The New York Herald Newspaper, June 8, 1872, Page 5

SHERMAN IN RUSSIA. ——_—_+____ His Arrival at Sebastopol in the Grand Yacht of the Sultan. THE MALAKOFF AND THE REDAN Over the Historic Fields of In- kerman and Balaklava. TRUE RUSSIAN HOSPITALITY. Tecumseh Thinks It Would Be Easier to Take Sebastopol than Vicksburg. THE CASTLE OF ALOUPKA. A View of the Black Sea from the Crimean Range. MEETING HER MAJESTY. The Summer Palace of the Em- press of Russia. THE TRIP TO YALTA.,. SEBASTOPOL, April 27, 1872, General Sherman, Minister Curtin, Lieutenant Grant, Colonel Audenried and young Mr. Curtin arrived here yesterday on board the famous yacht ofthe Sultan. It seems that the Suitan was so de- lighted with his visitors that he insisted on their staying several days over their time in order to be entertained by him, and then, to make amends for the time thus lost, put his beautiful yacht at their disposition as long as they should wish to use it, General Sherman, going upon the principle, how- ever, of accepting as few favors and putting himself under as few obligations as possible, declined availing himself of it further than Sebastopol, where he relieved the officers and crew of their very agreeable service, and sent them back to Con- stantinople. THE SULTAN’S YACHT. It is a gorgeous affair, this yacht. It was a pres- ent to the Sultan by the Khedive of Egypt, and, as might naturally be expected, is fitted up ina style of Oriental splendor far surpassing in magnificence any craft now afloat. Witn its immense size, its broad clean decks, the picturesque and many-col- ored costumes of its crew, its gigantic engines growling deep down in the hold like huge sea mon- asters, its great saloons, furnished with every luxury that modern science and art can invent or the un- bounded wealth of an Eastern despot can supply; .the richest Turkey carpets, the most bewildering ‘curtains and hangings and mirrors, the most luxu- rious divans'and ottomans, where you have only to sit down cross-legged and smoke sweet-scented to- bacco out of long Turkish pipes and look out of the large open windows at the glistening, murmuring waters of the Biack Sea glancing in the bright sun- shine, until you doze awxy and dream you are pro- prietor of a hurem of 150 beautiful young ladies, with dark, almond-shaped eyes, flowing red trousers and shocs turned up at the toes—it re- sembles more some huge enchanting floating fairy Palace than that most prosaic of all things, a modern steam yacht. THEY ARRIVED IN SEBASTOPOL after a most agreeable voyage of twenty-four hours, though it is rather unfortunate they did not go to Odessa first, where preparations had been made by General Kotzebue to receive them with every mark of distinction. Want of time was, I believe, their excuse for not going; but, as General Kotzebue had made arrangements to put a steamer at their dis- position, in which they might have gone direct to the Caucasus instead of lingering along in a very slow and dirty boat of the Russian Steamboat Company, they would probably have gained instead of losing time by this little detour. A good deal of curiosity kas been manifested as to the manner in which they would be received by Russian oficials, some pretending that their reception would be an ex- seedingly cold one, in retaliation for that of Alexis at Washington; others that they would be received ina PARTICULARLY CORDIAL MANNER, In order to form a contrast by showing how much the Russian government can rise superior to per- sonal quarrels and petty squabbles between indl- viduals. If either of these courses has been adopted it is certainly the last one; for the recep- tlon thathad been prepared for them at Odessa would certainly have been a warm and enthusi- astic one, and the manner in which they were wel. comed at Sebastopol assuredly left no room for Goubt as to the friendly intentions of the Russian Oflicials there. SEBASTOPOL. Arrived at Sebastopol, General Sherman's first care was to go over the ground where, seventeen years ago, were fought some of the bloodiest battles of modern times, and where was carried on @ siege one of the most remarkable and a bombard- Ment one of the most terrible, as regards the ex- tent of ruin and destruction caused, e ver recorded in history. Seventeen years have gone by, and yet the shattered walis and the crumbling stones and the encumbered streets remain almost as they were that afternoon when the French POURED INTO THE MALAKOFF, leaving its ditches full of their dead and dying, and the storm of iron hail that had been falling, and the war of artillery and the screaming and crushing of exploding shells that had been heard incessantiy for eleven months suddenly ceased with the fall of this stronghold and gave way to a silence rendered all the more impressive by the din and turmoil that had so jong ruled the place—a silence that has remained almost unbroken ever since; for, with the exception of a few houses that have sprung up lately, little has been done to remove the traces of war, the people not having the courage to under- take the task, and so it remained, crying aloud, as they say, for vengeance. From a city ofsixty thou- sand inhabitants Sebastopol has become a shat- tered, ruined, filthy place of five thousand; and who can estimate the cost, not in treasurer but in biood and tears, by which the change was effected? It stands to-day but a relic of its former greatness, a battered, ruined, broken memorial of the most stubborn defence ever recorded, of the most destructive bombardment ever suffered—a testimony to the sublime mulishness of the Rus- sian soldier, of whom Napoleon I. said:—‘It is not enough to kill him; you must besides knock him down.” The view on entering the harbor is not by any means grand or striking; the country is bare Of trees and almost of grass, and the hills sloping down to the water are only relieved by the dead stone color of the few houses that are seen here and there, and the crumbling ruins of hundreds of others, that, under the glare of an afternoon sun, Present 4 most melancholy and lonesome appear- ance. ‘THE HARBOR, as 19 well known, ts spacious and