The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-03-17
ST. PATRIcK,s DAY.
military Parade-The U.ual Profession Posts
pOned.

military Parade-The Usual PROCESSION Posts
poned.
In consequence fthe 18th March occurring during
Holy Week the Irish societies lave deemed 1t best TO-
postpone the celebration Of the birth OF st. Patrk unit
the oath instant when, a. We judge from the arrange
made the annual return II the natal day Of
lands patron saint will be observed with even
than The usual ecla.
The Irish military regiments however, will not wait
until ihs 24h inst, but will parade to-day az viii be-
BY the anrsysd orders =
NINTH RxGxENT N. Y. s. NILITIA--REGMENrAL Or
DERS NO. 3.
1ht regiment win parade overcosts, nspecaon and
The Regiments. II win be formed in La Fsyee place. tho
right o. e., Gisa. Jones' sIse att o'clock M p,scissiy
parade sround. BY order OF LUCIUs PITKIN, Co one.
r. PATos, AdJ't.
The Goth Regimeat Colonel Ryan, viii muster to-day
fer parade At the City Armory, Of White and Elm
Streets at O'Clock r. NJ Themes the line Of march viii
be down Centre street TIE gate the Park
ing the Park and up Broadway to Twenty street,
passing through Twenty third street. First and
Houston street, to the Bowery down the Rowefy and
Grand street to the City Armory, and oiauiss.
slxrY-NINTH REGIMENT, NEW YORK STATE MILITIA
ORDERS NO. 20.
HEADQUARTERS. NEW YORK, March 8, 1876
ON rsseni w uy uniformed and equipped
Comnandans non Commissioned star and Band Master
. M &c q is %
Fled sa cheers viii report The Oommsncant
coiors 70 and from he parade
s d s Unit d and sSe con .as
respected accoI dinghy
viii Be respeo Cd sccordnsis o'''' '''' 20
and
ony s sn S d dSg II % % IN
viii Ss nesting Of dc officers q dc regiment at the
cry % be fds s sSsnS @ s sSs.y m
Tuseds,, he 2Sh instant at O'Clock r. NJ il full
Sspsin klOrd.n end Lieutenant McKeOu v,l conduc. hs
on .asyf ne ss 4 *; ss
,s lied snd ssS OH Vii s!.nount.a to he Com
Non commissioned staff will report to the Adu,sn. a. tho
NO be worn Sy nu.
cs s company WIN Dc psf""sa 70 appear IN over
censss psrsdss herein ordered viii Be held n APRIL
@ s, Il s and
msnds 70 tho sitting Of the COURT Of Appeals Friday he
JoaS Nct1rTAs Aiju,sni JAMES r. RYAN is coloue.
We understand the Ninth Regiment, Colonel Pitkin
viii form In Lafayette place in the forenoon and viii
march thence to the City Armory to Join with the Sixty
ninth and Seventy fifth regiments.
1t will be from this that the real Simon Pure St
Patrick's day will be duly observed after all.
There great many CONT adictory acsounts aoat
as to st. Patrcks real birthplace. Indeed auda-
and that his saintshp my u. hey argue that the
first detailed account Of him written in the 18th
century, by Jocelins, Ostercian monk, eight
centuries after st. Patrick said to have
Aouri'hed, AID all the intervening histories monk
ish fables. The Patrick they say, is corruption
Of Paricus or Patcian person OF rank and education
among the Romans and in the minds Of the semi bar
bsrous lrish the designation eventually to be sgn
fcant Of civilization and refnement and when the
religion preached by easy process, the edu
Gator the rener indvidualzed and called Patricus
Patrick Bot this course Ct argument has been deem
ed monstrous heresy by all good ishmen who produce
letter written by ST. Patrick himself to Cosotic
Welsh prince In which he he was born in Bonsven
TabrunG Scotland, and that his fathers Cal
phurnius But to this may be objected that though
St. Patrick was wise child, his parentage doubt
full matter ~ other MEMS and ones birthplace Ia only
known from hsafy evdetce, which is Of course load
mssibe In any hit ~ The fact that st. Patrick
kind of an ancient Matse whose nativity 10 as yet
decided, and w doubtless. remain 90 a. long there
are two lrshmen left to fight about 1t.
Usher and Tillemont both sgree 10 fixing St. PAtrcks
birth in the year S12 TIE ormer writer however, states
that he died in 49 while the latter says ass the
The legendary tale that st. Patrick banshed all the
vencmous reptiles from Ireland is sscreded from tho
TACT that Sonus who ourished two centuries before st.
Patrick, mentions that vipers there;
end the same circumstance noted by lsadore, Bsde.
Donahue and others 1t Is certainly true that pss
viii live In that country and those that have been In
noduced siekened and died after their arrival So
much for st. Patcks day and its observance this year.