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4 BUNKER TILL. Rev. L. N. Tarbox’s Concluding Letter on General Putnam. A Strong Support from General Artemas Ward. HISTORICAL PROOF. The General from Connecticut Carries Off the Honors. The Pulpit of Boston on the | “ Centennial. —— nd Religious Aspect of the Revolution. | | War of 1812, an To Tas Eprrok oF TH" HeRALD | As Latated in my previous communication there ere many points to add tn favor of General Put- nam as the leader at Bunker Hill, and we will mention pow @ /act showing how Putnam was re. rded in those days immediately following the battle of Bunker Hill, im the reorganization of the army, after Washington's arrival at Cam- bridge, It became necessary that some of the gen- eral officers shoula be put upon a lower grade than that which they bad occupied before bis coming. There were not places in the reconstructed army for all the a of this higher rank, Generals Weoster and Spencer, of Connecticut, were @meng tho number that were called to step down a degree, This was natarally an unpleasant duty, and it required a large measure of character to Go it gracefuly. Tne officers in General Spencer’s brigade were very much (dissatisfied with what had befallen thetr leader, It was not | charged by amy one, so far as we Know, that Spencer and Wooster were not both officers of real merit, Their degradation ta rank came about only as an incident of the reconstruction of the army. In this jancture Spencer's under oMcers prepared @ paper to be sent to the Connecticut Assembly, asking that body to use its influence to have Spencer restored to tus former rank, and, pending this action, Spencer went home to wait the result, Washingtou, in his letter of July 19, written from Cambridge to the Continentai Con- gress, says of this afair:—General Spencer was So much disgusted at the preference given to General Patpam that he leit the army without | visiting me or making KDOWD wis imtentions in eny respect.” THE CONNECTICUT ASSEMBLY upon this sent & memorial to tae Congress at Philadelphia asking, if it migbt be consistenuy Gone, that Spencer shoula be restored. Im this | communication there 18a sentence which | the estimate in which Putnam was then Reid, nos | only at Cambridge, but in Conmecticut. Tue pur- port of she sentence is that, waile they regret — deeply this change in the standing of Generals Spencer and Wooster, “they cannet but be sensi- | bie of the singular merits of General Puteam,’’ as though they had said, if the blow must fall on any | of the Connecticut generals, it 16 right that 1s | snould fall anywhere tather than upog General | Putnam. Now, in the midst of these proois, drawa from the official action of those days in Philadel- phia, in Connecticut and also in Massachusetts, | we wish vo introduce @ sentence or two taken | from Dr. Eilis? livtie work, just published (to which we have before referred), to see whether their tome @nd spirit are in harmony with these oficial records of 1775. Dr. Ellis says:— ) Identified with the wary reaearsal survivors represented biuw der and surrounded by heaps of intrencing tools. for acartioad. His furio’ F may or may not have Ureded the control of « cool, deliberating judgment. end Of that prime essential of ‘the soldier which is calied “conduct Hie courage was aaquestiousbie He ts 4 by the writer, according ass of authorities and a review of Mernt estimates and judginents of him by others asmga le bi bis sbare in ihspiriuing 4 patriotic enterprise. And this is the man, and the only man of the four, to whom the wise and careiai Wassington gives his commission of Major General, places him | pear his person at Cambridge and lives on terms of close (ptimacy With &i@ irom Month to Monthastue | t siege progresses. This is the mam whom Wasbu ton invi ed once a week to dine at his own tavie | in Cambridge, and who once a K received the Commander-in-Obief at his table in return. This is the man respecting whom the Connecticut | Assembiy cangot Dut be sensiole of ‘his singular | merit.” | Asto General Potaam’s passion for forifying Bunker Bill, as @ railying point im the retreat Bill, if that must come, tt indicates, it seems to us, his superior wisdom ratner toan bis jolly. Dr. KUis seemed vo forget, in penning that paragrapt, what he oimself bad said in an earlier part of bis work. On yo 25, waere be | describes the long consultation on the night of Jane 16, be says It was concluded even then not im accerdance with the judgmeutof ali the advisers to construct the works apon Breed's ill. It seems that tbe compromise, while allowing the occopamcy and defence of the loner summit to nave the priority, carried wita it ® parpose to for- tity Banker Hil) as soon as possi-le afterward.’ And agaio on page 4:—Probably if both sum- | mite could have been eimultancously intreancaed and defended by t-oops well supplied witn am- monotivm and artillery the Provinciais migat have mainte their ground.” “CONSUMING ZEAL. FOB FORTIFYING."” That is exaecty wha! Putnam thoagnt, and that was whet gave Dim (his ‘consaming zeal for for- sofyiny And looking back oo the whole scene, | lapse of one bundred years, it seems bie that if Putnem could bave had time to construct that other redoabt or live of intrenc ments on Bunker Hill, where a reserved force could Dave been placed at the oatect, «nd which would have served #6 ® railylog point ia the re- reat, it ts quite dowbtfal whether ibe British, ex- nausted as they were that day, would ever have undertaken to carry that second line of defence As itw ey had no heart for tae pursait, Con- sequently we are quite unable to see the ridiculous in Palaam’s desire to complete anotner lime of in- trenchments, sy Dr. Ellis’ own comcession ft was robably @ part of the general plan adepted the nignt before. And in the light of facts already onsidered we wish now to place a few more sen- tences from Dr. Ellis’ o side by Bide, to see ber (hey are in Barmony witt history or With vach ether. eras Putnam, burning with geal repia arly al he redoubt morning. He was mounted of ear the sotion, when vewar’, iesufied to he would appear im ih so many pt i nigh He was Commanver-) SB matter of course, b Gascription, For we quote tuis uigh-wroughs passage Chief then, you will say, 7) no Jore we finish the work. Hie (Prescott) was t hero of that biood-dyed summit, the midaugnt lew i guard, the morning sew line! the oraior of the opening steiie, the cool and deuveri erwer of the Whols siruggie, the well-skilied marks man of the exact distance and the point of aim at which # shot was certa: hose bright ey trusted ehief should grace the monumenta neath, that ot Warren, the “volunteer. Now, tage still another brief sentence. Tre re doubt had Deen carried aud tue Eritisn were in possession :— While such was the fesue at the redoubdt the Jeft wing Peder Putwam, aided by some reiniorcements, which Dad arrived wo cate, Was waxing & Vigorous sand at (ve rail (oaee. NOW HERE IS MATTRR FOR RErLECYION. Hf those whe cistn Frescoit as tue