Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 31, 1877, Page 2

i T e i TIIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TIIURSDAY, MAY 31, 1877— EN PAGES. SOLDIERS GRAVES Gonernl Observance of Decora- tion-Day in the City. All the Cemeleries Visited and Ionors Paid to g the Dead. Largoly-Attended Meeting at Far- well Hall in the Evening, An Eloqnent Oration by the Ion. Thomas Hoyne--Lhe War Reviowed. F"resident Hayes’ Policy Heartily Indorseds===No More Use for the Bloody Shirt, Flog Presentation to the Second Regi- ment at the Exposition Building. Gen, Sherddan’s Views on Forgivencsg--« Too Much Leglsiation and Talk About It. Celebration of the Day Through~ out the United States. CHICAGO. AT ROSEIILL. DECORATION-DAY, Reat, ye heroes! F“’l'l‘“{ rest] Ty n Natton fondiy blest, Who wranuht victory from defeat, Dironght tho tritors to tholr feets A Natlon's gratitude e {unr praise, Tonored by the minstrel's lays. Fond. fair handa will parlands weave, On your adent tomba to (cavo Anii token of their love Far rave fonls now gono shove, As the starry flug still waves Uer the sainted herocs' araves, Yourn it waa to do and dle, " Feurlewn nons of Victory! Yours It wns to break the way For sweet ['vace ngnin to swny Iler brizhit seeptre o'er our Land, Baved by yonr departed band. Loyal hearts, with revarence bring, Axaaimple offering, Flowers fracrunt, bnght, and rare, ‘Tu each mound ro #licnt there; Deck each racred spot of those Houured by their vanquished foes, Freednm's eons, peacefnlly reat, Aw rweat llowers are fondly prest By fale huands upon cach tomib, A like tncenss thele perfume Jiiees nofily on tho ale, Miugling witht the breath of prayer, Davin 8. Mrzcatre, A GRAND DEMONSTHATION. Probably more people visited this cemetery yusterday thau any otlier, unless it might have Leen Calvary. The military and scmi-military organfzations assitned to Ruschill were Post No. 23 (formerly Reynokls Post), Graud Ariny of the Repubile, the First Reglment of Iiuols Btate Guards, the IHannihal Guards (colered), the Clicago City Rifles (colored), and tho Chi- eago Unlon Veteran Club, The Hue of march wus formed on LaSalle strect, opposite thu Grand Pacifie Motel, and nioved toward the Northwestern Depot at about o quarter pdst 10 o'clock, In tho following or- “der: 1. Squad of pollcemen; 2. Nevans' Mil- ftary Band; 3. First Regiment Drum Corps; 4, Col. B, B, Bherer, Maj, Bwain, Maj. Truman Miller, Burgcon; Copt. Truman, Ordnance Officer; Lieut. J. D, Ban; Quartermaster; Lieut. 8awyer, Adjutant: and Licut. Harnlck, Enginaer, comprising the feld and stail oflicers of the First RBeglment, mopnted, 5. The First Regtment I, 8. Gy; 8. Coldred;Drum Corps; 7, Hannibal G(uards; 8. Chicago’ City Rifles; 0, Colored Drum Corps; 10, Chlcago Veteran Club; 11 Post 23 G 4. R Tho Flrst Regtment woa commanded b Licut.-Col. 8, B. 8herer, and turned out ubau{ 800 strong, in seven cumpanies, as follows: Company A, commanded b Cup& Chas, Jer- migan; Company I, Capt. 1L 8, Bowlers Com- » pany C, Capt, Chos, B, Davis; Compnn&l), tcat. C. K. Lacrabee; Company' ¥y Capte Wil fui Blacks Company G, Capt i NMama} Company 1, Capt. Chas, 8, Dichl. Tho Hatnt: ble Guards were commanded by Capt. James M. Moure, abd numbered forty-six men. Tho Chleago City Ritles were commanded by Capt, Alex. Brown, and numbered thirty-fivoe men, Tost” 23, G. . Wi commanded by Col. E, W. Chamberlain, mnster of ceremonies at Roeohill, and numbered 100 men. ‘Kbe Union Yeteran Club was comnanded by Col. Owen Stewart, aud nutmbered in the nelgh- borhood of 150 me: ‘The column marched north on LaSallo strect to Washington, west on Washington tu Fifth avenue, horth on Fifth avenuu to Kinzle strec to the Canal-strect depot. Hera hundreds o citizens—men, women, and children—wera found sssembled, with huge baskets of provies lons, B8 though proparing for a mamnoth ple- nic._Old und youny, fat and lean, good-tem. pered and ° bad-tempered, sat together nlun;i the clevated platform, or stood In groups, awnitine the ‘pleasurs of the Tivine heroes, who wern to conduct the cere- imonies of dolvg honor to the chty dead— thelr brothers und fathers gone before, ‘Thirty-seven cars cumposed this traln alone, every ane led to its utmost capaclty, and even then many were left behind, who wers unnble to eet aboard. Bo eaer were those to po why hud walted 8o lourr for an opportunity, that a number of ludies (soma of them old and stout) clambered upon the platforms of the curs_after the trulu lind gotien under way, assisted by Ine duluzent escorts. ‘The D to the cemetery way 2 pleasant vne und without Incident, enlivened by the sougs and jests of the military lm{s, and the graclous smiles of the ladies. ‘Throngs of people Hlocked tu the cross- ings to see the britliant spectacle, aud the wave fng of thousands of handkerchlefs mingled with shouts and hurrahs from hundreds of throats, evinelve of the general approbation of the populace. AURIVED AT THE CEMETERY, 8 complete blockads of carrfages obstrueted tho way, contalning hundreds of people who lled up the walks awd avenucs within tho Sallent city,"—and thuse, too, were awalting the militury pleasure, Echthlm: was given up to the veterans in citizens’ clothing and the militfa. 1t a hardly necessary to expluin that the latter took advantuge of the situation, alded by their showy unlforms, They certainly touk all the honors, privileges, courtesies, aml =80 furth, thut belonged to themy but thoush theold “yets? Jooked onand smiled powds naturedly, they might sl well remember the davs when they were fresh and even more une rlpa fn knowledize of warfare than these ams bitious youne cavalicrs when they first donned thelr coaree hluo suite, alter having sicued thelr hawes to the muster-roll, and walked forth from the barracks In this very city feching that they were fndividualiy borti to” conquer the world {f wecessary In malntenonce of the gloriuus principlesof their country and their furclatliers. ‘There ore many veterans i the Firat Reghuient, who eompel the who pretend W huve any knowledzc of warfare, ! and who love mihtary lifo for the sake of It k of deimon- ‘Tnese were notleeable for_th stration lusfasm, There §8also n sprinks ling of W nters wo-called from the fact of their Lavinge served a . portion of thelr teen ut the Nutlonal Miligary Academy. ‘These were noticealile for thelr atfected dignlty, and the wanuer In whilch they aped the voterans, when it could be plainly scen that they longed to hek up thetr heels on the grass with the rest of the boys, but o wouldn't for the same reason that Slurk ‘Twaln’s *Tom Bawver'? wouldn't, after ho returied from his plrutical expedition. Then there was the *boy "' who, by some sort of sccident, had his bawie corolled us o soldler near the close of the War of tho Rebellin, and who, when checked L Wls impetuosity Iet luose, coolly Informed his counsel that he had “beew there,” and had smelied gunpowder os well as himaclf. But, notwithstaudiug theee peculiaritics of [udis viduals, the utfulr passed off swoothly and ;-lu.xuml{v and nobody was heard to complain, cxvept ol tue Leat, fuf it was very wanm, and the suu was very hot, a3 wany who ‘came lowe with ears and noses blossomed out aro ready to attest. | Upon arrlv(n{r At the tho Rosehill station the commanders of the several military organfza- tlons arranged their men In lige, and the march to the grand stand wns taken up. Tho First Regiment marched,;dirge step, in column of fours, with arms reversed, until directly in front of the speaker’s stand, w}um by arder of Col. Sherer, the movement of division left into lina was Pccnm’l, amd the command was brought to o halt in colnmna, and caine to n parade rest. THR EXERCISES WERE OPENED with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Perry, at which the regiment exccuted the movement of *to tho rear open order,” and rested on arms, invertin) the musket, resting the muzzle upon the toe ol the left boot, one hand clasping the other upon the butt, and hesd lowered, an imposing and reverential attitude. Then followed tha memorial exercises of the Grand Army of the Republic, led