpet bag, contaiuing noting of value, left the hotel. Afier alapse of avout tweaty minutes, as it subse- quently proved, Isaacs :ecovered consciousness, and finding himse f'in a helpless plight, yelled lusiily for assistance, which finaliy came to bim in the person of the carpenier of the house, who happened to be Ou the floor examiming the Jocks, The carpenter, finding the door of 450 fastened, burst 1 open and re‘eased Isaacs from bondage, The outrage beng noised abroad through the ho:el, tb was found that Dejalis had arrived Monday atternoon, with one Josef Chevato both registering from Philadelphia, and as- sigue to Nos. 449 and 450 re: tively. They were evidently foreigners, and were supposed by the clerk to heve just landed srom the steamer, and were sup- posed by their accent and appearan.e to be Italsan: They were seomingly strangers tn the city, and are certainly unkgown to our aves. ‘The afar being reported’ to Captain Kelxo, that officer startcd out u's best detectives on the hunt Jor the des Re TRE 8: The Increased Wharfage Raies to be Rew sisted=A Com| ated Question of P.lctage— A New Quorantine Grievance. The regular monthly meeting of the Executive Commitiee of the Shipowners’ Association of the Stare of New York was held at the rooms in Pine street yesterday afternoon, Edward Hincken, president, in the chair, Tue president stated that the ob ject of the meeting was to adopt measures in order to defext the attempts made by wharf owners in Jersey City, Hoboken and Hunter's Point to collect increased rates of wharfage under the new law enacted during the recent session of the Legislature of the State of New York. The Jaw in question applylog only :o New York and Brooklyn, Mr. G. A. Breit moved that shipowners beinstrucied to refuse payment of all such wharfage bills, the saine not being in accordance with tho laws of the State of New Jersey. This motien was uuanunonsly carried. The President next called the attention of the members present to a case of pilotage tn refer. ence toa vessel that arrived of Sandy Hook re- cenily st night. The rocket signals were fired anda United States ptlot was the first to board. The State pilot afterwards made a ciaim for fees, Mr. Brett rose and moved (hat the case be defended, on the part of the ship, at the expense of the Shipowners’ Association, li proceeied with. Motion carried, It was then moved that the meeting adjoura, there being no other business to transact, Before leaving, however, a member mentioned that a report was current in the city that an exclusive privilege had been granted to a company for wansacting all business™in reference to lighter- age, coopering, &c., at the Quarantine. Said com- Pe eee stated to have a capital of $300,000 sub- scribed, and eiforis were now being made to retail the varlous privileges included in the charter to private fudividuais, Several members acknowl- edged having heard the report, but no authentic information respecting the formation of the com- pany could be gleaned, The meeting tlicn dd- | Journed, A NEWARK TURKE ATTEMPTS SUICIDE. On Tuesday night, about ton o’clock, a doctor was sent for to attend a Mr. Turke, engaged in the manu- facture of la*ies’ saichels, &c., at No, 869 Broad street, near William, Newark, who, it was given out, had met with a serious accident. According to Mr. Tarke, he fell on a pair of shears and cut his throat badly. Others are solid in the opinion that it was a razor which inflicted the wound, and that its being an accident was “allin my eye, Betty Martin.” In lis business and other matters Mr, Turke has had a gees doal of trouble lately, and nothing can induce hose conversant with thé. man and the facts to be- lieve other than that Turke tried to put a his existence, but repented ere he had got comma, Bh Annee, Trouble’ in the Wostorn Part of Puorto Principe. Families Returning to the City—Insurgent Successes in the Eastern Department—No gotiations for the Sale - ‘of the Island. HAVANA, May 25, 1870, Some dificulty has occurred in the western pars oF the twland, in that rich aud productive d.strict kaown as the Vuelto Abajo. From Conso'acion deb Sur a correspondent of one of the city papers writes | that at hall-past ten o'clock on the night of the 20th | the trumpets or the artillery, cavatry and infantry were heard throughout the place, calling the various regiments of voluntcers to the plasa, Here detuils were made froin each branch of the ser- vice, and at early morn of the 2lst the ferce marched intu the country. ‘The writer states that he cannot be more expitctt at present, but promises something Move as 8900 a8 Matters are developed. The affair has assed some apeculation, and rumors of @ Latid- lug in ine Western Deparimeat are