• • pr•-i - risl•nt set iyes to tvithont reaurd to its form of government. The qualifications 'requisite for electors 0 f the most numerous f,a);(11 4 , , Nit. .1 10 life betty - of she people, but be enjoyed ex- ClUolcrtr _t edideo i ? e . 1.„ J ~La.. 11 ifn yrr n00n ., " snell (little v,,,,iison ! !: definition, be not, stecording to - • - at Repnl::ii-so: state. !oil t u t olsmrchy, Avh[ell Milks: COUld the 1.0111111(.1'S Or our GOVerll - !hal C011"1 , , , 'lO to • lt;t1 o _ ;„ m u , ;lea hat mg au. aunty to make L.„„ 'tail ii" pea d le anj Si”trx, Alm] d b 0 vompo.-oti lit ‘ 0,,,h, h: Of 3:111 , t, , ..“ Or Or till "tyratraltal nristoerat-y v al)have - Ho sympathy with the peo ple. a OrCSI. iu (•011111.,i1 -nein they flit (101 - CVO ffil'7l I,,hould exereise no ionhority or card col isver state institutionsomi have a o right to protect I lie:people of n St vii' from °minis:dee rulers, !Pr the people of the United stales from the rai-ehievou , intim-nee of such rulers in the I,•?islation of the count ry? The CoAst itatiOtt itself Inewers the tinestion *The United States shall ail:lra:live o i•very 'Mate is lite Union a republican form ,if g“. Verllllll-111:" Tlllll IS, tteeotiiing , to 3[r. Matti poli, a Goverlllia 11l which derives all its rowers f irrrd body at the 11e(4j , ? , .` : of, Itecurab;g to the fundamental principle of the 3:enro w, i on, a coverwuent whieh shall • 144411 iintliCllnblil rights of Lefty. and 11wpm - snit of happiness," c deri - iny itv;enapou-rivahq consent of the go t wn,cd. Tilts .maraitt ee is lilt:vital spark of the whole a• - vst (mints ieb America accepted and ordain 'hen We add to this the further prorishm, Chat *env - is itouse (of Congress) shall be the judge of the elections, returns, acid atailifieu vow of vwe foeuthors," the power to pro oet tool /crate the liberties Of the 'people, 1 hrough popular representation, - is complete. truly republican Congress is the common Tight of the American people; anti snob a COII• grl`ss tuns(. never be tainted or corrupted by this spirit of slavery,tto matter what :Om of cirores , ion Or Of ituristiee that, spirit may assume. The adrhonition should, be written IEIIOII its outer and inner walls: "Let 70 one Cider lic-re ale, deaf es the it vat of ,the decktratioa ewe oil mien. are created mud:" This was the Congressilmmali trldch the nom of the i(UVO. /Milo]) CXl)(2et(Si America 1 o beettme a shinia , light to the nal ions of the earth. There was bat little agitation in the public lninti 011 subleer of slavi - ry oat P. the appli cation of into the mote. li seems not to have been aul icipaied that nadir o.O . Sysl t.-11l Of gm - el . /mutat such a 31crnieoLus Iflitat could flourish very lot er iii Alnel'n-0. Indeed, the 1 houghts of the petiple :hiring 0 considerable pe.rl of the first tighter. yesti,,,ruw e , lit art - were less .3.h.,.. (4 ,1 1 0 lb, !..:-.th . jet2 or I, si:ro shivery Ideal 10 their rehlliims with their old oppresAlf. we, at War with I'nd - die, heeall.iia the - 111.q,ple ball caught the spirit of the AleieriCati llevedation, mid souglit dellverailee front a despotic iloverhasent. Always true to adavery, she sided wit it despotism, and phuved into a war to sin:press the spirit of refocin That seat- ils Slay into the Iwo rt. of llllrope. Slit . had no other of 'jeer to aceam pti i. Autt - riea being a neutral, Twit ellgi'o , sell thiCi Part or the carrying tr.oleof tile wore 1, and va t , mplaly 1.1,- , lOkr to intportanee as a nutrition' power, Oui• 'dog Was CYC•rrivltvre, and E)1"103111rOS011red it should be nowhere. it vas to is ti riveo from tho ocean, not by le gitimate war, but he all order la Ac cordingly. the OD ie - r was Issued, and bore it is : • lho lions and plates of France and her lull ies, from n - hieh, though not at war with his litt,jet-Iy, the rirliisit llag excluded, shall be asul•ject to Ihe same rest fictions in res:wet to trade amt hay igation ac' if I.lle same was :Leta- Wry bh‘elia tied in the Ine,a strict and rigorous Mummy;::..l drat all trade in articles, the Iwo (ince ma).nfaernres of - the said C 01111- *tries, or colonies, shall Ik.: deemed nalaw -2111, anti all such 'articles tWeisv:ed good prize. — This order was ahatt at Alfieri (al,acid int.nded to Sweep her commerce Trion the seas'. It Wits in plain violation Of public law, which recognizes no bloekade of a port, where adequate force is stationed to previ.ht en ostrv. but what does the spirit of 1-lavery cart- for public law I It was au inso lent in . frinaelnellt of the weil-settied rights of Twin rids. nut - why stioahl Magi:tad eare for that I Anieriea had no navy to protect her commerce. and therefore Ragland captured cur trading vessels, tot:Use:fled their eargees,._ Stud seiitOti our ships almost the of ansr harbors, oil .Slrrpleloll of an intent to Vio -1111 e her inter the claim of right her cruise's:hoarded (Mr vi wig s seized our seamen, east them into 30ittlwirne dungeons, or compelled them light her battles, on the protenne that they - Wvre 'British subjects. she had instigated tile Indians to hostitity against us, aud had sent • cennuissitmer to Massachusetts to negotiate Tor the mut rality of the Northern States, and their septa-:rim from the Luton in the scent lola - war. she had upon the ocean a linn 'lnn I ships of the line, tied niore than a thousand ir•rs,c), of war saute.' lser flag. The of AlliCtiel , . C031:161C1/ of four frigates mud eiffht 011ta America resist aggicsst• es, I She a shed the stone question 11l /775, sonl it Was aTISIVered at. Loxingtou, and E.'oneord, and .Ifunkt•r it ill : /he :bile from the decks of the Con ~Cuetirin,:ind the col tolt-hales at New Orleans I Ale great mid momentous iluestiOh of the I.:La - ens - mu of slavery foreed itself noon the vomit ry iu the eighteenth year of the century, co the :tont/ration of Missouri for athiliSSloll itdo the Union as a slave State. It absorbed. all other questions, and enlisted all the Intel 3eetnal and mond force that could he found among . the people. The North regarded the C.Xlt.11S)011 O 1 slavery as hostile to the trim jirineiples of the GoVermilent, (*Within' 10 a sound ati(i just elMstridetiou of the l:lonsti. 1111 run s reprignitirt toall the teachings Of Chris 11tu1ity, and dangerous to the future , pence of the count It maintained the faith of the re l.-Outlet,.Ye South insisted that :slavery had a right o Car t e ; 115 thai)lS 11170 any Teriitor:e Of the Unto St utes, denied the authority of ni to restrain its will Or reset Sic mirth, ea o rennin: a free constitution aS. 10_N,SICIlt to 'OH) atilltiSS3oll of a free !Agit. late 111011. Tilitpopolar bratath E t t Cangl est , . ct . 1.1,1nt,..i a - majority falrOrilbitt to the Ni.ln.s Oi Itlld the Senate a Dia foirity the o.iser :ide.. For nearly three nter.r.- the ro:,ntry in a l'ilazo Of exellement. t - 011th threat to tiit.rsolve the Union . if 21. e Nortt : refused to :unwise to Iler demanns ; p.eti nit i 1 warsetoned wimissent. For the of Unita; and of i'eaee the North yielded : int 2nkt,l4_ . .t.y_;not by a surrender alter fait - !.„1114...;ort: j--ui:ru the inevitable; conliwit. Aissostal ttctc rc ti file T•nlon, rainiag 111 t ei , .1;11,1t the feat hot we on her sinews. n: it. right or wrong 1 sllllll.', , Vez it. 1:;a:.- 1.1:v1' bean then, God inemade'll. right st la s ;_ . fo.• t 11: -c very chains attracted the ligiiiidug ci his Wrath, and Missouri, desolaseifarez tein et, lifts up her voice to-dity for Ltterty Simi 1. hien. c look bark to that - period now, t; trough the events that connect it with the arasent, tie can almost rem the will of the A . .;;lii,slity ye,ecel rag this great national sin. We can al lon,st understand the causes that influenced 31.1 n in permitting it to extend its power, jraiid ris is om:roes tem.ples Onfreelle,lll'S Sind 1,1:1,1311elile HiS name by inscribing it on their walls. lie intended it to fall by its own tuts: to perish as it had lived—li . y.the Sword ; 0 die suddenly, not graduzillyon the cal mi anztion of its power and muter the weight - of its crimes, when no spot was left on theAme tiean et:Mil:vitt where its foul and uneasy :spirit eirald foal a resting place. had it cu freer in the United States been checked in 1S:21 ty the refusal of the people to admit slave tin ties into the Union, it would have sought refuge and throne in the Mexican territory tit Texas. There, in a genial clime, it might jive estatraisacd its empire over a country twice as lar;_ze as Great 'Britain and Irelan.l, and exceeding in extent the, whole empire of Yrunce. An Independent and aggressive nit lion, all Mexico would have succumbed to its Innuent e, and extending its posts across tho continent, its nag would have beell unfurled tot the eon.