The New York Herald Newspaper, July 5, 1874, Page 4

4 HAIL COLUMBIA! Cur National Holiday--How It | Was Celebrated. PATRIOTISM IN ITS GLORY. The Military Display and Review---Ex- cursions, Fires and Casualties. YOUNG AMERICA ON THE RAMPAGE, Dav in the Suburbs and Elsewhere. The The rocket’s red glare, Bombs bursting in air. The Fourth oi July, 1 dawned as most summer days do. Turough the night preceding there were | various pyrorecinic displays which do not ordina- | rily obtain, but the roseate moon walked soy Over the eastern bills all unconscious of the pecu- Mar sige with which tt was invested. It came flaming with banners and all agiow with the glorious my stery of its birth, waich the inhabitants of this Yaukee portion of the planet graciousiy accepted as a compliment from nature to “the day we celebrate.” We cannot say that such was the case; but we are prepared to matntain that never did day break more grandly than did yester. day. tt might have rained, for instance; the heavens inivht have cried over our attempt to be jolly; but the contrary. The East laughingly Diushed when the bell sounded to ring up the cur- tain on the Fourth of July and appeared im all her Oriental spienaer. Not, however, without a coy modesty. She wore @ veil of mist, which but added to her beauty, When this was seen by the thousand and one per- sons that threw open their windows in New York yesterday morning there were as many conje! Vures regarding tue ultimate character of the day; the usual desire to take all chances, which is an inherent element of tne American character, pre- vailed. Tue consequence was that all railroad trams and terry boats radiating from New York * were loaded down wita excursiouists. Northeast, south ana west they went, with but one desire— to get away from the sound ofthe detonating cracker and the vociferous smal! boy. Without a doubt a great many people remained in the me- tropolis, and did their level best to gloriously cele- | brate the anniversary of our national indepen- dence, but there is no denying the fact thata great many more sloped into rurality. It was quite natural that they should. There was a gen- eral suspension of trade, and even the downtown oftice boy felt that he had important business on hand, 5a did the clerk, the junior partner and the head of tue house. The natural consequence occurred ; our city proper was lett to the guardian- ship of the policeman and tie predatory cat. At whar! and depot yesterday morning the New York excursionists assemoled with their wives and littie ones. ‘they were already patriotic, for the salute irom the Battery stil ecLoed in their ears, and the bunting, Kissed by the morning sun, Salutea their eyes on every hand. The chiming chureh betls flooaed the atmosphere with music. In the distance “ould be heard the roll of drums | and the tramp of the soldiery. Regardiess of these metropolitan churms they departed for the surf-beaten sands and the verdunt Helds of the country. | THE CITY. | All through the night over-enthusiastic tndtvid- Uals lisisted upon biazing away at the moon and testilying their unusual patriotism by the most remarkabie Outbursts of powder. Stald citizens who had gohe to sicep tossed in their beds and dreamed Of the taking of Sebastopol, and then woke up and induiged in pardonabie profanity at the exuberance which characterized the manight hour. Rockets tralied over the heavens and eit fiery scars upon the cheek of Night. Pistols went off at every corner, came oack at the next and went om again. The nivht was like the uncorking of | ten thousand hotties of champagne. | THE BATTERY AT SUNRISE, | Just when Aurora began to put out the eastern flambeaus the voice of the cannon was heard at the Battery. The day of jubilee had beguo. Pic- tured in the flame anu smoke of the guus was the | apotheosts which we ail revere. The echoes awoke the gunners at tne various for! stantly came the biazing respo! Then iollowed Im the giad sunrise the decking of the vesseis with all the bunting in their command. The whole Bay blossomed with flags and either side of the island wloomed suddenly mto color. THE FORTS. At Bedloe’s Island, Governor’s Island and at Fort Hamilton the day was properly observed. | ‘The soidiers stationed at these places Were treated toa more than usually good uinner. At Fort Schuyler tuere were dress parates and a general excess of willtary enthusiasm. Fort Columbus opened tie ball yesterday morning witha salute of thirty-seven guns. THE CHURCH CHIMES. The various churches happy in possessing chimes musically announced that tact, commencing at yesterday noon. Mr. Widdows, of Washington, Operated at Grace churcb. He rendered a very select programme in a highly artistic manner, THE VETERANS OF 1812. Death bas been busy in the ranks of the vete- Taus Of 1812. Since the last Fourth of July twenty- five of their number have passed away, among the best Enown being General Henry Storms and D. Sammis, of Fire Island. HOISTING THE STA. 3 AND STRIPES, At sunrise yesterday morning—viz., at thirty- three minutes after four o’clock— Adjutant J. Gould Warner, ti manded the key of the old fort in Central Park, situated near 109th street, from the Park Keeper, | ou behalf of the veterans of 1812, It was promptly | given aud he proceeded mside, accompanied by delegations from Excelsior and Marion Coun- cils of the Order of United American Mechan- jes and two of the fair sex, all of whom lent @ willing band in running up the Stars and Stripes to the top of th atam, which 18 | about eighty jeet in height. None of the old vete- Tans put in au appearance, however, the hour being meonvenient lor the aged defenders of our cuun- | que GATHERING oF THR oLD Boys. | The smai! band of survivors met in the Bowery, at Military Hall, at noon, when, alter calling the roll, the festive gathering set out for Germania Hall, to accept the hospitality of the officers of the Sixth regiment. Upon their arrival there they ‘were weicomed by Coionel Van Wyck, Major George W. Sauer, of the Third cavalry; Ramon Amabile, surgeon Sixth regiment; Regimen- tal Quartermaster Schnabel, of the Sixth regiment, and Genera! Ward B. Burnett, one of the veterans of the Mexican war and hoider of the gold box bequeathed by “Old Hickory.” Some of the eraus were dressed in full patade unijorm, with gold epaulets and the old military “cnapeau.’”’ Several wore medais, in- cluding John Strain, of Sailors’ snug Harvor, Staten Island, who wore a tmedal presentea to him personally by Commodore Macbonough on Lake Erie. He is the youngest veteran of them all, and has twin children aged five years, whose photograph he carries with lim. Heis « widower and is reported to be about contracting another marriage. ‘The jolowing is the list of the veterans who sat down to dinner and their ages :— General B. Raymond 80 Colonel H. Dally. % Major Crowly...... 2 John G, Sexton... A jeouard Bai tio 3 Leonard Hofman. 3 Henry Morris... 0.0... k Chaplain J. f Hall 8 M. E. Degrove Mmithe ©. B. Balsart 76 F. A. Berginan 1s Ol ste @® T. Bian k i) ‘combs J. strain a Remmey. Elijea Loud B W. J. Lune... Last year 292 veterans of 1812, resident in the State 1 New York, including Daniel Drew, rhur- | iow Weed and General Dix, re elved their pen- sions. About 200 ave now supposed to be alive, of whom hail irve in New York and its vicinity. On the ist of November the certificates of clothing, &c., granted by the Legisiatare in 1459, and for which a appropriation of $100,000 Was mude by the last Legisiature, Wili be paid to the living sur. vivors. THE SPERCHES. An old free trader, Colonel Dally, aged seventy- eight, inan amusing speech thanked the Sixth regiment for its Kindness and recited some of his war experiences, aud suid, among other things, | Father of NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 5, 1874.