Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 31, 1876, Page 1

VOLUME 30. ¢ @hicoage Dailp Twibawe. CHICAGO, WED] R N - BROTHERS. - faving purchased direct from the manufacturers their entire roduction, and for cash, are enabled to offer the most . gptlar Bargains OF THB SHASON. Brocaded Batist Suits AT $S10; (ost $20 to Manufacture. ATLSO, 3,000 'LINEN SUITS, of 60 different designs, trim- med in Brown, Black, Navy Blue, Plain and Embroidered, commencing at the low price of $2.60 and upwards. In OVERSKIRTS AND JAGKETS Our assortment is large and at- tractive, and at the most popu- lar prices. (HILDREN'S SUETN § in endless variety and designs, for all ages, for 76¢c, $1, $2, $3, and upwards. Centennial excursionists will find it to their interest to ex- amine our stock and prices before making their selections. 121 & 123 State-st. BRANCET, Trenty-second-st, & Michigan-ay., SAVINGS INSTITUTION. $500,000 CAPITAL, $110,000 SURPLUS. The Oldeat and Lnr%uuc Savings Bank o the Northwaeat. Pays U por cont intorest por sugum on doponits, nombunnunllr, on tho 1st of January and 1st of July. All doposits mado during tho 1st threo daya of a month draw interost for tho month, SAFETY DEPOSIT VAULTS Ofthe State Bavings Institution, waro built for the nccommodation of tho Bukinbay Moh | and Bankera of Ohioago and the Northyvont, 'Thoy are_ IMire-Eroof and Burglar-L'root. loney, Dinmonds, Bonds, Doods, Ooit, Buliton, Bilverware, Wi and other valuu. bles takon on speoial deposit, and guarantood socurity. Safos in theso Vaults for ront at teasonablo rates, D. D, SPENCER, Pron't. A.D.GUILD Cash'r. GFO. C. COOK, Man'gr Batuty Vaults. 7 PER CENT. We will loan £25,000 to $100,000 on hukiners tmrrrly at BEV On hand to loan at 6, $800, 000, £1, 200, 00; at 8, 32,000, $2,H00. SCUDDER & SON, 107-100 Ilearborn-st. 'O REN' Desirahle Ofies TO RENT IN THE IRIBUNE BUILDENG. INQUIRE OF WILLIAM C. DOW, Tribune Building. Pu becoma a houschold word, ascsscntiala B e tamtiy " Misee perfeetly in warch. F. 4, WOOD, 236 Wabash-av., who will 'amples of work and teach you how to use it. ut {rocor or Drupglat for ZOLWE. RATLIROADS. Lightming Strikes And Liable to Strike Again. THE OLD RELIABLE BALTIMORE & OHIO R. R. Boston. . New York, Philadelphin, Baltimoro. ... Washington.. . 00 For full information call st the flnm.cnny'l Oflice, Palmer House: Grand Pacilic 1Intel, B3 Clark-st., nud in Depot, lixllmdllun Building, foot Monroe-st. THOS. P. BARRY, . M, COLI, Gen, Pass, Agent. LAXE SHORE AND West. 'ass. Agent, Michigan Southern Railway. THPORTANT REDUCTION In Passenger Ratos by tho Lnke Bhore & Michigan Bouthern Rajlway, to take effoct Tuesday, May 30. Now York, $16; Boston, $17; Buflalo, $12, For full infarmation call at the Companny’s Offico, 04 and 66 Clark-at,, Shorman House Block; Union Ofcos in tho Palmor Houso and Grand Pa- cific Hotel; and nt Twenty-nocond-st. Bla- tion, and in Dopot Oflioc on Van Buren-st. F. E. MORBD, G. W. P, Ag't. XLOTE HOTEL AUBRY, WALNUT-ST., From Thirty-third to Thirty-fourthesta., PHILADELPIIA, PA. ON THE EUROPEAN PLAN, STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS. BEST HOTEL IN THE CITY. JAMES T. STOVER, Manager. GAULT HOUSE, CHICAGO, Will furnish the best accommonations nt $2 u §2,50 per doy, Liberal disconnt to “nrllc hall bloek from C. & A, ', W, M & 8t. P., and three blocka from C. & N, W., €., D. L V., ., ¢ & St. L. Depots. Old customners, friends, ond all are Invited. P. W, GATES, Proprictor, P, 8.—We ftill mn! nd furnieh the hest engines and wochinery in t oxt, Send for eirenlar. I W. GATLES' SONS & CO., Logle Works. T PIANOS. i o 10 Call the Affenfon of Purchasers 10 our present extenstve amortment of Planos, whichi fn addition to our urual stock of the ever tutchiess STEINWAY {ncludes & Iarge varlety of fnetramenta from the fac- 1 and facarably Kouwn liakers, J, & RIS Our, exceptionally favorahls nrrangrinents with the mARNticturers whise Inatrinents we ent enables 118 Lo offer Pinnos during the prexent scaxvi 4t gures s 105 wn to e absolutely without precedent In thismarket. £ W sell upuh terms Lo suft tha pureliases, Geperal N, W, Agenta for Kieliwayk' Binn ! et L atm gt Al NEW PUBLICATION s sang at the Opening Ceremonter in Philadelphia. Words by Whittier, Musle by J. K. Puing Tn 4 }lurln, for Mixed Volces. Price in Sheet Musle orm, 30 cts. In Octave form for Choruses, 10 ctr. No celehration thin yeur will be complete withont the singing of this magniticent Hymm. Centenninl, Machinery, Horticoltural, 3 and Agricultura} Marches, cach 50 etw. | Wanhing- ton's Old (10 cts), and New (00 cts) Marches, tha Warhington's Waltz (75 ct4) and March (50 ctr). Grand March, by Dawning (U0 cts), Cen- tennfal Waltzes, by Fliege (75 cta), and_Crobo's Medly of National Alrs (75 cts) ; all huve Splendid THunstrated Titles ! nnd the best of music. CENTENNIAL COLLECTION OF NATIORAL SONGS. An clegant and nttractive volume, contalns the Natfonal Sonzs of thixand 12 other countrics, in conventent form for Solo or Chorus singing. ' In Paper, 40 cta. Boards, 50 cta. GoonNEwsl Charming New Sabhath Goop Nrws? GoonNuws! School Sung Boolk (35¢). Goon Nxws? CARMINA COLLEGENSIA, CCloth, $3; GIIt, $4.) New, Enlarged Editlon, Al the famous Collegu Sonew, forming the wittient, most entertaining, musicat and classical collection of gemal Sonys and Glees for sucial singing ever brought together. OLIVER DITSON & CO., Boston. LYON & HEALY, Chicago. LAUNDRY. We want 1t thorougl reduction ln prives of 1 are udvertising ts bonit thle, aad thut wo amean Junt whnt we sny, Nhiria, 10 centat atlior urticles on the list in proportion. Officen nt 120 Dearborn-ut. 40 North Clarke at.s uid GU8 Wabaslenv, M. & L. DIUNGER, € * M Al Discount on City Taxes. TIHE SAFEST INVESTMENT FOR YOUR MONEY I8 IN YOUIt OWN ‘I'AXES, uwpeclully when you can get a HANDSOME DISCOUN'T, “Ihe City of Chicago will, nt sny timo before June 1, K70, horrow "m"l‘ ons owing City leal Estatu ‘Faxed for the year 18735 the amount of such taxes, allowing two (2) per cent discount, snd after Juns 1, aud prior to July 1, 1876, allowing une aud onw half (1Y) per cent discount, and will lssne nderstood that the ndry work that we vouchera therefor which may be used ot once, or l‘mld until the ownerls prepared to'pay his other axce. $by order of the Mayorand Finance Comumltice, 8. 