-t of the Pacific. But the ititssoorl Compromise led to oppo obe results_ Emigintion from the United "..etates to Texas coonnernast about the tone of the admission of 3lissouri, mid Texas beezinte an independent slave State in IStiti. In 1:345 :Slavery was well assured of its supremacy in the roiled Mates, and Texas WaS attracted to the scat ot its power. Reserving - t he right of , ending ten members. to the. Seinate b 3 ivi diva hors:elf into ten Mates, she annexed to tin' Union her two hundred and fifty thousand sottare miles of territory, all dedicated to jautinol slavery. This Was hut enough. insatiate in its (le tt-muds, new reouisittzms were made, and the flag of the Union dotted over the halls of the Itlonteztneas. Clue eagles held the golden gates of Cali fornia, and New lien ksi comp - nit:A our con quests. Five hundred thousand seriare miles 'were thus taken front Mexico and annexed to the territory of hilt United Mates, in antic), 3mtion of the future wants of slavery, now WILMA ready to spring sit the throat of Libel% ty, and assert tot indefeasible title to the Vern - alma. It felt strong enough to accomplish in Amp riea all Dad it did in its native .eingland at the Close of the eighteenth century. It asF.nil , l.l the freedom of speech and the freetimu of the press. It had applied the torch to buildings where men assembled to. expose its crimes. le notinced them as enemies of their eountry loud Insulted 11, will.opprobrious nal ileS. inohbpd its uppers ants lit Northern el Li and hung thelilin lip own. It robbed the 'mails of newspapers and 11am. phiets 'latch dared to question its divinity. It punished with stripes the Christian wo ruan who taught the slave to read that Christ idled for ail men. It could pursue its victims into the free Slates, and. by authority w of la. require of freenu:m. the' (duces of bloodhounds . . It could eontrol all the patronage of the Go vernment and the procecilings of petit teal con rentions bOaStrallY :1111101111ted that the day was Lear when it would call tile roll of its quivering flesh at the foot ofihe monument on Bunker Dill. What else renzaMed for slavery to do? Not yet satiated with crone, it paused ill its carter to survey the fields of its future opera tions. it saw that the spirit of Independence and the love Of Liberty were identified with the free labor of the country. The enterprise of free labor was driving Die wilderne:s be fore it, and all the Great West was vocal with Its industry. It had sealed the notify Moun tains, in ,sseased it self otAlaliforuht, lined golden star in ilw national constellation. 11 - citing its - say - through the primeval forests. had led the free Slate of Oregon into the Union. it was covering the Pite:llle with the sails of its e.anmerce. It Was reatling the De thertltiall Ot ilithlirondence iii the Territory of iansas, close t zi I he offended ear of Missouri. A free press and freedom of speech were lipreading the light and blessings of civiliza tion till aromel - it, and opposing impassible barriers to the ear ranee of slavery. School honses and chrtrehes were springing up on all Vie:hill Sides, and the valleys, where, on God's Sabbath day, it wiped the sir eat of toil from Ats - brolt,fold lifted tip its 6011.1 iii thunksgiVing oral praise. The repezd of the Missouri Compromise and the blood v history of limeins, tell what infur ital fires burned ii the heart of slavery, whe n its eye' beheld this majestic growth of the principles of the nevolution. That poor old man who threw himself ;I t i ts feet, and was led in its Chains to the presiden tial chair, could tell us if he would the condi tions to which he was bound. Iva,: to hove tio successor. The end of his Admildstration 'iritS to he the end of the .Government of the 'United States. His oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. was nothing. True to the Spirit that owned hint, and SO- Taissive to its commands, he was ready and 'willing to 'surrender the Union, and end its history in the blood of a civil war. Under his talininistration, the North was clisarmen, our national ships ordered to Dir- Cip,ll StailollS, and our forts and arsenals in llw South Illicit with mimitions of war for the Ilse of slavery. The treasury was plundered, and prominent emcees of the army were cur- Tupted and suborned against their conntry_ le was shivery mustering its cohorts, and W resting the fort in Charleston harbor, where the faithful Anderson and his sixty men were guarding our nag, and, though armed with OD the power of the Government, he aband oned that little garrison to die by treason, or IBubmit to its demands. Re was patient and non-resistant when the Same power seizeil the well-furnished forts 211111.orseutils,olitl :ill the public property in the Set:ill, tote the flag of the nation trom Every stor wrath. retied. of its lam is, trod orgaithOill the rebellion. If the conduct of this 11111011ttly man buts htlell IClNl•rruled for our good, by the immortal. King V - 110 tolerates no treakon, let us hope that he .nay find some consobition in that Mud .I'ldg :tient, as he goes down to his grave dishonored ond unmOurned. Thanks to the Great Disposer of events foul pf men, he hada successor lit a fearless awl virtuous representative of the free labor of the emmtry. Abraham Lincoln had its reared ad i in its schools n worshipped n churches. The first echoes of the morning Were the echoes of his axe, nod, still speaking to all mankind, they ten , them that where m huan tsgUniit.." .esttiblishell, neither 0.10 crest of toil nor the accident of lot . tohle birth tan Owe the avenue to ~,,, orshle hunt.; tlint undero frovernment fOumled on justice, tho only passports 10 universal respect ,are virtue, indir , l vv, and the love of Cod. These echoes ‘llll roll on from century to century, herald to, i he ad% truce of the most perfect 11atal the world has ever known. II nns the otissitm of Alvah:tin LineOlit to eotairm the people in the faith of the Revolu tion, mid ilisme,i..ll them to cast out or A uwr i eu evil spirit slaVery. The peopl illVe for the Un ton is, not a - mere setti imentui uKetto. went or o passion that limy Intro II elfs to that h It IS a deep-rooted affection, that finds perpetual sustenance in the self-evident troth of human equality, which the Union was made to secure, and which Springs op into everlast ing tile. This is hat raised our armies, and main ( rood them in the Ceeld. This is What pollrell the wealth of the people into the - online Trea snry,and and; then: vonfidenee in 1 he sr:OIUP y of their tlovernlnent. Tin faith or ow nov, Int ion wa,,oranoned to its third conflict ith the power of Ottvery tuna 110.1)01isl1 It - int it had twice ovoreownl in its Wars Rita jr nd, war had boon tonglt on any other Prilleilllol WC AlOlllll IlaVt , heen boat Va. we started mit wit h an amended Ocel a rat ion otitti nun ontleCll that an 111011 are not ereated equal, that some ales haVo natural riu - litts - which are denied to others, that. Lll2 ofdeet of government is to proteet wealth, not liberty. to !ql'lll'o and comirin the powcr or theslrccc:•t Deer the ici'ak, Lorti itossd I would have hove »either diseourtcous • felons Nvhen be. poke of -Our Covortonent in Parlia ment as 'the Ciurcrumcnt of iho !Ph' Citiftqf Sitr,',..v." for then, indeed, Wo should latVa 11.11:11tatalC , 1 all that the I'n ion me: made Vol. and nothing wotilti hove boon i 0 fill Iho 'nolo-arc of our di,rrace lot. 10 oblitorato the hwinory of our fat hors. alai rot urn to - the otn trnee cif Englatai :tuft the elnitin of slavery. England and:A:ivory havo not boon sepr.rated in lull' but red or 1 Ito Union, or in lin: tleire 112 tlest roet Ithw con ld it he otherwise num that et st rong: S3lllpailly :•hould gist w e ,•,-, two init . , en- whosi• statntes dettonneell the same penalties against the freedom or spovell. the freedom or . the press, and the right of the people to assemitle in pithlie meet i ton, to pe; it ion for the redress of grievaneeST What else arc »t: to expect from Ptglund nos - , than I'm:wins - 1 mimes against the punishment 01' trait ors ; who have boon doing her serN - iee teat' in this bloody a against the Union? Itaxe :q.t. it 1 hal ono 0f her o'ojoets i;1 lill in4 1 he eolt u cics with slaVeS, Was to protect hu'rseir fykao. tho competa ton 111001 110 to , - 01111 skill Of I.rco labOr inight inangnrate in imorlett. hyror ;vol. rurreadered her idea or •ping an rtell , wient npon her Wal 111111111111Ciltrc ,, . At. the close of the Vt cc' of ib172.