—TRIPLE f£AEET. | that in 1812 “Free trade and satlors’ right: | the motto of the country, and he Wished it were BO at {he pronent momeut. He was followed by Union, ornamented the gallery, and the coat of Major wrles J. Crowley, who told rambling | Yeminiscences and nearly talked nis “vets? to death. Speeches were made by General Raymond, Chaplain Hall, Jay Gouid ~ Warner, Coivnel Hilreth, Dr. Amabile, of the Sixth regi- ment, and many others, At four o'clock the old boys separated iu the best humor possible. The old fellows’ next joilification wiil be at Paterson, N. J., on the 22d inst., at the meeting of the Grand | Army of the Republic, 1HE MILITARY PARADE. The annual parade of citizen soldiery in honor Of the anniversary was a very fiue one. The First | division, under command of its chief, Major | General Alexander Shaler, turned out in full | ranks and the appearance of some of the favored | regiments was unusually good, The Seventh, as | might be expected, bore the greatest honors | blushing upon them, and the white linen pants gave them a cool and refreshing look. The Twenty-second came next to the Seventh for numbers and excellence of beartng, the platoons looking hke a@ sglid wall. The Fifth regiment, wearing the spiked helmets made so famous in | song and story during the Franco-German war, | had a very martial bearing, as bad also the gallant ‘Sixty-ninth, which is improving every day under the stera but needful discipline of Colonel Cavanagh. The troops, owing ‘to a nice provision of headquarters, assembled at a very early hour, the Seventh answering roll-call at half- | past six o'clock. These precautions were taken | to prevent the rank and fie irom suffering the erects which usually follow a parade late in the da Bf ery regiment, battalion, troop and battery the line looked tts best. ‘The reviewing point and grand stand in front of Worth’s Monument, Madison square, were not so much crowded as on former occasions, nor were | there present the notabilities and public function aries Who have assisted on similar iormer celebra- tions, Geueral Dix was not present, neither was President Grant, although it nad been announced that the latter would tn person re- view the troops. — Major General Gillmore, United States Ariny, was, however, on hand as a Substiture for his llustrious chicl. The General got to the reviewing point at twenty minutes past eight o'clock, some ten minutes in advance of General Shaler, The last named officer was on the spot punctuaily at halt-past elgut o'clock, and the | tue orders pubushed in yesterday’s HERALD, marched majestically into tue square, and passed in review, The spectacle was one that will long be remembered by ali who Wituessed tt, the seve- | ral commauds vying with each other in their en- deavors to present to the eyes of the hero chief the evidences Of their soldierly training. Quite a num- ber of ladies graced the stand with their presence, | Waile the square was thronged by thousanus of | unterested spectators, AT TAMMANY HALL. The Braves Tatk Over Their Triamphs— Prospects of the Future—A Battle Cry. Tammany, as usual, celebrated the nation’s birthday i the old regulation style, with set ora- | tions, patriotic music and the reading of that Btartling Declaration of the fundamental princi- pies of natural political right, their violation by | the British crown and the announcement of the | determination of the American colonists to as- sume an independent automony, which in the last century fired the heart of a nation of sel!-respect- ing freemen, though their degenerate sons to-day pronounce that world ‘amous documenta tissue | ot “glittering generalities.’ Tne Fourteenth street “wigwam” of brick and mortar, re- splendent in briiliant paint and gilding, was the scene of the “Council” yesterday, 1a which the | Working machinery of the party which for many | years ruled this Republic, but which for the !ast fourteen years has played but a secondary and un- important part in national atfairs, was once again set in experimental action, On the platiorm, adorned with representat've wampum and armed with the traditional tomahawk or bearing the em- biematie liberty’cap, were the leaders of the demo- cratic party of the State, the painted and teath- ered citiefs and sachems of the tribe of Tammany. ‘The ;oubg men, Warriors and scalp-hunters of the nation, with a few of their squaws and pap- pooses, filled she ample auditorfum, listen- ing to and applauding the words of counsel and of patriotic or partisan appeals uttered by the talking braves of the occasion. They were, moreover, cheered and inspiritea by the songs ana musical interludes which broke the monotony of the war cries, and the narrations of political grievances which formed the staple of the long and short talks from the rostrum. Hon. Auzustus Scnell, formerly Collector of the Port, as Grand Sachem of the Order, made the opening address, which was responded to by the assembled braves, big Lnjins and little Injins, py appropriate appro- and almost in- | bative grunts, The Seventa Regiment Band, | Ppiaced in the gallery, performed a variety of in- spiriting pieces alter each pause between the | talks, and the Glee Club led the Council in singing | such songs as the ‘‘Star Spangied Banner,” “Red, White and Blue,” and “sword of Bunker Hill.”” Mr. James S. Thayer, whose devotion to party during the late war was denounced as superior to his national loyalty, delivered the main oration. He sketched from the party point of view the heritage of liverty bequeathed to us by the fathers | of the Republic and the subversion thereof by the © systematic usurpations of rapacious partisans under pretence of necessities of the recent con- flict. He asked in indignant terms if any of the | rights of the people, seized by the dominant party | in times of wer and disorder, had ever been de- | livered to the people again when the nation J, breathed in peace? His sentiments of oppo- sition to the republican party and General Grant’s administration calied forth hearty responses from the tribe. So did his closing dec- laration that the democratic party, having learned | wisdom in many successive defeats, would fight | hereatter, not under tne banner of a new opposi- tion like the liberal republican party, and his in- Vitation to liberal and dissatisfied republicans to adopted son of the veterans, de- | Jom the cohorts of Tammany and rout the repup- | lican spoilsmen from their places of power and plunder, Sympathetic and hopeful letters were read by Mr. James C. Spencer trom promineat democrats throughout tne Union, samples out of 2,000 which had been received by the Order. These aly breathed indignation against repub.ican misruie as exemplified in the administration of President Grant, and confident hopes and expeciation of speedy and signal triumpn for the democracy under the }ead of ancient Tammany. When Hon. Fernando Wood was named fora “short talk,”’ his appearance on the platform was | greeted with such astorm of appiause as iully ments of showed that the