July 6, 1872 (4 pages)

a Tas eee ee ae Se a OE I Sine Daily Transcript WADA OrTY, CAD. fatorday, July 6, 1872. OR PRESIDENT, GENERAL VU. 8. GRANT. ’ FOR VICE PRESIDENT, HENRY WILSON. 7 _3 = Secepétonbet Governor Booth.” ~~ Governor Booth, Albert Hart, Esq., ‘and Hon. A. C.° Niles, were met at the cars at Colfax, on tae evening of ‘the 3d, bythe committee, on the part of eitizens, con ‘sting of Judge Searls, B. J. Watson, 8. P. Brown and Jno. A. Lanéaster. . Col, Lan@aster handled the ribbons of the Governor's carriage and mantiged the foar spirited horses with his ac-: customed ease and grace. The party left Colfax at 5:30 Pp. m., and came ‘by way of Grass Valley, where they stopped half an hour and many citizens paid their respects to the. Governor and:party: --~~ The Nevada Light Guard, numbering 60 men, and the Fire Departiment marched out to receive the Governor preceded by the Nevada brass band, A large number of citizens also went out. The reception tod« place in front of the residence of John Cashin, Esq., which was brilliantly illuminated. The military presented arms. and gave the color salute and the firemen also saluted aa the Governor’s party passed down ‘the line; while the band played ‘‘Hail to the Chief.’ The military and firemen thenformed and escorted the party to the National Exchange Hotel,-where an immense crowd had -collected to give them welcome. As _they.drove along the lines the military and firemen again saluted, the ‘band playing ‘‘Hail to the Chief.”’ AM INCIDENT, As the Governor's party passed down the line in frentof Mr. Cashin’s house, some one fired a rocket immediately in front of the team, and the leaders, a pair of spirited bays, became frightened. For a moment it ‘sppéared the whole party would be tant parts of the county, may rao riot in tropes and figures, 4 pid ti, Ditlehon. ihm Pica Davart . ee rr naeeren white ee BP id our rhetoric ‘anced § the carried over the grade, as the horses P At Valley Forge—but gave no souud bonita of Sad ot th were ‘ceasing, bot Col. Lancaster . ™eat under John Pattison, Aid. Of weak or breaxing fuitn to stain bounds of taste; but after all there ; as na a cell that the. Nevada Brass Band : The glory of the graves they found. is something grand in our comniemheld wheelers so well that the . carriage was not moved from its none gages, Soonthe leaders went down. ‘fut it required some little time to get them straightened oat, and the temainder of the trip was made without accident. THE BANQUET: . At 10-0’clock on the 3d Governor ‘Booth and party were escorted to the Union Hotel, where a splendid suppet, tendered them by citizens, and yotten up by Ira A. Eaton, was provided, ‘The tables. were beautifully ‘decorated and bountifully filled with all the delicaciesof the season. _ Gudge Searls presided, Governor Booth, Judgd Niles ahd Albert Hart were the guests. The guests and some thirty or forty cittzens who united in tendering the banquet sat down to the table where a pleasant hour was spent. Toasts were proposed to the Governor, Judge Niles, Albert Hart and others, and speeches made. At the conclusion of the supper the Governor was. escorted to hia quarters at the National Exchange Hotel: Bvery detail of the reception was catried out in excellent style, ahd demonstrated the respect and ‘eonfidence of the people for the Governor of the State, who was their guest on this occasion. The Celebration. A GALA DAY IN NEVADA CITY, Early on the $d visitors commeneed coming in from distant points in the county. On the lines of travel extra stages were run, and many came in private conveyances. The arrivals continued throngh the ‘day and early on the morhing of the Fourth jover every main ling of travel with people. Long before the time for the procession the hotels were filled and the streets thronged with people. — THE CITY. The streets were decorated on either side with evergreens, flags were tying frou all of the public buildings, and business, except of those kinds necessary on the Fourth, was generflags suspended, The maia streets been sprinkled the evening pre‘vious along the line of the procession. _A Federal salute was fired and belis " nipg at sunrise, noon and evening. the. provession moved forward in the 76 mien rank and file, under comLieutenant John A. Rapp, Second Lieutenant, Dana B. Getchell. H. Hanson, Aid. costumes of marines, representing horses and driven by Dan Baker. wald, attired in the costume of Coluinbia. white, with red, white and blue streamers, carrying in their hands banners, which each represented. Searls, President of the Day; Governor Newton Booth, Orator; Albert Hart, Esq., Poet; and Miss Flora Cornell, Reader. lain and leading citizens from dissna easements sidewalks were crowded with people. THE PROCESSION. . Under the direction of the Marshal and his Aids the, procession was formed promptly at the signal. The following were the officers of the day: Grand, Marshal, B. J. Watson; Chief Aids, Frank G. Beatty, of Grass Valley and %. P. Brown; Aids, Ino Pattison, A. H. Hanson, -D. RB, McKillican of North Bloomfield, W. Hayford, of Colfax, and A. H. Parker. ‘Colors—Marshal, white sash; Aids, ‘ted white and blue sashes,. At the ringing of the second bell safe to say, contained a larger erowd than ever within its walls om any previous occasion. As soon as the audience was seated the assemblage was called to order by Judge Niles Searls, President of the day, who announced the exercises. The Nevada Brass Band played a tune, after which a prayer was offered by Rev. E. Halleday, Chaplain of . the day. .Yocal music under direcison of Professor Chase,accompanied by Professor Muller on the piano, next followed. “Hail to the Liberty’’ was admirably rendered. Miss Flora Cornell was next introduced and read the Declaration of Independence in a most. creditable manner, and was loudly applauded. Her voice was clear and musical, and every syllable could be heard distinctly in any part of the hall. The elocution was faultleds, and the’ reading beyond criticism. At the conclusion . the lady was gfeeted by long coritinusd. applause. . "ie Aftet musie by the Band, Judge Searls introduced Albert Hart, Esq., Poet of the Day, Mr.Hart eloquently rendered the following excellent and original poem, ss Flag of our kindred, and who could not eurTruth and the Right, though they strug: and died— Flag of the Free! how thy’ Uoquent splenfollowing order. z Grand Marshal B. J. Watson, and Chief Aids, Frank G. Beatty and N. P, Brown. ~~ Gracs Valley Band. Ist Division. Military, under chargé of A; H. Parker, Aid. ° Nevada