-'ls,tito present Lord Brougham th..olnroo r in ono of his spreohrs in the .1 louse of . Contitien. , , of wit hit la . WA? It Inelata,r, 1 hat it n:l2 Ihe Milky or England "bp Nieura..; exr es ex,a,ri,, to still, iti the cradle thosti uniultraetitres in the U.ultott t!ltate4, which I.lle war had forced into exist enee." It is now 0 wed-knor.ii Intl that immense eonixihntions in money were raised in Begland to corrupt „,„! suture the repeal - of the American tariff of 1542. The prete,t of Me_ lhiliver; the. British 4:1 inistisr, against._ the lel peAt ion of u duly on foreign iron by Congress, addressed to the American Seeretary of State, ohly a ten yearz , ZIV;u, is well rcmcmhored, England has always lieped that slavery in the Um: ed Slates, as it extended its dominion and power, would linally cheek the growth of oar manahlt-tnrus restore to her a measure. of that ticpen(lcnee which she lost lithe war of the iteillnltioll. Thal the rotes lion. 111 which her sympathies Were so deeply enlist nit. proved zi - occcs,no, her desires would hay!) been realized as to the southern Confedvrac's at least, and the work of disintegration aiming the remaining States would priihably have enabled her to extend her OWII 1011 S on the American conti nent. . . The sudden uprising of the American peo plk• iii defence i heir la or erfficut was the ineViKable re,,ult of our free in,titutions. It will sat iafy p 0 that 1110 failure to Klu'rery be law, and the ennsont to its t•iicnsion 1 tutu tints to thile, Ollght not 10 be considered as mrpardonnble mlitielity to the principles of the it ev dint too, but rather as the result of a spirit of forbcaranee t stropgthened, perhaps; too nmeh by the difficulties which snrronntled the abremitimi of a ,-} - .atria of .labor - . which bad es i:•tell on the continent for More than 1 Iv() Celli On the very tiny that :Jiaveryarew the sword . npen liberty for ti'e porpo:re of e6tablishing it,. - permanent empire, the .tuft dean people, chosen instruments of Divine Just ire, de termined it shontd die. It was a terrible eon- Mel with all the hosts of hell. The t;hrist inn world neyei' witnessed its like before and never will :again. The thing is dead! Its career ended as -it begau—in blasphemy and blood. With its bishops in the Chureh,iteatled 1113011 Cod for help; with its assassins in the eapilal, it appealed to suecor. Its pimps 11l the British Parliament; its Irirs:du lit the Britirit ntiniStry, 101 l its rogues in the tontiOn Exehange, have detilnd them ;,st•lve:, ill vain—they 000 Id not Steve it. tilt the foulest record of crime that was ever exposed to Omnipotent wrath, it has been hurled into an abyss item which it will never rise, but sink down—down—down—deeper and deeper, in fathomless infamy, to all eternity The patriot armies of the republic, which struck this blow for the principles of the lle claration, pass into a glorious history. The living resume the duties: of the citizen and the pursuits of peace, aml. will be honored forever by the friends of liberty and ile4lee throughout The hefht. The tie.nd will rise with the revolutionary Millers on each return of this anniversary to receive from a free people to the end of time, the memorials of their gratitude. 1 pmis through the piddle hospitals and look vti.on the soldiers and Sailors whose mus that cd bodies attest their tidetity to our flag, and npon those wasted by disease contracted on the weary march or in the loathsome pri sons of slavery, who patiently and sally await the order to Their when I dig the intitie-fields: where the victims of treason fOst by thousands in the embrace of death; when see the trembling 'tears of the loyal mother as she thanus God for the solace t hat her son was true to las country and. died in its. cause, 1 cannot but ask h bother there is no terrible _ boastful traitors who wrought this woci Whether mercy, which dwells in the Christian heart, should exhaust herself upon the Wood-stained ,crlniaot, who have never Rm»vn her, or, looking into the future, should. not rather demand a present atonement for the salvation of posterity. That prominent and 'eiding men, educated in the art of war at the public expense, in the public military academy, honored and con fided in by their Covernment, appointeil to high commands in the army, and supported all their lives ont of the public treasury, should, in the hour of their country's need, tun, their swords against her, and attempt her life. and then be permitted. to live in his tOry as heroes, and not as felons, is a proposi -1 it'll that may-nail envoent esannong the sviiipa thli,:ers with idavery in the British Parliament, brit (101 hardly Mil to shock the moral sense of every loyal and virtuous community. Eni whatever may be the fate of traitors, re..son has been foiled, and shivery is detid. This it the great event at the nineteenth cen tury—the great glory of America to-day. sh c• leads four glory of men, women, and ont of the moat inhuman bondage nvet known in the history of the world, tells thein that all men are. created equal. toil in ve,t,.: then] willttheirual end rights Why do we rejoice - What 311V3n6ti.,:pe , ;pk'S Oblat nlllB Of prui, , t; umt u,entitude Oil this anniversar2, - ii, n the spontaneous and irrepret. , silau trilnite of the trite American i n ert to that eternal justice which. keeping pace with advancing Christianity. lice,. made America free, and is dest ;null to i;renTOille oppressionill whatever form it may exist, wherever man elm look up to lilt inIf.VVIIS and behold the glory of God.. • _Out our. Mies are not ended. These chit .it-et, oi tinpropiliotts fortune, lifted from the Ougradntion »do which they bad boon sunk by the weight of their ehninS—yestetality trent -bling slaves—are .Anterican citizens to-day, horn on the Soil. They will now, by their free labor, acquire property of their own. They stio be subject to taxation, and to the cult of their country whenever their services maybe rcquirt ti in war. in seine of the States they constitute a majority of the population. By the law of the Revolution, taxation with out ropro'.entation is robbery. PO: the Constitut fon, this is a Repliblie, and tau people Of cyvv,y l4tate shall be gllaranteltd a republican form of government. the Declaration of independence, all go vernments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. tooking into the future, it is therefore plain that thetie people must, sooner or biter, be illvestAt with :ill the rights and privileges of _American zens—"rights 'inestimable to Mimi, (old foriwidable to tyrants wag." Prejudice may stand awhile in the way of this con:imam* 1 ion. The politician will try to avow toe question. The honest citizen will meet it squarely, and dismiss it calmly. It is not with out its imbarrassments ; but the sooner it is set tied the better for the country. Let Ame rica "110 just and fear not Pi Thu rower above us has so often and so signally bathed our finite judgment, and overruled disasters for cur good iVithin the last ten years, that men - .rho Dover saw Ms band in anything before lace watched ii With wonder and with rever ence, as it ling led America 4111.011g1i a Sea Of her to the highest seat aiming the nations. if ,the people are faithful to their principles.may they not safely ienve the rose tt to the d irMtt ion of the seine Almighty hand in which our fathers pill. their (rust Dial grant that, when tlic sun shall rise on the Centennial Anniversary of our Indepem. (Zence, only ten years distant, there shall be no spot now covered by the flag of our noun,- Yrom which a cry cf injustice or oppreti sion »my aseend to llis attentive ear. _And, if 1 may be permitted to utter in this presence the fervent prayer of an American heart, may yon, 10 whom I nom' speak, I ive to fele:ice on that day, in the full and triumphant irnition of every principle of the American licycnittion. CELEBRATION AT THE . ;01MIER3' BRE RACE AM) emu tiTBEETS. ORATION BY BEV. E. W. KIJTTER. At the Soldiers' Retreat, Race and Crown streets, there are an umber of liroes,who lathe I,IIIIOIIS blittlCS lost a limb, or became other wise disabled, and who, with praiseworthy propriety, resolved to commemorate the day in a rational and becoming way. The services were held in the chapel; which had been taste fully decorated with Rags. The soldiers were joined by a large assemblage of ladies and gentlemen, filling the chapel to its utmost ea- Pacity. Several patriotic hymns were sung, One of the soldiers perforating on a melodeon. The Scriptures were read, and prayer was otfered, after which, by appointment, the Rev. R. W. Hotter, of the New-street Lutheran Church, pronounced the following ORATION. PMETZDS, FELLOW-eITIZSNS, AND SOLDIERS ! God has east ouv lot in times of eventful in reA —in an epoch when to live at all, is a glorious privilege. 