The New York Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1873, Page 3

INAUGURATION DAY ———_-—__—— + Opposite Views and Apposite Crit- icisms of the Great Show. ——— EDMUND YATES’ DESCRIPTION. Little Cheering, Small Crowds, Shabby Deco- rations and a Lack of Dignity. % THE PRESIDENT UNCOURTEOUS. Skambling and Shuffling Citizens, Ridicu- Jous Incitents and Miserable Cavalry. A HALF-AND-HALF PAGEANT. Military and Civic Displays on the European Plan. A HUMILIATING COMPARISON. The Veterans of the War of 1812 in a Broken-Dowa Omnibus. POMP AND POMPEY. Soldiers Mounted on the Horses of an Ice Company. STREET CAR CAVALRY. An Unbiassed Foreign View of the Spectacle in the Capital. DON PIATT’S ACCOUNT, A Solemn Review of the Pride, Pomp and Circumstance of the Affair. “SOLDIERS IN PEACE, CITIZENS IN WAR.” Grand Turnout of Proud Postmasters, Credit Mobilicr Stockholders and Other Patriots. A BOGUS INAUGURAL Boones at the Oapitol, in the Hotels, on’ the Avenue and Round About, THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS In erder to give the momentous occasion which transpired yesterday at the national capital all the prominence it deserves we print below a brace of accounts thereof. The reader, in perusing them, will be enabled to form his own views of the matter by simply using the spectacles suited to the eyes of the writers, A slight rose tint is dis- cernible in the lunettes of the English writer, while the smoke tint of the American's gold bow- glasses gives a gloomy shade to all his saddened ‘eyes have rested on. THE “EVENT.” BY EDMUND YATES. A Blooming English View, as from the Top of St. Paul’ WASHINGTON, March 4, 1873, The show is over. Being overit would probably be right to speak of iton the de mortuis nil nist bonum principle, more especially in the# white- washing days when itis found expedient to pro- vide a champion for every one and everything which was iooked upon with suspicion at the time of its existence, It would be very easy for me to fall into raptures at ail that L have witnessed and display those raptures by the employment of what the late Mr. Artemus Ward used to cail “inangoltous and spangiorious” adjectives. But itappears to me that if the readers of the HERALD have any in- terest in What Il may record in its columns, that buterest is prompted by the desire to see the real impressions of a man who has witnessed many great celebrations in various purts of Surope, and that they would prefer the honest exposition of my thoughts to airy menda- cious eulogy. This exordium will have prepared you for the statement that [ have not been much impressed by the glory of the spectacle Ihave just witnessed, and in truth | did not find it magnificent at all. Seen THE PUBLIC DISPLAYS IN ENGLAND are not supposed to Ss of a very astounding char- acter. In military displays more especially we can- not coe up to our immediate ueighbors, The standing army which we keep is compara- tively @ small one, and the general charac- ter of our population is eminently commercial, instead of being, as tn France—not perhaps So much as afew years ago—essentially military. Any pretension on our part to the exhibition of warlike manwuvres has been a fertile theme of ridicule for our satirical writers. When, some thirty years ago, the Emperor Nicholas of Russia visited England and a review in Hyde Park was part of the programme, Mr, Thackeray commented with much severity on tme idea of exhibiting a couple of foot regiments and a few squadrons of household cavairy to a man who, as he said, “conld look over half a miilion pair of mustaches before breakfast.” In size and grandenr, in whirl and dash, in the number of men em- ployed, and in the genera! glitter of the spectacle, I have never seen any attempt at military display in my own country to equal the reviews held regulariy every year in the Ohamp de Mars on the Emperor's sete day, though 1t has been my jot to witness two pageants, in both of whica the military element occupied a conspicuous place, which were undeniably more striking and impres- sive than amything else of the kind in my reovilec- tion, POINTS OF COMPARISON, One of these was the funeral of the Duke of Wel- lington, the otber the proceedings on the day of thauksgiving for the recovery of the Prince of Wales, searcely more than a year ago, The former waa a day of mourning, and, irom the position of the dead man to whom the honors were made, one ofalmost purely military organization ; but the latter was a public rejoicing odering many points of de- tail, or for comparison with the celebration just aca complished, And, in the first place, let me ventare NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. are somewhat behindnana, ne aisplay of fags and all that is known by the generic name of “bun was to-day singularly poor and inappro- priate, The Stars aud Stripes form a very pretty banner—certainly quite a8 pretty as our old Union Jack or any of the Continental tricolors; but noth- ing else but Stars and Stripes floating from win- dows, encumbering flagstats, festooned across bal- conies, stuck in the heads of horses, spread out and carried horizontally by the sooty fingers of our colored brethren, become as wearying and mo- notonous as was the toujours perdrix to the French gourmet, or the . Mutton hot and mutton cold, Mutton young and mutton old; Mutton lender, inuttom tough, T thank the Lord I’ve had enough, to the Eaton schoolboy. Nor, if I may be per- mitted to say so, did I ever before assist at any public celebration in any country in which THE EMBLEMS OF OTHER NATIONS were so entirely and persistently ignored as on the Present occasion. I can safely say that never, during my experience, has there been a public holiday in London without the display of a vast number of American flags, not merely put ‘orth for American residents, but forming part of the general display, intertwining with French and Italian Tricolors, German and Russian Eagles and Ottoman Crescents. 