beautiful, capable of affording anchorage to many hundred ships, and is by far the best in the Black Sea, perfectly pro- tected without the aid of dikes, and never freezing in winter, as does that of Odessa. But it is almost deserted now, and with the exception ofa steamer once a week that touches hero, plying betweon Odessa and the Caucasus, and a few very small sailing vessels, its splendid advantages ana re- sources remain undeveloped and useless, Aftera Jong sleep, however, Sebastopol ts beginning to NEW YOKK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET, awake, to show signs of trying to recover lost time and regain tte former prosperous condition. A railroad isin course of construction, to be finished within two years, which wil) connect it with Odessa, Moscow and St. Petersburg; the docks destroyed by the English alter the war will probably be rebuilt, and the place, as well as the whole Chersonese is to be fortified, which, with the eonstruction of extensive quays for the shipping, will first give employment to many thousand people and afterwards attract much of the trade that now goes to Odessa, so that within a very few years we look to see Sebastopol one of the most important cities of Russia, When all this will have been ac- complished, when Russia will have rebuilt her fleet and thus regained her supremacy on the Black Sea, it may well be asked what remains of the results of the Crimean war, conquered with so much difficulty and at the expense of so much blood and suffering. According to present appearances Russia will, in twenty-five years from the fall of Sebastopol, have regained all she lost then, and ofall the results that were obtained and expected from the Crimean war nothing will remain but a legacy of hate between the nations engaged in it and a deep and settled desire on the part of one of them, the most power- ful perhaps, for revenge. OLD TECUMSEN’S VISIT TO HISTORIC POINTS. General Sherman spent nearly the whole of the time he was there—some four days—in visiting the Aitferent points of interest rendered memorabie by the events of the war—the Malakoff, the Great Re- dan, the Little Redan, Inkermann and Balaklava (made fumous by the charge of the immortal Light Brigade). It was interesting as well as surprising to see how readily he identifled each place and how easily he found his way without a guide, knowing the ground as well, apparently, as if he had com- manded there seventeen years ago, instead of pur- suing the peaceful avocations of private life in a quiet country village, littie dreaming of the storm of war that was to sweep over the country and of the scenes of battle and carnage through which his own path lay. He sald, ofcourse, that the Russians had made a splendid defence, and accounted for the comparative ease with which Strasbourg, aregularly fortified place, was taken, by the different quality of the Russian soldier of that tiie and the French sol- dier of to-day, with regard to whom he expressed a good deal of contempt. He said he considered VICKSBURG A MUCH HARDER PLACE TO TAKE than Sebastopol, but acknowledged that the de- fenders of the latter place showed a much greater amount of stubbornness, tenacity and endurance. THE DAY BEFORE OUR DEPARTURE the Mayor of the town gave a breakfast to General Sherman and Mr. Curtin, Mr. Grant and the rest of the party, at which assisted all the officers of the garrison and the principal dignitaries of the place— about seventy-five people in all—and if any doubts had up to that moment been entertained as to the cordlality of the reception that would be tendered them they would certainly have been dispelled when the company assembled around that gay and festive board. All were anxious to show their great Admiration for General Sherman, their respect and esteem for Mr. Curtin and the son of the Presi- dent, and their friendship for Americans generally. ‘The usual toasts were drunk and several short and very informal speeches made. Gencral Sherman made a very neat little speech, as did Mr. Curtla-end Admiral Kislinsky, one of the defenders of Sebasto- pol, who bears on his torehead a very deep scar as a souvenir of the siege. PRINCE DOLGOROUEY of General Kotzebue’s staff, to whose kindness I was much indebted while recovering from the effects of an accident that .befellme some months ago when on an expedition in the Crimean moun- tains, acted as interpreter, and, although his Eng- lish was not as good as his Russian, the speeches in his mouth lost nothing of their original force and energy, whatever they may have lacked in gram- matical accuracy in being rendered into English, A PLEASANT AFFAIR, Altogether it was a very pleasant little affair, and, although the champagne did flow very freely, nobody forgot himself to the extent of mistaking the table for a bed, though certainly some found themselves exceedingly sleepy afterwards and went to bed at the somewhat unusual hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, DEPARTURE FOR YALTA. The next morning we were to go to Yalta in car- riages that the Mayor had kindly prepared for us, and accordingly we were all up at five, getting ready to start, except Mieutenant Grant and Mr. Curtin, Jr., who, being for the moment of a luxuri- ous and Oriental turn of mind, declined getting up at that unseagonable hour, concluding to wait and go next day by sea, “which” we left them snoring in their biankets. It is a very pleasant drive of about six hours over a most. beautiful country, and start- ing out, as we did, in the fresh air of the morning, “made musical” with the singing of birds and fragrant with early spring flowers and apple blossoms, was @ most delightful treat. We were six, being accompanied by Major Rotchoff, a young Russian porn in America, who had been detailed for the duty, and whose father, by a curious coinci- dence, was well Known to General Sherman years ago. Each carriage was drawn by four horses spanned four abreast, the Russian method, and we were soon rolling along at a swinging gallop in the direction of BALAKLAVA, down over the very road where, seventeen years eri Stormed at with shot and shell Into the jaws of