'Ono of the greatest pro blems that has ever agitated the mtmls of 111.011, 11:1 , 1 , 1111.1 to be solved. The virtue of a nation trial. The cause of Humanity, of 'lope, of invillint of Progress, of Free Go verovnent, tm,t, to some extent, of Christiant• ty. itself, has 'welt. at stake. liy your herviSfn, noble soldiers, your patience, endurance, and willingness to do and surfer, under God, it was 10 be determined, whether the work began by the men of 1776 should be carried for Ward to completion, or suffered ignominiously to fail. Fearful hazard 1oiel»11 responsibility I Sold huely, gloriously, has the Crisis been met, :I.llCt the cause of country vital icattal, The pa /riots o f 17111 failed to e,stablish God's eternal nod immutable truth at the bar of reason. So did you. They were aritaa to the mrldtrament of the sword, by the 1 - chem mice. of interest and passion. So Were you. They were 0pp,,,,,A . by treason at home, and by monarchs and despots abroad. So were you. (4011 pral," cal Himself to he on their side. God proved nlinsell to Im, yowes, and " if God be for us, m WIIO can 1 us lfgainst us?" llenev, our fathers et. ei444v-nine years ago, of yonder classic hall of FiFeedom, no such Fourth of July, as this, has 4!alvned on America or On the world. r_yery well-ordercd mind in America must rejoice, today iii the restoration of peare—a peace, thank God, that preserves the law sit preme and the nation intact. To any other peace, the war itself, with its horrors, though. it had continued seventy times seven years, would have been preferable. But the peace, brave soldiers, wou by your prow OF4--- . . 1 the peace, conquered by Grant, and Meade, 1 and Sherman and tAierklan, and Farragut I and Porter, and Dupont, and the tens of thou sands that followed whithersoever they led— this peace we greet as the special boon of heaven. This peace thrills us with the most vivid emotions of gratitude and joy. PEACE I Bail, bounteous patroness ' hail be , ihguant foster-mother of all that Improves , and adorns society; of all that augments the comfort and Imparts zest to the blessings Of maul; of Arts, Industry, Agriculture ..Com merce, Science, - Literature, Friendship, Ho ney .lence, Religion—we hail thee, this day, with emotions of inexpressible delight. Over all tlie sympathies and Charities of the hu man heart thou sheddest perpetually the. dews of a rigormisjuvelieseenee. Without thee man would be it nionkter, civil compact a Mockery. and earth itself an extended slaugh ter-house% As the sun to lire exulting tans of the :North, after the torpors of a polar night, dissolving its frosts su e snows, I i eerati eg tts crystal n liters. and unchaining its fountains of life, and lore, and melody, and joy, so is thy advent, 0 Peace, to lei! Thou host brought gladness to millions of hearts., that effloresces on the eon ilentice, and breaks forth in rap -1 mints utterances front the tongue. Now, Sehriet V of feeling is almost reprehensible, and a delirium of gladness inav almost, be in terpreted ns a duty. Now, e - XtraVagallee is almost moderation, and precision of spectli wears the aspect 01 callousness, till, if it be allowable, Olt tile return of a cherished, long-ttbSect Wend, to exhibit an unwonted exuberance of joy; nitwit more par donable, surely. - are emotional displays, when of a smitten, when least expected, ate entire tat ion merges from the gloom of a night of untold horrors into the resplendent sunshine. of an uuclouded day. Yes, surely, if the songsters of the forest, on the subsidence of a storm, Iliad has reeked with its thunders the itital cd sky, greet - with joyous melody. the ".Psis' of laurel' "—a monstrous insensibili ty, annum! hug allnest to moral petrifaction, could it betray in VS, (lid we not "Hutt' 11100,. 0 l'eneti, thon - risen Pay-Star, with means ot ex - tilt:A too. 'Welcome, limn. inosl welcome, hi our midst, thou halcyon bird of the golden plumage ! We greet thy retm-ii as the chief of snblimary bleSsings l We bail thee, Virgin 'Daughter of the skies, come on a mission of mercy. to raise the fallen, aunt to cheer the faint 1 ' And now that the clang of the armor of Mars hits ecasisl, let the lute of Pan, and the harp of Apollo. resettle their notes 1 Above all. at this :Inside ions jorrettirc, let twit the blinnAT Sou nee of our happiness and joy be forgotten. hi ibis. our sudden and unexpected etc-firer:may, the linger of Ilea - vim is palpably present. Nut art' hOrSeS, nor ellatiOts, nor musketry; not our enginery of defence and destruction have COI ten us the victory. In it, 'OllO 50 blind at not to discern the interposi- I ion of that kiwi Providence, without whose 'Universal ministrant ion not a sparrow falls to the grounds Whilst lead in our rejoicitivs, theri•fore, for what we have received ; w b ast, exultant, its we have abundant warrant to lie, that we are still the "i; Nero! , gates of Ame ries" and that Liberty and Union!! are "now :ot forever, one and inseparable," let the incense of gratit tide te cend to the trirtNirorEicr IA ivrin. who, as in former years, when Ite so often and so signally interposed in behalf of our Republic, st ill condeseentls to be the Gimes t itan and protector of 011 r common country. Our general burst of joy, God forbid that I should be instrumental in checking or circum scribing. by awakening recollectiims painful to any. but this 1 cannot. by any conceit - it:de method, lopeC:ss, that had not Onr arms been crowned with enceesis—that Matt Mrikigidy God, for ally inscrutable purpose oh' His own, devilled ii hest that the rebellion should sue;. eet•ii,.".lthetAdez would have been written on out' nal itinis greatness. Then would the salmi son of seeessum have rim away with the very gate-posts of our political Gaza. Then would all that is clearest to our affections, most aus picious to our happiness, have beca forever blasted. To accommodate two nations, with rival Interest, mar domain is too circum scribed. To dy . fro hags, myiaholi sing antago nistic principles and stns, our sky 1, too nar row. I itSlin ion was, hence, synonymous with perpetual war. And not with perpetual war alone. it was synonymous, also, with blaeted credit, mut:mod bankruptey, perpetual stand ing armies, a military dictator. and, ultimate ly the very extinction of eiVil Idierty. it is a Mistaken supposition, that our na tional danger ever resulted from the vastness Of our domain. It basi always eonsiSted in a /amnia of interest between its several parts. The Homan empire, wuna, at its height, strel eli cit to a greater length, east and West, th an from the Atlantic to 1 be Pacific, try nearly one thousand miles. The Russian empire, at this day, is probably nitire extensive than the Lind tec I ti i] CS, ineluding the unappropriated ter ritory west of us. Rome did not tali by rea son of territorial expansion. Nor will we. Brit we would have ceased to exist, as a no t ion, ,l a d the leaders of the rebellion succeed ed in their conspiracy to effect her dismem berment. With what an eagle eye the patriots of 1775 j discovered this, when, front Ea/Heal Colonies, by united power of pen and sword, they erect ed n republic! composed of United State... This the framers of the Constitution foresaw, when, ' in the freining - of our Magna Charts, it wars their avowed purpose "to st'enre a more perfect Ir - lo ter." This the grout and good. Washington, with a prophet's ken, foresaw, When, ill Ills so ' I - art-well Address, lie pointedly directed us to cfrown inditlnallti; , upon the first dawning of any attempt to alienate one portion of the country front the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred 1 ties that link together its various parts." Ile realized that the union of the States teas a po litical, a commercial, a religions necessity, Find could Ito more be SMillered, without pro ducing fearful eollVlliSions, than could the bonds thatbola together the material uni verse, with its constellated system of suns: and stars, be broken, without throwing, the frame