The New York Herald Newspaper, March 18, 1873, Page 3

. be “THE GREEN FLAG” A Magnificent Celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, AN IMPOSING PARADE. Forty Thousand Men Marching to the Music of Innisfail. broadway Blazoned with Bunting and Resounding with Brass Bands and Bagpipes. THE SHAMROCK DROWNED. Banquets of the Friendly Sons, the Knights of St. Patrick and Other Irish Sccicties, SENTIMENT AND SONG. Five hundred thousand people dwelling in New York were yesterday not afraid to speak of ’98. Every county of Ireland, from Wexford to" Sligo, Poured out its quotient of the men and womer who hope one day to see the Green fying high above the Red. Broadway, the thoroughfare of all the nations of the world, was beautitul with the Red, White and Blue colors of the nation im which the Irish race have settled for good or ill. Here and there in the vi- cinity of the dear old gridiron might be seen the golden harp of Innisiail, centred in a ground green as the grass of a meadow in Spring. All the principal buiidings in Broadway were decorated , with fags, and the hotels seemed to have an idea that a great metropolitan festal day should be hon- ored by 4 superabundance of bunting. Housetop and pavement joined to make the day a memorable one. To the kindly scattered Irish people there was much significance in the display of yesterday. The scalding tears that have 86 often fallen in vain were dried by the blazonry and gild- ing that clothed the streets of the greatest city in the New World. At the City Hall thousands of: People had assembled before noonday, and the pic- ture was very beautiful of the women who were gathered. THE GREEN FLAG AND ITS ADHERENTS. The green color struck the eye at every point. Green ribbons, green sashes, green ties and green ornaments were everywhere mingled with the colors of the American Republic. Even the horse cars were decorated. The drivers of these very useful caravans had small green flags, mage of paper colored on one side, and having, jnarps, displayed from the horses’ necks. Tryck drivers ‘also carried the symbols of their jnative land, and the rollicking jreé and easy bootblacks, the wild Arabs of the city, had plastered on the business ends of their boxes the all-pervading banner of the old land. The manifestation was a cheap one, but the “ widow’s mite” is always acceptable, A stranger coming for the first time into New York would be somewhat astonished at the appear- ance of Broadway yesterday. St. Patrick’s Day would be to them a living reality. The booming reverberations of the artillery guns, the blare of the brass bands, the thumping of the big drums and the shouting of the multitudes that hned Broad- ‘way, have no equal in any country for the thunder- ‘ous melody or in any city on this Continent, The Magnificence of the banners, the blending of color and the mingling of women and men in such a Wonderful Kaleidoscope, are kindred to Paris or Vienna or Rome, but are without example in America. THE PROCESSION CRYSTALLIZED. Such exhibitions are reserved for séfe days in Europe, bat in the land of the free they are without example. Masses ef men marched all day to the sound of music of their own land: The streets were prowded with joyous and glad people, and thirty thousand men in uniform with bayonets glancing and musket bgrrels shining, with green and gold regalia, passed in serried array before them, Some persons found fault with the length of the proces- sion of St. Patrick’s Day, which was one hour and a half in passing tl point, buta heliday is not common in New York, and the music and melody brought a torgiveness that was undeniable. ‘The parade of the Irish societies during the glorious Spring day made many an eye glance and many a cfimecn lip tremble with exeltement, The Ancient Order of Hibernians—that oldest of all Celtic organizations—in all the splendor of their exaggerated badger ana scarfs, paraded nearly twelve thousand strong; the Father Mathew men swept along in soid ranks, four front, and the St. Patrick’s Alliance, which has been unfertunate enough to creaé an unwise division im its body. All were greeted with hilarious applause. There ‘Were nearly five thousand lads in green uniforms, with white snd green shirts, with multifarious bindings, aid with red and green shirts and trousers, tsshioned in the zouave fashion, the red color carefully ee beneath the green shade, Among tkese lads were hundreds of temperance cadet, fiappy as kings at play, who, whenever there was a hiatus in the procession, ran madly forward, a8 boys will, and cheered at passing ob- jects ociierously. PEACE AND GOOD WILL. There was net an accident nora blow to mar the beauty of the day's festivity. A pore feature of the procession was made by the mounted police, a company of whom rode fi front to clear the way. Though the wind blew strong on this day of the Seventeenth of March, yet for a cempensation the sun shone with the kind- ess of June, and if the white plume of Grand Mar- shal Gilligan at the head of the column was <is- turbed for an instant it only caused the bystanders to remember that other glorious white plume borne by ‘Henry of Navarre, whom Marshal Gilligan tesembles in type of feature and form of body. Alter the heat and burden of tn the night same down, and then those who had marched and made the city wild with melody, went to their halls and piaces of pleasure, and in a hundred fesorts of the 8 of Ireland, Erin 01 the Streams Was remembered with feelings of love and venera- Hoo. From all parts of the United States and from the rovinces, covered by @ flag against which yester- jay’s Vivid and splendid celebration was a protest, there comes tidings of the manner in which the sons of the Gael lave honore! St. Patrick's Day. The nineteenta century has not 1 its histery such in example of a people scattered and oppressed who have more vitality and more persistence than she people who yesterday honored their far-oif tative land, REVIEW BY MAYOR HAVEMEYER. Bolore eleven o'clock yesterday morning little ‘roups of sight-seers began to assemble in the City lak, determined to obtain desirable spots from rhich to view the procession. A large proportion { these were women and children, who, perhaps, Ast year were unable to see the procession on ac- ount of being late, but who were now determined D see all that was to be seen, if getting on the round early had anvthing to do with it. At one ‘clock the spectators had grown into an armye ad the whole Park was occupied by a crowd the ke of which was never before seen within the jeollaction of the oldest inhabitant. The feps of the City Hall were impassable, and tery available foot of ground on them was scupied. <A few favored individuals had \ken up their places on the balcony, and the win- ows of the Governor's Room were crowded wit! ces, At five minutes to three the head 4 the procession entered the east gute 4 the Park and the meledy (?) of the bands dieted the anger of the people, who began to seer and howl, which was accepted as an expres- #u of their ap lation and delight. The delay ‘99 caused by militia, who were one hour and juarter behind time. Much dissatisfaction was d by members of the civic bodies, who de- that next St. Patrick’s Day there will be no ents in the line, as this is the third time the: Wwe detained the procession. As the Sixty-nint! ered re