by Col. Chambetlnin and the Rev, Dr. l'erry, and interspersed by music from Nevans' Band. The exercises com- loted, the reziment stacked arms and themem- Eers being dismissed went foramng for some- thing tocat, and soon appeared upon thie grounds with pies, pop, and sandwliches, which | c{ pro- ceailed 10 stow away with satisfaction, while thq more scdate citizens, who liad come out for the ptivpose of dropping a tear over the graves of those whom they had honored In life and could not " forget in death, ar- ranged themselves about the grand stand and Hlstened tothe words of burning cloqueace from the lips of Mr. 8, F. Norton, in_the form of an oratfon, and to an original poem, closing with a rendering of the beautiful and time-honored tines, *‘The Blue nod tho Gray," interluded with music, The soldiers’ monument and the monument of Bridge's Battery of Light Artitlery wero pro- fuscly dlecorated with flags and flowers, and the grounds Inside the inclostires were strewn with blossoms. Private graves, containing the dust of fallen martyrs, were also re- membered, and, all “in oll, under the manageinent of the Post of Grand Army of the Republie abo7e referred to, everything was done that could be done to make the veeasion a sie- cess, and keep green in tho minds of the rlsing gencratlon the fact that their fatliers and elder brothers sacriflced their lives for the common Rgood of their conntry. ‘The “assembly? ‘waas rounded by the drum- corps at about balf-past 2, and the military was agaln formed fu line, and marched to the depot to await the arrival of the traln which was to hear the party back to thocity, A traln passed with forty cars loaded down with . people from Calvary Cemetery, including the Sccond Regle ment. At about 4:80 another traln arrived, which took the First Reziment and all {t could accotn- mudate to the city. Upon arriving hero the reghinent was re-formed and marched through soms of the principal strects to the armory on Lake strect, where the members disperacd. For the past eight years the ladics of River Forest have provided the lloral offerfugs for the decoration of tho Brhlges Battery monument, Yesterday they provided o coplous sunply of crusses, wreaths, and _bunches of lowers ob- tafued from Thatcher Park and Lake Dlufl, throueh the kindness of Mesdames W, Il Danlcls, M. E, lloftman, L E. Broughton, . 11. Kalla, 8. Y. Moore, Miss Mollla Scymour, and others. SAD ACCIDENT. Uufortunately the day was not _exempt from a sad deeident, in which Jerry Carrolly a than shout 5 years of age, was the vietim. 1o had comne: from the city to witness the decoration cervmonles, nnd the cara belng so full he was obliged to ridoon the platform. While they were at the statfon several cars hod to bo off, during this process he was jostled ofl of the train. He was canght by the. cars, and the wheels ran over his rieht log, entting It nearly off, In his attempt tu save himsell ho broka his left arm. Hao wns immoediately ta ken to Evanston and placed in the Huntoon house. The Company's physiclaus were notifled, and In thealternoon the leg was amnputated Just above the knee, At lnst accoupts the man was dolne well, but beingzso old and fectle his cure will be proteacted. EVANSTON. Yesterday was duly abscrved as a holiday, all tho business men clssing thele stores, aml vitl- zena In geueral refralned from their onlinary ursuits, A Jargo number visiied the come- erivs and added much to tho display by thelr generous offorings of fowers. {n tho afternoon neamo of baza-ball was participated in by the youni and active business men of tho village, one nine belng composed of those whoso husl- neas §8 conllned to tho village, the other in tho uity, Tho ame was witnessid by a larzo crowid, among whom wero many ladies. The contest resulted a favor of the ¢ity business men by a seore of 17807, CALVARY. IRELAND'S DEAD, Afar from Bhannon's emcrald side, Or where the crystal Loe In all its lumc nnd beauty glides To maot the rushing sea; Afari c{nml the foaming waves That ilow on Erin's strind, They slanber in thefr honored geaves In Froodom's favored land. A thousand battleficlds attest, A thoumand victories show, Tlow wall at Liberty's buhest They mu’xhlnur(.‘oumr fos, From the Yucific's golden strand To fulf Lake Eric's wave, In every xnr\ of this great land Is found an Iriah grave. Around the flag of Washinzton Thoy mustored sido by sido, ‘When the greon ficlds of Lexingtos With patriuts’ bloud wera dyed; And oft beneatl that banner fair, On many o gory pluin, They've nict the foe with bosoms bare, Nor spared shele hearta' red rain, ‘Within the pinc-clad groves thoy slcep, Drop In the wouds of Maine, And where the evening-shadows creep On Abrm's gory plain, The granite wallo'of grim Quebee Have heard Montiomery's choor; And Narry's flag waved o'cr the deck . When Freedom®s focs wera near, Thy waves, P'otvmac, crimson tan, And buard thelr cannon’s bootn, And saw, amid the battiv's yan, Proud Meazher's waving plume, I{ ‘The flush of Erin's Liado, iz A through thelr thick battallons tare Hlis dashing, boid Brigede, Winchonter, Nashville, Lexington, Hehold thulr by, ncts’ gloan, Whon Casey. Shithie, and Mulifgan Unfurled thalr fu uf Freen. At Gaines' 3111 thelr ritled rung, i thuinoya el b, ™ o lurlous inth, ' to combat spran, To battla for tholr lund, urae And red Chantilly's crowded graves, 10 it with Jife," could tell Tlow dercely Kearnoy's mintchloss braves switched and Danbied through the smoke of hell; Leaped through that Maming wall of fire Ofd Trelumd's ice 30) And, shouting ** Victory " ex) Besido tho captured gans, A hundred dark and hioody flelds Tiave heard thele battlo-cr, Whon paliant Carcoran and Shlelds Went forth to win of dies When feey bhicridun Gercaly tare Throuel the proud rankwof Les, Aud dauntlcss Bherman's cannon's roar Guve grecting to the sea, And, while sround thelr praves wo s "Lct'n Urosth i aigh far {hosg Iang Who, In 1h wtrifa for lifa and land, MWere aumbered as our focs, Who freaiy poured thejr blood lke raln By many a fleld and bill: Thouzh solled by dark Rebellion ey were our brothers still And braver hearts ne'er smiled at d Than Cleburne led to llnm.'ll Beesly And proudee sauls uo land on carth Nur Wistory's pase can name, Peacalo the dead ! Thelr souls were free, Tt‘;“l‘fl‘:-:rml‘{:ulm coward's part; o 9, thelr nam Burn {n euch Bou‘bur‘n‘fl-‘n‘r’f T And, if they ereed, 1t {s not onrs Tuicy Taiteds Bk st e e fowers B ST "Sobly fought, et et 0T No l-':nglhh foeman could, Calmly they slecp! For them no Tl}"":.l 'drcmuul tfllkl l:lhl\l COH:’U _Innll 0 strife, the vhock, the cannon's roar; ¥t now the Miutlied drura, 5 And whether 'tie the Northern Blue, Or olvo the Southurn Gray, Preal Howers upon thele graves wo'll strew On Decoration.Day, INMFUESSIVE OBREMONIES, At Calvary Cemetery the number of people participating i the cercimonlcs was larger than ever, and the procecdings wers wost hopres sive. Tho Becond Reglment, Col. J, T, Tor rance commanding, arrved by the Northwest- cro Railroad av sbout 1 o'clock, and, marching into the cemetery, formed 1o a cordon around the temporary altar erceted fu the centre of the erounds. Bolemn requicin bigh twass was cole- brated, tho following clerzy oflich ing : The Rev. Chasles Kuarm.‘b. 8. 8. R,, brant: the Rev. Father McLaughtin, C. 8.’ 8. R.; dearous the Rev. Futher ('Callarban, sub-descon,—the choir couslating of Miss Haunah McCarthy, supranu; Mri. A, L. Barrett, of Bt Jarteth's, taln, 2 soprano, and voluntecrs from the varlous city chrchat, wna directesl ny MF. O Sramer.”Nre M. E. Walsh presiled at the orgah, “After the mass a most eloquent memorial service was dellvered by the Rev. Dominic Eagan. religions_servRes were under charge of the Rev, T. F. Cashman, chaplain of tho Becond Regiment. At thelr conclusion, the erayes of Gen. Mulllzan, Fatters Dunne and Kelly, Licut. Nugent, Licut. Laniry, Licut. Colby, Capt. James Fitzgerald, Col.’ O'Kane, Capt. F. Me- Murray, Capt. Cunningham, Capt. Michael Gileason, and the other soldters wiho sleep their Jast sleep In Calvary, including the grave of Capt, James l.finn (Confederate), were decorated with flowers by members of Ransom Post, 4, A, Ry and hundreds of floral offerings were added by those who keep green the memory of tho follen Lrave. . OAKWOODS, A TRIBUTR, **Thedead! deek their fow coneh nfc!kv . With cariiest Spring s soft-breathing Rowers." Once more the Farth in richest hloom A tribute offers for tha tomb, - And to the roidicrs’ graves we'll bring The cholcest, rareat lowers of Spring. When mualc oate all o'er the land, Where sleep a brave but silent hand, ‘Then comrados will the garlands lay On beds whero reat the dead to-day, Our boys went forth with hoarts of gsl-l, With danntless mien and footsteps bold} No cowanl thoughts e'cr drew 8 Algh— Thc‘? Ieft their homes to do or die. And there eame back, in seattered bande, Bome without arms, some without hands, For these In eccret wo will pray: For they no flowers can atrew this day. Thoso nameless graves, £o lone and droar, Where kindred ne'er can shed a tear, Where sleep the loved who bravely fell, And yot nat one thoir graves can foll | Tint {fe who reigneth over ail Knows well tho place where brave men fall] His Spirit-Anztis from on hizh Wil strew the flowers that never dle, 1 And many in tho waters deep Havo fonnd a bed whereln they sleep: ‘The winds' wild rago and cannon'e foae Wil ne'er dintaed their slimbers more. We ennnot on those deop heds steaw The flowers thit grow for (iray and Blnes 13ut sea-nymphe ronnd the beds will twino The wreaths which theive in Ocean's brine. Onr Stars and Btripes float over all; mn{ none e'er 1ive to sco thum fall, Jut prouder, higher, may they wave O'cr Freedom's Land, home of the rave, And, when another year comes ronnd, Muy graterul hearts.” an now, be found To'juin and help the flowces lay On our next Decorntl)olndh A B, Wi 4. J. A, E. WiLLson. Cuicaao, May 30, 1877, STREWING PLOWERS, | The attendance at Oskwoods Cemotery was very Iarge, Thero were about 2,500 people on the grounds, 'The train which Jeft the Iilinois Central Depot at 12:10 In the afternoon took out sixteen cars filled with old and young of both scxes, mauy of whom took with themn thelr lunches, which wero complacently de- voured on the raves of the martyred dead, The ceromonics wero conducted by Whittfer and I1itara2 Posts, under command of Dr, H. E. C. Koch. Englewood and Hyde Park were largely ropresented, ‘The Norma! Behiool furnished .a chorus of ahout forty young ladies, who.repro- sented the different States, ench bearlng o min- Iature flag upon which was tho name of the State they were subposed torepresent. A plate form was arranged i frontof the Soldiers’ Mon- ument, erected Tast year In the plat of the Soldiers’ flome, The graves of the thirty-two veterans burled here were appropriatoly eet ofl with wreaths and crosses, and the U, A, It Posts and the young Indles formed o hoilow squarg around them. The arrangements wero remarkable for their Incompletencss, which was the fault of Hilliard Post, and the acene partouk moru of the nature of a_pleme than solemn Decoratlon-Day ceremones. 0 Grand Ariny Quartet furnished the major part of tho mii- sle. ‘The ceremonles commenced with the sing- inz of “ Amerfca by the Quartct and tho entirs nsscmblage. Tho Rev. 3Mr, Johngon, of Hyde Park, followed in a moat lmrn:uslvu and eloquent prayer. The Rev. Mr. Itaymond, of Englewood, read a portion of tho §0th and 10:3d Psalns, The Quartot thon sang ** Rest, liroth- crs, Rest,” while tho members of the G. A, It senttered loose flowers over the graves, This was followed by singing “Tho Knight's Farcwell,” by the Quartat amd the young Iadles of the Engle- W Normal 8chool. The ion. J, ¥, Bon- field then made o short address appropriato to the day and vceaslon, * Praiso to the Soldier was then sung by the G. A, R. Quartet, after which Mr, J." J." Herrlek was_introduced and made the address of the day. The young ladics of Englewood sane another chorus, after which the Doxology was sung by the audience, and the henedletion pronounced,” Tho soldiers and thelr friends then decornted the graves of thelr comnrades, not forzetting the brave fellows who bud dfed In the wrong cause while prisoncrs in Camp Uouctas, The train for the city leit at 4:22 In the nfternoon, arriving in the clty about 0 o'clock, bringing in o tired und Luugry crowd, GRACELAND, . TIB PATRIOT DEAD. Comae forth, bright Sun, in all thy regal splendog; ‘W mneet to-da; To -unlnlr flowers (hearts fllled with memoarios tendor) ) rer tho cold cly bt thoss we've loved and ost, 1ot lost, but gona foro us ‘To wear the Crown, And, from thor lleavoaly Manaloni bonding o'er A Ta-day look down, From many mathers' eyen tho tears ara flowing irouzhout tho land; Tho sona they loved, in manly "”“‘“3 growing, (iave heart ati hany And vowed alloglance to the Gran Old Glory, ‘The Btripea and Stare,— Then Kbmnlhed their lust, oft fovored, fofat, and o i *Neatn prison-bars, 1t Tpossosscd the ralm.(l floral treasuro 1 ol o Ta cull 1te sweeteat blooins woild bs my pleasuro, Vith bounteous hand, Our **Tatrlot-Doad " to-day sre clotlied In bright- ness Around the Throne, In nn:::.n'nu gleaming with transcendent white- God's very own, They gavae thelr lives to sava their Nation sorrow ‘rom foreign shama} Grand, sublimo souls! shall we forget'to-morrow ‘Ihelr very nome? May ?:ed. forbldl Thelr Country clalms hor ho- From shore {0 shore; Their nm;r'xu and memorica siall bo loved and hon. are I-‘ow;lwr m;z\rm 5 ns, AN o 483 Nonrit LaBarLs B-:nln."a":l‘('u:g.. i THE PLOKAL THIDUTE, The decoration uf the geaves of the 160 sol- diers who lle buried at Graceland, and the hold- ing of scrvices In commemoration of the gratl- tudo which the public shuuld feel to those who fought, bled, and dicd for thelr country and the- vulured rave, was - intrusted yeatcrday to the Qearge . Thomas, tie Wyman, sud the Lyons ¥ats of the raul Army of tre Republle, and, idar Wie ganeral command of Gen. J, 8. Rey- » 1 'he sork was welldone, The decorations «e 300unteaus and beautiful, the attendance | Wy e envaaes Interesting, and tho wrunae quickly sud cgmpletely carried sk Ine apendance of “a great number % _wivdows aul cnivlen of the patriot dead + ~ vaditual peeiest Lo tho cerenonies, For Bean v ddows 3l wularen spedal arrangements ved seen wude lur l‘iul."i? 1wy dtrect-Roll- ouy Goitipauy davtag, Lisily placed at thelr dis- prraal srme ul 18- £y comnialious open Loe Mich woveyed them witLout charge and wth s 04 jrom e corner of West Maduson sea Kaney gtruets L0 the eutranco of the cemo- tey. Thatl A K 1'osta wict at the cemetery, . Thamas Post,unsder Ald, 1, I, Thomp- son, sboawing forty-six men; the Wyman Post, unider Henry Jobins, and the Lyous Post, under Archur Erbe, about filty men” each. Forming into line, wud headed by *he Great Westors Light Guard Band, they marched to the stund which had been erected at the northern end of the cemetery, where the exervises were held, sir. Arthur Erbe 'Mmi Master of Ceremonis, The band: played * Remember Me, and the Claplau, the I George IL Pecke, followed in prayer, “Tho French Gles Club ‘then sang, The Hon. Loreuz Brentano was intreduced, and dellvered & very affecting address in the Ger- mau tongue, Again the band plaged “Ameri- " The Rev, George H, Peoke then delivercd Brotherty oot “he Hoe ot T o, 4 othel will, e close v 2 S ewhuflad,{he cntiment - - **}ove aud toaru for the Bluey, Tears and lovs fur the Groy, The Glee Club then rendered the 4 Star-8pangled ~ Banner," v with tgu "Doxulo:&.cnln l‘l:'.llxlc{xu"rl‘:ued u!