The New York Herald Newspaper, July 6, 1875, Page 6

THR GLORIOUS Ninety-ninth Celebration of Independence Day. ENTHUSIASM AMONG THE MASSES, Parade of the First Division, National Guard. SCENES IN THE CITY. Pyrotechnic Displays in Parks and Public Places. HOW THE DAY WAS OBSERVED ELSEWHERE ‘The glorious Pourth has come and @ Toe Brecrackers, bombs and rockets are exploded and fizzled out; the excursions are over; the m1 Danqueting halls silent and deserted, and the | twenty-second regiment sixteen files front, ten com~ | figh exaltation of the national heart and spirits js toned down once more toa sober and rational temper. It was the greatest Fourth of July in many years, it was a sort of double-jointed an- | miversary, having an extension of forty-eigat in | place of twenty-four bours, Sunday was no less the Fourtn because the firecrackers were slient end no regular pyrotechnic display lit up the | evening sky. it was celebrated less noisy | (han yesterday, but still 1t was celebrated, so that ‘we have nad for some years. In tears came the nimety-ninth anniversary of sur independence to us. They were, pernaps, | ‘ears of vexation—violent and short—caused by ‘she ruthless manner in which the day was forced | from its proper piace om the calendar. They were tears of grace, perhaps opening the ce’ With a cooling bemediction, adding happiness to ‘the day by frat presenting damp disappointment to all anticipated pieasare. 18 was gad at early | merning to contemplate the host of pyrotechnical | fereat ga George Washingtons and the galaxy of mythologi- — eal goddesses, who, damp and non-explosive, would at evening fafi to scintillate, Bot the sun came put alter the rain to celedrate the day and make ‘these ‘orebodings idie. The city put on its holl- @ay aspect ana by eight o'clock the day was 28 geum and menageries an Joyous as if no rain shower bad watered the pave- | and out ments. Notwithstanding the fact that somo of the peo ple, whose technical sense of justice led them to | selebrate Sunday, the real Fourth, yesterday was bne of the nolsiest Fourths New York nas had for years. From the brightening of the sky until is own display. Alldayiong tne detonation of | trackers, the booming of cannon, the rattie of | peopie the long lines of carriages moved up and smal! arms and the smap of torpedoes assailed the sar. Even the most umpatriotic cynics found pomething good to say, if it only was “Thank God, wis (hing won't happen for another year )’ HOW THE DAY WAS CELEBRATED. | From the reportsin the succeeding columns & | arms, The vessel was most tasteiuliy decorated food idea will be obtained of the manner in whick ihe Gay was spent py the peopl: The fact that yesterday was the ninety-nintm anniversary of ihe great event added to the brilliancy ofthe | belebration. The morsing rain had the effect of | mobduing the dust and leaving the diferent | *racks in splendid condition for speeaing., All the butgoing excursion steamers to Rockaway, | Domey Island, Long Branch, Staten Island, the Bighlands, up the Sound and up the Hudson car- med wi'h them sbousands of people, all bent on spjoyment. ‘The streets of the eity wore s Sunday aspect. Bo stages or trucks were to be seen on Broadway one nearly ali the stores were closed. As is al- waya the case en the Fourth of July the streets were possessed by country folk who came to town .o eee the Mreworks and parade. All tne incom- wg trains were literally packed with curious parties bent om seeing the pyrotechnical dispiay | @ the evening. THR DECORATIONS. The Stars and Stripes floated from most sl of she principal balidings im town. The new Post ODMce, the Stu Nicholas, the Metropolitan, Grand Dentral, and, in fact, all the hoveis in town had me colors displayed. 4 view of the eity was bad from the Brooklyn abutment of the Bridge, ang it was really grana Tne river, like ® eilver serpent, lay coiled around the island, and from the upping liniag wither front, there streamed @any nations, ever changing im color. Up tne Hud- gon and down the Bay pleasure steamers, deck tm Dumting, could be seen moving rapidly up ai @eown as they proceeded on their various ways, | ee TOURTE, | } | | | National Guard, was not equal to the pageant on | former occasions. She great anniversary was double as long as any | the most admiration were tne Seventh regiment, | the Nintp regiment baad and the band ef the we! ration Park yesterday, {i | Bi | concert auciences tne con | veterans. Instead of it being raised at sunrise it | by a double-sizea “cap of itberty.” the fags Of | peviment band fornisbed the muale for the ocea. | panies. Seventy-ninth regiment, be ag files front, eight com- nies, much greater nomber of Invitations had been jesged iy? Stand than its capacity would ad- mit of, this reasoo a number of ladics and gentlemen who had tickets were compelled to stand for upward of a: in the bot sun, & necessity which red asure oi the cottage in the rear of About hai!-pass nine utter among the Unrong to the vietnity of the square was an indi- cation that the procession was in sight, and this aves to be the case, for a few moments later Wickham took up the position from which o review the trveps. He was surrounded by several gentlemen weil known in toe social and political world, among whom may be men- Uoned Commissioners Salem H, Wales and W. H. Sciner, Hen. Sumuel A. Lewis, Presiden of the Board of Aldermen; ex-Commissioners Mauierre aod Lawson, Commissioner Vincent 0. King, K. D. Stewart, Siuciair Tousey, Henry G. Stepvias and Erastus Brooss, P. GIN REVIEW, ice arrangements were admirable, and ast ead of the column turned the corver of Seventeenth street the street from curb to curb was entirely free from intiuders. General Shaler com 8 On them a8 they passed the stand. Having 12 ‘the customary salute to the re’ lewlng oMcer they wmeeled about and division then marched vy. The following is the order and nu- merical strength of the procession :— Escort Kiiea’s Troop, Separate Davaity. General Shaler and 5 Seventh regiment, Osteen fies tront, ten eompanis Ninth ment, thirteen files fropt, ten compan ‘igdth regiment, twelve s tront, ten eo pant Battalion, Fulty-diih regiment, twelve flee fous six companies Pattery B ninety wen Washington Greys in new uniform. ‘Twelfth regiment, fourteen files front, six companies. Sixiy-uloth regiment, twelve fies frout, eight com panics. Seveniy-first regimeut, tweive files front, teu com- rn e _ Battery K, seveuty-one men in all. Eighty-fourth regiment, fourteen files front, six com- re panie. Pith regiment, fourteen files tront, ten companies Moety-sixth regiment, ten files front, eight companies, aleven h regitent, ercht files front, ten companies, Sixth regiment, ten files trent, eight companies The display, while reflecting great credit on the rhe ieatares which elicited ty-second regiment (which, With its drum corps, was