summit, od Pomeruy, Wi bout any command or saving wavmmand, But in the avev, | Rese to Frothingoam's | old, one of ine talt ~NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. commander. hd, in & uill.tary point of view, we do not see now they be made 60. Lest any should suppose that are ed in work of lal pleading aod moving against the general current of history, tt should be distinctly stat and undersiood that we are sine tying to ore history to ibe early (natural shape, We the course of tOis article (nat the pictures, the incidents, the little ordinary narratives of tue last century and the early years of the present, as an aimost invariable rule, poimt to itnam as the The first are aware, who ever attempied account of the bat- mative of New- active life re ton. He was born tn 1782, before the close of the Revolutionary War, and was Jaoiliar io his youth with the early traditions, In 181s he puoliabed his “Historie: Sketch of the Buaker Hill Battle.” It was first pabdlishea as aa appendix to General David Hum- phrey’s “Lafe of General Putnam.” In the prepa- tation of that work Colonel Swett gad the | advantage of gainiug bis information frem living men—eye-withesses Of the Daitie or actors in it. Moreover, he was @ military man, an officer in tre understood the laws of military life. He makes General Pasnam commander, and does so, apparently, without any thought playing the rove of a partisan. He was follow- ing what he supposed to be the simpie jacts of his- Commander-in-Chief at Bunker Htil, man, 60 far as we but during mach of and ‘Topographical | ve seen abundantly in | ba So matters went on until, in 1849, Mr. Ricnard rothingham, of Charlestown, pnbliaiea his | ‘Siege Ol boston.” ‘bat was a mack fuer and | larger work ‘han the one prepared by Colonel Swett, and in respec: to the localities and the general {ucts of the vattle is by lar the best work | that has ever been pudlished on the subject. If a WAL Wishes FO lavestizate Luts iistory. he Batu | raily turné to this book as bis chief source Of in- formation. Lt teok the place at once of a classic, — and it ts plain to be seeu thas when such men as | Irving, in bis ‘Life of Washington,” and Bancroit, in ois “History of tae United States,” under- take to TELL THE STORY OF THR BATTLE, are auided caledy vy #rowwingham. Indeed, @ bm & Iryfmg, in a note, contesses bis speciai indebted- ego of Boston.” But Frotuinghain, Without doing vioveace tu truth io the general narrative, Bad @ pet theory to main- tain—via, thal Prescots was (ge commander-in. chief—aud so Bancrott and Irving follow in the Same line, Colonel Swett was sitve when the “piege Bossou” appeared, in 1349; and in 1850 he issued a vigorous pampulet om the question, | “Woe was the Commander at Buuker Hil 1 | and he expresses mimsell very euergetically on the violence which has been done to history, a8 be .believed, in Mr. Frovmngham’s volume. He uiters himself 1n no measured terms of indigmauon. He says ‘Aecording to Bim | (Frothingbam), the great batue of Bunker Hull | was fougot, om our aide, by a headless mob.’ And | agaib:—‘‘ie bas treated General Putogw’s char- acter with the utmost candor and kindness, as animals destined for the altar are pampered, to be sacrificed at the last.” And still againa:—"To prove that Putnam was not the commander the @utnor alleges that in some cases be was uot obeyed a5 suck. Now, we say, with the ut- Baost coufidence, that—any few cxses of cow: out of the quesuon—no military d ver was obeyed with more timpliv subjection than Fuigam was, throughout the | Dattle by every one, oflicersor men, irom their enthusiastic love and admiration of im, and boundless confluence in nim as @ great, experi- | enced and fortunate hero and patriot.’ And as he | Graws toWard Wis conciusion he says:—‘General Putmam was the actual, and on Warren declining, whe authorized commander of tue battle of Bunker Hil, He Was tae bright particular star to Wiiom, during the storm aud tempes| Of the Lattle, every ey@ was turned for guidance and for victory.” Let it be clearly undersiood, then, taas THE PROMINENOE GIVEN TO PRESCOTT | superior officer would natarally make touching a | | Potnam leit the care of tue eartuworks to Prescott | im this matier Goes mot belong, to any great ex- tent, to the early acc unts aad tradiiious, out is episode of our iater bistory. And if any one will now sit down and read carefully, in Baa- | croft or Irving, iu Frotningiam or kilis, the story | oi tue batlle as toid by tuem, with Prescott in | front as the great leader—if ne is mina.e and Vaoughtfal tu ais res he wili soon find wis mind inquiring, ‘*Wuo, , 1s this viderly gentic~ Tuan, ridimg back and jorth over the whole fie.d, | u aly man On BOrseback ; Bow Ordering the in- ming tools away from the redouot up to Hii; wow turniug aside some 200 New Hampsiire troops as they come in to tue work of entrenching; now threatening an artillery om- er With immeéuiaie death if he does pot revura to He will fod pimsel/ utierly coufused central iam and idea of the battle, be compelled to as Celonel Swett says, that the on this theory is ‘fought by heauless = mob"? a He will be preciseiy in the condition of a person Who nas thy ces of a Chinese puzzle m with directions fo mak pi square, and, after working and becoming satisGed that the tuimg canaot | that the moss important | ie pl lon, be done, Saas, piece of the whole bas been abstracted. Tuke | General Putwam out of that bat 2 isa | “headiess moo”? But giv commander and the parts ail come togetuer. sense of something like this seems to have bur- dened Irving's mind ail the while be was ok the aistory Of this battle, under the general lea of Mr. Frotoingnam. This account makes the closing chapter of tue Orst volume of his “Lite of w a,” aud Wuen the task is fished, ere he lays down his pen, he word of commendati Oust into tue following MAGNIFICENT EULOGY OF PUTNAM. bim his real place as | A} | | Pntnam also was @ leading spirit taroughou: the a fair; ene os cy the first to prowpt and of the last to main- antl ca oid man, riding. the faction, on this sultry day, “with » hanger belied sctoss his brawuy shoulders, over a Waistcoat without sleeves,” has been suecred at by a coutemporar “much f ter to lead a Land of sickle mea or ditchers than musketeers” But this very description tlustrates acter and ident bin Hh he umes aud the ‘4 Yeoman warrior. fresh from the p: “ brave and genare but reagh and realy, who thought aot of himerif in ume io any way ana to isi rank and seli-glorifeasion to the good of the cause. Lie was eminensly @ soldier for the vvea- jon, His name his long Leen a favorite’one with young and Bic Nawes of the Kevoludon. the ad of a trumpets fur history ¢ nation aud kept 42 of the cynic aud At the outposs to cover thoir re- about in the heat of uh, in ed Up among (he treasures of » ulate Irom Wwe tarnishing brea the doubter. All which reads to us very much as thouzn Irving had seid within himself, “i have thus tar followed the ‘Siege of boson’ ravner teacuaviy and obediently; Dut now, before closing, I should orvunity (o express Mysei{ and say @ om wy OWO respovsibility.’