The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-07-06

During the day the Turner Band
furnished most excellent music. This
band, though recently organized, is
fast growing into popular favor The
members of the Evansville Lieder-
cranz Society. favored the people also
with a few of their most excellent
pieces of vocal music.a Our people
always know they are to have a rich
musical treat when these gentlemen
are anhouhced!8 de9HbEd 100
Notwithstanding the forepartle Of the
day was most unfavorable, a large
number of persons were in attend
ance, there being at one time at least
three thousand persons on the ground.
Save some disturbance which occurred
late in the evening, and which could
probably have easily been prevented
by prompt action on the par. of the
police, all passed off most pleasantly
. THE CATHOLIC PIoNIc.-Notwith-
standing the unexpectedly unpropi-
tious state of the weather during tie
morning of the Fourth, a very consid-
cradle crowd was early on the Fair
Grounds, and as the day grew brighter
the ere wd until toward the
middle Of the afternoon a great null
titudehad visited the gay.and festive
scenes; amounting to- several thous-
ands. Nearly every return train
brought many back to the city, SO that
the assemblaee didnot atIany time give
any correct indication of the whole
number who participated in the pleas
ures Of the day. @A@''3a %
The rain had the effect also itoScur-
tail somewhat the programme. never
theless all seemed to enjoy the day,
which the rain had rendered quite
pleasant and genial aoi5s aaiai5s,%
The splendid music by the Cres-
cent City Silver Band, was a most
cheering and delightful feature of the
day. Many devices were planned to
add to the pleasures of the people and
to the receipts of the treasury. The
dancing floor was kept pretty con-
stantly occupied, while the fishing
pond and the shooting gallery were
largely patronized. s i - ss.l.
One enterprising individual had
two pans partly filled with water, and
generously permitted all who desired,
for 25 cents, to battle one hand in
each pan simultaneously, with the
privilege of taking from the bottom
of one of the pans, if any one could, a
So gold piece that rested there most
temptingly. 1t was highly amusing TO
see the eagerness with which Young
America went for it for a while, and
their confidence of getting it. We
watched the operations a long while,
but saw no enc take out the MONEY.
A galvanic battery attached to the
pans beneath, explained the mystery
to those who sought the cause.
Between twelve and one o'clock the
Declaration of independence was
read by Mr.. Robert A. Hill, in an
eloquent and impressive manner, and
was received with warm applause.
judge Parrot then delivered the
Grafton of the day, which.was one of
much beauty and ability. and of
which we would be pleased to give a
liberal synopsis, did not the crowded
condition of our columns render it
impossible. He spoke of the habit
of keeping certain days as holidays,
as existing from almost the earliest
ages; even from the time when the
Great Architect of the Universe
rested on the Seventh day, and estab-
lished it as a Holy day forever. He
sketched briefly the causes that led
to the Declaration, and the conse-
quent observance of this day.
Passing from these, he alluded to
the lone cause" of trouble in the
Government established on this Decla-
ration, and for which the usurpers
who had heaped such abuses on our
ancestors, were responsible. and not
ourselves. OF the direful result,
plunging the nation as it did, into a
terrible fratricidal war, which had re-
suited in the establishment of two
great and irrevocable principles, tc-
wit: that secession from or dissolu-
ton of this Government could never
be achieved, and that the foul stain of
slavery was forever hlotted out from