8, HAYLS, Cumrlmllcr. 1t i, City Hall, Apply to aom i TTMENASHA, WIS. Bruce's National Hotel. For fishing, boating, drives, and sporting thero i no place fl) the State that excels Menasho and fus surroundings. Menselia ls advautageously situated at the foot of Winuebapo Lake, on the “Iig Fox Stiver, within an casy ride of Milwaukeo, TheNu- une of the best hotels by the interior, RESS HALL, Seraloga Springs, . Y, ant hotel, posseasing the advantage of inted belween and adjointing the celebrated e 8 Hathurn Springe, 18 nw open for the on of guess T TERMS FORJUNE, §21 PER WEEK, Thoroughly renovated ' with additounl bathe, new furniture, and otlier extensive fiue proseaienta, it willbe found, by thoso in scarch of ealth aud pleasure, the most complete and con- venicnt, a8 well astho wost delightful of sumuicr hotels. HATIIORN & COOKE, Proprictors. tional CONG 82, al 1he 01d Stand, No. 100 Markel-st., Bear Madison. aENTE 66000 ok K ok LanLrap Samlacuirar, O céits Sachy; ut 100 South Clark-t., Lo basmont.’ MEDICAL. CONBUI!fPTION. INDIGES- TION, and Wasting Discases. The st spproved itemedies av PA.N CREATIC EMULSION a0d Pancreatine, The Orfiinal and Genatue preparcd vuly by SAVORY & MOORE, J4¥New Bond-at., London. £old iy them an Chiemiteta snd Biorckecpers urougbout tho World THE EVENING T A NEW TH A Long-Snfiering Want of Chicago About lo Be Gratified. A LIVELY, FEWSY, SPARKLIGG AFTERNOOY PAPELER. “THE CHICAGO EVENING TELEGRAPH.” The frst number will be published on 1 MONDAY, JUNE 5. Independent, Fearless, Enterprising, Clicago has s want. Tthas always had a want tunt hos never heen supplled. That want is o fively, newsy, aparkling EVENING NEWSPAPER. The undersigned han determined to supply tbat want. OnMonday, June 5, will be {swued the Grst number of * THE CHICAGO EVENING TELEGRAPIL® Tt will bo called the Telegraph beeanse it will be Inrgely made up of telegmphic dispatches, the greater part of which will he pecial dispatcher. 1t will e dxened from the Times Building, and the vast resources of the Times will be used in lts pro- duction, It will, however, he entlrcly scparate and distinct from the Vimes, employing an entirely separate and distinct corpa of editora und report- ers, and no matter being duplicated. The two papers will, in fact, be ns separate as if they were printed In different locations and by different pro- prictors. It will hea NEWSPAPER. It will fake the same rank us an evening nowspaper that the Thmnes holds 8 0 morning newspaper. 1t will be superior to all others. 1wl enjoy the magnetic telegraph more largely than that instrumentality §s employed by uy other ovening newspaper {n the warld, and its editorlal and reportorial forcea will be of ample strength and the best quality. It will be an independent Journal, politically and In every other way: discussingall questions from n pertectly Impurtial standpolnt, and eschesw- ing party ormanubip as Inconsdetent with and de- grading to round journalism, It will, howcver, never be neutral, It will bave declded convictions, and express them, on every matter of public con- cern. It wili be o popnlar newspaper oa to price. Tt will e rold ot 8 cents per copy; dellverend by ear- rlers In the eity a4 16 centa per week; and sent by mail ot 87 per year, postage propald. It will he sold by newedealers overyiwhertat fheents per copy. Chlcago has never had o irst-rate Jow-priced news- paper, but it will herenfter have one that will be within the humblest means. 1t will be afolio aheet, of reven columus to the poge, containing twenty-clght columns In all, and, as moderately nmall types will be used, will con- tatn more reading maiter than any other Chicago evening paper. ‘This matter will be of Infnite va- rlety und Intereat, Tlie grand aim of the Telegraph whi be to print all the news which falls within the scope of an evening paper, political, commarelal, and general, dished up fn the most pulatable manner, 1t will be a paper that everybody will wish to read, and that will e o neceasily to everybory. 1t willbe publishied on every day of the week, nday, two editions belug fssued on each day, oneat about 230 o'clock, andthe other il An it whil Jump at onco into nulversal cireutu- tlon, It will be an excellent udvertising medinm, W RE'Ra_quD. (reat Western Tyne Bonndry, BARNHALT BRUS, & SPINDLER, REMOVED TO 146 Fifth-av. TULL LINE OF TYPE, PRESSES, AXD Printers' Supplies. T T pinucrouy, 7 i The Directery Canvass is flnishod to-day. If eny one has boecn omitted, or changod rosidonce since beoing canvassed, thoy would confor a favor by send- ing information ut onco, ADVERTISEMENTS for insertion should bo handed in immodiately. DONNELLEY,LLOYD & CO., Publishors, "CANNED GOOI "CANNED GOODS, CASI PRICES, Cholce -1 Tomatues, per 00%..... Cholee 2.1b Tomutoes, per do - Yellow Feaches, per doz o Peachion Yarmoul Kensetls' Keunetta' 1 Limu Beans. Wilson & Co.'s WINE MERCHANT, INPOUTEL OF IIAVANA SIGAIRS, AN DEALER IN Famlly Grocerles, California and Troplend Frails, 146 BABT MADISON-8T,, Chicago. gives jes black and More permabent wlox to tadiew and childrensnlions thin auy other dre A N ¥ and rsuaded Inferforarticle. Sold by Druggist - SEOURHOLOLOS. AREEINGL CHICATD & NORTUWESTERN RAILWAY c. 24, 18] A 0. The Annnal Mceting of the Siuckholders and Bondhollers of this Company, for the clection of Pirectors, pursuant 1o law, und for the teansaction of otter business, will be held at the onieo of the Company i Chicugo, on Thursday, the 1stof June next, ot 1 p, Bondboliters wil autheuticate thelr right to yoto by presonting thelr vating bonds ut the vilice of the Company, Nu.bfi".' ‘Vll:l-hl i?\,\.