Park a salute was fired, which found THE LEATHER LUNGS OF THE POPULACE. t the foot of the Ball arene Stood Mayor Have- mer, surrounded by the ci ‘ fathers, with their gitopped staves. Mr. John Gilligan and his chief | James Flynn, drew up for ® moment and i the Mayor, whe returned the cempliment. ‘fr the Sixty-ninth regiment came three ca: Ties, the first containing Sheriff Brennan, Com- ausioues Barr, Mr. Convention of Irish Socities, and Mr. Carey. In the second were seated Mr. Hugh Coleman, the Secretary of the Convention, hee Strauss and Mr, Carroll, the man who paraded more St. Patrick’s days than apy man in New York. Mr. Carroll, who is an old man, is noted tor the ancientness of his stovepipe, which has been aired once @ year (St. Patrick’s Day) for forty suecessive years. Mr. Carroll is one of the men who started the Convention of Irish So- cieties, and was the second President of that body, and is new the only man of the original organiza- tion alive, The third was occupied by Mr. T. Dor- sey, the national delegate of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. The twenty-two divisions of the Ancient Order and the other societies followed, nothing of interest happening until the St. James Cadets passed im review before the Mayor, when Mr. Murphy gave the order for “THREE CHEEKS FOR HIS HONOR,”? which were given with a will. The old Mayor took off his hat and similed his blandest, as did also the members of the Common Council. ‘The immaculate Conception, the Transtiguration and the St. James sino, cheered the Mayor, who acknowledged the salute, It was stated in the police ar nts that the men would have to take the sidewalk on Centre Street, from Chambers to the entrance of the Park, but this rule was not carried out, and tne whole procession marched in the mi of the street, A salute was fired for every ty that passed. At twenty minutes past four the St. Patrick’s Mutnal Alliance, of Long Isiamd City, the last society in the line, passed through the Park. The procession, which was uninterrupted, consumed one hour and twenty-five minutes in passing the City Hal. ON BROADWAY. Broadway, from the City Hall to Fourteenth street, was jammed with people. All the te oln hotels and business houses had flags rails: d, and Taany of them were fanciiully decorated with the American and Insh fi Besides the immense throng that monopolized the sidewalks there were many in the windows of the houses who waved their handkerchieis and flags and threw kisses to those whom they Knew in the procession. The clerks left their dry goods and came to the doors to show the splits um the middle of their heads; the oc- cupants of the hotels were in full dress at the windows and apparently Siored the show. On the balcony of the New York Hotel was General Shaler 7nd a party of ladies. At Fourteenth street the jam was immense, and much trouble was experienced by the police to keep the roadway clear. The procession around Washingten Monument, along Fourteenth street to Ninth avenue. From Broadway to Ninth ave- nue there were very few spectators and fewer on Ninth avenue; in fact, on oue of the avenue there were no people except those who were pass- ing to and fro. At Thirty-iourth street the crowd again mcreased, and near Third avenue it cem- peted with that on Broadway in point of numbers. At ten minutes to six the last society passed Cooper Union, where the societies dispersed and the public celebration ended. 8T, PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL A Grand Pontifical High Mass—The Archbishop Presiding as Celebrant— Imposing Ceremonies and Decorations— Panegyric on St. Patrick by the Rev. Dr. Henry A. Brann—The Philosophy of the Apostie’s Labors—The Charac- teristics of the Irish People. An immense congregation attended mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral yesterday at half past ten o’clock. The high altar was beautifully and appro- priately decorated and the sanctuary seemed ablaze with the cheerful glow of several hundred lights. The Most Reverend Archbishop oficiated as celebrant of tue grand Pontifical cele- bration with the Very Rev. Dr. Quin, V. G, as assistant priest and Rev. Dr. Thomas Preston and Rev. J. Curran as deacons of honer. Rev. J. McNamee officiated as deacon im the celebra- tion of the mass, Rey. John Kane as sub- @eacon, and Rev. Jehn Kearney and Rev. John M. Farrelly as master and assistant master. of ceremonies respectively. There were, besides, about forty neatly-dressed acolytesin the sanc- tuary, one of whom acted as cross-bearer, a second crozier-bearer and @ third mitre-bearer to the most reverend celebrant. In the sanctuary were also present the Rev. Father shroeder, of the Cathedral, and Rey. Arthur Donnelly, of St. Michael’s church. THE MUSIC. The selection for tne festival by the organist, Mr. Gustavus Schmits, was mass No. 6 ju F major, composed specially by the organist. The “Kyrie” was finely rendered and sang by @ solo, with quartette and chorus; the “Gloria” in full chorus, the ‘Qui Tollis,” a baritone solo, with chorus accompaniment. The ‘Et Incarnatus Est’ was impressively rendered by an alto solo, At the oftertory Mercadante’s ‘‘Benedicta” was sung pa- thetically by Messrs. Graf and Urels, and ‘to- rente’s ‘Veni Creator’ hy Mme. Cho At_the elevation Mozart’s “‘O Salutaris Hostia,’’ by Mrs. Unger, was rendered in an exquisitely appealing mauner. PANEGYRIC BY THE REV. DR. BRANN. After the chanting of the Gospel by the deacon the Rev. Dr. Henry A. Brann entered the sanc- tuary, attended by the master of ceremonies, and knelt at the foot of the altar during the sing- ing of the “Veni Creator Spiritus,” at the conclu- sien of which he proceeded to the pals und began his panegyric on St. Patrick. His discourse was more original in conception, philosophical in senti- ment and sensible in development than is usually heard on the annuat recurring festivals of Ireiand’s patron saint. He selected ler his text Psaim, ii., 7—“The just man shall be in everlasting re- eo and he shall not fear the evil hear- ra ‘the reverend Doctor then introduced his dis- course by saying St. Patrick was one of those just men to whom the text is most appropriately apphi- cable. He is deserving of remembrance, and has been and will be held in remembrance by the race whom he thoroughly Christianized, hy? Be- cause he has been the greatest benefactor of the irish peopie, and mark the words of the text—“He shall not feel the evil hearing’—he shall not feel the mockeries, the misrepresentations and the in- sults of men, for he is just, blameless and holy, for truth is stronger than error and because the clouds of misrepresentation can never sbut out the light ol justice. THE IRISH RACE AS A CATHOLIC NATION is the work of St. Patrick, and truly we may say with the Psalmist, “Let his works praise hiin be- fore all people.” He was the chief instrument of their conversion and subjection to Catholicity, and his memory as their best benefactor shall be ever- lasting, tor without the light of that fath which he brought them the Irish race would be a most dangerous one; with it they are one ef the best, the most tractable and law-abiding on earth. To prove this the preacher showed that the race was of Oriental origin and possessed the qual- ities of Oriental nations—the spirit of revolt and imsubordipation, ior instance, which Pelagius and