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A Celebration.

--The Woodstock (Va.) Tenth Legion says:--

‘ We understand that the patriotic citizens residing at Columbia Furnace celebrated Washington's birth-day in quite a spirited manner. A cannon, weighing over eleven hundred pounds, was cast by order of the worthy proprietor of the furnace, for the occasion. It was substantially mounted upon the fore wheels of a wagon, and charged with the best XXX Dupout. Six salutes were fired, the charges being increased at each fire; and the seventh proved too heavy for Columbia's metal, and the cannon and the wagon were blown to everlasting smash.

’ No one was injured by the explosion of the cannon.

The Daily Dispatch: March 2, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. March 2, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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