‘iv‘ York, ‘lnl wegls- tration, vn or before the 1st of May proxinio. ALBERT KEEP, l,n'lhlcnl. A, L. SYKES, J8,, Becretary, ESDAY, MAY ° 1, 1876, DECORATION-DAY. Its General Observance In and Around Chicago. The Thousands of Visitors atl Roschill---Addresses and Decorations. Unveiling of the Soldiers' Monument at Oakwoods Cemetery. Ceremonies at Calvary---The First Appearance of the Second Regiment. Services at Graceland---Address- es by English and German Speakers.I How the Day Was Observed Else- where. | 4 IN MEMORIAM. Doar bright flowers this eclemn day, bring fair roses of the !!:I(V- Gather wreathn of white liles, and rpriga of Lon- ny heathers O'er the ficlan of many 8 fray, we'll joln the Blue and Gray, Mingling tears of bitter grier for heroes lost, together. Cloaping liands abose the grave, where, beneath, The true anid hrave Are slerplh rent unbroken by this life's paln or plearnre, We'lt awenr |):1 ono another oll thonghta of strife to smuthes, And brothers be fotever In friendship's fullest measnre. Dring flowers this glorlous morn, their greon graves we'll aduri With fairent, stinfost blossomn our Mother Earth L cn yiell. o hearts st hiaver, bolder, than they that nos o cold are, Who, mecting, fought as focmen on many o celnwon iield. Thelr epirits slvo s greating, we focl ftat thls eetin Wao h v them in thelr swhispers soft to one another suy: +The Blue umd Gray forever—no carthly power can fever The hearts und handa now joining o'er onr mingled dust to-day," JAMES LAVALLIN, DECORATION DAY, AND ITS OUSERVANCE. Decoratlon Day, 1870, was observed with as much patriotle devotion to the memories of the fallen brave us uny of its predecessurs. It was made 2 fort of hollday, and multitudes of people, ombluing patrlotism with a Tongig for o snill of country alr, took the early tralng und came fn on the Jate ones. The beautiful sky, the oceaslonal breeres, the fresh, enlivening ap- pearance of everything In the country, added much to this happy mixture of patriotism and enjoyment, The exerclses at the various ceme- terfes were for the greater part a8 upostens tatious as ponmeible, the desire helng to re- lieve the celebration of the excessively formal character it hanrometimes had. While there were perhaps fuwer and #horter uddresses than on previous anniversaries, no one will beleve that there was any less aincerity. Tas tralns were crowded all doy long, wh vinitors fortunate enongh to proceed by earler and wicee comfortablo modea of locomution Louk enrringe, to the varloia cemeterien, The combined attenduce wan equal to that of any previogs year, i §tdid not n fuct exceed it The EMI{ adjournment of the Board of “Frae and the partisl closing of many busiiers Touses inereased the number of pleacure-seekers, i the city wore o boliday appeurunce as well s the guburb, ROSEHILL. A GENERAL OUTPOURING. Ten thousand people guthered at Rosehill. Trafns on the Northwestern were jamined, and the drives to the cemetery were crowded, Peaple cume from ull directions, and at noon the inmense assemblage was seattered through the beautiful grounds, The graves had been decorated carly in the morning, and when the multitudes urrived the mounds under which the soliliers lie were covered with flowers, Great fiags were draped around the monuments, or were stretehed aeross the entrances to the plats, Along the coplngs around _the grave-tuclosures were twinfog streamers and fmmortelles. From the battlemented entrance the cemetery Tooked iike n huge hot-house. The sunken mounds, over which the grass had been esrcfully trim= med, were rafsed with floral offerings untit each was o bank of fragrance. 1ere and there between them ditle fags blended their eolors with the rose, the violet, and the lnmortelle, The soldices’ monument was wrapped i w smoke-stained, battlesworn flag, and the shatt. to the southwest wis o fountuin of slender streanters, umder whose shadows fluttered smaller Hags, waving over wreaths of roses, The por of the cemetery devoted to ther Luriad of the dead soldiers I8 uear the entrunce, Seattered through the grounds ure dsolated ves, but the main part Hes to the north, The plits are plalndy Jald out, but tenderly cired for. Kouth of the mumument the stand nd beew erected, covered with Baygs, At the apex in front s it e eagle, wader ity talons the shichl, hearing **In memorium™ Iy bl Tug the speakers’ rafl was o sea of slowers, aud on 15 Yu!{umv wurface sailed a tiny shlp, {0 esotles, 1u decoratiug perhiap ct wus u little uni- furm. A wreath the xame pattern, ally by hundfuls of loose and broken llowers, the appearance of wtillness provalled. Apart from thie, 1he lshor was tastefuily dons, and, us it wis, the effect produced s peculiar senkation upon the hosts, hulf of plessu the cye and Lulf paln 1w the recollections it yuickened. THE MEAT. “The tun poured dowa wercliessly, and the fow- d for wuter, In the roadways aud along pulhis thiere was no protection. A few trees o litle shedter around the stand, and hun- 80 were relioved o il ellan did the rest. Defore the open- ) leen the visitons sauntered about 1 unde. Some bl come for the hollday, but. there was manya mourntug garh i the throny, auy wany o pale and saddened fuce, After muarching wlowly arutind the war maps near the entranee, the: w crowds separated into knots and visited the graves. farther oh. Tender hunds hud decorated there, Harps with fragrant stefusw, bouts with perfumed d crunses wet with the dews of weepln Gyen'wera acattered over them. A softy low wind Crent throngh the leaves of the trees, amorew sigh tan a breese, aud the flowers. raived thele breath to meet itgund € cume Inden with all the sweeticss f Ui raves und ptals, Four compaites of the it Regiment wero on the ground, Company **A™ wan_counmanded by Capts 1. 8, Crosby, Conquny > 18 by Capt. J. Pewltt, Company **D " hy Capt. A. L, Guld- o, aud Company *41° by Capt, "L, Ruti- Ko, Thoman, und’ Evanston Posts of th Grand., Ariy of the itepublic led i the eserclxes, At u fittle before Lzo'clock the roll of mutlied druns wan heard, aud the hewd of the coluu wound alowly around the pathway, past the graves and the fowers, past the lowenng monmuents and e Mutiering g, Maltiug, *the military prescuted. wrins us the Post of tho” Grund Ariny pas e, following, took wp thefe Tine bofore the o ‘he slguel brought the stragglers from all direc- tlon. q-n.