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Show of Jonah. If another Macbeth may the shops and factories have turned take no alarm, Delavan and his army out their flaunting troops of fashion may, in prospect of bacchanalian commemorations. At nine o'clock last night were heard the first preludes of the great day, In the sound of fire crackers, squibs and flying serpents not unlike the flying serpents sent to punish the ancient people, but without a brazen serpent to cure the bitten. All the pules bear flags, instead, whore stripes and stars Inflame, in many a youthful bosom, that sort of patriotism which finds escapement in torpedues and reptiles. The booming cannon at midnight ushers in the eventful anniversary, and now, "No sleep till mom, or thereafter! You begin to dream of the olden time that "trid souls," when men started from their couches at the 'roar of a foreign lion; and there! crack! near your window goes off a gun, or something worse. You ronBole yourself, however, with the thought this may be the first and the laj salutation so near at hand; and with tbts reflection you are falling into a delicious lapse, when, there! another is heard, nearer still. And such another: You listen, and wonder whether the instrument burst or not, almost hoping It did, in order to terminate this serenade of thunder. Well, you about conclude an actual explosion took place, and you begin to fear the juvenile Jupiter has been kicked over and wounded in the cause'of his country. In your sympathy for the fallen patriot, you listen anew, and are tempted to turn out to his relief, when by the shadow of Pluto and all his subterranean armory! right under your window, bellows such another gunpowder fulmination as you never expect to hear again. No matter, however, for the occasion gives moment to the most trifling circumstances, and you feel reconciled with thoughts on the blessedness of liberty. Yet, with a remnant of desperation, you wish all the sulphur and saltpetre of the under kingdom thrust into some piece of artillery, like that which Milton ascribes to the Inventive genius of Satan, and touched oft at once and forever. flery-wing-- V "Wherever I have been, I have been proud of being a citizen of this great BY FRANCIS SCOTT KEY. republic, and, in the remotest corners O Bay, can you see, by the dawn's early of the earth, have walked erect and secure under that banner which our light. What ao proudly we hail'd at the twi- opponents would tear down and trample under foot I was in Mexico when lights last gleaming Whose broad stripes and bright stars, that city was taken by assault. The house of the American ambassador was through the clouds of the fight. Oer the ramparts we watched were so then, as it ought to be, the reruge of gallantly streaming! And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air. d But the sun is up, and the Gave proof through the night that our dawn with the hills tremble at flag was still there; boom of a hundred cannonading banner O say, does that echoes. From yonder tall staff streams yet wave banner the high and gay in the mornOer the land of the free and the home and breeze a ribbon sail ing light of the brave? strung out from the fleecy cloud on which the angel of freedom rides in On that shore dimly seen through the the heavens over the nations of earth. mists of the deep, Angel of Columbia, weep not! for dread in Where the foe's haughty host A SAFE REFUGE, millions beneath thee groan, though silence reposes, was distressed and the a it while longer; and the shout little persecuted; yet What is that which the breeze, oer the pointed out to the infuriated soldiery that from Maine to Oregon shall rings towering steep, as a place filled with their enemies. be the shout of a race redeemed from As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now rushed to the attack. My only the last bond. Now mellowly mingles They discloses? was the flag of my country, and the sound of martial music with the defence mornof the Now It catches the gleam was flung out at the instant that morning air. Gay troops march, with it ings first beam, hundreds of muskets were leveled at and gliBtenlng arms, along In full glory reflected now shines on us. Mr. Mason and myself placed our- gay plumes the stream; folds. We selves beneath its banner; 0 long did not blench, forwaving Tls the we felt strong In may it wave the protecting arm of this mighty reOer the land of the free and the home public. We told them that the flag that of the brave! waved over us was the banner of THE STAR-SPANGL- BANNER. ED "rock-ribbe- star-spangl- ed i star-spangl- ed that nation to whose example they owed And where is that band who so vaunt-ingl- y their liberty, and to whose protection swore were indebted for their safety. of war and the battles they havoc the That The scene changed as by enchantment, confusion and th same men who were on the A home and a country should leave us of attacking my house and menpoint no more? acing the inhabitants, cheered the flag Their blood has washed out their foul of this country, and placed sentinels footsteps pollution. s, to protect it from outrage. No refuge could save the hireling and in such a moment as that, slave would it have been any protection to From the terror of flight or the gloom me and mine to have proclaimed myof the grave; self a Carolinian? Should I have been banner in tri- here to tell And the you this tale, if I had hung umph doth wave out the Palmetto and the single star? Oer the land of the free and the home Be assured that to be respected abroad, of the brave. we must maintain our place in the union! O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and the wars desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the Fellow-citizen- star-spangl- ed jjEW heav'n-rescue- d land Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just. And this be our motto "In God is our trust!" banner in triAnd the umph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. star-spangl- ed .AlGLA '"if-- W CLStJULY. V ER glorious jand Fourth! Th 8un t niKht beyond I . ' ' I Our Country Flay. The Hon. Joel R. Poinsett, a native of South Carolina, and one of her most gifted sons, during the latter part of the administration of John Quincy Adams, it will be remembered, represented the United States at the capital of Mexico, which was then much distracted by internal dissensions. While Mr. Poinsett resided there, the city was captured by one of the contending factions, and he and his family Incurred no small degree of personal danger from the violence of the soldiers, by whom they were suspected of affording concealment to certain obnoxious Individuals.. In the height of the nul- llflcation controversy after his return, In an address delivered to the people of Charleston, the following eloquent passage occurs: the ,ike an 0,ym- ,chr,ot w,th streamers, flinging up golden clouds behind Its wheels. Along the west floated the hazy drapfty of retiring day, and th horizon glowed with the prophetic glory of the coming morn. Nature braced her sides for ten thousand successive concussions of gunpowder, and the atmosphere cleared Itself in ominous preparation for considerable smoke. Yesterday, "Blrnam Wood came to Dunsinane, or to town, end began to stand up prim, before boochr i beer shops. Pine, cedar, spruce, ' and all look spruce, and straight, and natural, as though trying to make people believe they sprung up and grew j there In a single night, like the gourd f I memorable jL hllI Pla GAY TROOPS MARCH, tbe thoroughfare, as proud of themselves as the boys are who march by their side, in anarchlal file, keeping time with life and drum. Room, room, s of Neptnne, now, for the with coats cf many hues and Joseph shirts, dragging their tridents behind, trimmed and trusty for the raging conflagration. And then comes Flora, with her fairy band, decked in green and blossom array, moving onward in gentle and smiling procession, like a flowery island floating down the meadow-streato the music of nymphs and the rippling of Eden waters. The bells ring in joyous peal, and each stroke of the metal thrills the tramping multitude with a shock of indefinable enthuGreat thoughts of the glory siasm. and greatness of the country swell In many a bosom, wholly unused to any extraordinary emotions. With what orofound awe and admiration does .hat youth stand yonder in the street, now wildly gazing, with eyes and mouth wide open, first at the crowd, ind then at the banners Btrung from chimney to chimney, nnd steeple to Ueeple! The town folks take him to be an unripe vegetable, just ltecause he wears wliat he pleases boots for service, more than for squeaking and gray, rather than 0x1, rudely flaunting, and a hat capricious enough to hold all the gingerbread lie can afford to purchase. Well, if he has no right to look as be pleases, nor to thrust his hands deep Into his pockets; in support of the independent indifference of his position, and on such a day, of what avail are all the boasted privileges of the country? It is now towards burning noon. All land-son- bob-skirt- rd bell-crown- ed SOME and beauty. Long processions, streaming with perspiration and begrimed with clouds of the mother element, are completing their everlasting circuits through the populous streets. Squads of juvenile followers have fallen off, and musical instruments begin to sound as though their owners, instead of desiring to give out much more liquid martial melody, were in need of some sort of liquid themselves. The van members of the procession, having ended their journey, stand quite at ease, converting their hats Into fans; and, considering the circumstances, look with very cool complacency upon the unfortunate ones who are left to bring up the reur. Soda fountains and Bmall beer establishments are now in the height of Th lz! crack ! popple ! operat Ion. and popple! expelled stopples go whizzing and booming from the foaming muzzles of angry bottles, now glad to break loose and take revenge for past confinement. A thousand throats are gurgling the delicious liquids, and twice that number of lips are smack- - QUEER RILLS. FREAK IDEAS OF LIBERTY MANY STATES. The Heer Women Maile the R.perlal Work of All the t'rmik Leglularlon from Maine to Callloriila One UinnI 8 Mriikurcb HERE are Individ- uals who appear to to think that their special mission in life is to reform the world In general. When they cannot find a sufficiently wide field in their own vicinity they Invade legislatures, try with all their might to push bills through, curt u1 ling rights and privileges, and nterfere with public conveniences. Very frcrqurntly these bills are smothered at their first presenting. Many of them are too ridiculous even to be read in public; others come in and are treated as jokes, while scares and probably hurdreds are too absurd to be considered even for a moment. During tbe present year there has been an unusual amount of crank legislation and any quantity of folly perpetrated in the name of A bill was presented to tbe legislature of one of the eastern states making it a criminal offense for women to wear bloomers for bicycle riding. Soma years ago there was a great hue and cry because women wore Mother Hubbard dresses on the streets. They could wear Mother Hubbard cloaks or jackets, but not dresses, and there was great deal of wonderment at the difference, A bill forbidding the wearing of corsets was recently killed by the legislature of a western state. Among the absurdly funny bills that have been presented In committees was one to compel young people to marry or pay s fine; also one taxing bachelors. Another