Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-07-10
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
New York, July 6, lS47.

Another anniversary Of national independence has gone
by At my breakfast table this morning made the same
mark In substance which found hour you had
made in the ntegencer Of yesterday morning. that the pub
lie interest in this anniversary increase with each
turn OF the day. and that the importance of the ceeba
ted seems to be magnhed in proportion recedes in the
distance Although there particular incidents ar
angements OF interest to attract public attention this
son think have witnessed more general obsev
ance Of the day. People seemed to be indifferent where they
went or what particular incidents Of the day they should wit
ness, but erey body seemed disposed abandon all other
avocaons and give up the day its peculiar memories and
associations.
lbeeve there powder burnt here yesterday than
ever before similar occasion. To say nothing of the
roaring of cannon the ringing of muskes and the cracking
PISTOLS the powder exploded in crackers sufficient to
carry an army through respectable campaign of active
Isa All the public promenades, the sidewalks of every
and the steps of almost every dwelling were strewed
with fragments of these little red messengers Of noise and
smoke though they had been scattered from the clouds like
shower of hail. Not only children, but )" children of
larger growth, Joined in this sport with hearty zest
officers Of the army and navy the American Hotel parak
ing in this popular mode of celebrating the day. If they did
not actually fire the crackers themselves they looking
with most manifest interest and sgving aid and comfort
to THOSE who did. Nor did the SPORT in the way here
managed, unworthy of the partaker The mode was
to open dozen packages containing know not how many
scores apiece, tie them loosely together m BUNCH apply the
match and throw them out upon the sidewalk. The effect
very much like the discharge of whole regiment Of
kets the hands OF recruits who fred Paddy would
say, altogether after another
Notwithstanding the great oppressveness of the heat and
the annoyance of the DUST the whole of the population
seemed to be in notion Probably twenty thousand least
of the city various directions get lid of the noise
and heat of the crowded metropolis and greater number I'M
douhedy from other places into the cty do up their
celebrating where the lions were to be SEEM will not
into any details Of the day, for these pictures always
very much the same, and the story is thousand times told
The military professions of off and the corner
stone of the State Arsenal laid and the lot fol the Wash
ngton monument taken possession of by the Association
and consecraed to its object mentioned they would be in
my letter Of Saturday .'"
The lot appropriated the monument about two hun
ded feet square, and is of the elevated points of
the island. Bat think il is far up town. 1t should be
in the lower part Of the city, where the principal localities of
business and the great lines of travel would constantly be
bringing thousands and thousands of strangers within its
view.
The day passed off with less number Of accidents than
could reasonably have been expected among such multitude
OF people and the explosion of much powder. Three
four persons MANNED in their hands by the bursting
accidental discharge of firearms, and person lost his life
This death, however, occurred on Saturday.
We daily expecting quite curiosity here from China
hess than Chinese ship of about hundred bur
n She has been on her voyage three hundred days. and
spoken week ago about hundred miles from Cape
Henry Her sails for the voyage said be Of the Euro
Iean fashion, but coming port she is to do her civilized
ress and give perfect specimen of Chinese navigation