-n{ and urdecly they mneed thenscly B vast et 0f heids and fices, fringed by the tomb= btones and monsids thot bonnded th gathering. THE EXLKCISES were Interesting. On the stand wers Lieut. -Gen. Shoeidan, with his alds, V2 Shiceidin uud Col. b, A F o, M Tt fursyt 4 er, the ltev. Dr. Packard of Swayne, Copt, Ludlow. Capt, Winbe, aud Mra. Eo C. Trosdell, and the Bl ib. * DF. Swayhe ahnaunced the op ices, and Introduced the Quaitetts Cl Flag o Ous Heroes," rendered mast exquin- {tely. Authe music arusc, heads woro uncosered, und ua it died uway, though thers was 1o upplatss, tho silence complimented the elfect BOLLCE tian tha wiliest demonstration of delight, The Hev. B, Yucknrd ltered o prayer: %+ Wo thank Th hunt blussed thlv day With 8 baptisu of rain snd the Mgght of the sun," und he thanked tho Creator that us frosh sy the lowers aro the recollection of the decdn of thoso wha le undee the roses, and towhon a nation tentitles it gratitudo in it oiferinza, The rltual of the Grand Ariny was read by the Chaplal wholed ln the respoustye service. +* Under il Green Sod ™ wus vung by the Quarteite, and then TUE LBV, U. D, TRUSDELL was introduced for an addrose, 1o bad written his rewarks, ho pald, becawso bo wauted to kuow what he waa saying, and he wanted to atop when he got through. This congregation had _come to visit the graves of departed heroes in affuctionate remembance of what those heroen had been nnd y had wronght. They bnd come in adnese, —-zlad to meet” each other, 1 refiection upon thelr mission: wlad that in this Centenntal year they were permitted to cele. brate the decds of thelr fathers who had Iaid tiro corner-rtoned rad that they muat look upon the gruvee of thele brothere, husbands, and sons, who had fallen fu the preservation of nur lbertless ##lnd that the conntrs lad heen saved and sustalned ; radd that many lagibied epirite stil] cling with re- eltlons hentts 1o the loxt Canse: slad that rebel- Hon Liad gone out 1n wlter dakness wud that the enetny hud hoen onr owh bretlieen, part of onr ows fumily, and Ut their crlue and pundshment had Yen oiunlly ouzs, Tt a vaoced anniversnry, and the natfon wanld be unworthy the heneflts that rpensg from these graves §f St reduved to recognize the workn of U s upiler the monnds; o I sgnition of the noble e rruven micred. Hislory soldiere, aud wonld pres 1 not weat ont the pnae, and while wn honored the dead we pitfal their ene who struck at them still,~encmies in the and in the _rear, enemic of the sword ond thepen. Plty them ax Satan was pitied, — biting his naile in linpotent rage A auw the pllgrm drawlog away from him, hon of the War was it ended. Eternal vigilanee wis the price of liherty, We had no aympathy with the mandiin sentiment that would tear the record of victorles from the floz, cast down the monuments, and lesel the praves of the heroes who slept o them, ‘The history of these men was written in o hundred thourand“hesrts, and could not be crared. These eoldlers were not desd, Their devdw couldd never die, The grave could not cuntine 8 soldfer. They Tived in's better jund, where the clash of arms sud the thunder of artil- lery were card, At the close of the addresa the Blaney Quartet led fn ** Awerica, " the throng joining, THL REV. L. N, PACKARD was introtuced. and spoke earnestly, Tt s a grateful thinz,™ said he, *‘to yather here and Etrew llewers upon the graves of fricnde failen in battle,” He puid & glowing tribute to the reaults that fallowed the deuth of theee men, and pietured the futnre of the Government and country for which they lisd Juid down thelr lives. Gov. Hever- fdge followed in a graceful and cloquent nddress, uil Gen. Sheridan thanked the people for theie tender regard for the memory of is old conrades, The ey, Mr. Trasdell offercd prayer, and after the cloning cxercinen by the Grand Army, 10,000 voices twok up the Doxolo “Tlhie coremonies were overat 1:30,and the crowd ranged alons the track waiting for the teain, or fuished thelr explorations of ‘the cemetery, In one cornier, the ronthwest, wan a grave tl heen unintentionally oyerlooked, 1t wan the grave y ktood an_elderly woman ack. By her slde wasa litle lvd hair, Among eo Ty one, bt $Ewould be e to consince the olil lady that her boys srave shetld lie barren nnder the Nmmer sun, withnoth- ingg from all thut slore of fowers 1o brighten #how lier §t had been remembered. “Sadiy whe turned away, her face wet with tears, The little gl hemtated o mament, Jookes timidly around, and, pln king o dandelion, laid it tendérly ou the mound. Carpers o F] it or OAKWOODS. UNVEILING THE SOLDIERS MONUMENT. At Oakwoods Cemetery the nost interesting ceremontes of the day were expected to take place, andas a result thousands hied themselves to this heautiful dty of the dead, where e oldering the bones of £o muny hrave veter- ane. The gutherlng, however, was made more interesting by the unvelling of u monument dedivated to * The Soldiers of Dlinols,™ by the Munugers of the Soldlers’ Home. The train which Jeft the Tlinols Central Depot at 12:10 yes- terday consisted of fourteen conches, erawded {n every part, 50 that hardly standing-room on u platform could be found. In this pu portion of the Firet Regiment, which took part in the veremonfes. At every station this throng of humanity was added to, until the passengers were go crowded that convenfent standing-room was considered o luxi traln b netery, and roun Alter was relleved of Its immense Joud of Tving freight. IN THE CEMETERY wan formed TTiard Vost U, A I Foster, Neadwl by Nevins & 1 nain roud stood n hnge trek riderly W y «, upun which were seated 15-yea ol boyd, whis acted as deivers, Prof. Murniy hud araunized n chorue of 14 volces of children of the Englewood Normal Schiool, and Mixs Mack u cholr of thirty fumales, which farnfshied music, THE PROCESSION was formed near the_main entrance-gate ns fol- Nevine & Deaw's Band: Whittler_und psts, G, A, R detuchment of Firet Tiegiments civitians, ete. The crowd upon the grand at this thne must have been well on to B 000, und wne fast being swelled fo_greater pro- portions by new urrivalé. - The procession marched 10 the north ection of the cemetery, where the voldlers’ gruves ure locuted, near which THE MONUM. ts placed. Tt % aluly the i QLCr 14 foot b, drosed fu 8 futizue” uuiform, Wtandingat o parade rest upon & hizhly-polished pedestal, The monument i of the purest Amer. Tean marble, cost 1250, il i marked with the. simple’ fnserigtion, **Tu Mewory of the Soldfersnf Dlinofs.