The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-28

DECORATION DAY.-The various Posts of the
Grand Army of the Republic will devote them
selves or Monday to the decoration of the graves
of those who fell during the late Rebellion. At
a recent meeting of the different commanders
the programme of decorating the graves in the
cemeteries was arranged as follows
Post No. 2, Monument; Post No. 3, all west of
Passyunk road; Post No. G. Germantown; Post No.
s, Glenwood; Post No. H. Laurel Hill Mount Peace,
and Mount Vernon; Post No. 10, Woodland anu
Mount Moriah; Post No. 27, Lebanon and Pniadel-
pha; Post No. II, all east of Passyunk road; Post
No. 16l, Mechanics, Legion of Honor, Odd Fellows.
The Posts viii form IN Independence Square at
O'Clock A. NJ, and at half-past O'Clock, under
Major A. II. Calhoun, Commander of the Depart
ment of Pennsylvania, will march up Walnut street
to Twelfth, thence TO Chestnut, thence to Broad at
which point the line will break and each Post viii
proceed 10 the cemetery to wncht may be assigned.
The members participating will dark clothes,
fatigue caps, and white gloves the officers will wear
the regulation uniform.
The following shows the number of graves of
soldiers received from hospitals in city aud
vicinity to be decorated -Glenwood, 702; Lafay-
cite, "a; Lebanon, 1885, Mount Moriah, 450 Odd
Fellows, 277; United American Mechanics, IL;
Woodland, u.s.
p. NJ. on the same day. the Legion OF Honor and the
the Weccacoe Legion have decided to perform the
work assigned tomorrow afternoon. The former
will form at their headquarters, No. 1914 Coates
street, at q O'Clock, and proceed to Odd Fellows
Cemetery, where the ceremony will be proceeded
with. The address will be delivered by Captain
George w. Curry. The Weccacoe Legion will leave
their armory, and, after short parade, will be di
teries in which their dead lie.
A feature in the exercises of Monday will be the
appearance of the Z. ID. Baker Post No. s, Colonel
Eli G. Sellers commanding. While turning out in
full force themselves they will take with them
hundred and fifty OF the children from the Soldiers
Home, who VIII be transported in the largest Omni-
bus in the United States. The company of Cadets
IRON the home, numbering about forty, will para lie
with the post, armed with muskets. on their arrI-
val at the cemetery the children will decorate the
grave OF OF their little comrades who is buried at
Genwood. The prayer will be given by Rev. e. w.
Hutter, ID. D. tae Grafton by Rev. j. Spencer Ken
nard.
A large civic procession, accompanied by four
companies OF infantry and battery OF artillery
will parade on the occasion of decorating the
graves OF soldiers in Camden and take part in the
ceremonies. Thirty young ladies have been selected
to place the flowers on the graves and the Rev. z.
L. Davies, OF New York, is to deliver the grafton.
The address on the occasion OF the decoration OF
the graves in Germantown and Chestnut Hill by Post
No. will be delivered by Hon. Horace Maynard, of
Tennessee. Extensive preparations are being made
by the citizens of Frankford to decorate the soldiers
Hill Cemetery. The Sabbath schools will turn out
dSse led by the Soldiers and Sailors Union ana
other civic bodies, and will march in procession to
the cemetery, accompanied by the Frankford Cornet
Other speakers will be present, assisted by several
clergymen of the place. Music from the United
States Arsenal will also be present
THE INAUGURATION of CORTLAND Saunders Col
College, ThTty-ninth street, above Market, will
take place on Monday evening next. The pro-
gramme is unusually attractive, and very inter
estiDg occasion may be confidently expected. Ad-
dresses will be made by Honor Mayor Fox, who
will preside, by Rev. Dr. Nevin, Judge Peirce, Hon,
S. b. AXte, M c., Rev. DR.. Butler, Dr. Willis Rev.
DR.. Kynett. and other distinguished speakers. THIS
seminary, in which many OF our younger profess
sional men and men OF business were educated, was
chartered with collegiate powers by the last Legs-
lature.