Celestius manifested in their heretical daring. fhe characteristics of the Irish heart were vivacity and gayety of spirit, excita- bility of temperament, irrepressibility and a wenderful power of assimilation. Such qualities if guided by wrong principles and unstabte cioctrines, should necessarily lcad the possessors of them to Most dungereus ends, just as when develeped, as they are now, under the binding power, restraining curb and beautiiul influence of true Christian faith, they make this race originators of the greatest and most world-wide bicssings. Dr. Brann then took ‘up each characteristic, and showed how, witnout Coristianity, the gatural tendency of the Irish heart would lead te evil and destruction, but possessing the iaith they are by its power ajone able to cen- trol their passions. Persecution changed the jolly Englishman into tke grave amd solemn Purita the sprightly Frenchman into the revengeful Huguenot; but the faith of Irish- men preserved their qualities unaltered and unal- terable. se qualities Were true of the m zealous of saints, St. Francis Xavier had the Spirit of a Charles X and St. Ignatius the fer- vent zeal of a Napoleon. Under any other infu- ence these great leaders of the spiritual armies of the Church might have become fanatics or Commu- nists. Education alone cannot moralize. An In- dian savage may be more moral than an educated member of society uncontroiled by religious influ- ences. PROTESTANTISM COULD NOT SAVE IRELAND, Nothing save the pure gold of Catholicity could reserve it. Its bond is secure around the Irish eart, and it is supremely predominant over the Irish character. ‘This was the inheritance St, Pat- rick bequeathed to his people, and, con- sequently, St. Patrick is Ireland's greatest benefactor, The Irish people love and do honor to his memory on this accoznt alone. They respect his memory not as an Irishman— which he was not—but as the apostie of their coan- try and of the Catholic faith, and tiweir revercuce fer him in this light was so faithful as to remind the lecturer of those sweet lines im the firat eclogue of Vi o pascentur in wthere cervi taent nudos in littore pisces tore Vultus. to attempt to decatholicize that race! the preacher comtinued. We have crimes enough of native growth mingled with imported inf- delity. He then adverted to the insults thrown upon the Irish character and resumed :— What good! Every blow ef the persecuting hand only tends to bring out in bolder relief the irre- pressible firmness of this wonderful people. The reverend Doctor then referred to the present status of Irisumen Jn this country—te the dishonor- able, the honorable and the shameiul, who forget duty to God and their adopted counuy. His pero- ration consisted of a most eloquent appeal to all present, that by the memory ofhim they honored— ofthe Columbanus of the Irish race (Father Burke), ‘@ whom they listened last St. Patrick’s Day—a of the sacred edifice in which he spoke, dediea' to God and to St. Patrick, to cling to their fasth, vo the trarlitions of their latners, in the pursuit of truth, justice and eternal salvation. THE BANQUETS. The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, he eighty-ninth anniversary dinner of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick was given last evening at Deimonico’s, on Fourteenth street, Fifth ave- We Fr paideas of we | ‘BYP, and was admitted. by men of every clime Who NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. were present to be the most successful dinner in every respect, both as regards sociality of ieeling and true patriotic oratory, ever held in the city of New York. In addition to the excellent bill of fare provided and fulfilled by Delmonico there was the manifestation of the genial wit of Irishmen in the reading of bogus telegrams by the chairman, of which the following are specimens. One from President Grant was read, in which he said that the “best greenbacks im the country were young Irishmen.” These bogua telegrams were continued between every course ana were provocative of continuous laughter, and were at length.put an end to vy the following telegram:— ANOTHER INJUNCTION, To Joun Foury— ih t ingued an i tion tele- grams by Brady. Vourn 8" “Fides VAN BRUNT. The chair was worthily filled by Judge Brady, who Was supported on the right and left by the tollow- ihg distinguished gentlemen :—J. M. Bellew, Mayor Havemeyer, General Hancock, General Sherman, Judge Daly, isaac H. Batley, General McMahon, Joseph Choate, Mr. Gistenhofen, representative of St. George's Society ; Dr. Crosby, B. E. Mount, Jr., peseays of St. Nicholas’ Society; Chauncey M. pew. Among the general company were Rev. Town- send Bellew, J. Murphy, Collector Arthur, L. D. Kiernan, Richard Schel Judge Van Brunt, Jam Reid, Colonel Stebbins, Wilham A. Seaver, Bawa Rosle Wu C. Barrett, Alderman McCatferty, John Foley, J. J. Bradley, 8. V. 0. Murphy, George Bliss, Jr.; hmomas pore ', Jo! ve, Myers Stern, Frederick Smyth and F. Byrne. Rather more than two hundred guests sat down to dinner. Judge BRADY, in a speech that was Jull of humor, roposed the toast of the evening, “St. Patrick’s "and in the course of that speech strengly urged that it was not creditable to ireland that in the Central Park ‘Was not the statue of a dis- tinguished man of it country, in the shadow of which the shamrock ba bo row. (Loud cheers.) He ped that the tlemen present would meet early in the morning and remedy that defect, He (Su Brady) weuld be with them however carly in the morning it was. (Loud cheers and laugh- Mr. BELLEW was called upon te respond to the toast, and was recei' with loud cheering. In the course of his speech he said that there was one thing that bad not been said that evening, among the elequent things that had been said of and it deserved to be said, and it was St. Patric! this—that that saint and to the monks of the Middio Ages we were indebted for the litera- ture of ancient times, pea that had introduced to Ireland her leening id her art, and that elo- juénce that made freland distinguished fer her Srators hroughout the world and to the present u hour. (Cheers.) These men were the pioneers of the West, and it was from Ireland that the great teachers of the ancient sehools were carried to Eng- land, to SeEmany, and throughout the Scandina- vian countries. He would therefore beg them to remember that it was to Ireland they were in debted for the learning that was prevalent through- out the Eastern Continent. We might say, as an Irishman who had recently arrived here, that a vast improvement had been geing on during the last three years in the cendition of Ireland, espe- cially in Dublin, in Limerick and in Cork. He had witnessed the great procession of that dav. and tears had come in his eyes when he remembered that all whem he saw there had left their country be- cause it was to flee from tyranny and oppression. When he remembered how much labor was now required in Ireland, under happier circumstances, he felt very sad, A better day had come jor their native country. The British h gorerainand was now disposed to deal more liberally and witha truer ores re the happiness of his countrymen. (Cheers. LAWREN@E D. KIERNAN also responded to this toast, and said that he was sorry to say that America had no particular day set apart for the recognition of t memory of any particular saint