Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

Yesterday morning at 6 o'clock, the New York Rifemen formed at Trinity church, and marched to a field on Greenwich road, where they shot respectively for a Gold Prize Medal, which the corps had appropriated as a badge of merit, to be worn by the member who could make the best shot. The target was placed at the distance of 100 yards; there was much good firing; many of the balls were lodged within the first and second circle from the centre, a diameter of about 4 inches.—The prize was won by corporal Gulian Ludlow, who lodged his ball within an inch of the very centre of the bull's eye: he was accordingly on parade vested by lieut. Armstrong, the commanding officer, with the honorable mark of distinction. We understand there are to be competitions quarterly for this medal; in October, January, April and July, at which times, should the possessor of the medal be excelled by any other of the corps, it will be transferred to him. We think this judicious plan will excite an emulation to excel which must render the Riflemen a very respectable corps.