The New York Herald Newspaper, July 2, 1875, Page 8

COLLEGE ANNIVERSARIES Commencement Exercises at Yale. GRADUATES. ADDRESSES BY THE at the Univer- sity of Virgins Porter's Oration ‘Genera! A SONTHBRN ORATOR ON THE RAMPAGE. Incendiary Verba! Pyrotechnics to * Youog Southern Heart.” re the AMELANCHOLY EXHIBITION YALE OOLLEGE. Lass MELTING FasTIyITIES—-COMMPNCEMENT OY THE ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT--THE DE- @BEFS OONYERRED—THE ALUMNI DINNER AND SPRECHES BY DISTINGUIABED GEADU- ares. New Haven, July 1, 1875, Continuously covl aud delightful weatuer gave harming Zest to we concluding Comme: ‘exercises, which to-day brought to a rermination, ‘Ut is this jast day ‘nat imposes the severest strain mot only on the large hos: of audergraduates, but te al) Y@ensions taking this occasion ‘visit their aima mater. Ihe fact i#, the night Bejore Commencement is # sight of general «is- Bipation, iso harsh @ term can be applied to the wcenes aitending tue class supper. The bilarious festivities are HOt Confined bo the localities Where _ @re epread the Various nocturnal repasts, but ex- tend, pariicularly wivh the college students and younger graduates, to marches through the strcets, with singing and cheering and buzzing of Bre rockets, s0 that, of course, for everybody else ‘here is but little sleep. However, as it owes but once & year, it is enaured with @ show: of commendable patience. Not %© mention the class mectiags and supers would be to omit the most important featare of Com- mencement week. Leading the van in point of Sntiquity was the class of °25, and so on down through the various syliables of recorded coi ‘Ume to the Fresiman class. SHE CLASS OF ‘This class—et quorum pars parro sui—eele- Drated iis tweoty-fith amiversary not quite wiih Che gieefui gist autueipared, for only thirteen of the class were present, A pl€asant feature was the presence of the Wives, sons and daughters of the memvers pres- ent. A gvod report was given of the class, ana She good, solid itie work of its members. Out of #ixty-nine who graduated, twenty-one have dicd. Asior the meeting it cannot be reported. When some of the old college reutniscences were re- Vived every eve beamed with pleasure, but as the mames of those now departed came up, lips quiy- ered avd eyes moistened and hearts throb The following are We toasts aod the Lames of tne Fespondenis:— { “The System of College Monitorship"—Rev. A. Booth, a field, Conn. Ww. “The Knickerbocker Dominie”—Rey. Diamceds”—T. D. Conyngham, -Wilkesbarre, Bent le Black 3 a. “The Clase Dead" —E. M. Jerome, , “Go West, Young Map™—Rey. A. M. “Yale's Manuiactories”—C. F. Haddam. Connecti “Our Merchants” —Robert New York “tne Bar? —A. Dewitt Baldwin, New York “The Clergy” —iev. W. 5. Colton, Washing a. “The Pres#—L. A. Hendrica, New Yous | “Yale and lia Professors’—H. 5. Newton, 7 Mathematics, Yale Voileve. ‘Gur Country” —Ex-Member of Congress Etlis I. oe! erts, Utica, » Y. “The Ladies" Rev. G. §, Pinmley, Metuchen, N. ¥. ‘The meeting was presided over by Mr. Piumley swith great tact ana geniality. Brilliant speeches ‘end jests flied up the measure of the evening's enjoyment, aud On separating Was sung a reunion Bove composed vy Mr. Colion for the occasion, ‘the air being “Home, Sweet Home,” aud tue drs: verse a8 [00 wa:— L the world's weary coniicts, its grief and its cure, the dust of its toil, rising thick ou the air, How gladly we turn, leaving turmoil! and striie, ‘To revisit the scenes of our taanhood's young Lie. Howe, home, sweet, sweet home. Revetve us again, Mother Yale, to thy home. THE GRADUATING EXERCISES. ‘The exercises attending the graduation of the @enior class ef the academic departménut dia nos @eviate at ail from those of late years. At nine @’clock a procession was formed on the college ds, made up of the Ainmiui, tue faculty aad andergraduates, 4 baud music lead- Qng. As tbe procestioa arrived in frout i Centre charch the undergraaustes formed in Swo lines jacing each other, ope oneach side of ‘The main entrances, and iven ty (tun passed Bkroagn into the church, the collegians direc ‘Bling 1m and taking seats. A) otber availa @pace Was compact with ladies. The following ‘Was the programme, which was july carried eout:— Music—Overture, “Midsummer Night's Dream’ @elsonn . ‘Prayer. Ealgtatory oration in Latin, by Charies Trumpuil Russ, ‘Oration, “The Higher Educ Mea- ion—Who 1s To Pay tor It?” by Lewis Fuller Heid, Chivago, Iu. jon, “Two of Shakespeare's Villains,” by Bohert Donaldson Townsend. New Haven, diusie, “Fannbanser” (Wagner). “The Homeric Discusion,” by Benry Moves ‘Wa! 't, Uhester, Mas: *. Kesay, “Results as Criteria,” by Timothy Jonas: jadison, Fhuosophical Oration, “Sir Bobert Peel,” by James Hulibonse, New Haven. an Masic—Noctarne, “Midsummer Night's Dream” (Men eissohn). Oration, “Samuel Teytor Coleridge,” by Edward Wells Bouihworth, New inven. ration, © yal Stic,” by Samuel Rossiter Betts, ew York city. ss) Mnsic—"Du tind Du” (Stranes) Tasertation, “The pene Bonwn, Jefferson, X * bellines,” by Ka ‘Orauon, “Aaudrew Jacksoa,” by Cuarles Lothre New Haven, f m heen aac — “Lo: Wagner) Phnlosopbical oration, “The Agricultmral Laborers of bs ards, latwchiiela Bogiand,” by William Hoge Dimertation. * Herbert > wer, Bootiand, Pa. Muste—"Fina! Fifth “Reciuseness Oration, “Rechiceness « Malo, §. ¥. Oration, “Indjvidaality.” with the s@rem, vy Henry Stroug Gulliver. sor —Uverture, “Uberou Weber, joes conferred Prayer by the President Most of the orations snowed consideravle oric!- (ality Of toongh: snd Were exceeding!» well aeuy- ered, Tue valedictory Was unusual y good, DEGREES CONVERNED, D. D.—On Rev. Proiessor Levi L. F Theological Seminary, of the , Hdwin P. Parker, of Hartiord, by Jolin Anson Gar- Fai Ymphony (Aeethoven), +? by Carl f arston Valedictory Ad- @en, of New York, of tne class of 1 Josiab Clark, of Nort ong Yu Mass, Of 1883; Projesser simu Neweomd, of Wbeervatory, Washington, |), ¢ M. A.—-Mr. Mabert H. Aan folio re of the vollege:—Vavil ~ Mrouington, Coun. ; Timotny red vel, of Toledo, @ho; Vliver B. Perry, of Southport, coun.; Henry 7. Wiswail, of Wasvington, i). «.: Nenry ¥. Poole, of Boston; Casries J. Awex 0 4 Mert P. Alden, of New York ir.. Ww New Yors city. Ip addition to the ahove. was vonierred on tne recent Wreoldgicn,, Law, Medical and seient ments. Among those tnuing the degreo o: Was & cored young manu. who was wari. [otal he svepped on ¢ age tO take ais THE ALUMNI ‘ Following the piersing p Winen Ras been ) the pi { the day's pro- vogue many in Foun Wa) ihe Alamo! dinaer iu Graduates’ Ha ly @ thousand graduates and invited gue ‘mast bava sat down to the dinser. main table, which Was raised on 2 dais were Pres At the dent Porter and the rand more distinguisned Of the gradiates and guests. 