Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-06-07

Reception Of the Pfesideat. The Executive
Committee Of Baltimore have made the following
arrangements for the reception Of the President
Of the United States.
Rail, Road Cars with The Committee Of Recep.
ton. Numbers of the CITY Council, Revolutions.
~ Officers, the commanding Military and Naval
Officers Of this District, aud all other Naval and
Military Officers will leave the Rail. Road
Depnt al the :! Three Tuns" Tavern at hall past
twelve O'clock. TO. morrow. the 9th inst, and
proceed to the intersection of that Road and the
Washington Turnpike, to meet the President and
return with him on the Railroad.
The route from the R,iI-Rnad Dtpot to his
lodgings, will be up Paca I, Markel-srset,
and thence to Newcumb's Baltimore House
The President and his suite in open carriages.
The President NAV be expected to arrive a.
bout three o'clock, P. NJ.
The Committee suggest that the state OF the
Presidents health will make It desirable that he
should rest after his days journey, and therefore
respectfully request that their (elio".citizrn
would postpone paying their respects until Fri,
day.. at an buur To BIZ fixed for that purpose,
and Of which the Committee will give public no.
tice.
Tickets fer the Officers Of the Army and Ma
w, are left with the off GERS commanding on this
station.
BY order, GEO. WINCHESTER, Chairman.
Tile Srotch Pipcr.-Th,s individual, Of whom
so much has been said in the papers both of this
country and of Europe, is thus noticed IN the
Portsmou, IN, N. II. journal:
He arrived in this town on Thursday afternoon.
and Immediately commenced his peresrinations
aud piping about our streets. His height is over
SIX feet-he Is well bul!t-has rather a sandy
complexion, and makes a very commanding APP.
pearance. HIS name is Stewart. He has been
an officer in The British Army-served under Sir
John Moore and the Duke Of Wellington, and
sold bis commission alter the battle Of Waterloo.
His opponent is Count Bender, a French noble
man, educated in Scotland nj the same school
with the piper, and between whom a great friend
ship subsis,ed. In 1925 they met in London,
when a dispute arose relative to the hospitality Of
different nations. Both parties, in order to SETTLE
the question, agreed to travel in disguiss-lhe
one as fiddler in France, Belgium and Iiaiv,
and the other (the piper) in Great Britain, Ire.
land and America. They both commenced their
line Of march in July 1923.
The Piper is evidently a gentleman of extern
sive information. easy in his manners-a Scotch.
man BY birth-his age about fifty. He received
a severe hurt from the u~psettins of a stage Coach
in ireland a few years since, which contin.
ed him for a year, and in consequence Of which
he il now lame. He has travelled through the
Canadas, ard on the first day Of Nav he com.
menced his tour of the United States at Eastport,
Maine. H. asks no one for money; but when
any is presented to him he touches his cap 10 to-
ken Of thankfulness, and passes on without max
ing any pause in the music Of his Bag.pipe. which
Yields very sweet. meiodious tones.
Yesterday afternoon the iacognito made his
second appearance ia our streets-hIs pipe being
pitched 30 as to give out the most captivating
strains. He was followed by hundreds Of boys,
whom he would not allow to approach within a
yard of his person. What amount he collected
we know not.
lie has taken a private room at the Portsmouth
Hotel. lie has been visited by some gentlemen.
They found him engaged in making records in
his journal. He appears to be very cautious Of
the company to which he gives audiences; and
consider able formality, such as sending up your
name, occupation. &c. is requisite. in order to
gain admittauce. He is very polite and intelli-
gent, - speaks highly Of the Americans, and says
they might be the happiest people in the world.
Military MISUNDERSTANDING G: l.t Reg.