1 am not idiotic enough to impute this omission to the national vanity or Selfishness. x God knows that 1, who in America have ex- perienced more real kindness, appreciation and hospitality than were ever previously shown me in my life, would be the last man wilfully to suggest anything offensive to the nation with whom my sojourn®has been so pleasant, It merely struck me as an omission, and as such I record it. Nor Was there the smallest taste or display in the dress- ing of the streets. The temporary structures which had been erected were in most cases left in their original rough-hewn state of bare boards. No divinity had shaped their ends; no artistichand or eye had been called into requisition to cover or color them. It is not, I know, the season for flowers, and floral decoration was not to pe looked for; but evergreens are always to be had, and, tasteiully arranged, can be made very pretty and effective. The question seems to me to resolve itself into the old dictum, trite and worn though it be, but so full of truth, that if@ thing is worth do- ing it is worth doing well. THE WHOLE MAGNIFICENT HOG OR NONE. The inauguration ceremony comes but once in four years and is held in the capital of this vast and enormously wealthy Continent. Either let it be passed over with nothing but the merest official notice or give itsome pomp and significance. Do not let it be half done, as it was to-day. Tri- umphal arches here and there, Venetian masts with brilliant pendapt streamers, windows and balconies gayly decorated, wreaths of evergreens suspended here and there across the street are not certainly evidences of wisdom; but they are not more inconsistent with stern republican simplicity than many things which the people here induige in and which give color and tone and a general festive air to such an occasion. The procession, too, seemed to me to be lacking in dignity. It will be said that this 1s not a military nation, THX MILITARY PART PRAISED. But decidedly the military portion of to-day’s display was by far the finest and most impressive. Nothing could be better than the bearing and dressing of the West Point cadets, the Navy cadets, the regulars and certain of the military regiments, notably the Albany Burgess corps and the Boston Lancers. The Filth New York regi- ment was also deservedly cheered. It seems ques- tionable whether the Fire brigade is a permissible portion of such a procession; but undoubtedly it ‘was most eifective, and the floral garlanded wheels and the horses, cach bearing upon his neck a floral wreath, formed a very pretty sight. The presence of the veterans of the Mexican war was well timed and interesting. But surely it would have been better to have paraded them before the eyes of their fellow citizens in some vehicle more dignified than a broken down omnibus with a linen placard bearing their printed designation. THE RIDICULOUSNESS OF IT, And from time to time sa ‘air of ridicule was thrown over the whole proceeding by the appear* ance of most inharmonious items. Such were the various squads of negro people, dressed in prepos- terously gaudy colors, the rank and file unable to Keep step, the bands unable to keep time. Such were the shambling, struggling collections of citi- zens in plain clothes, with hats and garments varying in color and shape as much as did their owners in size and height, without the faintest notion of keeping step or line, and reminding an Englishman irresistibly’of the holiday outing of some convivial and benevolent brotherhood in his | Rative land, These worthy personages would be well known on an Easter Monday {éte at the Crystal Palace orin the tea gardens of the Gob- bling Duck, but look horribly out of place in a national procession on a national fes- tivity. The same remark, save as to their uniform, which was neat, and their march- ing, which was excellent, applies to the Knights of St. Patrick and to certain other organi- zations whose names Ido not remember. To the stranger a noticeable feature was the lack of cavalry, and the rough and ready appearance of such as were present, which would have been ad- missible and in some cases admirabie in the field, but was not to be expected on the parade ground. To the eye accustomed to the spick and span neat- ness—I do not allude to the style of the uniform, but only to the manner in which it was worn and kept—of the English and French household troops, of the Life Guards and the Cent Gardes or the Prus- sian Uhlans, or, indeed, of the light cavalry and hussars of any of the countries named, there was something provoking in the slovenliness of the dress, the want of polish te the accoutrements and the wretchedly ill-groomed condition of the horses which was strikingly disappointing. To be sure As regards some of the horses, large allowance is to be made, many of them having been procured in the town—useful animals, more fitted for domestic service than military display. Indeed, a canard is current that one regiment, not be named, was mounted on horses belonging to the Knicker- bocker Ice Company of this city, and that many of the members lost their seats in consequence of the animals pulling up suddenly at the doors of the houses where they were accustomed to deliver the daily cooling allowance, NOT MUCH OF A CROWD AFTER ALL. I was a little disappointed in the size of the crowd, Ihave heard it since remarked by many persons that they had never seen such a throng in their lives; but measuring it, not from an English, but from an American standpoint, I am inclin®d to say that in very few places did it double the ordinary crowd to be encountered on Broadway at the height ofthe business tide. The people were, on the main, good humored, but, like most crowds, it had its ugly elements. Isaw several gentiemen pres- ent who would have done no discredit to that very low type of humanity, “the London rough,” and it struck me that our colored brother had a way of whooping and yelling and shoving against peaceable citizens—possibly in the attempt to bring up his heel somewhere near the front part of his foot—which was, to say the least of it, aggra- vating. Noticeable, too, was the fact that there was very little cheertug, Thatidea that Britons are the only people that can cheer has long since beenexploded, [have heard American hurrats quite as hearty as English, and your “tiger” is an effective equivalent for our “Kentish fre.” Butit is certain there was VERY LITTLE CHEERING to-day as the President passed by, and to what there was he never made the least response. Lord Chesterfield lays down the axiom that it is the duty of a gentieman to raise his hat in reply toa similar salutation, even though it be proffered by @ beggar; but President Grant's stove