" Salutes were fired at daybreak by the cruiser Cincinnati , and the dispatch boat Dolphin , which were detailed by the Navy Department to participate in the ceremonies. Every public building, nearly every store, and many of the private houses had been gayly decorated with bunting of patriotic colors last night, and sunrise found the town -bestirring. The inhabitants were alive to several important facts -- the monument was to be dedicated ; it was the one hundred and thirteenth anniversary of the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, and a big crowd of strangers was due.

4* The first to arrive were the farmers and villagers from the neighboring towns, in all sorts of vehicles. Then on excursion boats and on incoming trains came the

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volunteer fire brigades, resplendent in their dazzling uniforms ; the time-worn veterans, of the Grand Army of the Republic, and in strong contrast to them the spick-and-span lads from the New York Military Institute at Cornwall. The next to come were the business like looking marines from the Cincinnati and the Dolphin, with their officers, and two batteries of regulars, detailed from Fort Hamilton.

" The line of march was formed at eleven o'clock in Lower Main Street, and all was in readiness for the start, save one thing-- the principal guests of the day, the Sons of the Revolution, who left New York at 9 A . M, , on the steamer Mary Patten, had not arrived. They came half an hour later, 200 strong, with President Frederick Samuel Tallmadge at their head, flanked on either side by the Rev. Brockholst Morgan, and James M. Montgomery. The procession started up Main Street, and marched to Broadway, and thence to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, with the Marine Band at the head, the marines and regulars followe'd by the Fourth Separate Company of Yonkers, the Continental Drum Corps, guests in carriages.