ex-Mayor’s white head and erect figure will be followed with alacrity by the young braves, when in the coming contest he redeems his promise to take the rifle and scalping knife and Sct out on the warpath, He challenged the hun- ters, old and young, to a rivalry of great achieve- ments for Tammany and ‘he nation. Hon. S. S Cox, in a happy speech, accepted the gage of his Venerable colleague, and fairly roused his an- dience by indignant denunciation of the arbitrary measures of the lately convicted Police Commissioners in the last election, Hon. R. F, Andrews followed in a denunciation of republi, can national legislation. These several talks were all assented to by the assembled braves with evident approbation, and it was appar- ent that the no of an early return to the guidance of national affairs and participa- tion in’ the rewards of victory inspired pleasant thoughts in many @ Warrior's breast, as he left the Counet! circle to seck refreshment at the “Spring” in the underground apartment of the mussive Wigwai, APPEARANCE OF THE WAtte As early as ten A. M. tue braves began to assem- bie in Fourteenth street and groups of the warrl- | ors ga‘ered in the reception room on its lower floor and discussed the topics of the political times. A jew moments later the oand of the Seventh regiment from the balcony wafted the strains of | patriotic music apon the su!piurous air, and imme- | diately the large hall began to fill. Tae musicians | then adjourned to the right hand gallery ana the procession of chieftains entered, leadcd by the the Council, Sachem Abram 8, Hewitt, who bore the fiery cap of ib- erty, followed by the Grand Sachem, Au- gustus Senell, carrying the glittering tomahawk, @ long lipe Oi Warriors and braves bringing up the rear, The spacious hall looked brilitant in its dec- orations of flowers and embiems of patriotism. Upon the platiorm rested pecestais, surmounted by handsome vases o/ flowers. Suspended over the platform was the brilitant banner of tne society. and over tne shield of the Empire State glittered im gole letters the two dates, ‘*'76" and 74." ‘astetally looped flags hung in the embrasures of the six Windows at the rear o! the piatform, while Stripes of red, white and blue, spangied with stars, | draped the sides of the hall, From the gal- brother column, after inoving along the route prescribed in | lery hung rastic baskets filled with flowers, the banners of the thirteen original States of the arms of the tharty-eignt Statesof the present Union with their legends and mottoes, rants, the walls, blending their bright hues with the colors ofthe Dationsl banner, , From the windows on Fourteenth street many flags floated out upon the breeze, while @m enortnous banner was raised upon the mast on the top of the building, with a tion? Its powers are | ten barricade against u: given in words, literal and guarded, Ont- side thereof are reservations to people and States. Deparung from the charter and roving like pirates, the party in power, for more than @ decade, has outraged and outlawed every sentiment of liberty and broken every writ- ten of traditionary restraint upon central and local tyranny; 80 that the party out of power, becoming conservative of law and order, contests long line of smaller Mags stretching to the front of | wilt the party in power, which revolutionizes to the hail, giving to Tammany a most brilliant and patriotic appearance, ADDRESS OF THE GRAND SACHEM. arose and addressed the audience as ioilows:— “SOCIETY, BROTHERS AND FRIENDS—Since we last met in these halls to proclaim our devotion to the principles which our forefathers estabiished another year has been added to tie rot of Time, during Which year these principles have been con- Stantly Violated by the administration, The great Wrongs of Louisiana have been unredressed and the rights of States ignored. In vain have we looked for the adoption of a financial policy watch shail secure to the poor the fruits of their labor and industry, or the administration of public affairs free irom corruption, The future is with the a ocratte party. (Applause.) ‘To that party people” ot” these United States must for @ change from this state of corrup- tion. Let New York follow Vermont, New Hamp- shire and mY He in electing a democratic gov- | ernment, aud those of us who meet on the Bourth oft July, 1875, in this hall, will have a republic. | not in name, but in iact. 1 bid you all welcome, a thousand times welcome, to meet with us and Join us in smoking a pipe of peace.’ (Applause.) | | At the conclusion o: Mr. Senell’s address the Declaration of Independence was read (as pre- | scribed by the constitution and bylaws of the so- clety), by Mr. D. C. Calvin, and received with | cheers and continned rounds of applause. The “Star-Spangled Banner’ was then sung by a glee club of four singers. the entire audience standing and joiming heartily in the chorus. \G TALK OF JAMES 8, THAYER. Mr. James S. THAYBR, in a lengthy address, referred at the outset to the approaching 1876, When those who celebrate the then Fourth of July Will stand on the other side of the century. He then commented at jengtn upon tue cardinal prin- | yles O: democratic goverument, He described, | her saiety and happiness! | of the tyranny of et with great power, the tistory of adwinistras tion during the last thirteen years. In referring the present government he said:—‘i do not seek by this train of thought or line of observa- tion to reopen disputes that are settled, or to re- view tue wrongs or calamities of tne past for Sensational effect, But there can be no just com- prehension of the present, no wise provision for | the future, Withuut arraying in grave and distinct order the eveuts and facts connected with the his- tory of the last thirteen years. The country is not only troubled by the approach of further disasters and misiortues, and we hear not only the voice of warning against future peril, but the wal that cries out ior relief, for a remedy for existing evils, and & determined and a passionate demand to | arraign and punish the party under whose admin- istration of the government corruption and dis- honesty pervade all branches of the public service. And in doing this an outraged and incensed people ‘Will not simply deal with tne present, they Will £0 back to the Causes that have produced these re- Sults; they will not be content to destroy the evil fruit of to-day and leave the tree rooted In the soil; the tree itsel! must be plucked up anu beld in the flames until tt 1s consumed to ashes. This vene- ; Ment demand to forget the past and discard old issues ig an unreasoning clamor if it means that you shouid reject the lessous of experience and | the tempered juagment that has been tried and tested. It 13 a suinmons to battle without prepara- tion, without the armor needed for the coutiict. | We ‘are told the world moves, soctety advances, | and we must bound forward to meet the duties and responsibilities of the hour. True, indeed; but assume these responsibilities without meas- uring with care and precision the character and magnitude of the wrongs and abuses you are to encounter, without a prudent estimate of the forces and influences at your command, and you will be beaten and driven tinuglorionsly | trom the field. There has been a growing | opposition to the republican party for jour ears within its own ranks, It culminated in an open revolt two years ago, Tae