Light Guard, muambering A mand of Captain M. 8. Deal, Ist. 2d Division, under command of A. Thirty-seven boys dre:sed in the the Navy and escorting the Car of Car of Liberty, drawn -by six In@he centre of the car was a pedesThrills thestrong heart balastmge words and gestures they put divers tal with canopy abeve handsomely . Fields thou hast seen that were trampled . things as a sacrifice, and after decorkted with stars. Upon thi ie {and gory; . weird ineantation, one of them made platform stood the Godde eih. et Y aeed aetna bes apart ever ‘msde e 88. i at “fourth of Jul ech’? ever made Brief is thy story, but brilliant — Bete merges te erty personated by Miss Julia Greenpiatniées and beautifal, WS Tot cal” upon -this continent of which we An infant, bora when parple blood Around the pedestal were Grew chill in English royal veins, — . frst great speech at Leipsic, on the young gitls; handsomely dressed in Mpg h scttcbrg ai ectoed poncho mood ae af duly. Pree nee For Liberty the young lips gave ‘A low, tuint shout, im Teebie tone, Vet echoing far across the wave; +: With strength to shake a tyrant’s throne} designating the States 3d. Division, under charge of D. Atender waif of fragile form. st vs. yg 1 it one pcoasicn : WwW rad) ression’ or gene ‘‘gnreadeism’’; that . R;-McKillican, of North Bloomfield, . 4 Aosta child ae fine eae — oo owe inprors the ts) foranity to stir Aid. hom patriot heroes died to save; Ist. Carriage containing Judge. p24, sword ih hand and fackag foes, Through long years after Lexington, Until their shouts ot triumph rose ‘When Yorktowa’s bitter siege was won. ‘ Between, lay Concord’s twilight field” And midnight Monmouth's bloody (plain: the rising sun revealed Qd. Carriage containing ChepThe broad frye jand they swore. to gain, The grandest battles ever known They fuught for all mankind—and won. By them our harvest fields were sewn And when the mighty work was done, Nevada Fire Department under command of Chas. W. Cornell, Chief Bagineer Nevada Hose Co. Nv. 1., Joseph Olive, Foreman, David Niven’, Assistant, with, full force of men, and hose carriage handsomely decorated. Pennsylvania Engine Co. No. 2, They gave the child, for you, for me, For all of Freedom's coming host, — A hoine as free as that broad sea Which sang along the kingless coast! “Hark! from the East come the songs of a Chas, Sairs Foreman, Chas. Miller. The glad shouts of SAA thi tajoicing and Ist Assistant, Lewis Siebert 2d As_ [blest In their birthright of freedom; we join the sistant, with full ranks and apparatus (ovation, looking gay. And answer them back from ey s 3 eo Wes 5th Division. Consisting of Gro-. That the old flag, the ge ty Neg grand " one 1 gave us, cera, Butchers, and other businesses, . ‘qnoe trembling young banner our foreunder charge of Wm. Hayford of . [fathers bore, Colfax, Aid, : Theemblem our brothers died bearing to [save us, Is cherished as sacredly now as of yoru!” 5 Grocers—Lester & Mulloy, A. H. Hanson, Bigelow & Co., Thos. SLu:+ leff, and A. Lademan. The wagons were handsomely decorated with flags and evergreens, and loaded with boxes and cases representing their business. ; Butchers—Jake Naffzigar, wagon in which were two live lambs and a sausage ‘machine. 8. M. Timmons, wagon with a stand, upon which different varieties of meat were placed. James Colley, wagon-with dressed lamb aud other meats, The Ico Company—The Nevada Ice Company, wagon upon which was drawn a large block of ice, clear A Ruler grown to fame; a land Wherein sae aya 9 rich and fair, Beneath ove flag, @ ma band Uf stately SS j In fruitful fields Rast to West, From North té South, and all between, Their peaceful ways were more than biest, Untu, to mar the lovely acene, Rebellion rose, with savage cheers, ‘Yo scourge its home with sword and Sprang up, to die in blood and tears; Aruse in pride—and fell in shame! Went forth to learn, os treltcrs must, That #reedom’s yhrine of truth and Is an eternal, sacred trust, vee Aud not the plaything of en hour! " Defied our strength, but shrank to feel, du contrast with the olden love, A giant band of ruthless steel aa crystal, and dazzling in the sunWithin the Nation's velvet glove! light like » diamond. “ie The old flag fell! but im the hush Chareoal—Debernardi, representing “Charcoal Tommy.” His wagon was loaded with charcoal,and he and ‘That tollowed Sumter’s Our youug Republic rose scaeaae dahl With taith’s strong arms her faithless [ones. his companion being blacked up. And they lie dead! brave, but ‘misled. Brewers—Louis Dreyfuss and Jno. esanys oplestesdecirsscninees "ieee Blasauf, in wagons. And softly o'er thean be it said, That now we mourn their loss and {ours. . “Guard the grand flag! all tlie a ee Pie ae This completed the procession, which was one of the most attractive ever witnessed in the city. Alter marching over the line designated in the programme, the proceasion halted at the Theatre. : THE EXEHCISES, Since tears of atonement to lave them ‘And the red biad ENP Soc ae ! es of beauty gleam Since Goa tathed tte folde ‘iar tine ood : of The Theatre, the largest building} How freaght with new a on in the city for such purpose, was ce (rature stall be Pp ’ Steadfast, united, what fos shall us handsomely dedorated. On the stage. Tostrise our broed ds Sree ar er the speaker's stand was beautifully [on seal dressed in ivy leaves upon white. Columbia! queen of kingly sons! Back of the stage two large American . ‘fhe dane aud 2 pan chenenaenmen ye met in Brn! orate where was ‘Lhe ringig cheers—so near—so clear, 8u8) a picture of Washinugton,. Th : at gees were arranged tlie whole esente Laatagescenon of eae dew et of the stage. After the doors were opened the building was soon. crowded to its utmost capscity. Every available ace for sitting or standing being fled, and the stage, which was open Toat pours irom shure te shoe, to greet _ A ting BO power dares to. wrong. duiky BLugidy Witds, bo praise Océ more Ther tempie, sprang frew Piymsuth \ { Lies whole Aepth, wan elo crowded. . « *** A Tien weenie tem Flag of our infinite strength and‘ reliance! Emblem of * brotherhood, faith, Waving “America,” Judge Searls said ‘‘Ladies and Gentlemen, I take ;great pleasure in introducing ‘to ycu His Excellency, Newton Booth, Governor of the State of California, and Orator oO and’ was -greeted by the audience with enthusiastic applause. had subsided the Governor addressed the people as follows: : stitution of. Btraite, he wrote in his. diary, that on the 4th ‘of duly, 1583, he went ashore to witness an Indian celebration. The Indians had kindled