? GENERAL ARTEMAS WA « The only oteer point woich we will notice tn Wko was com whicu General jams in the O in AG ber ioulowing (Octover 20, 1776). saye:— Some have said hard things of the officers belonging to this colo 4 despised them; buts th.ok, as mean as ey lave represeued them , ene action witu (he enemy whien Gucied by an officer of this colony, except that at Ubelsea, which was conducted by General Putnam. Now this lesier, in the first piace, piainly reveais a commoR pubic tak Of that cers of Massachusetts bad t of enerzy and spiri much to their disadvat With certain oMcers ‘rom the other colonie: 6 as been Ho § Bot been cor a tage, | grand prope: ons Oo: body sod sou; tuat when his efficient | suis vetier a8 | But sols letter has been greatly relied upon to | rove tha: Colonel Prescot: commanded at Bunker i. We claim teat suco an interpretation can- not stand in the light Of Bistorical facts suca us we Dave brought forward and others of the me general charactor (hat we might bring. And tue ery rises io our minds, Did pot General Ward , “Lwad the geaerai ttle of Bunker Mili.” at Camoridge, inst Ge Would over Rave tbougnt of setting aim as ascolefcomMander. itis well known that Gen- erai Patoem nad to ride buck and forth that day eck to keep himself 18 communication Ward. y order went to Colonels Stark and Read, at Mediora, » & N ho objection oat Gene be called chief com- mender if anybody so desires, All readers unuel ie general relat to tn ttle, asiae 18 point, and | 1) bum the commander it alters ootuing as to vke purpose of tuis ar e. Tay question is only moved forward a step, and the point to dispauie Wii be, Woo Was the next in rank aod command under aim? only have tue Battie of Banker Bit) sot ue parts and proportions, accoraimg tue contemporancous Bis it we cw right ju it tu comme e , we are jons aby one Can ask tmiscelianco ter of ti jon, wad of the J rand service of many individual men int rst of aii we inst that the true commana shail be restered to bis place aud to tae diguities (oat properly belong to tim. THERE ARE MANY MEN TO BE HONORED it 1 @ puenfal consiceration teat we of that day, and Bat where @ out all (he heroe: Mee in an iiastrious roll. acted themseive jo conspicuousl. very easily be mentioned and And Orst of all we introduce General Josepa Wa ren, Whose Namo must remaia forever giorio associated With this action. lie had m * general by the Massacuuse Congre: but had pot yet been for- Perhaps this Mst circum. in bis OWO mind against o But the soldiers and cared bowing jor they regarded Major ouly three days befort maiy commissioned. stance wrougat commend. taking she tue peo toe formai nim as 8 y-created and bad he taken tne © and when Puinam met bim there woula have beem # (nick and ready acquiescence in bis | adersbip, for he was a man greatiy be.oved. But what moved bim more to waive (he command was probably that lie had not app) oved o| the euterprise and Wad voted against it. And that which especially marks the high no- bitty of Bis nature is teat, wien he beard tne booting cannon that ferenoen, though ne was sick and fitter for nie bed than for @ battic, he could Hot bear te tmink (hat his felow men # be peruih | thousands, it was irom Ward tual the | | war, beir ives for liberty aad ne be counted | mittee of salety bad beem ayvoiated by the Gen- | Cause vf bus patriuts, declared it from ‘heir vul- out, And 80 he went to Bunker Hill and diea ere, @0d hurdiy avy death through tue whole ar so touched the American heart, Setn Pomeroy, mmptoo, &® brigadier general, was another of these volunteers. Tank wes the seme as toat of Putnam, and, being Massacuuselis wan, Puinam might nasuraily bim under the circumstances, his rigat to command, and fought like 4 common soldier with 4 musket, aud was io the very chick of tue fight. He did not withuraw from the command because he dis- approved the enterprise, for he was heartily ta favor oi it. But be bad, without doubt, such con- fluence in Putnam, as & More experienced officer, that he preferred. to ieave tue leadersoip with him, Colonel Richard Gridley, the engineer who shaped the redoubt so skiliuiy, is not a man to be overiooked ih tals connection, He was at the lime sixty-five years old, and after being up all bight to superintend the buriain, orks, might very natarally nave been excused, | at his from farther service, ‘But he wisued | to rem: and 7 delend the woiks which ne | had bails, And he did remain asa volunteer, and | Was severely wounded ia the finui assault, but Was in the tiickest of the fight all the afternoon, PRESOOTT AT THE REDOUMT, | Colonel Prescott, who commanded at the — redoust, was # ma of truiy commanding | person, of berote very and great mill lary ability, He was most wisely selected tor | that strange and adventurous eaterprise of bulid- ing ® redouot on the night of June 16 within sentry call of the British ships. Prescott was the | mau, doubtless, of Whom Patna used to talk to | himsell in the @ays before ine battle, Colonel | Daniel Putnam, already referred to, who was tnen at Camoridge, says in his narrative (Ct. Cel, Vol 1, page 237), that lia tavuer, waea greatly excited about anything, had a habit of talking to himseii; and inthe days before che battie such semtences as these kept dropping | out:—"We must go in the might;’? “Weill carry our toola and Buve @ treucad vefore morning.” “He's a good jellow.” “He wants to go.” ‘Says be will go if toey’ll let bim.” We think it is Ban- croft, iM bis “history,” Wao Makes 4 point of say: ing that Prescott was appointed to the command by Putuam’s coucurrence, By Puinam’s eoucur- Y Weare prepared, from our study of toe to take much stronger ground than that. There is-po ressupabie deuut that Lrescott was the man specially picked out and designated by Pur Bam Limsell for tuis Nazardvus service. Prescot, io all provability, ts the very person referred to in these mutterings of Putnam apove quoted, He bad stuuied the man aod kaew aim wei, and was Vhe One first to name him ana set him forward upon this bold adventure, Anu the result justified tue choice which he had made, Ana we may xo stili further and allow that this Was iv Some uieasure 4 partoersuip arrangement between Puinam and Prescott, tn they under- stood eacm other and had confidence in each other, We bave already noticed the remark of Putnam to Warren about the redoubt, “Prescott is there and Wii do wis duty,” waien, im the very structure and tone of the sentence, is such as & of the eactn- | suboréinate in whom ue had entire confluence. | knowing Well that be would do all that could be dene to defend taem. Colonel Stark, of New Hampshire, also played Importagt partin tois battie, Tue New Hamp- soire students and antiquarians have of late veen giving Special alteation to (his suuject im its Tela- lon to their own State, and tuey put forth claims which at frst view are a little surprising. We Wiil ROU proponnce upon