The Hillsborough Recorder

From the Portsmouth, (N. H.) Journal of July 6.

The dulness and monotony of the late fourth of July in this town, was very pleasantly interrupted, for a short time, by a procession of the workmen employed on Portsmouth bridge.—After labouring diligently on the bridge till noon, they arranged themselves under the command of captain Frink, of the engineer department, and shouldering their several tools, marched down in their working dress to the Court House, where some refreshments were provided for them. A body of axmen led the van, preceded by two of their number, bearing a model of a section of the bridge. These were followed by another division, and armed with hammers and smoothing planes, carrying a model of the arch and draw. Next came a body of irregular troops, armed with treenails, and hand-saws, and crowbars, and augers; each man apparently bearing the instrument with which he had just before been at work. It is said that the man who was employed at the grindstone, when the signal was given to leave off work, shouldered that implement and joined in the procession with great glee—but for this we do not vouch. The procession was attended with the usual accompaniments of military music and fags.