lully 100 strong) ; the Seventy-first regimeut, in ail the glory of their Diack bear skin Seventy-olach Highlangers in thetr kilts, Filth regiment, There were avout 5,000 men in line. AY CENTRAL PARK, An immense nuimver of people vistted Central » espectally tn afternoon, to evjoy the many pleasant retre: here abound- lag, and te ist the open air concert given by @ band under dersaip of Harvey B. Dod- wortn and ©. uila, ‘The lowest estimate mate of + h the aif 1 8. Gi number who passed throug was 60,000, and ali day long every walk and drive was thronged by pleasure seekers, Oa the Lake the boats dida toriving business from eurly MOrnivg Unt late at night, and tne scene Was pieasaut as the tiny craft passed to ana fro, laden with happy passengers. The swans attracted the children, and the refreshment places were well patronized. In the mu- & crowd moved in| the animais ana | 10m. In the Rambie jet groups were to be seen here and there en- joyimg tue cool shade and the genile breezes that played through the masses of liage there aooundi But it was on tke Mail tact tne | . " to all day, birds received due c Like all the Park Of cour was vi midnight noise and biaze continued uminter- | ang picturesque, and as there Was & Constant mo- rupted. Every street, im fact every house, had | tion observable the features of the scene were a popular music, trast ever changing, l1ke the designs of Round tiis restless, laughing and rowd of down in regularly observed lines. The occupants of these Venicies enjoyed the scene at their ¢: he equipages lent another charm to the bo! in the Park. At neon the United States frigate Minnesota, lying of pier No, 1 North River, fired a saiute of twenty-four guns, the crew manning the yard- With flags of all nations. The French frigate Ma- gicien, lying Oi the Battery, also fired a salute, as aid the schoolship St. Mary. Battery A, of the First division, with two pieces, reached the Bat~ tery at tweive o’ciock, and fired a salute of thirty~ seven guna, one for each State im the Union. ‘Yhe fag on the oid tort in Central Park was | raised by Ensign J. Gould Warner, on bebalf of the | was not raised until eignt o'clock, on account of the aterm, THE TAMMANY CELEBRATION. Taromany celebrated the day at the Wigwam in Fourteenth street, accordiag to time-honored cus- tom, with music, singing, a big talk anda few little talks. For an nonr or so before the proceed- ings commenced Fourteenth street was lively with the tramp of regiments marching by, the rat- ting of drums and the music of the bands. The front of the Wigwam was decorated pro'usely with national fags, im the council chamber the were festooned with the red, white and blue; over the windows setal-circles of the same colors pre- vailed and streamers of lighter colors fell grace- fully from the centre of the ceiling to the several Sta-es’ arms which ornamest the walls al round, and emblematic bampers were placed at mtervais around the front of the gallery. Om the platform the tables for the “Big Talker” and the Grand Sachem were covered with flags, amd in tre rear was the insignium of the society, At one side of the Grand Sachem’s table was a pole surmounted The Seventh wien and played some patriotic airs on the front baicony while the braves were patting on thelr war paint, At eleven o’clock a procession as formed, and the members of tne society, | celeprated. w Is was strange tosce here and taere the belching | pearea by the Wiskinskie, John D. Sewman, who smoke of some caanon, wiich seemed to be dumb, | pors the smalier “exp of liberty,’ then marched’ as the reverberation of the saock failed to disturd | in and took thelr seats on the platferm, The She high serenity of the air at tue piliar top. Grand Sachem, Augustus Schell, opened ihe fes BVERYSOVY OUT POR THE DA *tival by welcoming the assemblage round the With few exceptions all the world of Manhattan | eouncti fires, where they were sure to hear werds Inland appeared to be abroad {n one direction oF | of wisdom, by whic they could direet their efforts anotuer, Throughout the forenoon conveyances | jm ihe future. He trosted that the action of the of every kind were employed to their {uli capactiy, | gemocracy in the coming time would be in accord bearing away the pleasure-secking citizens from | wirn tue good advice that Was now about to be the custy streets to the seashore or to the green | given. A giee club, assisted by the band, then Meids and ieaty woods of the country. Probably ® | gang the “‘Star-Spangiea Banner,” the last verse quarter of & miliion of people quitted the precincts of which was encored. This favorite national air @fGotham yesverday to breathe ® purer and ie*3 | geemed to rouse to some extent the audienes, Sulphorous atmosyuere outside, Te accommo- | which, indeed, was rather thin in numbers, and late #0 great a multitade street cars, steam Cars | which up to tats point had remained unpatriot- 4 steamboats were in active requisition, All | tesiiy demure, The somg being concluded, the ‘She street cara going north and bound for Harlem | Grand Sachem introduced Hon. S. S, Cox, saying the Centrai Park were crowded threugh $be | gna: gentleman had fought manye bard fight in @ay. The Park apsorbed a great trong, and | of Congress for Gemocratic principles, BAve, no doubt, ss mUCA enjoyment to Its Visitors | Hut RoW Rad his reward by going to ® Mouse of as the more distant retroats, ike Rockaway and Represeatatives tne majority of which was demo- Long Branch. The boats on tue Hariem River to geatie, Migh Bridge were fairly loaded down with excut- | wr, cox them came forward and was reeetved | sonists, and the vicinity of High Bridge on votm | most cordially. The following ere 8 few good | sides Of the river was taken up with family 894 | potnis opnis excellent adaress:— pienic parties. Tue day was close enongn to make | Aome Is te suggestive of travelling on crowded street ¢ars eminently dis | many lesson: and administration, agreeavle, Marine excursions received the lion’s | Have “yp ype from Be objeet and snare of patron Some of the Donis that abst of polities! moreUiy thy lowe jet for a trip down the harbor aud up the | wepeneta heel one for this corpa fa 1 Hodson were filed to their utmost limits, A de | 4 u is rst, our jones as & icions breeze came over whe water, and the sun | secout,“pecuune this asy second, pecanae tis ds; was suMetentiy obscured to m. th atefine § vestal vig: he live: local rule, and, | | which closed the exercises. NEW YURK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1875. ur aewerng: They are ruil of restrictions, permt: ties, Tightiuily belong to But for ie hich looal rule, In 1626 coat old Gor ouUnded Its Increases as tO be Wurth to-day ove: 1,000,000, 000, not conn ung. the Westchester nexation? WI! has raised our population stace 1700 from the number of this cro Home rule! About