The Orations On The Fourth

A correspondent, J. G. Parsons, has furuiohed us a eketch of the exorcices on the 4th itist., in our city. As wc have already giveu a uurrution of (be days proceedings, vvo extract frow bis ''copy," his report of the several oiations of the day, premising, only, that as they were takeu phonoeraphically, ibey ara quite full and accurate. They will be read wilh interest. Ex-Gov. Felcii w:i8 ntroduced, and aid : It ia now almost ninety years siuce tbo declaration which has bee read iu our hearing was formed and subscnbed to by our fither, und we are here to day lo commemorate their great work. I have always thought that t his was a day I ou which the whole nation sbould asseinblo in honor of and rovorenee for the ; principios avowed in that declaration. - Well inay we rejoioa u the memory of our fathers Other nations have had tlieir héroes oí olden times, and we have ours, and in lookiiig over the long list of honored nanies, where hu] vvo find an other Washington, Jeïeron, or Madisou. Then let u rejtiice that ven have the honor of looking back in eonniiemoration these great name.-. Let usrcjoicö in thogrowtli of our great and glorious üation Frnm thirteen small colouica We havo bcooirm what we now are. What a glorieus nation ! What uu oxtent of country ! lustrad of thirleen small oolonies on the Atlantic coust, our territory stretcht Eist and West frotn ooeai' ti ocoiin, a:id North and South from gulf tn the great lakes. Eogland, Frunce srid Spain, have each ín turn, yielded us territ.ory. Nor does our extent of territory al ne funiish ns B theine for eongratulution. The speaker hert) il welt iu approrinte lenas upon our educational iiistilutioim and advar,tages, aud u pon our freedorn in religious worship. Our country, he said, has beca tho asvliitn for the nppressed of' every other country. To-day we have greatcr rcasons for ifjoicing ihan ever buibre - We tinvo borne a great wr, many of u.s havo lost friends, and all have been called u pon to inako sacrifioes, aud we have upon our shoulders the heavy barden of taxation, yot, we coiue bere to i'fjoice lo-day, feeling tbat we aio even ruore than repaid for these acrifices. - Our fathers foresaw th s terriblo day, I aud if they could havo realized to the I fullest extent what it would have brought upon us. they would have hoped for us to come out of the ordeal just as we havo. With a-tenr for tho.te who have follón, let us rejoice that go msiny of the eoidièrs who have fought our batiles havo beeu perwitted to returu to us once more and unite wiih us iu the celetuation oí thi.s day May tliey long live to enjoy the fruits ót tbeir toil in the blessings sectired to them by the establishment of the great truth, that the Union is in fact, as in theory,. " one and indivisible." Judgo Goor.gr, boing next ollod oti Baid : That the present oocasion diffored from all the colebrations which had j ceded it. Until the breahing: out of tho pres ut rebtilliou tho fourth of July had been a season of unmixed rejoicing, but for the last four years it had been an oscasion ior American citizens to come together and solernnly conaider whether the great principies embodied in the Declaration of Independence vvere woith the saorifices nocessary to innintaia them. To day we meet for rejoicing, but we meet also in tear. '' There is victory at last,:' aud " the boys arö coming home," but they are not all coming homo; more than three hundred thousand oí them sleep in grave made aacred by donth in the holieat of causes, and there are vacant plaoes by our firesides that shall never be fillod. But for his part, while he looked forward to a blooming future for the regenerated re public, he believed that if we were to look at the past only, this great declar ation had been worth to us all it had cost. Eighty-to years had elapsed sinoe tho acknowledgmant of our indepeüdence, and during more than seventy t tho8e we had beeu in a state of profomid peaco. Democracies ure said by their eneiaies to bo turbulent, but until the late rebellion we had only had the Whisky Inaurrection, which scaroely amounted to a respectable riot, and Burr's treai)n, which only resulted in a respectable law suit. Mean time there hail been in Franee not less than eight forcible revolutions of governrnont, and for twenty five year she was in a state ol almost cootinuous war, and of anarchy and bloodshed so terrible, that e7en yet the porkxi