The New York Herald Newspaper, June 29, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HE BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, pra beilatae? eas < Volume XXXVI. Serer AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corer 30th st.—Perform- f|@uces every afternoon and evening—HUMPTY Dumpty. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brosdway and Uh street. — Jur Lone Stake. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tue DzaMa oF Tar POLLREN BAWN. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—PocauonTas—Inisn DvTLaAw—Jaok Sraver. GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Froadway.-Tne Srerers oF Wew York. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— 1008, DELuont OLYMPIC THEATRE. Bi KATHLEEN MAVOULNEEN. way.—THr DRAMA OF nee at 2, ‘BOOTH'S THEATRE, 2d st, between Sth and 6th avs.— ‘Tye Man 0° Arnir. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— COLLEEN Bawn. Matinee at 2. eas FRANCISCO RAuL, 58 Broadway.—Tne Crrr or ABIB. CENTRAL PARK GABDEN.—Tumopore THouas’ ScMues Nients’ Conogrrs. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, June 29, 1871. = CONTENTS OF TO-DAYS HERALD. Pace, wae ae Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—New Hampshire Polltics: The Democracy E3 tricate Themselves from a Bad Snarl; ct ive Way to Secure a Majority in the 5 Republican Fears and Tribulations. Sachusetts Politics Again: A Departure” of tne Republican Party Maine Pemocracy—Yachting: The Broo! Yacht Club Regatta—News from ton—Utah Affairs—The Indians, 4=Trochu: The History o1 the Revolution of the 4th of September; General Trochu’s Defence Before the National Assembly—Tie Massacre of the Priests in La Roquette Prison—French Republican Addresses—Dombrowski: | The Bravest, Best and Most Honest Man of the Commune; How He Died; His Last Moments— Foreign Miscellaneous Items, 6—The Horse Plague: Danger to Men and Ant- mals: A Veterinarian’s Opinion of St—Mon- mouth Park: List of the Race Horses Engaged to Run at te First Summer Meeting, Com- mencing July 4 and Continuing Five Days— ‘The Trotting at Mystic Park Yesterday— Aquatics—The National Game—Cricket— Lacrosse—More Smallpox in Jersey—An In- surance Agent Missing—Washed Ashore—An en Kerosene orror—New York City News. 6—Editorials:—Leading Article, “The Mysterious Ku Kiux—A Very Muddled Question’’—Per- sonal Intelligence—Weather Report—New Jer- sey Eaitors at Cape Mav—The Symons Benefit at the Olympic—Amusement Announcements, Y—The Vorea—Severe Conflict Between Our Forces and the Coreans—The Situation im Fratice— England: Ratification of the Treaty of Was! ington—The Canadian Fisheries—Italy, Spain— The Suez Canal— shipping Intelligen¢e—Busi- ness Notices. S—The Putnam County Murder: Eawin Reid ‘Not Guilty” of Killing the Irish Laborer—The Nor- walk Bank Robbery—Proceedings in the Courts—improve the Breed—ihe Fourth of Jaly in Brookly: he Coal Sales Yesterday— Brooklyn War Veterans’ Receptton—Army and Naval Intelligence—Senator Hamiin and Ex- Commissioner Sargent—Littie Rhody’s Roarer: Senator Sprague \ isits the ident—Kowdy- ism Kampani in Newark—Wire Versus Hen)| Veto from the Kings County Supervisor- Winkle Festivai—the Irving Associa Tweed Panner Ralsing—Saie of a Connecticut Village. ®—In Memoriam: A Superb Monument to General Delevan, the Revolutionary Hero of West- chester—Attemptei Burgiary in the Twenty- second Ward—<Accident to Judge McGuire— t- n Washiug- Financial and Commercial Reports—Domestic | Markets—The Rock Isiand Rat) —-Boara of Health—Board of Education—Marriages and Deaths— Advertisements. 10—Our Coileges: Commencement Day at Columbia, St. John’s, Harvard, Princeton and Other Institutions; Tne Marquis of Ripon Made an LL. D.; Magaificent Gift to Princeton by a 2 f New York City; Commencements to Closmg Scenes of 11—Aavertisements. 12—Advertisewe: Tae Monument To GENERAL DELAVAN was dedicated at Tarrytown yesterday, with appropriate ceremonies, Tne PresipeNt has returned to Washing- ton for a day or two to catch up the ‘‘ravelled threads” of administration. BovurwEtt AND PLEAsoNTON have already commenced arguing the rights and wrongs of their little difference before the President. While the quarrel is going on we hope the New York Central won’t ran away with the scrip tax bone, Tue Democrats IN THRE New Hampsnme Leatstature have a very slim working ma- jority, and, not understanding Mr. Tweed’s more peaceable tactics they are endeavoring to secure an effective majority by ousting re- publicans on various pretences. The repub- licans make a bold stand, and threaten to break up the Logislature by resigaing io a body, Aut Weit.—That fool-hardy adventure from New York across the Atlantic, in that little cockleshell of a ship the City of Ragusa at last accounts was ali right and nearly over. The ship (whose officers, crew and passenger list are two men and a dog) was spoken on Monday last one hundred and thirty-four miles from Cape Clear, heading for ‘Cowes anda market.” Who comes next? Come, Boys, aNp Wetcoms.