Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1878, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Except Sanday AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Gi Pennsylvania Aveace. corner 11th street, The Bycning Star Newspaper Oompany ». H. KAUFFMANN, Pres’t. —_—_——_2——_ aR EVENING STAR is served to subscribers in the eity by carriers. on their own accouat it, at 10 cepts per week, oF gio oe Cn : mail—postage counter 2’ cents each. bn? certs? month; one year, $8, .¥ 3TAR—published on 72 & [ogee evade BB copise for bib: 20 copies "(gar All mail subscriptions must be paid in ‘ade ance; 20 paper sent longer than 80 pai *@ Rates of advertising made Kuown on applica- Bon. Ves, BI-N®. 7,851. he venting Star. WASHINGTON, D. C,, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1878. TWO CENT: [APORTATIONS OF THE THR LEADING CHAMPAGNE WINES INTO THE UNITED STATES FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS, ‘Acvonling to Bonfort’s Wine and Liquor Circalar: G.H. MUMM & CO. PIPER HEIDSIECK. L. ROEDER S HOTEL HIGHLAND SPECIAL NOTICES. busines MUNDAY, Jane No, 1411 F st, =S Stock not transferred five days prior te that date cannot be yoted. Applica- tions for transfer to be made to the Secretary, at the city Post office. JAMES E, BELL, Secretary of the East Fairmont Gas, Coal, and » THE ANNUAL MEETING of the Steckholders of the EAST FAIRMONT COAL, ANS» COKE COMPANY. for the cas 1 ay vegally come before ite will bo held ally come before it, ae is78. at 2 o’clock p.m.. at Coke Company. my22-tel a APPOLLINARIS a RING do good work cheaper = FALO LITH ad UNYADI ANOS, WATERS, Just received AT ‘S PHARMACY, mars tr VBUBN'S ey PEnW A, AVENUE. yw UTCHINSON, HAY ort StaRET NORTHWEST, extensive facilities for man With very showing @ line of Marbielzed Mantes auequaled tor Hennes of design and color an rng TD ee eidag tors Manties Walnscoatizgs closely followed, and imitations of and exactl) iT . PERESTOW WHOUGHT (20N FUR- WROU! NACE, Baltimore ITCHENEE KANGES: 150 the TOV. Russia fire-place 8 and Oo} Work. Witha Eige forge of ‘competent mechanics in’ thelr vac rious personal experient wil) aortas Bray eae? Saas hy S HATHORN GODSELL Bhos: s a OP Heat Point, N. ¥. YS) my27-1n °° }2RIGHT” HOUSE. BY my20-L PRINGDALE. sort, three miles east of the Binue Ridge, and near the terminus of the ¥¢) y.& ot R., is particularly atiractive S04 te officehoiders, haying the adva and evening tra There abundant. shade, a pavis other places of amuse! Fequized. Address E. F. POY ville, Loudon county. Dy EOI ER OF DELAWARE AND : SURP AVENUES) WALTER BURTON, Pr This popniar Summer Re- 3 ; VIRGINIA PINE FRAMING, per M.. age of ur ag large lawn affordin; grounds, an ft) References given and ELL, snickers- my20-lm ORDPAN’S WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. 54s miles northeast of miles southeast of 97} P. O., Frederick St Te E.C. JORDAN. EALING SPRINE BATH CoUnty, Va. Bituatea 2,100 feet above ses miles from Uovin Bge mean terupers capacity of bi facilities ample. Bo. per month. ‘The waters of th aily recor ¥ es of which ean be ascer' tector. myl g5 are speci mended for a large number of diseases, sent freeon application to WM. B, \ LENCOE SPRING: TRAL RAILROAD, ‘Will be opened for the Summer Season on Jone. Thi: 2 miles fro run tions and comforts for families or transient bosrd- ers, Apply to MISS AMELIA GRAHAM. Mount Vernon Pisce. my7-ia iS NORTHERN CEN- SPRIN HENANDOAH ALUM ‘Alum, Chalybeate and Saiphur Wate PVA. Oo bar; mountain air; 2,000 ft. above tide-water large Iau. | Special rates to guests atriv- 9S une t : ing in May or remain twoor three months. For terms and papers address: my7-im A.J. M ERS, Proprietor. oo AYMORE HOUSE,” SEA END, ILLINOIS AVENUE, ATLANTIC CITY, 3 June Ist. tsepT M. E. HOOPES. ‘feat wet END HOTEL, LONG BRANCH, a PRESBURY & HILDRETH, Proprietors, WILL OPEN JUNE 207u, 1878. Transient Board reduced to $4 a day. Perma- ment rates according to location and rooms occu- pied. Among other improvements a PASSENGER ELEVATOR has ween adéed,and the Hot and Cold Sea Water Bathing Establishment improved. Applications now received by D. DRETH, at 52 Broalway, New Yors: G. PRESBUKY, at the Hotel, after May 1st. ‘ap23-tuéth,2in BOOKS AND STATIONERY. M. HIL- Iso, by G, NEw BOOKS, Berens, by Longteltow. Pogankc People, by M B. Stowe. Ht A Year Worth Living. by Wm. M. Baker, ‘The Adventuresof an American Consul Abroad, Records of Living Otticers of the U. S. Navy. WM. BALLANTYNE & 80N'3, my27-tr 428 Seventh st. n.rw. HE WOMAN'S BIBL tion by Miss Smith. of Glastendury soldat BALLANTYNE‘S, It is hight ed by classical scholar: EW BOOK LIST. allace's Tropical Nature... Modern Dwellings. By Holly. Spectrum Aualysi: Lock: nue People. Mrs, Stow ‘Phe Indian Question." Lt, Col, Utis Insanity and its Prevention, Dr. Tuke. Stuato, Field and Gallery Odds and Ends. Heary Rollin Beers Janet. . .. Mrs. Burnett's Miss Esther Pennefather Justine’s Lovers Less Black Than We're Painted. Deceivers Eve: = Phe American Episcopate wet te. Ci ', in all stytes. ‘acum’ NS @ CHAPMAN, my22-tr 11 Pennsylvania avenue. free transia- Conn., is Bice etter SERSASSRSASSSSS LATEST PUBLICATIONS. AS sis of History, by Sam*l. Willard. ern Dwellings in Town aud Country. by H. H. Field and Gallery, by Rollin. “The by G. D. Boardman. How to res. | Spctram yer; Inter. Sc Be est Penneteather. Pezeitee Perry: larper’s Library of American Fiction. Reapiny the Whirlwind, by author of Old Myddictoues Money. The God Souof a Marquis, by Andre Theu- t 3 Holly, Stud Creative Week, Paint Photographs. by G. B. Ay: Analys! a J. Norman Loc! Beries. sther P ‘Less Black Than We Are Painted, Payn. Decetvers, Eve: €ron.” Is He Popenjoy ?" A novel, by A. Keramos auc other Poems, by Henry W Longfellow. $1.25. Memoir of Win. Big siftey- $1.50. The Voyage of the ger. by sir C. WyvilleThomson, 2 vols., maps and illustrations, $12. Cases, $12; Clifford Vol. 8, new seri assortment of f Just received a Rew stv ies Ih Stationery, include ing Fancy Bores of Ps < pee, Cea and Bares, Of Paper and’ Envelopes, and iD Wool and paper boxea, Any Poecmgtis* or Law Book not in stock or- BH. & 0. B. Mo! es RRISON, Booxsert myl4-tr 75 Pemees A GES UINE YACHT-c HE Pine Cloth DRESS SUITS for $18 should be seen to be appreciated, apo A.STRAUS', ‘adsworth Bartlett, by