New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-05-31
IL STRIRHAN TOWNS.

Despite the rain a large crowd assembled
about noon Wa-hiugjO PARK Stapleton, :. l.. to wit
ness the services under the auspices % the Board o
Supervisors. Company b Of the 9th Eegimcn',a COM
pauy Of the Irish Volunteers. and Rankin Post, g. 4 r.
were drawn up line. aud several hundred school chill
drcu carving various floral offerings, present
Brief addresses were made by Judge Wcsicrv"lt ana
Erastns Brooks MI Brooks reviewed briefly the hstOr
cal events which were recalled by the place lie added
"Wlie Congress dchbrrdtcs upon standing armies OF
OOOO or $4,000 men. upon consolidated and skeleton
regiments upon retired officers and large small pay,
our citizen soldiers all experience teaches ~, are the
safety % the State and the chief defence of natonsycs
and the cheapest defence OF nations Ia the free VIII
alone of an untramnced ana intelligent people rests pub
lie order free from all terror and public virtue free from
despOism ana tyranny. These are the only sae pillars
Of the Republic Differences Of opinion Of creed, and
OF party there will be, just as there arc cihercrces OF
climate With harmony above in all the planets, order
and system in all the earth aud IN all nature there must
be order below and TO him and them. now and FOR
ever who draws the sword except IN defence OF his
country and mankind. At =. IN the visiting party
from NewYOrk arrived, consisting Of Dahlgrcn Post
No ll3, G. 4. r. and company OF Hawkins Zouaves.
The line OF march along the shore road 10 ST.
Peters Cemetery and thence to the WoOdlawn and
CoOpcrs Cemeteries. In the morning services were held
In many OF the churches. The children connected with
St. Marys Roman Catholic Church, Clifton, assembled
IN the church, at 10 a. NJ, and were marched TO the
steamboat landing 10 receive thdhaI hcNooh'y' iH'y
escorted him to the church where he administered the
rite Of confirmation TO large number Inc chuch was
crowded to It's utmost capacity.
The Commissioners of Emigration and the Executive
Committee OF the Irish Emigration Society made visit
of nspccliOn, yesterday, 10 the Institutions on wards
Island which under the care Of the Board OF EmigIa
ton. They were accompanied ny many lhvlcH RucsiF'
among Richard a. Perry. OF 81 Georges 30
cicty EX-Judgc Quinn, IOhcCJustice smith, d. y AD-
bott II the LIIe Railway Company, and William j. Don
nelly Of the Em grant Industrial Savhes bAhh. poi
tiou of the afternoon spent IN visits 10 the Insane
asylum and hospital the island Tho party
then went 10 the residence OF the Rupcflu-
intendcnt, Colonel Krehbic whore dinner
served After the rcpast James Lynch Commissioner OF
Emigration spoke at length tho work Of tie commits
and the character OF The emlgals undcr lis care.
The management Of the institutions Oh Wards Island was
highly commended 1t was stated that me dcaih rate
there lower than in any rnllar stllu ilos III to
world The excursion TO and from the island was made
OH board the steamboat William Fletcher. which was
decorated with flags in honor OF the DAY.
The Observance OF Decoration Day on Long Island,
outside of Brooklyn, general than Tor several
wears past From early morning the avehucA OI trvcl
rom Long Island CITY and Williamsburg 10 the Cal
vary and Lutheran Cemeteries, were thrOn@eu WIN
pp0pe bearing floral offerings for the decoration OF thc
crave. In Flushing the day began with review OF
the Ncreus Boat Clue the creek. The procession was
formed Broadway at p NM M ..e, oit S,ouna
street parade me column peo was tbn Town in
The Grafton was delivered by Dr. X s. Bacon p0st Cen
eral George g. Meade e. A. H. T hai W Milton Oh and Co"
oncI " g. A. schaeier delivered addresses III hSorheau
the exercises i'll tbs village cemetery TOOK piafo a.
John r. Reid Babylon. The residents OF Greenpolnt
vicinity had their celebration at ORIENT where nd
dresses made by the village clergy inc rev pr.
Gurr OF East Marion, ana others A procession theh
marched 10 Monument iii, where the tOidioiS mOnu-
ment and the graves were decorated.
AT New Rochelle all the graves Of soldiers buried on
Dayds Island, the Episcopal Catholic Flandreau aLh
Upper Ecw-Iochele cemeteries were decorated early
Yesterday morning. At III a. about hy grayes were
dresses wero delivered By Warren Ia"ton,