Bethel Burying Ground Project

REJOICING IN OUR CITY.

Last Monday was a day of general rejoicing in our city, among both the white and colored portions of the community. When the news was received, and the Old State House Bell began to peal forth its thundering tones, the people generally laid aside work of every description, in order to share the common joy.

In the evening occurred a grand illumination. This also was shared by the American citizens of African descent; and the Institute for Colored Youth, the rooms of  the Delmonico Assembly, and several other places of gathering of the colored folks, were beautifully illuminated. The private residences of a number of our “upper ten” bespoke loyalty and fidelity to the government by an appropriate display of lanterns and American flags. The fever of rejoicing did not subside on Tuesday, and even on Wednesday and Thursday did we find some who were so full of enthusiasm that they had not sufficiently well recovered to be able to ply their usual avocations, but were still congratulating themselves and each other by contemplating the magnitude of that now stereotyped phrase, “Babylon is fallen.”