them, not having given taem any careTul novlee. It is contended that of the meu On Bunker fill who really stood being their muskets and fought tue dattie ous to the bit- ter end a majority ol the whole were from New Hampswire, ‘The name of Stark was an neroio and lascinating one in New Hampsiire, as that of Putnam was in Connecticut, and when Stark, hiaseli of the old Scotch-Irish stock, went down | to Boston, soon after the fight at Lexington, he | bad a @ jollowing oy men aii aiong | the Merrimac Valley and back amomg tue | hills, Out of tne volunteers who gathered about him at Mediora, Wuere he wad bis headquarters, two regimeuts were jormed, one Commanued by himself aad one by Colonel Keed. A large num- ber @, these men were of the Scoteh-lrish race, | descendants of the men who eighty years before | lived through tne terrible siege of Londonderry. But the moejority, undoubtedly, were Americans direct from the English stock. It is claimed (we QO Not VOUCK IOr it) teat Stark ied @ regiment of 700 mcn inte the batue, Toe standara regiment Oi wwoat day in the American army was 590 wen— | muca otener below t nuuiber than above. But it id said twat Stark’s regiment embraced | turteen companies aud muster.d 100 strong. | Reed had between 400 and 600 to li ent. Part of Prescowt's regimeut av the re enusted from New Hampsaire, Prescott’s t Pepperili joiued New Hampshire, and th men of Hollis’ and other New Hawpsuire towus went smo his regimeat. This ts claimed, we And if toe claim be well established, more | than hail the fighting meo (Rat day om our side | were from New dempsnire, for Bardly any one puts our fighting mem on that bill above two thousand. Not that very many others in tue American army would wot have been giad to be there, if General Wara could bi conquered hs timidity aud lee go bts hole upo: t was, | New Hampshire certaiuly Lad # large agency in — actuaily Agbting the bactie, aud it was esp y \be New Hiamp=bire men Wao did such terrible ex- | ecution upon owe’s tall gremadiers. And Stark’s Major, McClary, Was a3 brave and uereic as Stark | himself, Alier the fight was over he was torn in pieces by @ canon ball walle yg | supplies for the Wounded, Me was aman oi such | Say. death Was reported sume one said that nothing less (ham a canuon dali was wortuy of being ¢ Instrument of deatu to one Witu bis. largeness ireme aud spirit. CONCLUSION. But we cannot desiga.ve further, except to give the fuliowing grapiic Tiption Of old General Puioam, drawn by « grandson, Jadge Vans, lor- inerly United Staves Seaator from Maiwe:— ‘son for Organs and senses Were ali exuctly Muted tor a warrior; he heard quicaiy, saw te an immense distance, and Voice was remarkably heavy, strong and commanding. | Though facenoes aud dispassionate in privase, wheo d hast of baccie ar condience and his enemies w terror. ihe incultes of his to those of Lis body; his pene cision rapid, yet remarkably siruacioa the more Wich the courage of @ lien he bad and the wore des- art ac meited at the sight of distress; he couid Rever wines suffering in | any human being Without becoming a suiierer bimeeit. i.Ven the operation of a blood letting has caused him to in viewing @ Heid of battle his distress was ex- isite, anil 8 Bad aiforded friend aud foe ail in bis powe rial music t m, sacred music him into tears. be was open aud gen. @rous almost toa fault; he mever disguised, anu in the social relations be was Rever excelled INCREASE N. TARBOX. and 0 as CENTENNIAL SERMONS—THE PULPIT OF BOSTON ON THE BATTLE OF BUNKER BILL— WILLIAM | F. STOWE ON THE RELIGIOUS ELEMENT OF THE REVOLUTION—UNITY AND DIVERSITY OF BELIGIOUS AND CIVIL FREEDOM. OMAKLESTOWN, Mass., June 1%, 1875. The premonitory symptoms of the Bunker Hill Centennial Celevration are veginniag to mantiest themselves and everytuing indicates that it will be one of the grandest affairs of the perioa. ready strangers are beginning to arrive in larg , for defence and the other events which preceded widte, Prescott giv | guns fash and al | turee-fourtas ana many mime-tenths of their uc! | saair. | @ long d and uvcaunied, | ; | Dow the enemy scale the p sent | Al | eral Court ‘‘to take care of and lodge in some safe | place in the country warlike stores.” Im February | Of the year 1775 provision was made to organize the militia, The answer of the King to the de- mands ol the colony had been received, and war | Seemed tmevitable. The Committee of Safety au- thorized the parchase of mititary supplies. Con- cord became an arseual. General wage, com- | manding the Britisn forces tn Boston, aetermined | to destroy these military stores. Tue story of _ Lexington and Concord, so recently told by orator | and poet, is fresn in your memory to-day. The | King’s troops fred upon the militia, but the noble farmers of Middlesex were equal to the hour, Alter referring to the organization of the mulitia the battle, the speaker continued :—See the noble yeomanry as, a little before sunset on the 16th of June, they assemble, 1,200in namber, upon Cam- bridge Common to receive their instractions from General Ward. Prayer ts offered by the reverend President Langdon, Of Harvard College, after Which they all set out, about nine o'clock, on their march, Colonel William Prescott, of Pep. perell, conducts the secret expedition. A man, we are sold, over six (eet in height, with blue ey: aud brown hair, large and muscular, and with a very ltelligent face. Prescow’s written orders were to fortify Bunker's Mul and defend tue works untii relieved, THE NIGHT BEFORE THE BATTLE. Silently the column moves on, Cnariestown Neck, within reaca of the enemy’s guns, safely passed and Bunker’s Hill reached. But Breed’s Hil, where the monument now stands, is nearer Boston, and after much deliberation it was re- solved to move forward and fortify this, It was midnight before the frst shovelful of earth wi thrown oat on the fortidcaiuions, Theenemy were close at hand, The other shore of the Charles was lined witn their sentinels, while its fair bosom bore up their meu-of-war. Tarough the cl still night the men worked in the trenches, and dawn of day found the fortifications nearly fin- ished. But returning light brings danger also, fhe commander of the mearest ship, the Lively, brougut his guns to bear, an opened fire upon tne bill so _ suddenly covered witn armed men. The other ships svon jollowed Mis eXampie. Karly in tue day Asa Pol- lard, aprivate, was shot, A subaitera reported bis death to Prescott and asked bim what was to be done. “Bury mim,” be said. *Waat,” said the oMcer, “without prayers’? The cbaplaia was avout to read the barial service but Prescowy ordered the men to go back to thew work ana the dead be buried immediately, It was no time to dweil upon death. It was the boar for action. To inspire fresh courage in Lis men the noble com- munder, whose auxiely had beem 60 great duriag the night as twice to lead to the river's side to watch the enemy, now I upon the parade and Walks abou:, Careiully examining tae works and speaking Words