provided a pension for old maids, the same to accumulate as a dowry. The object of this was to make it an object for some man to m young woman on account of cash she possessed. A crank wanted a bill pas Ing It a criminal offense foi headed man in the front roe in a theater, to wear a skull attempts at legislation on theate are too recent to need recalling makers have struggled with pi enactments forbidding hazing, a' students "haze'i whenever and v ,t ever they wilL Football has comer for some attention In cles. Now it has been to limit' the'-- ' game, and again to compel the members to cut their hair. Some yeanr.ago a bill was placed in the hands oY a member of congress, making it an punishable by fine and lmpiron-meLr a woman to wear eir hair shingled. AnotLer crank tried to forbid the wearing of bangs. Shoes with very pointed toes came In for a similar attention, and high heels were not overlooked when this cazy work was in progress. A number of bills have been drafted which were evidently suggested by the blue laws. To forbid and to punish flirting was the purpose of one effusion, and another sought to restrain young men and maidens from driving after nightfall, probably lest they flirt to the Mrs. Grundya "unbeknownst and Mr. Meddlesomes of their several communities. To authorise a committee to select a certain number of marriageable young women and provide marriage portions for them from money raised by taxing rich bachelors was a favorite Idea of one happily married resident of a locality where there were a number of rich bachelors and pretty girls who could not, to all appearances, come to matrimonial terms. A bit of legislation that would have.' been much commended if It had succeeded was a bill to prevent the sending of flowers to convicted felons. The number of women of unwholesome and mawkish sentiments who make a practice of sending bouquetaufcrunen who have murdered their wves has long been an occasion of dlsgist to sensible people. Beginning with the purest motives, that of offering ipiritual consolation to prisoners uncr sentence of death, the practice f visiting condemned criminals has ecome, through misuse and a miser iceptlon of the proper Intent and p rpose of such A persons who visits, a reproach to irc'rned, and a are moi t nearly shame to the commu Wes where such Laws profoolishness Is indulg d other than the hibiting the visits families or spirltuaounselors would save much ill feel' K and open disof the great grace. The leglsliure mad record or New York state f for itself by trying10 Pasa a aw forbidding the prlntiif of the Picture of a person wllhou I having first obconsent This Is tained the owne as the Loud sc-as just about aa bad P,eee which bill, postal 11 was posMble of postal legllati$ i to propose. law-makin- NOW WILDLY GAZING, ing, expressive of grateful satisfaction, much to the aggravation of innumerable youngsters who stand looking on, mournful from the want of a few coppers, to enjoy similar indulgences. Beneath becking pavilions, in crowded halls, or happily in the green grove, at last gather the eager host Fans flit like swarms of cooling phantoms before glowing faces, and the orator of the day opens with the ominous For an hour he Fellowcltizens! sinks and soars, generalizes from Rome to Plymouth, and becomes lost in the immensity of themes. But now the grand festival is at hand. Toasts, music, cheers and, then, there is no calculating how easily the responsibilities of the country weigh upon the minds of the multitude. The day declines and the sun hovers In tbe west like a Roman candle, flinging its hazy light over the hills. Or, there it glares, with a great red eye, towards the east, as though winking In defiance of the monarchical powers beyond the Atlantic. The streets begin to echo the tread of flagging feeL Day pales Into twilight, and, as the western star comes out, a rocket ascends to greet it, and mock its distance. As darkness creeps over the land' scape, lawns and parks darken with human throngs; while windows, balconies and housetops tremble under the weight of pyrotechnlcal gazers. Shout after shout rises through the smoky air like the murmurlngs of the sea, as the heavens glow with eccen-hr- ic fires, in mimicry of the fireworks of the firmament. But the hour has gone by, and in the gloom of night the weary wanderers hie to their homes. Silence and darkness draw their curtains over a sleeping nation, while dreams of the departed day still linger around. Morning will soon come again, and call forth the toiling millions to the beat and burden of a weary day. But sleep now in peace, ye suffering sons and daughters of and dream ye of a liberty not your own, though a name dear, and adored by hearts of Columbian soil! Sad and solemn the scene of enchat-tele- d mnltitudes, yet ever glorious with prophecy is the jubilee of an American Fourth. well-feast- ed Mam-mondo- How Ha Won m! liar. Consuela Papa tells me that yon are not a faint by any means, Howard." Howard "What has he been saying about me now? Oh, lots of things. Isn't a man known by the company I suppose so." he keens?" Well, then, if the company be keeps is all this world to him, and again the very best and most charming, isnt It proof that he is good? 'T should think so. Well, then, dont I keep your company? "Yes." Consuela's face brightened, she blushed, smiled and said: "Howard, dear, forgive me. Papa has been deceived. I won't believe anything against you. And she threw herself Into his arms. New York Tribune. A Jose on the Drnll-- t. How did ye Mrs. McLuberty git Mcalong wid th' dintist, Murty? Sure, he molghty near kilt Luberty me, so he did; but, bedad, ol hov th laugh on him, all th' same. Mrs. McLuberty "Is thot so? McLuberty Yis. Begorrah! he pulled th' wrong toot'." Judge. IN g. cuajf ; law-maki- ng Jof-fen- se nt -- . |