—The Sydney (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia) News says there is a large fleet of heavy vessels at the International pier awaiting their turn to load coal (bituminous) for New York,” and that “the shipments at the piers now average six hundred tons per day.” This looks like busi- ness, and like a good move to bring the Penn- sylvania anthracite monopolists to their senses, Tue Fisuenres Qvestions.—Minister Thorn- ton assures the American government that there need be no anxiety among American fishermen in regard to any disturbance by British officials in the Canadian fishing grounds. There will be no trouble whatever, provided the Americans obey all the require- ments of the old treaty, the headland con- struction being surrendered. The new treaty will soon take effect, and there will be no more trouble; but until then, says the Min- ister, be patient and obey the laws, Tae MuinisreriaL Cxists in Spain is all over, 80 says our cable despatch from Madrid. The whole difficulty seems to have been origi mated by Minister Moret, who proved ob- stinate on some pet financial measure of his own, while the Cortes was equally resolute in rejecting it, The difficulty has now been smoothed over by mutual concessions, The threatened resignation of the Ministry caused no end of troubles to the young King, who shrinks from the possibility of losing his present trusty advisers, coosidering the many @ungere—conspiracies already hatched or in ite urse of hatching—by which he is ear- buiaied NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1871—TRIPLE SHEET. ERALD |™ mreeing He Klux-A Very Mud- Question, Talk of the mystery and contradictions about who Junius was, or of any other un- solved matter that has long occupied the at- tention of the world—why, there never was a more muddled question than that concerning the Ku Klux. The conflicting statements as to the existence or non-existence of this mys- terious body or myth confuse everybody. One day we hear of frightful deeds com- mitted by it, and the next the whole story is exploded. Ono man swears the secret Klan covers the whole South and that no loyal person is safe; and this man is regarded as a respectable, truthful citizen. Another, equally respectable, and apparently as reliable, swears the contrary, and says the Southern States are as peaceable and law-abiding as the Northern. Even the radical newspapers of the North differ on the subject, and some of them hold views one day that they do not another. The evidence taken by the Congressional Ku Klux Investigating Committee is of the same con- flicting character, and we have no doubt the majority and minority reports of that com- mittee will be just as conflicting. Tho difficulty of getting anything reliable about the Ku Klux lies in the political condi- tion of the South and the country generally and in the schemes of politicians, For example, our despatches from Washington, published yesterday, represent that a memorial had been sent to the President from sixty-three persons in Fayette county, Alabama, stating that the condition of affairs in that section was such as “to render the lives of loyal citizens wholly insecure,” that murders by the Ku Klux were of common occurrence, and that the civil au- thorities have been overawed and are utterly powerless to execute the laws. We learn at the same time that General Forrest, in his exami- nation by the Congressional Committee, states that if ever the Ku Klux organization existed in Tennessee it certainly does not exist now. “Everything,” he said, ‘‘is as peaceful there as in any other State, and the people are law- abiding and deprecate disturbances as much as those living at the North.” Then we learn by atelegraphic despatch that a number of citi- zens of Mississippi are on trial before the United States Court at Oxford, charged with being members of Ku Klux organizations. Now, it is evident that all or most of the conflicting statements about the Ku Klux are either manufactured or colored by political partisans and for a political object. Our special correspondents, who have been inves- tigating the matter in every part of the South, show that. Even the correspondents of the heavy and light radical organs of this city showed that the reports of Ku Klux organiza- tions and depredations were greatly exagge- rated, at the same time that these papers were endeavoring, editorially, to frighten the country with the spectre of Ku Klux outrages. We have no doubt that our correspondent, in his letter from Georgia which was published yesterday, gives the clue to most of the monstrous things reported of the Ku Klux. He found a verita- ble Ku Klux, one who confessed to having been a member of an organization of ten young mea. Their object was to frighten the negroes, partly for fun