is known as the " reign of terror." England1 has been lit' tic better off. Terrible us has been the cost of the late war, it cost England as much to miiiutiin despotiam in Franco duriug the wars which followod theFretich iievoluiion. as it had eost ua to maiataio our liberties. Our fathers, said thfi 8)eaker, did nut declaro kideDeudence siinply to sever their cannecLion with Britain, but becausn the aristocraoy which ruled England then, and does now, soiiL?ht to rob the people oí this eoautry nf their right to s'lfgoveruiïwnt, mul to mako Arucricaa mere coMvenience for raisiug a revenue, ind a phicd to supplv tlie inombürs of their famii'i8 with nfB-ei. Tlio spirit of the declwution was embodied in the , ekiuso. that ''all uifii une created e(ual, and aro endowed by their Creafor with jertaiii inaiicuuble rights, among wüch ] iro Hfe, liberty, atid the pursuit oí hnp piness." ' Tliero were soine wcakneHses in the ( Government they io-unded, wtiich were ' ooner or later to lead to civil war. ' But thu questions involved have been ' :ettled fotover by the luto contest. It M settled forever that there is no riiht seoede f roía this governmont, and that 1 he uniou of states was founded or i ill tirne. It 'n settlud thnt this nent is of and ior the people, with no jrivileged classes ;. and it Í3 at last set ,led that wo aro eníirely independent f Britain. Our poütinl independenoe 1 a nevcr fiïlly ackrnowjedged autil alter 1 ho war of 181'J, aud never until now lid we foei our entiro indepeodenco of Britain liaancially, :ind cease to lean ipon Hritih opinión. Ifl ymet hll, ' 1 I said the speaker, 80 fiaoly decorated for the eutertainmeut oí nur brave soldiers, I noticcd muny mottoes that remiud us j as well of wbat o havo passcd tnrough, i as of i he glorious lulure which wo he lieve to lie before ua, " Union Forever !" i " The üouritry Savod," " God aud Libj erty," " Liberty and Jiquslity." These i are glorious tnottoes, aiid if we catch tbem up and report theru from man to miin, and hand thein down frotn generatioD to geueratiou, we shitll indeed bo ft redeeuied iiud regonerated people, aud tho pricelesa treason of freo governj mant will prove worth all it has cost, I and so I say one Hag, ouí country and I one dustiny. Ttie unión of all the states, ! the liberty aud equality of all tho ! peoplo. Judge L.vwrknce waa next called, j and said : Our lathera perforined well i tbeir part in tbo great struggle which 1 oonstituted the first act in the drama of I oor national existeoce, aud we, I trust, bufo as well performed our part in tho i fecoiíd. As our fathers were iho founders, so are wo the preserve of our eoantrjr. We have reason to be protid i thal as the principies euibodied in the declaration of iudependenoe were sufficient for the establishment of a nation, bo they bavo proved abundantly suffij cient for its porpetuation, No other cution bos vrged so noar destruction i aud jet been aaved by (he inherent : power of the principies lying broad and deep iu tho foundation of its goveruïient. We have lately passed through theshadowof agreat oíoud,butthe nation I bas arisen in its icigbt and dispersed the uloud and daikuess, aud now shines ! forth brightor tha the snn. BaiJ to tbe deolanition of ndepcndence for the principies of which our fathers pledged Lfeeir lives, their fortunes, and their j siiered honor. Hail to the Constitution, thü principies of which have made us a j great uation. Hail to the cbief uhoso body lies niouldering in the tomb, and wbose spirit looks from its home in boaven with pleasuro at restored union and the future that Hes in prospect befora us. Hail to the soldier who have survived tbe fatigues of thu mareb, tho luirdfehipa of the cunip, aud tbo danger of batile, and met with us agsirs in our rejoioings to-day. Hailto thousands of herous slain in battle for th8 cause of natioaal freedoin and universal liberty. All huil to God and to man. No other oation has pased through suoh a struggle as thi., but peace is coming not loaded vvith tho iueubus of slavery, but proelaiining universal liberty and equality to all men. The second act has been performed, and the curtaiu is being drawn for the third. The great contest betwoen freedom and slavery bas boen fought and victory wou. Tho toil was ours, the glory is ours, but the fruits are for all mankind. We have been told that this is a great -government. Who gave it to us 'l Our fathrra. Who have