work of nature into elates: This, Andrew Jackson, the Mali of iron will, ellerislnel 11-4 a religious conviction, and to whith, in tin , sea- SOll Of CallamMsnelarions plot of nail titivation, lit a peddle fest i val. lie gtmlrit i evict C lit the son thnent : "Tie Federal Un ton—it fit c(8 - i n. d ,Aall be preserved) , Thissame truth Abittenitm Lin coln, our noble martyr-Pres it I ,lit, ma fried up of God to be the 'savior of -the lie& bi le, appre ciated as fully as any, and gave to rite world imlubit abl e proof of it, v, hen, I rue to it is oath of ofliee, he announced bins his firm resolve (God and the people sustaeling - 11110,) to a s Se.:V7, //ON, OCC/Ty, and now.ra," idle f• - 31•1: , , ....Q.thitl.ly armed fi:Orliram?rma its' only ill'e - fel proprie tor—the oat ion. N obl e . resolve I. To it, - a e dee God, we Owe this ..lay Onr being as a nation. Had Abiallain Lincoln not formed it; or bad he faltered in its execution, no asiassill'S hand. iiiii i rlelWei l lngiP, Ifia f i Vl l l: 3 aillU,l; i fs7i ' ari;; 7 lMiliT' held in reverence as "long as the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls a wave." And this convict ion, ve mai - noel and muti lated heroes now scatted around_ me, ilail im pressed itself, With equal vividneSS, on year minds and hearts. That this Minna, eut, into two, could not survive, butmust die, you need ed not that one should arise from the dead to assure yon. As in Eing Solomon's time, she was the true mother who was for keeping the child hi tact, tied site that consented to its par tition a fraudulent pretender, so you under stood that disunion was synonymous with de struct ion—that separation meant simply ex tinction. And it was this conviction that im pelled you, not singly, but by regiments and battalions, to abandon your fields, your work shopS, your offices, your eounting-Lonses, your firesides, all the endearments of kindred and home, to engage in the "fearful trade of death." In a holier, jester, lighter cause Men have not suffered, bled, or died since the cre ation of the world. . And your tritunph, noble soldiers, how per fect, how complete! It lacks nothing,. It is most beautiful for symmetry. lon have done your work well, and did not Cleft it Mail it was done, hchOld, by the force of your arcs, under God, the prom] 'banners of rebellion are tilt trailing in the dust, its once victorious legions all scattered, as are the leaves of the forest by nut Manta. tempests. Where now are the proud taunts, the defiant threats or its leaders, the arrogant boast, that in th u eir n hallowed career they would not stop, until their bastard bunting they had planted even on yonder State House, until, at the tap of their drums they sluth' summon their slaves together on Boston Common? Al,, .• The best laid schemes tr'• mice and men. Aft gang i a gl re." "Vanity of vanities," with, the preacher '.llll hi vanity: , Few melt vanities in the lrorld as this. Their high-terotteht expecta tions were the vision of a night, - the Hlusicin of a fiream. - When the day returned, they were blotted from existence: They were Stowers of the spring; when the sprit; de parted, they were alrwithered. They were a shadow, and they passed away; they were bubbles of water, no sooner pierced than broken • theY were spiders' webs, torn by the P - winds. float the victory has been so thorough, noble solaiers, the nation owes tO.l/011—to your matehless bravery, your heroic entitmoice, your dauntless eonlernpt of limper, your Un faltering trust, your unquenchable devotion to " God and our native land." - Heaven is my witness, I would 'not trample ) 011 a prostrate toe, would not lacerate it bleed lug wound, would - not bury in any abyss of , waters the more 111111 half-drowned. ilut it assists the cause of truth and country, to refer to the fact, so fraught with significance, talfit the men whom you lately confronted in bat - M, and who, like yourselves, have survired its perils, are now seeking and obtaining, under the, very Government they essayed to destroy, : not protection merely, but subsistence itself. ; Amazing spectacle! That we sec the very ! leaders "in this Conspiracy to overthrow the Government, by the just retri to hi on of heaven, necessitated • to seek that saute Government's paternal care, to keep them and their (a millet from perishing! So that our Commis : Sary Drireau, like some overhanging cornn eophe. has net fed yon alone, but feeds them also. mi, are not especial tletnle-ti tut - am:es due to the Most High, that lie has seen fit to reduce these conspirator:;to the humiliation of having to come to Joseph, in Egypt, for Corn, wliTun tiler; so cruelly persecuted and sought to slay? how demonstrative this, both of 1 lie power and clemency of our nntivalled Government—of its power; in that their re bellious courses drew down on them its fierce 1 11117fflerbolte—of its clemency. in that, whilst still bleeding at every pore from their I wounds, it extends to them its shield of pro tection, covers them 'with its wings, and in the face of its accumulated wrongs, makes its bosom their asylum and repose. Surely, no illustrious conquest, no high-raised trophy, could reflect so pure- a splendor. This Is a moral victory, which, methinks, should cover the Cheek of the most obdurate rebel in the land with blushes, Illatitrated by such a sub lime sequel, the altar of our - common tritiOn darts forth mu unprecedented splendor. Your bullets, soldiers, we all know, they_ found. it hard to resist, How, Hien, shall they be proof against the e coals of fire" heaped upon them in the shape of food, raiment, Medicine, shelter, and support 1- - A gigantic swindle, indeed, was it, from the beginning, in the leaders Of the rebell ion, tO d tell their eluded followers that it wilt the ob ject of the Government and of its armies to subjugate them—to reduce them to a condition of poverty and vassalage. Yea, noble men of the army, I am safe in athrini»g, did not fight the men of the Southbecause you hated them ; nor did you fight them at all, except as fight ing them was necessary to rescue your coun try and its institutions from meditated over throw. Had they remained at their homes, and demeaned themselves as quiet and or derly eitizc e i , t ,s il , r w t h l , i o e weonujohyliilleail-te molestedpeaceful fir them? No one, It was only when, under the dominion Of .evil counsels, they came forth from those homes, and made war upon the na tion, that you left your homes and went fOrth to make war upon them. Their's was an aggressive - war ; your's was purely one of defence. They began the war without cause or provocation. You simply accepted it, and then, not until after they had committed the overt act, by firing on the consecrated emblem Of our Common nationality, that floated from Port Snmpter, And even then, you went forth, not to destroy, but to Save; and to de. stray only, in order that you might save. Anti' the harm you inflicted yon Inflicted, not willingly, because you delighted in it, but from stern and uncontrollable necessity—"in sorrow, not in anger." We give God praise that the anxious hour is passed, .that we again respire freely, that the very air we breathe is embahned with the blossoms of liberty, that Humanity, in this Western Clime, has reared her head from the dust, smoothed her dishevelled locks, and wiped away her tears. Slavery and secession, twin-sisters, begotten of harlotry and prime, are both dead and buried, beyond the reach of the angel of the resurrection morn. Hateful in their lives, in death they were not divided. Children alike of squinting envy etal of self-tormenting spleen—pet-semi tors of all that is lovely and beautiful, and fair—pests to soelet y—eneinies to the human race—they habitually sought virtue for their prey, defiled numeenee, despoiled riovertv, and crowned their career of infamy at last, by inaugurating a civil war, that has strewn the earth with ruin auel turned the sky yellow with pestilence. Each was a Cerberus,having a thous and open tit roat s,g,asping frmblood- . -each I a Briaretts, having ten thousand hands., armed ' TILE PRESS.