1t was two P. ) whet toe diners were seated and "oree o'clock e intell@ctual part of the feast, A iS pleasant introductory speech was muae by leat Porter, He spoke w growth of tne for the fare, feLowships — airendy recent receipt Lorenzo James, of the ciass of * on for fins eaued ® speech, In response, James saX@t that when he addressed them yeater- Gay it \vas a the wmasitude reaniting from a jon feit revived to-day; that pew lease of | from here FE (Appiaw t Aisin ay yO Mie WOE Asal aim, IMMA, J ment | to | + mou, [ mignt succeed in winn NEW YORK HERALD, FRI ‘vo ¥ne rate war he fert that ne aparea to nee the end of that confiie! now exrended Dud bande mm bro jove to all, (Loud and con whued aj ey. ct was (Renewed applause). A volce—Go d. bless th * Mr. Jarvis’ speech continued in like patriotic Strain, and be sat down amid dealening cheers, — | ‘Three old-asnioned cheers were here proposed | ana given for Judge Bat Then like deafemug eheers were given for the Sonat! Mr, Heury Srown, of the cl, of '65, followed in @ Speecd Of most exquisi:e humor. Alumni } Hall in tne old time was something fearful to nim. He then read In iront the inscription, “Let those | Who enter here abandon hope.” He then here | met tacors m Greek gnd Lattu, with all | | these terms imply. After recounting many | | ChABgeS In Ube ten years sinee hin graduation, he wala that old Yale wasola Yale yet—a university of whieh they migns all be proud, a college that has # bistory, @ collere bern in poverty | and obseurtty, but risen to wealth and power. Mr. Joun A. Foote, of Cleveland, Onjo, of the } class of 23, wave soue reminiscences o: Presidens | Day, which were listened to with great interest. Having Goisned wita old-time bistories he came own to modern times, He said he waa interested | in their rowing matenes, When Yaie got beat he was mad as thunder—(load applause)—bvut when Yale won he did not know when to stop Burrabing. (Renewed and protracted ap- plause.) Governor Cox, 6! Maryland, of the class of '25, +} Weo made the next speech, said to beginning | | tnat be should bear in mind what & deacon said to @ minister who asked what he should preach about—preach about mn minutes. Yale was a delightful resting place tn the life journey of tte graduates. He then proceeded to graphically portray | the changes since wis college days, Re- Jerripg to the six presidents and pro- fessor8 how deceased, whose portraits hung on the wails about them, be said their induence stil | lived, and in conclusion he prephesied for Yaie the grandest future of any coilewe inthe country, President Porter here explained the absence of ex-)'resident Woolsey by stating that he was at where be had gone to give a lecture be- ‘hi Beta Kappa society. He humorousiy commented on the fratermizaiion of ex-President Woolsey with the President of Harvara as form- ing @ pleasant companion picture to the frater- nization between the captains of the boaung crews of the two co! Se Judge Devoy, of Massachusetts, followed. He said that, though @ graduate of Williams College, he considered himself son-in-law of Yale, He | sbowed how much Williams College was indebted to Yale College. President Porter stated that they were getting some of the debt back, having lately stolen two of | | the professors ef Williams an@ borrowed ex- President Hopkins, (Laughier.) He then aaded that, by a0 association Of ideas, Masaachusetts suguested So Carolina, and be therefore ealied | St of South Carolina, | cite Governor Chamberlain, promptly rising, statea, after the applause greeting his appearance had | subsided, that be came to the present dinner | with @ sort of dread of being called upon for @ .specch. After twelve years nce from his Alma Mater, he felt a coming back again to the scenes of his college | iile, more like wandering about these sacred Classic grounds and being a@ silent looker on here. Butin iis apsence oe iad kept Yale close in nis | alreacy Time recoileciions, He bdelieved tm progress aud conservatism, Presideat Porter had in him the right Kind of progresa and con- servatisin. (Loud applaus He wanted | ) Yale to continue sabstanially what she had been in the past. There were two influences ne | could never torget, the influences of his mother | and of Yale. (Applause.) He hoped in South | Carolina to illustrate the priuciples of truth, in- | temrity and honor, which he jearned here, and | Withoat which teachiugs the cellege must ult- | Malely perish. Hl President Porter proposed three cheers from the alumni of Yale College, now assembied, te the | alumni of the eollege residents in South Garolina. | The cheers were given wilh @ hearsy will, all | rising to their ‘eet, | Professor Marsh, of the class of 60, spoke upon | an avoriginal rope—Indians. He then descanied | upon eo bev mMaseum in process of erection for lege. '. Sterne Chittenden, of the class of '55, fol- lowed in @ Driei but apposite speech. im the conrse of bis remarks be referred very feelingly classmate, Mr. Wheeler, the letter of whose | iving money to found @ fellowship, had | lt was such # gift 4s he and all hia classmates Who yet mourned his loss would leok jor from the ruother of such & 600. bx-Member of Congress Eilis 4. Roberts, of Utica, and Key. G. 5, Plumley made eloquent r sponses for the class of 50, Other speeches | irem the representatives of other classes [ol- lowed, ali of brilliant and impressive character, It Was aller sx o'clock whem the ‘company rose. LOSING RECEPTION, Winding ap the Commencement week exercises | was 4 reception by President Porter at wie Scliool for Fine Arts in the evening. Every Yalensian in town called, taking with them, ii also in town, their Wives and sons and daughters or sweet- hearts, The oceasion wilt lomg be rememoered, In another twenty-lour hours the colieges will ve | a seene of desolation aud the city the personation of disinal duiness, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ORATION OF GENERAL JOAN 8, REMARKABLE ADDRESS—A RESURRECTION OF | BURIED W2ONGS—ELOQUENT DENUNCIATION | PRESTON—A | or NEw SLAND POLICY AND THEORIES— DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES THE INCARNATION OF Wiipox. CHARLOTTESVILLE, July 1, 1875, To-day has witmessed the closjag exercises of the fiftieth year of the untversity. It was com- menced in the morning by a meeting of the society, at which considerable enthusiasm was manifested. At hali-past twelve P.M. the Public | Hall was Oiled with a distinguisnea company, who listened to am address so extraordinary fa character that it will never be furgotten by | those who had the good fortune to ve present. Southern efithusiasm was aroused to ite highest | altitudes, and General Prestou’s appeals to Southern patriotism fell on susceptible mindg and touched the hearts of those wao were fa- Mi.ior with the msmories of the past. Extracts of this address will be found below. ibe Avwmul dinner, which was a very evjoyabie afiuir, came off this evening. ADDRESS OY GENERAL. PRESTON, General Jou S. PRESTON said:—The whole brood of norselings—the ofmpring of fifty years’ anoual partarition ef the foremost school of let- ters, science and philosophy in the New World— bave called me, one of the firstborn out hambicss of the flock, to stand here by our nursery