hell, Rode the Six Hundred! The place at present certainly has little in its ap- pearance to recall the famous charge or to justify Tennyson's comparisons. The trenches of the two armies have almost disappeared, though traces of the embankments may still be seen in the slight ridges, covered by a thin growth of grass, looking like very old and neglected graves; and they have served as graves, alas! for many a poor fellow who will never find any other memorial. It is @ rolling, uneven, but not hilly country, sloping off to the sea by a slight descent; unculti- vated, bare of trees, and almost of grass, as though the EARTH HAD BEEN POISONED instead of being enriched by the blood that was poured out on it like water, and broken here and there by a deep ravine that more than once served as a foothold for the contending armies. RUSSIAN TRAVELLERS. Those who have never seen Russian post-horses and Russian post-wagons and Russian postilions and Russian post-driving would find this method of travelling highly amusing and exhilarating, not to say exciting. As before remarked, the four horses are spanned abreast, but the two outside ones are allowed a good deal of liberty, and they conse- quently go galloping along in an easy, careless sort of way, with their heads turned out some eight or, ten feet from the others, as if they wished it under- stood that they had no particular connection with the rest of the equipage, or at most a very tempo- rary one, which they intended absolutely to dis- solve at the very next cross-roads, without the slightest regard to our feelings. The postilion, too, has a careless, indifferent air, as though he was en- tirely unconscious of the recklessness and danger of his proceedings in galloping madly down inclined planes, with the carriage rushing on the heels of the horses, urging them on to new exertions at every jump, and of turning abruptly around sharp cor- ners at this mad pace, yntil the CARRIAGE TIPS OVER. like a ship under a heavy wind, and runs a long dis- tance on two wheels, to our great comfort and ease of mind; for I must acknowledge, however, that it is, after all, @ most exhilarating and agreeable way of getting along. The four horses thus gallop- ing madly abreast present adashing and gallant appearance, altogether different from that of a team spanned in the ordinary way, and it is no wonder the Russians are 80 fond of it. Land owners in the interior all have equipages of this kind, in which they take great delight, sometimes, how- ever, only having three abreast; and occasionally, even when there are but two horses, one is allowed to gallop along in this loose manner beside his mate. We rolied along at a swinging gallop over a splendid road, passing occasionally @ ruined house, and only meeting sometimes 4 lazy ox team, until we began toascend the western slope of the Crimean range, the summit of which we reached about nine o'clock in the morning. We stopped here to change horses and take offee. There was what appeared to be an old tower a few steps further on, right through which the road passed, beneath an archway. We went through, came out on the other side, when A SCENE OF BUCH EXTRAORDINARY LOVELINESS broke upon eur view so suddenly and unexpectedly that it ‘seemed like the effect of enchantment, Raght at our feet, but 2,000 feet below, and appa- rently so near that one might have dropped a stone in it, lay the Black Sea, so deep aown that a few white fleecy clouds seemed to be floating on its surface, 60 calm and still that it might have been the sky. The steep, rocky sides of the mountains were green down to the water’s edge with trees and shrubs, brightened by many-colored wild blos- soms; here and there a mountain rivulet might be seen sparkling in the sunlight as it went leaping down the mountain side on its headlong course to the sea; a wild bird was singing in the brushwood near us, the sun shining brightly over all, lighting up rock and tree and water with its glorious morning spendor, while as far as the eye could reach, miles and miles away to the distant horizon, stretched the wide expanse of the dark and motion- less water, calm and mighty, from which arose the low, eternal, melancholy voice of the ocean, filing the air with its never-ending musical murmur like the wind sighing through moun- tain pines, It was @ scene never to be for. gotten, and we gazed on it, taking our coffee, which was enriched by the addition of some most delicious mountain cream, served us by an old woman who must have been at least one hundred and fifty years old, General Sherman and Mr. Curtin said that in all their travels they had never yet seen anything equalling this in loveliness and grandeur, and I do not think that another spot can be found on the face of the earth to compare with this in sublime and tranquil beauty. THE JOURNEY CONTINUED. After resting about an hour we resumed our journey down the mountain side in the direction of Yalta, over a most delightful and picturesque road that wound downwards among the trees, with their fresh, living green, or covered with fragrant blos- s0mMS; across sparkling rivulets, that came tumbling down over the rocks in many a snowy cascade; sometimes near yawning precipices, along which our ésvastchiks drove at full speed, as though they had been on the levelest of plains; again beneath overhanging rocks, from which great masses have more than once broken off and gone tumbling down the steeps into the road, winding, twisting about, ever descending, until we reached THE PALACE AND GROUNDS OF ALOUPKA, some two or three hundred feet above the sea, the property of Prince Woronzof. We stopped here long enough to go over the grounds, but, unfortu- nately, did not see the interior of the palace, a beautiful one, built in the style of a castle of the Middle Ages, with moats, drawbridges, turrets and battlements, that present the most romantic and ancient appearance, although it is only about thirty years old. The place is valued at 1,000,000 rubles, and it costs the Prince about forty thousand a year to keep it up, over and above the revenue it pro- duces from the cultivation of the vine. Leaving