-PITILADETP/1 With iniinwoins , knives. That these twin heonrses of hUnninitY have been slAii and burled without the benefit of clergy, on Pot ter's Yield, is almost adequate componiation for the sacrifices incurred. For this distin guished mercy we exclaim - L."O/01'y be to God in the Itighe4P , Ana int all the people. shout "..I.taca!" That the United States of America, at no distant day, will rank among the separate and independent rowers of the earth the ehtejest; that the Intel: which she under Cod will pur sue in the revolutionary orbit of earthly dy nasties will be 'marked by beams of ;t solar-like effulgence, dazzling 1110 eyes and extortinK She bennige of the world—this is not the vi sionary m him of a bewildered imagination -1101 the dreamt of over-excited enthusiasm. The reality is amply testified alike by retro speetfto t and by the prospects that HOW Melt , el c ”;:. The k ind provident . ° of Heaven originally. conducted oin- pilgrim fathers to this, altiongi the fairest portions of, the haldtatile globe.; Under all the perplexities to which in their colonial condit ton, they sere exposed, Ife pro teeter] and defended them ; schooling and di*. eipliniug their habits, sentiments, and pue suits, tor transition to a. state of lade penile - lice and self-government. In the w i t duous struggle of the Revolution, how nu merous and how distinguished the toketil of his benign interpositiom There went with thom as with Israel, the cloud by day, and by night the pillar of tire. Anti thus God reared them into the strength and en dowed them with the resources atle(plitte 10 the successful prosecution of the war of kW; anti enabled them to assert their national in tegrity, and enhance their national character. And now again in this latest, the most tearful conjuncture cl all, the same paternal guardi anship hits brought us in safety through the lied ben of domestic tredson, backed by the same foreign jealousy encountered by them. And thus, fellow-eit izens, even front hold Skepticism itself, there is extorted the re iteklleWieditilletlt that there It a God who rules in TleaVen and on earth, ores the hierarchies of nagels and over the alfairss of men, who was the God of our father,: who is also OM' God, "a very present help in time of t rouble" :Nor • does it nilmit of debate, we think, that even th w is itr-tiend, who has swept, like au avenging angel, over the land, wilt yet leave us a pea ter, freer, happier people than before, not with diminished, but with vastly a ughtented captivities for good—like the tribe of Levi, Views chosen: PRIESTHOOD to .Toe' Wean). For, as the electric - fires purity the atmosphere they convulse, so (10 the fires of revolution often improve the. countries, OVIT Which they pass. They are as the heat of the relismr , s ecueible, which whilst it consumes tla dross, discovers also the Virgin gold. • Slavery. suited only to barbaric Stales and peoples. expurgated from our soil, Freedom is now 11tc law. The tuicient democratic idea of CL eapacity for self-government " is i aeon t estibly established. The antagonist theory that [lie masses of mankind have' been born: i sada oil their hocks, and the favored few, Looted mid spurred, ready to ride them, leg i timately, "by the grace of God," is hOpe -16.51y exploded. On mankind's mo..tt es cot et:eon "...ftXCel:4O2 . " is Written. Anil. es a legitimate consequence, hereafter, more than ever, of foreign POWerS we shall be more really and truly independent. With all of them we steal cultivate relations of honest friendship. Entangling alliances we will have with none. To some of these Powers, tleranny, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, wo owe a debt or gratitntie that challenges any combination ofiiguees to . nortray. lit our Se Goon of agony, on refreshing winds, they- V, tined. to us, across the trackless sea., words of sympathy, of encouragement, of hope. These we shall ever treasure in grateful re membranee, And even despotic. Russia, grow.; ibg w iscr and more liberal, by the stern les sons of experience, did not fail to send us, ever and anon, words of cheer. Would we could say the same of France and of Great lain. Friends we have bad in both countries, no doubt—Worm, generous, devoted—whose hearts palpitated with deep anxiety for our success. But if we owe. anything to Omit. riders—anything to the aristocrats, who mould mid sway public- opinion;nety a kind Provi dence, for our enlightenment, unfold the page of history that rec ords` the debt! Alas! the simple truth constrains to the af firmation that the conduct of Great Britain, especially, throughout our entire struggle, has been sadly at variance with the professions of a tuition that claims to be, pan ereellcace, the tartwark of the Christian fauh." Ilyer since 1770 she scents to have regarded us with feelings somewhat akin to those which We may ascribe, to the arch adversary of mankind as he viewed the balminess of our first parents in Eden. Jealousy of America and of her rising great ness, I fear, is, with Great Britain, a chronic malady, well nigh incurable. So painful are the recollections of the past four years that, unless we make very marked progress to wards Christian perfection, we shalt, hereaf ter, :ask of our trans-Atlantic rival few favors, and bestow fewer still. Grateful we all are, no doubt, that we are removed beyOnd the them. need of em. England's "tieutratitN" (God save the mark!) we have survived. tier hos tilibrwould be an easier load to carry. Since we have gone to 'building iron-clads and moni tors, and since those high-toned and philan thropic gentlemen, Jay Cooke it Company,' have opened a domestic loan (Alice, at Third and Chestnut, with auxiliaries all over the land, more than ever do we hold up to mini kind's moral derision the arrogant assump lion— "The vlinis and seas are Britain's wiac domain, And nut a sail but 1)% permission spreads." Meanlyhile, a decent reard to the common est morality, not to speak` of loftier consider:A fleas, seems to demand that John Bull, on thc other side of the great water, with all practi cable despatch, Shall tc•ader ample reparation to Brother Jonathan, en this side, for the de . predalmns on his: commerce and shipping, ttanutitted by the _,">lablana and kindred pi ratical craft, kno-A ingV lilted out for this pur pose m the, t.orts. "Short settle ments nlni:c long fritmthi," Andrew Jackson,. it true, is dead.. Aratrcw Johnson, of kindred State, se::: irt ent, and almost of 'WOW, is ?Md. (Wail, Cat lade anti licarty. 3c,ldier.yl I . IIIMII !1 the sacrilibial blood. of th y. orl(Ps Itedetiner, I commend you to the favor of 'leaven. You have fought a good light. A sacrimainted hoA, you have kept . your solemn -vows. Over inonntains and precipices, through alla 10_1101te, aat;dst ()mini and carnage, you Jim e varrie., your country's COnSeerated ban ners, ion retell), your brows bound with vie toilons wreaths. Your ptowess has .pened NV halls 0f,inc1ania , 4. , .... , - I,,, .oc:iinded. 110 W the devotees of freedom, in this into future ages, will prosecute pious pilgrimages. • You hale encircled Fourth of .ally wit hi (t.. 11011: ha/ I: , of renown. Your every (ire): of shed Wood—your every shattered bone —veer every mutiiated limb—your every scar mid w ound—your every pang of pain—your Crery extorted grOIM tmd sigh, has been an 01 - Turlnr, laid by willing hearts and hands, on the Mier of your country. The debt we owe 10 yon, if we crwned all the silver and the gold., anti the cattle en a thousand hills, we could not repay. God bless you, brave men! God bless you! • Thous:lmM of your comrades, alas, arealeep lug the sleep of death. At Gettysburg, , Where, hi this very hour, assembled thousands are witnessing the laying of the corner-stone of a monumental shaft, to perpetuate ;their me mory. hosts of them lie hurled. The bones of other's are fertilizing the valleys of the Missis sippi. others sleep quietly on the banks of the Rapidan, or along the. Chickahominv, or She nandoah. Others arc n lark hig, by their graves, the infamy Of sneh "habitations of cruelty" as Salisbury, Andcrsonville, Libby, and Belle Island. hi our memories their heroic valor will live undecayingly. We prize their heroic example in our soul's just estimation as" above all price?' Bound to us, and to posterity, by adamantine bonds, that Death itself cannot sever, we will treasure the recollection of their deeds as long as we live, and coming-genera tions will perpetuate them to the "last sylla ble of recorded time." . _ By an allowable application of the affection ate apostrophe, addressed by " beetle's Dard,” to an earthly benefactor, Ire may suppose the American people in the act of addressing the hosts of her brave defenders, who, under God, havc.proved themselves the SAVIOURS OF THE RErtordc. And this is her language : "The moan: eh may forget the Crol7ll, Which on hi:, bead an hour has been; The bridegroom alas