cradie and speak to toem and you, I: isa very notable | honor, the most notable of my jife, and I ander- take 1c With a tremulous reverence for the high responsibulty it imposes. My ioster orethers are he wise, the heroic elders aad te € intellectual ana social the ‘Socratic: virl.” Coming out from the onscurisy Of age and a jost country, What theme ca: assume to celebrase in the presence of tae alumni of tne University of Virginia? The itteratnre, tne science, the philosophy, wgether with the emvodied thourkt o] these Jity years, “have spread before us a world full of themes #0 Varivus that your speaker may well be more troubled in scjection (Dam iD treatment. Were Ito take any of a thousand, sppTopriate to this day aud ocea- your sympathies and awakening your interest, Standing here, as 1b were, om Lar portico Of our own academy, where for fity years Wisdom has talked with ber chosen sons, we can see the great book and voinme of Nature unfolding like a scroll to draw our Wander- ng, upturned gage, or we can wander to and (ro in Shaded aveaues amid the grecefal forms uf Ar’, d god, ‘her toreh, ST. THE PAST AND THE PRE Por us I must seen for other themes, gterner than soe dictates Of scholastic science, Broader tia t which 7 than thar ch binds in thas Which measures ars of Meaven, Ji in that theme wh jens every soul witea worships t 4 Tight, to whica pniloxopny art ry—ali you are taughé tv thie KOTIOGs School, With ite men Of Migaiy thougnt aud learning—are bul aumble hapure servitors. it Is the theme whose to measure the deep relations aad wroag, wad liverty lk ~ of to-day before thes nnder this sky, though cautions p fended sud timid poliey may 2. Lcannos saad ip she shado my heart overflowing mories and Rot eave it by utters o} grams me the merey of bitna enilvion une past, and the duty of Mitel piety will let Me De mieut concerning the present. [ tremvie to lowe your mM and approval. Be charrabie to these gray hairs and to one who offered wis lt, and gave ali the rest, that you t ve free, ape (oes wil Baye Luls poor and Wo- pinnant of that Iie, ACHIRVRAENT OF FREEDOM. © portion of North America ce m fal re Linbervy hat piessea reilgion waica en free and equal oelore tne tee, and gave tue fullest cir Christian revelations to the Tegulations of this itberty. (t wae importo- nate and devoved zeat of the Cntistian which moved our fine@iten ancestry to awerifice all puman attributes ‘oe attainment of vane fri dom of conacienee, regarding thay as the orite- rion of all haman troth as weil as the fecnadating power of the ‘Kalor ‘horma”—sne pure rignkness of action Im tia \ife--and thus confirming tt for aii time as the reyaity aod sovereign prerogative of mankind. THR LiYR OF PIPTY YRaRs, Let assee, We are celebrating to-day the bity AR MAB! MSS 95 She VRUOE ile AEE Wem ady Vay Lilie | generation who Rave renewed ail that covenant | Chesapeake—prools of equal bluazonry—under tne ; Specniations. | and rolling heavily and he)plessly in tne yawnin; mty years after our forefathers went forth to the sacrifice of olood onder that dread command. In that wariare trey acquired a continent and a per. fect ioerty, and transmitted them to us. For the first ten years they Were panting Jor breath afier the siruggie, umier the majestic sway of Washiug- tow, and Were thus brought to the beginning 01 a new century, spparepuy ser apart and dedicated to their @Xailation—sometbing over three seore and teu years age. Three score and ten years! What Of this Blotment of me to the natural span of human life, m its relation to the hie of itberty, under the purtare of our own fatuers, and of our duty and devotivn to its sacred cebesis! Three- fourths of the nineteenth century of grace have boundless abyen of the past, and is casting its records and taditions into the waste of oblivion, dimming bis ghastly ana swit-mwoving phantoms, leav- gone into img to as thelr dark trai! only to warn or to mislead us. It has been an era strangely comming! good and evil to the human jamily; especially T portion assigned to tue American Coniinemd, and most novviy to the peovle who derived their political existence trom the Eng- iten Colouies, In Karope the first decade was signulived and emblazoned by the over-master ing genius of Napoleon subverting tre sys- tems and ruling over tne Continent, and tse | mighty intell ct of Patt defying that rule aod burl- ing 16 Dack irom Engiand. im Ameriea, Washing- ton was dead, His roves of unsmirched purple, stolen apd mivdtted @ time, were again worthily on the shoulders of Jefferson; and here White-handed Hope waved her sceptre of Faith, avd Liberty sat smiling beneath the bright | mcbantment, or serene), and = granaly seemed (0 move onward to the anoint- Ing ana the coronation. Tenderer and more and purer, ,higher ‘han auglt on earch save a jor ber child, 1s the almost divine seulument Wuiea makes us love and live for the | jana of onr birth, Bat above this, above ail of earth—more heavenward still—s that feeling Which makes us reyerence with worship and cher- iso by devotion tke trush which is transmitted to a our fathers; ior that i@ the fillai obedience abini ng. in the same sphere with tmmortal love. This holy seatiment, in all its most heroic forms, developed into action ali the virtuous energies of ihe men wh id Won the liberties of America, and with wh devoted, stronger holier ening and adorning it with the pul Meats oi the right of self-government and the Dilghty prerogative of the freedom of con- science, They were grandiy inspired architects, those master builders Who came out of the frst War for civil independence in this New World, and in fifty years tuey completed an edifice dedi- cated to clwil freedom aud free conscience whose foungation was a@ continent, whose boundaries Wero boundless seas aud whose turiets aspired to heaven to catcn the bght and blessing from a God of Trath., Inis was the temple which was to become the pride of history, the joy of & great aud happy peopie—“the joy, the Flashed tue glory of mankind’’—in which no man’s uberty was to be judged by another man’s con- seienee, For this sacred purpose tne covenants were paced upon the altar, the gates were | opened to the neople, and they went in and | prayed, with thanksgivings aud bymus of praise, and renewed the covenants, and the world ve- gan to kuow them and called them biessed— In one loud, applauding sound, i ‘The uations shout to her arounit, How supremely art thou blessed. Brothers, it was the design, the stracture, the offermg of our very fatners—our jaihers who drank the waters oi the Chesapeake and the South | Ativntic, and butlt the University of Virginia. The nen Who begat us were the royal priesthood who | sanctified themseives to bear the ark with its covenants, and place it securely as they prayed | on their Zion; and they were those who Called on the earth to rejoice, and on the natious to say that liberty again dwelieth on tae eartb, and on us, | tneir sous, !m humble faith tocry “amen!” And what 18 our answort 1t was ‘m tuis supreme hour that there sprung from the godlike braia of the high priest of that uierarchy, this our saintly and benignant nurse mother, Whore generous breasts have nurtured this by sprinkling that altar with tueir blood —with our blood, young men. We are thar generation— we are the men who have nazarded our lives for that covenant. DSPENCE OF THE TRUTH, An age flinstrated by tue travail of patriotiem, truth and justice ever bears inits womb a gen ration ready to defend and maiuialu these at- DAY, JULY 2, 1875.