and partly to scare them from the Loyal League meetings. Reprehensible as this was no actual violence, it appears, was done to the negroes. They were simply frightened. ‘The darkies, you know,” sald this six-foot-four Ku Klux, “are very superstilious, and, firing at us so ofien and never bringing down any game, they grew more and more terrified at the tall white apparitions that would suddenly confront them in the dark woods. You see I am very tall myself; well, two of us, with white sheeis thrown over us, would get on the side of the road, and getting one on the shoulders of the other squat as low down as possible. Then when the negroes came along we would slowly rise up, getting taller and taller, until the negroes would swear we were Ku Klux forty feet high.” In this simple and amus- ing description of the tricks of a few reckless young Southerners, acting upon the well-known superstitious fears of the negroes, we have the secret of nine-tenths of the re- ported outrages and terrors of the Ku Klux; and the radicals, particularly those of the Southern carpet-bag stripe, are raising out of these a spectre twice forty feet high to scare the conservative people of the North and for political purposes. The South is not different from other countries. There is there as elsewhere— yes, as in the North—a rowdy and ignorant class of society; but the whole community, or the largest portion of it, should not be put under the ban for the misdeeds of a few. We have a dangerous class in New York; but shali the bulk of our respectable citizens be condemned for the crimes of the bad—for a class that is common in all communities? There is a Ku Klux— meaning by that the rowdy and knavish element—in every part of the Norib, and even in Paritanical New England. This class existed in the South before the war, though not so numerous then as now, and, perhaps, there were fewer of that class then in the South than in the North in proporiion to the population. Throughout certain sections of the Southern States, particularly in the comparatively barren and mineral region of Middle and Upper North Carolina, South Caro- lina, Georgia, Eastern Tennessee and a por- tion of Northern Alabama, there was and is a poor, uneducated and rowdy class of white people. A more miserable set than these it would be hard to find in a civilized country. In Georgia, about the regions of Lincola county and Dahlonega, these people were called ‘“‘crackers,” indicating their hard nature. No people hada greater hatred for the negroes, and they chiefly have been guilty of the outrages attributed tothe Ku Klux. But the negroes themselves have committed many of the crimes charged to the Ku Klux. In fact, it has suited the radical politicians to attribute the ordinary crimes in society, such as we have daily among ourselves, to the mysterious Klan and political combina- tions. No doubt the South is in a more disor- ganized state than before the war. It would be strange if it were not so. Indeed, look- ing at the utter disruption of the social abd domestic life of the Southeraers, at the dreadful ordeal they have passed through, at the crushing disabilities they suffer. and at the elevation of their own slaves—brutal and ignorant negroes—as well as a host of corrupt carpet-baggers, to be their political masters, can we wonder that some disorders exist? The wonder is that so few exist, and this is the best evidence that the mass of the Southern people are law-abiding. When a brave and high-spirited people submit so well to and make the best of their humiliating situation we have the best guarantee of their future good conduct and of peace. Let us be just and magnanimous, Let us have some con- sideration for the people of our own race and blood, and not crush them beneath the ignor- ant and semi-barbarous negroes and the car- pet-bag scum of the North. We have the testimony of General Sherman and of many other superior men who -have been over the South that the pretended Ku Klux outrages are greatly exaggerated and that the South- erners want to live in peace and maintain order, Then look at the surprising industry of the South—at the valuable cotton crop and other productions since the war raised under the most trying disadvantages. This alone shows the practical, industrious and high char- acter of the people. If the government would cease its efforts to make the South a political arena: for party purposes, would proclaim universal amnesty and endeavor to give the control of affairs to the intelligent whites, who have the largest interest in their country, we should soon hear no more of the Ku Klux. The Southerners would forget the enmities of the war, and the harmony and union of the republic would be restored in fact as well as in name. If General Grant would use his power to this end he might make a greater name and become more popular than by any annexation schemes, treaties with foreign