a fire, into which with many—strange ‘Thave any.record—but ‘néarly a hundred years before Luther made his puly, at have always been inclined to ridicule the marmer in which we observe it. up the British lion and the whole , menagerie of royal heraldry, while the bird of freedom soars in the empyrean; that we triotism and our vain gloty finds the most inordinate expression, until we prove ourselves a nation of boasters. Possibly there may be something of truth in the charge. Our speech oration of the day we celebrate. isa sublime spectaclea vast people meeting in one day, through a continent, -OFr-i t it tee of whole’’ on the state of the nation. Other countries have fete days, we a birthday. ther Democrats nor Republicans, nor Protestant nor Catholic, nor natives ‘nor adopted; to-day we purge the film from the eye of patriotism by gazing u ight ideal; to-day we are Americans, and draw near, our country. And what is our country? land and the sea, the lakes, rivers, mountains and valleys, pot. the government and laws, the people and their history. than all these combined. vine abstraction, an ethereal essence. We.cannot describe it or analyze it— let its flag feel its living presence in our hearts. alty, ‘the king. can dono wrong.” It may be this is only the faulty expression of the instinctive love and reverence weall feel for our country. Our may not be in power, may mistake, may blunder, seekers may disBind all en d all this, behind law and administration is country, whose honor is our honor, Whose glory is our. glory, ‘the horizon of tyrants 7 the exiles throng the open a ‘With hymus of gratitude to Godt Symbol of blessings too sacred to lose! ance, Lighting the world with thy radiant [hues— unchallenged from octan to ocean. Herald of hope to men toilingsfar— = Standgrd of Liberty, rich indevotion,or in Fléat thou triumphant, in peace ‘ ’ [ war! During the reading of this excel-, ént production which contains beauties in every.line and figure, Mr Hart . was frequently interrupted by ‘applause, and at the con¢lusion the, manifestations of approbation were . Y long continued. bag After the singers had rendered f the Day.” © Governor Booth stepped forward After it The Fourth of July is an older inthan many of us are aware When Sir John Davis was cruisaround Baffin’s Bay and Davis English newspapers, that do not ps fully appreciate the 4th of least not in the way we co, get drunk on paIt not in parties, or sects, _bntas a great ‘‘commitTo-day we are neim the pure presence of a Not the It is something more It is a difloat. above our heads, we There is an old sentiment of royholders may betray; bethe pure presence of our incorrupted, inble, the object of our love, This feeling of patriotism is not peculiar to free a and to pleasion, shame . crown, The feeling survives even the 1 political existence of .its object; and with the wandering Pole has = the intensity of grief and ardor of like this to inquire, not what claims our country has u our love, for that we render Yostinetivaty, but what claims hasitto honor and reg before the tribunal of the public opinion of the world? excels it in stability and wealth ; France in refinément; Germany in learning; Italy iw art; Rassia in extent of termtory, and Chi has ten times its popuk.tion. Itcan not chailenge the reverence of mankind for its length of days, or kovk . point to adong line of achievencnts reaching backwaid through history. ‘Ard grown66 grand that ations epee, : : PRs it occupies im universal 4 pstory is brief as an hour in designed to illustrate the historical . have temporary alike of the ‘your thumb-nail,is répresented country, ._ Ithas not ianing letters, the life . build States and found an Empire aman. A short time since, I Laog 2 pipes oy Oo au an to Us as interested in studyinga map, or chart, . the American nsGtution: woul , been 6 Cecil ey Walbiiiaham ic the days of Elizabeth; then imagine duration of ali the great nations that have ever existed, and the varyin that all the arts and in-plements extent of their emjires. Itwas a which have been ,disedvered and inlesson of the littleness of human. vented since to make life easy are greatness. Nations that for thous. destroyed and lost; that there is nejands of years, seemed to govern and . ther steam engine, nor steel-pointed direct the whole course of events,. plow, nor any skill to make them; have disappeared, the memorials of . and you ‘will begm to conjecture what their existence so dim we can scarce. couruge, ly separate fact from fable, their] to the settlement of America and to very languages dead _and forgot-. appreciate its magnificent results. . Our fathers opened and tilled ten. 1 saw on the map the colored spacés which represented Egypt, their farms, and built their. houses — Assyria, Persia and Greece, flowing their handy their best, almost their in parallel streams for two thousand only implements—na savage foe did ears. Rome appears seven centunot allow them to sleep on their. ries before Christ as & rivolet, in sevwatch. The pressure -of_necessity en hundred years it had become an compelled habits of industry, They all engulfing sea, and in fifteen hun-. lived upon land Which was always dred ‘nidre was lost in the empire~of . practically, and generally really their the Turks, .Ofmodern mations, Eng-. own, ‘They were compelled to deland, Franee, the German and Italian vise and. administer their own local Stutes trace their lines of history thro’ . laws andinstitutions, Locke framed a thousand years. -The-only stream . a Constitution and laws for South \ hich flows through all time—the co. Carolina; but that.embodiment.of + terious and unchanging land. In one . vincial Assembly. They realized corner of this‘ mup, ocoupying so that the divine right of Kings was small a space as/to eseape casual obdestroyed when Charles the First was servation, you ‘could cover it with beheaded. They read the discusthe. sions of the fundamental truths of historical. existence df the United . government and t‘unalienable rights States of America, _Yes, our country . of man’: in the revolutions that made was born in day-light, in the later. Comwell a Protector and expelled ‘Phere is poehing of darkness . James the Second from the throne. or tradition over its early history. Its. With little leisure for discussive _ promisés and-reeords can be' read of thought, and little disposition for map. . What has it done in its * brief . mere literary .culture, their minds ninety-six years to deservé well of. were cors:antly familiarized with the our race ? eine! tt eat truths