EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION. - The colored population of this city will
hold a festival at Hayes' Park, on Monday next, 1st proximo, which will last
through the day and far into the night in commemoration of the act which terminated,
on August 1, 1834 slavery in the British Possessions, and particularly in the
West Indies, and knocked off the manacles of some seven hundred and seventy
thousand slaves. The cars will "run all night" to the Park; thereby,
it would seem, sharing the general hilarity. We presume the celebrants will
have music and dancing, speeches, eating, drinking, and all that belongs to
a good time generally.
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