pipe might have been nailed to his head, and his face was a8 cheerfal and expressive as the figurehead of an old frigate. Old Frolssart said that we English were very sad in our pleasures; that we took them “moult tristement.” If the worthy chronicler had Mtved a few centuries later and been tempted to come over here (I have no doubt the American Lecture Bureau would have offered tim an engage- ment), he would probably have paid them the same compliment, . THY AMERICANS A MERRY PROPLE. $o hint that in the matter of street decoration you K' Before the occasion of bis second trig to thig, country Mr. Charles Dickens told a friend who was &bout to visit America that hegwould find the Americans @ set of sad, sient people in tail coats, The tail coat accusation.now falls harmlessly, and as 101 the sainess and the silence I have never in my lite heard more merriment, occasionally, indeed, verging on the giggle, or more incesssant and for the most part excellent talk than among the mem- bers, especially the female members, of society into which I have had the honor of admission, But the crowd to-day struck me as being dull, and wanting in that element of rough but humorous chal which is characteristic of an English mob. lobserve that THE INSTITUTION OF ORGANIZED LUNCHEONS on such occasions is common to both countries; that the meal here, as at home, partakes of a pic- nic character; the swallowers of ice cream and the sippers of sherry generally pairing off into a solitude & deux, becoming 80 engaged tn conver- sation, which is animated, though low toned, as to be impervious to the entreaties of less agreeably occupied friends at the windows, to come and look at something passing by. I observed, foo, here, what I have equally observed at home, that the effect of these processions on certain mem- bers of the party after luncheon is to produce a fixity of eye, an indecision of utterance, a wavi+ ness of hair and a tendemcy to become cither belli- cose or melancholy, THE PROCEEDINGS IN DETAIL. It is time, however, to give up gencralization and to describe the proceedings in detail, A more disagreeable morning it would be diMicult to im- agine. The sky was quite cloudless and of a bright stecly blue, and the wind, which during the whole night had been “raving 1m turret and tree’—not, by the way, that I have seen a turret in Washing- ton—had not abated its fury, and was tearing and roaring through the great, wide, bare, blank spaces which are called streets, and which will some day be built upon, with devilish glee. During the night the wind had acted as a scavenger and had swept the strects unusually clean, but by eight o'clock its self-imposed duty was still unfinished, and waifs of paper and scraps of straw and various other débris and litter were being hunted by it into corners and thence swirled away into less important localities. But jew people in the street as yet, and such as there are with blue noses and chattering teeth, cowering under the flerce assaults of the storm and scudding under the lee of the infrequent buildings for shelter. The first real signs of life are shown in the mustering of the Boston Lancers at Nailor’s stables, and the preliminary canter of these gallant warriors is carried on under the {n- spection of the bootblacks and newspaper boys who ordinarily haunt the front entrance of Wil- lard’s, ARRIVAL OF THE NAVAL CADETS, A sensation 1s also caused by a manifestation on the part of Adams Express Company, whose carts are decorated with flags and each drawn by six gayly caparisoned horses; but the commercial ele- ment is speedily thrown into the shade by the ar- rival of the Naval Cadets from Annapolis, with the artillery with which the salutes are to be fired. And here let me remark that there seems to be a good deal of popular indignation afloat concerning the treatment of these same Naval Cadets, Their military brethren from West Point were billeted at the Ebbitt House, where every accommodation was made for their comfort, but the less fortunate nauticals, with harder and rougher work to do, not merely had to return the same night, but had no opportunity for rest during the day, and even came olf remarkably short in the way of rations. I know not how the truth may be; I tell the tale as told to me, But the popular sentiment on the subject is un- doubtedly strong. Breaktast at Welcker’s, where the tide of business is already rising, and thence by hack to the Capitol, On this day, apparently, the authorized tarif of vehicle charges is abro- gated, for the hackman proposes to charge $6 for the conveyance of three of us; and, what is more, like an astute mathematician, proves his proposi- tion. THE STRUGGLE FOR ADMISSION. There is no admission through any of the autho- ized entrances to the Capitol until a much later hour, But my cicerone, evidently a person who has been there, drags me with him down innumer- able flights of steps, and finally marches me into the bowels of the earth, without impediment, through a mysterious door labelled “Heating and Ventilating Department.” Then passing by enormous iron pipes and tubes and whirling fly- wheels, steam propelled, we make our wag on- ward and upward until we arrive on recognizable ground and are met by the Sergeant-at-Arms, who bids us proceed to the gallery of the Senate, where he will speedily join us, The lobby outside the gallery of the Senate is already dotted with in- tending admission seekers, prominent among whom I noticed to me a new class—the lady corre- spondents of provincial journals. Nothing is about them of the conventional blue spectacles, scant hair, prominent teeth and general hideous appearance, so dear to the comic draughtsman. Most of them are young and many of them are pretty, by no means disdaining capillary attrac- tions and charm of dress, But their prevailing characteristic is the intense air of business which pervades them. ‘There shall be no mistaking us,’” they seem to sav, “for our frivolous, giddy sis- ters. Look at out note-books, which we pertina- ciously display. Look at our pencils. We are the muses of history, and our family name 1s Clio.” Some of the muses and a good many of the by- | standers seem to be in doubt as to their tickets of admission, and when the Sergeant-at- Arms appears a dead set is made at him, which he avoids with consummate skill, giving o:ders to