of-pelitics and morals. It has given no hew'réligion to the . The constant study of the Hebrew world like pha Bebtemh. the Arabs . Scriptures. intensified the idea of’ and the Hindoos—-for I sup} we. national umty, and imbued them will hardly ¢eléim Mornidnisim.as one . with a sense of Providential care. of our glories, , Ithascreatedno new. Such a school could not make anylanguage :ike the English, the Ger-. thing else than Republicans out of man, tne French, the Italian, the . such pupils. They were RepublicanSpanish—and English people-accuse . Democrats, while they were yet us of corrapti sheira by slang, and . unconscious of it. hey entered spoiling it by’s SArough the . upoti’the war! of the Revolution nose. it is the parent of no new civ. with professions of allegiance te the ilization or form of literature, for civ-. Crown. which they believed sincere. ilization and literatate in their’ most . They did not know their own hearts. modern forms are older than our . Again, it is with nations as with mén —neither know ie ypabilities, nor discovered continérts! “Its _me. their inmost ‘hatt¥és, until passion chanical inventions, except the Elec-. and opportunity meet. It was” in tric ‘Yelepraph are rather modifica. the musier of preparation and din of tions and combinations than original . battle the supreme hour of our counexpressions of ht. Ithas pro-. try came, and it rang ont that “pasduced no. general’ to Ceasar or. sionate manifesto, of . revolutionary Napoleon; no poet oe or. War,’’ THE DECLARATION OF INDEShukspeare or antaino phitosopher . PENDENCE, that was. a proclamation equal to Platé or Bacon; no natural . tv the world of a political birth, with hilosopher eqtal to-NeWtoti of Kep>. which History had been in travail for er; no religious reformer equal to. hundred years. 2, Luther, or Calvin, or, Wesiey;,n0 The~ vation of» the Colonies painter like Raphael; no builder fike from the Crown was ion & question Angelo; no composer like Mozart or. 0itime, By their growt . they must Handg); no wit equal. to, Voltaire ;. one day have, from the. panor man of universal eulture like . Tent stem. The bi of the King, Goethe. Before it was born, the. nd the lack of practi atesmihnprinciples of civil and religious liber. #bip im his Ministers, precipitated au ty and political equality, which are event which no wisdom and statesit. highest boast, were fully known; manship could have postponed longer and for thousandsof years had been . than a generation. The Colonies the themes of orators and poets, phil. Were driven to achieve their indeosopbers and statesmen. pendence by war, when it might have hat then has our country accom“peen attained in~ ;-but.Heaven. plished in the first century of its exbe praised for that war. It vitalized istence, to Vindicate its right to be, . #2 intensified the principles tpon and to discharge the debt which ev-. Which it was fought, . until they beery nation owes to universa) human. C#me & part of the blood, and brain, ity? Why this. It has taken the and living tissue of the Republic. It principles of liberty and equality and . 88v° unity and solidity’ to national organized them into national lite, It. fe and character; it gave us the bas taken the truths which were .the . Stet Rames and sucred memories of themes of poetry, eloquence and phithe Revolution; and it gave to, all losophy and made them the daily time the name that illamines all the thoughts of common men. It has . 28° with its sun-like purity—the brought them from -the eloister and . Peetiess. Washington. : made them a living firge, It hae It is most fit thut upon this day we converted themi from spéeulation and . Sbevld turn our f ces to the distant poetry to experiment ang fyet. Out past, and refresh our patriotism at of ideas it has made institutions; out . “8 PYre &PFIBs® of our national. ¢3of theory, #form.of government. istence whose waters flow ‘‘fast by Perhaps it would be more correct . *e orHeles of God,” Out of that to say that not by the American vas i ope eral aie of fapies le t through them ove of country, passion. for F ty Tee liberty, that nauvnal conscience, fashioned . Which iriumphed in our civil war, nobly preserved what had been so nobly won; wrote in the wurld’s politiaa scripture the. Proclamati jon of Emancipation gon aanegane of Independence, nae of Lincoln in the calendar of political saints and martyrs, where every day Humanity, tarns the page to read. The-rapid growth of our country in watertal prosperity is at once & source P ayeocay pride and just alarm. Wealth is a ge ble in growth; an incarnation, not # por Bar. ee ae royalty without the spiri egiance; no religpee See acimeit wan Fide § ance and habit of self heaved and where the spirit is, the form will follow, ».It is with nations as with individuals. pipes live its own life, do . ” its own work; illustrate its own charits power, #0 8 i water wai give you the constituents . Se2suous tn its of the sea. Df: you knew the a to be wondered ag . of the Dailon‘e deasiny. acai dangér? None, if the spirit “ “The facta of our colonial history . Co'Teption tamte . J ed any form of . . the thenslves. Once, ge" Sapabile, <.anecel.daapes 0 Federal] Samet wes <Sreen were BOO? ‘ ‘ io. . oe whuse b t Ae je to tne initiated. Now bred — paper wade ut open as the cay. ‘dhe public man ws trial every hour tor every action. , To seek cou‘cealwnent is te deserve censure .Frublie opmmon is im the end the rea) govern P power, “dnd public opinion is Oy the aggregate of the 1Dindividuality of character.’ lives were taken out of the» of custom, and forced to make of the wucle land, . 42 own channels; They far Cay high: of free ang) fea spl io Africa which hides Livingstén for every pu-le er: an ‘from us. Imagine a colomy, vackttar’e Sn 1 RY. Bins ’ greet Aiviy dott ob Mein cmonde, ut un [86 Washout a great pelater, te amonds, hut.to ves a . wt ham in ‘ what hardihood of spirit led ~~ oldest and . philosophic wisdom was found to be." youngest nations, is China—the mysinferior to the enactments of the pro."!:, * . telligent privaie muvidual opinions — a SEERYEQS & é Mg oy gers. SEESSSEERRERSS EE? cf Salas in great lif ~ gannot.b — wi loving p Howa tained? school i taught. industry self gove belong t poor ‘8 ive in t should a the affai town, cc ments 4 terest . officer — ty for of his are Tigh wrong. stant c: but sim] elevatio Their 1 by that try whi stroy it ror, OF as treas race, an Wher future, now bey with a] lion 80 but the ing volt the spe at the ¢ before. ded, * Band dismis: E. Hal TH Dari the reg deen . the tin nation Se Ee rhaet 3 é i