™ A free-will ollering from the sondiers' Howe fund to our fallen braves, it re- Hocts great eredit upon the ludies composing the Buard of Dircetors af that {nstitution. “Fiie arrangements fr the coremonies were most completr, It the Posts aving In charge the build- {2 0f n platfor put up un uncovered 7 by 0 attair Fthe Tort sun-exposed portion of the cemetery, where tho »peakers were expecied to dilate bar Newled. Ahother grievous error was plicing the platforin 6o thats henutiful rear-view of the onu- ienteould be ubtuived immediately after it win Tovelled. The platforn should have faced the stutiie, After the weual delays fncident to ench Gccantons, the processiun was formed in o hollow wquare around the onunent, and TUHB CEREMONIES OF TIIE DAY COMMENCED. After o potpourri from **Martha, " ll{lhr band, ©C. £, Beueh, Chaplaln Department of Tlinols, G, A, 1L, Ted {n prager, followed by the openii: ser View aecording o the G, A, R ritwal, the resunes Belhg e by'd. . DeiVale,” Clapliin of Hiidlard Pust, The puplly of the Normal School then mang S Tentiue on the O3 (‘:\m])-\%rmunl. *and the Hev, Mr. dohmeon, uf Hyde Purk, offered up u feeling i Trcandye prager, follokod by the Ttev, 1 Tionnelly, of waod, who read ol upproprial as folluwed by the of o Unlon rol. vction Of the Seripture,” Thhs chililren sin Over Thet M. Sanmcl Weaty of Usde Park, then reclted o poem, writfen by an old veteran, At thu concluson of the rending, tho unvelling of the monument, which had been completely hid- den by & o fag, took pluce, Dre k. C. Hamill perforining the cartmony amid loud applause, e flien Introdneed the Lon. Thomas B, Bryon, who apoke brieily and sppropriately. "[lo adirees ws frequently interrupted with ap- v, 'The children then sang ** Amerlea, ' after 1 the buud played the **Btar-Spungled Bun- ) Ttov. Charles E. Cheney, Dishop of the Teformed Eplscopal Church, was then jutruduced, und apoke brietly, The puplls of the Normal School sang another patriotic woug, afier which Mr. B, S, Vall, of tils city, spoke he Jong-metze doxology was then wung, after which tho cluskay exvrclscs took place, ‘e new monnment was very tastefully docorated with wreaths and ribbous,” The ladivs and the nicmbers of the . A, R. then atrewed the praves with low- ers, and mauy 3 wother, sister, wife, and dauzhter Dathed ngain with tears " the xod which covered her beloved, After this ceremony, the G A, I deco- rated the unmarked Iicbel graves, aud at 4:15 welock the train was tarted for Chilcago, and ar- rived at 5:55, with a tired and huugry crowd well satlaled Wit tho day's brococdiings. ool CALVARY. THE SECOND REGIMENT. At Calvary Cunctery the uttendanco was very large vompared with foroier years. The ar- rangements, however, were not as - complete us they might und should have been. A dispost- tion on the purt of some had been manifested o pander to certaln relfglous beliefs and preju- dlees In the exerclses, but ou the other band the lurger proportion of waive partlcipants had tuken w more comprehendvo view of the cele- bratlon aud were oppused to snything ke tarfunisim entering to tha ubservances of the day, 'This dispute served, however, ouly to mar the preflminaries, for when the ceremonies commenced the two fiwtions, in the ubsence of partisan leaders, ran toguther very naturully, and cach contributed its part to raking the sers vices creditable to all engaged in them. TUB EXKRCISES werounder the fmmedlute direction of Reynolds Q. A. 1t and tho Second Reglment. The ance of the sokliery was really the feature of - & dity, but there was something fn the uppearance of the Post that guve s deeper delight to muny Tearty, for it agreed Lo Join b the exerclses after wther Pasts had refusrd ‘on account of potty relig- us prejudice. 1t wan the lirst appearues of the Second Teginpent i unlform i public, und wll eyes Were centered upon it Tho unlforin’ wa uo less adimirod than the soldierly beariwg of the men, and Buta fow wora feady (o wp thut tho, reglivent wuy at tio bead of e Slate willta Ir. cenerul appear- ance as well s perfection of drili und discipline, Certauly mo one could cowpluinet ite debut, and, although the uniform was not complete, and the’ gune were old-faxhioned, the appearance of the mien wae hihly crdditable 'to the city, to our putriotic Irieh citizens, and to the State, The train bearine the decorations reached the cemetery abont 13430, The Reynolda Past and the Sccond Regiment, headed by o hand of mnsic una drum-corpw, immediately formed into line and entered the gronnds. A march through the prin- clpnl avenien wa first had, nud the nnll‘mn’(y of the uceasion war fucrrnsed by the singular colicl- devce thot private fncral o preceded the procession. This helit throuih with, the Second tepiment wom eeattered threish the cenetery to ard duty over the gr 1o he decornied, le the members of Reynolds Fost gathered about o etand which had heen neranged fur THE ORATORS OF TIIE DAY near the entrance. Maj, Brown ealled th 10 order at ahont T e'clock, and the rxe were opened with afervent prayer by Gen, Mann, in which u blessing was fnvoked eqeciuliy upon the Second Regiment, ns well as yencrally wpon thie deud and their widows and orphians. The oration followed. Most of the gruves had be atrewn with tlowers lu_ the foresioon by the fadicn who were earlier an tho ground, and all that was left to complete the