and it nt be be- cause it had adopted in its midst the nationality of all countries, and if one-half the corruption existed that was said to exist it would require the entire calendar of all the saints to intercede for the forgiveness of that corruption. (Laughter.) In reference to the procession of that day, there was not aman in it who did not. believe that he had been robbed of his birthright by the ruthless laws ofa tyrant, and all who leit it that feel. ing. eines BraDy here interposed and said that no politics, either foreign or social, were permitted at that social board. ere was prese"t a represen- tative of the St. George's Society, and it was not the intention of the gentlemen present to cause any ditferences of leellog by observations of that character. ° Mr. KigRNAN said that after that remark he should not further address the company. General MCMAHON responded to the toast of “The United States,’ and said that there had been added to the family of the nation not less than eightegn States, since the foundation of the Republic. On occasions like St. Patrick's Day he was a believer in the doctrine of manifest destiny, and he thought that all creation was to be annexed to the great Repubiic—(loud cheers)—and if that could not be carried out, Why the next best thing that was to be done was for the Irish to emigrate te the coun- “y that was likely to aceomplish it. (Loud cheers.) judge DaLy responded to the toast of “‘Ireland,"’ and “added the sentiment, “the ius ef her sons was radiant in every clime.” That was certainly an Irish sentiment—(laugh- ter)—and the remainder of the sentiment “she binds them te her by a love which no prosperity can conquer—no adversity change.’ That was a sentiment that was true, ior no Irishman ever left his country without a tearful regret that he sheuld be compelled to leave it. That sentiment belonged to all the Celtic race. This strong at! chment to a jand that they had leit in my sense af- ected the land which they adopted. The Pres- ident of the St. Andrew’s Soviety weuld endorse this, by remembering the national songs that still awoke the hearty outburst of national leeling, but which was differently expressed in regard to Ire- land by More’s song, that contained the well- knuwn line :— First fl ower of the field, first gem of the sea. The Irish had always been a poetical people, which lay in the fact that they are a Celtic peopie, and that they had a great faculty for fighting and a reat faculty for love— (loud cheers) —and a national janguage that had great flexibility, ana which for prey was not surpassed by any other language. he prevailing sentiment of all Irish poetry, even alter was expressed in the Eng- lish languge, was sad. It had been said that this was the music of a people wao had lost their liberty. That was not, however, found in modern Irish literature, and this was attributable to the great change im the form of overnment that had atfected the condition of ireland. The British government had Initiated a more liberal policy, and if that government would but go on in that direction and initiate the policy they had carried out in Canada, 1 allow Ireland to mat its own local , Ireland would have jing to complain of. (Cheers. The next toasts were “The State of New York,” responded to by Mr. Chauncey M. Depew, and “The Army and Navy,” by General Sherman, who said he had now come to make a speech and begged to be excused, but paid an eloquent tribute ina very few words to the valor and eloquence ot Irishmen. Mayor HaVEMEYER responded to the toast of “The City of New York,” and said :— Ithank you for your kind reference to this oy on this the anniversary of your patron saint, and, as its Chief Magistrate, I should have been de- lighted to acknowledge the compliment as being extended to myself, but tor seme remarks which jell from the lips of your worthy President ata festival of one of your sister societies, where I met him sometime since, and which, from the earnest tone in which they were uttered, I have not failed distinctly to remember. I suppose you are curious to know what those remarks were. Weill, I will tell you. He said most emphatieully that “the Sons of St. Patrick had per- mitted me to be elected,” which was as much to say that if they had not “permitted” me to be elected I would have been deieated, an event which I have no doubt would have caused the sun to stand still and have involved the city in total dark- ness. Now the people of this city ought to know the extent of their obligations to the Sons of St. Patrick, which enabled them to de so smart a thing as to elect me Mayer of this city, although I must coniess in doing so they have put me ina very tight place, for which act, whfle I admit the city should be very grateful to the Sons Of St. Patrick, their condescension towards me 18 @ matter which I regret had not been reserved for some other occasion, when it would have been more in unison with itis proper that I si of your worthy Pr t, if I receilect right, was made at an hour in the bait 4 when poetry isin order and anything is excusable. Leaving him to make the necessary explanations at his leisure, I cannot help saying to you, and | hope your President does not hear me, that it gives me great Pleasure to participate with you in this festival— myself, the son of a German, ee st to-night of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. are all citizens of a fortunate country, where the enterprising or the Oppressed ef all nations find a home, where the children ef every race and ciime commingle their various characteristics, and yet maintain a unity of feeling and a patriotic devotion to the country of their choice which have never been exceeded by the children of the soil, and none can I more gladly meet, to none can I give a heartier greeting than to the sons of the Green Isle, the land ofexuberant genius and of generous natures, Mr. President and gentlemen of the St. Patrick's Society, 1 will give you, “The Irish Character; educated under @ monarchy, adapted to @ repub- lic.” (Loud cheers.) The toast list was concluded by the following:— “Our Sister Societies” and “Woman.” The company separated at an early hour, greatly delighted with the pleasures of the evening, The Knights of St. Patrick. The annual dinner of the Kmghts of St. Patrick was given last evening at the Metropolitan Hotel. This, the junior Hibernian club in this city, has now been in existence about twelve years, and the reunions of its genial and iight-nearted members have already become noted for their joility, vivacity and unaffected conviviality, on these occasions, when wit and intellect meet in friendly rivalship, and the native humor of the Green Isie bursts forth in all itp unequalled belliency. Abopt two hundsed and fifty guests sat down last evening to a plentifully and richly-spread board. They comprised many of the most distinguished of the representatives of Ireland’s genius in this country. The most noted individuals present were those whose names are appended:—Mr. Charles A. Dana, Mr. William F, Munster, M. P., Ireland; Jadge Bosworth, Judge Quinn, Judge Maguire, John Mul- lally, Colonel Cole, of the Jrish American; Dr. Carnachon, Congressmen R. 8B. Roosevelt and Clarkson ‘otter, Speaker A. B. Cornell, Captain McCurg, E. F. Dwyer, President of the Confederation Club of Little Rock, Ark.; Rev. ir. bi