—TRIP | the Coniederate st which were Dased the staresmaush!p of New Eng- land, a8 manifested by Seward, the philanthropy of New Bagland as represented by Samer, and the Christianity of New Bugiand «8 practised by Plymouth churebes, and whick made her people dm the olden time accessories aud principals in Bamplog on tas Continent what has been cailed the foulest biet of modern civiliza- tion, In perpetrating this ecrtme the mouth Rock descendant outran the King of Congo in catching the slave, and outsatled the sailors of Vasco di Gama in fetching him by the “middle passage.” A second, fouler biot stamped by ¥! same Plymouth descendant ou this hour in whic! we live to-day ia that, being the inheritor and beneficiary of tne J town remple of liberty, im pure accord wth Dis original atirtbutes, hi with troy (he temple and Fo emancipated slaves, to and calidren, and de- descenda: slaughter the men, wom Vastate the land oi the Jamestow a8 the culminating blazonry o/ the Piety, the valour, the civil and religtous conscience of New Bngland—in the language of their great General Sherman, under the suposed solemnity of 40 oath, to declare that “the devire of thew hearts and cousctences was to extirpate (to destroy the Species of) the people of the South and scatter n rotisIA, tae sait over their land.” One people first erect upon the ry noble structure and deaicate it to true Liberty, stamp her image aud engraving her rescrip's on ts portal and then share all its uses wit fhat ovher, made strong by these uses, ji pute the liberty, them violeatiy wrench it from those who Diessings and its giories on them, Then, im the mortal struggles which the creators and benefac- tors make to retam the subi jee and forms the assailants destroyed all lbs lastivutions, sun- yorted the foundations of human sodlety, violated the most sacred ipances of God's ecopomy and established a system in which neither sockdl bonds nor public faith are venerated, Nil erit, quod nostris moribus adaat, Posierites omae ip precipi vitium stot, id the Roman, ’ A SIRUGGLE WITH FANATICISM. History 18 the _ tte and revelation of the pass, “nuntia vetustatis;) the master of the present, “magistra vite.” The best ope gtanted to men is toat which Inspires the soul with reverence for & ViriwoUS anceBiry—with gratitude to those who have sacrificed thems that taeir pos. terity May possess the truth. ‘Tue grand privilege of this Kuowledge creates in the heart 4 train of dutfal seatimeusts which bind men to emulate tigi Deneiactors, to Justify tueir sacrifices anu to defend thew iruth trom reproach wita the same eagerness and devotion that they do from danger, It is only by a true knowiedge Of the past that those who come after can be made the patriots and the heroes whose high desiay it may be to condect their coun'ry to deliverance ana liberty. If these words be true, then | dare aveucn tt aa ‘the most imperative and sacred duty of this ass ciation of the Alumni of the University of Vir- uinie to transmit to posterity the true narration of the jacts and ine irreverstpie louie of these three score and ten years, and wiih 16 to ex- bioié the seemimaly dying effort of moral, civil and religious travh in le straggle with fierce imsoerance and greedy fanaticism, sus- tained by merely mechanical and physical forces and energies, and thus to justify before Goud and posterity how valant, how virtuuus and how heroie men, women and chilurea may be Who, imberiting the promises 0! God’s boly spirit to ean iiustrious ancestry, impelled by fival plety and sustained by the divine senument of patriousim, in asserting that their liberty shail not be jadged by other men’s cousciences! In tnis record you are to tell what you yourselves bave berne in vain Opposition to that intoiwrances which nas swept a your mberiance. Waat the ministers of that intvlerance have done and whas they are now doing to destroy auman hope you may leave to that Goa whe, iu dis OW BOY Ways, avenges His own truth. 4n the corrupted currents of this world Olfence's glided hand may shove by Justice ; But "us not so above. There Kternal Jusuice honors Owsar’s less than Cavo’s sword. There verilas sev) URNS, THE FOUL CRIME, If, then, this function 13 duly performed, our yoeation 18 tounveil the fouiest crime which stains the apnals of human hustory, by w foiding the causes and relating the fa and re- sults of the recent war between New fngiand and that war having swept from national existence the majestic truths of civ and religious liberty, ana set upon their ruins the mercenary fictions of fanaticism, diso- tributes with ail the virtue and all the valorit | has inherited, and uistory records this day two of | her grandest proofs in view of the shores of the | auspices of George Washington and Kobert Lee, Ibeg you, my gentle friends, to remember th: Iam not discussing the fitful politics of a day, or the fleeting controversies walch spriug {rom the chance conditions of popular sentinent—the | nubbub ofan hour—appeased by the petty triumph ef a party. These, i! not beneath the dignity, ure | lar removed from any of the purposes of’ this day’s celebration, ! om endeavorivg, in an | bumble way, to display the logic or funda- | mental principles and potential events in a | people’s history. 1 regard mjseil fily justified, | by the supreme signifi 2 of the the adjnsting the destiny !ntended Whom We are a portion, and of Wiwm We assume, | insome large «degree, to have been here under nis roof set apart as the representatives. 1 pray | you, then, to keep this kindly present to your | minds. es, ib is essential in all just histo: cal criticism to keep before us Bot only the prin- | ciples wuick underite but all the broadly marked | | events which control the conditions o1 civil and | social arrangement. 