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FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 49, 1871.
Correspondence of the Free Press.

New YonK, July 9, 1S4l.
Tho celebration of our Nations birthday
went of in the Metropolis with about the
usual amount of confusion, rioting and
drunkenness. On all such public occasions,
but especially on this Anniversary, our city
is one immense Babel hardly square foo,
is unoccupied--every corner is monopollzed
by apple stands, and the Park is completely
surrounded by liquor booths, and covered by
the congregated children-olH and young
of the CITY. From morning till night, there
is ccaseless sound of guns and powder ex-
plosions: if you venture into the streets, es-
pecally at evening, you are sure to have a
bursting firc-cracker seek acquaintance with
your face, 10 be chased by furious fiery
SERPENT or to find yourself blown up in
some one of the thousand ways which Co
tllamilisl, wisdom has devised to commence
rate the National Jubilee. Most of our citi-
zens, those who can do so conveniently, seek
in the quiet of the surrounding country a
refuge from the annoying sights and sounds
| all the steam and other boats make excur
sions to Staten Island, 10 the Eysian fields,
10 West Point, or some other of the many
delightful resorts in our immediate neghbor-
hood: and a thousand ways are devised to
escape the cty's tumut. From the country
on the other hand, thousands rush to the Me-
tropois to celebrate the day, SO that, to no
slight extent, an exchange of inhabitants is
effected.
For my own part, as a happy chance gave
me leisure and most delightful company, ]
thought that could do no better than pay a
visit 10 the cool, sad shades of Greenwood
Cemetery-a spot destined ere many years
are gone TO be one of the lovcliest, most de-
lightiul resort within the sound of this great
cily's heavy heartbeat. We turned our
backs upon the city and rolled toward this
home Of the dead. A winding road, leading
through pleasant groves, down shaded valleys
and up genie hills, conducts you through the
grounds and as you are whirlcd rapidly along
you might at times, fancy yourself riding
over the billowy sea, so numerous and gentle
, are the undulations. Sometimes in following
the marked out paths, you pass along higl
precpices, upon whose steep sides bramble.
; and brushwoood grow among lissured rocks
then you plunge into deep dark dells, where
, in GOODNESS that is almost sepulchral dwclls
and the shades lie thick and heavy upon the
damp clay soil. Swiftly you rise again from
: this place Of gloom into the bright goldc,
sunlight, and feel your heart swell within yo'
. at this new entrance into the world of ligh
and warmth. There are many of these elc
vations, commanding wide and different view
variously sublime and impressive. From
T. the hgns, yo" h~hnl' the wat"-s nf the ia
3 Atlantic, the whole harbor and city Of New
q York, the noble river and a wide expanse 0
circumacent country. In the midst Of tli
= rural spot sleep the waters Of a sylvan lake
/. in sombrc misunderstanding upward to tn
l, bright Heaven, like the world-troul led SOU
, from its dark and uneasy dwelling place
o Here IN future years will the mourner resor
:, to find sympathy in the unspeaking tree
s which lean, in attitudes of wo to the que
lake, or from the sigIls and soul-like sound,
!, called forth by the melancholy breeze
X When the dead shall rest beneath its sod an
e white columns glarng from among the tree
IS shall mark the spot where the undreamin
sleepers lie, the wandercr through its shade
,r will stand upon holy ground he will spca
ID in whispers, and a broodng awe will over
d shadow his soul. AS yet the grounds ar
:, new and but slightly improved. The pror
Il crly is now held in trust by certain individual
ct and the proceeds of sales of lots, are TO b
e appropriated to the adornment of the ground
J, When the condition Of the Company's fund
will allow, it is proposed to build upon tn
highest point of land plan monument to til
s 80 memory of the undying Washington.
The most marked feature of our celcbrs
tit ton was the display of the Temperance Sc
70 y, cie,ies. They formed procession number
OF ing some two thousand, marched through til
n principal streets with music and appropriaI
~ banners, and listened to an Grafton at III
" Tabernacle, from Hon. B. F. Butler. O.
Browrson, editor Of the Boston Quarter
~ Review, also delivered an address at Was|
en- ngton Hall. The military were out al
ne made fine display, although their numb
H. was less than usual on similar occasion
oh The troops were reviewed in the Battery
e. his excelency, Governor Seward, and afte
nd wards by the Mayor and Common Council
ed the Park.
MT, In the evening all the public gardens we
OF filled to suilocation, with people anxious
attend the various performances, and to W
r. ness the fireworks, Of which there was
ute brilliant display. Before they we're fail
he over however, terrible thunderstorm car