the janitor for our admission and vanishing immedi- ately. Our joy at this distinction is, however, but short lived, tor we have little more than taken our seats in the front row of the gallery than the Senate goes into executive session, at which no strangers are allowed % be present, and we are incontinently relegated to the outside lobby again. During the short time of our absence the crowd here has considerably in- creased. Men are flitting about bearing red and white tickets and worrying the doorkeepers with questions. Beiore the entrance to the gallery set apart for persons connected with the diplomatic circle a little knot of ladies is gathered, in one of whom, eminently aristocratic and genial looking, I am shown Mrs. Hamjlton Fish. WHO 18 THIS THAT COMETH ? not with banner and with priest, as Tennyson has it, but with a composite manner, in which the gravity of the business man strives with the unction of the bon vivant and the humor of the raconteur— @ man of middie height, with his bald head firmly implanted on his broad shoulders, with but little interval of neck—a man of small and twin! ling eyes imbedded behind high cheek bones—i well cut nose, a great, sweeping mustache ands curling imperial, both pleasant; his well-cut, closely-fitting suit of clothes is the dress of an English country gentleman, but his head isthe head of an old French marshal. Put on hima shako and jhe would pass for Pellissier or for old Bugeaud, of whom the Chasseurs d’Afrique,used to -sing:— s-tn vu la casquette, la casquette, As-tu vu la casquette du Pere Bugeand ? He could sing it himself, too, and in accents that would do your ear good, For this is the famous classical scholars and men of widest reading on this Continent, who has seen life enough to furnish material for a dozen novels aud who is not merely THY KING OF THE Lobry, but the prince of good fellows. What freak of nature threw 8. W. into this age and into this country? He would have been thoroughiy happy under the Roman Empire, when Horace would have been charmed with his wit and Apicius would have envied him his skill in order- ing & dinner, Somehow one can never think of Sam Ward and the stern sim- plicity of the Republic as going together in unisop. There, too, hurrying along under the pressure of business, but finding time for a pleasant chat, is another Washington celebrity, Mr. Ben Perley Poore, an ex-militia officer, a gov- ernment official and a press man of many years’ standing. Mr. Poore has had vast opportunities of seeing life and his experiences furnish him with @ fund of anecdote. He tells us now that, as Sam Ward, one of the finest linguists, cleverist | Ball Committee, he has been beset by importunti- es from the LADY CORRESPONDENTS OF PAPERS, eack claiming precedence. I ventured to remind him of the admirable tactics pursued by Mr. Lam- ley, the manager of Her Majesty’s Theatre in London, when the famous Pas de Quatre, in which danced Taglioni, Fanny Elssler, Cerito and Lucile Grahn, was about to be rehearsed. A contest as to which should lead of the dance reigned among these queens of the ballet, and finally Mr. Lumley was appealed to, “Ladies,” said the astute manager, “there is an easy way of settling this little dispute, Let the oldest among you start first.” And then the difficulty was to see who should not lead off. Bul the Executive ses- sion 18 over, THE PROVINCIAL EDMUND YATES, THE “OCCASION” BY DON PIATT. sili cn idee A Distressingly Solemn and Severely Melancholy View from the Dome of the*Capitol. Now comes the hour big with the fate of peanut stands, President and things, and lo! the morn in scarlet petticoat fares up along the east. (And blue Moses, but itis cold!) The patriotic citizen with colored nose and hat pulled down and coat collar turned up hurries by, while the patriotic citi- zeness strives in vain to hold down her draperf aguinst the ferce north wind, that all night has been rocking the huge ballroom like a balloon, ‘The patriotic hack drivers, realizing $20 an hour, rush their hat racks called horses to an fro, while the avenue cars roll wearily along, resembling beehives about to turn out swarms, This is the company that owns Con- gress and deadheads Solons and smallpox between Georgetown, an aristocratic old cemetery, and the Navy Yard, While the avenue on each side of ite track is paved with wood, the company impudently retains the old cobble stones for their horses to stumble ever, and all attempts at correc- tion are laughed at, tor all the Congressmen who are not stockholders are dead-headed. It is the most edifying sight in the world to see a dignified’ Senator pull out his well-worn, greasy, free ticket and exhibit it to the crowd andthe conductor, Sometimes the Solon has not this ticket with him, and then he falls batk on his dignity, looks at the conductor seriously and says, “Sir!” If the con- ductor is unusually stupid or drunk the Senator sings out his name and makes complaint to the company of an insult put on him. THE MAN WHO NOMINATED GRANT. The crowd was fearfully augmented last night. Alexandria came over in a body and took posses- sion of the lager beer saloons and sample rooms, where it lodged in liquor. Bladensburg is said to be evacuated, and to-day Baltimore is coming in force. Mr. Hamilton Stubbs, of Illinois, arrived on the eleven P. M. train last night, and took loag- ing under a lamppost until he could find the house of his Senator, General Logan. Stubbs is one of the ten thousand who was first to nominate General Grant. 