a Tas eee ee ae Se a OE I Sine Daily Transcript WADA OrTY, CAD. fatorday, July 6, 1872. OR PRESIDENT, GENERAL VU. 8. GRANT. ’ FOR VICE PRESIDENT, HENRY WILSON. 7 _3 = Secepétonbet Governor Booth.” ~~ Governor Booth, Albert Hart, Esq., ‘and Hon. A. C.° Niles, were met at the cars at Colfax, on tae evening of ‘the 3d, bythe committee, on the part of eitizens, con ‘sting of Judge Searls, B. J. Watson, 8. P. Brown and Jno. A. Lanéaster. . Col, Lan@aster handled the ribbons of the Governor's carriage and mantiged the foar spirited horses with his ac-: customed ease and grace. The party left Colfax at 5:30 Pp. m., and came ‘by way of Grass Valley, where they stopped half an hour and many citizens paid their respects to the. Governor and:party: --~~ The Nevada Light Guard, numbering 60 men, and the Fire Departiment marched out to receive the Governor preceded by the Nevada brass band, A large number of citizens also went out. The reception tod« place in front of the residence of John Cashin, Esq., which was brilliantly illuminated. The military presented arms. and gave the color salute and the firemen also saluted aa the Governor’s party passed down ‘the line; while the band played ‘‘Hail to the Chief.’ The military and firemen thenformed and escorted the party to the National Exchange Hotel,-where an immense crowd had -collected to give them welcome. As _they.drove along the lines the military and firemen again saluted, the ‘band playing ‘‘Hail to the Chief.”’ AM INCIDENT, As the Governor's party passed down the line in frentof Mr. Cashin’s house, some one fired a rocket immediately in front of the team, and the leaders, a pair of spirited bays, became frightened. For a moment it ‘sppéared the whole party would be tant parts of the county, may rao riot in tropes and figures, 4 pid ti, Ditlehon. ihm Pica Davart . ee rr naeeren white ee BP id our rhetoric ‘anced § the carried over the grade, as the horses P At Valley Forge—but gave no souud bonita of Sad ot th were ‘ceasing, bot Col. Lancaster . ™eat under John Pattison, Aid. Of weak or breaxing fuitn to stain bounds of taste; but after all there ; as na a cell that the. Nevada Brass Band : The glory of the graves they found. is something grand in our comniemheld wheelers so well that the . carriage was not moved from its none gages, Soonthe leaders went down. ‘fut it required some little time to get them straightened oat, and the temainder of the trip was made without accident. THE BANQUET: . At 10-0’clock on the 3d Governor ‘Booth and party were escorted to the Union Hotel, where a splendid suppet, tendered them by citizens, and yotten up by Ira A. Eaton, was provided, ‘The tables. were beautifully ‘decorated and bountifully filled with all the delicaciesof the season. _ Gudge Searls presided, Governor Booth, Judgd Niles ahd Albert Hart were the guests. The guests and some thirty or forty cittzens who united in tendering the banquet sat down to the table where a pleasant hour was spent. Toasts were proposed to the Governor, Judge Niles, Albert Hart and others, and speeches made. At the conclusion of the supper the Governor was. escorted to hia quarters at the National Exchange Hotel: Bvery detail of the reception was catried out in excellent style, ahd demonstrated the respect and ‘eonfidence of the people for the Governor of the State, who was their guest on this occasion. The Celebration. A GALA DAY IN NEVADA CITY, Early on the $d visitors commeneed coming in from distant points in the county. On the lines of travel extra stages were run, and many came in private conveyances. The arrivals continued throngh the ‘day and early on the morhing of the Fourth jover every main ling of travel with people. Long before the time for the procession the hotels were filled and the streets thronged with people. — THE CITY. The streets were decorated on either side with evergreens, flags were tying frou all of the public buildings, and business, except of those kinds necessary on the Fourth, was generflags suspended, The maia streets been sprinkled the evening pre‘vious along the line of the procession. _A Federal salute was fired and belis " nipg at sunrise, noon and evening. the. provession moved forward in the 76 mien rank and file, under comLieutenant John A. Rapp, Second Lieutenant, Dana B. Getchell. H. Hanson, Aid. costumes of marines, representing horses and driven by Dan Baker. wald, attired in the costume of Coluinbia. white, with red, white and blue streamers, carrying in their hands banners, which each represented. Searls, President of the Day; Governor Newton Booth, Orator; Albert Hart, Esq., Poet; and Miss Flora Cornell, Reader. lain and leading citizens from dissna easements sidewalks were crowded with people. THE PROCESSION. . Under the direction of the Marshal and his Aids the, procession was formed promptly at the signal. The following were the officers of the day: Grand, Marshal, B. J. Watson; Chief Aids, Frank G. Beatty, of Grass Valley and %. P. Brown; Aids, Ino Pattison, A. H. Hanson, -D. RB, McKillican of North Bloomfield, W. Hayford, of Colfax, and A. H. Parker. ‘Colors—Marshal, white sash; Aids, ‘ted white and blue sashes,. At the ringing of the second bell safe to say, contained a larger erowd than ever within its walls om any previous occasion. As soon as the audience was seated the assemblage was called to order by Judge Niles Searls, President of the day, who announced the exercises. The Nevada Brass Band played a tune, after which a prayer was offered by Rev. E. Halleday, Chaplain of . the day. .Yocal music under direcison of Professor Chase,accompanied by Professor Muller on the piano, next followed. “Hail to the Liberty’’ was admirably rendered. Miss Flora Cornell was next introduced and read the Declaration of Independence in a most. creditable manner, and was loudly applauded. Her voice was clear and musical, and every syllable could be heard distinctly in any part of the hall. The elocution was faultleds, and the’ reading beyond criticism. At the conclusion . the lady was gfeeted by long coritinusd. applause. . "ie Aftet musie by the Band, Judge Searls introduced Albert Hart, Esq., Poet of the Day, Mr.Hart eloquently rendered the following excellent and original poem, ss Flag of our kindred, and who could not eurTruth and the Right, though they strug: and died— Flag of the Free! how thy’ Uoquent splenfollowing order. z Grand Marshal B. J. Watson, and Chief Aids, Frank G. Beatty and N. P, Brown. ~~ Gracs Valley Band. Ist Division. Military, under chargé of A; H. Parker, Aid. ° Nevada Light