1 mignt, indeed, treat of ali these = wonderfal things as | But dare not ing generations. The bioody presence ol the | Tumut of that sterm which fell upon our peaceful grandeur may baye subsided, but our poor, water- logged vessel is still fapping her shivered sails troughs, and her Way back to ber haven can nt | known only by measuring the nature, the sirength and the course of opposing currents, | What are these? Unnappity for mankind, for | wrath and for ns who dwelt unter is prom- | ises in this great work 01 our fathers there Was associated a people of diferent origin, of hostile sentiment, who early resolved tnat We suould not worship In our own temple or be | free under our oWn covenunis, except we did | both according tO their judgment and their con- | science. | PURITAN BABBLINGS. For a time, Lowever. our service went on under | the guidance and p:testhood of Jefferson, Madison, Mouroe, Marshailand their compeers, sastained by tue genius and spirit Which broant unpolluted to this Continent the great principle amd usages of the English constitutional liverty, but theso peopi¢ who came to this Continent co- | eval with our progenitors, and in some sort { partook of the strife whi caused the political separation from hated the manner of liberty I have attempted to | | describe, because it restramed their covetousness by the dictates of seif-conscience and l1beral pro- | visions of equal jaw. They were originaliy driven jundemensai | i with them | irom England for violation of laWeata tuerefore could not Motives and sentiments in accordance with, but im fact aud Daturally, acverse to tu sinciples of , Engil#) constitutional liberty ana of Engiten | religious freedom, Toey came, not as refagees froi nntaw/ul persecution and tyranny, but as es- caped convicts from tae just penaltics of a turbu- jent heresy and an alwbdiliods rebelilon, Waich sought by Vioiwace vw eulorce their consclences om England's law. Insteaa, ther , of bringing the | laws and usages growing out of the charters of Snglisn liverty, they brousht ouly erude aud | phauow systems of theological, philosopuical | and political dctions, scarcely avove the vain bab- biings Of MediwVai Speculations, mimgied with the poisons Of liceniious fanaticism, ta dlisking upon thera municipal forms of mere superiicial aintund fimsy tome of educational train- loulated to perpetuate ig ‘ance sub stitute individual crals for pudiio virtue. Taelr de- | scendan's, therefore, who were contemporary | with ourroya priesthood of Washingron, Jefferson, denry, Mason, Madison, Marsiall, the Rutiedges | and Pinekneys, could have no iuborn reverence for such progenitors, aad thereby vecame, and must continue, the representatives of @ merely ing yuaividual present aid seidea interost. A people | who can have bo truthtui revceresce for the past | aD Never provide Wertuily, not to say nobly and | ynorably, for tne furure, The Maydower ! freight, upder the iaws of Englaud, w heresy and crime. The Jamestown emigrant was am Eugtian freeman, loyal to his country and | his God, with Eng! Engusn piety tn bis laud the charters, were achieving the regeneration of Kngian nh his Beart and rying im las right | the laws which it Was that predominant standard of action from which al! their laws and institutions were evolved, and by which they were ed and meas. 1; the principle of the sapreme necessity of justice, aa the legal yWer of God, which coaid neitl anged « nopromised. These two | people spo! and nominally road the offspriug of the wo mauaer of alexce or commune, broad Aslan ls Wessern sor onvenlen. a! riai prox e forms ot yan can never coment them bonds of brother: hood. (rea Supremest law for- bids 1%. Territorial n drove them to @ hollow and unnatural armistice ta effe thet au om and--rne one for she iberty; the one inves ont hankegtying for the frait of the earcd, elobrate the gir gr im ee 3 the one t the tdea of 1 material nh potentia volving necensiiies and resi which the afortrary or conventional insitt. of man cannot coutrol, and fall even to wastiti« late, Her stern decrees forbid man’s rosimtance and panies og Violation of them, The Greek pat- josopher and statexman long ago proclaimed ene irreversible Maxim i——""Yom fuay combine for the pursuits of trade, or form alitances ioredefence, but Corinth and Megara can never be ope state; they are two people.” NEW BNGLAND PAN . There, !n weneral terme, J regard ax the ethno. SABRIC, DURE Qn) UAC SiwIC! WLywiug OM) im | and can testiy of yourselves | ena degrade us. Let bedience to the laws of Nature and re- sistance to the will of God, ip doing this we inust give the prool of a prodigy which staggers bellet by tacts which compel iis avow- al. It must there be put upon your record, for posterity, that less than seven decades and a lustram sufiiced te uproot and Gispel ail venera- tiow for the past countless centuries and to ea- graft upon the chronicles aad the civilza- tion of the nineteenth century of grace, a3 its most vital attripute and — easential element and power the most unnatural crime God has permitted man to perpetraie. ‘This crime 18 the triumphant blazoury oi the Von- | stitution of t.e United Scutes, tue triumpiant record for the gaze of nations, that the liberties, the itves, the consciences, the affections, te immortal hopes of elgnt millions of Cbrisrias men, women and children, that our liberties, jadged by other men’ heed here to-day, reeking as we are still under unnatural domination, torecite the aetais by which it came over as. Your land jor a ihousand leagues streaked with the graves of our brot.ers, and sileut with the domimion of terror, 1s tue poor, dumb witness. You yourseives are the living, present witnesses, wearing the diood~ bet on your brows and the scars over your hearts, that all this is the quick job of & lusirum, Worked by powder ana steel ia the hands of feutonic and Irisa mrelngs, “mundt yrces,” hired by promises aad guided by ‘aius under the moral development of the “ripening influences of humanity.” Let your his- vorane (ell this to posterity, aud your poets sing of itin funeral chant. Bus let them with it.say We wero not subdued when Lee surrendered his starvelings at Appomartox. That we were not all subdued Wien they seat their sairaps to plander them say this in truth. But, brothers, comrades, may 1 uot stand to-day in these holy places, at our baptismal font, and say to you—conjure you by the ima- jesulc troth of our cawse—by all that is sacred in human hope and faith—by your trust im tee promises of the immutable God, toat your historians shall not record ior our caildren’s eu dren, we are subaued, When with humble and ab- ject spirit we swallow the lie—that Goa and hu- manity demand that our religion, our liverty sha! be judged by the emancipated negro and his New | Engisnd Master. Is iwat the civilization to be re- corded by the legatees of Jeferson tor te vene- ration of posterity—that wisa veaded knees aud humbled hearts We prostrate cur souls, and thank onr God that our liveries are judged by ocuer men's consciences—that We have tne bastard beritage from Washington aud Lee, to crawi on our vellies to negro and New Kngiand tempies and ay tue outer gates pray them—not to give us back oar ppy homes, uot to give US back our simagutered cniidren, net to give us Wack our perfect liverty, nt to let us be Of them, that we, too, may cele. brate their altar with wardied hymns aud forced ballelujabs and breathe for them amorosial odors, our base and servile offerings | Sons of Washington, legatees of Jefferson, com- peers of Lee, this is your uvertyand your con- science (his day:— Bondage is hoarse, and dare not speak aloud, vdae Would I tear the cave whers icho ties, Aud inake her airy