1 happened to encounter this patriot and had a realizing sense of Beau Hick- man’s description of the crowd. He complained bitterly that although he was the first to put in nomination the great man who now rules the country, he has waited in vain for an office; he had not received any office; he had not even a bit of “Credit Mobillar,” as he called that fatal stock. He said all the time his representatives in Congress were sitting in luxury on their brocatelle, voting themselves “Crédit Mobiller” and increased pay. He, Stubbs, was not going to stand this. He would see the President himself after he got com- fortably lodged at General Logan’s, and give him (Grant) to understand that the loyal republican people would not stand this rot much longer, I left the irate citizens holding an indignation meet- ing under the lamp-post, the warmth of whose wrath one may judge when one remembers that the thermometer stood at zero, and falling. THE CROWD AT WILLARD’S, After leaving Stubbs’ I dropped in at Willard’s, ‘This anctent hotel has been rehabilitated with new upholstery, at'the expense of $150,000, and is run by @ gentleman of the appropriate name of Cake, and illustrates m its bills the oid adage that one can- not have his cake and eat his cake. It seems to have regained all of its old popularity, for 1 teund it so crowded that it was dificult to make one’s way from the entrance to any point énside. This crowd vibrated between the hall and the bar” room, and furnished a fair specimen of the people who gather to witness the in- auguration of a@ Presidemt. It differs some- what from the crowd at the Arlington, where the heavy swells of the lobby, the repre- sentatives of huge corporations and gentlemen whese numes are connected with places in the Cabinet or first class missions abroad, most do congregate, At Willard’s one finds lesser liehts; but, listening for a few moments to any group, one soon finds that the patriotic impulse is a good deal mixed with oficial difficulties in remote districts that require immediate attention, All these are to be regulated by personal interviews with the President, and GREAT CHUNKS OF FACT AND WISDOM are to be poured into the Executive ear at once, “I tell you, gentiemen, ef this thing isn’t rectified in the Slum Gullin district, good-by republican party. The President’s got to make aclean sweep of those fellows who have been in office until mosses is growin’ on their legs. I intend to tell him s0 before I leave this town.’ This was so violently disputed by an individual joining the group that I suspected him to be one of the moss-covered buckets referred to, but as the entire party adjourned to the bar for adrink together, the difference was alter all not wide or violent. The South, represented by the irrepressible carpet-bagger, fat, sleek and cheeky, was exceedingly noisy. I saw Governer Warmoth surrounded by quite a crowd of admirers; greatly amused by his humorous comments on tne Louisi- ana muddle, and its connection with Grant. Wa! moth is @ tall, slender and rather handsome man. He has, to a certain extent, the old school manner- ism, left us by the venerable pumps of a past gen- eration, who were wont to express their opinion of the weather as if it were of great importance and rather confidential, and say “sir? every few seconds in the way of punctuation. Warmoth 1s full of humor and has a reckless way of mak- ing himself appear worse than he really is. There is one fact that is well known—he wiil fight, and is as careless of his life as he is of his reputation. The billiard rooms over town are @ fair iliustra- tion of OUR CROWDED CONDITION. They have been turned into sleeping apartments; the cots under the tables being used only up toa certain hour, so as not to interfere with the games. After that hour beds are placed on the tables and in the intermediate spaces. The early birds are eXasperated sometimes beyond endurance by the players, especially where, in the exigencies of the game, # boot comes in contact with a sleeping countenance or makes itself disagreeable by kicks on more tender parts of the body. Many a man innocent of the laws of billiards, while in the midst of @ successful move, has been called upon to suspend the game to encounter am indignant inaugurationist in shirt and drawers. THB CIVIC AND MILITARY PROCESSION, Sustuined by my military friends | had the honor to review the civic and military procession that swept around the corner of Fifteenth street aud the avenue on its way to the Capitol, The wind was blowing great guns, and the harmony of the affair was considerably marrea by unseemly runs alter military hats that would blow off, or worse, tilt over the warlike countenances of these heroic men. This was varied by unruly starts of ofiicers’ horses, that had a tendency to stand on end—sometimes the forward and at other times the hind end, and it was fun to the thoughtless to » the warriors tumble, especially if the victim came down in sitting position and immediately staggered up, looking around in an attempted diguified way, as if it did not hurt much. We saw one very tat Brigadier Generai roil off, and for a second he presented a confused mass of patterns aud military clothes that required some care and effort to shake up and set on end again. With the exception of the cadets, the military display was chapman Q the nressdortion of the lupuguratien | majnly made up of that warlike clash known-as SOLDIERS IN PEACE AND CITIZENS IN WAR, One recognized the brave Home Guard, Some confusion was caused by the cavalry, and to bring order out of that contusion called for a display of the first military talent, The cavalry from a dis- tance, such asthe Boston Lancers and Philadel- phia Heavy Dragoons, came, of course, without their horses, supposing them ever to have had any, and as those animals are somewhat scarce since the epizodty, ademand was made upon the several car companies for a mount, As the cars could not run during the procession the demand was | promptly met, and the round-shouldered, toe- pointed defenders of our country were set astride | | with an ease and rapidity that does credit to the | management. But when the procession was fairly under way a great difficulty occurred. These horses, trained to the cars, missed the bits and the brakes, and it was found almost impossible to halt them, or, getting them halted, to make a start again. The confusion at Thirteenth street came to be serious, and it looked fora while as if our beloved President would not be sworn in for a week, The horses backed and bolted in the most exasperating manner, and when the brave de- fenders put in their spurs the animals went to kicking and plunging, so that it was dificult, ex- tremely diMcult, for the brave defenders to keep their seats. Added to this was A GREAT LOSS OF WARLIKE DIGNITY, for the poor animals, not being accustomed to being tickled by spurs in the ribs, remonstrated with unseemly and discordant noises, that made a crowd inclined to admire break into loud laughter and jeers. Indeed, the Africans present, regard- less of propriety or former state of servitude, actu- ally rolled on the ground, uttering wild cries of delight. Colonel