House at Caldwell
would have been done at this time, had not the rain prevented,
but I think it will be finished in three or four days. The public
farm is doing pretty well. The Millsburg farms are doing very
well. I think it would do you good to see that place at this
time.

The Missionaries, although they have been sick are now, I am
happy to inform you, recovered; and at present are able to attend
to their business, and I regard them as entirely out of danger.

I hope we shall be able to remove all the furniture into the new
house in two or three weeks.

Speaking of the celebration of the 4th of July under date of July
15th, Mr. Cary remarked to Mr. Ashmun:

The companies observed strictly the orders of the day, which I
think were so arranged as to entitle the officers who drew them
up to credit. Upon the whole, I am obliged to say, that I have
never seen the American Independence celebrated with so much
spirit and propriety since the existence of the Colony; the guns
being all mounted and painted, and previously arranged for the
purpose, added very much to the grand salute. Two dinners were
given, one by the Independent Volunteer Company, and one by
Captain Devany.

Mr. Cary wrote to the Secretary of the Colonization Society, July
19th, 1828:

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter,
forwarded by Captain Chase of Providence, also your Report and
Repository, directed to Mr. Ashmun, but owing to his absence,
they have fallen into my hands; and permit me to say, that these
communications are read with pleasure, and that nothing affords
more joy to the Colony, than to hear of the prosperity of the
Colonization Society, and that you have some hopes of aid from
the General Government, which makes us more desirous to enlarge
our habitation and extend the borders of the Colony.

I must say, from the flattering prospects of your Society, I feel
myself very much at a loss how to proceed, in the absence of Mr.
Ashmun, with regard to making provisions for the reception of a
large number of emigrants, which appears to be indispensably
necessary. Therefore, after receiving your communication, we
conceived the following to be the most safe and prudent course.
_First_, to make arrangements to have erected at Millsburg,
house