of cheer to tae men. “Woo i that oiflcer who appears to be in com- mand” asks General Gage, as he scans, with sur- prise, through a glass, [rom Copp’s Hill, the tail, erect lorm of Prescott, Willard recognized bis brother-in-law. “Will he ight?’ asked Gage, quickly. “Yes, sir,’ ue 13 an Old soldier and will fight as long 48 a drop of blood remains 10 bis veins,”’ “Tae works must be carried,” exclaimed Gage. At noon the flower of the British troops cross in twenty-eight barges and land a Moulcon’s Voint, pear tue present Navy Yard. Aiter comparing the character of the troops the reverend geutlemen recounted the well kuowa story of Warrea’s coming on the Meld, aud con- unued:— THE BATTLE BEGINS, The King’s troops moved forward in two divisious—General Howe wiih the right wing clong the Mystic River, to turn the left flank of | the American force and 40 cut of retreat trom tae redoubt; General Pigot with the leit wing, to make the direct attack upon the fort. They begin a discuarge of musketry @t great distance from | the fortifications. Doubtl eusy Victory. Prescott quietly issues nis orders :— “Wait until the Britisi are Witpin ten or tw rods, and then wait until the word is give: “Powder ts scarce and must not be waster “Fire low,” “Aim at the waistbands;” “Wait un- ul you see the waites of their eyes,” “Pick off the commanders.’? Nearer and nearer came the redooats. Louder and more terrific grew tue discharges from their gnos. But little barmis done because tuey aim too nigh, And now the space betweea the fort and toe enemy is narrowed to the appointed the order to fire, Tbe it brings down its man, General Pigot 18 obliged to order @ retreat, But General Howe 1s faring no better at the One of tis soldiers writes:—“Oar light ini ry were served Up agalast the grass ienoce without being able to penetrate; indeed, how could we penetrace? Mos. oi our grenadiers aod infantry, | the moment of presenting themselves, lost the result can describe was the Who joy | that fled 6) arts of the brave militiamen \hey saw England's bes: aud bravest suidiers re- treating before their aim. A brief pause—and now the enemy are coming forward for @ second as- ‘They move With greater caution than be- fore but advance in tue oid jorm, ~The Ai are more confident than at the first ate: when the enemy are within the appointed range, fire upon tuem with great coolness and precision, A continoed stream oi fire all along the line mowed | aown the British. The rout of the King’s forces | becomes complete, They retreat the second time in great disorder, The third gssault came alter | pause. The enemy is reiniorced by | the arrival of iresh men fcom Boston. Prescott | undaunted ever, passed through bis irmes. | or meu.’ | Ing to Jolin, e: The men cheered nim, saying, “We are ready for the red coats & Bat even bervic Valor | could not supply the lack of ammauolition. Neitner reisforcements, nor ammunition, ner food, ail of | which was promised, had arrived. There isa | | shameful negiect somewhere, Prescott feeis | that the crisis nas come. Only a few artiliery cartridges constitute tme whole stock of powder | on nand. He charges his seidiers ‘‘not to wasie | @ kernel of it, bulto make it certain that every | hot suould te! The few bayonets at comman © puts at the points most likely to be scaied, | | and wite mness awaits the assault whic | must determin battle. The enemy | |iorm in solid halanx to attack te | redoabt, A deadly volley is poured upon them. | | nt, but ietura to the od @ vaird volley, and tne | pet, the frst one exclaiming, “The aay is ours’? But he was suot down as soom as the words ure uttered. Hand to hand, musket to musket, snouider to shoulder, tne brave mem contend against the Brit- ih, until Prese tt reiuctantiy gives tue order to | retreat. Iu cutting their way throngm the ranasof | enemy in the rear of tbe fort en OTe. | ig covered tne retreat of Prescott, the at wwe fen un Sta i Knowlon, aiso C) ground inca by inen, . Here Putnam strives to rally tae forces airesh delenee, Dur [tis in vain. The power endurame exhausted, and this ls equally trae of tne British, who follow the retreating Americana as far anker’s Hill aud there m: RESULTS OF THE BATTLE was the battle of Banker's Hill—a contest re ching in 18 resuits upon our Revol truggle as Maretaon and fb e destiny 01 Greece. Among the Ol the battio may be counted the dec! Sued as fi onary | apo namoers, and there is ® Constant siream oF vis. itors to and irom the monument grounds and oteer poiais of Revolutionary ine To-day the weather was particularly aaspicious for prom. | enaders, ana the occasion has been improved by In most of the Coariestown churches propriate reference was made te the coming the subject of special discourses, iuli reports of waich are appended. REY. W. W. BOYD. Rev, W. W. Boyd, the pastor of the irst Coarles- town Baptist society, preached a special sermon in the morning on the event to be commemorated on Thursday. “The Battle of Bunker Mui" was the subject Which Was amnowaced and discussed, and the chosen text was irom Veuteronomy, viti., 2~ “fbou shalt rememoer all the way which the Lora thy God led thee.” He said:— As Moses desired the children of Israel on the verge of the promised land to remember the won- derful way in which God had guided them througn the wilderness, 60 as we stand in the promised land “that flews with freedom’s honey and milk’ I would have you remember tue way in wiica God guided through the wilderness of battle our fatners, by Whose devotion aud self-sacrifice the jana Was wou. They little thoncht how pare a light With years should gather rowad thar ay; How love shoulda keop the memory vrigue How wide & reali their sons should sway, Tshouid do violence to the best ings of our nature and to all the proprieties of the bout were I not to lay this day some pute, sim thougo it may be, npwsi our altar to tue memory of we g00d, the brave, tne patriotic, THE PREPARATORY FVEN\TS. Time would faii me to enumerate the events | Which prepared the way for armed conflict; the Stamp act and its repeat; the iaading of Brite troops in Boston; the repeated insuita by the soldiery, and at length the c On the GiB OF Marco; the Port bill, by which ali the seaports of New Bnglaad were closed. Mussachasetta was not wholly unprepared for the shock of Ju the Uclober Of the preceding year a com- e ot, and io some of them the occasion was made | classes; t | profoundest self-sacrifice ior tae good of ecountr; the unification o/ ail the colomies in persistent re sistance to every form of despotism; the division of nd in regard to the proseca- policy, aod the advantage ympathized with the eolu- nia eir numbers and influence, If | tae Baltic was a defeat It brought to tb rican | causo all the frat of vwiory, Tae many | Vhoug ats suggested by THIS INSPIRING TORE | time will not allow me to dwell upon, and! mast leave t em for some iuture Occasion, but one pigne | must press home upon your hearts, | Toy Centennial observance of the battie of Ban- ker Hill Ought to