na- tions or national financial experiments. The people everywhere—North, South, East and West—would regard the complete restoration and harmony of the Union as the greatest boon. It is inthe power of the President to bring that about, Will he doit? or will he drift along as the mere tool of the bitter fac- tion which keeps the country disorganized and gives life to whatever there is of the Ku Klux in the South ? The New French Loau—Its Wonderful Success. We learn by cable telegram that the new French loan has been covered and the sub- scription lists closed. Not only was the whole amount required raised, but facts go to prove that had it been double the amount it would have been as easily obtained. The French people have responded grandly to the call of their country. Even the peasants and servants, and those who are dependent on their daily toil for a living, have come forward with their hard-earned savings and placed them at the disposal of the nation. Acts such as these reflect the patriotism of a people far more than the noisy bellowings of demagogues in town meetings. Severe as have been the disasters of the French nation, and humiliated as it has been, the people have, by this dis- play of their patriotism, shown a disposition to repair the former, and, in a prosperous future, to drown the recollections of the latter. The prompt manner in which all classes came forward proves that the French people have every confidence in the future of their country. A people so thoroughly im- bued with a spirit of determination and pairiotism will not hesitate to make any sacrifice to redeem their country from the position to which she has fallen, owing to the disasters and losses in the war with Germany, and, later still, in her struggles with the wretches who fanned the revolutionary flame in Paris into a blaze which threatened the capital with annihilation. Give the French masses—and by this we mean the whole na- tion, not the workmen of the cities and the large towns, but the whole population of France—a government which will secure to them peace and the pursuit of happiness in honest, industrious employment, and they will prove themselves capable of regenerating their country by developing her vast resources, cul- tivating her untilled fields and _ setting in motion the whole machinery of in- dustry throughout the length and breadth of the land. This is the mean- ing of the outflowing of the savings of the people to mect the demands of the nation. It displays a love of country which redeems many defects of national char- acter. While other nations are compelled to go abroad and depend on foreign countries for the necessary moneys to meet national de- mands France comes forward to help France. We see in this manifestation the first step toward the regeneration of a nation which, after a disastrous foreign war, had to encoun- ter domestic troubles which at oae time threatened to engulf it in general ruin. A Dispctep Yacut Race.—The owner of the yacht Columbia, Mr. Frank Osgood, claims thatthe yacht Madeleine has been wrongfully awarded the prizes in the regatta of the Brookiya Yacht Club on Tuesday last. He asserts that there bas been a gross error in timing the arrival of the two vessels at the home stakeboat, and asks that the same be corrected and the award fairly made. No doubt the protest of Mr. Osgood will receive proper attention, and if it is discovered that the grounds therefor are sufficient his claim will be allowed. Itisa pity that mistakes of this kind should ever occur when they are 80 easily avoided. They tend to mar the pleasures of the race; they sometimes beget ill feeling and often cause unpleasantness that should never exist. We hope the present little difficulty will soon be cleared up to the satisfaction of all concerned, An Important Famiry Meetina will be that of the Crown Prince of Germany and wife (the Princess Victoria of England) with the British Queen and royal family, arranged to come off in England in the coming autumn, Perhaps Prince Bismarck has found it expe- dient to send over to England ‘‘Our Fritz” and his amiable wife and the children in order to convince Her Majesty's Cabinet and people that no such filibustering programme as that suggested in the fanciful ‘Battle of Dorking” is entertained at Berlin. A Loypon Pertopi0a1 claims that the artil- lery general who is to have his head smashed by a cannon ball in the ‘‘Battle of Dorking” in 1875 is Sir Harry Tombs, As that sketch is considered fatally prophetic we ought to hear an unhappy wail from Tombs, Au American Victory in the Corea. Our special and other despatches from Lon- don and Washington announce a decided victory by our naval forces in the Corea. As the Coreans failed to apologize for their recent treacherous attack on our boats the American forces were ordered to chastise them. On the 10th inst. a landing was effected on an island, variously named in the