the beautiful place with regret, we resumed our journey, and soon began to meet persons belong- ing to the Court, ladies of honor, officers and others, who were ont in carriages and on horseback, tak- ing the air, and at last, to our surprise, we met THE EMPRESS, who, we had understood was sick in bed, accom- panied by her daughter, the beautifal young Grand Duchess, riding leisurely along in a light carriage drawn by.two horses. Among others we met Prince Bariatinsky and another member of the imperial household, who immediately asked to be presented to General Sherman. We passed through the grounds of LIVADIA, the favorite summer resort of the Empress, which were kindly thrown open to us, and soon after arrived at Yalta, where we rewarded ourselves for our long drive by a dinner, taken on the balcony of the hotel, overlooking the calm and placid waters of the bay. THE SULTAN SPEAKS. Speech from the Throne by the Emperor Abdul Aziz—The Reforms To Be Intro- duced in Turkey. The Sultan made his annual visit to the Sublime Porte in Constantinople on the 15th ult. The cere- monies were brilliant and the assemblage very large. The Ministers and the high dignitaries of the government, the members of the Council of State and those of the high courts of justice, with many other dignitaries, were assembled in the great hail of the Council of State. On his arrival the Sultan, accompanied by his son, the Prince Imperial Izzed- din, was received by the Grand Vizier and all the Ministers. After taking his seat on the throne the Sultan listened to the annual reports, read by the Granda Vizier, on the situation of the empire. When the latter had finished the Sultan made the follow- ing speech :— ‘The increase of the dignity and prosperity of the empire being the subject of our greatest care, our views and intentions relating to the measures which are likely to accomplish this end have been manifested on more than one occasion. More than one special concession on our part has gone half way to meet those views. But, unfortunately, the execution of the measures which should be th consequence has hitherto not been carried into d tail, and what notably constitutes the vitality of a great. empire—namely, the finanees—has not been in a@ satisfactory condition, It can- not, however, be doubted that the efforts we have made for the development and increase of the land and naval forces have been crowned with success; but all that has hitherto been done has not kept pace with the it petus and the rapid march toward progress re- quired in the present century, and we cannot but regret the delay in the realization of all the mea- sures which lad been decreed, Thanks to Divine Providence I have, however, the pleasure and satisfaction to state that many’ im- provements have been carried out in the diiferent departments of the government and in the finances | of the empire by gradual reductions as by the system of economy which has introduced, and without doubt largely contributed to a considerable reduction of the burden of the floating debt. One of the principal results of this pestian a) has been to balance the receipts and the expenditure of the empire in such a manner that what has just been accomplished in so short a time is a sure guarantee for the future, and serves to found our credit on a sure basis, To this satisfac- tory state of things the construction of railways true agents for the development of the resources of the empire—has been added. ‘The convention of the railways of Roumania insures the execution of the measures of communication in the best and most advantage- ous eonditions. As, however, the development of the financial resources of the empire is closely allied with the advantages which result from the develop- ment and the impetus given to industry, agricul- ture and the creation of means of communication, we are specially anxious to see every one lend his largest co-operation toward the full and entire ac- complishment of the objects already mentioned, Moreover, the continuance of good relations between our government an the great friendly Powers being one of our most ardent desires, we cannot but recommend the same course in those relations which should be based always on existing treaties and international right. An imperative duty, furthermore, requires equality before the law for all our subjects, without exception, and we desire that every one should devote the greatest care to insure justice by.the tribunals, and, with due respect to ‘the rights of each of our subjects, think only of the development to be given to the commercial and agricuitural resources of the empire, as well as of the system of reorganization which has been undertaken, May Divine Providence crown our efforts. A MISSING BODY RECOVERED, At half-past three o'clock yesterday afternoon OMer Carmody found the body of August Murke, which had been missing since the 3d in- stant, floating in the water at the foot of East Nineteenth street. The body was removed to the station, where it was viewed by Coroner Herrman, who allowed his parents to remove it to their home, No, 615 East Eleventh street. An in- quest will be held to-day. ANOTHER DROWNING CASUALTY. About half-past twelve o'clock yesterday morning the cries of a drowning man were heard about three hundred yards from the Cortlandt street ferry slip. The bridgetender, Thomas Tobin, hastily summoned two police officers, who rowed out into the stream, but the {ll-fated man sank ere they could render assistance. His hat was found an hour subsequently by OMcer Rhodes. It is a biack felt hat. without lining—evidently that of a laborer | which old Crow Nest has re-cchoe WEST POINT. The Gay Season Among the Highlands. The Military Annual in Full Blast, but the Visitors Behindhand. THE WHY AND THE WHEREFORE. wi ee The Graduating Class—Who and What They Are—The Examination in Engineering. Wesr Point, June 6, 1872, The memory of the oldest inhabitant of West Point now in the land of the living runneth not back to the time when the “season” in these parts was 80 backward in coming forward as it is this year. The why and the wherefore are questions which