tougae more hoarse than ming With repetitions. THR POLICY OF NEW ENGLAND. Suppression, then, is the policy of the represen- | tatives of victorious, triumpuant New Englaad, What is the policy, or 118 synonym and compie- ment, the duty of the defeated, dejected felon and rebel! Manilestaion—open-wide maniiestation, To teil sue world and posterity why we foaght, for What We fought ana how we fought, and how we lave struggled and suffered. To t press nosuing, and let tue bright record of trucn, valor aud heroic fortitnde—tne sad story of deieat and abjection—go to these children as an exam- pie and us a warning tuat Whatever our sages taught Or genius could inspire must fude away, And each fair virtne wither at tue vlast Or Northern dowmnation, What, then, my brovuers, were our stakes tn the | migaty con@ict, the arena of which Was ball 4 continent, and the spectaters 4 world of anxious mations ¢ LAND AND LIBERTY. not only land and liberty, but ia| oFfaniews, Mxed sor ceavuries and sealed to us by the sacrifice of blood. We did not gut to save provinces or armies or for conquest aud the extension of | power. W ud not fight even on the hatred of nations, or ihe antipathies of races, or for \he propagation oi systema, Wo fought on the tmsttncss Of sell-preservation, deriv+ ng our princtpie, our mouve, @ur couraye aud our forticude jcom the example, the teachiug and the reaown of oar immeutate and ilosirious progen:tors, You ana | were held here at the font, to the arms of Jefferson and Madison, and buptized in the promises of a God o! cruth— traimed, armed, sent forth to baitie vy indy sod imperial rescvips With us e upheaval of the great deep of in- then and bope. Jaa word, we fought | we tic upon, for the air we breaine and for she altar’ We Worship at; for all the aterioutes and gUaramtces of this life and for ail the hope beyond if, And this was our stake, and we lest all #ave that hope, What | was ie plea of the invader, the conqueror aac the destroyer’ Union and emanelparion, in- tegrity of territory and freedom and citizenship for our slaves, \4e Airican negro. It there be any othey plea, motive, iapulse or apology, it was declared in the open arena. it was hot o rv beavers, tt was mot in their war- cry nor in. th snouts of victory, nor is It on their monumental tablets Dorin theirengrossod laws an‘ decrees. They shouted “Untom!" that by unity we might ve peid in bondage. They de mandec national jite, that th lve of our liberty. They freed tme slave, that we might become the slaves of slaves. The dictate Of these Inutives Wasa ficree and rolentiess war pursnad to conquest, confiscation and to suvjechon, ani ww she subversion Of the woole order of human truth This ‘was the plea and rhe stake of New Kagland, These were the stakes held by fate over that tremen- dous Warfare, with its surging Waves rolling wide aud wasteful over a content, darkening the Nght Of heaven, ‘rightening the tremuling earth od steeping it in blood, over which fanaticism au raved Wid ARMOMUAY JO. ad Dil LR SHERT. are ousciences, There is no | here | Lali, sup- | dex, parposes, habitudes and sym- | triotiem stram& trom sme prostrave iorm of iberty. To those who looked upon tho contest, fate seemed terror siricken by the curse of Janaticiata, or bribed by the gold of avartoe, to strike the scales aud cast into the ail-con- suming past all that trutn kad won from the mercy of God in threescore and ten years Of earnest striving (oob:y His command, He had promised our father: fathers, over 200 years Ago, that the mightiness of His arm avd Overshadowing of His Spirit would shelter and guide us and yive us strength to gather and enjoy the golden harvest of peace and lib- erty in thia new world; and we beileved His promises Were immutavie, Brothers, there are here to-day Sons of those fathers to Whom cle promises Were made, who believe the seed | sown by thas Almighty Piaurer cannot perish, bat will grow again, wili bloom, and will bear fruit, and that His promises are immutable. Bui ldo not seo it, Itis beyond the scope of my Like Colnmbns T would climb the topmost Inast in the Gark might, with the wild occan around me, to caich one ray of glimmering light from that unseen shore, Of that light wach comes from the uncreated sun. But Il cannot see tt, all 1s dark and pidden, impenetrable, Nor do | near 1tin the thunderings of Sinat. in the promises of Zon's bul and Silos’s brook, Nor even in the groans of Calvary, | do not read of it in the brill Jans forms of Greetan philosophy, or the imajestic practice of Roman Binpire, nor in the august aad Stately march of Kngiand’s liveriy. Lao not see iv in the suoclime spectacie of Washington's lavor and prophecy, nor 10 the still grander sacrifices of Manassas Aud Appomattox. Amid ai! these L wander, darkiing, for my faith in the immutable promise of Almighty God. | do not know |) tu ali these. But, my brotiers, my comrades, 1 jee! aye, I foel tt hi im my Reurt of hearts, shat our children must be free, and that the groans of our = will be silenced by the shonts of their luberty. | Know this /aith comes oi none of the tran~ sitory and evanescent powers Which Rave ruied (ne Ways, the Works and the Msttiutions of men; bulio | my soul it ts begotten of the spirit of the Author of truih—for wits that God for us again to be free de His truth, im thie rapt aud crowned faith i do see the giesming light siining over the dark wa- rd. 1 do hear tbe billows falling on a golden 1 ch the periume of Siveet flowers and Iraits, and as the cay dawn opens the (remu- Jous light and begins to giint the neavens— Perchance to ¢laditen the expectant eyes Of tar off mations in » world remote, I hear the hymns of praise and thanksgiving and the songs of triumph from tae battle (elds we have fought, and thea I kaow that our blood hag ee up as incense and will descend as dew of eaven to water our land and ripen our fruit, tie fruit of our iathers’ liberty. THB SKELETON OF NATIONS. But, comrades and brothers, here we are to-day, alter our fifty our country the skeleton of Nations, aud Re round us the Shanty sepul- cire; if not the scorn, at best the object of the fruttless pity of our fellow men; the only heritage we can bequeath to thes enildren, the opprobrium of their birth, the w Wwe suffer d the insults they cannot aven: Here we stand this day, the beaten, defeated, de- graded strugylers after the existence of itberly, our lances broken, our shields battered and our banners draggied in the dirt und filth of the earth. And there, brothers, joint heirs of Jefferson, we will be, the gazing stock of nations, 80 loug as our liberties are jaiged by oiler men’s consciences. But for you, nureelings of to-day, still at our mother’s breast, I woulda change this sad and weird lament, this gloomy chant of woe, and strike the resounding chords which send forth the bold anthem of Lope, and give to you a cheering an jiving echo from toe dark vault of the past, Once [ dreaded lest the womb of Virginia had been seared to barreunes=, and ber fountains