New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-20
TIE GREAT WARREN CELEBRATIONS
BOSTON,
g Of The N. Y. Tribune.

Special Correspondence Of The N. Y Tribune.
BosToy. june II, 1857.
1t lie peculiar and decided Boston Notion" to
" celebrate" Everything from statue TO water
pipe must be inaugurated by a certain amount of
epauletes and Grassland. If the reader will please
to review the history Of the last seventeen years
from the great Wing Convention Of 1910 down to this
day. he will recall an amount Of parade, fuss,
feathers dining and oratory truly formidable. He
will be reminded Of innumerabe Seyenteenths OF
June-Of the Grafton which welcomed the silver of the
Cochtuate more than golden in value if in huel
TO the city-of Odd Fellows gstherings-of the
pageant which waited upon the Gaping of the
Bunker Hill Monument-nor will he forget the pomp
and splendOr with which Anthony Burns was con-
signed by Edward Greeley Loring to Virginian
prison. Nobody, with grain of philosophy in his
compositions will be at loss to account for this pas
sion in respect of triumphal entries and mie-lOng
professions if he will look at a railway map of
New-Epgland, and see how the iron-roeds all con-
verge toward Trimount. To bring, or twice in
wear all the peasure-seeking Yankees ever there,
and TO have Maine, New.Hampshire, Vermont aud
Rhode Island empty themselves into Boston, simply to
bestow upon the dividend list financial dOrescence
not disagreeabe to holders of stock to say nothing
of the profits Of the publcans.
l suppose that your reporter will send you the de-
tails of the day. You will forgive me if am not very
minute in my noting. Impyiais, of the weather, of
course. 1t has been cold black and easterly. About
noon there was formidable threat of pluviosy, but
up to the present time of sunsetting the day has been
exceedingly well behaved doing nothing more than
frightening everybody into the carrying OF an umbrella
In short it has been very honest day for " cee-
bration permitting everybody to keep cool, and sab
iecting nobody to sunstroke.
need not tell you that the coil and hustle in the
streets has been immense. We have had such an ac-
cess of militia, masons fire companies, and OF every
conceivable organization capable of uniform as never
was before and will not be again until the inauguration
of the George Washington statue upon the Common
Then indeed there will be a repetition. But the
glory of the day has been the militia glory. foar
New-l ork Regiment for drill, discipline and drums
and as to drum-major, respondent in his coat i'm
mense in his bear skim and overpowering quodd his
staff beat anything Boston had to show. As II passed
through the streets it continually cheered-the
gentlemen took off their hats and the ladies waved
their handkerchiefs. 1t was kind of triumph.
The city is full of foreign magnaes and officials.
We have Governors, Stats, Generals, Colonies and
Captains. The poor little Randalls Island boys nave
marched and drummed, and flied to admiration. But
everybody disappointed by the necessary absence
Of General Scott Great preparations were made Tor
his reception and if he had come he would have been
made the pet of the occasion. Colonel Burbank had
beautiful speech ready for him, which Is now lost 10
the world. There hope, too, that Mr. Fremont
might be here and fancy that if ne had beeo an oc
casonal cheer would have been raised as passed IN
the official barouche But dsappontments of this
kind are the rule. The great men who are wanted
never come, and the great men who are not wanted
l.. fI..law turr,a mn pafaaf n ~
to-day. When the great granite obelisk was finished
| saw him. and have lively recollection OF his
poee. also gratefully remember his son Robert, the
| author Of that well-known work, Ahasuer, who
bowed his thanks upon the same occasion, whenever
the crowd cheered Mr. Webster, who was the orator
| of the dav. Pardon the Renaissance These Boston
celebrations are much more alike than two peas, and
one cannot write about one without reverting to
| another.
Nothing ever happens in Boston without speeches
Those at Charlesown to-day were very good, as all
American speech making is apt to be. Gov. Ever
etts was the best performance, it always Is when
he perforns al all Nothing historical can be recog-
nized here without him. The Boston people keep Dir.
| Cbsate for fancy and Mr.. Everett for due admir-
ture Of fancy and fact blended artstcay and emitted
with the most perfect judgment. You will agree with
| me- think in nv estimate Of his effort to-day.
Great battles are apt to grow hackneyeds and as
Sparta and Thermopyls sonnet. nc Of bore, so
Bunker Hill is not particularly fresh in this year OF
grace. wish could believe that the brave gentle
men who marched in their inery to-day carried under
their blue and gray and gold the love of liberty which
fosmed and fred in the breast of old Putnam, as he
rode mady in his shirt sleeves around that little re-
doabt But saw the same men Who paraded to-day
doing very different duty upon another occasion.