Miller Thompson, Christ church; Mr. illiam Florence, Mr. Frank ‘Crockett, Fathers Barry, of Staten Island and McAleer, of St. Columba’s church; Mr. P. McCarron, Clark Luby, P. V. Hickey, of the Catholic , and Superintendent Casserly, of Castle en, The President was Mr. Richard O'Gorman. The Rev. Father McAlear sat upon one hand and Judge Bosworth en the other. Mr. John M. Bellew, whe arrived rather late, occupied the next place. Immediately behind the Chairman, in front of an immense mirror, was mounted the fine bust of Daniel O'Connell, executed by the sculptor John Charles O'Kelly. The President, Mr. RICHARD O'GORMAN, said :— You have done me much honor in selecting me to be President and host this evening. I am sensi- ble of the honor and thanktul ior it. There 18 no night of the year BOR: which it 18 more pleasin, for an Irishman to be a host. To keep the festival with genial hospitality, with eloquence, with brotherhood, there can be no assemblage more de- termined than this testival. We hope the honor- able gentlemen who have honored us by their presence will be as Irish as ourselves. The wine cup we drain has no bitterness. Vicious statecralt has done all that it could to oppress Ireland’s people, to crush ont every vital power; yet they have abated no jot of their patriotic endeavor, Is hot that little shamrock a fitting emblem of our race ? There are handsomer flowers, yst they are scorcued to death by the Sum- mer sun or killed by the trost. But the shamrock lives under hottest beam of sun; still vital beneath the snow drifts it awakes when the driits have gone togem the sod with emerald beauty. So, Said the spexker, lives Irish patriotism, that goes out only with death. Iris! aig macy is felt where statecraft cannot reach, In labor at the plough, in alliance with the people, these are the alliances and embassies of the Irish people. In America, in New York par- aay the Irishman’s patriotism becomes mingled with loyalty to the Republic, The tie be- tween America and Ireland 1s ofnature’s creation. ‘The nearest land of Europe, the first green banks that gladden the eye of the ocean wayfarer, is Ireland, and perhaps the day may come when Treland’s friendship may be of worth to America, and then it will be shown that her love once won lasts forever. Ireland forms part of a certain United Kingdom, so ag statutes go; but |, hearts were of account it is part and parcel o the United States, and thus it becomes fitting fof us to offer as : r TRE FIRST TOAST of the evening:—'‘The United States; representing within its territery all elimates; within its papu- lation all races; may its counsels be so wise, liberal and generous that all men may dwell within its confines, happy, united and tree.’ The Hon. C, ‘otter, member of Congress, re- sponded to this toast, He said that there was no department in life which Irishmen had not embalmed by their genius and elevated by their talent. We owed gratitude to Ireland, She was a country to be governed by the heart rather than by the head. (Applause.) What we needed, of all things in this country, was to have poured into our nation this tide of men of heart. There had grown up here a class of Sernoresions which were most dangerous. In a Republic that which invited corruption was always corrupt. It was time that no more public lands or moneys were given away. It was time that this element which endangered the public interests was restrained. The speaker seemed to see in the influx of Irishmen into the United States one of the means of its salvation from the ravages of dishonesty and corruption. (Applause.) JOUN MITCHELL, rising to respond to the toast of ‘‘Yhe Day We Cele- brate,’’ was heartily greeted by the Knights. Mr. Robert B. Roosevett responded to the toast of “THE STATE AND CITY OF NEW YORK.” Father McAleer responded to the fourth toast, “CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.” The key. Dr. Thompson, spoke to the toast of ‘Ireland.’ Mr. Bellew responded to “The Orators, Dramatists and Poets of Ireland; Mr. Charles A. Dana to “The Press,” Mr. John Mullaly to that of “Our Sister Societies,” Mr. Joseph J. C. Clarke to that of “Woman and her Attributes.” THE DAY IN BROOKLYN. “A great day for Ireland, truly,’’ was the senti- ment freely uttered in the City of Churches yester- day. And soit was in every sense of the word. The weather, barring the wind, was a little fresh, was charming. The sun shone brightly down upon the bright miniature raya of the sunburst of tha green fag of Erin. The sons and daughters of the dear old land whose name shall live in story were abroad from the rise of the orb of day, Then when the bands began te play, how many hearts beat faster in response to the thoughts of that “land of the west” which were wafted through the realms of space and indelibly imprinted on the sympathetic souls of the hearers, who turned in tancy wild to the scenes of childhood! “The Wear- ing of the Green,” “St. Patrick’s Day in the Morn- ing,” “The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Hall,” “The Rocky Road to Dubiin,” ‘fhe Little House Under the Hill” and other national melodies filled the air as the societies moved through the several streets for the grand rendezvous on Bedford ave- nue. Here, by half-past twelve, under the Grand Marshalship of Edward Halpin, the organizations, in full regalia, with banners and flags and bands and drums, formed. The Ancient Order of Hibernians, having the position of honor, the right of the line, formed with their right rest- ing on the fountain; then came the Father Mathew T. A. B.’s, the Church Benevolent aad Temperance Societies aad the St. Patrick's Mutual Alliance. By one o’clock the order forward was given by the brilliantly uniformed aids to the seve- ral divisions, and the route step was taken up. Guns were fired throughout the march to warn the assembled multitudes that the ‘“Campbelis were coming.’ The streets honored by a place on the | gle are as follows:—Bediord avenue to yrtle avenue, along thence to Kent avenue, to uloughby, through the latter to Clason ave- nue, on to Myrtle avenue, to Gold street, on to Front street, Jay street (saluting as they passed the Bishop's residence); to Myrtie avenue once more, out to Fulton street, to Joralemon street. Passing the City Hall they were reviewed by Mayor Powell, Bishop Loughlin, heads of departments, Aldermen and Supervisors. The route next lay up Ovurt street to Church street, to Columbia street, to Atlantic street, te Vanderbilt avenue, to Pacific street, to Washington street, to Myrtle avenue, where they were dismissed. It would be invidious to comment upon the ap- pearance of the different societies where all ap- peared to exceedingly good advantage. In the eventing @ dinner was given by the St. Patrick Society at the Athen@um. The affair was a@ decided financial success. There was also a commemorative banquet held in the Eastern Dis- hang and wibe, speech and song flowed in abun- lance. THE DAY IN NEW JERSEY. contin The Celebration in Jersey City. The procession in Jersey City was the largest ever seen In that city on the festival of St. Patrick. The only feature of the celebration that called forth any unfavorable comment was the absence of the Board of Aldermen, who were elevated to power by virtue of the Bumsted charter and who showed their fanaticism by refusing to review the