‘ dieuce jolned. Coapialn Pecke pronounced tho bouediction, amd the chowd oo up their walk . through tho handsomely-kept grouuds 1o slew thu evergreen docorations which bad been scattered In the worulug by & committee sent out early from the head. quarters; and to strew the Zraves of thelr loved oues with lupal olferings. “I'he Bowers wero 10 many (ustauces very besutifully arronged iu deviees of monoZrums, e, and there were plenty of thew, Suc-:hl valus - were taken to gee that no mollier's grave waa Joft unadorned, and §t {s belleved that all were provided for, The eadets of the Irving Mititary Acndomy, at Lake View, wera resent duting” the afternoon, and oloed fn paviog Tespect to those o Wwhose footsteps they have begun Lo watk. As before atated, the cmv;ll was great, fully 10,000 Eecplc visiting the cemetery during the day, ut owing to the excellent accommeodations pro- vided, there was no difficulties of transfer. WALDIEIM. AN INFORMAL TRINUTH. Of the heroes who fell fighting for thelr adopted country, about 100 German-American soldlers sleep in the quict cemetery of Waldhelm, For this pofut a large number of our German citl- zens, with their familics, started yestorday morning in carrlages or via the Galena Divislon of the Chilengo & Northwestern Rallroad. The proceedings were somewhat Informal in char. acter, as no particular order of ceremonies had been pre-nrranged; but the Committee of Ar- rangements, consisting of Me. Uenryd. Lenzen, Ma), Jonn Kloy, and Capts. Theodore Shnltz and Pelers, assisted by a number of others, took chargeof the decoration, and all due honor was pald to the graves of Teuton’s brave and fallen sons. FARWELL NALL. .. TO THR DEPARTED. Qarlands of ruses and wreaths of flowers "o strew the graves of the sons of ours Who foueht and dled, and beneath the sod Tteat, whils their apirilg are with their God, Come, kneel na down by tha nioss-clad graves Of our sona and sires, onr honared braves, And ofter a prayer for the Hving, free, Whuse land stretcheth forth from sca to sea— A prayer that, through nges yet unborn, Our Land niny never—no, never—be shorn Of the yglory achieved, by the honured dead, By those who survived, and who bravely fed. Onr armies went forth throngh fire and smoke, And conquered Oppreerton's servilo yoko, And made our Land Yoth free and great, E'en to tho borders of every State, We'll think of them often, nor ne'er forget Who sleen vo soundly: nnd yot, and yet, No sonnd of bugle of tap of drim Will waken thelr stumbers or bid them como, Cutanues B, Ditauax. Cricaco, May 30, 1877, ' RVENING CEMNMONIES, Farwell Hall, ns seen last evenng, presented n marked contrast to the Farwell Hall of half-n- dlozen hours carllor. Tho table on which Dr. Eclls dropped bis gavel at 2 o'clock and pro- clalmod the General Asscinbly dissolved was draped with bunting and adorned with bouquets and crosses of emllax and 1ilies, while bayonets bristled and rezimental colora waved where erstwhile Stated and Permanent Clerk sat in dignity. Even more marked was the change "in the appearance of the bady of tha hall. Iustead of an masemblago of grave divines, full of nrguments on points of falth and doctrine, and stickling for precedent ke chancery lawyers, tho hall was bright with femoly faces, for¥he Indies were certainly In the majfority, nm} looked like a flower-ganien. The oceaslon was o memorial service under the ausplces of Ransotn Post, G, A. R., for the herofe dead. The attendanco showed that the cause fn which they died ana tho memory of thele gallant deeds haye not yet faded from the minds of wmen, wills on tho plat- forin and scattercd through the audlence wero many well-known and‘ prominent citlzens, Among those notleed were Judgo Moore, tho Iton. Willlnm Aldrich, the Hon, Thomaa Hoyne, Gen, Chetlain, tho Rev. W. IL Ityder, D.D., Col. Lyman Brydges, the Hon. Phil A, Tloyne, ex-Ald. 8paliing, Major Brockway, Judge Wal- Ince, and Justico Matson. It was half-past 8 o'clock beforo tho Hon. John V. Farwell nd- vanced to the front of the platform, and, pre- wising that his remarks should be brief, the highest - styla of cloquence not belony. Ing to “the dry- s trade went on to state ‘that this memorinl scrvice reminded him of one which had been kept up for over 1,900 years, For 4,000 yeara men looked forward to the perfection of thar- acter a3 exemplifled in Christ, and for 1,800 yuars they had looked back to It. Tho highest hat could ba sald of anan was that ho had done something fur others, and they wore there to qny their tribute of respect to thoso who had done o much to rendar the country free nnd to hood 1t down free to thelr posterity. The speaker gave an occount _of his presouce at & prayer-tnocting in New York whon catng that . Abraham Lincoln had been nssaas(nated by the representative of rebellion. ‘The most remarkeblo utterance made on that oceasfon was that of a brown-faced Brazilian #allor, who, {n his imperfect language, said thut ho would not have been se much affected by Teurnlnz of the death of his own father. 'That man had probably felt the galling chalp of slayery himself und remombercd that Abraham Incofn bad removed those chalus from four miillous of the colored race. It was to cum- memorato tho actions of such men that they were met. The Rev. R, N, Adams, of Ohlo, formorl{ n Unlon soldicr, ted in prayer, after which the Gleo Club saug ** Amorics,” and recelyed s well-deserved encure, MAJ, JOIIN T, PRATT opened lia remarks by saying that Gen. John ‘Il Pope, at . soldicra” banquet at- Cincinnati somo i-enrn ago, safd that the tima wns fast ap- proachlny whon the vivid inpressfons of the WVar would fudeaway,and to havu boen n soldler at ail would no longer be a title to reapuct. [fo ffillll".‘d this, oot s ngreelnz with it in its cn- tirety, Lut to - emphasize his declara- tlon that the old - things were possing away. 'Tho old lconoclast with the seythie and the hour-glass, while dimining mauy of the mcmorica of ‘the past, at tho same time ‘was smoothing away much of the bitterness en- gendered by the four years of strife, Ho re- Jolced to know that this was so. He belleved thut no more magnanimous body of men ever existed than those wlho fought in the Federal army, and among the very highest of theso woro the men who went out from this city, In Oakwoods Cemetery that night the stars luoked down upon the graves of 5,000 Confederato dedd, strewn with flowers by the hands of the very men who sl in tho ‘ranka of battle In opposition to the sllent slecpers, They could aiford to be magnanimous, and, ns Americans loviug the old flag, to look upon the lund as thelr owns the Jand where the m'? tlag was thu symbol of liberty from end to ¢nd, Lrof. J, W. Wentworth followed with a recl. tatlon eatitled, * Searching fur the Slaln," and after some musical selections by the Gleo Club, tho 5 110N, TI0B, HOYNE . #poko aa follow, Fritow-Cirixexs: 1t hoa been the castom In al} agea und in all countries to cherlsh the scatiment s well exprovsod by & Ureek wrator, mure than 2,000 yi 4o, whon Lo sald: *I¢ js & debt of fuatice that Keflm‘ honord should be patd to those who diu dghting for thalr country. Howaver luferlor {n other virtues than value, ibis lost ef- faceth all, ! And truly it may be regarded as the greatest suc- rifica whicl o man can render his country; for, it 1t be true (hat all that 8 man hath will he give for his lte, then, when lifo iteelf is tho sacrifice, noth. ing moro [s to be added. And when the cause fa wuch ae becomua tha dignity of the offeriug, it ma; bo well vaid hat yuch & virtuo as vulor in the clf: zen compendutes for the Jack of all uthers. In all ages and countrics of which there remaln written records the highest homage has, there- fure, been paid to the hero or soldier who has been thought worthy of reward for hls sarvices in tho fluld, or who has stialned any pecallar dlstinction in warfarg, d in Thacydides that 2,400 years ugo ot the close of evury yuar during a war ihe Athenians collected thereinatug of theirdead for a greut public funcral. Thal these remalng were borne by tho trihos or townships of which they had furuiorly been members fn cypress colling aud fu solemn procession tou beautiful suburb oute widu the city, whore a publla sepulclire was crect. ed Lo recolve them, Onu sumpluous bler was al. wayu carricd fn tho procession empty, but wreathed with flowers, for thoss whods rematus contd not be found, -~ At the epulclire, whero the coremonles concluded, the fuucral orutlun was delivered by the ;:uul Watlngutsbed Teader o General of the ople. Jt'was on suchan occasion,yabout 2,300 years 0, that Poriclue—the first ratur and stateswan of that perlod—dullvered that grestest of all fa- neral-orations of which we have auy account in Jancient or modorn duys. The