programmse wae Lo o throtsh the tarmality of vieiting the soveral tomhs and dv. poviting aprlis of everzreen upon each as Lokens of affcction for the rausein which the fallen had divd, an ar 8 rcnewed evidenco uf reepect fn tho “memory of depaited " comeaes “The grave of the fate Col. Mulligan wax found profusely bedecked with the viches of the foral world, ax hus been the canc in other sears. Other graves were prettily adomed, tut Cil. Mulligan's Wwan the must notable, Ko far, however, ae the for- mal decoratiun wan cuncerned, BlL graven were rerved alike, AFTER THE DECORATING LEXERCISES the aeecmblage, clvillan and soldier, gathered about the stand and wero nddreaned by GOv. Kev. eridir, Who raid he had comerll the way from Springfield to take purt In the exerciaes, andhy W. A, Hiues, the orutor of the day. They were intro- duced by W. J. Onaban in a few appropriate re. miarks, 8nd their epecchen were brivf, pertinent, and well received. e narty reachid the city on the return trip about 4 o’cluck, ufter haviny enjoyed o very pleas- wntacneon, The Second Keviment, sfter leaving the cars, formed and paraded through some of the principal streetr, headed by a bund of music, sad uttructed not hittle sttention. GRRACELAND, TIE GERMAN CELEBRATION. The observance of the beautiful custom of strewing fowers over the graves of the heraes und shuwing gratitude for thelr services I b half of the Republic was gfncerely and becom- ingly Impressive at Graceland Cometery, which just beyond the northern city limits, nod 10 the Jake shore. Early [n the lovely May morning the Devorating Committees, com- posed of Clements Kirchiner, Phillp Enders, and Gustav Rocher, of the Twenty-fourth Ilinofs Volunteers; Gustsy Keakke, George Edsall, and Juhn Lenn, of Lyon Post, G. A, R, and Commander Bolle, Charles Umidenstock, Charles Hottinger, and C. 11 Hardwick, of Wyman Post, assemblel ot the cemetery, und, whh wreaths of flowers, and evergreens, and whields, sl small Hags, decorated the resting places of ninety-two of the country’s defenders. Ilere and there among the muny grand and lofty monuments which mark the lots of many of the best cltizens of Chicazo could be thie handiwork of the Committees and the many of the Iatter relatives and friends dead, Loving and sympathizing friends of botl pexes were proxent from the beudn- ning to ndd their mite to the proper. obeervance af the veeaston, and did not walt for the procession of veterans, who started about 10 o'clock from the North-Side Turner-lall in omnihoses, The Great Western Light Guurd Band, surviving members of e Twenty-fourih HHinets Volunteers, and Wyma und Lyon Toste of the G, A, K. were the partici <A1 the orzanlzed Tue, und with many follow. eraarrived at the cemetery at noon. leavine the omnibuses it the Green Bay Road und marching in order thenee 1o the On entering the gate the band played a dead smarch, ana continned it unll the stand at th thivestern ext ¥ e buriud grromud wan reached, A green snd “ine vithz spot, under the shade of xome large tre hnd Deen selected aa the place for holding the crefses, st u platform, festooned with evergreeny god decornted with fhage, had been erected. Sronmd this stage the people, Including many Tadies, arsembled. The speakees. Post offieer: und the band eceupied the platform. L was 12310 orlack when the baral opened the ceremontes with aditge, and ofter fU e Rev. Rubert Collyer do- Tivered an impressive address, full of gratitude snd Jove for i brave buga hud apent tOielr lives for the and o Just telbate o their e wald they had nesembled for three ecunse it n nuble dul over the saered lo third, to excl wome length on there topics, aml closed with o tonching allusion to the memories brought forth by the day. cut ‘rensons: rsl, wecond, 1o punder sht: nnd OTIER ADDRESSEN, After another sacred selection by the Arthur Erbe, o veteran of the Twenty foln Vounteens, responde radea, n number of Wwhom marks were In German, and wer Feelings which the uccusion called forths from the sarviving wold Anothier dirze was performed by the b then Capt. Willinm Vecke, of Wyman Pust, wn eloguent uddeess on the pratitade which the Jition owed fte dead und Jiving leroes, and re- vieswedl the Distory of the Titieal revnlts and slenbticunce. Afioai 1,000 peuple were afound (he plattorm, and letenid attentively to the speaking, APTER THE CEREMONIES caticred over the ceme- tery to admire e many beautiful and cortly monn- Tuents and hanisomely inclosed lota and inasslve Vaulie, tnd to pay special tribote o the natlons 1 vans, soue of whose graves bore neither mark rnate, The Grand Aty Porte und other vet- erans marched ont of thecenietery In feversed wrder, 10 show thelr respect for thelt deud fellow- woldiers, "Atnung the soldiers buried at Graceland are Gun, Ttoliert Ernkine, mx regular urmy officers, and fonr of the navy. Capt, Teter I Wood, Licut, Georze e, Bdward Russell, Willlam PHUFollansbee, Daniel” R, F m, and dawes L Hetts, aro amonz the dead of that brave company, Lattery VAT of the Chicago Light Artillery, who slecp raceland. Friends and relatives were present, w2 Noral tributes uud silent tears to the loat o onew. Among other graves ure those of Col. Jobn 11, 71 and son: Luclus 8. Larrabee, Captain in Jewarth's reziment, who fell ut - Gettyshurss Col,, 1 d. Turdbut, Col. Mexser, and others, O e ninety-two dead soldicrs burled In Graceland thirty-five were commirsioned oficers. Iing the ufiernoon many veople came out in carrluzen and an the cuns, uniil U participnnte o The ceremoules of the day were swelled 1o several thousands Ju numbe e ILLINOIS. SPRINOFIELD, Special Dispatch o The Tribune. SPRINGFIELD, 111, May 80.