despatches as King- Hoa and Kang-Noe, upon which was the Corean stronghold. One of the forts was captured the same day, and on the following day four others, including the citadel, were stormed by our marines and seamen, with a total loss of three killed and nine wounded, the latter of which were out of danger and doing well at last accounts. Among the killed was Lieutenant McKee, of the navy, a gallant and promising young officer. Not less than two- hundred and forty-three dead Coreans were counted in and around the citadel, showing how desperately they defended their position. Their weapons, however, must, fortunately for us, have been of the most wretched de- scription, considering the disparity of the losses, five hundred in killed and wounded being the total loss of the Coreans, Important results ought to follow this vic- ory. It should convince the government of Corea that a struggle with the United States offers no possible hope of success. If a com- parative handful of Americans can defeat eleven thousand Coreans, storm five forts and capture nearly five hundred pieces of artillery, what would be the result of a regular invasion of the country? The wisest thing that the King of Corea can now do is to apologize, pay an indemnity and make a commercial treaty with the United States, The Gritish Ratification ‘Treaty. The London Gazette announces that the ratifications (the United States and Great Britain) of the Treaty of Washington were exchanged on the 17th inst., and that com- missioners will shortly be named on.the part of England to carry the stipulations into effect. All British subjects having claims against the United States are requested to prefer them within six months from the first meeting of the commission. So far so good. Now begins the real work of the treaty—the work of the several boards of arbitration pro- vided for. First of all, however, in reference to the Northeastern fishery arrangements and the reciprocities entered into in connection with our navigation of the St. Lawrence canals, her Majesty’s government will have to bring Her provincials of the New Dominion to a ratification. Those provincials have no better opinion of the treaty than has General Butler. They think that in the matter of the fisheries the treaty gives them up tu the ravagesof the Yankees, and Butler thinks that the effect of the treaty will be the ruin of his Glouces- ter fishermen in codfish, halibut and mack- erel, even in their own waters and their own markets. We presume, how- ever, that, with Her Majesty's provincials, British loyalty will rise superior to local prejudices and objections, and that there will really be very little difficulty in bringing around even the warlike Nova Scotians and Prince Edward Islanders to ‘‘a happy accord” with the imperial government. There is another matter, however, upon which the interested parties are doomed to a crushing disappointment, We refer to the matter of those bonds of the so-called Confede- rate States cotton loan, and to the holders thereof. Those unfortunate men seem to think that the provisions of this treaty cover these good-for-nothing rebel cotton loan bonds; but this overdrawn conceit is a great mistake. Those bonds are thrown out past all redemp- tion by the constitution of the United States (fourteenth amendment), and there is no help forthem. They are really worth no more than a ship which has gone down to the bottom of the sea without insurance. But still, as drowning men will catch at straws, the holders of these rebel cotton loan bonds are bound to try their chances under this new treaty. Walk in, then, gentlemen, but don’t be too proud, of the Great Tue Suez Canat is filling up with sand, This news sounds like the death-knell of the grandest monument of human enterprise and skill and patience. The shifting sands of the desert, says our despatch, will be the destrne- tion of the canal. If the announcement prove true, the hundred million doliars which the cutting of the isthmus cost (who ever com- puted in figures its cost in human sweat and blood ?) has been sunk in shifting sand indeed. If the accumulation of sand already threateus to impede navigation, there willbe no such thing as a Suez Canal in a few yearshence, Thecom- pany which carried out the enterprise seems to be anxious to get rid of the canal at anything like a reasonable or partial return of its out- lay. For this purpose the company has asked the Khedive to take it off its hands by pur- chase. The Khedive, who encouraged the work when in course of construction, seems, according to our cable report, to have given it up as a losing speculation ; and, although the proposition is supported by all the authority which a recommendation of a Sultan to his vassal may convey, the Khedive has refused tohave anything more to do with tho onter- prise, RO a Ay Excovracina Hearta Rerort—That of Dr. Russel, of the City Bureau of Vital