assemblage. Mayor O'Neill, however, was on hand, and he smiled complacently from his eminence at the City Hall as the different societies saluted him in passing. The Gallowglasses presented a fine appearance. The societies moved through the principal streets of Jersey City and Hoboken. The Knights of St. Patrick held a banquet in the evening at the Washington Hotel. The President, Mr. P. &. O’Brien, delivered a brief address, after ‘hich the following teasts were proposed and re- sponded to:—“The Day We celebrate,” Henry A. rann; “The Land of Our Adoption,” John C. Bailey; ihe boa a A of Emmett and His Compeers,” Aineas itzpatrick; “The Poets and Poetry of Ireland,” Joseph Atkinson; “The Press,” John Ignatius Cullen; “Our Sister Se- cleties,” Alexander Campbell, President of the Burns Club; “The Ladies,” Dr, McLaughlin. Telegrams were received irom G. W. Putter- gon, of Monmouth, and Joseph C. Letson, of ‘Middlesex, stating that they were un- avoidably absent, as a very important rail- road measure was to be intreduced into the Legislature, of which they are members, that eve- ning. In the absence of Mr. Letson, the toast of “Free Railreads’’ was responded to by Mr. Johnson W. Banghart. The toast of “The Army and Navy” ‘was respouded to by Captain Joun L. Cleary. The atfair passed off in @ most agreeable manner. ‘The Friendly Sons of Ireland, of which Mr. Pat- rick Farrelly is President, held a banquet at Tay- lor's Hotel, which was largely attended, and the festivities were continued ap to a late hour. Ireland in Newark. Not less than twenty thousand persons partici- pated yesterday in the Catholic churches, in the procession, a8 spectators and as drowners ef the sbamrock, in homes and in banquetting halis, in Newark’s Celtic ovation in memery ef the great saint. The sons and daugtters of the land of saints and of song took possession of the main streets. The procession was the largest, finest and most orderly of the kind ever witnessed in Newark. THE I0E GORGE AT PORT DEPOSIT. PHILADBLPHI4, March 17, 1873, At Port Deposit the river is rising, but no alarm is felt,as the channels are open from Water's Island to the head of the forge at Rock Run. A rise of two or three feet would carry the ice away, as fhe gorge is oujy held by resuing on the povwom. UNFORTUNATE FOSTER. GOVERNOR JOHN A. DIX’S DECISION. His Autograph Letter to Rev. Dr. Tyng. He Will Not Annul the ‘Deliberate and Well-Considered Determinations of Juries and Courts.” THE GOVERNOR REVIEWS THE EVIDENCE. STATE OF NEW YORK, EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, ALBANY, March 17, 1873, REVEREND AND DEAR Stk—I have given to the representations contained in your letter my most earnest attention, and I have carefully examined all the testimony, tne official papers and all the statements whieh have been made to me in the case of William Foster, who lies under sentence of death for the crime of murder, ° In @ recent case, not unlike his, I said I was willing to have it understeod that circumstances of a very extraordinary nature would be needed to induce me to interpose for the purpose of annul- ling the deliberate and well considered determina- tions of juries and courts. I find no such circumstances attending the crimi- nal act of Foster, his trial, the verdict or the decis- jon of the courts, by which the record was re- viewed, The public interest which has been and is still felt in this case, the extraordinary efforts which have been made to procure a commutation of the sentence, the publicity given to these efforts, and the long period of time—now nearly two years— which has elapsed since the crime was committed, make it proper for me, before communicating to you my final decision, to state the circumstances and the considerations on which it is founded, Foster and Putnam, his victim, met in a railroad car in the city ef New York. The latter had two ladies in his charge, and, in consequence of cer- tain annoyances by the former, remonstratea with him on his conduct. It does not ap- pear that Putnam offered him any provo- cation, Foster, who had been ‘on the front platform, entered the car and sat down by Putnam, asking him several times how far le he was geing; and when the latter declined to an- swer and turned away, obviously desiring to avoid @ controversy, Foster saia, Well, 1 am going as far as you go, and beiore you leave this car 1 will give you hell.”” He then returned to the front platform and asked the driver if he had a car-heok, saying “he would learn him (meaning Putnam) his business when he gets off the car; he would learn him to keep his place.” When the car stopped Foster seized the car-hook, telling the driver, wno tried to stop him, to “go to hell,’ walked the whele length of the car on the outside, attacked Putnam, who had just got out, and struck him two blews on the head, one of which was fatal. They were together, after the first conversation between them, while the car was passing from the vicinity of ‘Twenty-ninth street to Forty-sixth street, not far from three-fourths of a mile, embrac- ing too long a period ef time to ascribe the criminal act to the sudden impulse of passion or to exclude the presumption of premeditated design. The fatal blow was given with an iron rod, which was proved by the result to be @ deadly weapon. It is more than two feet in length, having at one end a double coll ofiron, from an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half in circumierence, and 18 capable, in the hands of a man of ordinary strength, without any extraordinary effort, of fracturing the skull at every blow. Foster had been a conductor on one of these street cars; he must have known the ca- pacity for injury of the weapon he deliberately chose, and the jury might rightly presume that he intended todo what he took the most effectual means within his reach to accomplish, The murder was committed on the 26th of April, 1871; the trial began on the 22d of May ensuing; the verdigt was rendered on the 26th, the sentence assed on the 26th, and the 14th of July was fixed for kis execution. Early in July application was made for a commutation ef the sentence, and on the 6th a writ of error was filed and a stay of pre- ceedings granted. On the 2ist of February, 1872, the ya ent was affirmed at the General Term in the city of New York, and the 22d of March fixed lor the execution ef the sentence. p- plication for a commutation was renewed and was denied by my predecessor on the 4th of March. On the 11th of that month @ writ of error to the Court of Appeals with a stay of proceedings was granted, and on the 2ist of January, 1873, the judg- ment was afMirmed by the last-named tribunal. Thus it appears that all the remedies provided by law for contesting the rulings of the Judge be- fore whom the trial took place have been ex- hausted, and that lis action has been afirmed by the two judicial tribunals having cognizance of the case—the latter the Court of last resort, The question presented to me is, whether I shall interpose the executive authority of the State and commute the malty of death, which the law awards to murder, for imprisonment for life. In support of the application it is urged that the verdict Was accompanied with a recommendation to mercy, and that it is the duty of the Executive to consider the one as @ part of the other. This is, no deubt, so far true that