the tine m born—avera; ars ago, 1425—the Property 01 only $100,000,000, e “Home rule” raised it sixfold tm forty years, Had home role, in tis honesty, been continued along ‘fair to elections, State in- aid Ot how be groai values, less ied commerce and paralyzed ingustries, We boast of our com- merce; but who does the carrying trade wmich brings to us nearly $500,000,000 of the products of oiber jands? Is the $100,000,000 paid for its trans- sinents, Weak exports. desp mulion people, having nearly $100,000,000 savings DA&ks her Whose fault is it ¢ the peo, are beginning to draw thuse func. Gatly bread and wi r tead of adding to them? LEITERS OF SYMPATHY. Major Quincy read a large number or letters from promivent democrats ail over she country dolug honor to the society and sympathizing with its celebranon, Reveray Jonson wrove from Baltimore that im recent years the old principles of our forefutuers bad a practically discarded, and that tnere now shoula be but one party, + restore the old bulwark @f liberty. Governor Porter, of Tennessee, hoped that the country would have ‘no more military Presidents Without statesmanship aud wita no acquain- tance with civil administvation.” “{ agree with you in the beliei,’? he closed, “that the next year will be marked by @ reunited America and great aemocratie victory in the | Presidential eoatest.” Governor Vance, of Norta in it true inteipreter ‘ol the great charter of our Tights, of great, unpollated constitutional liberty.” Otuer letters im a simular Strain of democratic eulogy were read from Judges Preips and Cuit, of an-elect Joon Goode, Jr., of Virginia; Fernando ood, State Senator Parmenter, 0. Troy: Thomas Y. Simons, of the Natioual Democratic Executive Committee, and others. ‘The Glee Club sung an impressive ode, “Fourth of July, 1875,” written expressly for the occasion, to the air “Red, Waite and Blue,” the dand wad audience joimiug im the chorus, ending :— May each year, in triamph returning, Sill flad us in brotherhood true, With pride and with loyalty burning— Une heart neath the “Ked, White and Blue,” It'was sung standing by the entire gathering and entuasiasticaliy encored, SHORT TALK BY D. ©, CALVIN. mi ©. the lust verse Mr. Delano ©, Calvin expressed the conviction that the pext democratic victory would iree tnis Ration from the thraldom of Its present oppres- nm. My. Caivim contrasted the two great parcies, ‘Ten years of republican ruis, and what were the resaits? A union dissolved, sovereign States trampled upon, corruption everywhere, salary grabs, Credit Mowihera, the integrity of courts sabverted—these were bre iruits of repub- | cam rule. Contrast bis with the luminous ree- ord ot the democratic party, always maintaining vhe sovereignty of States, its Kind consideration for tne Welfare of the masses and its respect lor justice, He had always been the true iriend of | the laboring man, aiways been the poor man’s friend, (Applause.) Lt was very wrong to seek relief from the purden of taxes by reducing the Wages of those who Had only a bare subsistence, (Applause.) In the name oi the Tammany Society be provested against toils act of injustice. (Ire- lueuuous applause.) REMARKS OF W, A. BOYD, Tne band played a lively tuae, after which Bachem Willtam A, Boyd gave anotuer “short talk. For eighty-six years liberty, patriotmwm and justice had been nurtured by this Tammany society, ‘Ihe democracy stood to-day, as it ever did, & rebuke Lo treason and @ guardian of pubitc luberty. (Applause.) Ana why suouid tiey, then, noi come hituer te celeprate the day? In all this vast city there was no place but this where the maintenance of these principles of liberty was He urged bis auaience to stand by the principles of this socie of the Old wise beads leit. two years ago when the smoke of party battle bad passed of the old flag of the Gemocratic party was still upheid by that grand eld democrat of old, Jonn Kelly, (Slight applause.) ‘ne speaker conciuded with a refreshed the audience witb ome of Strauss’ galopa, The glee club sung the “Sword of Bunker Hill’? A MARYLANDER’S BPRECH. A. Leo Knott, of Maryland, was received with cheers. He #ald:—I nave come from tne pleasant hunting grounds of the South—irom the |and of Carroll and Howard, of Paca and Smaliwood, whose wisdom and vulor contributed so largely to the success of that event whose ninety-ninth ao- Riversary you celebrate to-day. I have travelled | far to be with you to-Aay at tne bidding of your wise Grand Sachem. and of bin whose name is koewa and honored throughout our laud as the organizer of a redecmed - and regenerated Tammany, Hon, John Kelly, ears drank in the wise counsels and great woras of your orators and chieitains, ieel strength- ened by them, and will take them back to my people. ‘They will be glad to know you are | prosperous and powerful; that whatever little | differences there may be among you about the & your own council id be united and Rarmo- | nious when you aga’ the warpath, lookea toward the great wigwam of the mation beiore I left; 1 si nO Smoke arising; the fires were extinguished; the Great Fatver had gone away en bis smoual hunt srodna your wate! ‘This aoes not please our people. a They will make jong bont, never Great Father | him go away shortiy to return, aad put im the White Wigwam: on be as wise as brave, and wil the nation under the winter’s cold and summer's heat, and will always bein when the peopie call upon him, a¢ 1t was im the greatand happy days of the mation. Fellow democrats, tne signs, indeed, | are auspicious everywhere, Everything indica’ that the victor#us career on which the democracy entered two years ago Will not stop short, but will keep right on until the work of restoring goo government 18 fully accomplished; that the udal waye which swept ovér your State last fall di lifted inte oMce on its mighty bosom the sagacions statesman Who 1s now your Governor, will roll on like the Pontic Se | Whose icy current and propulsive force | Knows no retiring ebb. Ibe old and fraudulent | foes bon cries of @ party that has outlived what of usefainess it may have had, but stiil cling efice, have their talismanic power over the peopi A PATRIOTIC IRISHMAN. s Irighman— (applause)—and long ago be bad tried | toprove that everything good and noble in this | country was due to the Irish. (Appiause.) So, for instance, Tammany was founded by Thomas | Meany, an Irishman—people pronounced it Tam’- Many. (Great laughter.) He would admit that other nations had also good stati in tbem, some al- | most as good as the Irish. (Laugnier and ap- | plause.) Butit would not be difficult to prove that every Sachem on the platform had some irish biood tn him—(applaose)—even Jona Kelly had M4 0 | | live. (Great laughter.) If it wad been for the Irish there would been no Declaration of Independemce, no Fourth of July, and hence no ye Bo- city; for what