130 NEW YORK. 



an opportunity of witnessing the celebration 

 of the 4th of July, the birth-day of American 

 Independence. 



The anniversary happened this year to fall 

 on a Sunday, and the festivities were therefore 

 postponed till the Monday, but yet on the 

 evening of Saturday, partial demonstrations 

 of joy by groups of people on the streets, an- 

 nounced the coming jubilee. 



At an early hour on Monday it burst forth 

 in all the " pomp and circumstance" with 

 which public rejoicings in a great city are 

 usually manifested. For the time, business 

 appeared to have been laid aside in every quar- 

 ter, and countless multitudes of all classes, ci- 

 tizens of New York and inhabitants of the ru- 

 ral districts for many miles around, thronged 

 the streets from morning to night, eager in 

 mutual gratulation, and having their gladden- 

 ed spirits still more enlivened by the ringing 

 of bells, the flying of colours, the roaring of 

 cannon, and the more dulcet sounds of music 

 issuing from numerous bands stationed at dif- 

 ferent places, or accompanying processions to 