it should commend the case to his most care- ful and deliberate consideration. It is an appeal which he should recognize by reviewing all the cir- cumstances not enly with a willingness, but with a desire to tind in them a@ justification for the ex- ercise of his clemency. There is no responsibility under the law on the part of juries in making such recommendations. On the other hand the respon- sibility of the Executive in acting upon them is very delicate, whether they be considered in reierence to the opinions of the jurors who make them or to considerations of public policy, which as @ conservator of the good order of society he is bound to regard in applications to mitigate penalties annexed by the statute to crimes. My predecessor, no doubt under the in- flnence of such considerations, or from the belief that the criminals were justly condemned to death, refused in three instances to commute their sen- tences, although recommendations to mercy ac- companied the verdicta. “ The application is supported on another ground, which is more embarrassing, and which bas been to me @ source ef great anxiety in coming wa right decision. A large mujosity of the jurors, part ol them by affidavit and others by written spate- ments, declare that some of their number dif not believe Foster intended to kill Putnam, that they thought imprisonment for life as great a punish- ment as he deserved, und that they would net have agreed to render the verdict of murder in the first degree, involving the penalty of death, if they had not been assured by one of their associates, who professed to have a knowledge of the law, that such @ verdict, accompanied with a recommenda- tion to mercy, would insure a commutation of the sentence. With two exceptions these state- ments are all recent, and the two exceptions bear date more than ten months alter the murder was committed, Two applications, as already stated, were made to my predecessor for a commu- tation of the sentence—one as late as March, 1872; and there is no evidence that any such statement was presented to him, nor is there any reference to one in his letter denying the latter application. im this State that ex parte affidavits or siatements by jurors impeac mg the verdicts they have rendered under the responsibility ef their oaths, will uot be received by the Courts in support o1 applications for new trials. Indeed, | believe it may be stated as a rule far more Widely accepted that the Courts will not suffer a jury ‘to explain by altidavit the grounds ot their verdict to show that they intended some- thing different from what they lound.”’ Whether the rejection of such afMidavits and statements be founded upon the belief that, by reason ot the protracted deliberations of juries in many cases, and the differences oi opinion te be recon- ciied im coming to the requisite unanimity, they could be easily procured; or whether they be re- jected upon the ground that statements made under no responsibility cannot be permitted to overthrow adjudications made under the highest, it can hardly be doubted that they would tend, if admitted, to unsettle the administration of jus- tice and render executions under capital convic- tions’ nearly impossible. Seme of the reasons which govern Courts in refusing to receive such statements in support of applications for new trials ought, in my judgment, to govern the Execu- tive in applications for the commutation of sen- tences. In the Judge's charge to tie jury he said:—Before ou can convict the prisoner of murder in the first de gree you must be satisfied from the evidence, not only that Foster killed Putnam, but that he Wid so with @ premeditated design toefect his death; and he was thus convicted by the jury upon the responsibility o1 their oaths. Ought the same per- sons to be permitted nearly two years afterwards to show by ex parte aMdavits and statements, made under no legul responsibility, that their ver- dict was untrue? ‘The precedent of admitting after-revelations of the secret consultations of the jury room, for the pur of annulling verdicts rendered as true under the solemnity of an oath, would be perilous im any condition of society, and in the present de- flant reign of crime such a precedent would be fraught with infinite danger to the public order. Every proper appliance which wealth and the influence of a most estimable family could com- mand has been Fat main to save Foster trom the seaffold. The case has been carried through all the Courts by eminent counsel, the opinions ol gentie- men learned in the law and earoest applications from respected clergymen and citizens in good standing have been brought before me, and the widow of the victim has come forth front ner solt- tude to plead for the life of her husband's mur- Laerer, 1 have giyen to these appeals my most o' tl htful consideration. If there were any reason to doubt that the law was rightly ruled at the trial, or that the evidence fully warranted the jury in rendering the verdict of murder in the first de- Fp I would give the criminal the benefit of that doubt. But with a firm conviction that there was no error in either and that there is nothing in his case which can justly commend it to Executive clemency, I cannot interpose to mitigate his pun- ishment, Tam pained to say this to you, do your sincerity and the purit your motives; and I desire to anmounce my decision tu yoursell and the other respected clergymen who have Joined in interceding for him, in the spirit of kind consideration due to those whose sacred vocation teaches them to look with tenderness upon the frailties of others, To the representations of the gentlemem lar occupations who have appealed to me in his behalf I have paid the same respectful considera- tion; but | am constrained to think that they have neither given sufficient forethougkt to the conse- quences of what they ask, ifit were granted, nor considered that, with the best intentions, we may, by misdirected sympathy, contribute ‘unconsci- ously to endanger the public safety and our own. 1 am asked, in disregard of the evidence and the judgment of the highest judicial tribunal in the State on the law, to set aside the penalty awardea tothe most atrocious of crimes. Itseems to me that the inevitable effect 01 such @ proceeding on my part, under the circumstances of this case, would be to impair the force of judicial decisions and to break down the barriers which the law has set up for the protection of human life. To this act of social disorganization I cannot lend the executive authority confided teme by the peonie of the State. I deem it due to the good order of society to say that, so as cn on me, the supremacy of the law wi be inflexibly maintained, and that every man who strikes @ murderous blow at the life of his fellow must be made to feel that his own is in certain peril. If we cannot by firmness of purpose attain this end we may soon be forced to acknowledge the disheartening truth that there ia nothing so cheap or so ill-protected as human life, T address this letter to you because you were the first to apply to Governor Hoffman and the first to apply to me for a commutation of Foster’s sentence, Itis sent in sincere Sympathy with you, his early spiritual adviser, and with his artlicted family, some of whom I know and hold in the highest es- teem, but with the clear conviction that