scatluients, 83 they came Howing frow the lips of the great orator, wny be aptly used In speaking of thosy whose obacnuiee you have been colobrating this day: *+These 1non having bestowed thelr hives upon lgl publlc, cach bas received the praises wuich will uover “‘w’f" scpuichre which will always be most {flustrious; not that jn which .ttoir bonvs e moupldering, buy that in which thele fame will bu preserved, (o be the occasion, whenuver honor 1s tho cmg l«‘y of word or act, to by vterually remumbered. ‘Yhls wholu earth 'ts the sepulclita of Nuatrious men. Neltbor do the ine scriptions on columns in thelr native soil show forth theiz merit: Lut, better than all inscriptions, the memorial of thom in all foreign nnYhflul‘ more durably reposited 1 the genozul remewbrance better thun upon their own toubs, " Thls was tha langusge in which snclent Greeco #00ko of vt huruic woldiers when thuy fell 8thting tho encmis of the country, when o osher motive appearcd—when even oiher mutlves were wauting, "Tic ware of aucient times, &4 well 88 more mod- ©fu, Wero nob always waged, &B YOU 8T¢ AWATY, 10 vindication of “the wotives 'which dcetrve. coms wendation, or whould call forth the pecutiar and extraordinary wacelice of buwan Ifu. I later days, Buwuvee, 1t §o suld that **boyouets think, " Inonr Civll Warthe men fourht as they folt, and tio Jofty objects achioved wora auch ae gods might hinve fonght for. The liberty of mankind and tho progress of free Institutlons waro the stakes, And every aoldler who fell becamas 8 pacred martyr to the great and glorlous cause, . In now viewlng the nhLecu And motives of the War, and the work which has heen nt\‘olnxp“fllml, we may write and speak in the light of past history when we eay that never beforo was a war _entered upon for such grand prizes or euch beneflcial re- snltans one pwn, Itwas & war for freedom In the Interest of ha- manity, Itwas a war in the interest of human rrflxrflm waged o secnire homan rlnhll. Tt achieved he nafety of the Amerlean llnzllb ¢, preserved the Unlon, and fi?\'ed onr free Constitntlon, while, according to ia apirit and teachings, It emancipate from bondage—1to enjoy the privileges of freec mon =fonr millinna of alavest The *'ireepressible confifet™ has become & his- forla fact! 1t was the Incvitable fate of Amerlcan togrees tn human improvement that created it, t was n thing to be and to have been at some time after the day that the American colonista created the American Revolution and {asued the Declara. tlon of Imdepondence. They left thelr work in- complete in Jeaving alavery, hut they knew that in this work was involved, sooner or laier, TI[E DOOM OF TITAT INSTITUTION. At the timo of the Declaration, thirteen ont of fourteen colonles became slaveholding Siates, and weranorecaznizod, That wasone stage of the nrog- ress of revolution reached In 1770, but in 1870, and within the same century, that revolution reached anothek staco—in the emancipation of tho slaves, This was tho crowning achicyement of tho lnst War, for it no _longer loft 8 man In bondage, nor m"fi or 8lave Btate within the limits of the He- pblic. . "Fho"Ameritan fathers In 770 proclatmed **itb- erty throughont the Jand and unto ail the {nhab- lnnta thereof,* but left the African raca in bond. nge. ‘The year 1870, and the War which emanci- poted them, was a-necessary scquol to tha unity und design of tho original work, Now, tho two peelods go to mako two chiaptera in the same vol- ume: thay work ont ona probiem. . Tho Amer. teans of 1777 declared “*all men to be froe aml equal," bnt the ysar of the Ymclnmmon in 1804 - 70, by striking off the shackles of Amorican slave- ty, made them so. ‘Thue, an the historlan Motley says of the strig- gles made by natluns in the eanse of homan proge rosd, it 1a lnposatblo for a natlon, even whilo utm]fillm{ tor ltself, not to galn_romething for all mankind,” **The maintenance of the right by the littlo Provinces of 1loltand and Zoaland in tho six- teenth, by Holland and England unlted in the seventecnth, and by the United States of America in the eighteenth " centurics, forma huta single chapter in the great volume of human fate, for the so-called revointions of Iloliand, Bngland, and Americaaroall links of onachaln,” And henco the link of the Clvil War—the irrepressibla con- flict which emancipated the slave—wns necensary to complcte, ot the end of tho first contury of our Republic, what was so auspiciously entered upon ot its commencement, Tho self-evident truth that all men wera created enunl, and cndowed by thele Creator with certain innlicnable rights, waa then a doclaration of the fatheraonly, It is to-day a sublimo fact—s truth renlized by their children within a contary, Fellow-cltizens, a8 n Democrat, 1 rejtorate now what L eald in 1804, when tho Chleago Convention declared the War for the Unlon o fallure, *‘Tho War forthe Unlon was mot a fallure,” It has proved and worked out a world-wide snccess. It might, porhaps, have been prosecuted by winer counctw, and, It may tic, atn less cost of blond and treasuro, but the groeat fact that remains fs, our Govertment has been saved, and puollc lberty has teinmphed in maintalning ita uchievementa, ‘That tho Revolution tn 1776 did not advance to the extent of ita logieal conrequences at first, was lem{ to the practically colder naturo of that po. 1iticaf aclfisbiness that always Intorposcs obstaclos In the way of haman improvement,” But the wiser men of the time, like Jefferson, Franklin, and Washington, who, in ndvance of thelr ago, coulil not bring thefr contomporaries nr 1o tho level of thelr own great standard of aciion and thought, sow tho cnd from the beminning, Theye know and onticipatgd 8]t tho slenificant convequences of the uilversal freodum which had been proclilined, The great charter of liborty had gone vut to all men, bond or free, It was a ‘mere |l|mntllmlll time ns to the enforcement of the great decree In which waswritten that all distinctions of race, black or whlte—nll difforence of conuition of whatover degreo or eolor—nll shades of oplulon, religions or polltical—nll creeds, schools, and rects, should bo blotted ont, as at the divine hirth of ancw world, and thenceforth that all alike atould asqume thelr equal rank, npon tho condi- tions of universnl surage, toleration, and cqanlity undor the law! Thero was always only the hope that In the end the whole ml!l?l e reached throagh a peacoful instead of a warllke solution, And yot, thonzh tho ealnmitien of the War have been ficavy to bear, desolating the hearts and homes of vur peopla and hardening them with an Incroare of dobta and taxos, still how much greater would have been tho calamity If such 8 Govorn- munt and bistory as that which hod ' recorded tho progress and trlumphs of liberty on thia =~ contlnent had ~ becn forover lost! 50 fatal and dread a ahock to the cansc of froe gove crnment on oarth wonld admit of no cowardly Pfl' lations againat the contempt of mankind.,” flad wo anfforcd this lors, evory American citizen, in the Judymont of mankind, would bo rovarded with tho cye of tho Spartan muther,—n recesant aon of freedom wha had returned from tho battle without hifa shicld,—lcaving that and bishonor behind him, And it was owing to the hopo that the horrors of acivil war might and wonld povalbly uvolded, loflcllwr with the dread of dlsunion and thoe loas of what had been already acquired by tho Kovolation, that the fina) c:mulragmg was ro0 long postponed, ond the *tlreepressible conflict' protracted, 1t was not that the public mind, North or Sonth, ever Lelieved in the rigliteouans it justico of nlavery, Un tho contrary, the public and private dnsciance of tho people at the North snd fn the South re- voltod against it. 1T WAS AN ANOMALY,— an abnormal thlis,— rolic of 'that barbarlsm fn our political Iife aud thought which the Kevolution of 1776, aud tho glorlous achievaments which fol- Towed 1t, ewept away forover, Jt in truo that tho morcenary and itolid traders of all sections cultivated & **pra-slavery oplnion ™ at a profit, for ‘‘hard cash'' conslderatione. It | traded in th as political capital. It held