would Pammany Soctety ve without a Pourth ot July: (Applause.) The Friendly Sons 1 8t. Patrick naturalized George Waspingtop and made him aa irisbman. (Leuguter.) Su Ger- mans, Frenchmen and Dutchmea had done ie | service, but it was due to Irishmen that they bad would all be Dalderdast If it did notset jorth that fact. pplanse.) it nad been proposed to bring Queen Victoria over to the Cenienniai—and, sure enough, 4ne would be good for honsenelp in Brook- lyn—but it woud be much better to invite the granddaughter of Charies Tompson, of Maghera, im tne county of Londonderry, or the wife of John Mitchel, toan a descendant of the watppea George IV, (Greats applause.) The band strock up “Dixie” amid loud cheering and the giee club sang “My Couatry, ‘ts of Thee, A boanteous repast, provided oy tne hospitality of the Tstnmany Soci- ety, was then enjoyed by @ large portion of me | audience. THE CINCINNATI. Gay a thing hardiy to be felt or theugnt about. | pg ey Rnd k A] z lee, often the $1 re | There wore no idle stesmbdoats, Alf the old [a- comprenehalve. ‘erm. Patlosophy and ‘mstory Miuar mde-woeelers were charterod and abno- | contribure to its filustration, Both hemispheres @antdy patromized. The favorite pisses of resort, tastes th by em By = ALL a | ery re of Chari: oe tuck as Coney isiand, Rockaway, ort Les and ing—iue Oriental Besides the great DUM~ | 9, 'o Algeria, Enginnd to India ber of excursions by rail and Ausiria to Mongary, Rutsia to Po Kockelle, City Isiand. Gien Cove, Rosiyn or Cold | eration. and Territories. Wiswin mh coumtry aud its TAB PARADE. t *- a rly @@ hall-past seven the troops assembled » Fieansms Valley, had more visitors than they | wellas the tribal reletions c ero © wid well accommodate. Se poy Seg phd Spain to Mivorca and Onbs, Tork were tpoumeravie privace picnic parties. wrnt wi te « free towns, Principeiities ana to Se Brule, Selected nome Point om the Sound—New | gigace and Lorraine; 1” th Spring. Bus tnere were a thousaad atiractions | Switze to ite cantons, [taly to ite isies and peaides the picnic and excursios. ciclen, ur couatry to tts constitacat States id Botwith- ‘The parade of the Virss division, §.0.5,N,¥,, was not the least attractive ieature of tao day. | 9 at their various armories, ana tbe line was formed, the head of the column resting On Fiftn avenue vhe dark ag were fringed with | Im proportion as it le duet of Atal a quarter goverument was there Laberty re- was grven, whe fol ceived from itaid a Without it Do’ Fite aristocracy became 6c! monarohy abso. th Canal street, oudway to | jute, Without it rose to a rf square, where the reviewing stand had alan, better for being near its vend better for coming home fatuer pester ior ust the the better when th? If the ho | girls, Woe to society; government! As is at. Who {3 not ena? unusual exuberance o| ter for paren such ovcasions, AC ti Union square the reviewing stund Rad beca yg erected, and it might bi weil to etate that the matters like sehools arrange ments Im tuls respect Were susceptivie of | repel distant advice ana areas impryyemens. Mb war ouire evident that @ | rages, Whey Of mums Is would net hurt some eve: to their mothers- ate nore hee@ ar home we insalt and Waat of Telations of fed. | the Netherlands to its provinces, | The “Ancient and Honorable Clacinaati celebrated the pinety sary Of (4 establisument yesterday, The gemerai committee assembled as swel' o’ciock, at the rooms of the society library, No, 67 University piace. The chair was occupied by Wiitiam 8, Pop- bam, Vice President, in the absence of Hoa. Ham- titon Fish, the President, ond Mr. John Schuyler | acted “oe pene 4 Foor new @ected—fiacry M. Morris, Alexapder Howmond, Dixon G. Hughes and Wiliam J. Hoppin, Tue fol 7 ENSUING YRAR lag OPFICER® YOR 7 Were electeu :—rrey + Mamiiton Fin; Vice President, Wi Pophain; Secretary, Marinus Willett; Treasarer, AicXander Lamilten, Assistant Treasurer, lersert G, Torrey | Chaplain, Re aacius §. Hutton, D.D.; Pnysictaay Alexauder@linton, M. VW. standing Committe | Pierre Cortiands, Thomas W. Curysti Wil H. Crowby,,donn & Gray, M. b., dona | vier, W. W. Evans, Joun Cochrane aad Ed- ward y. Tapp, ‘The members of the Cineinnati then adjourned | to Delmonico’s, woere a dinuer | Toasts were drunk as follows :— i To George Washington, the first President | mepubo und. oftnercibctanat: ot "rerident of te fy samuel J. Tiden, Goverdor of New York. To Hom. Watailton Fish, Presseat of the Ciuc abe ra Society of the nati. @ Vice President, Mr. voneral There were present General Jonn Cochrane, John W, Greaton and about tuirty owers, Tee annual vunqgast of the society occurs on February 22, HY VETERANS OF 1812. bare on ludependence Dav been streets, police, water, docks, Fire | Sixth regiment, Yesterday they muster partment, improvements and local taxation? ‘The trath is, New York clty charters, like many Otpers, msvead of being coustiiutions for the city, and defining Mmitations, and tion by the city, dave jemisiation, 4 authori Th this home raie Go you suppose that the uals rhor Minuite & couple ef dozen of dollars would so have com- Souta, customs dues and | portation received at uome? We boast o/ a half | Carouna, recognized iu the democratic party a | Connecticut; Senator Francis Kernan, Congress | ‘They had very few | glowing allusion to the Centennial and the band | division of the game, you will se\tie them around | an aT 4 | for the dispia; Mr. W. E. Robinsom saia ne claimed to be an | this couotry to-day, and tke Centennial oratory | cond anniver- | members were | was served. | Vor the past three years the Veverans of 1812 the wuests of the | audiences im spite Of tue he at Miltlary Hail and accepted an invitation to dine at | the Continental Hotel, in Broadway, as the guests of Mr. Merrifield, the proprietor, and Ensign J, Gould Warner, the adopted son of the veterans, Before the dinner hour they considered plied to a letter from veterans of 1912 residing 1m Georgia, who asked their sympathy and aid in | procuring from Congress @ pittance of $8 per month each in recognition of their service to the Ration in ner youth without requiring the iron- clad oath that they had not sided witn the South the corps, informing their Southern comrades that, though» tke corps icel with their brethren the advancing fnfirmities \d age, they have no leve for the act of repu' | cure from Congress that help in the gutumo Of taeir days whica they jee! to be their due aod which & much neéd, Tne veterans present yesterday General Raymond, aged erghty- three; Colonel Jown T. Mildreth a sevent, four; Colonel Isaac M, Phyfe, aged se ney eight; Sergeant Major m. E. Degrove, aged eighty-one; Ebenezer Loud, aged seventy-nine barles | Coombs, aged eighty-one; Zenos Skidm aged | elgaty-four; Fregerick Bergman, aged nty- | nine and @ half; Major Lionel Baum, red eigbty- four; Major John G, Berton, aged