gap is widening every month, and public men stan diferent sides, consiantly receding from each other, Honest men all over the country are breaking away irom the ranks. The democratic party 1s frequentiy asked to change its name, dis- band its organization and unite in forming a new party with a new name. Every such invitation should be respectfully entertained and as respect- fully declined. Party organizations, campaigns, bronzed and scarred with hardships and batties, tied by the varying fortunes that inspire valor and fortitude, are essential in a successiul Wariare against iraud and corrupuon, intrencued and sup- ported by ail the power and patronage of the gov- ernment, The scattered 1orces of an honest and brave band of relormers hastily called together may gain a temporary advantage, but ina great national contest, such as we are now approaciing, an open hand, Learty welcome and a recognition Should be extended to all who wiil join us; out the old stancard of the democracy must be borne in front, for it isonly the unbroken line and meas- ured tread 01 @ disciplined force that can win the victory. (Loud cheers.) i SPEECH OF MR. FERNANDO Woop, | Mr. Woop, who was received with considerable cheering, said:—braves of Tammany, I greet you. I shall inake a short talk, Much tal¥ no good when fighting to be done. 1 ain just arrived, brovher indians, irom the Grand Council fires of the nation. Around these I have seen gathered he big Indians of the joe whom they lead to battle against us. I nave seen the chosen of these and | bring you no good of them, They are ie men. Lhe truth is not in them. (Cheers.) AS one of your representatives at that Grand Counc it has been my province to see, to listen, to opserve. 1 come back ence again to tell you | that all 15 not well at the capital of your dear | country. The game that these Indians hunt was couquered by others’ labor. The toes they seek are thoxe within their power, and are hot hurd to re- sist. The blood they shed 1s not spilied on behalf of the liberties of the country or the national wel- fare, but 1s wrung from ap unwilling nation. ‘hey ‘ have pandered to it in derision and shame, and have degraded the nation’s name and government. Now, brethren, it 18 these men we are to fight. Be prepared ior that battle. Let every Indian, let every democrat, let every lover of his country remember that the nation and its history, its institutions and its form ol government caunot stand another lour years of \ the malaqministration we have had to-day. Whether these laws and this at peopie must be settled for a century to come: wherher this shall become a despotism or remain in form and theory | a republic, estabiished by your foretatuers, is & question. There.ore, 1 say to you, seek your path, | Measure weil the force, power and tusincerities osposed to you and the enemy you are to con- tend with,” We are bere representing this festal return of the anniversary o/ our birtnday, the birthday of our nation. Let us pledge ourseives to sleep not, to tire not, until these moud- ern Goths and Vandals are driven from the na- tional capital. As an old War-worn veteran, who has played his humble s in many a hard fought battle, 1 shall take up the battle axe, the spear, the tomabawk and the rifle once again against these | men, (Cheers.) 1 would be willing tor the statd and bravest of tue Tamimany braves to return more troplies, to cate more game than the humble in- dividual who has made this short talk. (Loud cheers). SPEECH OF 3. 8. COX. Mr. Cox said:—ilaving spoken so often the past eight years on tiese occasions ! vainly sought to | decline tor this day. One thougnt only jor my short talk. This day is dedicated to civil lperty. Is not this plirase an anachronism’ The Four’ ol July 1s “Independence” Day. Liberty and mde- endence are, or should be, wit us inseparable. But in 1776 independence was the one thought. Indepencence sounded the tocsin; independence made the battle, We never lost our liberties. The British attempt to despoil us of them consum- Inated independence. Our ancestors had English rights. ‘hey maintained them in charters. In local ruie they built bigh against the en- croachments of royal power. Our liberties [were the birthright o1 aglishinen, and we claimed them as Englishmen, Magna Charta was ours. Ail the limitations on the royal prerogative were ours, The munt- | personal and civil liberty were ours. The Declaration made unity aud declared | independence. | Many of the colonies, even on the Fourth o: ly, 1776, were hardly ripe jor the event; not ripe enough to fall without agitation, Alli- ances Were to ve jormed for independence; and with monarchy, too, reconctitation was not en- tirely given up. detferson himsel! said that many passages of the Declaration were siricken out, lest offence might be taken abroad and in Eng- land. The clause against African slavery was erased, The Declaration was not entirely unani- Thvus, nor Was it intended to be in the interest £0 much of human bature and abstract iberty as of home rights, colonia! autonomy and cisauantic dellance. The ceiebration of this day is, there fore, not an apotheosis to the beautilul goddess! It is rather the memory of an armed inan. It re- calls Fabius and Washington, not so much Piato and Jeflerson. it | reminds us much of fight and ttle of philosophy. We strove to achieve power—power to levy war, contract aillunces, conciude peace, establish com- | merce, ind do ali other acts and things which be- long to independent states. The Declaration was a revolutionary ducument, It was conservative of civil freedom only in so far as jreeaom was men- aces, But it was a radical pronanciamento against @ throne in so far as that throne was & | barrier against colonial seli-government. It leit, | as it found, the waves and winds tree, while it fought against the destruction of the breakwater. We should make our eulogies and our ptullppies to- day suitabie to our time. We have no need of revolutionary glorification, We deprecate revoln- | uon. Our pressing need is the suid maintenance othe organic, and not the rhetorical aud the declaratory. She Declaration can take care of itself in stormy crises. ‘The constitution is the crystal in which shines the prism of our promise. 1t 18 the emblem of our covenant alter the tenmpest, We have had enough of revolution—revolution at the South—God knows too much. We had it daring the civil War and since. garies of our recent history and come to the facts of our perilous present. The Deciaration was @ panopiied dreaw—an armed venture; the consti tation which followed is a writien chart, It cele- brates the fact accomplished, It anchors us, Our independent venture, our starry dream is over, It is a century oid. We must sail now by the chart or we must wreck. Yet we have this strangeness to-day in our politics, that the party of adminis tration, sworn to keep to the written order and to mnanage affairs practically, accepts as its rule of action some general revolutionary dogma, But is not the constitution a limit tn Seri | sonun We should forget the va- | | overturn both. ‘This cannot last without 1iminent | peril, How shallit be ended? Only by the union ts | of good men of all creeds and parties to check the | When quiet had been obtained the Grand Sachem | revolutionary and elevate the conservative. Name one element of freedom which our fathers fixed in the constitution as organic, and quickly