Guard, muambering A mand of Captain M. 8. Deal, Ist. 2d Division, under command of A. Thirty-seven boys dre:sed in the the Navy and escorting the Car of Car of Liberty, drawn -by six In@he centre of the car was a pedesThrills thestrong heart balastmge words and gestures they put divers tal with canopy abeve handsomely . Fields thou hast seen that were trampled . things as a sacrifice, and after decorkted with stars. Upon thi ie {and gory; . weird ineantation, one of them made platform stood the Godde eih. et Y aeed aetna bes apart ever ‘msde e 88. i at “fourth of Jul ech’? ever made Brief is thy story, but brilliant — Bete merges te erty personated by Miss Julia Greenpiatniées and beautifal, WS Tot cal” upon -this continent of which we An infant, bora when parple blood Around the pedestal were Grew chill in English royal veins, — . frst great speech at Leipsic, on the young gitls; handsomely dressed in Mpg h scttcbrg ai ectoed poncho mood ae af duly. Pree nee For Liberty the young lips gave ‘A low, tuint shout, im Teebie tone, Vet echoing far across the wave; +: With strength to shake a tyrant’s throne} designating the States 3d. Division, under charge of D. Atender waif of fragile form. st vs. yg 1 it one pcoasicn : WwW rad) ression’ or gene ‘‘gnreadeism’’; that . R;-McKillican, of North Bloomfield, . 4 Aosta child ae fine eae — oo owe inprors the ts) foranity to stir Aid. hom patriot heroes died to save; Ist. Carriage containing Judge. p24, sword ih hand and fackag foes, Through long years after Lexington, Until their shouts ot triumph rose ‘When Yorktowa’s bitter siege was won. ‘ Between, lay Concord’s twilight field” And midnight Monmouth's bloody (plain: the rising sun revealed Qd. Carriage containing ChepThe broad frye jand they swore. to gain, The grandest battles ever known They fuught for all mankind—and won. By them our harvest fields were sewn And when the mighty work was done, Nevada Fire Department under command of Chas. W. Cornell, Chief Bagineer Nevada Hose Co. Nv. 1., Joseph Olive, Foreman, David Niven’, Assistant, with, full force of men, and hose carriage handsomely decorated. Pennsylvania Engine Co. No. 2, They gave the child, for you, for me, For all of Freedom's coming host, — A hoine as free as that broad sea Which sang along the kingless coast! “Hark! from the East come the songs of a Chas, Sairs Foreman, Chas. Miller. The glad shouts of SAA thi tajoicing and Ist Assistant, Lewis Siebert 2d As_ [blest In their birthright of freedom; we join the sistant, with full ranks and apparatus (ovation, looking gay. And answer them back from ey s 3 eo Wes 5th Division. Consisting of Gro-. That the old flag, the ge ty Neg grand " one 1 gave us, cera, Butchers, and other businesses, . ‘qnoe trembling young banner our foreunder charge of Wm. Hayford of . [fathers bore, Colfax, Aid, : Theemblem our brothers died bearing to [save us, Is cherished as sacredly now as of yoru!” 5 Grocers—Lester & Mulloy, A. H. Hanson, Bigelow & Co., Thos. SLu:+ leff, and A. Lademan. The wagons were handsomely decorated with flags and evergreens, and loaded with boxes and cases representing their business. ; Butchers—Jake Naffzigar, wagon in which were two live lambs and a sausage ‘machine. 8. M. Timmons, wagon with a stand, upon which different varieties of meat were placed. James Colley, wagon-with dressed lamb aud other meats, The Ico Company—The Nevada Ice Company, wagon upon which was drawn a large block of ice, clear A Ruler grown to fame; a land Wherein sae aya 9 rich and fair, Beneath ove flag, @ ma band Uf stately SS j In fruitful fields Rast to West, From North té South, and all between, Their peaceful ways were more than biest, Untu, to mar the lovely acene, Rebellion rose, with savage cheers, ‘Yo scourge its home with sword and Sprang up, to die in blood and tears; Aruse in pride—and fell in shame! Went forth to learn, os treltcrs must, That #reedom’s yhrine of truth and Is an eternal, sacred trust, vee Aud not the plaything of en hour! " Defied our strength, but shrank to feel, du contrast with the olden love, A giant band of ruthless steel aa crystal, and dazzling in the sunWithin the Nation's velvet glove! light like » diamond. “ie The old flag fell! but im the hush Chareoal—Debernardi, representing “Charcoal Tommy.” His wagon was loaded with charcoal,and he and ‘That tollowed Sumter’s Our youug Republic rose scaeaae dahl With taith’s strong arms her faithless [ones. his companion being blacked up. And they lie dead! brave, but ‘misled. Brewers—Louis Dreyfuss and Jno. esanys oplestesdecirsscninees "ieee Blasauf, in wagons. And softly o'er thean be it said, That now we mourn their loss and {ours. . “Guard the grand flag! all tlie a ee Pie ae This completed the procession, which was one of the most attractive ever witnessed in the city. Alter marching over the line designated in the programme, the proceasion halted at the Theatre. : THE EXEHCISES, Since tears of atonement to lave them ‘And the red biad ENP Soc ae ! es of beauty gleam Since Goa tathed tte folde ‘iar tine ood : of The Theatre, the largest building} How freaght with new a on in the city for such purpose, was ce (rature stall be Pp ’ Steadfast, united, what fos shall us handsomely dedorated. On the stage. Tostrise our broed ds Sree ar er the speaker's stand was beautifully [on seal dressed in ivy leaves upon white. Columbia! queen of kingly sons! Back of the stage two large American . ‘fhe dane aud 2 pan chenenaenmen ye met in Brn! orate where was ‘Lhe ringig cheers—so near—so clear, 8u8) a picture of Washinugton,. Th : at gees were arranged tlie whole esente Laatagescenon of eae dew et of the stage. After the doors were opened the building was soon. crowded to its utmost capscity. Every available ace for sitting or standing being fled, and the stage, which was open Toat pours irom shure te shoe, to greet _ A ting BO power dares to. wrong. duiky BLugidy Witds, bo praise Océ more Ther tempie, sprang frew Piymsuth \ { Lies whole Aepth, wan elo crowded. . « *** A Tien weenie tem Flag of our infinite strength and‘ reliance! Emblem of * brotherhood, faith, Waving “America,” Judge Searls said ‘‘Ladies and Gentlemen, I take ;great pleasure in introducing ‘to ycu His Excellency, Newton Booth, Governor of the State of California, and Orator oO

