The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1868-07-11
From NEW YORK.
NEW York. Jr1Ly 9Th


mas not been commemoratcd with sucl
unfiagging fcrvor as it was yesterday ,th'
ninetyNsecond of its existence.
And to burn powder yesterday at any
hour from early morn to dewy eve,'
was no mean evidence of the patriotism
OF a people who, it is true, proved their
love OF country on hundred fields for
1t Is certain that for many Fourths Of
July we have notexpericnOod such un.
mitigatcd tropical heat.
On Friday afternoon severe thun,
uor storm swept over the city, the fast
descending rain quenching for few
moments the thirst of earth and giving
promise of day succeeding of moder-
ate temperature. But that most unrc.
liable Of ali our public servants, grown
crusty and disobliging from his long re-
tention in Office, the Clerk of the Weather,
determined otherwise; and so, in cele.
brating independence Day, those of us
who elected to remain in the city-.those
Of us who forgot that there were such
magnificent retreats within au hours
ride of the City Hall as the Park,
the High Bridge, the Palisades and
Prospect Pork-those Of us who sought
in the burning streets of the city to kill
three birds with one stone-t. G., burn
fire crackers, drink lemonade and at
tend upon the many winged rumors
which took flight from the vcstibule of
Tammany Hall, experienced a melting
mood which made each one inwardly
pray for the near contiguity of Alaska,
or some other territory where there is a
" boundless space" of frozen water-a
most excellent element for sodl elevating
beverages.
Like antecedcnt Fourths the day was
ushered in by salvos of artillery from
Forts Columbus, Lafayette, Diamond, |
Schuyler, the Battery and Fort Greene, |
Brooklyn, and by the ringing of bells |
from hundreds of steeplcs in the city |
and suburbs At these signals of the |
dawning of the ninety second anniversa.
ry of Independence the masts and rig
ging of thousand ships on the shore
lines of the North and East rivers and
the fags.affs Of hundreds of public and
private buildings in New York, Brook.
lyn, Williamsburg, Jersey City and the
villages around were, as if by the whis.
pered command of powerful magician.
covered with flags Of every size, shape,
color and nationality, the glorious Stars
and Stripes overtoppins them in beauty,
grandeur and significance.
And thus commenced the day. From
-ecumbent postures nearly two millions
't people in and near the metropolis and
,hirty-fve to thirty millions to the
East, the West, the North and .hc
South of it, refreshed by slumbcr, GRID
I'd up their loins for the observances OF
holiday such as, in Importance, no
'ther people among the thousand mill
ons which inhabit "this great round
globe, cannot count as equally glorious
n their calendars.
Then came the military parades, the
lurrying to the wharves by those who
lad resolved on excursions seaward, or
o railway depots, tina. friends, now
LOUDLY dear, in the country might be
listed, and amid the hurry and the tur
noil, the firing of guns, the roar of the
many voiced public, the drinking of
beverages of all degrees of stimulation,
he ringing of bells, the passage through
he streets of professions, the gathering
nd marching and countcrmarching of s
professions, the ass sembling of
he National Democratic Convention at
'ammany Hall, the dedication by the
'achems of the Order of Columbia of
heir new. Wigwam, and the gathering of {
he Germans at Jones Woods helped to I
ass the day until noon, when Trinity .
hines for the second time previously
sunrise) pealed to ears that listened
Sove the rack and rattle of the streets
sweet, silver toned music. 7
And SO the noon passed, and the af. 4
9rnoon was the counterpart, in matter of
re crackers, squibs and torpedoes, of
10 morning; and as the sun descended
the horizon of the west, leaving be,
ind to mark the path whi,h he had C
avcrsed trial Of glory such as no
aintcr could initiate then, as night \
Let her curtains down 1
And pinned them with star,
that poor mad poot( (made so by love), c
Iacdonald Clark once wrote, the grand 6
yrotechnic displays announced to take d
ace at the Battery, the City Hall park, O
le squares up town and in the public G
'ounds of Brooklyn, eJersy City and :
sew here before tens of thousand (iny "
e aggregate) of happy, but exceeding P
tired and unusually hot people, who,
hen the FIST pieces-all intensely pa
iotic-were burned, hastcned to ice p
ean saloons, lager beer gardens and p
lndred other inviting places to refresh, +
ID then New York and Brooklyn and