current. From Puerio Princlpe dates are to the 224. Opera- tons'contizue with no varieiy of result, ‘The estate } Rioseco, belonging to Corne io, Poero, had beon-vis- 1ed by ove of the columns and found entirely aban- | doned, .7'wo hogsheads of sugar, some sale and otuer supplies were discovered and destroyed, Be- | youd (his novhing of huportance was socomplished, Pooro is among those Whom the Captain General is most auxtous should present themselves, as he is ct great tafvence, Presentados state that Povo had beea parated from bis party, wh.ch is One Of the langost, and bis Whereabouis is not known, The Spanish Golonel Chinchillo had been wounded and compelled to tun over bis command, 1t was stated at one time that Beatviiliers, the insurgent oulef of artil- lery, had been tited by court martiai and xentenced tw be shot, owing to the capture of the two pieces of artillery by the column wader Montaner. 1t turned out to be a canard, desigued to create tie impression that the capture was import ant, Sven persons were in the c.pliila and about to be shot, Amvng the presentuds are mentioned some of the more prominent fauulics of Puerto Prin- cipe, a3 the Guzmans, Varonas, Sanchez Recto, that Oi Manuel Arteg, Borrero anu of Franc:sco Quesa ia; also the sister of Bem eva. Tiis‘ts regarded as of great importance, Dates from Manzanillo to the 22d report the con- tinued ‘activity of the lsurgents in that locality. Som annie wish ary remains puta to es vo a considerable (9 ¢» A conyoy Ral pis y latteé plac’, and on its arrival thd peo) Warne tong in large numbers to meet it, and (ho military com- Mandants aidressed the troops. Buyt recently tis road Wis open to civiians, wio were passing to and fro without the — sligntost mererence, The Volentario gt the 22d mentions that @ sinall body of voluntéers stationed at the eacampmeni of Congo, not far from the cliy, Wa) attacked oa the moruiig of the 16th by a much 81 i Mivet on sore to Lee One a thew ‘ pumber, Miernel Cade, a oltjzen of Manzanili9, was Biiied. ‘Soon ariek thet bi Lehta SapiurSd at shot @ Spaniard named Ficénte Krias. A force was sent from the ctiy m pursuli, and it was found ner ed destroyed some property and Killed several Tiey even taused several deaths, as is cian ainong them Chief Perez and a North Americal Other cncouniers are reported. A Wowan who wi captured states that Louis Marcano had died from @ Wound in the abdomen. Your correspondent at Santiago de Cuba, under date of the 18th, says:—*‘A chaige has tak’n place in the command of the forces operating mm §nis juts. diction. Brigadicr D. Carlos Deteure has been re- lieved, aud on the eveniug of the 14th left for Havaua, At the same time went Carlos Gonzales Boei, chief of the contra guertiia ‘orce, whose arrest I mentioned in iny His departure affords great satis‘action to peaceably <lisposed poop e, as constant fears of an outbreak onthe part of the Catalans were eutertuined. Tie Baulera Espatiot oe the fact of his arrest, and says he goes to nzanillo to join his regiment in that jurisdietion. It seaks of hiin as “one of the chtets who best com- prehend the style of wartate in which we are en- gaged and best system of peiseculing tne enemy.” As Boet always pandered to the ferocious Catalan element here, which considers that the best means of suppressing the insurrections by Killing every Cubau, whether innoceut or guilty, the ideas of tue journal mentioned can be understuod. We have through official sources reports of the con- tinued pursuit of the insurgents, but no de:aiis of any interest are furnished us. Supplies are being constantly seni to the feld and, wounded men are continually brought in here, inuicuting that fighting 1s Still-golng on, Tae Cabans here, without naming the locality or furnishing any details, state thata fut of considera. ble importance has trken placein the Kastern pe- Poriment, in which the Spaniards were worsted with much loss. It is positively stated here that negotiations are going on between Spain aud the United States for tie sale Of this island, and the energetic protests against it made by the journals here would seem to indi- cate some truth in tac statement, There ‘are rumors of the landing of an expedition on the north coast, in the vicinity of Morou. For some reason the authorities of late have ro- fused permission for hewspapers to come on shoie, Not even the oidinary files to the consignees of the ‘respective lines or to the war vesse!s in the harbor are allowed tobe sent off. In this they are doubt- less actuated by the same feeling which prompts the Peck to hide his bead in tie sands of nis native jeserts, FINE ARTS. The Paintings at Leeds’ Art Galleries. The entire collection of Mr. A. D’fuyvetter, of Antwerp, 