of nurture ail dried up, and hope itself banished from her sphere. Bai when 1 iook at you to-day and see your earnest and pious souls gleaming forth in your eager, bright eyes—and when | stand here in these lovely and hallowed places, with this sky and this and about me, and their breezes fan- ning my brow—nere im the shadow of Mouticelio— here, where we, now decrepid fragments, were nurtured in that ennobling lore and gathered that trath(u! spirtt which led us to give ourselves and ali our bopes in the fruitiess strumgie to keep you as free as our fathers had made us—I cannot vut feel that the sacred spirit is aulll live in your hearts aad will agam appear and move in you @ triumphant ending. Believe me, noble youths, the triumphant realities of human life are Dot worldly success of weaith or gratified ambition or the luxurious repose of re- warded labor, But, mark me, they are duty, trath, right, justice and the abdsolate freedom of conscience. They are those things which are graven ou the throne of the eternal Goa and man- | Mested to you and to Mankina th tne truthiul rec- ords of Yorktown and Appomattox, in the naiaes of George Washington and Robert Lee. ACADEMY OF MOUNT ST. VINCENT. ‘Twenty-nine years have passed away since tae good Sisters of Onariiy first essayed an educa tonal establishment in this city. Their firss | Rouse, embosomed in the loveliest part of Ventral ee ~ entertainment could scarvely bo desired, and the nee of Mot er Reginw Was over~ Fpread with siniies a8 she weicomed each of Wer children from the scene of their youshiu! (riompis HAMILTON COLLEGE. Urica, July 1, 1875. The exercises of Commencement week at Hamilton College closea to-day. The graduating class Lumbered thirty-ve. Honorary degrece were conferred 43 follows:—Pn. D, upom Obaries Lennon, of Wellington, Kew Zeaiand; President Edward Orton, of Colambus, Ohio, and Professor Walter A. Brownell, of the Syracuse Hiah School. The de~, gree of DD. Was conlerred apou Rev. Joba’ Stevens Stewart, of Towanda, Pa,, and Professor F. J. Belcher, of Anburn, and LL, D. upon Hon. William James Watace, ot Syracuse, and Hon, Joseph R, Hawiey, of Hartford, Cons, ‘The Association of Aimmat elected the followin members of the Board o! Trustees:—ilon. Josep! RK, Hawley, President; David H, Cocuran, of brooks lyn; Prolessor Theodore M, Dwiwat, 0 New York, and Mon, Perry H. Smitp, of Chleago, TRINITY COLLEGE. HanrrorD, Gonn., Jaly 1, 1875. The regular Commencement exercises of Trinity College occurred to-day. The degree of a. B, was conferred upon the graduating class, and the de gree of A. M. in course upon fourteen of the Alumni, ‘The honorary degrees conlerred wer Master of Arts, ad eundem, Heary Winser Lyle, Yale College. Master o! Arts, honoris causa, Rev. Willia Henry Collina, 0! Brartieporo, Vt.; Josoph Hall, of she Hartfora High Senool; Henry Poor Mott, of ‘Trinity School, Macalin, N. Y.; Andrew Wheeler! Pluilips, of the Episcopal Academy, Chesnire, Conn., Doetor of Divinity; Rev. Jacob Shipley blipman, bishop eicet of the Diocese of Fond du Lac, Wis, ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. Axuugnst, Mass., Jusy 1, 1875. The exercises of tne forty-seventh anni+ versary of Andover Theological Seminary, were held to-day, and in connection with she exercises was Jaying of the corner stone of @ new chapel, followed by the usual Comwencemeut dinner. ‘The exercises were attended by @ jarge number of peopie, including many Alumni, Degrees were conierred upon & graduating class ol eighteen, GRAMMAR SCHOOL NO. 2. ‘The annual CoMmencemout of Grammar Schook No.2 took place yesterday afternoon, fhe exer clses were as follows:— Overinre, “Caliph of Bagdad,” Boieldien..... Orchestra, Chor tur Spangled Banuer Keys i ey: toddart, A. B, ki tory, “Our Tes ers. Break It Genty to My Mother,” Buc Declamation, “Vourth of July. Webster. George Va Solo. “Darling born Dare.” Blake. waite” Yana’ rumental Duet, “Charming Waltz,” 7 SBTake eens, -K. Kelly and 5. Sullivan. “Wale, “with ” Lock: +++:Annie Lneas Eh Goodman, at : . Millie Motte the Sems-Chorus, orchestral ac Pou by’ Wiiilum Oiand’ Bodrne,” i pomtcborus “Hordst Song,” Professor jet rus, “Herdsman's Song,” Austin... : Sepior Class, Dy bv nd ability. Overture, "aut und Davon,” Faust... Oren Semi-Chorua, “Moonlight on the Lake.) Waite. solv, “Minaie, bear the Biue Bird,” WI ite Thomas Monaghan - William tandol Mary Rayorat ‘Oscar, ‘ pécilia Rassiey Prizes for punctuality, by n, Notmai Coliege. (in the Presentation of Goniding ‘01 Professor Arthur H. Dund lepartment W. J, Wade, and, in the female Jepart- ment, Mary Kaycra(t, each received a very handsomely bound copy of “Dana's Housebold Book of Poetry.”) Jostrumentai solo, “Amazon March,” Wile) “Old Folks,’ a masquerade by the young jad: costumes o! 100 years ago. ‘ Presentation of diplomas to the gi tes, Joseph Quinn, A.J. Harrison and uben Grnenauor, insirumental duet, “Hire Bell Galiop,” Kel sea I’, Abrahains, A. Brown tion of Principal's Prizes, for industry in the male department and lor scholarship in the female de- barimont, by ton. Uunry Kiddle, ‘City saperiniondent. “Addresses by members of the Board of Educauon, Chorus, “america.” Grand finale, “Home, Sweet Home, chestra aud full chorus. Payne, with ory 29, GRAMMAR SCHOOL NO. finally become a house of refreshment. Many years ago, whem the great representative Amert- can trageaian Eawin forrest, despairing of veiag able to find a permanent home for hiuself, and chating in spirit even within the casteliated walls | | he erected on the banks of the Hudson, | Park, alter being devoted to hospital uses, has Sisters of Charity, who bave, since that time, con- verted the place into a terrestrial paradise, The twenty-ninth anaual commencement of their in- state took place yesterday. ‘The afternoon | trains of the Mudson River Raliroad brought crowds of visitors, parents and other relatives of © the fair students, bunireds Of sightseers, 4 muss | meeting of Catholic clergymen and ladies and | children ad infinitum. Yhe grounds and build- jugs are framed in nature's most piccur- esque ehape. The tall adamautine wails | of the Pailsades, shading many 2 tiny | cratt om the piacid waters beneaih, the undulating hills that fringe the most beautifu! of American rivers for many @ mile, the gilmpses of snug little’ valiey and grassy nooks of Arcadian simplicity, the gjoriou® sunshine that bathea stream, woodland ni daie in golden colors, and the retreshing breeze that toased the foliage to and fro in picturesque confasion, carrying with tt the odor of the honeysuckle and mgriatl ccner sweet smelling bougueis of Nature’s own culling, made the scene one to be rewembered, When the sun sank toward the west and the suadows on | the gravelled paths vecame longer; when ° grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes and tts fanciiul ut. | tle jake Was deserted by its numerous admirers; | whem the statues of saint and martyr scretehed forta their hanes opty to the birds that sung | peans of pi e