Many amusing badges, banners and appropriate devices were scattered through the procession. A large ox and a lamb were upon one platform ; upon another enclosed as in a yard, was a cow, calf, and a score of sheep, all alive, bleating and kicking, and seeming amused and delighted at being the lions of the day, not bearing a load, but being borne and well fed by the corn and hay which had been abundantly provided. Next came the

SEVENTH DIVISION, Under the direction of Mr. John Ridley, assisted by Mr. Silas J. Howell, Aids to the Grand Marshal, comprising Gold and Silver Artizans. Mercantile Library Association. Marine Society. The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the city of New York.

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With the Apprentices' Library and Male Department of the Mechanics' Society School

belonging to the Society. Band of Music. Banner of the Society. Of blue silk, edged with white silk fringe and tassels. Description : crimson draperies on a blue ground, in the centre a Medallion, representing a pelican feeding her young, surmounted by the American Eagle, bearing the Arm and Hammer, the well known emblem of the Society :

Under the Medallion, "General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, instituted,'' MDCCLXXXV. Marshal, Richard E. Mount, Ex-President of the Society. Aids, Edwin B. Clayton, Samuel Roome, Ex-Presidents of the Society. President of the Society, Linus W. Stephens. First Vice President, James Yan Norden. Second Vice President, Shivers Parker.

Treasurer, Adoniram Chandler, Ex-President of the Society. Secretary, Isaac Fryer, Ex-Presidents. John McComb, Brigham Howe, Cornelius C. Jacobus, Eleutheros D. Comstock. Members of the Society.