The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-07-10
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New YoRK-July5. S.
About IL O'Clock last night the racket
which had been Grazing adult New Yorker
for thirty-slx hours, ceased. imagine d
previous Fourth of July was so generally cele
brated by the boys. They spread themselve
over the sidewalks from daybreak till dark
!. and devoted themselves jndustriously to th,
production of explosive sounds. The loude
and more deafening was the noise, the NOR
delirious apparently was the Joy of these imps
Each succeeding year witnesses. the rim
prOpement". of detonating toys; and now man
/ ufaeturers have reached such perfection tha
they are.able to sell the juvenile world o com
mon frecraeker which will make as loud s
noise as bfaes cannon. These Ingenious in
does" OF course they were almost the onl.
things the boys would buy on Fourth of July
and the consequence was. din not Unlike
that which accompanies a stubbornly contest
| ed battle. -.
The Fourth was principally celebrated by the
| boys, but there were few exercises in which
grown people participated. The parade OF the
/
remember when the, soldiers used to march to
| the Battery, at the lower end of Broadway, to
be reviewed by the major. general. This be:
lieve was The custom from the time of. the
Revolution down.to the beginning OF the late
civil war. But since New York has movednp
town, the Fourth OF July parades haveneVer
| been below. Canal street, and sometimes not
below Fourteenth street. Yesterday the re.
view was held at Madison Square. Mayor Hall
was. mounted en- o platform In front OF the
Worth monument, and had with him Major
Generals Hamilton and JEFF. @. Davis OF the
army, Admiral LIE Feyre and staff Of the
Frenchak klgate Magicenner and Captain Col
CHECK Of the Russian frlgaue Ysadntck. The
crack Seventh looked and marched finely, as
usual, but had an undoubted rival In the
Ninth, with Colonel. Jim Fisk at its head. The
latter is squalderlng money and working like
a.beaver TO make his regiment the eest drilled
in the city. Two years ago it!was one OF the
poorest and least attractive. z
The Tahmany celebration was one Of the
features OF the day. The Radicals, as party.
do not recognize the anniversary of independ-
ence. But tits always celebrated. enthuslas-
tically blythe New York Democracy. Tamma-
ny Hall was gaily decorated with flags and
banners. All the leading Democrats OF the
city and many from other States occupied the
platform. The Democratic ladies filed the
front seats, and behind them were tier upon
tier Of the horny handed unterrlfed, many, /
am constrained TO admit, ,int heir shirt sleeves.
But the enthusiasm was genuine and hearty.
General -Runyon,, of New jersey, delivered
the oration; John Savage. the Fenian presi-
dent, read the poem. and Hill sang the .sStar
Spangled, Banner" There were shorter
speeches, and, ct the conclusion of the eXer.
clses, the warriors and their guests retired to
the .banqueting room, where, VA may pre-
sumo, they indulged In fre-Tater and smoke.
In the evening there were displays offre.:
works In all ofsthe large public parks includ-
ing the Battery. Among the outside attrac.
tIons which drew thousands of people away
from the city, were the races ut Long Branch,
the regatta of the Atlantic Club at Glen Cove,
the exercises ut the charity institutions on
Randalrs Island, the base ball contest at the
Union Grounds. Brooklyn, and the German
festivals In the suburbs. Centra! aud Prospect
Parks were thronged, there were innumerable
steamboat excursions around the harboE and d
most ofthe theatres gave performances II the
afternoon and evening. There seemed;to De
comparatively little drunkenness, Whlcn was
partly owing no doubt, to the unusual mild
ness ofthe weather.
s The base ball contest to which T. hive a.
-lnded was really on extraordinary game. L
have told you how we pride ourselves onsour
champion club, the Mutual, aud how we ex-
pected thatir would walk over all the other
clubs In the, country this season. We.Were
taken down materially BY It's three successive
defeats by out. .ot.town clubs, but. were hardly
prepared for the catastrophe OF yesterday.
The Mutual played the Eckford, o second:rate
club, from which nobody expected anything
but Overwhelming rout. But the resultSWas
lust the other;way, The, hampions' were not
only defeated, but what. is worse.they were
sssThitewasbed." The score stood: Eokford Z,
Mutual.O. Nothing so surprising, as tins, has
ever before been done fn base ball IN New;
" 4 will bor, c.ff n
the o. eetige of our. once terrible champions.
a special dispatch in the Tribune OF this
morning announces that Horace Greeley has
been nominated for the Presidency by Cassius
M. Clay; who made,a Fourth OF July speech tr
Lexington, Kentucky, yesterday. This Is the
lrstpublic endorsement that Horace's candl-
:dature has received since he informed Kan
most of the Radical papers affect to treat the
matter as. q joke. I have reason to believe
that the vain and fussy old agricu!turalsti is be-
deyilled with the idea that he has strong pop
ular backing, and. eau contest the nominalion
with Grant In the Radical National ConYen-
tfon. He e'ls firmly impressed with the notlols
that the great farming Interest," Iooks MS .naoin I.
him as ITS representative man, ana thas ne ID
very popular in the South. Greeley has more
brains than Grant, andi the people have more
confidence In bis honesty, but he: has fatal
flaw In: his armor. He is Q protectionlst. He
could not carry a single western state on TINS
Continent, and would more completely fail to
unite his party than the generally despised
and contemplate man who yields the govern
ment patronage by reason of having posses
sion of it. ~.
The new religious daily penny paper, the
Witness, has been issued. 1t Is not particular
ly promising in appearance. A tone of cant
peryades not only the editesal page, but the
news columns The mixing OF pious phrases
ami Bible quotations with purely commercial
topics would be grotesque # II were not ais
agreeable. The editor aancGnees that he ID
deacon In the orthodox church, and yice.presi-
dent Of temperance society. To avoid dis
appointment" he wishes 1t to be distinctly
understood that the Witness will take mo ad-
vertisement OF Intoxicating drinks, bitters,
opiates, tobacco, theatres, eircuses, quacks OF
ouack medicines, bad books, lotteries, gilt
enterprises or anything else that is known to
be. luxurious. to public health or morality:
From this we may gather that the deacon Is
down on smoking, and considers the circus;
\ the drama and the South Carolina Land and
Immigration Society devices of the adversary
At the same time he admits into his columns
an advertisement of celebrated nianutactur
er of breech-ioading rifles, pocket revolyers
and other deadly inrtruments used In perfor
ating, carving, shatterfng and tearing TO pieces
the human family. The deacon will hardly bt
able to pass Tor q saint IN this keen-eyed com
munity NfM.