from cach scent-iaden boug | when the lagi carriage t entrance nd toe its) wi the piazza, then the exercise ing Was the order u/ ¢ “overture,” “dazan Lad Pianos—Misses rolled up Ly e clerant x D1, Grosz, Hi Crean, ve Donnelly, bli i. Davis, ghan, Brennan," | “Chorns? Schmitz “palit ‘ Postiewait Avaleinié Honor “Prayer from Moses in Eyyps . Bateman Vor Cabinet Orgas ed 0 Oran, MIS Morosiat 0, Miss Costello. “The Two Captives.” a per. bby Miss. Marvay iin +» Rosmnt “Viva Pio Nono, Ww. “Trascrizione Lia Andalusa,.... Planos—Miwes i pwait, Minnegan riulness,” Vocus duet Misses Ieeyn arranged for hi isses Howe ay , Mi . Sealion, MeCa il. pnyiyr! Gumbort and Gros Ml piano... mnelly ; Toulman. Miss ( at Disiributio: | “Valedievory,”. aolds, b. Bry yi, He ! f ey re Grand March, ‘Ti Arranged for pianos, i Misses Harpor, A. No i an Boy) an yrne. 8 | ; Reilly, Beck, Savage; | lasses Howe ani fi, Mise Moro | PRERERTATION OF GOLD WiPALA. | For the best original poow. kiss Warren, For matne: Biatios, Miss Gaynor. For ue best original essay, Mist Mary Maguire. His Eminence Oardinal Meviorkey preside and nearly e1rhiy pricets were present. 7 graduates were cieven nummer, as iolowe Hila Murray, Kingsbrid N. Y.; Mary Gaynor Fayetteville, N.Y ler, New ork; Mary Costello, Mani ; Mary Mewaire, New York: Mary Butler, . Long Island; Jose- nine Muehmond, N. det JUiia Cawsidy, New York; Bila Seulion, Carmansyiie, M. Y,; Helen M. Davis, Phtixdelputa, and Mary MoUall, Rutiand, Vi. Nothing could be more beautiful than the melo drama, “The Crown 0: Glory,” written (or cae oo casion by one of the Sisters. The poetry was (ar above the general Aisuiard of Commenceiwoont | verses. One etropbe, de-crptive of uewin, wea very Weautifal = © chilly cold, death's r Its Waver are te. ‘Throngh shadow y A soul draws near w womay ‘The Cardinal was eviiontly impr eXqQUIsitS poetry Of UWis \ittle drama, dress to the students he alluded to ib feeling terms, and eloquent ae any that the pulpis might farnish, | The muate was under the direction of Proessor Gustavas Schmitz and was unwsually good ior even such @ renowned institute. The duet sang | by Misses Groay and Reynolds was given with | Fare exprension and finisa, and toe musio of the “Crown of Glory” wae quite m keeping with the Deautiiul anpject, Mive McCall distinguished her- d, e er yonuer lies with she in Ais au- elf anove by her ciocutionary and dramatic | Bowers, pecially in Miss Warren’s charming | ROM, A WATS Piovayle Ujoraty apd MMsleal,) Manced Lar FY Gesirea to dispose of tlie cighty-odd acres | as itary i Bgetole of property whien surrounded his castle, Mise Fauny Bushiel he found the most eligiple purchasers in the | splenaia appearance, | paving happiness depicted on their | groae peril. | Ot Works | stroyed, entailing a loss The closihg exercises in Grammar Schoot No, 22 took place yesterday morning at ten o'clock, ‘The following was the order of exercise! aoe Miss ida Raure! Miss Anuie M. Sehmuil . By the Graduat ‘The diplomas were then presented vy Super- intendent. Harrison to’ the following young lady graduates:—Misses M, abhearp, M, mnety, Couueil, £, Cornell, M. ee |» Gill, A. Goethals, P. Knox, E. Klauper, M. Litsoa, . Tavis, S. Lobsttz, oH. lew. berger, H. Ostheim, ©, Paar, A. Reeve, i. Kosario, 1. Kauch, L. Sauer, L, Se! ©. Schoen, |. Stein lem, A. Sehmaltz ald L, Smut Addresses were delivered to the graduates by Superinteadens Harrison, Inspector Alls and Trustee Miealeng. ‘The exercises were closed by the singing of “Ania Lang Syne.” The Coinmencement in the male devartment took place at the same time on tne floor above., ‘here were only two graduates—J. aicKeoun and G. W. Leve Several pieces were sung by the scholars, A composition was read by Master Katseaberg, BH. Stark sung the ‘Miller’s Song,” Moses Esverg delivered an oration entitled “Pres On” and George MeVeigh recited one euutled “Buaker Mil.”? GRAMMAR SCHOOL NO. 27. The anual reception of this school, which t¢ situatea ip Forty-second street, near Third ave» nue, came off yesterday afternoon, and was of @ uignly. interesting character, The building wag handsomely decorated. The boys presented a Wearing rosettes ang couns tenances. The platiorm was occupied by the prinetpal, Mr. Joseph W. Cremin, with ¥. T. Hopkins, J. 0, Alston, 8S, D. Monon, J. F, Wiuams and Julius Katzemberg, the chair- man of tue Board of Trustees of the Nineteenib wnrd, Who presided on the occas! ‘The exer+ clges Were commenced by reading @ portion of the Hoy Serpptares. Then iollowed deciawations and dialogues interspersed With Music. At ibe con- clusion of the exercises the pupils were addressed, by trustees aud visitors, The graduates recetved thew diplomas, but the distribution of semi-ag- gual cerlidcates Was deferred Until this morminy, AN OIL FIRE. DESTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSIVE REPINKKY IN SOUTH BROOELYN—LOSS OVER THIRTY THOU- SAND DOLLARS. The ot! works of Leopard & Bilis, suuaied om the lot bounded by Sullivan, Wolcott, Ferrie streets and the river, in Brooklyn, were totally destroyed by fire at elghs o’ciock yesterday morn ing. The loss is $80,000 im buildings ana stock. A workman first discovered tue smoke ana flames issuing from the retort room near the ugitator, Ab alarm was at once sounded and the empioyés of the establisnment began an endeavor to ex- tingutsh ¢he flames, The fire quickly extended to the large tanks, kindling their contents into a fiercs blaze. Tho workmen were soon driven irom their posta by the dense smoke and by fear of au explosion, They then began te remove the barrels of refined ot from the yard. Owing to the rapid spr of the dames a secend alarm was »oundes, The fozen powerful sureams thal were Boou pouring pon the blazing tanks seemed only te jurnist maveriai ior the Hames, which threw out an ense heat and sent great volumes of dense black smoke hig in the alr, covering Ret ook Point ag with a pall. A stiff breeze from the bay sent the smoke and blazing embers flying toward Swanatan’s stores &ud Lock wood’s tobacce ware- house, On Swiliyan street, placing the boudings im Finving that all efforis to save the were futile the firemen directed their energies toward other stractures. Froin tne river side the blazing O11 workw were deiuged with water from the puw- erful pumps of the floatmg fire engine “Uncle Abe’’ and ine New York police boat seneca, ihe works we reduced to ashes in about, ab nour efter the breaking out of the conflagra‘ton, leaving the large tanks in whiten the oi: was still blaaing Visible among tue ruims, At nine o civeh the fire Was out. Messrs. Leonard & Ellis have an insur, the buildings of $4.000, but none on the stock oF macuiner; it 19 noc Known how the fire org tnated, “Twenty-five men are. thrown out 0! om ployment by the burning of the works VIRL IN BAST NEW YORK, A frame house at Warren street and Paca ave nue, in the vilage of East Now York, touk fire yesterday from a bg y | chimney and wae de $1,000 on the owne; id oocapan: ws. Rogers, Tne dweiiuy way