and’ was -greeted by the audience with enthusiastic applause. had subsided the Governor addressed the people as follows: : stitution of. Btraite, he wrote in his. diary, that on the 4th ‘of duly, 1583, he went ashore to witness an Indian celebration. The Indians had kindled a fire, into which with many—strange ‘Thave any.record—but ‘néarly a hundred years before Luther made his puly, at have always been inclined to ridicule the marmer in which we observe it. up the British lion and the whole , menagerie of royal heraldry, while the bird of freedom soars in the empyrean; that we triotism and our vain gloty finds the most inordinate expression, until we prove ourselves a nation of boasters. Possibly there may be something of truth in the charge. Our speech oration of the day we celebrate. isa sublime spectaclea vast people meeting in one day, through a continent, -OFr-i t it tee of whole’’ on the state of the nation. Other countries have fete days, we a birthday. ther Democrats nor Republicans, nor Protestant nor Catholic, nor natives ‘nor adopted; to-day we purge the film from the eye of patriotism by gazing u ight ideal; to-day we are Americans, and draw near, our country. And what is our country? land and the sea, the lakes, rivers, mountains and valleys, pot. the government and laws, the people and their history. than all these combined. vine abstraction, an ethereal essence. We.cannot describe it or analyze it— let its flag feel its living presence in our hearts. alty, ‘the king. can dono wrong.” It may be this is only the faulty expression of the instinctive love and reverence weall feel for our country. Our may not be in power, may mistake, may blunder, seekers may disBind all en d all this, behind law and administration is country, whose honor is our honor, Whose glory is our. glory, ‘the horizon of tyrants 7 the exiles throng the open a ‘With hymus of gratitude to Godt Symbol of blessings too sacred to lose! ance, Lighting the world with thy radiant [hues— unchallenged from octan to ocean. Herald of hope to men toilingsfar— = Standgrd of Liberty, rich indevotion,or in Fléat thou triumphant, in peace ‘ ’ [ war! During the reading of this excel-, ént production which contains beauties in every.line and figure, Mr Hart . was frequently interrupted by ‘applause, and at the con¢lusion the, manifestations of approbation were . Y long continued. bag After the singers had rendered f the Day.” © Governor Booth stepped forward After it The Fourth of July is an older inthan many of us are aware When Sir John Davis was cruisaround Baffin’s Bay and Davis English newspapers, that do not ps fully appreciate the 4th of least not in the way we co, get drunk on paIt not in parties, or sects, _bntas a great ‘‘commitTo-day we are neim the pure presence of a Not the It is something more It is a difloat. above our heads, we There is an old sentiment of royholders may betray; bethe pure presence of our incorrupted, inble, the object of our love, This feeling of patriotism is not peculiar to free a and to pleasion, shame . crown, The feeling survives even the 1 political existence of .its object; and with the wandering Pole has = the intensity of grief and ardor of like this to inquire, not what claims our country has u our love, for that we render Yostinetivaty, but what claims hasitto honor and reg before the tribunal of the public opinion of the world? excels it in stability and wealth ; France in refinément; Germany in learning; Italy iw art; Rassia in extent of termtory, and Chi has ten times its popuk.tion. Itcan not chailenge the reverence of mankind for its length of days, or kovk . point to adong line of achievencnts reaching backwaid through history. ‘Ard grown66 grand that ations epee, : : PRs it occupies im universal 4 pstory is brief as an hour in designed to illustrate the historical . have temporary alike of the ‘your thumb-nail,is répresented country, ._ Ithas not ianing letters, the life . build States and found an Empire aman. A short time since, I Laog 2 pipes oy Oo au an to Us as interested in studyinga map, or chart, . the American nsGtution: woul , been 6 Cecil ey Walbiiiaham ic the days of Elizabeth; then imagine duration of ali the great nations that have ever existed, and the varyin that all the arts and in-plements extent of their emjires. Itwas a which have been ,disedvered and inlesson of the littleness of human. vented since to make life easy are greatness. Nations that for thous. destroyed and lost; that there is nejands of years, seemed to govern and . ther steam engine, nor steel-pointed direct the whole course of events,. plow, nor any skill to make them; have disappeared, the memorials of . and you ‘will begm to conjecture what their existence so dim we can scarce. couruge, ly separate fact from fable, their] to the settlement of America and to very languages dead _and forgot-. appreciate its magnificent results. . Our fathers opened and tilled ten. 1 saw on the map the colored spacés which represented Egypt, their farms, and built their. houses — Assyria, Persia and Greece, flowing their handy their best, almost their in parallel streams for two thousand only implements—na savage foe did ears. Rome appears seven centunot allow them to sleep on their. ries before Christ as & rivolet, in sevwatch. The pressure -of_necessity en hundred years it had become an compelled habits of industry, They all engulfing sea, and in fifteen hun-. lived upon land Which was always dred ‘nidre was lost in the empire~of . practically, and generally really their the Turks, .Ofmodern mations, Eng-. own, ‘They were compelled to deland, Franee, the German and Italian vise and. administer their own local Stutes trace their lines of history thro’ . laws andinstitutions, Locke framed a thousand years. -The-only stream . a Constitution and laws for South \ hich flows through all time—the co. Carolina; but that.embodiment.of + terious and unchanging land. In one . vincial Assembly. They realized corner of this‘ mup, ocoupying so that the divine right of Kings was small a space as/to eseape casual obdestroyed when Charles the First was servation, you ‘could cover it with beheaded. They read the discusthe. sions of the fundamental truths of historical. existence df the United . government and t‘unalienable rights States of America, _Yes, our country . of man’: in the revolutions that made was born in day-light, in the later. Comwell a Protector and expelled ‘Phere is poehing of darkness . James the Second from the throne. or tradition over its early history. Its. With little leisure for discussive _ promisés and-reeords can be' read of thought, and little disposition for map. . What has it done in its * brief . mere literary .culture, their minds ninety-six years to deservé well of. were cors:antly familiarized with the our race ? eine! tt eat truths of-pelitics and