1s now on free exhibition at the Leeds’ Art Galleries, and is to be sold without reserve on Thurs day and Friday evenings, June 2 and 3, It contains @ large number of patntings, among which are several of unquestioned merit. No. 307, “The Battle of Walcheren,” is a work we have already noticed atsome length, and possesses, besides its historic interest, an artistic value as being from the hands of @ prominen: academician of Rotierdam. Two works of Mr. A. Wust, of this city and Antwerp, dre re- markabie for their breadth of painting and grand con- ception; both are views of Norwegian waterfalls and most powerfully and vividly represented. Through out there is @nobie harmony of color and masterly action. One, Lal chaptthnes 2 @ fall as seen by the rising moon, is peculiarly fall of characteristic grace and beauty. Nos, 66 and 57, “The Harbors of Nantes and. Fécamp,” by Kuwasseg, fils, of Brussels, are very fresh in coior and trathfal im detail. An ex- cellent Koek Koek is painted with his usual care and delicacy, No, 73, ‘An interior,” by Ropbe, of Brus- sel: Tae ep ani goats are painted tn his best manner, and are both spirited and lielike, Lunch,” Speltdeorn, is acharming piece of vivid and delicate, with considerable life an character. Rosenverg’s Niagara is a strong tran- seript of a section of the American Fall. No, 276, by Kuwasseg, fils, of Pais, is a charming reminis- cence of the Harbor of Palermo, and with its com- panton, the ‘Harbor of Brittany,’ is an excellent patr of paintings, fresh and vivid in color, and well handled and truthiul, Among tne landscapes is a charming Swiss view, very Ifelike, and with a very felicitous disposition of light and shade, Tue genre pictures, as @ rule, are far above tae ordinary, as, jadeed, is true of the collection as agwhole. PICTURE SALE AT CLINTON HALL GALLERY. An excellent coliection of paintings, with a few added to close consignments, some choice water colors and an album of illustrated autograph verses, is at present on exhibition at the Cliuton Hall Art Rooms. Prominent among the paintings may be notuced a large work, “The Two Marys at the Sepul- chre,’? which has considerable merit as a feeling and vigorous rendering of the scene the. artist has un- dertaken to represent. ‘The peuttent jalene ts leaning agaiust the cold stone in the early dawn of that first greut Easter day, and ig a figure pariicolarly iuil of expression and character, No. 41 “The Surprise,” by arte ner, isa pretty conceit of the artist. A Swiss iunter is niding behind a fence, over which his lady-love, whom he sees approaching, will be obliged to The expression in both figures is good, and the scape 18 well treated. No. 47, “Ave Maria,” by Spliaway, represenis a Deautiul scene in Swit- zeriand, single figure kneels a little rustic shrine by the le, } bably in obedience to the souna of a distant chapel bell. ‘The “Viola Player” of Fannelet is a well drawn figure, with a good deal of expression. “In the Woous,” by J. G. Brown, is & charm lvttie picture, with much humor and _vivacit i be Godiva,” by the late Mr. EB, °Leutze, with the'subject of which every one must be familar, from Mr. Tennyson’s charming little poem, has been subjected to considerable criticism, and not without reason. It has, however, apart even from this, a ce tain value as age“ @ very highly iinished picture from the hands one who, known and justly honored for his talent, will work no more, A very excellent little cabinet work 1s from Mr. Bierstadt, and a wide departure from. his later style. It 18 a very ine Sate finished and charming little work. An excelient little Jaudscape is by Casilaer. Several of the water. colors are very broad, and painted with @onsiderabie force. ‘The most mteresing feature of the collection is a work remarkable alike for its variety and its exvel- lence, “The Album of Illustrated Autograph Verzes.’” ‘The poems for tie foe art are the compositions of Bryant, Longfeliow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, Tackerman, and among the names of the artists who have con.ributed the illustrations are Church, Hart, Darley, Kensett, Shattuck and Eastman Johnson. It seems quite superfiuous to dwell on the value of this book, and scarcely seems too much to that such a work rarely has been or ever wili be coilected, and certainly would not be likely to be offered to the pub- lic, All the poems are autograph, and the iliustras tions are doubly valuable as works of prominent artisis and as exponents of the thoughts of promi- nent poets, The whole collection will pe sold at color, di Sera tg | auction at the Clinton Hall Art Galleries, Saturday yond a | evening, Jane 4, at half-past seven o'clock, be eases: Leavitt, Strebelat & Uo. AwoWioueers.