New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-30

hosTON, June "a, 1871.
EDITOR REPUBLICAN:
The season of celebrations, strawberry |
festivals and pcnics is at its height here.
One day last week the neishboring city of |
Charlestown celebrated in a becoming
manner the ninety-sixth annivelSary of the
battle of Bunker Hill. Or was thu celebra
ton in honor of the doughty and Sumacu-
late colonel of the New York Ninth
So at least thought the little boys in one
of the schools there, who, OF being asked
by their teacher what all the noise ana
parade was about, in honor of what great
man, shouted with one voice, "Jim Fisk !"
Certainly in outward adornments the
colonel who directed the battle on that
memorable seventeenth of June would have
been nowhere by the side of the irrepressi-
bic James. Jr., who, in the glory of epau-
let's and carefully waxed moustache, led
his gallant regiment through our streets
the other day.
One of the pleasantest features of the
celebration was the presence Of a company
! of tremen from Savannah, Georgia, who
were the invited guests Of a CharlestOwn
company. They we're fine looking body
of men, and all who heard them commend
highly their hearty words in favor of fel-
lowship and union between the two sections
of our common country. Such men, and
there are thousands of them scattered
through the South, are not to be duped
again by the willy JEFF and his crew.
A celebration of quite different sort Oc
Cured yesterday at Cambridge. 1t was
given by the young men who are about
leaving the classic shades of Harvard. IL
other words, it was class day, and the occa
sion brought together the usual number Of
pretty young girls land others who were moi
pretty or young), arrayed in the daintiest
dresses, and smart, dapper young men tant
old boys, whose faces showed that they
did not feel so fresh as they did on another
class day; and proud, stately fathers ant
mothers, and happy, blooming sisters
There were the usual spreads by the
young men. and GRAFTON and poem in til
parish church; the dances on the cOlleg,
green; the wild frolie around the old elm
and then the tender devastating of scene
lIdb Will ntNtl NUT llOAlA lAAo lAiNhioA y
viii the young men we saw yesterday il
the pride and strength of early manhood d.
the worlds tough work well and honestly
In the years ahead, the real test will b.
applied which will show their quality-th
stuff they are made Of There is plac
in our country, thank heaven, for ever.
honest worker, whether he graduates a
Harvard or at a blacksmith's forge. | an
, thinking now of one who graduated az tn
latter, and is doing valiant service in tn
r great city of the West, and indeed all owe
. the land. mean Robert COllyer, the CHI
cago preacher. On my table is a new vO
, ume by him, embellished with a fine like
: ness, which will be published in few days
l The words are Just as sweet and frank an
S wholesome as the faoe, which is sayin
+ much. l would like TO quote few passages
I but you will soon have the book
+ The Musical Congress, held here thi
e week was as harmonious as such eongres
e ought to be, and gave unminged satistaC
tion TO all who attended it. No one wa
e knocked down. or bullied or called by har
J names, and it is said the phlanthropists ar
: thinking of adiourning it to Washingto
, for the sake of its example to the Congress
!, there. JOoEPHCS.