... AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY. Tin's week has witnessed the great national festival of America. On Monday (week) the States, Northern and Southern, United 1 Confederate, celebrated their emancipation from British rule, and the creation of Power which, before ...

... character than the Olympic games on the Greeks. It is fashion with educated Americans to speak of the celebration of Independence Day as a mere joke, but in fact the national vices whicn they most lament would never have reached their P resen *' proportions ...

... seventy years been the burden of the oration in every parish throughout the Union on what all Americans are fond to call Independence Day Why, just the unqualified assertion of that right of Secession of one-ninth of the British people from the other eight-ninths ...

... and the stiffness with which their advances are usually received lies the root of many a stump-orator's declamation on Independence Day. But there is no reason—should one travel alone for giving occasion this way to international resentments. An American ...

... take certain liberties with Miss Kerrigan and her friend, proceeding, finally, to attempts to ravish them. Though it was Independence Day,' and therefore sacred to liberty, if not to liberties, the ladies resisted, and so effectually, and with so much |noise ...

... address. The papers brought by the Atlantic are full of accounts of the celebration of the glorious fourth of July, Independence Day. THE CONDITION OF KANSAS. The following account of the present condition of Kansas is from the pen of Dr. Smith, ex-mayor ...