Year: 1860

I The Fourth of July Celebration.


This event comes on tomorrow. Great
preparations have been made to entertain a
| people from distance may be expected.
! Our steamers from up and down the Ohio,
and from up Green River, our railroad, and
multitude of private eonveyances will
/ pour into the city q larger throng, perhaps,
than has ever been in it at one time. These
people must be taken care of-that is, they
! must be fed, and attentions must be shown
/ them. They are the guests of the city, an
Uited here to participate with US in the
celebration of day alike glorious to them
! and to US. We are all of the great Ameri-
/ can family, whether the members be native
. or adopted, and as brethren and sisters must
our visitors be treated. Evansville ought
\ to show herself on this occasion worthy the
+ good name she enjoys.


/ In order to make our hospitality some
1 thing more than a mere name, our citizens
/ who " keep house should make their prep
/ arations for inviting home and entertaining
/ their friends and acquaintance, and even
! strangers, from a distance. This will lessen
/ the demand on the public table at the Grove,
and will give our visitors a better idea of
the city's hospitality than if all who come
to take part in the celebration are left to
shift for themselves at the public table. We
most earnestly exhort all who are situated
so they can, to open their houses" hang
out their latchstrings and bid our guests
welcome to their homes.


few persons, compared to our popula-
tion, have borne the burden of preparation
for this celebration. To-day, if any help
is needed, either in labor or material, will
not our citizens, when called on, open their
hearts and hands, and do all they can to
make the occasion pass off to the entire
credit of the city? We cannot doubt it.


If this celebration results AS it should if
the preparations prove adequate to the
crowd in Il Tendance, and our citizens act
the generous part to visitors that they
should--the benefit that Evansville will
reap will be immense. There will be peo-
pie here from every point for many miles
around, and they will go away with impress
sions Of the city. regulated by the treatment
they receive. If treated well, those i'm
preSSionS will be favorable, and Evansville
cannot fail to reap a rich reward for her
liberality and hospitality.


A proclamation from the Mayor announc-
eS the closing of the saloons until the pro-
cession proceeds to the Grove. This is
wise precaution against excesses; and if
the request of the Mayor in regard to the
keeping of order be carried out, we shall no
doubt have Il peaceable and pleasant Fourth
of July.


We suggest to our merchants to suspend
business during the march of the procession,
out of respect for the day. AS many per-
sons may wish to make purchases while here,
it will, we presume, be thought best for
some of the stores to keep " one eye open "
part of the day but it is hoped that busi-
ness will be suspended while the procession
is moving if no longer.


We hope and believe that this occasion
will prove worthy of pleasant remembrance
in the minds of all concerned IN it, and that
the feelings of patriotism rekindled by it in
the hearts of the people, will strengthen the
bonds of Union which bind together our
glorious confederacy of States.


THE PUBLIC ScHooLs.-Ye Yesterday the
Boys Grammar School, J. K. Leavitt, teach
er, was examined in the public school build
ing. There were &c scholars present, and
81 classes were examined in mental and VISIT
ten arithmetic, grammar, geography, read
ing and spelling.


The school did very well considering the
fact that part of the first cle.s.,,..had been
taken out of this school and class from the
Intermediate department substituted. The
trustees were forced to take this step, on
account of the crowded state of the primary
school.


We hope the intense heat will admonish
the trustees to make the school year shorter
hereafter. The schools ought to close not
later than the 18th of June, and should not
be opened before the 18th of September
The hot weather in the latter half of June
and the first half of September makes it
waste of time as well as of the physical ener-
gies of the scholars.


To-day the examinations close with the
High School, under the tutorship of Mr..
Butter6eld. The friends of education are
invited to attend


COnaunicated


EVANSVILLE, Ind, July ID, 1860


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