The tattered flags on which the Music Hall curtain will rise at 12.30 today, once comprised three stands of colors, one national and two state, two of which, a national and a state flag, were the original colors which the regiment carried to the war, and were provided by the Commonwealth. The other banner, bearing the Massachusetts coat of arms on a silk fabric, was presented by the women of Springfield in the early summer of 1862, as a mark of their appreciation of the meritorious services rendered by the regiment in the North Carolina spring campaign, as a part of the Burnside Expedition. All of these colors were captured by the enemy at Drewry's Bluff, Va., on the James River, ten miles below Richmond, on the morning of May 16, 1864, when nine officers and two hundred and thirty eight men were captured and taken to Richmond, many officers and men being killed or wounded. The regimental organization remained intact, however, till the very end of the war, and another set of flags were issued to it, and were duly returned to the state house on battle-flag day in 1865. The original banners were torn from their staffs by the enemy, folded up and laid away among the Confederate archives at Richmond, and eventually came into tho possession of the national government with all the other official belongings of the " lost cause." They were placed in the government building at Washington devoted to the relics of the war, and two of them were casually discovered there last spring by a Northampton member of the regiment. Successful application was made for all three through Congressman Robinson, who had some trouble in finding the " ladies' flag," and who deserves much credit for his efforts in behalf . of the regiment. Although they are to be deposited in the city library it is with the proviso that they are to remain the property of the regimental association until that becomes extinct, after which they will belong to the city.