Statistics to the Board of Health, for the week ending June 24, Registered deaths, 486, twenty less, with a larger population, than for the corresponding week of 1870; smallpox disappearing and only one fatal case each of typhus and typhoid fevers, As usual, how- ever, at this season, there is a marked increase in the deaths, especially of children, from diarrhoeal affections, largely resulting, no doubt, from the eating of unripe fruits, Upon the whole, however, the health of the city is good, and strangers generally, in this respect at least, are as safe here as at home, Governor Woops, or Uran, is in Wash- ington to protect the interests of the Utah Judges. These latter have certainly per- formed their work well hitherto. They have presented a persistent and bold front to the encroachments of Mormonism, and have pro- tected the rights of Gentiles there when it re- quired bold men to do it. They ought not to be shelved on any flimsy pretext, and cer- | tainly not on false accusations, \ The Ninety-Afth Aanivorsary of American Independence. On Tuesday next will be celebrated all over the United States the ninety-fifth anniversary” of American independence. The forthcoming will probably be one of the grandest celebra- tions of the national anniversary that ever occurred in the couatry. From time commencing as far back as the first anniversary, the Tammany Society, or Columbian Order, will celebrate the return of Independence Day with their usual en- thusiasm. The big chiefs of Tammany will see that the celebration will be one in which all Americans, and all who adopt American republican institutions, can take pride. “Squire” Sweeny, “Boss” Tweed, Jerome Buck and others will dosome handsome things on the occasion—for which see Tammany Hall programme for the Fourth. The city au- thorities are also taking an interest in the celebration. The First division of the Na- tional Guard, Major General Shaler com- manding, will parade, as will bo seen from the following :— FOURTH OF JULY, 1871—CIRCULAR FROM THE FIRST DIVISION. HEADQUARTERS First Drviston, N. @. 8.N. Y., New Yor june 13, 1871. Bw The First division, N. G. 8. N. Y., will celebrate the coming anniversary of our national tnacpendence by parading and passing in review before His Honor the Mayor, who will be accompanied by the heads of the city departments and other officials. ‘The compliments of His Honor the Mayor and the Major General commanding are jointly presented to * * * and a cordial invitation extended to occupy with the oMictals a position on the stand to be erected at the Worth monument, The Department of Public Parks have, for the first time under the new City Charter, taken charge of a very interesting portion of the ceremonies, as will be seen from the fol- lowing order:— FOURTH OF JULY, 1871. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIO PARKS, June 27, 1871. Ata meeting of the Executive Committee of the Department of Public Parks, held on the 26th tnst., the foltowing resolution was adopted:— Resolved, That on July 4, 1871, there shail be exhibited the usual fireworks at the following places in the Sta square, Mount Morris square, City Hall Park, Madison square, Kingsbridge road and 159th street, Battery. Also that during the display of fireworks music shall be furnished as usual. The whole subject being referred to the Treasurer, with power. In addition to the Tammany Hall celebra- tion and the military parade there will also be a gala festival on the grounds of the Boule- vard Club, on the Hudson, including salutes, a liberty-pole raising, an oration by General James R, O'Beirne, speeches by distinguished citizens, and fireworks and bonfires in the evening. This, undoubtedly, will prove one of the most interesting features of the cele- bration of the ninety-fifth anniversary of in- dependence. Beside these demonstrations there will be the grand national rezatta at Cape May, in which most of the fast yachts of the New York Yacht Club, with others, will join. This will be a splendid display—the finest that has ever been witnessed under canvas in honor of the glorious day in American or any other waters. Hence we are ready to affirm that, so far as the metropolis of the country is concerned, there is every assurance that the forthcoming national jubilee will be one in which we all can do honor and take pride. Closing Scenes of tho Snengorfest. The long procession of German singers trudging manfally through the rain yesterday morning, while passing in review before Gover- nor Hoffman and Mayor Hall, was an excel- lent evidence of German pluck and endurance, and testified in a language stronger than words to the devotion to harmony which brought so many societies together. And the harmony which everywhere reigned during the picnic at Jones’ Wood, after the bright sunlight had dispelled the rain clouds of the morning, is worthy of a passing tribute. In how far the love of music