out ofices ond rewards, and ralsod the flag of partisan organization to gover the dark shrinos of huwan slavery ne a kind of altar; and tha perila of a civil war always staved the hunds of tho patriotic statea- mian who would othermise havo long before taken micasurcs for the extirpation of theevil, - 1t remained for slavery itaolf to awaken the apirit that dostroyed it. ~Awif In deflancu of all political woraldy, 1t nocked nt the’genlus of Liborty! ‘renz! by Insolence,—blind in its own darkness, it ayeniled tho traditions of tho past, denled the valor which sccured the frults of the Hayolutlon, would liave roversed n!l {ta axioms, and, finally, sventured upon the open deflanco of the powers of Government itself. ‘The Urst shiot tirod at Fort Sumter upon the glorlona cnslan of the Republic ralsed tho wild war cry of tho people’s yengennce In the firat con- tury of American Indopendence, Then came tho uprising of a groat peoplul It was the electrical sliock communleated by an insans ambitlon, which, yoing through the'land, ralsed armed men fromout the earth! Tho plaln rallied with the mountaln, ‘Then ogaln woke the old spirit of 1774, —then gathored thosp massex, leaving botind them all party projudices, and the united voices of the masses prociatined **Unlon fur the saka of Unlon, now and forevur, ono and fuseparablal® and the tlag should be vindicated *¢ though it should cust tha Inst man and tho last dollar,” Then rallled thuse hoste whio marchod to death and to victory, with the musio of that battla song which, upon overy ficld of the war, kindled and’ fired the do- votion of ourarmles: tally "round the flag, boys, ally once aain, Ahouting tho battlo- $*The Unlon furaver! hurrs Down with thu trulturi—up And tha flag itself was ralsod over overy dbor- sill, Bouse-top, und window-hlind, It “fluated uvver every church, school-house, and temple. Beneath {te evor-bright falds, as In tho shadow of sopie wolemn altar, millions resolved and vowed that thole llves should bo the kroat sacritice of its redemption from Insalt, and that nove® should it bu anything less than the glorloud envigu of all the f the American Unlon, numbered only by ary upon its eky-blue fivld! * 1 doce e becumo austion which has been preserved "J sich valor to como to the tombs of tbelr dead defenders on sucha day as tuls, and uvon all days, to pay homage in gratitude and thankegiving for thia “blessing which lh!,! hive to finjoy Ihmugh the sacrifices of our departed crues And wow, turning aside from the chivalrous dead, et ud forn moment give some attention to thelr wurviving cumrados. ‘0 thuse, also, are the honors of this day to bo awarded In the gratitude and respect which” have Insplred tho rumcm of such tributes to the dead.” In surviving their comradus, they cujoy tha two-fold. plensurs of recelving (he plandits of tho peopls, as as witnoesing the successful ~ lsnoa struggled to lato War, Tt fu true, the eamgmr that »o long unlted them with their dead brothren se soldiers ayu now quenched furever, The cordial greetings that ook pluce between thom at every escap from portl; the kind words and kinder coinpanionship, lio gentles charitics of life, which solacod thelr sulfurinus when wounded; the assoclations of the lung march, the rocollections of the solitary haus, tho terrors of tha dread batilo, the misery of Los- pital aud sick-bed, ~all these are now sod forover closad, scaled up; hushed as the grave; no awak« I Hut the tears which well up to tho oyes of -{PII liviog heroes on dayw such wuch aa this,— are they tears of sorrow or of Juy? This day the gentle hand of wamanhood, nnited with tho stronger nature of our steroer vex, gatlior the flowers tnat deck thufr.‘kal of all those witn whont they Were sasoclated, aud for whom, on this day, they still cuntivue to mourn, Al the trl and trinimphs {n which the lving participated are recalled oo occarlons ko this, uu THE NEROIC SACKIPICES of the soldices dead are recalled in tho mmple bat gruccful memurlul ceremunles of the day. As the shaduws of our departed cowrades ariso before us cuch recelvos fro.n luving hearls his mevd or share of thesv tho kentleat offvriugs of affection, 3 ‘Tho public apylause and private gratitude gure lands tho tombe of the dead; but each of t8c lving asoclatcs must feel that he himself wesrs crown of victory which, 88 the heritage ol fame, auticipatea hinniortality ! How alecp the brave wha sink {o rest By all thelr country'’s wishes Nul"l ¥ 1 'cace! Lut now, let us have peaca ea; lel 176 16 Ve wittton, i ek usy 1 tho languago of the great Gonoral who gave sitaply words the slguificauce of logal ruscrivléy ** Lot us have peace.” Auld with each retarolog anni. verary uf Decoration wo wlil bave be peace which was the ubflucl of tho war, liciat writed that the queetion of what u war cost, as s matier of relative fmportance, depon ls on- Ilrclfi upon the characler of tho véace §¢ bay se- curcd. « Iuthe peaco 0ar Clvil War has sccured, it whil .Revolation, " F Lovery cread, consocrs A great pub. . be manifest. firat of all, that tho desteaction of slayery hna more fiemly cemonted the Unfon, It has farever remaved the moat fraftfal and nnfiry #onrco of all the cnnlrnvun{ that distarbed 1L Tho peace anid fnml feeling which Washington, in the Farawell Addreas, go carneatly invoked ns neces. rary to prescrve the Union formed by the orieinal Siates under the present Constitation ia 1780, will now éxist and be necured a4 soon as the irritations which have arisen outof the late War have been overcomo. The time is now approaching when Maronand Dixon's Line will be unknown upon the map of the Htates, The time has already como when South Carolina and Marsachunetta nro again ‘tahoulder-to-ehoulder an they went through the ‘or a time estranged by causcs they had not controlled, under the lm“ul!c of agencles not to be repressed—made alike the instrumante of a force or destiny they did not coanvreheml—lhey fiercely antagonized ench other, fired the scctions, and brought onthe War! According to the samo desting Al)lvlne. and not human) the War, pross- cated at fest to nave the Unlon, destroyed Slavery!. The {rrepreasible canflict completed ar the end of our firat contury what the Revolution hind left nn- ;i:rms at its commencement. It may be aald, there- 0y — Like generous conrsers maving neck and n B TR Cork oy RivInk LA ¢ memie neCks Chrintian and Jew, thiey euery out one pian, For though of different fallli, each 18 1n licart & man, Again, I urgo the aypcul of tho great soldier, Why not haye peace? 'Fhls ia to bo and must be another great result necnred by the War. - Ie thera any ground npon which the fanatic of bate can'now nppeal sgainat the Bonth—the children ot a com- mon contntry, sons succeeding to a comman Inher. itance of glory, and agaln united by the blood nnd tears of a revolution ns well ses groat clvil wart ‘Thoe ¢ivil wars and revolutions of history In Fin- gland and France caneed great terrible suflering, but, as time hos passsed, Providence has revealed what, the mon of the #ge could not fore- see—that the march of these ovents led onton higher'atato of advancea eivillzation and improved canditionof the people. Ilhlnr{ haslongaineo cons secrated all such struggles by claiming them as the common renown of tho respective countries which became the thentres of the reenes described. Ilis- torinne now make no_distinctionn of sides in thoeo civil wars, by withiolding the praises and honors fromn cither side: but all aro-nlike regaraed with the judgment of impartial rotrospection, and fame accorded wherover it belongs to deeds of sncclal valor and pateiotism, All anch deedls, whomeoever helr nuthiors, or of whatover sldo of contruveray, contributing to those trossures of glory that s to forever fllustrato onr annal -Ard they not 4 part of the imperishable glory that is to"remain tho comnion property of this natlon, and to descend as o rich heritago to our children? 