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PHILADELPHIA, July III 1876.

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| PHILADELPHIA, July III 1876.
DEAR CnMET Our glorious ifdepen-
denec anniversary Ia over buts there aie
pigable in many faees the effects Of being
Toe patriotic. Upon the whole We must
confess that it was decidedly the worst
celebration that we have ever Witnessed
III the Quaker City. With the exception
OF the cxgrtous of In je,tne .Ha,e qnr 10
celebrate the day, we had no exhibitions
al ali. As for the usual Democratic Gzzle
IN Independence Square, it amounted to
nothing, very SHINY attended~sprobable
cause Dan Dougliet,y was the Orator
There was no ailltaty celebration, in COM
sequence Of the Irish and American btgades
being at daggers points on tho subject oi
imprisonment 81 Gen. Small, who seeetns
determined to purge himself Of his con
tempt Of court. Steamboat excursions were
extensively patronized and generally the
boats were loaded with both sexeh, bent on
getting good stir Of iresh mir. Thus pass
ed the glorious Natal day Of hide penlence,
III the hitherto very patriotic city Of Phil
ndelpna Tfereesvas an unusual number
Of accidents, some caosed by the prematnre
discharge OF firearms. The most remark
able one we recollect reporting, was of
young Indy, about 10 years old. Her
brother, it seems, had loaded pistol with
powder and hemp wadding, and giving it
to her to fire, which she did, accidentally
sending the wad through the body Of The
honyekeeper killing the latter almost in
stantly.
On Wednesday last, the friends If Fill
more and Donelgon, held mass meeting in
Independence Square 1t was very large
and enthusiastic The ureting being so
large rs to require two moro stages than
are usually erected on such occassion.--
Numerous addresses were made by omin-
ent speakers. At the conclusion Of each
speech, J. J. Crittenden was called for,
and indeed he should have been there,
but we believe it was impossible No
one has forgotten the excellent services
which Jack performed during Mr.. Fill.
more's administration, and indeed daring
the whole of his life. At the conclusion
Of She speaking, three cheers were propos-
ed for the honest candidates Fillmore and
Donelson, which were heartily given
The display of Fire. works was almost in
cessant, and many Of the banners, trans
parencies, &c. were beautiful and correct
One we noticed, borne by the citizens Of
10Th ward, was large and we'll executed
earrlcature of biting out that 9 last drop
of Democratic blood,n together with many
other excellent expositions of the very
censcrable and dishonest antecedents of
James Buchanan. The South was ably
by several speakers, among
them Mr. Rineau, Of Georgia, who assured
all pssent, that that State would 90 largly |
for the "bonest plough boyo It is our firm
conviction that Pennsylvania will give Mr.
Fillmore 10000 majority.
The Black Republicans with The path
finder of the Rocky Mountains" find no
room il, this city, they have been complete
ly rooted out-cause, only Ia Abolitionist
voters in this great city
The Fourth was celebrated much more
in New York than in Phila-
delphia. The cause of this is, that our
citizens pay more attention to Saint Quie-
tus than do the New Workers, and as a
natural consequence the Mayor of this city
is called upon to perform the odlous duty
of issuing procamations to the effect that
all good citizens will put stop to firing
.sqnibs, nc. In the Empire City,
there is none Of this, or il there are procla-
no attention is paid to them what
ever. In Boston heavy rain came up
after the civic celebration was finished,
and the Pyrotechnics We're laid by until
to-day, in consequence
Fhe theatres here have closed for the
season. The Walnut is open for a summer
season with Gabriel Ravel and troupe,
with the exception of which we have no
recreation, but one horse concerts and the
ike. The male population can find enough
generally in political contro-
Tersy; but the ladies-Alas scarcely
imagine they can be happy, with Shan
shal's beans and dry magazines for COM
ort. No wonder we hear Of so many Ven