Flag-raising at Fort Corcoran.
Arlington Heights,
May 30.--The Sixty-ninth New York regiment, having transplanted their flagstaff from Georgetown College to their new camp on
Arlington Heights, celebrated the raising of the Stars and Stripes.
Near sun-set,
Col. Corcoran having assembled all the troops, numbering over thirteen hundred, not on duty, he introduced
Col. Hunter, of the Third Cavalry U. S. Army, who has just been assigned the command of the brigade of the aqueduct, consisting of the Fifth, Twenty-eighth, and Sixty-ninth New York regiments, and the detachments in the vicinity.
Col. Hunter was received with great enthusiasm, and
Col. Corcoran made some patriotic allusions to the
Flag, and was loudly cheered.
Capt. Thos. F. Meagher, having been called upon, made a brief but high-toned and patriotic address, showing the devotion
Irishmen should bear to that flag which brought succor to them in
Ireland; and to which, upon landing in this country, they swore undivided allegiance.
He was heartily applauded throughout.
Col. Corcoran, haying announced that
Mr. Savage's new national song would be sung, introduced the author, who was received with loud cheering.
After it subsided, he sung the following, the whole regiment present joining in the choruses:--
