The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-09-14
POLHTICAL.
BUNKER's HILL CELEBRATION.


We are indebted to our attentive corresPon
dents of the New York Commercial Advertiser,
for the interesting account which we give below
of the proceedings at Bunker Hill. This account
of the proceedings written, as it appears, IN
Boston, on the 10th, despatched to New York,
there inserted in the Commercial Advertiser on
the 18th, and was here in the night train olthe
same day. This is almost equal to the flight Of
the mind.
Correspondence Of the N. York Commercial Advertiser
BOSTON, Tuesday Morning,
September 10, 1910. )
arrived here Yesterday morning at 8 O'Clock,
and found the city already full, in anticipation sf
the great Wing Convention which is to take place
on Bunker Hill to-day. Although rad taken
the prccaution TO send for an apartment at the
fremont House item days in advance, 7 was not
sufficiently early. Every hotel, and board
inc house of which could hear, --... y, and
with thousands of others, l was thrC the
hospitality OF the people-a hosptalit, :Rys
proverbial, and certainly on the present occasion
exercised without STINT. Even in the forenoon Of
Yesterday the city full of strangcrS-the
streets of people from abroad in motion-that the
inhabitants ere almost puzzled to know whether
they were themselves athome or not. The mighty
influx gathered strength through the day, and
what itEwill be by ten o'clock this morning l am
utterly unable to form a conjecture.
The house of every Wing in this city, where's
there was not sickness 10 prevent, was cheeriully
thrown open; every extra bed was taken; and
nearly a thousand new beds were made by con-
tracts, under the direction of the committee, and
before dark last evening all were distributed in
vacant rooms throughout the city, and made up
for use so that by IL o'clock last night enc of
Il c committee, who has been charged specially
with this branch of the commissariat, informed
"a I,tr n ardt1s lah
believed that every stranger who had reported
himself to the central committee at Fanuen Hall
was comfortably housed.
The proceedings of the occasion were in fact
commenced yesterday, by various preliminary
meetings. The citizens Of Roxbury took itupon
themselves to provide for the people gathering
in from the djacent towns of the county of Sut-
folk; as did the inhabitants of Charlestown for
those from tho county to which it appeartains.-
Large meetings were held in both places yester
day afternoon. Who were the speakers at
Ckarlestown have not learned. Those at RIOS
bury were the Hon. Benjamin Watkins Leigh,
of Virginia, and the Hon. George Evans, Of
Maine. There were several large meeting IN
different quarters of the city last evening. The
Marlborough chapel was thronged until eleven
o'clock, to hear Reverdy Johnson, of Baltimore,
and very able man from Ohio, whose name
have not learned At the log cabin, which is in
the sixth ward, there was large gathering In
the street, which addressed by Col. kins-
man, of Maine, and Col. Frank Johnson, oil Ken
lucky, and by your humble servant.
Among the distinguished gentlemen from dis
lance, who had arrived last evening, are Mr.
Leigh, of Virginia, Mr. Reverdy Johnson OF Bal
timore, Governor Pennington of New jersey,
Gov Ellsworth of Connecticut, Mr. Phelps, SEN
ator in Congress from Vermont, MIR. Huntington,
Senator and Mr.. Williams, Representative in
Congress from Connecticut, Mr.. Evans, mem
Der Of Congress from Maine, MIR. Chinn from
Louisiana, Mr.. Hoffman, member OF Congress,
and Philip Hone from New ORR, MIR. +. Joha-
son from Kentucky, Mr.. Tillinshast, Senator
Robbins, and Mr. VIII, pie from Rhode Island,
Mr. William Kin. from Milne, General Kim
berly of New Haven, ard many others. Several
memhers of Congress ilom VI ,ssachusetts are, or
will be present, among who are Gov. Lincoln,
Mr. Saltonstall Caleb Cushing, and others.
The delegations from abroad will be very nu'
merous 1t is believed that there will be ten
thousand people here from Essex county. MIR.
Robbins assures me that the delegation from
Rhode Island will be fourteen hundred. The
delegations from New York, New Jersey, Penn
sylvania and Maryland, will be in this morning
or rather thsy have already arrived, but have
not yet had time to see them.
The proceedings of the day are to commence
at ten o'clock, by the formation of the procession
on the Mall The executive committee, with
guests by particular invitation, meet at the
state-house at nine o'clock. The line of march to
Bunker Hill IS about I'VE miles, anu IL w III hoI
probably reach the place before two Z. NJ
There is not to be any speaking there, save aiew
remarks from Mr.. Webster, who is to preside,
Introductory to declaration from his pen, which
will be printed for the public by printing press
which is to move IN the procession.
There are to be five meetings at different
places this evening, viz: one at kanueh Hall,
over which Mr.. Webster is to preside; at the
Odeon, where Franklin Dexter is to preside; at
the Marlborough Chapel, where Mr.. Winthrop
will preside; at the City Hall, under the direc-
tion Of James Il. Austin; and at the Republican
Wing Hall, under Stephen Fairbanks. When
all is over, will endeavor to give you as good
of the meetings, the observations of any one
spectator must necessarily be very inadequate.
There was a great crowd on board the noble
steamer Massachusetts,, from New York, on
Thursday evening-five hundred, at least. All
were full of ardor and enthusiasm, and such was
the feeling that it could only be expressed through
meeting, and such speaking as was to be had
on the occasion.
There is another great subject of attraction
here in Boston now-the great fair, for which
the ladies have been so long preparing, in order
to raise funds Tor the completion Of the Bunker
Hill monument OF this, more hereafter The
work willibe done.
Half past H. 'ock.
The great pageant of the day is o' sucf
apaeeant be fore never seen. Such ,ean
again never expect to saw. The spectacle o
the mighty gathering upon the Mall was am
mating, bevond any other movement OF the peo
pie that ever beheld. The procession whei