you find its infraction by the dominant party. The nebu- lous statement and “prevention as to our wrongs in the Deciaration are ensiarred in the constitu- tion—ay, and since 1787 we have added some of the lunar and vapory ideas of more recent date as amendments; but these ail are of no moment belore the irresponsible cabal which, by maiversa- tion, corruption, covetousness, recklessuess and wrong doing, have made administration a scoitin and law a byword. Need | particalarizer Shalt read you the “iecord” of Congressional usurpa- tion? Snail tell you that whereas we used to have only hundreds of bills a session we now have thousands, and that most Oo! these thousands ere Without the proper purview of iederal legisiation’ | What are they? Grand schemes for money spend- | ing, Schemes of Waier and land communication, devices to get mouey for favorites in the way of Inoleties, tarifs, centenuials and charities; schemes for red men, black men and waite men, | godly schemes for pious men, schemes for improv: ing ‘uttle rivers over which you can leap, and scuemes about great States which, lying prostrate, we trample upon. Is there one element of civil | freedom namea in the Declaration or reserved | in the constitution which this administration | has conserved, or which it has nut tried-to abridge | and destroy? What a mockery to tell Louisiana | that she derives her just powers irom the consent | Of the governed—that she is an equal State, ac- | cording tn her musi¢ with the federal consteila- | tion! What a scandal to tell Souta Carolina that taxation and representation go together! What a | Sham to talk to Arkansas about being fitly organ- ized—between Brooks and Baxter—so as to effect How simple our talk eorge Ill, over tne Colonies, while the impeached Durell pockets the proceeds of baukrupts, State and individual, and wears the spotless ermine, and the holy Moses, Governor of Carolina, escapes indictment by the | dignity of bis office! What @ commentary on the Gatling guns of F and the im- prisoned legislators of Louisiana 1s the im- | peachment of the British ring for “dissolving repr | sentative houses! What irony in tue reproac’ , that King George obstructed With the republican bill (rom the Foreign Atfairs | Committee of the House to uncitizeuize or dena- tionalize those already naturalized i/ they happen | Lo sojourn abroad! Think of our revolutionary in- dictment against the English King! How it might be translated by the recent editions of our politi- cal lexicon! Did the stupid King intertere with the judiciary? Well, did not Congress enlarge the Supreme Court to crowd its bench ior & purpose? Who carried out that purpose? The Executive. Who desired, in his *‘memoranda,” to repeal the ) legal tender, and who signed the present Currency law? Tne King made swarms of harassing and hungry officers. Yet we rather like our honest Custom Houses, Indian Affairs, Post OMces and Internal kevenue Department? The King kept the military above the civil, did be? He cut off trade, é < did he? Well, his schemes were as a little finger compared to the loins of our | tariff swindles. He transported our fathers | incriminated, to foreign tribunals, did hey He | violated Magna Charta by destroying the jury ot the vicinage. What did the thirty-six Senators do | who voted the transportation of the teurless | | editor and the penal muzzle of the press? You say this was the work of the venal lawyer. there was dancing and singing among the So it was. Lord Bacon urged on James | more convalescent patients, with wheelvar- a new pes for capturing Fardament, to win | row and sack racing. Seats were placed around | ‘and blind the “liter vocales” or the House— | for the accommodation of all the inmates wo to wit, ‘the lawyers. He won. The Yelver- | could venture out, and for those who could not tons, Hydes and Dudley Digges of that day | ante-date the Carpenters, Polands and Butlers of this, Such stipenudiaries of misused power are | a8 old as statutory sin, They are always making Mn | tribunals, Genevan commissioners, Sanborn con- tracts, eleventh sections or {fresh laws to enchain | Mberties. Yet lawyers are useful. So are | fleas. No man 1s lazy where there are fleas, , In one word, the present administration has | copied the Englisn King. | people, degr: true. south. I deciare to you that the Kabyles, whom I visited in North Arica, are better treated and | governed, their local rights and traditionary |ib- erties better guarded, under French chasse..°3 @ Afrique, than are those ot the uncompiaining whites of the Southern satraptes. A word from Wasiington, and Baxter rules; 4 hint trom Grant, and Kellogg prints vonds; & wink from the neth- ermost underling of the administration in New York city, and my constituents are in Ludiow Street Jail, to make vacancies as inspectors of | election for the convict Police Commissioners | to fill with their suppie tovls. Thus the bailot be- comes a larce or a diabolic fetisch in the South, | and sinks into the black muck. | tempted fraud in the North, and unitss séme one l@ our States? It is too true, too like Joba Keily or Judge Brady or Tammany Hall, | or something of the oid spirit: intervene its abuse ' is tree from penalty and its outrage from disgrace. What has this revolutionary party not done in time of peace? Confessedly, it spends money not aj propriated. It tuus deflesiaw. It brings in de- | Hciency bills alter election, so a8 to boast of economy before, It pretends to sustain an Execu- | tive who will take no step except toward gold as our standard, y who appoints eripatetic syndicates and izing hig Secretary’s defiance o1 law, and which takes many backward steps from the true metailic measure. 1t disorgantzes business to help itself to power. It pets capital and juggies with \ the prices and hours of lavor. aud with mulish pertinacity upholds a system of government at once revolutionary and disastrous, while it defies the prescripts of the constitution and the tenor and effect of its own laws, What | should be done with sucha party ’ Buryit? Nay, | burn it, that its asues may ve scatterea to the | winds. and that it may be quoted as an example to | be avoided, and never in all time as a puttern to | imitate. | _ At the conclusion of Mr. Uox’s speech the Grand | Sachem arnounced that at tue close of the next | address the “great spring” would be open to the | Warriors and their guests in the basement. This | had a tendency to cause considerabie commotion, | and the short speech of Mr. Ruius F. Andrews was | | scarcely listened to, The liberty of the press was | spoken of by Mr. Andrews, and tne attempt of longress to abridge It made the basis o! an appeal to stand by Tammany. The speaker closed by saying, “I have not the giit of prophesy, but I am | willing’to assert that the question whetner this | country is to be a republic or an empire will close | | With the Centennt: | AROUND THE SPRING. | Aajourning to the basement the braves and | | their friends partook of a supstantial collation, in | which “punch” and champagne figured conspicu- ously, Grand Sachem Schell presiued, and pro- | osed One alter another tae healtis of Mr. Jonn | _ Kelly, James 8. Thayer, Judge Spencer, Captain | | Isaian Rynders, General F. 8. Spinola, Hon. 8. 