1 sny aguln, ‘‘Lot us havo peace.” Trejoleo exceedingly that the appeal is now having a pracs tieal and ‘successful application in our national councile. Ihave been rejoiced 10 witnesa that at Waslungton the sword of the Ciesara and the late war haa heen Inkd nalde, and that our new Admin- iatration hod reanmod ab Inst tha ' BOELTRB OF THE OIVIL LAW. Tho peoplo of the South are again taking thelr places as Siates, not provinces, President Ilayes has clasped hands with the late Confedcrates over the bluody chasm In Louisiana and South Carolina, 'The **blasdy shirt™ no longer usurps the place of the Union fiag! The money-changers are belng driven onut of tho Temple of the Laws, bribo- takers mttlng Inreceipt of castom aro adinonish- ed, and, above and before all, thero s licard the clear rin and sound tone of & healthfnl utterahca at Waahington, such as that terso sentence: **lla who hest scrves hia country beat sorves his party, ' Theuttorance, coming ns {t does from tho Chlef Magtstrate, touching all the springa of ofiicial 1ife, is un appeal to the eart of tho peoplo nuainst tha factions who have oryanlzed politieal life ad cone spiracicn ngalnst the Stats, When public virtue was decllning in Rome, TPlularch every one had party except tho rnys [ lu-,pulme. What aro _combinations of men weeking tho control of Government I tholr firat and highoat motive is nottlio welfare of the people? Tucy are mere confederacics, it ma; #ald, in politics or crime, to divide withsccomplices tha spolls of n countr: com,lunrud an in war—by thelr infamous association. Thoy are the same sy Cuwsar and hin legions sfter thoy trossed the Itnbi. con, who robbed the treasury of Rome, protected by religlon amd the laws, ‘and ssassinated thu Uribunc of the people who cndeavored to provont the vutrage, B ‘I'ho dend and Hving soldlers of tho War fought to preserve, not destroy, thelr country. ‘'he nee tlon has crossed the Itod Soa, and appronchen tho Promised Land, Tha wilderncss interposed fts perlis, and wo have had onr sufferings. pasicid lhruugh trials, and punished for our siny. HBut now, and on such doys as Ltuls, atanding amidat the gruven of the honoreil dead, wa lvok forward aml upward ton nationsl Immortality. Our national worship, extending s; mpulh{ and protection to t all altarn—tho love of a cominon destiny, and onc God! One Union, ono American fag, *Fing of the freo hoarts anly Home 1y angel hands o valor given— - Thy starsinye 1it tho walkin dome, - ndall thy huce wera born In Iicaven,” ‘Tha speech of Mr, Hoyno was exceedingly well recelved, the sentonces approving of the reconciliation policy of - President Hayes belng cspeclally npplauded. At its conclusion the Glee Club, by request, sang *“I'm golug bLack to Dixlo,” 3 TIIB NEY. W, I, RYDER . made the concluding specch of the evening, T said that from atl sectlons of the lundthe graves of tho toyal dead were docorated that day, Ile came thero not as ropresentative of any sceet or of any pasty, but aa o ciizon speakiog 1o fellow- citizens. Horn within a wile of whoro the May- flower first cast auchoty and with” an Aniortean «tscont of flve gencrations, he acknowkedged the posscasion of astrong love of country, Look- ing buck through history, theys would find that love of llberty dated lack as far as history roached. Finer {lfustrations of patriotism than those found {n_the history of Rome could not bu discovered. The highest ambition of & nablo heart then was to dle in defonse of his country, Under our Christian dispensation wo taken highor firnmld. dulmlnfl.lmt tho highestservice In which a man can die is whero priucigle is in- volved, Religlon and patriotism wero futer- laced In the hearts of mankind, and the better forms of clther could not be entortalnea except whera the other wos - felt. ~ Hoth commanded eacrifice, ond called forth the best feeling of men and enlarged thelr sympathics. Patriotlsm standing by itselt not. the highest virtue, for one might die fn tho service of hiscountry, when that country was engaged {n an unjuat cause, 08 perhaps might bo true to somo cxtent of the Moxican War, But in this last cause, as In that of the Revolution, thore was no doubt as to the duty of a true citl- zen, At the outbreak of tho War he was full of Massachusctts sympathics and loves, ond, when tho ° brave hoys from Lawrenco were shot down In tho streots of Baltimore, ho felt llke saying, ** Massachusctts, cever foramost, grand old Siatel” Now, alter seventeon and a half years' residence in llllnoh, ho atiil ield Masaachusetts first—{ilinols, possi- bly, excepted. [Laughter.) This local . pride ln‘l local feoling which onco prevailed merged into the greater feeling of love for the Union us a whole, In other lands the PM ple loved thelr country, and they did well. T'erbaps In the fu- ture there would bo the world over one grand Qovernment of peace and love, oppresslon and tyranny banished forever, and God ruling over all and acknowledged by T HON. JOUN Y, FARWELL. trusted that thoy would all remember the ono great lesson that the gallant soldfer who had Hrst addressed them that evening Liad assisted io strewing towers over the graves of his former opponents. South of Mason and Dixou's Line, now obliterated ' forever, thousands of hauds had covered with garlands the resting-places of Union soldicrs, and all must feel that therg “is o Divinity whichi shapes wur ends, rough-hew them how we will.” ‘The_oxercisea closed with a selection by the Qleo Club, . — TIIE EXPOSITION, BUILDING,. 1N MEMORIAM~3AY 30, 0 Memory, mcmnfihnckmnl through the mazes, And I mid the graves ¥ ‘And trenches mado during War's ronghest pisses, How the trna heart craves For V'eace! How eagor vvery Patriot soul, 1 'l'hx: lnva.;- u‘n- unr;hbmll.m wbois that n Ha| ul o 0! “bt tho ;-:?-flnmmcmw ] stand. Memory! How very quickly wo form sgaln Aml?lho pincs, and wait For the coming storm of leaden raln,— Each man wondering what Fate oy in store for him, and ali Feollng their hearts’ quick boat, ‘Whils thlnklug of changes the next roll-call \Vill discluse when survivors mect, 's bridge the ** chaam ' now, and a; h’l"tfublr.‘m cwlfilnn. this Cn:nlry‘luaun’;' And, In decorating, dun't negluct the Gray— llend colors in atrowing Aowen; Dc‘l‘nm’ dred cnoui of (he ' chasm, * God knoms, ‘] us bridge it o'ar. Frones, My 34, D, 8, B, TUR BXERCISKS 1N THE BVENING at the Exposition Buildivg attracted an audl ence of about 3,000 people. After the Gloo Club had snng the * Star Bpangled Banuer," Mr, W, J, Oushan fntroduced the Hon, Leonard Bwelt, who delivered an eloquent adarcss, fn which he said; Waewere pro-eminently a peaceful people; but soon there commenced a fearful struggle, Then come the vivid plctures of Donelson, Vicksbure, and Bherman's March to the Sea. We ro- ber that, as the st le culmi- T:Lr:l. wo hoard thut Leos llus?‘n’i Richuond had been broken; and, atmost befors we bad thno to comprebend It, Leo bad surrendercd, und we had peacs, [Cheers)] We remember the sbout that went up froin the Atlautic to the Pacitic when it was kuown that we had con- quered a peace, Toe farwer left his plow, the workwan the shop, thu smith bls forge, and there went up frous all tho lund one great au- thew of peaco, But many of the boye did ot come marching bomes; nor for them was there rst ssve fu tho grave. Aud this day briugs back kocnly to ua tho foith aud de- votfon of thuse who fcll. It should not rest werely with the offeripg of “fluwers ab thelr graves, It should bo the duty—more thap that, the racred privilego—of thos reaped the frulta of the War to viss GSP.I‘“".!.: of the wilow and orphian, made auch by that fratrickinl ulr((l.'x and place abunt thet all the protection, all the comforts nossible, that the gloom of their afiction may Lo lightened, Theso are tho real sufferers, who offered up thelr preclous offerings upon altar - of the natlon. They ara sncred hequest to us of trose wiio fell, necessitles should bo our principal labor of The scenes of the War had !nScd away. Tha shadows of the past had been faded fnto tha cheerful vealisation of to-day, and the bright hope of the future, DBut we could never Torget the loyal service, loyally donc, for the sacred cause of the country, Least of all could we bo insensibla to it” on this day, when the masscs of tho peaple and thousands of igentla -and tnnocost ehikiren strewed flowers n;:on tho graves of tho herole dead, Among them wero thoss who had borne the heat and brunt of the fight; among them was Thil Sherldan, who had reaped never-fading laurcls. But this was ntimo of peace, and th prager of overy patriot now was that the nation should be firmly an [nsolubly united upon the bruad platform ‘of a common country, -Thero was indeed more than o promise of this, Vg hind reached the beginning of a true and #loris ous realizatlon of the bright fature, Hot, J. F. Bonfleld followed with o patrfotie address, in-which he sald that thy reat result Of the War which must be inaln. tained was the cstablishment of the fraternity :.).