McGruder, however, a gentleman o? rare courage and great presence of mind, walked to the nearest hardware store and procured a large quantity of car bells, that he distributed among the sergeants, with instructions to ring on the command of a halt or on the command of a march, This was done, and afterwards the President complimented the mounted defenders upon the finish and beauty of their drill, Of the civic procession I cannot speak with so much com- mendation. The Fifth division, made up, I was informed by a reliable gentlemen well acquainted with the programme, of the independent order of country Postmasters, marched well, keeping step on aright-dress regulation by the Third Assistant Postmaster General, But they looked hungry and weak, and created much commiseration. Follow- ing them came the Crédit Mobilfer stock- holders, brass-mounted and armed with affi- davits. But we missed their Grand Mar- Skal, Oakes Ames, who, I am informed, is 80 Weak from his late weeping that he could not get out. The S, G. Bowen Pioneer Club of the Dis- trict, carrying a banner, with a painting of the well-known Bowen Dill, attracted attention. The band played “Not for Joe,’ with decided effect. TIE SURVIVORS OF BLACK FRIDAY, carrying @ portrait of the late James Fisk, Jr., draped in mourning, were quite startling, as also Was the Samana Bay Company and true believers in St. Domingo. The Eighteenth division, that contained the Christian Statesmen, excited uni- versal admiration, The honorable and saintly Pom. acted as Marshal, while the band played so as to draw tears from a sherit!, Oh, don’t you remember sweet Alice, Old Pom.? But we missed the Philadelphia fire companies that have assisted at inaugurations since the early Presidents, Those no-shirted heroes, who made an honest citizen shudder when they approached; who were wont to pull their machines along the avenue. after the incoming President, were sadly missed. Why they should pull machines atter incoming Presidents no man could make out, but they always did. In their place we had the Washington city fire engines, drawn by horses; very gay af- fairs, but alas, not Philadelphia lambs. Of THE CEREMONIES AT THE CAPITOL Tcan give you no reliable account. I employed a very matter-of-fact, reliable young man out of Ben Butler’s office to make notes for you, but he com- mitted a grave blunder that ruined all. He tooka light buggy and horse from the stable of Keyser & Co, and drove near the stand. This was contrary to regulations, but he showed his card of newspaper reporter and was admitted. Since Butler and Bingaam made their attack on us we are receiving more attention than we desire. On this occasion it was fatal, for soon the misguided young man found himself surrounded by & furious crowd, that began climbing upon his buggy. , He fought them off as well as he could; but what is science in a crowd of that sort? Sud- denly, while the engagement was going on, the buggy broke down and the horse became so un- manageable through fright that the police had to arrest hum, and my reporter appeared not long since with his hat mashed, coat torn and counte- nance almost obliterated. I am told, however, that old Henry, the new Vice President, was sworn never to hold again Crédit Mobilier stock, and that the President said something that mo one could hear. THE YOUNG ROOSTERS FROM WEST POINT. So you perceive there was nothing done of any importance, and we hope the cadets may never be brought to Washington again. All the anxious parents and relatives have been striving to head them into houses where they may be locked up until they recover their senses, These cadets are harder on us than the Diplomatic Corps or the clerical gentlemen. An aged father said to me to- day, with tears in his eyes, that domestic tran- quillity, to say nothing of public good, calied for the suppression of this cadet business. I do not go so far as this; but really it is petter to keep these young roosters out of public life. The following in- famous falsification in the way of an inaugural ad- dress deceived thousands of deluded people in Washington this morning. Iam pained to say that it appeared in the Washington Capital:— A FALSE INAUGURAL, FELLOW CITIZENS (Without regard to race, color or previous condition of servitude)—I appear be- fore you to take the oagh which the constitution prescribes to, as President of the United States, AS LtoOk the same oath four years ago Ido not myself see any particular use In taking it again, However, I suppose something is proper to be taken on such an occasion, and an Oath is as easy to take a& anything that has so little dampness abeut it. Ido not know but swearing agrees with my health, for 1 do not remember anything else that {have done that I had afterwards 80 little to recall. [am glad to meet s0 many of my fellow citizens and citizenesses as are present on this occasion, and I hope that they will agree with me that this is the greatest event of the oc- casion, Ihave taken uncommon pone to commit my speech to memory, and, after the pious manner of our ancestors, have requested the prayers of the clergy for my safe delivery. Although this 18 ad- mitted to have been rather a bad year for Chris- tians, I feel that I have been considerably borne up and strengthened by their petitions, and that if [ were us tedious a8 @ king I could find it in my heart te bestow it all upon my tellow citizens on this occasion. During the past four years I fee) that Ihave done my duty. It is said that a man acts best bis part when he attends to his own affairs and lets those @ others alone, most cases made that my rule of conduct, taken good care of my own interests, and let the cohutry take care of its; and I have reason to be- Meve that the countryg# as well satished as [ ar with the arrangement’ If I have made any devia- tion from this rule it has been with a view to the comfort of my friends and family—thereby fulfilling the most sacred aud binding of domestic and for- eign obligations. I feel a good deal indebted to the Kepublic—that is to say, the republicans—for THE HONOR OF A SECOND ELECTION. In consequence of the complicated manner in which I disposed of my dwelling in this city, I should | otherwise have had no place of residence. It is true that I take upom myself the new responsibilities with considerable reinctance, not more, I am