Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-09-04
From the Nsu York Daily .adusrtissr.

BOSTON. aug. g.
Gentlemen-Agreeably to arrange
w,ents. General La Fayette this day
paid visit to Breeds and Bunker's
Hills. He left Boston about 10 IN the
morning. accom- panied by q large es.
cort. The streets leading to Charles
town Bridge displayed great variety
NJ colours collected together on lines
and stretched across from roof to root
high in the air. making beautiful fes-
toons over head. To seseral of them
mottoes were appended, painted on silk,
with other ornaments. crossed the
bridge a short time before the General,
to take a view of the preparations IN
Charlestown, which assure you have
not been surpassed by any townln New
England. A great ounber OF coIors
were displayed along the main street,
and many were seen floating rom the
eninences in and near the city. Seve-
raj ches have been erected which were
strikrgiy beau ful,exhibit ag great tas e
~ web as unusual exertioD. They
we're elevated from 25 to 40 feet IN
height, supported by columns from each
eide Of the road, and eDtwiDed with ev-
ereresns, and beder ked with thousands
of fiowers-the work of the amiaoie
and beautiful daughters OF New Eng
land. Ffom the centre of one OF those
arches was the following motto
aWELCOME La FAYEFTEP
And on another:
5" WELCOME TO OUR HEARTS
AND HOMES.'
But the children! how shall speak
of them and express what feel?-
Thew were arranged on the foot-pave.
ment. and occupied distance of severe
al hundred yards-the little girls array.
ad in pure white, with blue ribbon round
their waists; the boys neatly dressed
generally in white psntaloons aud blue
Jackets. each having blue ribbon tied
round his arm in bow. The instruc-
4ors Of the different schools were sta.
toned at the head of the children. and
such was the strict order they all OBJ
seryed-the effect of the discipline to
which tho children in this part OF the
Union appear to be subjected, that not
a word was heard. and they seemed to
move nothing but their eyes. The teel'
ines it produced to let the sight slowly
follow the line of innocent and happy
little faces from one end to the other.
would leave co some of the delighted
parentsso describe.
The appearance of the military vas
highly creditabls--psvb beautiful. The
dress of the various companies belong
ing to CharlestowD aud Cambridge,
struck my eye as of superior Order
and worthy of aeighborhood SO ia
NOUS in our military history
One company belonging to Cam.
bridge wore green coates. with bell
buttons. white paDtaloons, helmet caps,
with tall white plu.nes wore
blue oatees with bell buttons, helmet
cans and tall black plumes-the march.
ing and music excellent. All the hous.
a. in Charles own were filled with fe.
males, most of whom wore ornaments
an their heads: every window was oc-
,.upied, and the streets were lined
their fathers, Husbands and brothers.
The General, accompanied by an inn
,nense rsvalcade from Boston, crossed
che bridge sbou, half pact ten, and was
received by salute, the ringing OF bells,
and the shouts of the people. Not the
least interesting scene was his recep-
tion among the little children, who now
frat raised their infant voices, and
shouted Welcome! welcome again
and again.
The whole cavalcade. preceded by
the military, moved towards Breeds
Hill. 40 celebrated as the scene of our
earliest pitched battle-if SO il may be
called. find, however. that cannot
rehDquish the name by which the field
IL known all over the world, but must
retain the misnomer and still call it
Bunker Hail..
once visited the spot alone: and 9.
5 ven then the place seemed inhabited by
somethiog had not found 10 the vallies
below, although it was on the quiet eve
ming of an undistiDgushsd summers
day, when even grey headed men were
not thinking of the revolution, and the
place was deserted by all bot few
swallows that we're skimming over the
graves of the slaip. But now the re-
ference to former times was direct and
plain, though the contrast OF the scene
was no less striking. Our gaiety sub,
sided az ws rose nearer and nearer to
the summit, and the Stiffness Of the
throDgs proved how much feeling the