Shailen- ‘Table of 475 Penna. ave. LOTH SUIT for 14. at A. STRAUS’, 1011 Pa, aveose > “5, $i4 AND BUFFALO LITHIA WATERS, received, fresh from the Springs. = W. 8. THOMPSON, apis 703 15th st. = SRIVALLED S UNE QuALTy AND PRICE. Champagne Wines of MOET & CHANDON, MOET & CHANDON, tablished 1843. RENAULD. FRANCUIS & 00., nowl-eoly Sole Agents for U. 8 AMAZINGLY LOW PRICES FOR LUMBER aT WILLET & LIBBEY’S. CORNER 6TH STREET AND NEW YORK Av. $13 33 ‘We are now offering LUMBER ata lower figure than it bas ever reacbed in Washington. JOIST, all sizes (medium length) ee0$13 33 yW PRICES command the attention of ail pureianers ‘who wish to buy low. $13 33 STUDDING (medium length) ‘With the largest Stock in the city. WE HAVE THE LOWEST PRICE LIST. WILLET & LIBBEY, lorner Sixth Street and New York Avenue. my3-tr yom E. KENDALL & SON, No. 619 B Street Northwest, Near the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Depot, have for sale, at fair prices, ROOFING and OTHER TIN PLATES, ER, ZL all sizes of IRON (HORSE and Mud SHOES: HORSESHOE BAILS, CUP and WROUGHT NAILS, BOLTS, SCREWS, HUBS, RIMS, SPOKES. CARRIAGE TRIMMINGS, PAINTS AND VARNISHES, as weil asa general assortment of HARDWARE, RUBBER HOBE, 25 feet, complete, with Coup- lings and Nozzie, for $3. HOSE REELS, $3.50. myll-1m \Y OTICE. yr abont the first day of June I will open On OF NO. 90S Eighth Street 8. c- afullting ot . EAD visions NES AND LIQUO WARGARSAND PUBACCO, yhic! snd for cash only, Which J will sell cheap and for casbontye, # ., BEST | MIDDLESEX | FLANNEL uits, at thelow priceof $12, at iE HANDSOME SACK SUITS, jet eolored, and made equal to custom work, tee foundonly'at (aps0) ‘A. STRAUS". INE Light Colored Cassimere PANTS at$3.50, Buchs! at A. STRAUS’. ap30o- I1GHT COLOURED AND FANCY DRESS t at Lifes, 100 differen! Fatierns, st STRAUS yes Oriental SILK WORSTED SUIT for $20 ‘most dressy out ‘season, nso most A. STRAUS’. OOK AT THOSE MAGNIFICENT LIGHT ‘Colored English aud French Cassiiere Pants, with Patent “Attachment. ‘They can Quiz be found at A. STRAUS’. WATERS’ ORGANS | are the best ever made, PIANOS PIANOS, 7 octave, $125; 7'4 }, 2 stops, $47: 4 stops, 850; tops, $63; 8 stops, $49; 10 stops, $82, 12 stops, ; Cash, all in perfect order, not used a year: t Music at half price. Send for Illustrated bi Catalogues. HORACE WATERS & SONS, Manufacturers and Dealers, mé-t. thés,1m&k17,31 40 East 14th st.,N.¥. LB, CANS SPICED COVE OYSTERS, for Phe rath Ret Goss’ Canning Establisument, Baltimore: Vase BEG 10 cents a foot. At J tks BUILDS southeast corner Penn- ‘10th street. & Sylvania avenue and myl0-1m ONDS AND STOCKS. inited States Bonds of all kinds; District of Columbia Bonds of various issues; Wi Georgetow: ant Ly Btock: Manicipal and onda Sua seocks tossht d sold by LEW18 JOHNSON & CO., Banke: adel ‘10th st. and Penta, avenud ——— Ie ont Feaes, arenne_ AXY, FLEISCHMANN & CO., Original Manufacturers and Introdicers Greiaatt of aaa COMPRESSED YEAST, leave to inform the public that ali such repar- ations hot Dearing Our signature ate inidartons, parties wis retain good Bread, Rous, &c., should a for GAFF, FLEISCHMAN & C0,°3 GENUINE ARTICLE, Warranted free from chemicals, myl7-tr ypecnne TRUNKS!) TRUNKS! TRAVELING BAGS, SATOHELS, In it variety, of MY OWN and other mak and at prices lower than ever, at my FACTORY and 425 Beventh One door above Odd Fellows’ Hall, JAMES 8. TUPHAM, TO ORDBR. ape-tr » TENSERY ron REPAIRER, rou? HENNUYLVaNia AVENUST ” eee te teed for one year, or mouey refunded, tebean THE EVENING STAR. Washington News and Gossip. Tue Domes OF THE POTTER COMMITTEE. The Potter investigating committee were in session about an hour yesterday piaiaee ‘There was a very general discussion as to how the inquiry into the Presidental fraud should be conducted, and it is said that it was decided to send immediately sub-committees to Flori- da and Louisiana; Mr. Blackbura to head the jana sub-committee and Mr. Hunton, of rginia, the one to te sent to Florida. There was a good deal of comment concerning what was alleged to be unjnst criticism of the pro- ceedings of the committee published in the New York pewspapers. Then followed a dis- cussion as to the propriety of admitting news- paper men to the sittings of the committee, which was cut short by the adoption of a reso- lution offered by Mr. Cox, of Ohio, that the investigation be conducted with closed doors. One committee man said to a STak reporter “You newspaper men have told so inany d—d lies about us that we have decided to give nothing out except when every member of the committee is present.” It is thought that the sub-commitiees will not leave this week. Such had been the intention, but owing to the fact that the House yesterday was not fh any hurry to take action on the bill reported from the ap. propriation commitiee, to pay the expenses of the investigating committee it may be the middle of next week before the sub-commit- tees get away. Itis not the intention of the few menibers of the committee who will remain here to enter deep into the inquiry until the sub-committees return. No meeting of th committee was held to-day owing to Genera Butle ysence at Gettysburg. PROF. BARD, Senator Beck and Col. John- son left the city to-day for Havre-de-Grace, e the shad hatching operations of the winission are son, A million and the: THE MATTER OF ADJOURNMENT.—It quite probable that the Senate will coneur i the House resolution to adjourn sine die June lth. There remain but two appropriation Lills to report to the House, and it is expected Will be ready to report by Wednesday Although oniy three of the regul; jation bills hi emi are in suc! te appropri the next ten days they ¥ committees, where th the two house: ticiled more readily in either house, Of esolution DIL; the ure of Wood's t t financial lexi jon this ses- sion; the defeat of the propositions to reduce te tax on tobacco, and the suspension of pay- ments to the sinking fund; the probable de- feat of the amboat bill, and the absolute certainty of the defeat of the many private Schemes on the private calendar in each house. THE RIVER AND Hannor BILL, as reported tothe Senate yesterday afternoon from the commerce committee, retains the appropria- tion of $100,000 for the improvement of the Po- tomac river. MiLITARY MANAGEMENT OF THE INDIAN BUREAU.