as- sured, than they felt in bestowing them upon m ‘This mutuality of feeling is to me @ source of t liveliest satisfaction and is one the most violent a: surances of our future mutual good understanding. Had the other individual who failed, in consequence of the alarming increase in the number of my friends in Pennsy!vanta, been elected, a large body of persons Who are now guining their honest bread by the sweat of their virtuous blows would have been deprived of the means of subsistence, the progress of administrative rejorm and competitive examination would have been thrust back for at least four-fifths of a century, It is proper on this ovcasion that I should allude to the successor which the constitution has appointed in case of my removal by natural causes re the expiration of my oficialterm., With my last Vice, Mr, Colfax, I part with feelings of the pro- foundest variety. My relations with him, as with my other Vices, have been cordial, Few men have been endowed by Providence with a larger allow- ance of vital plety or by nature with a shorter memory, the first of which is a preservative of his religious character and the last of his moral in- tegrity; and, witile he retires to the enjoyments of private usefuiners, from which # 18 not probable @ will again emerge, it affords me great pleasure to reflect that my incoming Vice will not fal) @ par- ticle behind kim in either of these endowments. I have feelings of great respect ior Mr. Wilson, especially on account of his poverty, as he was a BOO shoemakys and @ poor Senatar, There is | | i | very considerable, 3 a poor Vida every reason to believe that he will be President—in fact, that he will be A MODEL OF DESTITUTION and oMetal life, It is proper that on this occasion I should indl- cate, $0 far as is consistent with my private inter- ests, the individuals of whom my civil staff will be composed during my coming term of office. 1 ang informed by the Secretary o1 the Navy that not 4 than tour more years will be required to meet { @ way that 1s satisfactory to them the calls o! several parties upon the Treasury, on account of nis Department. Any officer less interested in tha subject might be:nelined to regard the differen’ claims—for instance, of Secor & Company and Ames & Company—as only various var ol Stating the same demand, and pe kel therefore to infer that they had been pald Several times over already, an inference under which it 1s obvious thgir losses would be It is? I may be allowed ta remark, to be regretted’ that it has never beer aefinitely settled how many times the same account against the government may be legitimately liqui~ dated, in consequence of which there has been not little diversity in the practice of the Navy Departe ment, ROBESON MUST BE RETAINED, It seems imperative under the circumstancea that I should retain the services of Mr. Rovesony and 1 shall do it the more willingly from my con- viction of his fitness for the place he occupies. It has been urged against him that he haa no knowledge of naval affairs. I do not, judging rom my own experience. consider this as ai objection, it is decided that Mr. boutwell will leave the position he now holds in my ofticial family, in case he is elected to the Senate from Groton, the place he formerly represented. In case somebody else should be elected he will, in obedience to the Constitution, not take his seat In respect to the person who may be required ti fill the place of Mr. Boutwell, | confess I have. not been without my feeling of perplexity. The splen- did portrait of Hon. William A, Richardson, en- graved in steel by a first rate artist in the Treas« ury Department at the public expense and widely distributed, has inspired all behoiders with esteeny for his integrity as well as for his physiognomy. Ths tribute by an eminent oficial personage ta his virtues is touching in the extreme, It appeala to all the nobler sentiments of our nature, and i honorable alike to his head and his heart. Thi engraving in steel, which the Attorney-Generaly who is @ lawyer, informs me bears but @ faint resemblance to the stealing of en gravings, has of late been carried to @ high state of perfection in the Treasury Depart« ment. I was in favor of Mr, Boutweil before hia retirement providing himself with a similar testi« monial of personal regard and aamiration. 1 amy compelled, however, to say that he has hitherta conscientiously confined his requisitions upon the artistic resources of his department to the provi< sion of visiting cards for himself and a pretty extensive family, a fact which proves that even when bent upon the pleasures of social intercourst his mind retains all of its original frugality, Of these, however, it is gr: ing to know he will carry into his retirement sufictent to supply hig needs for ail time in the futy THE PUBL T, as I am informed by the Secretary of the Treasury, who, before he entered my service, Was a practicas professor of mental and pb 1 arithmetic tn @ primative seminary in Massachusetts, and who ag such was familiar, not only with the apple and potato, but with the dollar Gr | fractional currency examples, has realize: @ handsome increase since the — second. day in November. This is a striking proof of the accurate workings of our fiscal machinery, publia debts being of such a nature that, as the Secretary informs me, they are apt to expand considerably, after, as they are to contract considerably befora Presidential elections. In financtal affairs, so tha Secretary thinks, elasticity is @ thing of tha first importance. Very much has been dond during my past administrative term to provide am elastic currency for the people, and it is one of tha incidental happy results of these measures tnat tha debt has become as elastic asthe currency. With! Mr. Boutwell, who has, probably, succeeded in effecting other arrangements, I separate with feelmgs of the keenest sort. Elastic as to hiq financial ideas and practices, and elastic as to hid mind and conscience, he has introduced an elasd ticity in the public service in his department which has answered several important purposes; as in one of its forms it is of great assistance in moving the crops; so in another it has from time to time excited considerable sums of publi money to emigrate, to the great encouragement 0! individual activity, though not without introduc ing some