I am per- forming an imperative duty. I am, dear sir, with unfeigned reepene and es- teem, yours, JOHN A. DIX, Rev. STEPHEN H. Tyna, D. D. Foster in the Tombs—Visitors Excluded from the Prison. Foster, the condemned murder, passed a very quiet day yesterday, largely owing to the fact that there were so few visitors admitted to tae Tombs. During his incarceration Foster has never ex- pressed any particular desire to take physical éx- ercise of any sort, and the only relaxatien he has enjoyed outside the narrew confines of his cell hag been an occasional walk in the corridor. During the past few days, however, he nas been unable to enjoy even this slight prtepene in consequence of the very great influx of visitors, most of whom come to gave and wonder and look sympathizingly at the doomed convict. For this reason the Commissioners of Charities and Correction yes- terday transmitted to Warden Johnston instruc- tions directing that during this week no visitors be permitted to the Tombs, except such as are authorized by the Sheriff and by spectai pass from the Commissioners. This is @ very prudent and proper course under the circumstances. Yesterday Foster was visited by his wife, hig father, his brothers and Rev. Dr. Tyng; but all their interviews with the unhappy man were in the privacy of his cell. His general health is good, though Dr. Nealis ality the prisoner's appetite a8 failing to some exten The National Capital Speaks to the Metropolis—Governor Dix Sustained, WASHINGTON, D. C., March 16, 1873. To THE EpiTor OF THE HBRALD:— I have taken the HERALD for twenty years as & journal of reliable intelligence and a mirror of the public opinion. Your elevated stand against the spoveciating ast o atrocious car murder is approved here by alt whose opinions are worth a straw. All the facts are familiar to your readers in this country and Europe. When first announced the ferocious deed shocked the community, and every newspaper de- nounced it as a diabolical and unpardonable of- fence, amenable to swift condign punishment on lows. Prompt trial, condemnation and sentence followed. One tribunal after another, through all the forms of delay, confirmed the first just sentence. Meanwhile’ the Governor pro- claimed his firm resolve to enforce punishment in such cases as examples to such murderers as of late had relied on pardons. This was deemed reh- able mercy te the pubitc at large. Thus ended the first act of this deplorable New York domestic tragedy. But as the assassin claimed to be favorable to Sabbath schools some of the ultra stickiers for church rights and reserva- tions jorced a Violent crusade against capital pun- ishment generally as established by law, and es- pecauy against the just punishment of this man. he were @ member of the Cnurch so much the more reason for him to sa 4 By Writ and avoid murdering his fellow man. But he had rich reia- tives and, it was rumored that money was in the scheme of rescue, and that conspiring interlopers were ready to shell out liberally to rescue the cul- prit from the gallows, and we hear rumors of bribes lor a petition to the Governor. Meagwhile, strange to say, “a change has come o'er the dream,” and some of the city Nahr which were first so rampant to condemn and hang are now for commuvation and final escape in one of the most diabolical cases om record, Bah! Whether any bribe was actually advanced, cash in hand, | express no opinion. Promises may have proved availing. Be this as it may, high crimes must not be compounded by parties interested, Murder must not be expunged for pel! by persons in- jured, Hanging ts neither executed nor prevented lor the accommodation of private persons, how- ever great the reward, but enforced for the public safety, If wealthy relatives are to have sway with magistrates the tribunals will be trampled in the dust, and what then will become of the State and the dignity thereef’ The Governor has but one straightforward course to pursue and sustain the tribunals. He should indignantly cast behind him all personal and outside considerations, as did the immortal patriot, Lucius Junius Brutus, when he condemned his own son to death for the safety of Rome. Here is a memorable precedent for the adeption of the Governor in enforcing condign unishment on an offender doomed to death by all he tribunals. OLD SUBSCRIBER, The Governor Points the Line of Daty. To THe EpiTor oF THE HERALD:— We have a Roman in our midst, Viewed by the ald of General Dix’s reiusal to commute the sentence of Foster, the action of Brutus in striking down his friend is robbed of a suspected selfishness and indubitably stamped with patriotism. Who- ever has had a wavering, imperfect notion'of duty before, let him contemplate this action of General Dix, and he will view it in all its crystalline beauty, “unmixed with baser matter.” Look at the grandeur of the picture! A grief- stricken father begs for the life of @ son from another father with Po to grant the prayer, whose venerable head ts at that very m ment bowed in agony over the death of his own son, and is refused, Truly the maxim, “Let jus- tice be done though the heavens fall,” no longer obsolete, has been electrifl into new life, and let allthe people good and true rejoice thereat. In sideration, therefore, of his incalculable se vices to the nation im tines of peace and war, and with all the proper humility of a private citizen, I nominate General Joun A. Dix for President of the United States, 8. HT. New York, March 16, 1873. The Governor's Action Applauded. To rue Epiror oF THE HERALD I trembled in fear that our Governor would not do his duty in the Foster case. AS @ lover Ol jus tice and hater of all maudlin sentiment I breathe freely again, John A. Dix has proved hiresell to be a man; would he were forty years younger, Cannot the public have an opportunity of re dorsing him, at the Cooper Institute or some other lace, and express its opinion on this and other indred topics freely * L ART MATTERS. Somerville Art Gallery. We have not as yet done entire justice to the col~ lection of paintings which are now at the Somerville Art Gallery, and which constitute the second annual exhibition of the Palette Club. True, several of these paintings are su poor that one wonders at tie ancture er unfortunate coincidences which could conspire to bring them into prominence, But there are many paintings that evince now enius, perhaps, but talent, power, delicaceyge- ned feeling, amd patient and conscientious pul ture. The sale will take place in about one Week from the present date, The Beaumont Pictures. The Beaumont pictures, which have been ex- hibited at the Leavitt Art Gallery for the last two weeks, are to be seen to-day for the last time. To- morrow they will be conveyed to the Clinton Mall Saleroom, where they will be sold on the evenings of Wednesday and Thursday. Brooklyn Academy of Design. The twenty-sixth annual exhibition of the Broox+ lyn Academy of Design is now open, and will re~ main so for several weeks. The crowded condition of the paper precludes more than a mere reference to the fact this morning. Selous Je: jem Aga! This evening Selous’ two pictures of Jerusalem will be displayed at the South Reformed church, Fifth avenue and Twenty-first street, for the ben- efit of the Palestine Exploration Fund. Professor Roswall D, Hitcncock will likewise deliver & lee vurey