faner im an era of good feeling throughout oor couotry. The blows aimed by | | Britiva oppression at whe colony of Massachusetts | were felt in every part of the jand. Let w | on tae highest points of our national Bi | pledge ourselves so every honoravie endeavor to | ; prevent in the future ail sectional strife | and domestic alienation, and to secure sucha nearty understanaing between the people of the | aifferent sections of the jand, that there may bo | indeed “liberty and union, now and iorever, one | | ana inseparavie.” As citizens of Boston we open | wide our hearts and homes to the thousands of | pligrims who will come this week to par their | tribute at the shrine of Bunker Hill, Welcome to | s¢ who gather from our New England towns, | each bearing some choice remembrance treasured | up irom sainted lips! REV. WILLIAM T. STOWE, of the Charlestown Uni'arian church, preached a | | discourse to-day on the reiigious eiementin the | | Revolution. He selecied his text irom Psalms, Xit¥., i “We have heard with oar ears, 0 Goa, our fathers have told us, What werk thou diast in their days—tn the times of old. How tnou didst the beathen with thy band, and | plantedst them; how (hou didst amiict the people od t them out. For they 4g ou | the din essession by their own sword, neither did their own arm fave | therm, but thy right hand d thine arm, and ‘the light of thy countenamce, because thou hadst a favor onto them.” From these words Joun Murray, the founder of our denemina- | tion, preached ais first sermon as chaplatn in the Continental Army 100 years ago, soon alter ¥ bactie of Bunker Hil. With eqaal appropriat we may take them for our text to-day. The r em! geutieman then referred to the changes whieh bave taken piace since that sermon was preached and to the events of tne Revorutiog, aud con- tinued:—Aud flere | touch the subject which I | have in mind—tue religious element in the Revolu- | tion which gave independence to these States. ‘The preachers, with few exceptions, capoused the id | ton than be is in the market price of “L | they will ped encoar their people to resistance and mong tue colonial troops, not simply to pray, Dut not 8 Qzht., Ministers. tou old. to leave thelr ho but mes Adams. The ministers of New Kogland aud the whole cou recating war and urgin, measures, were found, of liberty. ser- peri by such men as Clarke, Langdon, Gordo) eat, Payson, show this— sermons that were Nke shotted guns aimed at m of oppression, Some of these serious 7 I a y ard their sl ony a8 iI » Dat they wi by men who had thought and prayed to some pur- pose, and who, tn the hour of trial, could foger @& musket as well as they could handi No one can read the story of th New £ugiand colonies without ie for this attitude of the clergy, They were the descendants and the followers of the mea wi came here ip ine Mayflower. ‘They were independent: they believed in self-govern- ment; they were intolerant against in- tolerance. With all their narrowness, their harshness toward opponents in Charch and State, their flerceness toward those wuom they deemed heretics, tuey had this principle of religious lib- erty in their blood and brain—the principle which their spiritual fathers suffered and died Jor ou the soll of Old Kngiand. They believed at least in their right to worship God and to pay taxes ac- rding to their consciences, The secular spirit tered largely into their ttt it is not too much to say that religious motives were predoiml- nant, They believed in re:igion and sacred (hings— in Churen, Sunday and Holy Book, and im the Die vine realities back of these, So when the storm came and the people bent themselves to meet It the serious laces of the Puritan preachers were seen in the front and their voices were heard above the sound of fife and drum. It would not be true to ascrive to them an exclusively re- ligtous purpose, ‘Their contest was not wazed on merely sacred grounds; 1t was for a political as well as a religious idea that they prayed and fought—only the two, pure religion and pure poll- tics, Church and State, geod citizenship and good Christianity—were bleuded tn their theories and Woven into the texture of their thought, * * * What, more definitely, was the religious element in the events we are commemorating? I know hot bow to describe Lt, ex Rt by the familiar and much-abused word “faith.” The men of '7, preach- ers and hearers alike, were pre-emiuently mei of th. First—Tney believed in God. They had mach of the cunflveuce of the old Israelites; they liked to read and ke ir texts from the Old Testa- they delighted im the story of the chosen and believed that they were a closea jp) 5 had faithin man. We may be disposed to question the truth of their theo- logicai doctrine of human depravity, but we shall err greatly if we do not look religious trutm concerning man which they c tainly held—the eterpal truth which found i's fullest expression in Christianity, viz :—That all men are brothers of one family, equal in the sight of God aad fitted Jor freedom, seli-government and progress. Third aod finally, they belleved in themselves, They belonged to a tough and stardy stock; they were weil poised, strong, reliant; they took things their worth; a title, though that of king, could nol deceive them, nor the brightest epauletto dazzle them; they had been trained in a rough Bcuool, had cleared for built their own houses, pianted their own fields, trusted in all sorts of emergencies, to their own resources, fought wolves and Indians before they were forced to fight men of their own name and bioed. Such were our fatners, and such always are the men Who win the woria’s battles. For all of us it seems to me THE LESSON OF THE DAY 1g simply this—to cultival die a text. the homely virtues of the men who founded t! Repubuc; hone %, in | thought, word and d thrift in public and ia priva' coming reve rence for the tratha ristian reiigion. We are beset on every hi greater than those which threaten 8, and we can avert them only by the spirit which changed the colonies into iree and independent States, BEY. A B. KENDIG. Rev. A. B. Kendig, of the Monumental square churea, clea bia text fom the Gospel accord- nth pe and thirty-sixta verse, and announced as Dis theme, *Vivil and Religious Freedom—vaeir cat and Diversity.” He Orst considered ths unity in respect to thelr common origin, thelr desirabieness, costliness and danger. He then considered thelr diversity, in that ail who would cannot enjoy civil freedom, and thatit confers no Dew or exalted social relationship. REY. A. 8. TWOMBLY, of the Winthrop (Congrevational) church, preached a sermon from |, Samuel, v., 19-20, in whica ae ced litical condition of the children of Israel irom the time of tucir exodus from Egypt uatil they became a gr % contrasted it with the vigor and advance of tue Repuolic. PREPARATIONS OF THE SEVENTH REGIMENT. As the day draws near for tue departure of the Seventh regiment to Boston and participate in the Bunker Hull centennial celebration the prepa- rations assume