Pennsylvania Militia Training !
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PHILADELPHIA, MAY28. Militia Muster.--Milita far, commonly called Battalion day. was duly soemnized at Orwisburg, in this county, on Wednesday last. Those of OHr readers who have not wit messed these gatherings, must be informed it is festival of no small magnitude The whole country is gathered together, men, wo-

 men, boys and girls, old and young, meet and dance, romp, drink, fight, and "cut up high."-Labour of all kinds is suspended, villages and hamlets are vacated, & every soul whether subject to military duty or not. if capable of shaking a leg, trudge of by dawn of day, dressed in their best, to the place of rendezvous, which is usually one fthe prin- ciple towns. It may be remarked there are generally quite as many women present as men, and three times as many spectators as soldiers. In fact, soldering has very little to do with the matter. Discipline, order. and subordination are by common consent banish- ed from the field and lost in the din of shoot ing, hOoting, drinking and dancing. The people gather together for "a frolic"-.. a re- al tear down frolic. and they are determined, to have 1t. and have it they do and wlll. Im- provement in military science and tactics, is no part of their concerns and is as little attend ed to as the last Sundays sermon. .S

 AwOrd ortwO descriptive of the mode of proceeding on these Battalion days may not

 be uninteresting to some of our readers. The first thing heard in the morning is the random firing ofguns. scrapins of fddles, and boister- ous mirth and congratulations of the yo,,De

 rustics. By seven or eight o'clock the Hep-

 sesn commences. The following is the pro.

 cess. Each tavern is provided with one or

 more iddlers. Each lad with a sweetheart. a wife, or locum te''ens. The dance is three or six handed reel. A gentleman asks two others, to join him, they pay the fiddler a l"tp' or a sstepg, and go to work with most laudahle zeal and industry. The fiddler plays asif his. life depended upon despatch. and ac- companies his elbow with his foot in most

 audible rops upon the floor. hy way of keep