5. Cox and William H. Wickham. Judge Spencer | made a short address, a8 did also Captain Rynders, | who wished that Generai Andrew Jackson might | | arise like King Authur, and take command of this | country at the jel day. The table was orna- | | Mented with handsome bouquets, which were | | afterwards sent to cheer the inmates or Bellevue | Hospital. THE BOULEVARD CLUB. The Fourth was duly and appropriately cele- brated by the Boulevard Club on the grounds at naturalization | Did he not ravage our | | coasts, destroy our properuies, impoverish our | a Bee te taxed, desperate and ever patieat | It becomes un at- , signs @ bill legal. | It appoints anu re- | appoints irrespousible men to responsible places, | | ‘Was removed to the ark Hospital by the police, ! flocked thither in chatting, langning nanas from | all over the city, trom Brooklyn, Jersey and sub, | urban villages in all directions, Fans and flirta- tion, soda water and sentiment, were the order of the day, Base ball was furiously played by small boys who had expended their early supply of celestial crackers, with which they had made night hideous, and awalted with what patience they might iurther allowances of ear-splitting tor- tures in the evening, Athletic youths, including & stout and loity doctor and two or three hews- paper men bound to eclipse Weston and other strian calebrities or die, engaged strenuously mulative —preterperambulation.” And away, ‘ond the wooded knolls, borne softly over th | Silvery lke, Which swarmed with brilijant boa | bending to the breeze under a weight of pennants and flegs, came the rattle, ratte, rattle of inces- sant firimg, dropping to a sharp interchange of shots on the picket line, anon rising to a rear, then Julling again, reminding one with some consider- able vraisemblance of the kourth of July, 1863, wien at Gettysburg the “boys in blue,’ who had | fought night and day from the lst, when Reynolds fell, heard the glorious news of the iall of Vii burg, and rose like lions refresied, hurled ba Lee's broken legions and heralded the turning point of the war tor the Union, And tie statue of the Seventh sentry wili symbolize the share New York city took im the country’s salva- tion. The venerable elms on the tery sheltered thousands during the day on the classic ground of the fashionable Knickerbockers of the olden time, the very scene whence the last British boat took of the last hostile occupant of Manhat- tan Island. Tompkins square was the great resort of the multitudes who dwell in the squalid tene- ment houses of the eastern districts, The poul- tice pavement, powdered to uupleasant dust and unshaded, was still a source of pleasure to them. | The poor creatures have so hard a life, earn so II tle, are so filtiily lodged, that a holiday is mem- orable to them, and they felt that the Fourth of duly 18 a bond between them and happier folks— that there is hope for them in this land of the free Whatever may betide. May future prosperity be- fail them and obliterate the sad memories of the last dreadful winter, Stuyvesant square, Reser- voir Park, Union and Madison squares and tue beautiful labyrinths and magy pieasaunces on the westside and jarout to Fort Washington had their full quota of happy noliday foik. HOSPITALS AND PRISONS. While the great national anniversary was cele- brated throughout the city with waving flags, military parade and every conceivabie noise, from the multitudinous din of the street fire to the deep | roar of cannon of the forts, @ thoughtiul kindliness dictated another form of the day’s observance for the benefit of the sick and helpless inmates of Bellevue. At an early hour in the afternoon Commissioner Myer Stern arrived at the hospital in a wagon filled with large baskets of choice flowers. ‘These, at the direction of Warden Brennan, were imme- diately formed into bouquets and distribuced among the patients, Private contributions had enabled the Warden to provide amusements for the evening ou quite an extensive scale, Happily the sudden storm, which looked so threatening at the close of the day, did not prove of long duration or greatly mar the arrangements. An open space in front of the river side of the hospital was railed off, to the grounds outside of which the public were admitted to witness the entertainment. Four men, detached by Captain Allaire, assisted Mr. Brennan in preserving order. Schiebel’s brass band supplied the music, and in tue intervals of a profuse display of tireworks leave the wards their beds were moved out into the veranda that they, too, might have a view. In | this way, “amid the joy and uproar” outside, did a little considerate benevolence chanze, in | some measure, this abode of sickness and pail to | | One ot gatety and pleasure. | The day brought no change to those confined | within the grim walis of the Tombs, Its sepul- chral gloom remained unbroken. | the whole medical force ot Park Hospital were afoot yesterday at an early hour to attend to the | numerous wounds and casualties incidental to a | free use of gunpowder on our natal day. Cotton batting and oil were placed where they couid be most easily reached. At an early hour the ambulance from Bellevue came down and re- moved to Bellevue those who were ina condition to be transierred. This was done for the purpose | of making vacant beds in case of any con- tigencies, During the whole day the ambuiauce surgeon was kept busily going between the | various police precincts below Cana! street, bring- | ing the victims of gunpowder to the hospital. An endless procession of mothers with burned chil- dren besieged the house surgeon. Many curious questions were propounded to the doctor, the | most embarrassing being, “Oh, docther, darling, | will he die, do ye thinky Ah, the poor oraytaur!”” To all these interrogations the doctor replicd, | “Certainly not,” to which the invariable reply | was, “Al, God bless you, docther, for that.” A8 hignt came on the burned fingers patients came | in at a rapid rate, and everybody in the hospital | was workiug like a beaver. INJURIES TO PIRSONS. soe John McDonald, of No, 22 Cherry street, was se- | verely injured in the face by the explosion of a j pistol, Sent to hospital. Frank Madden, aged twenty-one, of No. 14 Har- Tison street, was shot in the leg with a pistol ball. Richard Fagan, aged fifteen, of No. 344 East | Twenty-lirst street, shot off part of his right | thumb with @ pistol ball, He was removed to | Bellevue Hospital. " | Martin O'Donnell, aged thirteen, of No. 198 Madi- | ; 8on street, was shot in the leit hand with a bail ; | from a pistol. i | James Halloran, aged thirty-four, of No. 336 Hudson street, was shot in the leg and disabled tor life in West Houston street, He was removed | to Bellevue Hospital, | James Kennedy, aged fifteen, of No, 588 Green- Wich street, was severely wounded in the hand by ; the explosion of a pistol, John Ryan, aged sixteen, of No. 51 Cherry strect, | | was badly injured in the head, breast and right | hand by the explosion of a bottle of powder. He { Thomas Nolan, aged fourteen, of No. 43 New Church street, and Lewis Fox, of 88 Liberty street, | were both badly burned by the explosion of a | quantity of powder at the coruer of Cedar and | New Church streets. Joseph Rovesteim, aged thirty-eight, of No. 111 | West Houston street, received a severe wound in | the right leg from a pistol ball. The weapon was discharged by some unknown person, who escaped. | Wiliiam Burke, aged tourteen, of No. 172 Colum- | bia street, had his leit hand soverely lacerated b; the explosion of a pistol on the corner of Sheriff | and