forget the bride, 'Who was his weddra The mother May forget the babe. That smiles so sweetly on her knee, Nit I'll remember thee. Glencarn, And all thou hag done for me." A Day of Glory—Firework—The News- raper Offices—Accidents, Fires, and Rows. The Eighty-ninth Anniversary of the Na tional Intlependenee Of America, we are glad to say, was celebrated in a patriotic tearmen r and not an accident scarcely worthy of a special notice, nor a large Are occurred. The day was clear, and a bracing breeze from the southwest ; made the atmosphere delightful. At dawn, salutes were fired in different parts of the city, bells were rung, and the stars and stripes unfolded their glory in the radiance of the rising A more pleasant morning had not been ex pericticed this season. As the day passed on, excursion parties started for different resorts, and, so far as we have learned, no serious ac cident occurred to mar the pleasures of the day. in the afternoon, Fairmount and the - Park adjoining presented immense masses of citi zens, lc igtillTly strolling amid the shades of the wide-Spread branches of the trees, and their happiness was contributed to by the mu sic of the bands. The regatta on the Schuylkill was interest ing, and attracted universal attention. The nquat te scene was lively. It :was supposed that not less than fifty thou: sand people were presentin the delightf9lal4, romantic section of the city, and all passed off Pleasantly. The passenger railroad ears rim fulloOrriii the afternoon, to the place, and at night also on the return, though thousands of people had to walk to their homes, there not being suffi cient accommodation on the various railroads. Time grand tientonstrntien wag the drelrOlics ordered by the Union League, the illurnina - _ lion, &c., by the people. There were many places lighted principally with gas-jets, of which we notice the following: INDEPENDENCE HALL. Inasynuelt as there - Was an alteration in the list of names front that published in The Press of - Monday, we annex the following, in the or der as named, eonnneneing at City flail, Fifth mut Chestnut streets: Siegl e, Reyno ?McPherson, Fremont, Me lstichnel, McKeen. egutby, Geary, Ilartranft, Greble, Curtin, F4colt, Ellsworth, Anderson. WEST FI:014T. Fitzpatrick, ITuvrk - sworth. 3AST Bohlen, Smith, Dix, Sickles, Shepley, Burn- Ord, Grierson, Sedgwiek, Pope, Dahlgren) Palmer, Porter, Koltes, Terry. Farragut, Sherman., Grant, Lincoln, Montle, Sheridan, Thomas. This motto WM hmuetlitttely over the main front entrance to the hall. Franklin, Stoneman, Rosecrans, Schofield, Lyle, Baker, James, Slocum, Collis; Gosllnei Rowan, Gilmore, BAST SIDS—COUNTY COLTILTH9trsE., Hancock, Hooker, Curtin. NtIRTH SIDE. Jones, Rainer, - McClellan, Cadwalader, sear•_ ney. Averill, Butler, Middleton, Birney, Dupont, Baxter, Casey, Wright, Banks, Lyons, Weitzel. The entire range of Hanes was festooned with evergreen wreaths. The names of the deceased heroes were draped in black. The above is the order in which the names appeared on Tuesday evening. Yesterday, Meek)lien was placed in front of the east wing ; and that of Koltes removed to the place owl:pied by.the IMMO Of . McClellan. =EMU INDEPENDENCE HALL GOD AND 01111 COUNTGY. A'I•,9T WitiO WEST BIDE A ITITMSDAY., KLY 6. ISCS: All the names: were in letterS six inches in lcpgtly exeept those on the front of Inde pundenec Hall, which wore twenty inched. 'Between each name was a blazing star, cor responding in size to the length of the letters composing the names. The range sf gas jets was about twenty feet from he pavement. The effect was beautiful. The hull was opened at ten minutes before 8 o'clock in th e morning, and wat closed between band 7 o , cloet: in the evening. it was thronged during the day with citizens, many of theta from the country. The two large specimens of British neutrality on the steps of the Hall in the square, were objects of peculiar attraction and elicit ed many a remark not very compli mentary to the seeesh sympathisers across the water. Rho itjsphi yilinete by the 'Union League tcas 'equal, if - it did not excel every other. The style of architecture of the building well adapted it for the purpose of tbsplay, and this advantage was well improved in the designer of the gas jets. On the Inghest part of the building . was the word "Yietory,” flanhed on each sale by eighteen stars; below in a semi-circle were the words, "July, 4 - th,n and, on each of the lower side wings, "1776,7 , and "/Seli. ,, On the right hand side of the words "July, 4th, ,, was the word ttlYnAlington.” and on the left hand side 46- Lincoln." On top of the balcony were, "'Union," "Fence," and thirqen stars in a semi-circle. The effect of so much light wnd so beautifully arranged may he imagined. The star, which - it was in - tended to place at the tog of the - flag staff, - owing to the wind winch prevailed would not barn. The effect, however, was not materially diminished by this Ptilure. The National Union Clubhouse, on Chest nut street, above :Eleventh, was bril liantly iThnuhmi. ea. Every by,ht in the first, third, and fourth stories of the two houses had a lighted candle - NNW it, The whole or the second story was taken np with it beaut lint device in gas jets. It was a large outspread eagle with talons. The eagle measured probable sixteen feet between the tips of its wings. Prom its beak floated a rib bon of gas jets with the words " E Pluribits ItnimM inscribed thereon. Below the eagle 11115 on one side an anchor, on the other a plongh. To the right of the gas jet tit Splay was a marble - bust of 'Washington, and to the - left a similar one of. Lincoln. Below Was a festooned American flag. THE CHESS OFFICE To Mr. Charles McClintock was delegated the ileasing duty of supervising the arrange ments for dlummating this (Mice. The entire affair was creditable to his Taste and skill its an artist, keeping in view some idea of archi tectural design. lYe merely reiterate the opinion of tbousands—we may truly say tens of thousands—of the promiscuous mass of the people, Wile pronounced it de cidedly the best of all the 111uminationS. It was thought, from the arrangementS made at the Ledger Milee ' that that exhibition would surpass all (lie newspaper offices combined. The Ledger display was credit- able, but it must pale its ineffectual rays before. those of The Press, as the moon must give way to the superior light of the sun: As the carpenter must make Ins foundation first, whereon to erect his fabric, so shall be our attempt at description of The Press ilbuni mtion. ithin the front window on the first doer stood a 'white pedestal,' decorated with an American flag. On the front of %he pedes tal VMS it galaxy, containing thirty-lsix Stan, the centre one being large, the others smaller, and surrounding it in a true circle. This con stellation Was labelled "Uncle Sam's Jewels." Items made by 11. N. Stewart, No. 10 North Eighth street. Upon the top of the pedes tal was it bust of the late President of the United Stites, ABRATIATI TADICOLN, which presented all the features of that great Mar tyr, taken Shortly after his death. Tile lilcenecs is much better than any photograph, painted portrait, or engraving, that we have yet seen.. There is a peculiar melancholy, thbugh a cheerful sort of a smile, upon the dice. It seems to speak—" Peace and good will to all Men." The bust was lighted through the medium of tri-colored silk-paper lanterns, and thus, in a subdued or mellowed light that east no shadow, the bust presented a fine effect, and elicit ed the admiration of all beholders. _Above and in front of this beautiful pic ture were two American flags la:grace fully festooned, the fields or "lil110"UnionOkS" being fastened together, incorporating with in their folds a likeness of Washington. The spacious hinging. WaRTOW glass, covered with pure white paper, formed Um background work, the edges thereof meeting the sides of the pedestal, et an acute tingle, appeared like wide-tared ;iambs, thus giving a complete finish to the scene. The eftliet was decidedly Pleasing. It was a theme foe study. was worthy of the lend[ of art. In fact. it was the poet's dream. The reality was beautiful. im mediately above this fas . einating pieture was a thirty.slxinch live-pointed Union star, over which there sprung a well-described arch of Peace, COD thirty-Si K. ground-glass globes. each !laminated with a full flow of gas. Them towering ~p to tile heignt of fifty feet, was n 'monument of " light," as fol lows: 0 , 4 OUT: vir 2 , 1"1! Y I UNITED FOREVER: 1 Over all this there were arranged along the cornice of the building red, w mid blue lanterns, and small lamps Of a variety of colors. Above all, from the main, staff of the establishment, floated sixty-feet American flag that unfurled its beauty in the ‘yestern 'breeze amid a shOlVer of pyrie fires of national colors displayed upon the r-oof. The effitet was graml. It was sublime. ft was imposing,. Many persons lingered in front until after the midnight hour, it: hen the gas FM; turinit off, and people then mere fully realized the fact that the moon was shining: from the western sky. As a wo.Ane of enterprise in the ineehani cal :11.1,1 ngem cin I: of the g as &xlure credit is dim to the energy of. Messrs. Vi ,- artter, Miskey; & - 71 It Trill, The club-room, on Chestnut street, above Fourth, was decorated with a transparency representing a mist of the mythical Goddess of Liberty. Sfte W 1.16 portrayed' with a helmet on her brow, and a draWll sword labeleU This tasteful emblem, indicating the isdri otisra of the-members of the club, waslnwal somely done up with a canopy of A1111:1'1Cila nags; the %%hole being placed on the front of the haleoniy. Tile goddess, Irons Iron%la r position, seamed to be looking at the name of Hawks worth, tlic Major of ihe Scott Legion, who fell at the battle of Fredericksburg, la. There is a joke connected with this paintim; worthy of a passing notice.. The goddess was painted with the sword in her left'hand. This was dis covered by a critical member of the club, who said to the artistic painter "Wlir, my dear sit, you Lace placed the sword in the left bond' of the Goddess." It was evident that the painter had not observed that before. "Is that right 1" continued the critic. " Is it %%Tong?" responded the painter. "I think it ts entirely wrovg, ,, replied the gentleman of the press. • . " Mow so," said the painter; "do you know whether the Goddess was right or left h:vieled?" • This 'was not a poser. for the critic, who in stantly replied, "she was right—he was right—the Goddess of Liberty is al ways right." The painter scratched his head—the critic looked around for a "Ilinney,” but not seeing one kicked a chair. • The painter, however, was equally good in his reply. Net at all abashed, in, said: "Well, KOllllOllOl. O f 111 0 ...lithe, I thought the 13othle::. , s was right-handed, but the lady has had Erich a deal of hard lighting during the Past four years, that J. cananded she Must be tired of 'using her right arm. Out of due re spect mid veneration for her age, I thought a little relief, now that Peace spreads its hew front one extremity to the other of our land, wonid be gratefully received by her, mat, therefore, 1 plaeed the Weapoll in her left hand A laugh emmed, and - the party retired to in- Tot igate the virtues of lemonade or------sarsa parilla. The display at the Leal/Cr alike was exten sive and attracted great attention. There are two fronts to this building. A deseription of one will suthee to give an idea of the whole, as they it ere' both alike. On the centre of the front is a Ore - icor globes, of round glass, each rmilatin- under a 11111110 w or gat. This Circle cent ains v thirty-six jets, etch representing one of the Slates of the unbroken united Ameri eml Government. In the centre is a symbol ical. ligure. This connects two words dear to humanity and patriotism, rI:ACE—UNION. Every window in the large building was embellished with a flag that presented a a graphic picture-in the rays of arttlieial light and catlyi»g breeze- To add to the plan resonenes: o'itthe display , a broad * - 1)41:t of thirty-cent islin was stretched across the Building on the opposite corner, for the pur pose et representing magic-lantern pictures of WI interesting character, connected with long passed anti recent events of a pntriotie nature. This display, though well intended, did not give entire'satistitetion in the lirst place, and,. therefore, the lights on the north ern side of the building were extinguished to give more tone or cifeet to the phantom pk torts. After this another exhibition was Mule, Which was more satisfactory, The hip. WaS elliiVelled with tlll3 strains of Professor hergfehlts band. it is needless to say the street was blocked up a itli sweltering humanity. THE INQUIRER OFFICE The tall building used as the .fillairer office was decorated with an immense; though not weil-exeauted transparency, that attracted considerable attention. On the bulk-head - of the windows of the lower story were three re „fleeting-lights, which shed such brilliant rays IS - to dazzle the optics of all who chanced to turn their visual organs within the scope, of their. power. The transparency represented the surrender of Lee to General Grant, on April 12th, 1851. General Grant is represented as partly leaning on a table, with one of his legs in advance of the otber, and one hand upon the hilt of his sword—the otherbeing ex tended to receive that of Lee. To his right st r ums a figure, supposed to represent the officer of the day. In front of General Grant stands Lee, in his gray uniform, his glove and slouch but lying on the iloor,near a table. Lee appears to have it pretty stilt back—a sort of halt in bis locomotive power. Ile is in the act of relieving himself of his sheathed sword. :11is head is bowed down to so great an inclina tion that he appears to be looking at the feet of his brave captor, or wondering at his mag nimitnity. Perhaps he seett a pending halter, like Alaebeth whose ideality was somewhat discomposed ' by the vision of a dagger. In the rear of Lee is the figure of a rebel - in a full suit of butternut. This miserable fellow is crying, ; his face is buried in his hands ;,no hat is near, and, therefore, it is reasonable to sup pose that ii represents Early, after getting the last thrashing from the heroic Sheridan or Wright. On that memorable occasion Early 14:edaddled so fast, that, like Johnny Gilpin, lie left. his hat behind. The entertainment NVIIS enlivened by the music of a loud hand, the n! members of which, or some of the, had evi dently been indulging In Fourth of July les t iVities. TR& DAILY ADD: This building did not display any fots jets, lint was illuminated from within. The lrin dows were embellished as follows, with tolera bly well painted transparencies. The three upper windows contained the likenesses of .114::+143, f32110131A3T, SIIOI2.IDAN. The second-story windows tllO5O of Aca Fox, WASHINGTON, GRANT. In front of the building the American nag was displayed. The office of The Programme, Mr. Hillier's I heat rival paper, was illuminated with an arc of globes, each one containing on its front a letter, the whole forming - the word Pro wwwepne. The appearance was lively. THE sornsn's cAsauT. On the opposite side of Third street to the ai,ove is the once of e. W. Alexader, the proprietor of The.Botclier's Casket. This place saes very beautifully illuminated. In each window was a large pyramid of candles repre senting a beehive, as indicative of industry. (hi the front of the building was a translate runey entitled •••• W*** , ..**.*****4l TUE fioLDIEI'S LEGACY TO 1115 COUNTRY. .......14***14“ ***** ******.M•wo.... ll *******it It represented a grave with a head and foot stone. A little girl si ands beside it, with her right hand resting on the head-stone. She looks as thoogli gazing into the future. A little boy is in the attitude of kneeling at the grave; his halt& aro uplifted and clasped to gether, as though the child is praying,. Above all, the red, white, and blue is vory neatly fes tooned, the centre of the :troll being surmount ed by a red liberty cup, with silver stars. Peering out from beneath the folds: may be seen the following: r.***44...W.1 I.3l,e.**********i OEM tOr UN LOX. ouu I*;***********ta 114,+********-**44 The Cimket i a periodical of recent produc tion. it is devoted to the incidents of the war, and the heroic IRWIN Of the private as well as the officer. The illumination arrangement was well conceived, and it certainly was fitted up with a great degree of taste. THE IORT/1 AAIIMIOAN This ornee - was illuminated in the second story with candle. In front of the main door way, in tots jets, was the word VIC:TORY. El= - - - The front of this building contained several mottoes in large black lettering, stretching acrom the upper stories to the extreme width of the house : ****.i/ GRANT, H[M]IAN, :5/11;10DAN, It LINCOLN, 6TANTC , N, WELLES, iti....**.****..****gi, +l4 A..*** ##..Ffit+YlF#k#+##