—Two thousand ponies were tal from the Indians at Standing Rock agency and sold by the military. In return therefor the Indians were given by the military two hundred head of old cows worth about $12 ed with proceeds of s ald that the ponies were prices ranging from $12 to $25 each, itis a question as to what became of the many thous- ands of doliars which the military have failed t0 account for. THE PRESIDEN’, Secretary MeCrary, Attor- ney General Devens, Gen. Butler, the orator of the day, and twenty-nine other members of Congress, arrived at Gettysburg Jast night to attend the ceremonies of Decoration Day. The President and Attorney General Devens are the guests of the Hon. Edward Mc Phers: at whose residence a reception was g! night. After the reception President Hay: Secretary McCrary and Gen. Butler were se enaded in turn. OUT OF OVER 1,700 Mam, Conrracts for which proposals were accepted in the last let- tings at the P. O. Department, ail Dug 24 have already been Bled atthe dep tment, and some of are on their way here, and will reach the cicy before the first of June, the limit be- yond Which contracts cannot be filed. That contracts on so nearly all of the routes should be filed within the proper time isa thing un- precedented in the history of the department. Yost OFFICES have been multiplying so rapidly that the whole number inthe United States is now more than 39,000. This is an in- crease of over 10,00 in eight years, asin 1370 the number was 28,492. CADET APPOINTMENTS.—The appointment by the President annually of ten cadets at large to West Point.and ten to the Naval Academy, and the designation by the Sec- retary of ihe Navy of a number of young men to enter for examination as cadet engineers at the Naval Academy, are usually made in the latter part of April ‘or the first part of May. No such srpelotmente or designations have been made this year, anda large number of inquiries from candidates in this city and all over the country as to the reason have been received by Secretaries Thompson and Me- Creary. The reason that no appointments have been made is that provisions in the mili- tary and naval appropriation bills, which are now in conference, limit the number of cadets at West Point and Annapolis, appointed at large by the President, to be in each acade- mies at the same time to ten, instead of ten appointed annually to each place, and the number of cadet engineers to be at the Naval Academy to twenty-five. These provisious have been adopted by both houses of Congress and the conferences are ordered on the other sections of the bill; therefore, the usual. ap- pointments have not been made. If these pro- visions ae keptin the bills no more appoint- ments of the character named will be made until the number is reduced as required. This Will not be for some years. The appointments of cadets at large to West Point and Annapo- lis grew out of the fact that during the war and for some time after no appointments to these institutions were made from the south, and to make up the deficiency in number the President was authorized to appoint annually ten cadets to each institution, Tue P.O. DEPARTMENT has prepared a cir- cular to be sent to.the postmasters at one hun- dred of the largest post officesin the United States directing them to prepare on and after June sth next and until further ordered, dail reports in detail of the amounts of second and third class matter received at their respective oflices, matter for local delivery not included, and to forward them to the first assistant P M. G. on the 5th and 20th ofeach month. The purpose of these returns is to enable the de- partment to compute the difference in the amounts of second and third class matter mailed under the present and the new Postal laws respectively. ——~re-_~_ Democractic Conventions Yesterday. . TENNESSEE. The democratic state convention to nom- nate five jndges of the supreme court for the August election met in Nashville yesterday. Hon. E. T. Taliaferro, present speaker of the house of representatives, was chosen perma- hent chairman. The following were nomi- nated for judges of the supreme court by ac. clamation:—Kobert McFarland, J. W. Ded. erick, Peter Tierney and Wm. F. Cooper. The convention then “adjourned ‘until to-day. There is still one more judge to be nomi- nated. rhea tie ALABAMA. je democratic state convention assembled in Montgomery yesterday. W. L. Bragg, of Montgomery, presided. Three ballots for zov- ernor, were taken, the last ove showing the following result:—Cobb, 191}¢: Langlen, 1834; Barnes, 125. Necessary to a choice, 351. The Towa democratic state convention met at Cedar Rapids yesterda 18 Judge Edmund J hnson presided. The only point of interest in the platform, aside from @ soft money, in- flation plank, is the dectaration that thorol investigation into election frauds of 1876should be made. “Frauds should be exposed, truth vindicated and criminals punished in aecord- ance with law whenever found. We accept and reaffirm the doctrines of Mr. Tilden’s let. ter upon war claimsas a proper adjustment of national policy concerning that class of claims upon the public treasury.” The following state ticket was adopted byacclamation:—For secretary of state. T. O. Walker; auditor of state, Col. Eiboeck ; treasurer, E. D. Fi register of state land office, T. 8. Bardwe ige of supreme coi Jud; . C, Ki attorney geuleral, John GIbpine” oA MEMORIAL DAY, 1878. DECORATING THE SOLDIERS’ GRAVES, QGEREMONIES AT ARLINGTON. THE ORATION BY HON. C. G, WILLIAMS, THE POEM BY REV. DR. RANKIN. THE SERVICES AT OTHER CEMETERIES. Although the day set apart to honor the memory of the Upion soldiers and sailors who fellin the late efvil war, by commemorative services and the strewing of flowers upon their graves, is not what is known in law as a dies non or legal holiday, this year it was more generally observed by our people than heretofore. Business was generally suspended to-day, flags were flying from various public and private buildings, the streets at an early hour were filled with people, many of them wiih lunch baskets, fishing tackle, &c., wend- ing their way to the railroad depots, the steamboat wharves, and country roads. This, with the warm sunshine, made it look and feel like adth of July morning. The number of excursionists