visible shape and scope. To-day the scene at the Armory will no douvt be @ busy one, for the members are required to put their equipments in perfect order, ani there will be many cails for extra evercoat strapa, belts and ober necessary articles for a movement in heavy marching order, Non-commissioned om- cers must see tnat their several squads are in good shape, and the servants of the diferent com- panics will be busy im attending to the wants of inaividuals. In fact. everybody will have something to do, and the amount of work performed will be surprising to those not accustomed tu the move- ments of large bodies of soldiers, Colonel Clark, in addition to his oficial duties as secretary, is exerting himself to secure t “Health” of the command while away from the city. In this the Colonel is being aldea by Sargeon Morris, who, naturally attached to “Popular Life,” 19 very popular witb the rank and fie; and Dr. Freeman, the Hospital Steward, has made an extensive rai on bis stock Of drugs jor the regimental medi- cine =chest. Lous Fitager: ently neglecting his “Trust? in a 3 to * hi perplexing duties as Adjutant, and Commissary Houghton is “Lumber’-ing to the iroat im his extensive arrangements for jeeding the mea waiie Quartermaster boo Weed is probably hetter posted just now ia the cost and bes) means of transporta- 8, “Fillers” or “Wrappers,” and the “Sstate’’ of Quartermaster Sergeant Burrell is almost 4 | sy | from Poughkeepsie I know not; but they had veea ad. Sergeant Major Covell has ail “Fixtures” ia order, and is as busy as the Adju- tant, while Louis Rader has already packed 4 rhe half of bis ki kK with good ‘‘Havanas. Field and 5I lug 80 busy, it is pleas know that the line is not adie. In fact, ‘Feit Good” ever since Captain Allison has the project was started, especially as Captain Van Norden has “Insured” ® good time, Captain Pollard announces that Company C wili have no “Gea” about it on the trip, while Captains Kipp and Barrett intesd to see that quarters are weil “policed.” Captain Ely bas ail along taken great tock” in the excursion, and Captain Smith, ving “Surveyed” tae matter in all its bearings, meunces that the route | and correct. Se’ fail to be the regiment ana they wili be acco ab dred vecerans, who will appear ia tueir unique aud handsome aniforms. OTHRE VISITORS, ‘The Fifth Maryland regiment will arrive at the foot of Cortlandt streets at half-past three o'clock on its way to Boston, The command wil bo received by ti frieads = of the Seventh regiment aod escorted to tueir armory for collation. After the fes- tivities the Marylanders will be escorted to their boat = the foot of Murray yy and sent m their Ww ejolcipg. Jo Bostop the Filtn will be betas) the Bn Massachusetts, who are also to receive the New York Seventh, A large number of the military of the city of Oharieston, 5. C., the invited guests of the Old Guard, of New York, will arrive here to-morrow, and are to be given a‘banquet by their entertain- ers at Ryan’s Union Hotel, Foarteeath street and Broadway. After the banquet tue parade will be down Broadway to Murray street, and from there to the Fall River steamer, where mbark for Boston to join in the Ventea- Rial Celebration of the battie of Bunker Hill. POINT. THE GRAND MOP, AND HOW THE LADIES WORK FOR THEIR “ENGAGEMENTS” —VASSAR GIRLS IN A ix. Wast Port, Jane 13, 1875. The greatest event of the season at West Point, 1m & cadet point of view, is the graduation of the first clas, when, by the grace of @ special order, they are freed from the cares and sorrows inct- dental to ordinary cadet existence, and are allowed to consider themselves, as they undoubt- edly do, of that small but privileged class of mai kind whose names we ver born to ai Bat the greatest event at West Point in the eyes of the fair sex, Who know what @ cadet is, or at least who think they do, and who come here annually to make him ieel that he is something above the ordinaty ran of human beings, is the ‘cadet hop.” given every year by the second ciass to the graduating cinss the day belore they are relieved. That event takes place to-morrow evening, and in mentioning the fact | am compelied to take back much that [ said in @ previoas letrer about the ladies here never talking ‘dress,’ The fact is that, Sunday and all as it is, 1 e heard nothing else talked about all day, In the chapel this morning I overheard one young laay chatting to another about something “trimmed with real point lace,” and she put a crashing emphasis on the word “reai;” put as the sermom Was not very enlivening | may haye been 00%. 0€ and valy imagived I heard the expression drop from the ups of the youne lady, who, by we way, had the “Book of Common Prayer” open in her band at the time. But it may be onty tue new- comers from New York that have started the dresa talk. Then, as if to belle the churge that silks and satins were little displayed here, tae ladies turned out at the parade on Sgturday evening ia the most gorgeous attires,in which silks and and satins as costly, and train: long, and pan— well, never mind—as large a8 anyI ever saw at Saratoga or any other resort. The caase of this sudden change {ts evident to me, There ts nothing like a jady making a good Impression upon @ cadet with her style and looks 4 day or s@ before the hop, and all the dear creatures know his weak point. He is all eagerness to outdo his feilows, to have it said in the barracks next day that be had THE PRETTIEST GIRL AT THE BALL all to himseli mos, of the evening, or to hear am envious chum, whois of ugly mien himset!, sad who may have had to content himself, tuere!ore, with anything that was handy, without regard to looks, mutter over his plate of hash at breik- fast that beauty is only skin deep anynow. Of course, the sisters and sweethearts of the cadets are expected to go to the hop, and they will be certain to get many to dance with them and promenade with them; but they are all known to the two classes generally long before the hep takes place, because they ceme here early and go away iate in the graduation season, and they are attended toasa matter of honor. But there is outside of these a large class of ladies who atiend the hop, and who are not thus blessed by tles tvat bind or that are pledged to bind in the near fu- ture. First there are the friends of the friends of some cadet, or of his aunt or of his uncle, or of his mother or ofa friend of his mother, Then there are the lady visitors who have become acquainted in a general way, as ladies do at the hotels, with the cadet's relations or himself, and wno naturally expect to get mvited to everything In which cadetdom can exert its varied powers. Ivis thay who are expected in swarms to-morrow, and I fancy tne display made at parade last eveuing was made by this class, all new- comers, purposely to outdo the lawn and white linen devotees, the cadets’ relations, and make Tom, Dick and Harry in the first or second class feel that only the bravest can obtain the fairest aga partner, although they are one and