Stanton streets, Michael Orland, aged five years, had a leg broken at nine o’clock last evening by a car of the Second avenue line. | Jonn Dollnér, of No. 232 Kast Ninth street, had four flogers blown off his right hand by the explo- sion of pistol, at the corner of First avenue and St. Mark’s place. Peter Hughes, together with his two little chil- dren, went out riding yesterday. Peter got drunk, | horse got irightened and ran away, upsetting | the wagon and spilling the party. One child | slightly injured. Peter locked up, and children sent home. | | |.Moses Swartz, aged seven years, of No. 190 | | 10384 street and the Hudson River. The felicity | | began at about half-past three A. M., when Cap- | tain Gorham and Eugene McCurve, tn company | With the drum corps of tue Eighth regiment, went around the neighborhood summoning the people to the club grounds, where at sunrise the American flag was raised by the Captain, who for , seven years has climbed the flag pole and hung the colors to the breeze. While the Captain was | raising the flag Mr. James F, King fired a salute ot | thirteen guns in honor of the oid thirteen States. At tweive o'clock noon thirty-eight guns were | fired in honor of the present Union. The oratorical part of the ceiabration did not | eventuate until about halt-past tour, when the Deciaration of Independence was read by Mr. | | Charles H. Kitcheil, miki hs AL the grand | oid document tue band trom the Union Home, | which is composed Of httle boys, dispensed sweet | music, and the girls of the same institution sung | | in chorus several patriotic airs, | | The oration was delivered by Hon. Fernando | Wood, Mr. Wood spoke in unmeasured terms of | | the infamy of the rings which have been for the last ten years gnawing at the Vitalis of the country. He said (hat all that had been done tor the prese yation Ol the constitution was perforied by the democratic party. Ali that had been done to per- vert its ends was the work of a perfidious | federal administration, He was loudly applauded throughout bis speech, and, at retiring, received | | an ovation. { | Several other speeches were made py members, all commemorative of the occasion. | i THE CiNCINNATI SOCIETY. | This ancient organization celebrated the annt- | versary by a meeting and adinner, At the former Hon. Hamilton Fish presided. An election of) | ofAcers was held and arrangements were made for | the reunion of the general society watch takes | place in May next. The company subsequently | | adjourned to DVeimonico’s, waere a repast was served and ioliowed by the usual speecamaking, THE DAY IN THE PARKS. nachna | Of course ‘‘the lungs of the city’’ were crowded, | From an early hour throngs of people, clad tn | lightest summer costume and gay—as to the femi- | nine detachments, at any rate—with all the calors | of the rainbow, filled their umbrageons precincts, Eldridge street, was accidentally shot in the left | shoulder by a pistol ball last evening, Kate Smith, aged five years, living at No. 67 | Canal strect, hau her ieft eye badly injured by fire- | crackers, | John Welsh, of No. 165 Greenwich street, had a | | thumb nearly blown off by the discharge of a pistol. Oscar McKinney, of No. 315 West Seventeenth | street, | ad a thumb blown oif by the explosion of @ boitle of gunpowder, | Andrew Fisher, aged thirteen years, of No. 177 Wooster street, had his face ‘aud ‘eyes badly burned by the explosion of some gunpowder, He Was removed to Bellevue Hospital, THE CRIMES OF THE DAY. cone Mysterious Murder—An Unknown Ma Shot Dead in the Streots—Other | Affrays. A young man, supposed to be about twenty-six years of age, five feet five inches high and dressed in brown trousers, blue overalls, white coat, white undershirt, blue striped overshirt, low buttoned shoes and wearing his black hair cut short, was shot at and killed by some unknown person yester- day afternoon as he was passing along Broadway. The first person who noticed the condition ot the man Was Richard Cellar, barkeeper at No. 48 New Church street, He, it appears, was standing at the door of the saloon and saw the man coming, staggering towards him from Broadway. | Supposing at first he was under the influence, the barkeeper gave little notice to him; bit as ne ap- proached nearer the peculiar movement of the | curred last year. | $200, ceived blood flowing from a large wound in the man’s side, just over the region of the heart. He looked into the man’s eyes and watched bis ips. Life was not yet extin- guished. He called for police assistance, OMcers Manley and Maguire, of the Twenty- seventh precinet, promptly hurried to the spot They removed the man to the station house, bus he was no sooner laid on the Noor than he expired, leaving no trace or indication benind as to how he met his death. Every effort possible was made by the authorities fo ascertain something of the particulars of the case, but it is yet Shrouded in the most wmpenetrable mystery. No papers of any kind were found on the man, no shirt marks or other indications as to Who he was or what was the manner of his death. The theory was that he had been hit by a ball from Some Weapon shot Irom a housetop by a person wholly unaware of the direction the missile would have taken. Several accidents of that kind oc- Two policemen were struck and badly injured by bullets discharged from weapons in _ thi way. Tne police issue orders, at least the Superintenaent does for the regulation of these matters, am yet little or no attention seems to be pad to it by either the oficers or the people. Fuli grown boys, and frequently men well gone in years, rush to the sidewalks during the Fourth of July and dischar; ail manner of weapons into the streets, ihe police regulations are meant to arrest this work, but the ofMcers appear to be under the impression that all things are permissivle on the Fourth, and the thing cage on and lite and limb are sacrificed. It is quite possible and even probaple that tms man came to hig death in tuis way; but it is also possible some enemy Was waiting for him in a dark spot and took advantage of the noise and firing all round to glut his hate. The physician who examined the wound in the station house pronounced it a terrible one, and showed that the ball which had caused it waa a very large one. This would seem to indicate that the work was meant and that the assassin had prepared himself witha good deal of caution ta make his biow sure. The Yody of the murdered man is now lying at the Morgue. As the Coroner has been notified an inquest will be heid to-day, Minor Offences. Robert Simmons, twenty-eight, a soldier on Gove ernor’s Island, was cut twice on the head yester- day afternoon during a fight with an unknown man at the liquor saloon No.8 Elizabeth street, The wounds being slignt, they were dressed at the station house, and he left to return to his post, Nicholas Sprools, twenty-nine, of No. 55 Mulberry street, Was cut on the head by a plate fung at him by Mrs. Sprools. He had his head dressed at the ulberry street station house, but reiused vw allow the police to arrest the lady. They went home together most affectionately. William Woodruf, of No. 81 Chariton street, was stabbed yesterday afternoon by Benjamin Uliphant during a fight between them at their residence, Olipvant was arrested by the police of the T'wenty- eighth precinct, and Woodruifs wound, @ slight one, was dressed at the station house, George