morals. It has given no hew'réligion to the . The constant study of the Hebrew world like pha Bebtemh. the Arabs . Scriptures. intensified the idea of’ and the Hindoos—-for I sup} we. national umty, and imbued them will hardly ¢eléim Mornidnisim.as one . with a sense of Providential care. of our glories, , Ithascreatedno new. Such a school could not make anylanguage :ike the English, the Ger-. thing else than Republicans out of man, tne French, the Italian, the . such pupils. They were RepublicanSpanish—and English people-accuse . Democrats, while they were yet us of corrapti sheira by slang, and . unconscious of it. hey entered spoiling it by’s SArough the . upoti’the war! of the Revolution nose. it is the parent of no new civ. with professions of allegiance te the ilization or form of literature, for civ-. Crown. which they believed sincere. ilization and literatate in their’ most . They did not know their own hearts. modern forms are older than our . Again, it is with nations as with mén —neither know ie ypabilities, nor discovered continérts! “Its _me. their inmost ‘hatt¥és, until passion chanical inventions, except the Elec-. and opportunity meet. It was” in tric ‘Yelepraph are rather modifica. the musier of preparation and din of tions and combinations than original . battle the supreme hour of our counexpressions of ht. Ithas pro-. try came, and it rang ont that “pasduced no. general’ to Ceasar or. sionate manifesto, of . revolutionary Napoleon; no poet oe or. War,’’ THE DECLARATION OF INDEShukspeare or antaino phitosopher . PENDENCE, that was. a proclamation equal to Platé or Bacon; no natural . tv the world of a political birth, with hilosopher eqtal to-NeWtoti of Kep>. which History had been in travail for er; no religious reformer equal to. hundred years. 2, Luther, or Calvin, or, Wesiey;,n0 The~ vation of» the Colonies painter like Raphael; no builder fike from the Crown was ion & question Angelo; no composer like Mozart or. 0itime, By their growt . they must Handg); no wit equal. to, Voltaire ;. one day have, from the. panor man of universal eulture like . Tent stem. The bi of the King, Goethe. Before it was born, the. nd the lack of practi atesmihnprinciples of civil and religious liber. #bip im his Ministers, precipitated au ty and political equality, which are event which no wisdom and statesit. highest boast, were fully known; manship could have postponed longer and for thousandsof years had been . than a generation. The Colonies the themes of orators and poets, phil. Were driven to achieve their indeosopbers and statesmen. pendence by war, when it might have hat then has our country accom“peen attained in~ ;-but.Heaven. plished in the first century of its exbe praised for that war. It vitalized istence, to Vindicate its right to be, . #2 intensified the principles tpon and to discharge the debt which ev-. Which it was fought, . until they beery nation owes to universa) human. C#me & part of the blood, and brain, ity? Why this. It has taken the and living tissue of the Republic. It principles of liberty and equality and . 88v° unity and solidity’ to national organized them into national lite, It. fe and character; it gave us the bas taken the truths which were .the . Stet Rames and sucred memories of themes of poetry, eloquence and phithe Revolution; and it gave to, all losophy and made them the daily time the name that illamines all the thoughts of common men. It has . 28° with its sun-like purity—the brought them from -the eloister and . Peetiess. Washington. : made them a living firge, It hae It is most fit thut upon this day we converted themi from spéeulation and . Sbevld turn our f ces to the distant poetry to experiment ang fyet. Out past, and refresh our patriotism at of ideas it has made institutions; out . “8 PYre &PFIBs® of our national. ¢3of theory, #form.of government. istence whose waters flow ‘‘fast by Perhaps it would be more correct . *e orHeles of God,” Out of that to say that not by the American vas i ope eral aie of fapies le t through them ove of country, passion. for F ty Tee liberty, that nauvnal conscience, fashioned . Which iriumphed in our civil war, nobly preserved what had been so nobly won; wrote in the wurld’s politiaa scripture the. Proclamati jon of Emancipation gon aanegane of Independence, nae of Lincoln in the calendar of political saints and martyrs, where every day Humanity, tarns the page to read. The-rapid growth of our country in watertal prosperity is at once & source P ayeocay pride and just alarm. Wealth is a ge ble in growth; an incarnation, not # por Bar. ee ae royalty without the spiri egiance; no religpee See acimeit wan Fide § ance and habit of self heaved and where the spirit is, the form will follow, »..It is with nations as with individuals. pipes live its own life, do . ” its own work; illustrate its own charits power, #0 8 i water wai give you the constituents . Se2suous tn its of the sea. Df: you knew the a to be wondered ag . of the Dailon‘e deasiny. acai dangér? None, if the spirit “ “The facta of our colonial history . Co'Teption tamte . J ed any form of . . the thenslves. Once, ge" Sapabile, <.anecel.daapes 0 Federal] Samet wes <Sreen were BOO? ‘ ‘ io. . oe whuse b t Ae je to tne initiated. Now bred — paper wade ut open as the cay. ‘dhe public man ws trial every hour tor every action. , To seek cou‘cealwnent is te deserve censure .Frublie opmmon is im the end the rea) govern P power, “dnd public opinion is Oy the aggregate of the 1Dindividuality of character.’ lives were taken out of the» of custom, and forced to make of the wucle land, . 42 own channels; They far Cay high: of free ang) fea spl io Africa which hides Livingstén for every pu-le er: an ‘from us. Imagine a colomy, vackttar’e Sn 1 RY. Bins ’ greet Aiviy dott ob Mein cmonde, ut un [86 Washout a great pelater, te amonds, hut.to ves a . wt ham in ‘ what hardihood of spirit led ~~ oldest and . philosophic wisdom was found to be.." youngest nations, is China—the mysinferior to the enactments of the pro."!:, * . telligent privaie muvidual opinions — a SEERYEQS & é Mg oy gers. SEESSSEERRERSS EE? cf Salas in great lif ~ gannot.b — wi loving p Howa tained? school i taught. industry self gove belong t poor ‘8 ive in t should a the affai town, cc ments 4 terest . officer — ty for of his are Tigh wrong. stant c: but sim] elevatio Their 1 by that try whi stroy it ror, OF as treas race, an Wher future, now bey with a] lion 80 but the ing volt the spe at the ¢ before. ded, * Band dismis: E. Hal TH Dari the reg deen . the tin nation Se Ee rhaet 3 é i