The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-06-14

His Excellency, however, slipped in unobserve J.,
and after receiving the morning saTtations OF the
guard" and CALAMITY paying his decors TO the la
dies who looked as smiling and charming as POSI-
bic, he stepped to the breakfast room, where, are
happy TO report, he ate very reasonable share of
the good things provided by Mrs Howard.
The President and suite left Towards Hotel in
some eight or ten carriages provided by the Cor
poration. These were driven down 10 the Castle
Garden, where the whole party embarked in the
boats belonging to the Independence and North Ca
rola. There was not great crowd present, but
the morning was fine, the spectators pleased, and all
seemed In high spirits.
On reaching the Independence the flag ship of
Commodore Stewart, salute of 81 guns fired
The whole party were then shown over the ship,
took glass ot wine, and re- embarked IN the boats
to go on board the North Carolina. On leaving the
Independence, a salute OF IL guns were fired. On
reaching the North Carolina II guns was fired ;
the same ceremony gone through with that took
place on board the other ship; more wine drunk
and the party left the ship for Brooklyn under sa
lutte of 81 guns
The landing at Brooklyn was attended with no.
thing remarkable; The Common Council behaved in
the most shabby manner. There were only three
companies Of Infantry present to receive the Presi
dent, besides the splendid company OF City Guards,
who went from New York to escort the President
These were the Light Guard of BROOKLYN, CAPTAIN
Pearson, the Nassau Guards, Captain SpragHe and
the Union Guard under Lieut.. Smith These all
looked and drilled remarkably well There were
also two troops of artillery from Gen. Storms's
brigade, who were very Iudely treated
throughout. But the great feature of The day was
the City Guard under Capt. James Mason. They
looked supe,b, and paraeed inimitably.
On reaching brooklyn, there was a great deal of
confusion and noise; and after much trouble, the
President and two other gentlemen got into car
rage The Mayor of Brooklyn said few words,
and the President replied; but the noise was great
that nothing heard ten ieet from them; the cor
tege moved of in this manner
CARRIAGE
Containing the President, Mayor of Brooklyn and May
or OF New York.
Carriage containing the Cabinet.
Twenty carriages containing all sorts of people whom
scarcely any body knew
These were driven all about the city and into nu-
merous places where no one on foot would follow
them The beautiful company OF City Guards,
| marched down 10 the Navy Yard, and stack ed
their arms, and here crowds followed in
expectation OF that being the great theatre
of operations for the day Following the carriages,
the military; then the various Irish Benevolent
Societies, numbering about three hundred, and
about one hundred carmen mounted A few cheers
were raised Tor the President on his landing bur
there was little or no mark Of enthusiasm evlnced
throughout his route round the city IL worthy
of remark that going up Fulton street, the Presl-
dent bowed invariably TO the left side OF the stree
scarcely noticing the night side, although all the
most beautiful women were on tina, sde-an in
stance of ungaant conduct, very unusual for Virgil.
mans OF the old school.
THE Navy YARD
The great centre OF attraction, after all, was the
| Navy Yard Here all the loveliest women In the
| neghborhood were congregated. platform was
raised in front Of the Naval Lyceum, carpeted and
| ornamented with wreaths and festoons in the most
| beautiful style On this stage assembled
| about thirty OF the most charming ladies' the
| State contains On the long inclined plane leading
from the upper part Of the large ship house, there
were seated about 100 young ladies, and the men,
with curious eyes gazed up the platform, they pre-
senied picturesque, yet any thing but graceful or
modest appearance
| The Yard was in fine order Indeed, under Capt.
| Sands's admirable management, II never was IN
any other condition All the marines were at then
posts and in a high state of pDe, under Capt:
| Engllss, Capt. Douglass It. Brady, 1t Long, and
| Its. Young and Waldron On the platform with the
| ladies' were Commodore Jones, Captain Hudson,
| Capt. Newman. Capt. Carpenter, Capt. DE Hart,
| and Lieut.. Morris The latter is such noble, go,
rous looking fellow, that the tars in the crowd oil
| declared that man who could enjoy laugh Ike
| him ought TO be a captain He had on his arm the
most beautiful woman IN Brooklyn, by long Odds
| she was dressed in black. The balcony was crowd
ed with lovely young girls, and was the yard, IN
every part of il. And the scene was equal 10 any
| thing seen in New York the day before.
After great deal OF delay caused by the stupid
ity and bad management OF the Brooklyn Marshals,
not one of whom was fiji for his place, the music an
nounced the arrival ofthe President lie was driven
| down to the front of the Naval Lyceum, where ne
slighted, and where Capt. Sands received him win