The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1822-07-10
WORCESTER,
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1929.


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Celebration.--Our national birthday was
celebrated in various places in this County
In this town, the usual salutes were fred at
sunrise and at sunset.
Agreeably TO previous notice, fine day was
celebrated here in a manner somewhat novel.
The number who attended, though not large,
was nevertheless respectable; especially when
it is taken into consideration, that arrange
ments for the celebration were commenced at
so late an hour, and that the plan was so great
ly Inexperienced. An Address was deliver-
ed by Rev. Jonathan Going.
In the devotional exercises several appro-
PIRATE Hymns were sung; and Rev. Messrs.
Boomer, Pond, and Leiavor led in prayer.
After the exercises in the Westinghouse. a
number of gentlemen partook of dinner, pro-
vided by Messrs. Howe g. White in manner
which did honour to them, and gave perfect
satisfaction to those who pariook. The most
perfect order and decorum prevailed and the
people retired at an early hour.
lt,was highly gratifying to witness at the ta-
Die number of those veterans who were in
the war of the revolution some of whom
brought the honorable scars of the wounds
then received. They, in tie language OF the
Address, know the value of Independence
from the price which it cost.
Harmony and brotherly love appeared to a.
hOrypA Ard
brow, we trust that from the altar of many a
heart, the incense ofpraise arose to God, who
gave us our Independence, and who has hith-
erto preserved it.
Those who attended were so we'll satisfied
with the experiment now made, that COM
mlttee OF arrangements were appointed for a
similar Celebration, or Celebrations. next wear.
AT .uiHdWy, about two hundred citizens
Partook OF publick dinner prepared in the u
snal manner. The previous exercises were.
the reading Of the Declaration of Independ-
ence IN a very cliaste and npr sive manner
by Doct. William NJ. Benedict-Prayer bv
the Rev. Joseph Gofa-and an interesting and
well-adapted Grafton by Mr.. Dana A. Braman.
A Thanksgiving Hymn was, also, unusually
well sung by a numerous choir; too numerous.
however, in some of its parts, TO permit the
Bass to be heard so fully as an adequate ex-
preston o. some Of the passages of the musick
| would require. The audience were, never
theless, highly gratilied with tue performance,
which evinced degree of science and skill in
sacred musick, highly crcdiable to the good
taste of the performers. was emphatic
ally town celebration, although there were
present individuals from several of the adioin-
ing towns. Entire harmony prevailed through
| the day. Towards the close of it, a small
but well-constructed balloon, prepared, we
understand, by Mr.. Prosser, one of the manu-
tacturers in that town, was sent up, to the
great admiration of those who ha d never wit
messed similar performance. 1t was visible
during the whole of its progress, passing slow.
| ly in north-casterly direction, and descend
ing at the distance, apparently, of about four
miles.
| The usual number and variety of toasts were
given, from which we may, perhaps, make sc.
lections if furnished to us. So numerous, how
ever, have been the celebrations, the present
year, that the publick can feel but little in
terest in the toasts given in any particular
place.