all dying to be asked to be put down on some gray cout’s “engagement” list for the hop evening. Every one of these charmers will get Invitations; Dut as there is A GENERAL INVITATION already posted uo on the piliars of the hotels which invites “all the guests” a special invitt tion isa mere empty honor. Indeed, the ladies Who wish to cut a dash at the bop do not set thete minds upon the rather general right to go in and see whatis going On sO much as to be sure be-~ forehand that they can dance with the cadets not only, but certain particular cadets. And just ine the aitaation. Bare, hundred cadets d, However, the there is nothing like ad [think the best to be sure of a dance hop, and know what planning is done to make success ceriain, was given by two young ladies who were my vis-2-vi9 in the stage to the dock last evening. They were botn elegantly dressed, and one of them had a lisp that was of itself sufficient to guarantee her a dozen partners, for somehow the cadets think that lisping is @ sign Ofawstocracy. “Now,” exclaimed youngest as she jumped into the stage and took her seat, “It's ali done and I am not so sorry that 1 came up from the city to~ day after all. Pm to daace here with (and here she names of iuily fifteea cadets), name was put down on their agement carda, and that (With an empbasis) s it. But just think of it,” she added, after pausing ior breath, “do you Know that that sweet Mr. — told mo that his card was juli! Too bad, wasn’t it, and who do you suppose one of his engagements was? Why, Miss ——. He doesn’t know her very weli, so I gave bin an idea and he scratched her name of and pus mine oa. And l|'ve got a receipt ior the jee beforehand right here (and she showed her companion her wooden fun) ; 1 made him write tt there. She acre read, “I have promised to dance with ——’’ and continued, ‘There, look at ow name.” Toe other was suent for a moment and fnally remarked, “i think we ought to come up in she morning, because we've got our new dresses, and just look at the dressing rooms im the hotel, Dressing rooms! There’s no accommo- dauon at ali, and i don’t want to go into tue par- lor, What on earth are we going to doin a poky room witn no pier glass. it’s ful. Bat we'll come up early. Pa’s engaged one room anyhow.'? ere the two subsided for awhile, and when the Stage reached tne dock last words I heard were, “She is always lucky. He waats to dance wit her, and did it on purpose, and ye. sae thinks she won that box of kids fairly, see them? They were six buttons.” it certain tomy mind toat there are two girls im New York who, raio, or shine, Will be at tae hop vo-Morrow evening, Whether they have six-button givvesor not; but if all ol them, when the bop yakes piace, unfold their plans and loudly teil their littie Secrets about the way taey secured tucir engagements, as these two ald, to the great amusement of a whole stage full, the cadets will You see | was just in time, r j thed w that my | hopin @ iittie more lively manner than usual. Speaking of the girls rem ofa dent which oceurred last ning, and in which Several Vassar girls were the most ipterested par- ties. ‘hey were provably & detachment of thas noble band Wuo brought about that DREADFUL WAR OF WORDS over the flerce sam fight here, when the Vassar iris rau—Well HO—tue point is Stili in Goubs yet, £ eve, and | don’t care abous getting embrotied ia the ign in side you take, you're sure of getting on the wrong one, in tne girls’ opinion or in the cadets’ opinion. Well, tue Incidens Was quite a8 alnusing one, and, juugtu trom what l saw aod heard conceraing all the Vassar sare ae _T as was th little vand [ of, cad a3 mi ie imer- speak incline very much to the belief that the Who say (bey ran during the firing muss Bave been biiuded by the smoke and did not seo There we clearly. of ‘bese Vasear giris. ‘ orten of them hen they had come at parade, and when | met toemm in « lovely bunca window the down 8:13 evemiug train was neariy due, and it was getting quite dark. “When isthe next train jor Poughk C44 which tHe girls stood, each one trying to look over the other's suouiders, and answered mechanically, “Dl tell you ta a minute; = ivs somewBus late in tie night, ladies.” The youngest of the group excia med teartuily, yh won't get to e. i be no hack Teil you what it is, ladies,” station hands, “it ain’t Wilt stop here at ali.’ tried. ‘Let's go over said one. “Then if tae train passes without stoppin exciaimed a protty iniss gy | to the station master, “we'll be leit here to ourselves iu this dark piace,"” and she jooked around shudderingly ai the little room, which filled, ag it then was, wit! passengers Waitiag for tue down train, looked dreary enough, lighted up bat dimly, as it was, by @ smal! lamp bung from (he Wall, “Taere’s a milk train that comes along,” replied the agent, “about fiteen onnates after the 9:45—but you woulda’t tuke tnat,” and he chuckied over the idea of the gitis ging up on such atrain. Thera Was an owinoua silence among the girls for a Moment or two, followed by & consultation car- ried ow in low tones, when one suddenly spoke to the agent. “Will we be allowed ow that tram He laughed. “Allowed! I should say you'd be good company.” “Thea we'll take that, gifis,” Said the beanty, and like a baad oO: Warriors, who jad determised to do and aie, they walked out of the doorway te take @ wistiul look at the down train that came thundering along, with all their determination, doupti wishiag in their heart of hearts that Vassar College had been located somewhere south of Garrison's, at least (or ‘hat nigat. And yet wao will now Qave the bardjliood so say tat giris woo are brave enough to take passage on @ milk train at ton at night, with a ride of hours before them, rather reat, could have taken frigat at a volley Ol musketry, and bi: artridges at 6! t BATYERY DRILte ‘ill that Is to tak lace te morrow (Mon ’ ming will be ol tae grandest of the Kind given at the Point for many years. tis tue intention not only to use the siege battery jast near the hotel, bat the fiieea luch gang and tue mortars near the old dock at the orth part of the Point, If there are not toe Many vessels in the river when the drill taker place an Uluminated floating batrery is to ve placed in the river near the 008 of Uro’ N shat tue effect of airing can be di advantage. As all acaition to tne fir Which will be we firing of paper bombs from mor tare, afer mighsfail, 1b can be readily imagined that the scene will be @ grand one, HAPPY BOYS. It is generally unierstvod now that all the graduates have passed (he ordeal of the examina- tion, if not Unseached, at leas without the loss of & man, and bis intelugeave will, no doubt, ve quite giabiiylog to those parents who have stood im fear and trembling ever since the examination began, lest their hope aud joy snouid r just reaching sight of it, permitted to foot ia the promised land, wh svead oi coats nd bell buttons, should ps and blue abound. ‘yhe general standing of she class will DOs be an~ pounged ualll Weduesuay-