are sorely puzzling the minds of every man, woman and _ child for wiles around, who is in any way dependent upon the frivolities and extravagancies of the an- nual occasion for the wherewithal to keep body and soul together. Indeed, there are those of a billous turn of sentiment who roll up the whites of their eyes and cross their arms piously over their bosoms, and declare from their heart of hearts that the reason of the present dearth of all that in years gone by was wont to make this delightful retreat from metropolitan bustle and confusion A HEAVEN ON EARTIC is owing entirely, exclusively and villanously to the horrible fact that the Academy is not what it used to be in the days when Southern chivalry flourished in the Jand, and when the daughters of the sunny South frollicked about, the mistresses of all they surveyed, and poured out their dollars, won by the sweat of their beloved slaves, as frecly and lavishly as though the days of chivalry were never to end! If you run down into the iittle village, a mile below the post, and ask why the season lags of the milliners, the dress- makers, the shopkeepers, the stable cultivators and the hundred and one other people who settled hereabouts years upon years ago, and to whom the West Point season was always a golden godsend—looked forward to in the dreary winter times with that anxiety that a dependant always looks up to the one whose favors give him life—they will one and all give you the same mournful reply. They will drag you metaphorically back to the days when Lee was the worshipped superintendent and Beauregard the idol of the cadet corps, and the cadet corps the idol of the Southern belles; and they will tell you how they fared then and how they do not fare now; how the war has brought about AN AWFUL CHANGE for West Point and turned the Academy into a resort for an entirely different class of visitors than once upon a time made it the great summer abiding place of the creamiest cream of polite society. With tears in their eyes they will bewail the absence of the extravagances of those golden days when tne Northern cadets were not even thought of, because they were not of the same blue blood ilk as their fire- eating chums from beyond the dividing line, and when the vile innovations inaugurated by Northern rule were not even dreamed of in the philosophy of the most liberal Southern visitor. To these and all other of the neighbors of West Point the situation of the Academy has, it must be con- fessed, always been looked upon as something Providential in the matter of bread and butter, and it is not to be wondered at that, now that they do not fare as well from the “unavoid- able concomitants” of the fashionable season as once they did, they should purse up their hungry mouths and maliciously grumble because the sun does not shine night and day, so that they can make hay at all hours. Still] do not think that they are altogether wrong in their reckoning as to what, in the days that are past, gave to West Point that ton and exclusive elegance that made it a perfect pur- gatory for ANY ORDINARY INDIVIDUAL who was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth, or who could not count a shoulder strap among the heirlooms of his family. It is now unques as attractive a resort, a8 far as nature can ma\ BO, as It ever W: The same grand mountains sur- round it upon ry side, the same great river stically and winds, as of old, about it is perched, as ever, and well kept hotels are as the same “magnificent magnificence” of views exists to-day as when the oldest ofticer now in the army was a cadet, and, perhaps, like Shakspeare’s lover, composed sonnets to the eyelashes of his lady the ‘And yet why do we not have THE ANCIENT GALA DAYS in all the freshness and brilliancy of the past ? Why is it that where, at the “openings,” the crowds were wont to be so great of the regular seasoners that a “transient” was in daily risk of being co pad to go whence he came, unfed and unca for, there is ample room for all comers, with a welcome warm that it betokens how _ truly ‘ery mickle makes a muckle.” The fact is, the question 1s a conundrum that I do not propose to answer, for the simple reason that I do not know how to do it. It is pretty certain that the Academy itself is not at fault, for the military season has opened With the usual flourish of trumpets and the beating of drums, and even he whom West Point for good and disciplinarian reasons looks upon with the awe and reverence that the pagans of old looked upon their wooden gods, has put in his ap- pearance and been hailed with a salvo of guns, with all the fifty years’ experi- love. thundering zest of ence, I refer to the Secretat of War, that great physician whose individual prescriptions to cadetdom never fail to work to the lifeor death, ‘as the case may be.” There is one articular class of the community, however, who, I jave perceived during the past few days, are doing their best to fill up the gaps in the hotels made by the absence of the regular annual guests. I allude to the brides and bridegrooms. I think I know some- what of West Point and the kind of people who generally come here, yet ldo not think that tt was ever, Gs least within my recollection, a favorite re- sort o! THE BILLING AND COOING COTERIE. You see, the greater the crowd, like at Niagara for instance, the greater the inducement for ‘the happy couple” to be lost sight of, for where every- body Is in confusion, in a hurry coming from some- where and in a greater hurry to go somewhere else, there is less chance for individual observation and the interruptions to those little, un- ceasing attentions which the blessed pair will persist in paying to one another in and out of place are few and far between, Under the circumstances it does seem strange that this season, and just at the quietest portion of it, the brides and bridegrooms should come and nestle down in our midst. Not less than a dozen of them— twenty-three, or, rather, twenty-four persons in all (how one does get mixed up in this kind of statistics !)