e two; | Thomas Bloomer, aged eighty; Timothy 8. Whelan, | aged eighty-six} Corporal W. J. dur d seventy-three and @ quart naplain R, fail, aged eighty; Tuomas Blanck, aged eghty; Corne- hos B, Holsart, aged [Ansel pees | son Darimg (drummer bey), aged seventy-eignt; Nicholas Dull, 1d Be’ aty-elght; bomas | Stewart, aged seventy-six, and Charles K, Crowley, aged elghty-seven When all matte: Correspondence were | comcluded the veterans marched to the Con- Unental, where they enjoyed an excelient qaupner. y of their number appeared in uni- form, whil 1 ef them wore cockades in their hats, After the dioner General Raymond returned thanks, on behalf of the veterans, to their enter- tainer, giving nne cheers, and three cheers for | the “geatiemanly Italian attendants” (muiattoes). | After dinuer the old warriors went into the hotel and stated that about fifteen of sheir number had died im the past year, and that but about forty of them, including General erst Dix, Daniel Drew and Thurlow Weed, were known to be surviving in New York and tts vicin- ity. He recited the following poetry or doggerel printed in the Kentucky papers in 1812; Come all ye brave Kentuckians, Vd have you for to know, ‘Ais tor to fight the British Yoo '@ going for to g Re also recited another verse, opposing the Jef- fersunian policy of embargoing vessels :— ‘Onur ships, all in motion, ne! | | Once wai ocean, They sailed apd returned wit their cargoes; Now doomed to decay, they Nave tallen a prey, Yo Jefferson, worms and embargo. In conclasion, the venerable chaplain hoped that tney mig4t all be spared to see the Centen- nial, Dut told them that all their da, undoubtedly drawing to an end, was then ta) Pecer Peck Dui then sung the song of “solomon’ he was iouuly ppplacd nd ja bey! nated their jollification at three o’cloek by singing “fhe Star-spangied Bannet.”” HOW THE FIREMEN PASSED THE DAY. Notwirhstanding only wne-third of the firemen received their pay on Saturday there was a gon- eral jubilee throughout the department, all the men joining im the celebration of the day with as much spirit asif tney had their pockets lined with greenbacks. ‘Ihe members of No. 32 engine, Under the supervision of thelr 1oremap, Joseph | McGill, gave ndid collation to their friend and in tue evening Lad a fine alsplay of fireworks i front of their quarters. ‘The members of Engine No 7, ¥. Burke, foreman, and Hook and Ladder Ne. 1, F. Reilly foreman, entertained | their friends tuelr quarters, corner bers and Centre streets, Okief Bonnor wi the guests. Messrs. cr ehh hy and Fog r- | intended the whole affair. Oe Company No, 4, in Cedar street, had also a fine dtzp ay of fire- | works in the evening, superintended by Martin | Schade, Assistant Forem: Hook and Ladder | Company No. 6, Engine Company No. 6, Engine | Company No. 8 and many ef the uptown com- panies entertained their frien while some of apparatus were decorated in the most gorge: manner. Among those of note were Hook and Ladder No. 10, Eagine No. 29 and Engines 30, Mandi3. To-day the Comptroller whi pay t Filth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth Ten batailions their salaries for the month of May. THR FIREWORKS. AT THE CITY HALL PARK. A very large crowd assembled im the City | Hall Park is evening to witness the fire- works exhibited by Detwiller, Street & Co., in compliance with ordera received from the Park Commissioners. Twelve pieces trom Dod- Worth’s band discoursed excellent music in honor of the o¢casion, As early as seven | o'clock the people began te assemble to witness the fireworks, The City Halli Park is the onty | breathing place in the immediate vicinity for the | thickly populated districts covered by the Fourth, Sixth and Seventh wards, Here are locatea bun- | dreds of tenement houses, and each might during the summer this park is filled with men, women ) and childrem of our working classes. The extra | attractions of last evening brought out this por- tion of our fellow citizens by thousands, im- | mediately im front of tie maim entrance to the | City Hail preparations bad been made during the | aay in the erection of the necessary timber work + of fireworks. Litue ones iy at the skeleton frames and hurried home anxiously their parents with an earnest request they might be brought to witness the pyro- The evening could not have been more propitious. Cool and refreshing breezes stole over the park and Janued the feverish faces of the large gathering. Tho lousetops im tho | vieinity aiso contained ibeir quota of spectators. | The wollowing ts a list of tue different pieces ex- hivited:—Twemty-nine exhibition pieces, two bompbette fountains, one masked battery, one hor- gnte ascension waeels, two na- 75 patemt signal rockets, twenty- | ve meteor rockets, fiteem pearl rockets, thirty | signal rockets (coloreu), twenty-five large para- to | thas | technic display. | | nets! mest, two Bi | tional fountains, | chute rockets, tem illuminated shells, ten colored ahelis, tem meteoric shells, Sixty pounds colored | fire, sixveen colored vatteries, TOMPKINS SQUARE, This pleasure ground was iiled before dark by Many thousands o the representatives of the thickly populated German neighborhood of whieh | it is the centre, Under the direction of the Park | Commissioners the Messrs. Edge had here | provided a very brilliant display Of exhib. | tion pieces in emblematic Pyrosgchatas, | figaring Liberty. Washington, Justice, &c,, With & profusion of rockets, bombs, wheels, bat- teries, rea fire and all the ed oy Bese of products of tneir art which so please tae popular | eve and gratify the patriotic heart Greaten- | thusiasm and most perfect enjoyment seemed to | pervade the vast assemblage, and bursts of rap- | turous applause followed the discharge of some of the more startling exbibitiona, This exbibition Was also witnessed by many thousands, who covered all the roofs and filled all the windows, from which, a8 from ‘“coigns of Vantage,” @ glance could be secured into the crewded square, UNION SQUARE. In the beantiful plaza in Seventeenth stree between Broadway and Feurtn avenue, the Coui- missioners bad provided one of the Anest exhi- | bitions of the eveuing, uuder the direction of Mr, Jovan W. Hatfleld. Here were displayed, im ali the wealth of color which pyrotechmie art could far- nish, the noble efMigy of the beloved Washington, in company wit tbe Goddess of Liberty and the | Angel of Justice, surrounded by fire of all con- ble colors, pleasant to look upon at proper tance, but frigntiui when comming te close quar- | ters, This display was watcned with eager ana | delightful tnverest by & be} of spectators, fill. } tag the park and street openings adjacent, with | #il the overlooking roof@ ana windows from which @ glimpse at a)l the tery splendors could be got, FLEETWOOD PARK. Our newly annexed rural district, forming the | Twenty-pints ward, had ite show of freworks at Fieetwood Park, wherea large gathering of citi- | zens of botu sexes and all age joyed a brilliant | display Of patriotic set pieces els, Tocke's, bombs, parachutes, and other Wouders Of pyro- | techny. | At THR BATTERY | another great gasneriog of Uo nd assembled to gee the hreworks, many Ol (he Spectators coming from Brooklyn via the Sout ferry and Bamilion ferry. There no set pieces were Gisplayed, tne | exhibition consisting Wholly of rockets, bombs, parachutes and other ucrial fireworks. Similar Gispiays were made at Wasuington square, Grand street and Laat Broadway, Jackson square, Canal street Park, Broagway ‘and Seventh avon 0, Fort Washingiou, Morningside Park, and Third avenue ana Kighty-niavh street. Bach attracted a large orowa of people Who were delighted wite the uls- plays. THe THEATRES AND SUMMER GARDENS. ROBINSON BALI. The Begiish version of “Girofé-Girofa4” con- tinties to attract popt attention at this cosey | litte now It had now reached ite eighth week and promises to bold Ooms against the utmose eforts ofOld Sol. The pleco gains in attraction yrom the presence of the Family Trouflie, whose cancan {sone of the pieces de résistance of the Jeast ofered vo the pabilo OLYMPIO THEATRE, The attractiot t this house were massed in henor of Indepe e Day, The bill, usually | strong, proved #0 active as to draw in large with “Yan and re- | Bar kee in «common | solr of | on them by dt | been exceeding! | street Hart he ‘Big Four, siaea by an artistic host, seb tho weatier at demenec. GILMORZ'S CONCERT GARDEN. There was a very large attendance at this charm. ine meen gardén last pigot, The programme bd arran; naence Day, began Boodle eevee: up with pani Banner,” There was, however, e i eclal prominence given to the mone” of Seotiand, and way in which the sum pie and touching melodies of the “Land 0’ Cakes” were received shows how Welcome poputar m: Is 10 the people. Mr. Gilmore, in coming down irom the classic heights to tho jevel of understanding aud in the late unpleasantness, Is was agreed that | taste, bas stown a real appreciation of a popular Colouel John T. Hildreth should reply ou bebalf of | Want, and the result is seen io the spiendid sup- ‘which bis garden receives from tae Arbuckie and Mr, Levy played their deligutrul d the marks Of “apprectation bestowed i immense andience must have ic: opie. ir. it fatiering to these artists, Mr, the old flag or any efforts to break down by | Levy’s “Amer! Polka,” “introducing the Srmed. Teveliiom the sacred Union for which taey national airs, brought down thanders of applause, all foughs six! rs ago, and, moreover, that | sud ang with ony effect the fine | the veterans selves have not enough in- | Sug, “The Sword o Bunker ef | uence witn oar presens poiltical leaders to se- ‘THOMAS’ GARDEN, ‘This elegant retreat of the uptown people of fasion was crowded last night. Am admirably selected programme mace the evening hours pass 80 Bw away that when tle last pote of tue overture from Flotow had died away it was dim- cult to recognize that the periormance fer the evening was over, The programme includsd selections from ‘*Masanieilo,’” ‘Midsummer Nig! Dream,” “Rienzi,” £o., which were ren- a with tbe wonderful precision and breadth go Jor which Tnomas! orcuesira bas become WOOD'S MUSEUM. Mr. Sheldon delighted the patrons of this house last nignt tn tne startling local melodrama, “Blackwell's Isiand,? which was lmmeasely re- isned by she horny-banded sons of \oll Who Beek in this theatre relaxation from their daily toll, Not even the attraction of the fireworks was sul- Acient to induce these votaries of the drama to forego the Dieasurable excitement furnisaed by ‘the sensational drama. A CHAPTRE OF ACCIDENTS. Joun Saunders, aged fourteen years, acetdentally shot himself im tne hand, Takem to the Niuety- ninth street Reception Hospital, Bridget O'Brien, aged Mfty yesra, of No. 29 Greenwich street, Was accidently shot tn the kip non which prematurely discharged. Charles Den- niston, WhO loaded the cannon, was arrested. Joha P. Schaffer ayed fourteen, with several companions, Were shooting at a target in the back yard of Schaffer’s residence, No, 223 avenue A. A Btray shot struck &® bottle flied with powder, ox- ploding tho Same and scattering tue picces of the giasa with great force in every direction. le- suit:—Schaffer severely wounded fa the right leg ‘and arm; Henry Gunbach, aged twelve, lacera- tien of face aad right hand; Onarles Guabach, aged seven, face injured. The injurtes of Henry Gunbach were so severe ss to necessitate lis re- moval to Believue a. ‘Thomas Brannon, aged twelve, oi No, 87 Sullivan street, had his wand shattered while pas wita @ small loaded cannon on Watts atreat, Os pital. Ann Smith, of Sixty-seventh street and Highth meant was accidentally shot in tue arm by Louisa oin, Conrad Gagel, aged thirteen, of No. 56 Gonver- eur street, nad the thumb and forefinger of bis eerpeed blowa ef by the explosion of some uwder, ‘e Lewis Davidson, os sixteen years, of No, 163 Hadson street, had his eye seriously injured by tne expiosivn of powder. Martin Canty, aged fifteen years, of No. 404 Greenwich street, had bis forefinger blown of by the explosion Of # pistol wita wuich he had been shooting, By the exploston of & small cannon Pau! Speek, aged fourteen years, Was injured tm the face, but ot seriously. Jobn Naly, aged sixteen, living.at No. 11 Jay had the for stree efluger of nis right hand sbat- ee 6 Tait set | of @ pistol Taken to the ‘ar 1, aged fourteen, of No, 25 Wooster Street, Was accidentally shot in tae breast, but not seriously, Henry and Isaac Weinberg, aged respectively thirteen and seveu years, had their bands bady burned by powder. Emil Grisnter, aged fourteen, had Dis left hand severely injured by the explosion of fireworks. A box named Williams, itving at No. 410 West Forty-first street, unintentionally discharged a pistol loaged with shot in the midst of a* number of persons sitting on a neighboring stoop, injuring the toliowing:—James Kyles, lorty-tive; Lany, eighty-two; Ellen Lay, forty, and Michael Kingle, flity-five. Police Suygecn Waterman dressed their wounds, wilica, although pain‘ul, are not severe, Wiliam Green, aged six years, of No. 33 Ridge street, Was slightly burned om the neck oy hro- crackers, Owen Kettle, a boy, Itving at No. 175 Bank t, accidentally shot two o! bis compantons— James Ryan and John Smutu, in the knee, The aes pF Tt le iar : var! geldort, fourteen years, had hia thucb blown off b: ir explosion of a pistol. Elizabeth Rourke, twenty-two years of age, of No. 66 Serif street, was struck in the right eye by a ball from @ Romar candfe while passing through Sherif street last night, She was takea home. About eight o'clock last nignt the roof ofthe four story brick butialng No. 427 Hudson street took fire from some