, 1870-06-22

pieces, u fhe brother Of nswly-elected Tam
many Han Judge and The sou.in-Iaw of MI.
Dun, theatre manager.
Fish Is having regular Sabbath evening coz
eette At his Opera House, with music from
Handel and 01enbach incongruons1v Ther are
very successful, willie his show Of tbe Ts,nu-
taticns iB about run out
MCAocosNs
Mr. MAhlon II. Sands Secretary of tha Free
Trade League, Is to start to Nav nrnnswick.
Nora Scotia. and Newfoundland, in his yacht.
next week. He Is fine ssi1or, has = crew of
rode on the tail ''T, !" OF eleTasad ra;,vav.
Yesterday, and aaw no reason to bo nervous.
Two accidents have happened upon IT but one
OF them may be naid TO have been purnosely
cont1lsed, forty toms Of pig-non, or the weight
OF 400 men having been sent in cur
never holding more Than fifty men the othe1
aec,eent aaas va eansed % hy nervous conductor
OF things, and bet with tho party Of enterprise
and hope, and would not DO afraid to Hdo
over this road the year round.
The greatest ediaces now rising to import
ance in New York are; l. The East River bridge,
where they appear to be working for "io6, i
aAa not upon one-thst Is. waiting to zee how
much TIE State and City Treasury will shell
ont. Still tho caiaaon is in placo, and the
foundations Of the towers are being
set, while there is seen In eyery
shop window an enchanting French
chrome view OF the bridge and the two cities
r bopse 81 soMsFt The great lodging
rising up, the second tier Of windows. 5. The
huge union depot Of the Hudson River, Har-
lem and Boston Roads, probably the largest in
America. 4. The Post Office, which has been
"inrestigated,' but apparently to very little
purpose. Besides these, there are in course OF
elevation four large hotels, two OF thsm on
Broadway, TO cost about $500, 900 apiece.
Long Branch bids fair to be the political
capital Of the United States this summer, Yet,
TO my mind, it is the least attractive spot on
the sea side, beBet with mosquitoes, and har-
ing fow charms except those which money will
buy. Tho President will take his own cottage
there, and the peers Of the realm will, OF
course, group round him.
West Point during the gala exercises Of the
early part of tho week and inquired into the
negro-cadet cases. You have been roading
that the white cadets pumuelled and nick
named the dark-colored applicants. 1t IL un-
doubtedly true that the black boys got their
share ot the annoyance common to tue lnhabl-
tant lads OF the Military Academy, but civil
ians are no judges Of sucl, things, II you put
your own white son in West Point the boys
already there will bully Linn great doal moro !;
Tor the academy is place where chivnlry and
istjcufle cultivate themselves, the cadets start
ing u Will tn1supPoSllOH tnat ls lnoira ID pro-
Tession Of death, they cannot too soon got
over tho fesr Of black eye aud an iu!lame1
spirit. Dut nobody has struck any negro, and
no negro has how1od aloud, Tho outcry has
been made by some politicians and sonc Of
1Ir. Peter Coopors hunanitariAns, Magma
nimity il no part Of the exercises at West
Point, st. C5r, Woolwich, or any other mill
tary academy. It is give and take, hit or miss,
0 hard echool Of lie, and poor place for son
sitiye young people, whiteor black, to 50. Still
I believe It to be All institution man
aged III the spirit Of patriotism and war, nzis-
tocraiic in the fact that 1t is school OF ottictra
only, and willie it wilt always have cuomies by
the very conditions OF its ezistouco, what bet
ter can ne do while human nature is what it
is believe the school to be, all things con-
Eidered. tue best Of the kind in the woril, and
lake notice that some Of these legislators
who arc always decrying its anti-deinocratie
spirit arc not above selling c1aetahips in it to
the higheHt bidder. GATH.