—have glided in upon us already, And, of course, they have been and will be—those who yet remain—the observed of all observers. One of these new-fledged duets, who, am sorry to say, have already winged their way elsewhere, graced the same table as myself two or three days ago at dinner, They were of Italian nationality, and as I haven't the slightest {dea of the wealth and beauty of things in general as expressed in that language, I need not say that the conversation,’ which waa subduedly and biushingly animated, was @ very interesting one tome. However, ACTIONS SPEAK STRONGER THAN WORDS with the Lata 6 married, they say, and the drift of the conversation and @ good deal of the energetic gestures of the happy young man became clear to me when, after the bride's disposing of one orange, he deliberately, in his enthusiasm, took W the fruit dish and with the greatest possible care in the world tumbled out its entire contents into her lap, Of gourse she blushed—perhaps, you say, placed the fruit in the dish again Not a bit of it. oe & sack of her napkin she placed the delicacies in it and followed her lord and master to their room, where no doubt there wasa feast. I saw this same couple scaling the battered walls of old Fort Putnam later in the day, each with an orange in hand. Who says happiness was born in a palace ¥ THE EXAMINATIONS. But now that I have spoken as to the backward- neas of the present society season and what there is of it already—of the season, not the backward- ness—let me say @ Word about the military part of it. Rain or shine, of course, this is “lively” every year, It always been 80, it always will be 80, and it can never be otherwise 80 101 the army fate of stake by means of it, Alre: the usual pif-paf- pot reception of the Board of Visitors has indulged in by the tae, ee and all the le ding, other dignified and lace, and, notwithstan lemen who have been the objects of it look as calm and collected and democratic as ever when they put in their un-gilt edged the various manceuvres Rotten up to delight them and show them Bald what cadets can do when they once make up their minds to it. To-day the gradti- ates were continued in hand in engincering. The subjects each cadet was examined on:— FIRST SECTION. Birnile—Gateway Kecess. Gritith—Campaign of 1796, Gilman—Reversed proillement. Feeney cata Fortifications of Fort Alex- ander. Wallace—Bridge Head; Simple Crown Work, Carr—Battle of Lutzen, Lyon—tIron Roof Truss. Varnum—Campaign of 1842, SECOND SECTION. Moore—Wood Roof ‘Irusses Divided Into Three Equal Segments, Abbott—Protilement of a Trench, Subject to En- Mading and Flank Firing. Ruhlen—Posting of Outposts. Harrington—Kattle of Austerlitz, West—Description of Demi Line in Noizery Front. Riblett—Campaign of 1805. Semly—Approaches on Permanent Fortifications, Jamar—Profile of Field Work, Briggs—Geometrical Stairway. Henry—Disposition of Kear Guard to Hold Enemy in Check, Pa A. E.—Wurmser’s Two Campaigns in Italy, following sections were examined. I append the | 10 THIRD SECTION. Pond—Groined areb. Booth—Analysis of tenaille and double capon- nidre in Noizet front. Wilkinson—Carmontaigne’s front. Watts—Interior retrenchments, Ogle—Profile and dimensions of field work, Yeatman—Profiling of a work and distribution of wing, parties, Van Arsdale—Directions and intensities of the strains upon a triangular frame of three beams acted upon by a weight of one of the joints, Hoyt—Tamping of galleries and method of ex- ploding mines, > McFarland—Seat ot war of 1796-7 and campaign ill the first retreat of the Austrians to the Tyrol. Henley—Approaches and paraliels used in siege “operations, FOURTH SECTION, Allen, L.—The right cylindrical, Goodwin—Arch, construction of, full sap. Hatfleld—Single lattice girder, Walker—A drawing in plan of a four gun batt Patterson—Positions of the pickets, grand gua ‘and outposts for the defence of. Evans—A village; the operations of the second and third periods of attack, Nichols—Strategical and tactical combinations of troops. Norris—Battle of Austerlitz. Dougherty—Campaign of 1 THE HAPPY PI EVEN, The present graduating class is composed of as fine a set of young men as ever graduated from the Academy. The class numbered seventy- six when admitted, in 1868, and now numbers only fifty-seven, including two members who belonged to other ise8 and were unfortunate enough to lose a year by reason of circumstances over which they might have had control had they done everything everybody who had power to com- mand wanted them to do. The following are the names of the members of the class, where born and what State appointed from:— ——— State———__. Appointed Names, Harry De W. Moore. Overton Carr, Jr. Charles D, Parkhurst Rogers Birnie Emerson Grimth. Stanhope B. Blan’ Marcus W, Lyon.... Obadiah F, Briggs. Benjamin H. Gilmas William Abbot! Frank Baker..... George D, Wallace Charles A. Varnum. Fran! Abram E Wo Henry M. Harri George Ruhlen Addis M. Henry. Richard T, Yeat John T, Van Orsdal Charles A. P. Hatt Leven ©, Allen... Mitchell F, Jamar. Charles H. Watts. Charles A, Booth John W. Wilkinson ‘Thomas C, Woodbury Jacob R, Riblet Austin Henel; Alexander Og! George E. Pond George B, Walker ... James Allen... Robert Hanna. Ralph W. Hoyt. William B, Wetmore William H, Miller...... Charles A. Worden Alfred H George ‘Thomas Nichols.. William C. McFarland. William F, Norris... ‘Thaddeus W. Jones. Joseph Hal George H. Evans John J. Dougherty. William H, W. James. Herbert E. Tutherly.. William H. Low, Jr. Henry Wygant.. George Le, Brown Henry H. Landon.. Frank P. Reap... Thomas C. Millard F. Christopher C. Firth EXPECTATIONS. An influx of visitors is expected when the weather gets warmer, and preparations to: meet it are being made by; the hotel proprietors, who will certainly not feel in good humor for many a day to come if the “rush” does not begin in downright earnest during the coming wi TROTTING AT FLEETWOOD PARK. Notwithstanding the rain yesterday afternoon, three trotting contests came off at Fleetwood Park, The track became very heavy before the sports were over. The following are the T. Scott named b. g. Slip; TIME. Quarter. First heat.. 47 ond heat... Third heat. Fourth leat. 1:23% FLEETWOOD Park, June 7.