aged 67. Elizabeth, wife of W. H. Watson, died. She attended the funeral services of Miss Carmody at the Cathedral, and left the church just before 12 M. enjoying good health, and at 1 P. M. she was dead. Disease of the heart is supposed to be the cause.

31. Thomas E. Lee, late of Albany, died in New York. John J. Gordon of the 8th N. Y. Artillery, stationed at Alexandria, died of accidental poisoning.

JUNE 1. Congress Hall, Albany.-Congress Hall, which to-day closes its mortal eyes forever, and the dwellings on the Park which it had absorbed, has a history that deserves to be commemorated. In the following communication to the World, Wm. H. Bogart has undertaken in part this office, and has suggested how it may be more completely fulfilled: The people of Albany respond at once to the request of the people of the state, and are preparing a beautiful site for the new Capitol. That Albany, and only that city, would be chosen for this good fortune, this correspondence avowed as its belief, while other cities seemed about to grasp the prize--and yet it is settled to be at Albany; not from any popularity of the place, for, in their hearts, the legislature wanted to decide to go to the metropolis at once; but the act of giving up all the property the state already owned, and to sanction such a thrice-gilt chapter in architecture as the casting of such contracts before the city would have been, was too far, too much; and Albany's choice, reluctantly, was made a fixed fact. The first step was to do just what was done with the old Capitol to go into partnership with the corporation of Albany. Then, as now, the building was to owe something of its existence to both state and city; which was wrong in 1796, and is wrong in 1865; for the state will pay tremendous interest on all it wins out of any locality. The state could best afford to do all its work itself. But in the shape of a gift of the land, the municipal authorities have quite rapidly done, and are in the act of doing their duty. The famous Congress Hall block, so famous in all the collateral history of the capital, is the selected, and indeed the indispensable property. This, and the estate in the rear, secured, and all that square bounded by Eagle, State, Hawk, and Washington streets, is the location of the new Capitol-whose beginning we see, but the close of whose construction account it shall not be for many a long year to behold. As it is decreed that a new Capitol is to be built, it would be folly to construct any other than such an one as will, by its convenience and its beauty, be a perpetual favorite of the people-repaying their eyes the expenditure of their pockets-a fair business transaction. The old Capitol originally cost $115,000. It is only facetious to mention that sum in view of the certain expenditure on the new edifice. The buildings now known as Congress Hall were a few years since, only in a section devoted to the purposes of a hotel. The necessities of the increasing business, and the energies and enterprise of Mr. Mitchell, have from time to time absorbed the dwellings of Messrs. Gregory, Benediet and Wing. I doubt if the new Capitol, whose marble may occupy this place, will in its record furnish any scene more interesting than that which was witnessed just here upon an August day in 1843, when John Quincy Adams, standing on the steps of the house of the venerable Matthew Gregory, addressed the citizens of Albany, and told them in such felicity of language, such result of wisdom, as belonged only to that greatest of our statesmen, his judgment of the grandeur of New York.

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