inconvenient complications into the bookkeeping of the department, ACTS OF CLEMENCY PROMISED, It is customary, as 1am tnformed by my pastor/ the Rev. John P, Newman, @ man deeply read in the Apocalypse, the Apocrypha and other eres of @ mythological character, for presidents at emperors to signalize their entry into power bj some act of official clemency. Iu accordance wit! this precedent I design, at no distant day, to pars don certain atrocious criminals now imprisoned at Albany. It has been urged in their favor ed they were not guilty; but it is obvious, even ti this were the case, that a hasty pardon would have been inadvisable; at least it could not have been afforded at any time before the second Tuesday ip. last November, ‘Their trial and conviction was a heavy expens@ to the government, for whieh justice demands it should realize some compensation, If they were not guilty, it was either their fault or misfortune and for neither the faults nor the misfortunes ot its citizens is the government, while lam Presi- dent of the United States, to be held answerable. The domestic relations of potentates bring sub- jects of public interests it will be expected of me to say someting of mine, Within the last foul years my family has not increased numerically to @ reat extent; but circumstances have been such ag in a remarkable degree to bring to my knowledge the persons of whom it is composed. had never before any idea of the feelings of affection enter. tained for me by individuals of whose existenca until after my first election I was totally unaware. It is thus that we come under the influence of tha tenderest and holiest influences. A cousin is a very loving party, @ second cousin still more; in fact, the bonds of sympathy seem to grow stronger 1 the ratio of the square of the distance in the line of consanguinity. One of the most positive injunctiong of the New Testament is to take care of one’s own household, and I have the assurance of my pastor, the Rev. John P. Newman, whose chimes may be heard every Saturday evening in verification of my ae that in this respect I have done my juty. UTAH AND TIE MORMONS. There is reason to expect dimculty with a horde of squatters who have settled themselves in a remote corner of my domintons and call them. selves Latter Day Saints. They have adopted a style of retigious belief unauthorized by the con stitution of the United States, and @ habit of mar- rytng their concubines, which {is contrary to the Veron of the patriarchs of our government. ‘ot being able te secure the services of the Rev, Henry Ward Beecher, whose acquaintance with this branch of the clergy is profound and,exten- sive, a8 @ missionary for their conversion | was constrained to send unto them my pastor, the Rev. John P, Newman, an ecciesiastic to whom @ rivate heathen is an utter abomination. regret to confess that the reverend gentleman did not fare as successfully as he expected; that in fact he was well knewn and badly maltreated with a Bible in the hands of one Orson heretics, molish, My legal missionary also, the Hon. James B. McKeon, received but little better treatment, and found the heathen posted in positions of such strength as to afford himyreat trouble and small satisfaction. This, of itself, a8 1 am informed by the Secretary of State, who has studied Puffendorft until it produced a marked effect upon his depart- ment, 18 an offence justifying reprisals exemplary, in character and amount. The matter, however, is before Congress, where, Ihave no doubt, sucit measures will be taken as will best exemplify the Christianity of the government, the superiority of our practices, and the personal purity of the pious ang conscientious individuals of whom the public councils are composed. SUBSTANTIAL MARKS OF AFFECTION. It is an agreeable task to a man of my feelings to acknowledge the receipt of articies of use or ornament presented to him as memortals of past and espectally of future good offices, In this de- partment of public duty the demands upon my at- tention have been numerous, not so numerou: however, as to beget any dislike to their ind a tion, and it is but for me to suggest that m: hopes for the future are in every respect as lively as my gratitude for the past. If I have anything to regret it is that things have now and then come to hand, doubtiess threugh the inadvertence inct- dent to emotions of thanktulness, marked with the characters 0, 0. 1, which I am given to understand means either Call On Dent, or Collect On De- livery. In either sense these letters are wel~ come, and, in justice to myself, 1 am constrained to express the hope that no occasion will hereafter, be afforded for their repetition. COLLEGIATE HONORS, Since I stood here four ‘en ago I have been made a LL.D. LL. (as | am told by General Howard, who runs @ college with great profit and Satisfaction), means Doctor of Laws, though bow it can mean it I do not exactly understand. It wag done at a place near Boston, where they can make them very easily and at a smal! expense, the prin« Sipal cost being in Latin and sheepskin, the first of which if manulactured on the spot and the last tanned by a new process in the vicinity. Since received my license as physician I have gone inta practice pretty extensively. AFFLICTED LOUISTANA, My last patient was Louisiana, which hag suf. fered a good deal with intestinal difficulties of @ fundamental character, Dr. Morton, whom I called in consultation, says that her constitution hag broken up Mp and that nothing but caustia Qpplications to the spine—in which he has had great experience—will work her restoration, lam compelled to admit that my prescriptions thus far have not done as well as Lexpected, and if things do not work better in the future L shall feel come. pelled the next time I go to Boston to apply for the wi nown ve which in order follows the one I have receive: Courtesy to @ co-ordinate branch of the laws Making powers requires I should nov close Without saying something about Congress, But it has been suggested to me by the laun« dress of the House—the experienced—the thd best thing to say willbe to say nothing, Senator rey informs me that the time has not coma for justice to pronounce her final verdict upo himself and his co-Senators, and that they are al perfectly willing to wait until she has disposed CONTINUED ON TENTH PAGE,