Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-07-06
CIRCULATION UNRIVALLED
IN ELIZABETH.
Indspendenco Day.


A noisier Fourth of July than yes
terday we have rarely known. With
the first gray streak of'day on the east
ern horizon came the sleep. destroying
boom bang-pop-fzz OF the thousand
and one devices Of pyroteohny used in
the hours Of sunlight. At sunrise the
Veteran Zouaves, commanded by Cap
tain Henning, for the third time since
their organization, fred the National
salute, from a point near Jefferson
Park, which was the signal for all the
Small boys IN town 10 asise from their
slumbers, and hasten into the streets,
where the early morning was made
hideous by the bursting OF double
headers, the firing Of pistols, and the
explosion OF fre-orackers, torpedoes
and other Internal thus
preventing honest people from enjoy
ing the repose which great many PEG.
pie imagine to- be necessary at this
hour OF the day.
ALI day long the incessant banging
of guns. pistols and mimic bombs, the
bursting Of torpedoes OF all sizes, the
popping OF A ireorackers, and the
fixing OF the many spurious ones that
wouldn's pop, made a hubbub such
as our oldest inhabitants has rarely
heard before, and our youngest citizen
-he who arrived at the very hast hour
OF the suspicious dsy-mny hope
never to hear again. When noontide
came there were more salutes, and
again at sunset, and from morn till
night, through the haze OF either twi-
light, thro ugh the bright bslmy hours
of sunshine, and even through the
shades of night, rendered grayer and
blacker by the smoke Of exploded fire.
works, the stencil Of sulphur, filed the
air and stifed the, asthmatic. Such a
cloud of darkness was left hanging over
the city that nothing less powerful
than the mornings sun could dispel it,
and the rocket-sticks, the bomb cases,
the torpedo pebbles and papers, the
cracker pastebonrd that litter the
streets would, if piled up make a
mountain of rubbish OF astonishing di-
mansions.
But the fuss is all over, and our good
folk who were fussiest yesterday vii
soon forget the dusty, murky, lurid
scenes of the glorious Fourth, in the
more sober and staid and quiet bust
ness of lie, and when the little surplus
stock Of the corner peddler is sold out
tardy or unsatished young patriots, We
shall have peace for another year.
There were many hundreds Of good
people who did not remain In the city
yesterday TO DO shocked and choked,
The railroads leading from the city
carried off loads Of people. In short, it
was busy day. happy day, holiday
in its best sense. Not cloud showed
its gloomy face, not drop OF rain fell,
and the accidents were no more nume-
rous than in previous years King Alec
hol held his court, az is his wont, in
sundry places and many Of his retinue
wero bfoughs 10 grief but this hap
pens on any day when bibulous men
have nothing 10 do.
The militia, - Companies A, Capt.
J. B, HutE. B, Capt.. Leonard Hen
ming. and O. Cspt. ". q. Dehart. form.
ed line al Market Hall a seven o'cloch.
and nnde1 sommaAd otIA. Colonel 3.
MadiabA Drake, rAssehed 10 she Depot
taking she 10 tssiA for New Bruins
wick, whish pasee visa safsiy AsAehed
In due time and where She parade Oh
the Taird Regiment took pMes- hun.
dreds OF spsopls evincinS the greatssi
regard for ths soldiers,
The Third Regiments, headed by 8
brass band. and commanded by Col.
Uriah DeHart parsdsd the streets Of
New Bsnnsvick, the AeA being the
general o. web m special objects Of at
tentioA. We doubt if Me good people
Of shss city ever Witnessed . gAyer
spectacle. and We are glad that she
citizens took 10 into their heads 10 give
the VISITORS q cordial ~ we'll as bril-
liant reception. The sidewalks every
where were thronged with the fairest
Of the fair, and very many OF them
manifested their admiration by present
ing the. "beat-looking" soldiers with
wreaths. boquets, 60. Tour Reporter
got one, and he attributed it altogether
to his good looks. We viii say here
that Col. DeHart has every reason to
feel proud Of his command. The o.
cellent marching, andthe splendid con
duct Of The men, spoke in volumes Of
praise, and the citizens of New Bruins
wick felt that they had been honored
by the visit and parade.
After the parade, the Regiment waf
drawn mn ia +ba rnurf Houco xror1