From The Mirror

(The punctuation and spelling are as they appeared in the original document.)

July 8, 1875

   THE FOURTH.—The anniversary of independence was celebrated in Baltimore on Monday with little or no attending excitements, and the larger portion of the inhabitants remained quietly within doors, or found a refuge in the coolest places to be had. In the city the event calling forth immense crowds of spectators was the reception of Boston pigs given by Mr. Baker of the Fifth Regiment, and a burlesque parade by members of that command.

The day was celebrated at Washington, D.C., by the Old Inhabitants’ Association, before whom after the reading of the Declaration of Independence, an oration was delivered by Jos. H. Bradley, Esq. At Philadelphia there was a succession of brilliant military and civic events, chiefly occurring in Fairmount Park. New York and other cities celebrated the day with heartiness. Even the Indians in the Indian Territory got up a patriotic demonstration, the first in the history of the United States.

   In Memphis, Tennessee, the colored people presented Gen. N. B. Forrest with a banner, in token of conciliation.
   In Richmond there was a more general suspension of business than since 1860—Several military companies, both white and colored, paraded.