fireworks and was slugnily met At {-past seven last night ‘gf tebe rty-two years of ege, of No. 314 West Forty- fourth street, was shot if the forehead, on the corner Of Forty-tuird street and Eighth avenno, by some Unknown person. Sne was attended to + Delancey street station house and sent om Thomas Curley, of No. 83 Mulberry street, while firing off a pistol last night, was spot in the rignt hana and severely iajured, Frank Gordon, ‘on years of age, of No, 206 Eighta avenue, had his left eye slightly injured by a ik cartridge fred from @ pistol in the banda of George'H. Parker, of No, 251 West Twentieta street, on the corner of Twentieta street and Eighth avenue. He wae taken home. john Donnelly, fourteen years of of No. % TY Street, had nis bana severely sliattered by remature dischsrge of a piscol on the corner Sford and Downing strects. Jonn Brady, eighteen y of age, residing at No. 231 East Yhirty-fith street, while firing of a non In iront of his residence had Nis right hand shattered by its bursting. taken home. Alexand: Pifiy-eigh Odell, aged eleven, of No. 235 Fast }) Was sot in the leg by a caa- o’olock last might. He was brought home by tae police, IN BROOKLYN. The sainting ground on Fort Greene was tho scene of the fring Of @ national salute at sunrise. mont, at the Navy Yard, was handsomely deco- rated with variegated bunting, and the crew were in full uniform, At noon the batteries of the “vid Guards” rung forth their salutation. Tne City Hall and County Court House were lib- erally decked witha multitude of fags and stream- ers and looked well. Very many private dweil- ings and all the pudiic busidings boasted pretty colors. The police were ail held in reserve, as is usual upon suck oecasions, which has not taken place in Brooklyn sor several years on the Fourth. The military display con- sisted of the Fifth brigade, unaer command of Colowel Joseph Barger. The organizations ae tached to we Fifth brigade assembied at hall-past eight o'clock, and formed tn iine on Clinton ave- nue, with their right rosting on Myrtle avenue, Shortly asiter mine tne brigade moved, the route of march being down Myrtle avenue to Cumberiand street, As the eom- mand fied past the reviewing stand, on the later street, they were reviewed by Mayor Hunter and severat members of tho Common Council. ‘The regiments consisted of tne fuir- teenth, Colonel James Jourdan; Fourteentn, Colonel James MoLeer; Fifteenta battalion, Liow tenant Colonel Myenbor, wenty-ei Colonel Burger, and separate troop of eavairy. ‘The men looked well and were frequentiy ap- pianded along the route. Pa marched to Lafayette avenue, tuence to Falton to Montague street, to Memry street, to Cranberry sireet, where they were disvissed. Prospect Park was thronged with visitors (he lvelong day, und abounded im maitiMrions av tractions, The roads were covered with band- lawn, pleasare boats were skimming ovor righ’ Waters of the lak: id the revenue of Omiral”? O'Brien wai Miniature aa tested their relative won vict suttered defeat to sorrow of their owners, the t ‘ed, bd A Joy or The Park Commissioners proviced an atr concert in the afternoon, under the lei ip of Loaterno. The Skelter Cottage and the Dairy were resoried to by Randreds, wo par- took of refreshments With apparent pleasur Fireworks wore splayed at Port Greene plaza, ik Union avenue istrict, and Seventh avenues ts, South Brooklyn. polats bands of musio also contri public entertainment. Tho City Hail ely Lilumimated, CASUALTIES. Zevedinn Chadbourn, aged eleven years, waa badly burned about the face by the premature | digcharge of a # vail cannon, ly in the morning, take to hia home, No. 807 Broadway. Alfred Paint, ‘oart rs oid, residing at No, 119 Olasson ave and very severoly injured by the wad from acan-— dane | Of course the chief ieature of the celebration | was the parade of the National Guard, aneveut | | surrendered himself yesterday mourning on hears He was cared lor and | pon and dangerousiy wounded, about eigos | Asaiute was also fred frem the bead of Stagg | street, The United States receiving ship Ver- | | | some equipages, cricket clubs wielded the vat on | a ~ at tt o'clock, by the accidental discharg@ ace ch he was loadi the time, istol exploded in the ats of samuel ears of ag, injuring two o! his ly as to regwire amputation, jw York. ce, hi No, 220 York blreet, dwelling about balt- ght A. M., when Le Was suot in the lets id side by & pisto) bail fred by some up- r His wounds are not serious, o'clock William Urotsiey, Of 1, Was in ‘ho avt OF discharging » Os Himself through the left hand. wound was dressed at the College Hospital, of No. 150 Huron street, was shot east With & pistol ball, by @ boy Metry, of No, 154 of the same e\reet. he lung, dicing a very serious nd James McMahan, of Ao. 9a arrested and are meld to awatn injuries inflicted. The shooting A boy named Swanly, living at No. 17 Fultem strees, while piayiny ofa o residing nt of Diy with a powder flask, corner of Atlantic and Brookiyn avenu esterday afte! rely burned al uauds PHO! and eee ent to ta» Mospital George Keir, of No. 3 MoVonough street, was also burned by the explosion uf powde: Louis Golde, nineveca youre old, was arrested by onsoee o cnaness or ql P Linn Seeses Weg shooting Hear: aged eleven years, = | lantio street, near urd avecue. the ball passed , ‘his right arm ana lodged tn his side, The not jatal, William Daly. filteen years old, shot himself in the let breast all, Inficiing m with & pistol wound which may prove lata, His parenisreside at No, 19 Bolivar street. Churies Schneider, residing at No. 58 Leonar® street, while firing a navy revvlver, accidentally snot Charies spans yer, of No. 62 Leonard sireet, in the right lung. Tae wounded man was attended by Poltee Surgeon Lowenstein, who pronounced: the wound Jatal. Thomas and Edward Fitzpatrick, of No. 18¢ Navy atreet, were seriousiy burned abous the head and face by the explosion of a package of owasr, BE were taken noe, a james E. Kelsey, aged twent¥-seven years, an residing at No. 221 Tenth street, was badly burned Jace aad eyes by the barsting ol @ 2) about t cannen, Jonn Recker, aged twenty-one years, residing! | at No. 48 Nurch First street, iost the sight of oné of bis eyes by a piece Of pistol cap lodging t) Charies Hughes, of No. sod B dentany shot Wiliam Miler on Saturday eve dug of Miller’s deatn. He Was discharged bar Coroner Noian to appear when called on, Miss Mary Fariey’s clu:nes were set on fire by the explosion of & firecracker om Grand sireet, near Ninta, yesterday moriing, Being of tm ub wert lightest material, they blazed up rapidly, aa quickly extinguished vy Messrs, Goouwin an Myers, who sacrificed their coats ior that purpose. Mary escaped With a slight scorch, gohn Ruelm, aged eleven years, was instantly Killed at hali-past four o’cluck yesterday after+ noun ta froat of the residence of