promoted the heartiness of feel- ing everywhere evinced during the Saengerfest, and especially inthe closing scenes of this great musical festival, itis not easy to say; but one thing is ccrtain—namely, that this heartiness and good cheer and concord of sweet sounds will be productive'of the greatest good. This festival of song isa grdnd ad- vance toward welding the many nationalities which compose this nation, and inspiring among rich and poor a sincere and generous love of music. We may yet see, thanks to our German fellow citizens, as much pro- ficiency in musical education in this country as thera isin Germany. The perfect freedom with which the Saengerbund and Maennerchor and Liedertafel societies fraternized with purely American singers was evidence that their musical policy is not narrowed by bounds of national origin, and the grand spectacle of nearly ten thousand people swayed submis- sively in all their actions as if bya singing master's baton is an earnest of that good time coming which is sung of by the angels. The prizes were awarded yesterday at the grand picnic, the Germania Maennerchor, of Baltimore, receiving a grand piano for the first class; the Choral Society, of Washington, the cycloid piano for the second class, and the Baffalo Liedertafel a book and music case for the third, The classes were arranged accord- ing tothe number of singers in each society, and the merits of the societies that received the prizes were equal in a musical point of view, It isa cheering indication of the thor- oughly cosmopolitan character of tho festival to find a purely Amorigan gocicty fog Mag: ington receiving the second prize. “At the néxt Sacngerfest, in Philadelphia, in 1873, we may likely find an O' ora Mac as leader of the winning society in the prize singing. This festival is a significant introduction to the fall season of music, when the Vieuna Lady Or- chestra, the Nilsson Italian Opera troupe, Parepa-Rosa’s Boglis Opera company and a dozen other organizations will enter the field The more music the better. The divine art exercises a hnmanizing influence on any com- munity, and if the police fail to restrain the dangerous classes we can at least sing them out of existence or make thom reformed mem- bers of some special Maennerchor, Tus InpIAN Raip recently upon a wagon train in Texas is now said to have been de- signed for the captare of General Sherman, What the dusky warriors intended to do with the great chief is unknown, but it is quite certain that they wonld have found ere long that they had caught @ most unmanageable Tartar. Just Lrke Hia.—The Khédive of Egypt has sent a hundred thousand francs to the orphans of the French civil war. A generous giver is that same Ismail Pacha, and an enterprising ruler, and one, withal, who does not forget bis old friends or their children, Good lugk to him. Secretary Bolknap’s Speech at Princeton. The oration delivered at Princeton before one of the college societies by Hon. Wil- liam W. Belknap, Secretary of War, at tho. annual commencement, was a production of much finish and eloquence, and gave some striking suggestions of the growth of the American empire. The oratory after reviewing the earlier scenes of Princeton's classic history, and doing fitting homage to the illustrious dead—to Dickin- son and Edwards and Witherspoon and Car- nahan—whose genius and character had moulded the institution and whose couasels! had safely guided its early course, pointed: out! in glowing terms ‘‘the advantages offered in, America for success in life of educated. men.” This somewhat ‘novel theme was ably treated by the distinguished War Secretary. His esti-~ mate of the rapid strides of this country in population and power, and in all that gives. fame to a natlon, showed bota his own pro- gressive and far-reaching mind and the destiny’ which awaits the diligent and patient youth of America in the struggle before them. In the crowded and narrow domains of the Old World the young man goes forth against many physical odds. Here ho has the selec~ tion of every phase of climate and every physical condition of healtiful existence, from the cheerfal and balmy shores of Florida to the soft Armenia-like atmosphere of the Middla States and to tho bracing latitudes of Minne- sota. There can be little doubt that this impor- tant circumstance underlies the past growth and prosperity of our country, and is to be one of the most influential causes of its coming development and greatness, Or tne INTERNAL REVENUE yet in the hands of collectors, or, rather, not yet paid into the Treasury, the greatest amount is that col- lected by Andy Johnson’s appointees, it ex~ ceeding that in the hands of President Grant's by over a million and a half and that in the hands of President Lincoln’s by nearly a mil- lion, If one fact of Johnson’s adminisiration remains more prominently confirmed than an- other it is the failure to collect