{ mnnlu?d equalit tfisn“ lllxtul: leuple. Unly by e maintenance ol s coul e the :o{x‘mry be lnulurcd.‘ e nn:al uaky ot he canclusion of Mr. Bonficld's Mr. Brock L. McVicker recited pn - oourcst Eoem, written eapecially for the occaalon, % A igh and o Bong," whlch was recetved 'with hearty nlpplduue. Miss ltoss D'Erina was then introduced, ang sung with good effectn l_mwourfl of the - ll.ullml“longl ncl Amcricn, ‘:T;:cu,Lnnd lrelumll and, upon entore, suny 6 Lost R Su‘vnmcr;;'gl‘nnlahw ltvlc.l 1 b el Miss rina _accompanied herselt plany, ono of Mnmnahgk'. grandls, clu‘x’:‘mle‘a 1zed by the richness, fullness, and quality pos- scaagel only by Mathushel's, which was l!lmn loantd for tlie occasion by Messrs. l'elton«g Ptomelrny, the Chicago ngents, No. 153 Btate street. “Drake's Odg to the Flag " was reclted wl fine dramatie effect by Miss E. Gavin, 1':«:"9' McaAflery followed with a recitation of g Hdan's ide.”” As tho * Gallant Little Phy was seated on tha platform only n few prcs distant, the recitation provoked deafening calis of * Blicridan." GEN. SNERIDAN rosc and bowed his acknowledzmonts, whicl waa followed by rencwed calls for n apeceh, and finally the (eneral came forward and safd: Icamo hero to-night to ses and hear tho presenta. tion of a fag to the Second Regiment, hr wmrfi'[ aminterested. 1dld not expoct to take part iy thg oxcrolses. But’nernnnl 1t 1s not nnbpropriate fue mo to say o fow words. [ wontoutto-dayto decorato tfio gravos, "1 think I shied wbout as nany tears and seatterca about as_many flowors Bty Dady, tor many of those men fell Inm{ cominand, " [ havo'lisiened to what has been aafd here to-nfuit, 8inco 1 ehook handa with Gen. Lee at Appomattos 1 havo been willing to forgive, Lint Lywlltonly forgive when tha principles for which they foi neo establlshed; 1 don't think Il’ Imi‘{ to be too hllt'y abont it 1 dont bellave In legislating forgivenel 1 don't believe in talking forgivencan, do! bellovo {n talking 20 much about It. T don't belong to any pnn?yk. i am not & Repablican. 1am notn Democrat, ~ Dut Ithink this thing is too much talked about. It must he allowed to take Its own course, oy ofhcr mattera do, It will take thne. But Idon't bo. lieve it Ia woll to do too much talkingahout it And with that, having already mado his ac- knowledgmnents for tha compliment shown bim, Gen. Sherfdan closed, The regimental colors—a -nrcxb Bet—werg then presented by Misa E, Gavin in behalf of the ladies of Chicaggo, Tho IHow, W. J. Tlynes briefly responded for the regiment. The excreiscs closed with o dregs parmlo by the Becond Regriment, o grand military proine: nade, and a hop. ELSEWIERE. TIIE BTATE. IN MEMORIAM—UNDER TIR 80D. Under tho sod they are slecping to-day, Sleonlnu to waken no more— Blind to tho pomp of tho battlo-areay, Deaf to the deep cannon-roar; slcerlnz 80 calmly and sweotly thelr aleop, *Trinls and perls all post, -Nover to wakon to joy or Lo weep— Tteatlog in qatot at Tuat, Ilomes u:nz onco know them shall know,them no mora— Laved onos will wait thom in valn; Cold 11 tho hearthatono, and elosad {n the door ‘Thoy may ne'or entor again, : Ta'en In tholr gnankood, tholr strength, and their ride, Nolly thop yloided thele all; Fearlessly battling, they stood sido by aldo, - T1l they ax liorocs stiould fall, . ‘Tears for the brave men now lying ¥o lowy Tonts for thelr priof and thelr pain, MMarching or fighting ‘midst heat or 'midat sndw, Un the bleak monntain or plain; ‘Tears for tho hearts that were sundered and torn, Knowing the shock that must como} Tears for the widows and orphans who mourn Sad in their dosolate home. Jc( that the blood of the martyred ones shed Cried niot {n valn from tho sod; Joi that the thousands of Patriot dead woll with tho Patriot’s God} 2 Jnfl that tho Land which they battled to savo lossonis In beauty to-day}; Joy that the bonds of the downtroddon slave lioir death-pangs sundered for aye, Bealtter nba‘vu thom the boauties of Bpring, Qlfts of a Father of Lovoj} Dut better far may wo hieart-offorings bring, ;. Grateful remem nneum‘nmw. And, na tho scasons whall roll In tholr filght, May we romember with peide Drothiers who perished that Freedom and Righy With us in peace might abide, Cuicago, May 20, 1877, A, J, Woos. o JOLIBT. Special Dispatch o The Tribune. Jovinr, 1), May 80.~Memorial-Day was ob- seryed hers in the customary manner, the exers clses belng, as usual, of a very Interesting cbare acter. Iu tho forehoon detachments visited the Catholle cemeterics on the West Bide, and dee- orated the graves of soldlers interred there, At 1.0'dock p. m. a processfon was formed Ly Lieut, J. B, Fithian, Chicf Marahal, assfsted by Lieut, M. F, Yland, consisting of the Jotlct Citl< zens' Corps and the Dwight Guards, of the Tenth Battallon I. N. Q., the Jollet Light Artlilery, Bartleson Post No. 6, @ A. R, and carrlages contalnlng Howers, tbs President and orator of tho day, city officials, and other citlzens moro or less distingalshed, The Adams Coract Band, of Dwight, headed tho line, which marched to Oakwood Cemetery, where, alter 8 fervent prayer by the Rev, E. C. Arnold, the llon, @. D. A, Parks deliyercd a briof but ap- propriate oratlon which fully sustajned bis rep- utstion as one of the most polished snd elo- quent publlc speakers in tho State. In speaks fng of the North and South he sald: The two combatants, wisely discarding all hopes of a rounion based on the lmxomhlu condltion of forge(ting vvents which could not be forgotten, nmfi-ch ot last- ylelding to tho other the rigt, which could not ba efectuslly denled, uf honoring fte own dead mccording, 10 its own somso ot tasto’ and duty, have learn or are fast learning, lo convart the occaslons which this very observance offurs lnsn: opportunities for promoiing, rather than reian 1 tho fendoncius to reunion. Each fndee tho humane insplrations o d loaders, aided by the geqe cral to emulate tho other 1o~ ficcs of maguanlinity and tenaerness towards tu-?ll'n of tho opposite side whoss romains wers letibr tho fortuncs of war within ite lines, " Ou tho conclusion of the oxcrciscsat the mnd a salute of lhlrty-flfbt guns was lired, lolluw:l:m by the decoration of the soldlers’ graves. o n{tundnncc was large, slthough not equl V; that of last year aud thu years previvus, uo ‘was the intorest su general, ROOKFORD. 8pecial Dispaich to The Tribunte TRockroup, {11, May 80.—Tu-duy was la ?fla’ Tong to be remembered In Rockford, Quite " expectedly we enjoyed adouble treat (o tue v'n, ! euca {n our city notouly of (en, John A. hu».t": whom we at Rockford think the sblest vulul:h‘ General thls country vver produced, but of (i Johin L. Beveridge, who rendered gallant "iln H ico with the Aroy of tho Potomac, ‘Tho ds¥, was all that could t‘lmd de: "“kfifi"fih fil‘lz,"_fi" I tn 8N usty. :fitf;m‘lzu foruied at thocoruor of Btatasud Malu aa follows: Advance Guard, or and Comumon Counc b M gucation. Clty offclals, Including iho Yoard of Eguestion. c o Jion. Johu A. Logen, U spi'u'-mmgu‘ oid the ifcn W hilau Marsball ‘Cuaplain and singer. ’ m;k{”r:f.lzlglqdl:::\:linm 0 e l ' Rockfond tifcs in full uniforin us 40T\ Grand Arwy of the Kepubilc, Novios Post, Rockford Unlon Bank. 1 Rotkford Firy Dcw:mu:t. slght compaales u oruL. and. 81, Jaota e Abatncucs Boctety. “Anclent Opder of United Workiuen. Citlzeus In carrioges. e ‘The Ron. l-}nhn A. l;'o,zmln'.“-‘::::.I;,ul rzzrmuu i Ct n-Day speech. Pflwmuqu‘hn pefy l\:mry el eujoy Lupilio Vet