hia parents, Nod 243 Mopkins street, by tae hep sep of @ sma) cannon, Peter Wehnert, aged twenty years, 0: No, 722 Fingniag avenue, who fired the cannon, ¢ Sixth sud-preeinct police and, ri iy action ot the Coroner. accidentally shot in thi breast last event whue siting on the steps ol her reaidence, No. 124 Norta Fourta street. Octman, of No, 123 North Fourth street, wno fl tae shot, was arrested. The wound 1s not tatal, IN WESTOHESTER COUNTY, Independence Day was enthusiastically cele. brated throughout Westchester county. From early dawn to long after nightfall the incessan® discharge of small arms, the occasional booming of cannon, the general display of bunting whitch greeted the eye on every sie, and the bappinead visible in the ieatures of both young and old, far mished abundant evidence that the amor pairis = buras with undiminished teryos in the hearts of the peopie. et on the Hudson River and m railroads re grounds, where lage: shee attractions, a gave avery creditable entertainment, COnRLStL of vocal and instramental musical the spacious chapel connected with tion, aad which was enjoyed by all of male inmates besides @ number of visitol trom the neighborneod, Belore petng maccned their cells the jatlbirds were furnished with extra dinner, and for the remainder of tne di were permitted to enjoy themselves as best ney might in their ceils, At the Uatholic Protectory,, in Westchester, the day was aiso made an occas sion of fun ana feasting for the many hundreds of doys and giris in that beneficent retreat ON BSTATEN ISLAND. The celebration yesterday was quite general throughout Richmond county. The church beli¢ and chimes were rung at early morn, American flags were dispiayed {rom the Satlors’ Snug Har< bor at New Brighton, the Seaman’s Retreat at Stapleton, the new yacht clad house, all the pub< te institutions and many private residences, Tha yachts and pilot beats oif the ciub house were gayly decorated with colors from stem to stern ‘The boats of all the crowded dur ing the day, Social of the pubite and private groves about the Island. ‘Yoe Bethe! Methodist churca at Tottenvilie, St. John’s Episcopal cbarca at Rossville and tha Evtingville Episcopal churon had festivals. Thi ladies of th imed church at Port Richmon and Mariuers’ Harbor held a fair and testival, did those of Baptist church at iteville, In Winant’s Grove, Ti Grace Metuodisy church held a festiy: i, North Shore. held at tue Africam Methodist Ziel ral ‘al wi cburch | Mariner’s Harbor, Tuere was @ picnic at scamidv’ Grove, Four Corners. Tne Stapleton Rifle Olu’ nad @ practice matcn at Cedar Grove. Tne Fac~ voryville Boat Club had several rowing matches on the Kill you Kull, The Summerfield Metnodist church, Mariners’ Harbor, had @ free entertain- ment in the ebarch, St. John’s Lutheran Courck had a iree picnic at Deeke Tae Staten Island Base at New Brigaton. Ferry Company ran trains over their road dur Muller, of New York, while celevrating at Silver Lake, Tompkimsville, yesterday, ad ai hand shattered by explosion of a pistol badly that tt is feared amputation may be neces~ wary. IN NEW JERSEY. AT NEWARK. Agreeably to the arrangements made by ther Special Committee appointed by the Loard of Common Council @ national ite was fired at sunrise yesterday morning at Washington Park, a, federal salute at noon ai Military Park and a final one at sunset at Washingtoa Park. For balf an: hour at the time of the several salutes the varioum churches throaghous the city rang their bells and( coimes periormed & Variety of national uirs, A, procession of wnilitary, the police and Fire Depart ment, under the command of General Piuuie, Ser- yin Bergan and Ohie! Hngineer Brown, ‘ormed iD jine at eight o'clock in the Milltary Park, and after being reviewed at the Oliy Hall oy thet Mayor and Common Council marched through the; principal eae which were gayly decorated: along the line of macch with flags, banners and! evergreens, ’ The Mayor expressed himself thoroughly satisned at the smars and eMcicut ap- pearance ol the men, IN TRENTON. Independence Day was celevrated yesterday tp, Trenton with more tho ordinary enthusiasm... Nearly every place of business was Ciosed, aud the Bireets Were thronged turoughout the day and eveuing by people, young and old, white and col~ ored, dressed in tneir bese holiday attire. Hxear- sions, pipnicd, social reunions and military parades were the order of the dey. Company A, Seventh regiment, paraded the streets early in the morn~ ing, Beaded by @ band of music (a6 is their custom on every Fourth of Jaly), and companies U and formed into line aad preceeded to Hightstown to attend the unveiling of the soldiers’ monu~ mens at that piace, Tho most remarka- ble feature of tne day was & rate of Lapin ad Railroad employés,, ting of engin » tremens, brakemen, artil- ers, [laborers umd others, tarough the principal rtions of the city, attiied in THE DAY masquerade cos umes, Abont 100 men were in line, In ibe after- noon an exciting base bali match took piace be~ tween tho Pavonia, Jersey Uity and the irenten nines, Which attracted alarge concourse of peo~ pis, Everything passed of quietiy. Nptional sa- lates were fired a¢ sunrise, wood and slnset from. the State Arsenal, The city was gayly decorated with fags and ali kinds o/ national bunting. The Society of Cimeinnati, the memvers'ip con- sisting of tue descendants of the Revoluionary War, a8 18 tts custom Reld their annual meting. This soctety origimally Oonsisted oO: eight breaches, bat owing so the death of members bas now dwin~ died aown to five, aid are located in New York, iepemaeneeny, Maryland, Seuth Caro- ‘anh New Jersey, There was a large ance at the meeting to-day. The fo lowing oMicers were elected lor the eusuing year:—.(’resi- dent, Jaage L. @ U. Mimer; Vice President, Dr. Cy ; Secretary, F, B, Ogden; Treasurer, W. i Cuapiain, Rey. Luther Halsey. Dele- gases. to tho ‘al Convention—Judges Elmer and Nixom, Rev. Dr. Beatty and Colonels A. M. Coraming and ©, 8. Sims. Alternates—F. B. Og- den and Judge J. B. Scoit. ‘The proceedings tor minated with @ grand banqaer, A reunion will be held # Philadelphia im September of the Venten- nial year. AL JONG BRANCTL During the day great centre of interest was the races, which arew a very large attendance. His Bxoellency President Graat attended the cele bration at Ocean Grove Methodist Camp Meeting Grounds, where he listened to the readin; of the Deciaration of Independence by Dr. Stokes. Ho held © Feceptian &t the saime piace alter tne con- clusion of the regular programing, Inthe evening he attended @ musical reception at the cottage residence of his neigabor, George W. Childs, Moat,of the hotels treated their guests in tho evening to @ aninte of artillery, followed by music and @reworks, which were witnessed and enjoyed phot tazgugh the | Py the whole porigauent aud ramen h vOvUstLUs