Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1859-07-02

| A SKETCH or THE COMING FoURTH.-0n the
morning of the Fourth of July 1859, on the
extreme eastern point of Maine, at sunrise,
the discharge of cannon, the ringing of bells,
| the firing of guns, pistols and crackers, and
every conceivable noise calculated to express
the most exuberant joy, will announce the
eighty third b irthday of the nation. West
ward, every farm house, hamlet, town and
city will arouse and join iii the welcome.--
Rivers shall offer no hindrance, mountains
will joyfully lend their echoes to swell the
jubilee, the traekless desert shall be no OBJ
stacle, the waves of the Pacific taking up the
sound shall roll it onward till distant muir
muir shall announce that the Isles of the
Ocean rejoice also in the day, and are sending
onward, in their turn, the peal of gladness,
till every foot of earth, over which the Star
spangled banner filings out its glad folds to
the morning air, trembles for joy and one
continued sunrise salutation encircles the
globe.
The day wears on; and there prevades the
general stiffness of expectant waiting scarce
ly broken by the underfow, as it We're, Of
pistols, crackers and torpedoes and the sharp
shiill voices of little boys, shouting for the
very JOY of living on the fourth of July.
They await the forming of the civic process
sion. The high officers of state, the country
or the town are to meet to listen to some dis
tinguished orator, who will:pour into greedy
ears the story Of the Revolution, ever new
the praises of those WHO pledged " their lives.
their fortunes and their sacred HONOR III de-
fence of their declared principles, of the gal
liant band who rallied at their call, and of him
who led them ON to victory, "tl,e first in war,
the first in peace, the first in the hearts of his
countrymen. With burst of applause from
audience, he retires from his post, the process
sion again FORMS and the chief men of the
land seat themselves to partake of sumptu-
GUS entertainments in halls decorated with
the American Eagle and the country's flags as
become the day, the portraits of those whose
praises are on every lip and garlanded with
flowers gathered with lavish hands by the
women of the land anxious to do their part In
the general Jubilee.
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srnset falls even mon the fourth of July. but
man have nsought out many inventions. p
and for weeks there have been collected I'M
told quantities of fire works that shall shed
,ha br;,l,ancv of MONDAY over the deepest
n halo of glory surround the
,,.,,as az tba beroes of Bunker Hill Saratoga.
Yorktown and the name of the Father of his
country fades from our view in blaze of pur-
pie and scarlet and gold. The last rocket has
taken his mad rushing leap, burnt into a
thousand brilliant sparks and expired-the
last reluctant football has died away and a
silence falls upon the earth as deep as that
which rests upon the tomb of Washington,
and the spot recently so brilliant with his
name becomes as desolate as his home.