the revenue. It isa failure, too, that will plague us long after we have recovered from his genial swings around the circle and his injudicious and lavish distribution of flags and the consti- tution and things. Personal Inielligence. Caleb Cushing 1s stopping at the Astor House, Congressman Oakes Ames, of Massachusetts, ia at the Astor House, Joseph (Jibbenainosay) Proctor, the tragedian, ts at the Grand Central. Erastas Corning, of Albany, is at the St, Nicholas, Captain H. C. Marsh, of the British Army, has quarters at the Brevoort House, Judge Jackson, of Kentucky, is temporarily stop~ ping at the St, George Hotel. Koopmanschap, the importer of the prototypes of “Ah Sin,” 13 residing at tue Hoffman House, © W. H. Kelsey, of Geneso, is at the Grand Central. 8. R. Fleming, of Victoria, British Columbia, is domiciled at the St. James. Dr. A. H. Clay, of Japan, 1s sojourning at the Brevoort House, Governor R. B. Bullock, of Georgta, yesterday re- turned to the Fifth Avenue. Judge W. R. Ragland, of Arkansas, is registered at the St. Nichulas. General Jonn 8. Tyler, of Boston, is quartered at the Grand Central. Jolin N. Goodwin, ex-Governor of Arizona, 13 among the late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue, Colonel L. M. Stevens, of Philadeciphia, kas quar- ters at the St. George Hotel. Bx-Governor A. H. Holley, of Connecticat, is at tne Fifth Avenue. J. Tillinghast, Supertntendent of the New York Central Railroad, 1s at the Si. Nicholas, General ©. B. Fisk, of St. Louts, 1s abiding at the Fifth Avenue, Gexeral Neill, of the United States Army, 1s quar- tered at the Astor House, Dr. D, M. Burgess, the weli known American phy- sician, of Havana, Cuba, is temporarily staying at the Hoffman House. Colonel E. Norton and Judge Billings, of New Or- leans, are at the Astor House, L, Pakenham, of the British Legation, is at the Clarendon Hotel. Samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfleld Republi« can, left for Europe yesterday in the steamer Wis- consin. Governor Hoffman, wife and daughter arrived at the Clarendon Hotel yesterday. They will leave to- aay for Newport, where they will remain during the summer, WEATHER RYPORT, aw Wat DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE Citier SiGNAL O¥viceR, WASHINGTON, June 29—1 A. M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours, The barometer has fallen at the Rocky Mountains aud Pacific stations and on the Gulf and Auantia coasts, It has risen north and west of the Omo aalley. ‘The area of lowest pressure, which was Tuesday night, north of New York, has moved southeastward. Fresh northwesterly winds have prevailed from Lake Erie to Lake Superior, with clear winds. Northerly winds are now reported from the Oto Valley and light winds on the Gulf. The temperature has risen slightly tn the Southwest and 1s elsewhere stationary, Cloudy and threaten- ing weather has prevatied on the Bast Atlantic and tn portions of the Ohio Valley, Probavilities- {t is probabie that on Thursday the barometer will very generally rise west of Pennsylvania, with clear weather on the lakes and clearing and par- tially cloudy wether on the Atiantic and Gulf coasts. CAPE MAY. Cape Isinnd Invaded by New Jersey Edie fors—Gay Times at the S'eck:on, ih, LF PS TéLaxp, June 28, 1871. The New Haar hads if Association, with their families, numbering In ail over five hygared persons, arrived at the Stockton Hotel this evening, On thalt” annual excursion, They will give a banquet to- morrow evening and a ball on Friaay evening. The party express themselves much pleased with Cape May, and are making every preparation for a grand ume, They wiil return to their homes on Saturday. THE SYMONS BENEFIT AT THE OLYMPIC. This afternoon, at two o'clock, will be given at the Olympic Theatre a theatrical performance of rare interest, for the benefit of the widow and family of the late Dan Symons. The programme consists of “Delicate Ground,” “Lend Me Five Shillings” and “State Secrets.” The following artists have volun- teered their services:—Mrs, James A. Oates, Miss Blanche de Bar, Miss Grace Rawlinson, Miss Nellie Young, Mrs. Annie Yeamans, Miss Fanny Beane, Miss Flora Lee, Little Jeannie Yeamans, Mr. Josepn dJetrerson, Mr. Neil Warner, Mr. Hart Conway, Mr. H. 1, Bascom), Mr. Frank Mordaunt, Mr. H. H. Pratt, Mr. Atkins, Mr, G, lL, Fox, Mr. H. A. Weaver, Mr. G A. Beane, Mr. Tyson, Mr. T, Hagan, Mr, Debonnay, Mr, E. T. Sinclair, $ Tun MONTEAGLE House, at 8) nsion Bridge, Ningara Falls, 18 kept by Mr. David H. Tomlinson, who writes to us lo Say that he does not intend to Close in a few weeks, as recently stated, He also denies that it ts a third class hotel, that he charges exorbitant fare, and other statements made in a letter Which we published recently from Niagara, all of which is good news for us and the travelling public that stop at Suspension Bridae. and wa Choeriuly make the statemout public. OOOO Eee