and pienickers was very much larger than usual. The weather got cooler, witha bright sky and fresh breeze, later in the morning. Under the fusploes of the Grand Army of the Repub the memorial services at Arlington, Soldiers’ Home and Congressional Cemetery were quite intere: ing, and at each place there was a large at tendanc The District of Columbia artillery, Major J. R. Hanneman, went over to Arling” ton last night, and this mc ing at sunrise ushered m the day by a national salute, and also fired a similar salute at noon. THE PRESIDENT, accompanied by Secretary MeCrary, Attorney C tal Devens, Gen. Bufler, and about thir Se id Representativ lefi_ yesterday afternoon, at 4 on the Baltimore tysburg, \ Vices ther The National Cemetery at Arlington. A large crowd attended the ceremonies at Arlington to-day. The atiendance was, how- ever, much smailer than in the year previous. Tie day was ushered in by a salute from Major Hannemau’s artillery. About eleven o'clock the people began to pour in. They came in all manner of vehicle, from the stylish eurriage to the rickety one-horse ‘s E Upon entering the grounds through the main gateway, any one who was present at the cere- monies jast year could not 1 to note the number of improvements made since that time. The grass thoughout the reservation, instead of having been allowed to spring up and pew in straggling and tangled pacar t vill, hts be ) o'clock, on a special train nd Potomac road, for G re they will take part in the ser- will, mowed neatly rolled soli The effect js to give to the picturesque acres'a new charm, and enhance the loveliness of the beautiful scene always presented to the visitor to Arlington. The entire surface of the grass plats on either side of the roadway has een covered With a thick layer of rich com- pet compactly rolled, These spaces have een covered with Kentucky blue grass, the bright green of which contrasts well with the dusky shades of the other grass and the foli- age of the grand old trees. ‘The gravel knolls to the right of the road have been transformed into elevations of bright green. A row of young muap'e and Linden trees has been planted on the sides of the road. They are in thrifty condition, and their delicate beauty add their quota to the general loveliness. Another improvement is the row of young poplars pl round the north side Of the pavilion. The soldiers graves are each marked with a plain white marble headstone, on which is in- vibed the name of the deceased, his - ment and date of death cut in the marble, but in many cases this data is wanting, and’ the slab is marked simply “Unknown.” In the middle of these thousands of graves are TWO MARBLE MONUMENTS, showing the res ing place of the former pro- prictor of the estate, Geo. W. Parke Custisand his wife. These graves are enclosed witha wooden picket fence. From the former mon- ument it is ascertained that Mr. Custis was born April 30, 1781, and died Oct. 10, 187 from the other that his wife, Mary’ L. was born April 22, 1783, and died April 23, 1853. Mr. Custis’ monument’ bears the appropriate words from Christ’s sermon on the mount, “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall ob: tain mercy ;” that of his wife, “Ble.sed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” About haif past eleven o'clock the most of the crowd were on hand, and the separate parties into which it was divided presented a lively picture, seated in innumerable spots among the graves or roaming apparently aim- lessly amid the noble trees. THE PROCESSION was formed in front of the Arlington mansion shortly before 12 o'clock, headed by the Marine band. A large number of citizens joined the ex-union soldiers and sailors and the orphans, and swelled the procession. Marching to the tomb of the ‘* Unknown,” it halted. The band played adirge. The tomb was decorated with wright flowers, and the procession moved on lo the cemetery proper. Here each grave, with a small flag by its white marble head: stone, was decorate h flowers, loose and in boquets, and by wreaths of evergreen. The decoration was by no means elaborate, the supply of flowers being somewhat small'and insullicient. At intervals during the decorat- ing, appropriate selections were rendered by the band. The procession then straggled to THE AMPHITHEATER, where the oration was to be delivered and the principal ceremonies of the day enacted. A ew canvass covered the cireularspace formed by the pillars and arbor, covered with vines, known as the amphitheater. The stand for the speakers was draped on the frontand sides by folded flags. From the center of the frame Work above two large flags, draped gracefully to the pillars at either side with a large shield at the poms of divergence. All the frame. work of the arbor and its supporting pillars were decorated with bunting and wreaths. On ¢ach pillar was a neat shield, inside a vic. tor’s wreath, bearing the name of a Union officer—Grant, Dahlgreen, McPherson, Wadsworth, Meigs, Baker, Reno, Lyon, Kear: ney and Reynolds. Directly im front of the speaker's stand were seats for the soldiers’ and sailors’ orphans, over which was suspend- ed the motto: *‘ Our Nation’s Wards!” On the crossbeam overhead of the speaker was: “In memoriam,” in boxwood. All the seats under the amphitheater, which were necessarily limited in number, were filled long before the exercises were commenced, and a dense ring of spectators circled all around the open structure. The services were commenced by the over- fure opera Nabuco, by Verdi, by the Marine and. Mr. George E. Corson called the assemblage to order in the following remarks: Comrades of the Grand Army, Ladies and Gentlemen:—In accordance with our annual custom and the rules and regulations of the Grand Army of the Republic, we have assem- bied to-day on this hallowed spot to pay tribute to the meiory of the loyal dead that here lie buried, and tocommemorate with fitting cere- monies the glorious cause in which they died. All over the broad land to-di uy mourning thou- sands are gathered in a hundred silent cities of the dead, to deck with garlands the last resting-piace of a dear comrade, a husband, a son, a her, a brother, who went forth ‘to atte at his country’s call and fell in her hol cause. So we come here reverently and sol- empnly, bsinging earth's