protected it ? OurBelvos. The tbird act in whicb you mu?t all play your part, ia to elévate nd perpetúate it. The goverument will never save aud elévate you ; you must save and elévate the government. Ever since tho world waa spoken into existenco, the great problem bas boon, aro all men born ire and equal ? The solution of thi question bas been reserved for u and for these timea, and glor iously, nobly have wo solved it, The speaker Uien spoke of what he eonsidered many radical defecta in the social machinery of sooiety, and said the great work now left for ua to do, was to elévate tbe social standard, which could best be done by treasuring the principies and. acting upon the preoept of the golden rula, " Do unto oiher at you would have othert do unto you." The Rpv. Dr. Haven, President of the Univeraity, being oalled upon, said : As tiine bad been long and ably ocoupied by provious speakers, he woald coutent himself with making but a few remarks. Mach has lean said, and eloquently, upon what ha been done du ring the last four years, acd of the future that lies brightly before. One theme bas not been touched upon, and that in what tbe last four yeara has not done. They have not been fiuitful in proving the tiuthg of the many dfriendly predictions origiuated among enemies abroad, and too roadily eohoed by timid or doubtful frionds at home. Among other things it was predicted thaV tbe yankoes would not The terra yankeo bas perhaps been forced upoa us. It was giveu to our armiea by our enemies, and we can not get rid of' it, aud we would not if we could. All who have shared our cause in battle are yankoes, no matter vvhere born. Wben tke prediction was first made we could point them to Ticondernga and Bunker Hill ; but, said our eneiwies, tbat was in oldeu times. The yankees bave grown to ba an ingenious people, they can make anythhig from a pin to a steamenglne. Tbey can bargain and make ojoney. They are a nation of merchante nud peddlers, but wheo any fighting is to bo done, tbe yankees will " not be tber." How is it now ? Let Pittsburg- rnnding answer; ask Atlanta, Fredericksburg, and a hundrod other aard fought baúles, and let them answer. [t was also predictod that in casa of intestine war, oor :epublio wowld be supplanted by a descollara. VVhera,. said ' :hüy, are the república of Greeee and Rome. We have bad our intestino war, , Dut whero is the conscqiout despotism. Financial ruin w;s also to be meted out ;o us. Wait, said tbey, till the war is yvev j but what of tbo fiu&ncial crash ? . ,hat was to füllow. These aro among ,lw few things thnt the war bas not [ i cm) e. SyST Piesid'ont Joijnso having ap, roved tho fiiidiug of the military oom, í)Í8sion, and directed tho immediato ' isecution of the seutences pronounced, VI rs. CJurratt, Puyne or Powell, Abxer jdt, nd Harold wero hung witbin tbe j ienitentiary yard at Washington on ' bViday lst. Some details of the oxecui .ion will be found in another oolumn. ■ ,..m.„ ' Up tf lt of July 1,480 bales of cotton e vid buen reeeivvti at. Mobile. mC The Uommeroi] Convention iirviiod by thi; Detroit Bímrd of Trad, ; mot in t'hftt oirj on Tuosday, aii'l btili j in sossion. Ddlügatos are proaout f.om uearly ñ'áy b'.d w, rpesenting all tbe i principal citie&in thu Northern St-ites and the Urilish Provínoos, and di-!u j ding miny naiuen know:: as pnm:neut j in business cúreles. The conveulion pornüuenlly (irganized ly eleoting Gen. HutAM Wai.ükidoe, of N. Y., President, Hon. Hanniuai, IIami.in, of Maine, and Hon. Ciiari.es Walkbk, of Illinois, Vice Presidenta ut large, a Vice Preaidenl frorn eacli otate repreaonted ; and Wm. Laoy, of X. Y. ; Uay IIaddock, of Michigan; and Adam Bkown, of Cuuads, Süoretarieo. SZST Tire trial of Bivina for the mulder of his lathor, mother, elíí wife, was cornpleted at Adiiau, on the lht, ! inst., and resulted in a verdict of eailty. The plea of rasanity did not avai!, - Sentenue was pronounced on tho 6th I inst., and on the 8'.h ho was cortveyed to ! Jiicksün,aud eousigned to hi life-celh L3C " Everjthïng has an end," sud so theresnltcf the trial of D. S. Osborx, naval nuws reporter, is at last kuown to hiinself and the public. Howasfound " not guilty," and the finding has beeu approved. With a littlo lead red tape his iunooeoce might bave boen proclaim ed souie tnonths a"o. S2" Thu haadquarters of the Department of tbe Ohio, JVIaj. Gen. Okd commaüdingias beon transfa.-red to Detroit.