White, of No, 182 Cannon street, received a slight stab in the chin yesterday morning on the corner of Second and Mangin streets. The wound Was received at the hand of an acquaintance, whose name White refased to give the police, Patrick Gallagher, aged twenty, of No. 242 Mon- Toe street, Was stabbed in the shoulder and back yesierday, receiving sligat wounds during a fight in the tenement house where he lives. His wounds were dressed at the Thirteenth precinct station house, after which he leit for home. THE FIREWORKS. Notwithstanding the smart showers of rain that fell about sunset and the threatening character of the Weather last night, the promised display of fireworks took place in City Hall Park. There were thousands of citizens gathered in front of the City Hall, around the new fountain in the ark, lining the streets to the right and leit and in ront of Franklin’s monument, near the new Tribune buildings. The display ttself had nothing unusually brilliant about it, but tt was evident tnat the spec- tators, of both sexes, who witnessed the scene were highly pleased and amused. At several other points the best fireworks were postponed on account of the threatening aspect of the weather, FIRES YESTERDAY. The usual results of Fourth of July amusement were manifested yesterday in @ large catalogue of accidents by fire. It will be seen how wise were the precautions of the department. At mid- night of Friday the telegraph wires of the Fire and Police Departments were started in requist- tion, sending to the respective headquarters the locations of the fires, At a quarter-past nine at night a fire broke out in the three story frame building No. 215 East Twenty-sixth street. A damage estimated at $3¢ was done. The place belongs to Andrew Abberton, and is occupied by Louis Waktel, who suffered a loss of $300 from the water driven upon his stock from the fire engines. The fire started in the roof and was caused by fireworks. At half-past twelve o’clock a fire occurred on the roof of No. 25 Macdougal street that caused a damage of $500. ‘The house 1s owned and occupied by Artemus Knapp. The fire was the result of fire- arean Damage to the house $300 and to furniture insured. At thirty five minutes past twelve o’clock a fira | broke out tua bed in the top floor of the three story brick building No, 44 East Nineteenth street, that caused a damage of $1,000. The house 1s the peeps iss, of M. A. Colgate and ts occupied by G, M. owell, The damage 18 estimated at 3600 to furni- ture and $400 to the bulldmg. Insured. A skyrocket set fire to the window curtains ot | the four story brick building No. 47 University place, at one o’clock, and caused a damage of $25. An officer of the Twenty-eigath Pretiaee put out a@ fire on the roo! of a touse on Thompson street that had been caused by fireworks. No alarm sent out. At @ quarter to three A. M. a fire broke out tn the four story building No. 175 East Highty-fiith street, that caused a damage of $50. Tne house is occupied by B. C. Wandell, and is insured. Letting off firecrackers on the roo: was the origin of the accident. A quantity of freworks exploded ona stand in front of No. 544 Grand street yesterday moraing, that caused a loss to the owner of $25, an explosion of fireworks took place about the same time im front of No, 362 East slouston street. Tuey belonged to Levy Lewistein, who has suifered alossof $60, The explosion was caused by the Maiice ofa man who threw a fire cracker among the goods, He escaped belag arrested by running away. Several children, who were standing in the Pistalty of the stand, narrowly escaped serious Injury. A fire took place at half-past ten o'clock on the roof of No. 6 Great Jones street, which was caused by fireworks. At eleven o'clock a fire broke out in the ene occupied by Joun McDonald, ou Ninety-eighi Street, between Highth and Ninth avenues. At the same hour a fire was discovered on the Too! of the four story brick tenement No. 45 Nor- folk street by the police. They extingnished it and forbia any more fireworks in that place. At hail-past ten a fire broke out in the building at the rear of No, 234avenue A. The boarding house of Geo. Bartes fronts the street. Damage $20; fireworks. ‘rhe awning in front of No. 357 Grand street was: set fire to by crackers at half-past eleven. Dam- age $10, wi bed iu the apartments of Dr. Blitenberg, on the top floor of No, 924 Fourth avenue, caught fire yesterday morning. ‘The awning in front of No. 236 Sixth avenue, took fire yesterday morning 1rom some crackers, A damage of $10 was done. Yhe awning in front of No. 42 Division street took fire about the same time. It was extinguisned by the police of the Tenth precifict. Same cause. At noon 4 fire was discovered on the roof of No. 50 Leroy street. It originated with crackers and caused a damage Oi $50, A fre broke out at one o’clock on the roof of the five story brick tenement house No. 146 Forsyth street. It was put out by Oflicer Quigiy, of the Tenth precinct. At a quarter to one afire broke outin a shanty in Ninth avenue, near Fity-sixch street. Damage | $20; firecrackers. At half-past one the awning in front of No, 630 EE eres was burned by firecrackers. Dam- age $50. A fire occurred at a quarter to two at No. 339 | ope awenty-cignth street that caused a damage | of $10. | A lire was discovered on the first floor of No. 20 Roosevelt street yesterday afternoon that caused a damage of $20, The house is occupied by Wil- jiam Holloway, Who supposes some one, through malice, flung crackers iu at one of the windows. At ten ininutes past three @ fire occurred in the stand opposite No. 216 Spring sireet. William | Disch, the owner, suffered a loss of $25, | At halt-past five P.M. fire om roof of No, 115 Eldridge strect. Damage trifling, Fire on ground floor of No. 150 Kast Twenty-third street avsix P.M. Damage slight. Occupied, by Frank M, Smith ag @ paint stop. At tour P. M. fire on fourth floor of No. 40 Mott street (tenement house) caused damage to the amount of $500, Caused by explosion of fire- works. man attracted his more particular attention, and | - hte Awning of No. 02 East Twenty-third stroot he watched him. When almost opposite the saloon, Which stands on the corner of Rector and New Church streets, the man ‘ell h sidewalk. He tumbled with that dead ertness 80 strange to drunkenness, and so easily recognizable to one im_ the habit of witnessing men every stage of alcoholism, that Cellar ran to see what was the matter. In response to his repeated inquiries and shakings he could get no answer, and, finally, determined to ascertain the cause of | the man’s condition, he turned him over on his | piure—a@ writ- | Central Park was the great attraction, People | back. Then the barkeeper with amazement per- | took fire last evening. Damage $5. Caused by fireworks and owned vy Adam Brunner, At ten minutes to five P. M. fire in closet on pier No. 37 North River, Extinguished by police; no damage. Fire in basement of No. 1,823 Third avenue, at hall-past three P. M., occupied by Charies Boil man as variety store; caused damage to the ex- tent of $20, ite do ue omer fire in three story brick dwell- | Ing No. Liberty street at twenty 1 of | ~ * a Damage Cy t smite t hali-past seven , M. fire at No, street. Damage trifling. BO. th Bigs cnue pe SAD roe last evening fireworks cd age to furniture of No. 77 bi to the amount of $50, pou The awning of building No. 415 Bieecker street