purest and choicest ifts and strew them with tender and lovin, fangs upon the grassy mounds beneath which our comrades ‘sleep the sleep that knows not waking.” We come to offer our devotions at this shrine of patriotism, and thereby to per- petuate the remembrance of the gloriousdeeds of the illustrious dead and those grand prin- ciples for which they fought—the prineipies of loyalty, of liberty, and of sublime and un- flinching devotion to the Union. These men were endeared to us as soldiers by a hundred ties. They shared with us the tolls of the Weary march; the sleepless watches of the camp and bivouac; the glory of fictory, aud the sadness of defeat. Some of them fell on the disastrous fields of the first and second ull a and some amid the cai of the bloody Wilderness and Chancellorsvi died In camp and in hospital of the malaria of the Virginia swamps. On *s eternal 1 ‘ame’ ‘Their silent tents are ;others deadly ABLE Eun Rican round Yonder Capitol may moulder away, and the statues of bronze and marble which adorn | The tide of Freedom's battle ebbs and flows, your beautiful city crumble to dust; bui the | breeze of Heaven which fanned in their splen- dor shall sigh around them in decay, and by | its mournful sound awaken all the recollec- tions of their former glory. Thus, when gen- erations shall have sunk into the grave and the volumns wherein are recorded the deeds | f these heroes been consigned to oblivion, traditionary strains shall prolong their exist- | eree,and their future fame shall be no less certain than their present celebrity. Though we bear no malice or enmity toward our late foes; though we have offered th the olive branch of peace, and reclothed t with all the rights and privileges which the fo.feited by their acts, yet we cannot forget Leader marches on} e Incarnate in H's Son, In man, He ts arrayed against man’s foes, Not he among us now, the silent man, Quick to discern, but siow his mind to speak; Content that fools should couat him blind or But, still its Loi ce He becam weak, If better times, bis work admiring scan, ‘The nations rise, and kings come gladly forth! ‘This isa king. too! all the The natiors ri: nd greet him on his wa jailing the statesinan and the bero’s worth! a length of days him so much; hall always touch: ir voice shall ring respons of human kind! ‘he red, the biue w Stars, the snowy white; O tag, aglow with Freedom's holy light, Be Freedom stil] within thy folds enshrined! | Rise up, O day, so ion; Rise up. fil out the ‘When man shall broth Rise up, and biess the world, thou Age of G sid. usic, Fantasia, Opera Don Pasquale, by izetti, was performed by the Marin followed by a chorus by the W, fo: give—we have forgiven—but we cannot for. et. The teachings of Christianity fic policy and the mon country, admonishes us to forgi ve; but patriotism and a love for that grand old flag, tized in the blood ot fields, and which to-day a over thirty-eight United States, admonishe us to remember how great were the sacrifices | ¢, offered upon our country’s altar to preserve | our glorieus Union and protect that emblem | of afree and now (thanks to the God of bat- | Ues, that gave us the victory,) aunited people. | But J will not detain you longer. Others are | here to add their tributes to the memory of our departed comrades by music and song, by heroie peetry inspired by love of country, and | words of eloquence which will find response in the heart of evc . ; Dr. J. W. Parker followed with an invocation; next an appropriate chorus was | sung by the Washington Rev. Dr. J. E. Rankin he following poem. THE DEAD AT ARLINGTON—1878. O Year, again thou bringest round the day, On which the widowed Nat.on weeps her dead; Pausing, with bloon : And Love's sad ritual Again we tread thine aisles, fair Arlington! Wrested by war, from late unfilial hands; Eastward, spread out the old ancestral lands: Sseyond, Potomac’s waters wid'ning run. aker’s perfect plan: er be, to brother man; y hundred battle” ves triumphant; n. Chas. G. Williams, of Wisconsin, was introduced and delivered the following THE ORATION. Mr. Chairman, Soldiers and Ci This is sacred ground: Arlington, with its mansion house and lawns,its flelds and graves, is, and is to remain, one of the nation’s sacred Places! Sacred in the memories of the s cred in the associations of the livin cred and thrice ha f martyred heroes who s| | introduced and All the surroundings here are historie and heights have witnessed tartling and mo. | ame early the e, the builders had redeemed a contiaent, er, here came a hostile of yonder Capitol were ; When the distinguished cutive Mansion fled for r their dust to say. fety and fire r But these editices in from their ashes,and oth ase to View, pro rs and halls! Beyond, Potomac’s yellow waters flow, Descending grandly to the grander bay; | Kissing Mount Vernon's marge upon their way, Linking these patriots with the One below. nid the representat » forces of a free people, stems and civilizations Here the gre. And they are worthy of this rest they have, Greut “Hero, sleeping ‘neath Mount Vernon's shade; ‘This uation, which the patriot fathers made, ‘This nation one, these pa.riots died w save, Virginia! Yes, thy soil is sacred now! Ss treasure is thy birthright trast; guardian of this dust; ‘carest On tby brow, fought and struggled. lec: of the nation met’ and grappled. great arena of A were lost andy culmmated at last in the wild resolve and o Then Arlington heard the | hock of fratri- Diow of rebelliun! tramp of armies and felt the s} 8 ‘This two-fold wreath On that memorable morning in M. es of the repnblic first se Virginia's soil, and yonder Ellsworth, the ¥ave up his young life. siruggle begun t Sweet Spring returns! and brings to us again, ‘The liberated rill, the leafy wee: perfect, each in its degree: i the golden harvest plain. But, ah! the dead, the dead for native land, ‘Tu gladden burdened hearts, they come no more: No inore to greet tnem at the welcome door, Do sire and dame, do wite and children stand. there, the fore idol of the we sooner had the country roads over whit dJefierson were wont to reai red thoroughfares of strife, and the tself, iutrenehed within these cire- ling hills, ‘beeame camp, hospital and sepul- chre for the living, the dyeing and the dead. Arlington felt and