—Sweepstakes $400, ats, best three in five, in harne: Beige. 2 P. Manee entered b. 8, Bellfounder,... 2 ler entered 8, 8. General Grant., 1 1 2 2 2 M, Kune entered r. g. John Mr. Donnelly entered 8, g. Shark...... dr. TIME. Quarter, First heat.... % Second heat. pird heat. Fourth heat.. 3 Fifth heat.. 1:26 4 FLEETWOOD PARK, June 7.—Match $1,000; mile heats, best three in five, in harness, John Murphy named s. m, Jane.....+. 111 W. E. Weeks named b, m. Melrose. 222 TIME. Quarter, Half. 1 First heat 43 1374 Second he 42 1 2 Third heat. 424 1 THE RACES—POOL SALES, There will be four races at Jerome Park to-day, the first a dash of a mile and a quarter for three year olds, which has four entries, comprising D. J. Crouse’s filly Margin, carrying 107 Ibs.t D. McDaniel & Co.’s chestnut colt Hubbard, 113 Ibs.; M. H. San- ford’s bay colt by Australian, 110 Ibs., and J. W. Hunt Reynolds’ chestnut filly Elsie. Hubbard was the favorite at the Club Room, selling for $250, while Elsie sold for $190, Margin for $40, and Mr. San- ford’s colt for $55. ‘The second race will be a dash of one mile and three-quarters, with 100 lbs, up. Artolan sold for $205, Tubman $200, Frank Hampton $200, Frogtown $140, Tom Boston $17. The Westchester Cup is the third race and for this there will be but three starters, There are Harry Bassett, Lyttieton and Alroy. There were no pools sold on this race at the club room but at Johnson & Marshall's one pool was sold in which Harry Bassett fetched 100, Lyttleton $15 and Alroy $9. Side bets were made between Lyttleton and Alroy, the former being the favorite at $100 to 8 0, The fourth race will be over hurdles, and there are eight entries for the purse, comprising the Earl, Dick Jackson, Lobelia, Nickajack, Locheil, Astrono- mer, Vesuvius and Blind Tom, The latter was first choice in the pools at the club room. A HOTEL THIEF IN HOBOKEN, At a late hour on Thursday night Chief Donavan, of the Hoboken police, arrested a young man on the Bowery, New York, on @ charge of robbery. The prisoner, as alleged, registered his name as Smidt on the book at Durlacher’s Hotel, and during the night arose from bed and rifled the proprictor’s ket of a valuable watch and chain. Recorder johnstedt committed him to the County Jail. The accused 18 an active-looking German and twenty- three years of age, KILLED ON A JERSEY RAILROAD. The Cincinnati express from New York, on Thurs- day evening, struck an unknown man near Plains- borough, N. J., and killed him. The body was taken to Trenton yesterday, when an inquest before Justice Goason. Dr. J. B. Bones eave evidence that the man’s back was broken. The jury returned a verdict of acci- dental death. Deceased was walking on the track, and a@ freight train, which passed shortly before, appeared to have confused him. There was no anything found on the man to giveaciue to his identity. THE POOR INDIAN! Reception of Our Red-Skinned Visitors at the Cooper Institute Last Evening. + Speeches by Red Cloud, Red Dog, Dr. Fisher, Peter Cooper and Others. The “Peace and Kindness’ Policy’ Defended. ‘The Cooper Institute last evening was filled to overflowing with crowds of people eager to see and hear Red Cloud and his fellow braves, who have been brought to the city by their friends with the view of exciting sympathy for the “peace-at- any-price”’ policy of the present administration in regard to the red man. Not even the ratifica- tion of Greeley attracted such an immense throng inside the hall, and though the meeting only lasted an hour, the enthusiasm was unbounded, Red Cloud, with nine other chiefs, sat in a row on one side of the platform, and were, of course, closely scrutinized. They were all dreased in civ- ilized clothes, though of a pattern which, in super- bundant and shapcless bagginess, was singu- larly suggestive of Chatham street. They had evidently exercised a free choice in the mat- ter of hats, and each had chosen a different shape. Red Dog wore a high white bell topper; his next neighbor had a soft gray felt Greeley chapeau, and among the rest Kossuth hats seemed the prevailing: favorite, All the Indians, however, retained the nae tional moccasin, except Red Clond, who wore apair Of patent leather slippers. As a crowning evidence of the growing enlightenment of the red man, let it be noted that one of them sported a rose in his but~ tonhole, possibly the gift of some paleface squaw. Shortly after eight, Mr. P ‘OOPER called \the meeting to order, and, after a few introductory re- marks, presented Red Cloud and his interpreter to the audience, Red Cloud, at the word “time,” sprang hastily from his seat, and, advancing to the edge of the platform, gave one excited glance at the audience, and then stripped off his coat and flung it on the floor. This was doubtless to allow of his freely car- rying out the Demosthenic theory of oratery—the theory of action, action, action—and he certainly flung his arms about in a manner that was eminently emphatic and forcible, The speech, however, was, it must be confessed, In spite of its getting at its meaning. Instead of having a direct. jnterpreter the words were translated by an attendant, and then again repeated to a gentle- man who had suficient strength of lungs and familiarity with English rhetoric to make the speech heard through the hall, while at the same time he made it correspond in style and imagery to the pompous language of Cooper's rea men. The following is Red Cloud’s speech, which was interspersed with a running accompaniment of approving “ughs” from the other Indians. RED CLOUD'S SPEECH, “Tam very glad to come and visit my friends again. God has given us two kinds of days. God has given us the daytime, in which to work, and I propose to work while it is Ba‘ God tells me to do all the work Ihave todo in the daytime, and when the night comes it is time for me to go home, When God made the red man He gave him this country to live in, and when He made the white man He gave him a country across the water to live in. All my forefathers have lived in this country; all my associations are connected with this country; I have spent my childhood, boy- hood and manhood here, and I — Still