Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-07-07
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.

NEW YORK CORRESPONDENTS.
The Glorious Fonnh' IN Gothanl--" Orde, reigns
IN Warsatc."
New York, July 5, 1854.
"The glorious fourth" has passed off with
lndiminished enthusiasm in Gotham, and with
,ut any disturbance between the know-nothings
md the friendly sons Of St. Patrick. There
we're apprehensions upon this point, and mys-
'erious threatenings on both sides, calculated
20 excite alarm, but there was no war between
he races. In fact, amid this swarming hive of
! million of people, including the suburbs, the
lay passed off with unwonted harmony and
good order. The heat, the melting, withering
roasting heat
From early morn 10 dewy eve"
was terrific. Invariably among the very hottest
DAYS of the year, the immortal fourth, on this
occasion, eclipsed all its predecessors in this
locality, as far as goeth back, the recollection
If the most venerable citizen. The troops
turned out by thousands in general process
sion down Broadway to the Park, as usual;
and how those infantry companies, clothed in
WOODEN uniform, thickly wadded, and buttoned
up to the chin, and rendered still more OPP
pressive by the strappings of their knap-sacks;
how they stood it, thus accoutred and carrying
a heavy musket on their shoulders, and bear
skin muf upon their heads two or three feet
high, is indeed marvel TO me. Yet they
marched, often at double quick step, over
the glazing Russ pavement, as if they were
really upon pleasure excursion. But the
tremendous glare upon their exposed faces,
and the streams Of perspiration which poured
down their cheeks, betrayed, to some extent,
the trial which they were undergoing. 1t was
a good thing for the poor fellows that they
we're relieved before the suffocating heat of the
afternoon was upon them, and permitted to go
home and change their garments for something
adapted to the thermometer at So degrees.
How many soldiers have been destroyed in
the summer by hot and oppressive clothing and
rappings. Look at the cloth coat, padded
breasted, bear-skin capped regiments that have
been sent by England and France for a summer
campaign on the Danube Does it not strike
every rational man that light uniform Of cot
ton and linen would render an army in July
more efficient for long marches, and more &C.
tive in the field, than this murderous stupid old
fogy system Of loading them down at all sea-
sons, with winter regimentals ] suspect that
a large proportion of the deaths from dyson
,arr ,yb;nh 49, arr,, az, g,r,.d q, Mo~:nn -.
due to the amount of wooden goods, heat
producing caps, and baggage which our men
we're compelled to carry. That brave and capa-
BILE officer Of the revolution, Gen. Greene, in
his North Carolina compaign, with men, some
Of them, excepting the strappings Of their car.
tridge-boxes, absolutely naked, proved himself
more than match for the over-clothed British,
both in marching and in fighting. CORVALLIS
could not catch him in retreat, nor could
Tarleton escape him, in pursuit. You may ex-
pect to hear Of sad havoc by the summer pesti-
ence " the Danube, among the British and
French troops, especially the former, to great
extent from the fact that the said troops have
been, sent there bampered with clothing and
baggage as il upon winter march to Mos
COW.
Cannot some Of our volunteer companies get
up summer uniform for hot ATTITUDES, by way
Of example to the governments Of the civilized
world, including our own, in the clothing of
their armies. These reflections we're virtually
suggested yesterday by the procession of our
citizen soldery, marching down Broadway in
celebration Of the 4th Of July, with the same
uniforms which they wore on the 9th Of Jan.
uary. Nr
Apart from the soldiey, the city, ss usual on
the fourth, was empted into the country Of the
masses of its industrial population, while the
country was discharged, two to one, into the