still feels the awful change! Where to-day the ashes lie cold upon her hearth day there was the warmth ished hospitality. The promise o Washington and and repass, be- How calm their slumber, ‘neath this clov. No more infested by these mort rs Above, the worlds iuifill their Obedient to their Maker, and their God! And these, (herr sphere filled out, ly sleep ou Mother vart, ‘These lettered slals portray the nobie part ‘They played in Freedom's battle lately won, silent spheres, y and glow of disting gathered not only the great and the zood of the nation, but the gifted and distinguished of the world, She was the home of luxury, ‘he sanctuary of art. disappeared, her paintings and statuary are gone, her halls are silent and deserted, atid over her door posts is written ‘ad inscription of the sepulehre! Her familiar paths and forest trees are indeed still true to nature, but th her the home of the city of the dead!” Hither come we to-da {heir duty done, atron of learnin Each morning’ssun steals through theoaken shade, | [er libraries ha Kiudiing with light, the letters of each nawe; Phe e' 's Tays renew the gentle flame, Till daylight into stariit darkness fade, rs will wilt to-night, but not their fame! inan, cau neverdic, kK another sky; , they Wrought 's Which set, Dut On other eyes, they kindle stll their ame, Better, a thonsand fold, one hero dead, Than myriad cowards clothed in flesh and blood; Their very mem "ry dé Aud voices come irom every hero's bed, no longer proclaim » butthe great “green ! Soldier, citizen, f In_no spirit of exulta. tion nor yet with any feeling ol bitterness or hate, but with true devotion and reverential love to learn, if we can, What now Ariing of her Jesson’ this ye: | marched out t 's the living good; | This soil, God*simage, bought and soll, once tro Here played the children, that he catled his own: It took the blood of freetien to atone, And make it fit for freedom and for Ged! It took the blood of men. for man who died, ‘To lift the eurse of boudage (rom the land ‘To stay the judgments of Jehovah's hand: From man who in His image, Him denied, and we had madehim slave; is Written in oar laws; hat made thestartied nation pause, reason burying in war's grave, ied, that we might live for aye: the whoie wide wor.d around; call this hallowed ground; And this is why these annual rites we pay. Removed, indeed, the dark and bloody days, ‘The cloud of fire. in which God went beiore: The sra of blood, through which we sought the shore; What are we now, that we deserve self-praise! Onur days of triumph, were they voiced in vain? In vain, this martyr seed, God And we, remolten in war's furuace-| Recast, in war's dread anguish, and its pain? rights, we to the Bondman gave, God, the shackies from his lim! ‘To call the country his, where he was bor! ‘We made him citizen, who'd been a slave, To call the country his, for which he'd for ive his children, heritage with ou; jothe him with a freeman’: These were the fruits that our lat has to teach us night ail stand silent here, while every gi that ridges these hillsides become a vocal longue to-day. That these “sheet forth to tell us for what they hat they died; and lis of the infinite answer back our Watchman, what of the night?” But there will come no response from them. They spoke their last word and went to their final rest; and whether they shall be remem- bered or whether they shall be forgotten, whether their work shall be vindicated or there will come no murmur They spoke once e of their lives their country. God made man free, ‘That sacrilege was ‘T'was blood, th So these men di And this why we basely betrayed, from all these si and spoke forever ; the lai is written deep in the annals of. At Chancellorsville and Chicka Gettysburg and in the Wilderness, on an hun- dred different battle-fields they penned an epic in American history which will be read and re-read while patriotism is honored or heroism is remembered. Standing here between the living and the dead ; between the sleeping hero and the sur- comrade ; between the struggling past e hopeful future; between the grounds of war and the harve: charged with dealing justly vanquished alike, ours is a bility to-day. spread broadcast ; What were the When st fields of peace : by the victor and earful responsi- If we would fitly honor these dead we must bate not one jot or tittle from | the story of their lives. their illustrious comman. Italy’s clear sky, we must sho’ tion to apologize for the part the: late struggle for our national e 'S Tightfui powers, ve conflict Wrought, In the language of penned uader “no disposi- | y took in the we kept the cov‘nant that we made, God had brought the nation near death's r? ‘A nation’s wards, we called His helpless poor: ‘These wards to bloody hands have we betrayed, Are we fit company for such as these? This was the cause. for which our heroes died. Their graves yet fresh. And, we who Ifve, com; Sumner and Wilson Great Douglass sii ‘Who makes the nation’s w: ‘Who speaks of late, ‘The man supremest of us all to-day, The man elect by votes of martyred men, Who wields of war the sword. of state the ‘pen, Looks on serene, without one word tosay. Pilate and Herod, then, are friends once mor But, ab! when they are friends, some victim A brother's blood to God for vengeance calls; Or ready Judas stands at Annas’ door. ink, ‘twas but the strife of man with man, is war, Which rent apart che boudmad’s inst now one, and tben the other gains; 's cause, the Lord has His pn plan, ‘Was a day when Lincoln bowed in vowed a vow unto our father’s & uld have a free! ’e think, that man can Wout ahi there's One ries and their i rth; but if these tears aud | these tributes ike these flowers are to vanish | then, indeed, have we th idle ceremonies and | empty words. These were men of acts and in sentiment; .. the fruit is set aside; placent take our ease, both are with the dead, he Marshal's chair; ards his present care? the words they need have said? mocked our dead ceremony. It them, whether we talk much or little of the “blue and the , whether regiments of armies march out in formal each other with loud huzzas. | want to know and what their surviy Trades are most anxious to understand, is whether this country in truth and in fact is rehabilitated in the unity and forever