—Dccorution Day was more generally observed In Springfield to- day than in former years. Business was very generally suspended, and the bustness men des orated thefr stores In great profusion. To- night portions of the city ure brillfuntly fhuni- nated. At 8 o'clock a detachment of the Grand Army of the Republie, together with o number of other fadles and geutlumen, went out to Ouk Ridge Cemetery, where they handsomely deco- rated the Natfousl Lincols Monument, the Soldiers’ Monument, nud the individual graves of soldiers buried there. -5 About the same hour the reshient newspuper correspondents and representas thves of the clty press drove out to Ok Ridz wrllng a earrlage contaln- Ing Mrs. E. i, widow of the late Gen, urian, Gov, Palmer and other of the funily frends united fu decorating the grave of their decensed friend. Gen. E. I IHarlan waa in bl Jifetiiue un honared member of the profession, aud Rpringlield correrpondent of Tk Citicaao ‘Tuin- UNE. A handsome foral wreath bearing 8 mono- ratnuatc deslyn was Grat lald upon the grave, and {ien auqueta by ench of the tywspapur ussociates and friends of the deceased. Gov. Vulmer spoke fiteily of the integeity and other estimable quali- Ve of thie decenscd, amd Saj. Louts Southve, cor- Ieapondunt of the Chicago Ziues, followed by brief e u'nm principal o vunve of the doy was at the Nutional Cemetcry, At 11 v'clock (e Grand Aty, “wiidards, wud Shernn Unards, of thifs citys the Collom Guards, of Williameviile ; wind tho Harrda Guards, of Pefersburg, formed (n Yine, under the direetion of Geu, Jobn Couk and Capt. do I C. Trwln us Marehaly, and, after iatuding the principal streets, took speciul trains or Catap. Butler, where the' graves of ueatly a thoneatd soldivrs burled thers were decorated ac- cording to_the ceremanics of the Grund Army of the Hepublic. Comeade John M, Palmer delivered e, uration, which was & glowlug tribute to the suldiers and one of the Governor's wost bappy ef- forta, After U ceremonies, which were witiesn- ed by 8 very Targe number, the cowmands returned tothe city, MO, dpectal Dispatch so The Tridune. Monns, 11, Moy To-day baw been more nnllhm{lay thau cver be- Bunks, , und neatly all lupor- tant pluces of wiil. The forenoan wuy wccupied st the Catholic cemetery, and this of- ternoon ut thu Protestant. Tl oratiun at the for- 10¢ec wad delvered by Qv lea, P A, Arwstoong, PRI FIVE and at the Intter by the Ton. Charles A, ot Hothar The oratlam wam inpsior HA S and lu every respect befitting the occaslon. The procesvion wan about 2 miles n extent. Over 500 wchool ellldren were provided with carrisgos, and rome of the choolx appeared with sl the' gitls reeed by white: having npproprinte sshon: . T revernl Siates we represented cach by & b It ex- Tha aban. CENTS. young Tady topt white glove fire companlen and all nocletics toned thelr usual custor ~¢ appenring an_ distinct organizations, and thy &2 embers nulted in the ceremonies as citizens) 2y, - The excrelscs wery very impre e, and ret _red more deepiy inter- esting by the cordial | w5y exhibited by all the participants, and the 8] S iee of the usual glitter and parade of the rel 21 ordem and mociolics which formerly Lave | Jared on tifat day secin- inzly on parude. The *% wie was rendered by a aclect cholr and a cor ¢ band. Each aoldier's prave wan decorated by | =eenth, after which each of the young ladies repl ~nting the severnl Siaten acuttered the fowers, ¢ ¢*ie large procession that followed pald a tribute = the niemory of the nnl- dicsn, each member ple R g apeizs of evergroen and tiowers un cach gray 3 10¢, ®aRn, The Tribune, Speclat Dixpat Rockroni, 1, May- s, observed here with the cust The Rev, Pather Butler, D, D,, held forth in the afternoon in the Catholic Cemetery, and Brig, - Gen muel Full of conrin, made tha ml- d the West Side Cemetery this afternoon, AL the Intter place an fncident happened which has caused conxbderable excitement, and has re- aewed the Jdeit bavis invitation I P, Kimball, deTs hospitable unwise Anviter,’ addressed a letter fo the Rockford Jowrpal in which lie currled idea that the Confederate roldicra’ gravea hwd been nezlected, and announced his in- tention to decorate them and shed tears over them himeelf. It wus Just here where Kimball made another mietake, for the G. A, R, of Winnebuw County hns for clght sears “decorated both fetel and Unlon roldicrs’ grives, The onslaught by Kim- 5. Ac I found for tist organization earless champlon thix afternoon in the shape of Thomas G, Lawler, the Commander of the Post, who pitched Into Klmbull in the following the thausands assembled at the ceme- most lustily: *A certain letter published in the Rorkford al of last Satnrday, headed - Decoration- The Blue and the Gray.* awl sigued *Henry Timball,* conveys the fmpression that there aro veral graves of Confederate dead In our ceme- fcs, anil that these graven have been neglected, Decoration wae first publicly obverved in this city in 1808, und we did then, “and have since, deco- rated the Confederate graves even more profusely, f posrible, thun the graves of our own herole oys—with thix cxception: We have not planted aver thelr graves this flag as the emblem of liberty, " equal rights and national unity, lie would not be their wizh to have oailo ro. Luow ke 11, Kimball {8 just elzht years behind the time I do not make the explanation to vindieate the G, A, It enly, but the loyal, Chrletian, hmmiane people of Winnebaco Connty, who_each year have performed tils duty without ng to gain notorlety thereby. 1 tell yon, friends, we koldlers do ot need ihe vervices of business. though middiemen to tell ux o our duty. There 18 no wnch thing oa o bloody Chasm be- tween we. We filled that up when the War wne cloked, ond, ifyon will take the trouble to lnok ur the record of theeo men who talk ko much about thisbloody chasm, yoi will iliscover that they never placed themnelves in a position where there: was the Jeust dsngar of thele 4 to it np. (Tremendous spplause l Wo the fuct that the Confederate eoldlers ve und fonehit well, and we ought to know about It; but, while we are ready to toror theie bravery we cannof, must not, respect thelr freann The only safety of our free {nstititions is in fustill In: Into the minds of thetr children the great prin- ciplea of logalty to the National Governinent, and that trenson Ik dious aud not respectable This xpecch wan alluded to by the next !Pnkcr. en. Samuel Fallons, ‘of Wisconsin, and will b published and rent broadeast through the Sonth to ehuw the that 1L 1. Kimball was not the t man who decarated Rebel graves in Winneba- 1o Connty, If he was the first to fuvite Jef Davis to Hlinois. recoumi; were bri PLORLA, Sperial Dispatch to The Tribune. ., May 40.