to live and die here, My forefathers have told me that the white man is made of the same material as the red man, and I want to live in perfect friendshtp with every white man on the Continent. I have come to the Great Father to tell him that [want him to protect me in my own country, so that can build my own schoolhouses and churches and bring up my children as you bring up yours, T always, when 1 come here, go to the Great Father first, and then in the next place Icome to New York, which is a great big place. Iwant you to be friendly to me and my brethren, and to take pity on us and help us all you can, When I went to the Great Father before, and then went back to my people, I found there was some trouble and disturbance and want of confidence ; but I come to-day to Washington with a great deal of confl- dence, because the Great Father who isin the White House has always been honorable in the work he has done with the Indians, and is trusted by them. It takes more than two or three days to do any good work. I intend to back to own people and imitate ™m the best qualities which the white people have shown. I represent not only my own tribe, but all the tribes of the West. They will all try to'protect the peace of the country which the Great Father e There are red Mm enough in the West to take care of themselves, and I wish the Great Father to take the military force he has out there away, and leave the red man alone.” RED DOG was next introduced, and was greeted with loud “whooos” from some small boys at the outskirts of the meeting. This perhaps disconcerted the chief, for he made a very brief speech. He said he was giad to see lis friends again. When he had re- turned home after his last visit he had told his brethren what he had seen, and they had been greatly astonished at his stories. The white men were very numerous, and they knew how to take care of themselves. He wanted to establish in his nation some things he saw here two years ago, but the land he had tried to cultivate Was too poor to support him and his trfbe, and he now wanted the Great Father to give him some good land where he could make the experiment a success, The reason why all the chiefs had come tasee them was that they wanted todo what was right, and that they wanted to get their rights, and hoped that the-white men would pity and help them in every way. He wanted the Great Father to give him an opportunity to live as the white people did, and to bring up bis children he white children were brought up. He was very glad to see 80 many people, and that was all he had to say, Mr. tayton then said that these men had been represented as having come here with smooth faces, but with war in their hearts, Yet nothin; Was so sure as the promise of an Indian, As a proot of it the speaker told alittle story of an Indian named Waoxee ; but what Waokee had done or said was left rather obscure at the end o1 the anecdote. PROFESSOR TAYLOR'S REMARKS, Professor TayLon then proceeded to read a long harangue in favor of the “peace policy” of the present administration. He claimed “that the promises of peace made by the Indians had re- cently been well kept. There were very few out- rages, and such ag there were were not numerous enough to disturb the country, and the set- tlers from Minnesota to the Rocky Moun- tains felt secure. Only ai few years ago the nation had called out for war, but Congress took up the question in a pacific spirit, and sent out General Sherman on the celebrated “peace mission.” Since then we hed substantiatiy had peace, and where there had been apprehensions of war they had arisen in consequence of bad faith on the part of Congress in carrying ont the pecuniary obligations imposed vy the treaties made by General Sherman, In Arizona, however, the Apaches had broken out. Of these troubles the cause was not hard to see. A brutal oMcer of the United States Army hen ago had hung six chiefs without trial and without provocation, and later on there came the horrible Camp Grant massacre. Since that massacre outrages had constantly occurred there. The authors of the Camp Grant massacre still walked the earth without having been im any way punished. If, then, there were disturb- ances on the part of some of those Indians, it found abundant explanation tn this great and un- redressed wrong. @ United States Commission had now once more proclaimed its belief in the efficacy and success of a policy of kindness towards again this afflicted and Interesting people. It was to be regretted that the Dill making Indian contracts subject to the supervision of the Indian Commissioners had been defeated, and there were grounds to fear that the old ring of dishonest contractors had still unchecked control of that de. partment. The Indian still needed friendship and support. He had no voice in Congress, nor conld he ever bring @ suit in @ United States Court for the redress OF hits grievances and was whoily without means of redress for any wrong however DR. FISHER’S SPEECH. Dr. Fisher, one of the Indian Commissioners, sai@ that no one could judge the Indians who had now been among them and had grown familiar with their habits and manners. He, himself, had so lived among them, and, therefore, Kuew that two thirds of the white men on the frontier were indif- ferent to the just rights of the Indians. The newspapers toid us of every outrage committed by Indians upon white samen, out we never heard of the outr: perpetrated by white men the Indiana. White desperadoes frequentiy ‘upon the red men, stole their horses and et as hada been the case very recently, ot women ; and if they happened to be worsted and & few of them got shot it was proclaimed as an Indian outr: in all our newspapers, He believed that the Indians were more disposed to act fairly and honestly than the white settlers. No doubt there were depredations by Indians, but among Indians, as among white men, there were rowdies and desperadoes who broke away from tribal control and became what might be called “prairie pirates,” for whose deeds the tribes not responsible, ‘The mecting then adjourned, 4 brevity, very tedious, owing to the difficulty of”