dedicated to the cause of equal rights. Not whether as we sometimes now hear, “wealth, respectability, and cul- ture” must rule; but whether in the language of our martyred President, “A governmeut of the people, by the people,” has been established which can and will protect the citizen in t ment of his rights. Aud whethe: whether he be poor, whether he be learned or orant, whether he be power- ful or whether he be weak, so long as he obeys the laws, pays his taxes, contributes to the fence. can express his opinion, cast other of his consti- it least as much protec- D asunder a monarchial If he can, then these If he cannot, then was but water spilled upon the ground. We hear much in this day and age of the necessity for the material development of this SS teems with article afcer the American statesman that it is now time for him to drop the minor matters of mere emotional politics and devote himself to the prefounder problems of busi ness. That he sh | questions of tariff, finance, th | the development of material resources, is, and the extension of here to-day or the late contending | eer to greet rments of national ple, and for the he fullest enjoy- ‘trod, r he be rich or inan’s rights, 4 nation’s care, the'nets whether he bei; 6 nation peace; Beye aeans sme one: controls the nation on give us full release, i give us full receipt; man, than peace with ‘God ‘With Him, the truth is truth,and fraud is fraud; He is no partner toa man’s deceit, There's One al ‘The debt once paid, He’ ‘The debt once paid, He’ ‘We need less peace wit his ballot or exereise an: tutional rights with at tion under a republicat form of government. men did not die in vain. their blood as man that solemn vow! wn, fair Freedom's door; torn from Afric’s brow. The nation bieecin: thus was open ‘The servile badge was We think that man new channels can creat in which, like living tides, our gold shall flow; ‘We think th the secret do our statesmen know; That they can solve it, in their high debate. Have nations stepping-stones_on which to rise ‘Ty God's first thought in giv ‘We should be nobler, then. by ‘Than any other nation ‘neath This land can have but one bright polar star; Free vaniage here, for ail the rights of man! God has Freedom's van;— If we recede, the fathers’ work we mar. article: remind! ould acquaint himself with @ balance of | the building of ship: commerce, the ope! the economist and the broadest capacity of neyed though it be, isthe question of ques- tions today. and that it occupies the Ameri can mind with as much anxiety and jutensity at this very hour asat any time during the last decade. This, however, is neither the time nor the place to dwell upon its details. Suffice it to say the radiec: fact of a is that allegiance and protection must Ro together. That whether we cast the responsi bility upon the state or national gover: it, whatever body politic seizes the property, takes the body or commands the life of the citizens for its defense, must in return give protectlon ample and comp ete: and if it ean- net do this, there is a vital defect in the gov- ernment itself which sooner or later will shake it to its foundations. We have undertaken to do this through certain constitutional guaran. tees. First, we have guaranteed to each state a republican form of government. Second, we have provided for repelling invasion and sup. pressing domestic violence. Now if these pro. visions fail through mal-administration, such administration should be corrected ; fail through some defect in the gra thority, then such defect should be supp’ and the power made complete. But if, with a republican form of government guatanteed and provision made io maintain pubde on and protect the citizens, there be no pul opinion iu a state which will enforce these provisions, then in such state repubtican insti tutions are a nd the fact might as well be ad last. Civil wa: form of government, is a dire ca y. Its'wounds b scars never entirely disappear. great struggle, virtually clashed together. farms, its district school ed masses, trained from youth to particip: in public aftairs, its hardy labor to gradual but thrift, confronted the south, with its barat acres, tral traditions, its private tu tors, Sities, its able, eminent, edu. cated few and : orant many, with the fixed e with its small habits of imperative co ne hand and unquestioning ob other. These two mighty forces, generated under the same consiifutfon and ‘laws, met face to am grappled tothe death. If the south ed, it meant dismemberment of the ion or the embodiment of slavery iD nal constitution. Lf the north suce neant the overthrow of slavery and fominion of northern ideas and not by arbitrary enactment, but by 1 workings of inevitable forces. It nt education and citizenship for the sses, homes for the m: of labor, vision of lands, community of interests and combination of effort. It meant better roads and stronger bridges: more fruitful flelds and thrift towns, mills, forge factories and ships; and, best of ail, assured freedom aud general prose rity ‘Thus was the issue made up, and thus was | it accepted, and there be justice on ea Lone: among men the result should ly abided. They r Paid in tears, int : dead who age ceme. et nd —and a hardships, captivity and death, that their country migh ive. We may forget the lon night, the weary seige, an hell ot the batt the drear horror and may forget those, pled in body, found > lonely way er forget them undimmed vision death by bush, t side. Buta i of war lizhied up the southern sky in. t ~ Call you this empty sentiment or idle eulogy? n ask the {surviving soldier you meet hobbling on es or crutches, and dragging a diseased and mutilated .body on into the darkness of the grave. if he calls it empty sentiment? Ask him, as he sees those who sacrificed nothing, and even those who struck the flereest and deadliest blows against the cause for whi fought, remembered and rewarded, while he feeis himself ceserted and forgotten, ask him if these memories have any meaving for him? ty sentiment, indeed! Walk down these long lanes of head-boards and read the omin. ous woid “ Unknown!” Stand by this granite monument, beneath whose pedestal sleep two thousand unknown dead, and remember that each one of these Was some mother's boy se to the field with a mother’s blessing, stru; giing between a mother’s pride and a mother's love. But from whom, when the wa! ent and th dead, there came Ask her at the when r ng for her.’ Oh, God! shail this morning and whose evening institutions are based on jus. of these dead, Look at these u. Perhaps the father of mn once snatched a kiss from and with swelling heart th. Now, you lead the boy to his father's grave and tell him of the no- bility of his life and the heroism of his death, and then you meanly withhold some pittance of pay or pension; and in doing this you do but mock the dead and taunt the living. Speaking by the graves of these heroes, we have ther act of generosity to perform. to. day. We must not forget that the true soldier never ch any narrow feelings of hate toward a fallen foe.” Nor must we forge! that the south, as well as the north, has its maimed aud dead soldiers: that its homes we made desolate and its fields iaid waste by the ravage of remorseless war. V ther reme: miei that it was t hed by the keenest disappoint- ment and wounded in its most sensitive pride. Far be it from us to utter aught here which could be construed into a taunt or an exulta- tion. We can respect the filial feelin, which strews flowers upon the graves of its wad, or rears monuments to thelr memories. But we can never justify any attempt,either by word or act, to revive or perpetuate the cause that weut down in the conflictof arms. Nor ean we ever concede that he who attempts to destroy his country engaged in a cause as high and holy as he who tights to preserve it. Were we to Say aught else here to day our late opponents would know that we uttered what we did not mean, and would jnstly credit us with preten- tious assumption or hollow hearted hypocrisy. The two sections of the country here ‘already suffered too much, not to deal with each other henceforth with the utmost frankness and good faith. Like the southern bride wedded to the northern husband we have no right toex- pect that these questions of section of ancestry or of interest will not come up between us day by day. But we should rather remember that the possibilities of peace and union do not depend upon suppressing these diflerences but upon the question © ether we can soschooland educate ourselves, that all shail result in mu- tual frankness, mutual toleration, and mutual respect, and these again depend upon the fact whether ail things shall proceed, between us upon the principle of considerate fairness and whquestioned sincerity. In this spirit and to this end would to God that this shower of blossoms falling like the dew of Heaven upon our country to-day, could orphan boys | each one of 1 his ing © | bury beneath it the last vestige of sectional hatred or ill-will; and that the nation under this new order of things might leap forward mM career of prosperity aud growth which should fulfill the hopes of its founders and prove an unmixed blessing to mankind. But Whether good or evil counsels shall prevail, Whether peace shall remain or whether tumult and violence shall drive it away, those who a i here have done their part and done it well. Here let them rest near the Capitol they defended, and let this be the patriots Mecca to which our children and our child- ren’s children may come to do homage, Here let the dead sleep, amid the glories of the day and in the solemn stillness of the star-iit night—sleep, so long as yonder dome shall betoken freedom ; yea, so long as this bright Potomac sky shali bend above them, or these blue waters flow outward to the sea. Soldiers of the republic sleep on! The inspired Lytel, before he too was numbered with the slain, most fittingly described thy last resting place— “On Fame's cternal Camping Ground amber silent tents are sprean, ie hd glory guards wi mn The divoune of the dead,** rout The Chorus, “ Soldiers’ Memorial Day,” was sung by the orphans from Soldiers’ ‘and Sail. ors’ Orphans’ Home. Music, Fantasia, Ope! Norma, by Bellini, by the Marine Band, and a chorus, by the Washington Swngerbund, aud the exercises were concluded by the benedic- tion, pronounced by Rev. Br. Parker. The officer of the day was H. Dingman, 8. V.C.; aid, Chas. E. Joyce, and exeeutive com. mittee, G. E. Corson, commander: Ernest Schmid, A. A. General; H. J. Gitiord, A. J. Gunning, E. M. Truell, Geo. J. P. Wood and John O'Riley. Congress! Cemetery. The ceremonies here commenced about 9g o'clock, and they were in charge of Mr. Geo, J. P. Wood, After decorating the graves, about seventy-five in number, Mr.Wood called the assemblage to order, and prayer was of- the statesman, but involvin; ciple or question that has and over again since the Uon, and whi more of the Bho geheric prin. n Solved over ich after all require a little shrewdness and tact of th eeper than of the Not peace for us, at first, but sword! Not white-winged Commerce crowding ev'ry mart: Not lordiy luxury, and pri Butequal rights forall, For this, the little band of Pi\grims came, Beif-exiled twice, before theyre To this by pray-r. And this, for them, One blood we're though the Saxon blovd Ss hone the As bo Nor lift the butbl if Saxon blood be blood the best, to-da} Then, by that sign, we owe the nobk men We not dare neglect the and slit ‘to Christ. ‘of Bethivem dare men. whose comrades these gh Christ, the Lord! reached thisstrand; God, we claim. made the best: ood must rule the rest, and yet made, _s ves, but the question ry undertook to not discouraged, b this count BETSo saw these is ‘Bees up by slow degress. questions answer: juestions whi ote in advance Hi bray if Sep the rebel, and ‘ fered Rey. Dr. Chester, e choir san; he | ers Requiem,” after which ‘Major John Williams read un historical com: posed by Rev. George eK) the deparunent =. $2, o00 to ¥ Mee a ne ‘com y Chaplain Taylor,) was sun theebotr a THE ADDRESS. Mr. H. J. Gifford was introduced as the orator of the day. He referred to the fact that at the commencement of the late war “we : ‘0 recognize that they (the (Continued on Fourth Page.. were a nation unused to the arts and science f war,” with which the itizens ral and sald 33,000 Sot thetr yes? Ga teen erat ea ey join ae ie Bray, anda wered tl or the valor dis. played by the Union so} honor the fame for which he died, and how, as in forever.” They sought not to bead acl \ ol