—Early thiw morning woldiers of the fute War gathered st Court-Houne quare, and, under charze of Frank M. Afken, decorited the monument ereeted by this ty to hier fallen rous, Early lu the afteenoon o strevt processinn was formed, copsisting of tho mitliary ond civil sucictios of the ey, together with lndlen and portictpants in the ceremoules i carriages, und ufter passtane throngh the principat Ktzeets marchied to Sprinedale Cemeters, where so Juany soidiers He Inrked. The cereinonies hero were yery impressive. The Hon. Syle W. Jamen wae the orator of the day, and delivored one of the finest addres<en over Jstened to on such an occa- i Tliere wae dnging by suveral nuactottes and a dirge by Spencer's lland. At the conclusion of kervicos i military sutute win fired by © over the graves uf thelr feet, The day was- moro generndly’ obeerved here than ever before. The crowd in attendun t Sprivsdeld was very large— ot less tun 10,000 people belng around the mon- ument. npan TIOMER, LA SALLT COUNTY. Spectal Disuateh 8o The Tribune, Aexnora, 11k, May i0.—Of the many cemeterics thronghont' LasaTle County, probably not one hos had ko ligh a tribute of fespect pald it to-iny ns at of Homer, o \'Illu;‘;c about miles from here, Phe cometery fteelf B the pride of the people, amd Jt is always kept in splemdid order. An Invitatlon ” had © been Cextended | for quite o while to the snreounding tos hips to talic vart in the proceedings of to-day, and a very I number of people ussemble rad of whom, beinz in uniform, formed u company of goodly size in the procession. Prayers, appropriste mu- wic, and singing, sod patriotic speechen wers mude, Decoration-Day will long be remembered Dy the votaries tu the tombs of our departed beroes ut Uowmer. DECATUR. Special Dispastch to The Tribune. Deearen, 1L, M 0, -~ Decuration Day was ob- served by all to-day.” At 12 o'clock Judpe Smithy adjourncd Court in_honor of our nation’s dead. Business lhonges closed from 2 o'clock untll Firemen's compunies, Masons and other societic soldlers by companlies, and 8 vaal concourse of peaple marched 1o the cemetery, where 150 girla Uecorated the soldiers’ genves with lowers, Moa- Sheery fupper, son of Col. Tupner, drceared, cun uddress, The Lon, A, B, Bunn delivered the orstion, 1t was the greatest day of e kind ever known here. DANVILLY, Spectal Dispuich 10 The Tribune. DaxviLLE, 1., May #0.—Decoration-Day tras generaily obrerved here. AL the business Tontes were beantifully decorated with flags s hunners, The procession, headed by Neyno Cornet Band, sndeompused of the Thirman Lighe Guurds [ufatey, Buttery A, echuul-children, and citizens n carfagen, procecded to Speing 1| Cemetery, where, after orations, by dimea Oul- Tand on the part of the soldicrn uid the Hon, Maun on the part of th o e ¢ atrewlng the soldiers' praves’ with tlow particlpated n by youn: children, after which tho prucession returncd to the clty. Spect MMEINI:)OTH Trid al Diepatch 4o The Triduna Mexpota, IiL., .\|u’y 40, ~The citizens of Mendo- ta devoted this afternoon st the shrive of their d sarted heroes, who (ell on widely-scattered batt elds while Oghting for the Uilon. uwnl{ hud been taken to make the cemele { look jtx wagontoads af bouquets tastefully distribut 1t n chanaing eflecl, Several prominent citl- Gens made sppropriate orations, and thelr uch- ing remarks brought tears ot ouly from the Wwomen, but the stoutest men. OITAWA, Spectal Dieptich to The Tritune, Orraws, L. My —The decoralion of the yallire graves 10-duy wan conducted by the mem- bers uf Il L, Wallaco Post G, A, . The apening exorcirey wero commenced at the LaSatio County soldiers' monument, where nmuuwhlu ceremonies were carsied out. The wembers of tho Post and the citizens wero cacorted by the band to the Opera-llouso, where au oratlon wus delivered by the Itev, J, T, Yutes. The stores wers all closed from 1t 3. i Svectal Dinsgieh b9 Tha Trib 5) al apaich to The Tribune. \','L!.\‘Tl’lh.pl'fl- o Muy 0. —-Decorut lon was obeerved hurv t-tay. 10 wos the largest turi-oiit over had owsuch un occasion. Phe graves wero decoratod by children of the public srhouls In_ this cuunty. Cver 100 0ld soldiers were In Tine, lieaded by tegi- miental battlo-tugn and u drum corpe. The aration Was by Capt. V. Warner. 18 wan & beoutiful trib- Wt to i comeades who fell In battle. Ln the af- tornoon the soldicrs held o mecting o the Caurt- Mouse, and decided 10 have a veunlon fu this clty ou tho'sth of July. Ptoinieh by fha Tih Spectul Dispatch tu The une, Tasarss YTy e A detachuent of abaut half of tho LaSalle Light Guands, sccompanted by Titoie Dfe-und-drum errps und a considerable noo- et of other citleens, weat 10 Homer this mornbiiz o purticipate in the ceresmontes attundant upon tha dedorntion of the roldlors graves thore. Decoru tiow Day wus ut ubserved here, QUINCY, &pectal Dispasch to Tha Tribune. Quiney, 1., diuy 3. —Decoration scrvices wero yery largely attended n this city to-day, The Daiks uiid places of business wero geacrally cloved i sfterndon, and 8 long peocetelos wmarched 1o the cometery, where the graves of the woldlore were laviskly decked with fowers. Mpectal Dispateh o T cial Dispaich to Thxow, 111, May 30, —Dcoration Day cnerally obsarved hvro. Allof the “banka ma firstnens houscs wero closed during the ceremonica, "The firetmen, soldicrs, Sons of Temporance, Kuthe cr Muthews Soclety. cold watcr army boys Wero out in foll forco, ‘The oration, delivered by Nlj.‘ Cl:llblxun. was both lberul, patriotic, snd wells recelved. Idund. Special Biapich s The Tribi atch {0 The Tribuns. Canpoxbacy, 1. Muy 90. —-Decoration-Day wi duly ubserved fn an'claborate manner bere 10-da Soldiers, wmembera of dlflurent Hablawl-scbogis A