The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-07-01

ELEVENTH DAY FROM WASHINGTON.
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| see them on their winding way
Your local corps Of daguerreotype reporters wiz nave
brouoht down to Peck alp the President Mr. Buchanan
and their respected suites, Joined into one company
nth sundrv committees from New York, New Haven,
Hartford Springfield and Boston. II Is now eleven AZ
NIGHT and A we have to be OF at in the morning.
we shall fall back upon the brieest outline or the pre-
sent with the promise Of full report OF the trip from
Nav York to Boston when we shall have reached the
| latter port Of entry
Left Peck slip in steamer Hero, Capt. Peck, at ten
minutes past six Salute from thewhsrf Of artillery
and broadsids of heavy guns from the navy yard on
the opposite side Cheers from the orphan children ON
Blackwels Isandheavy tide running up through He'll
gate pot boiling Hnelygot into the open sound-smooth
as an inland all the way up to New Haven Break
tasted the boat-took potluck with the sovereign
people on board-good breakfast man need desire.
At New Haven all the population of the city and coun-
try about gathered in the city to see the fres
dent and his processonmiltary escort-cavalcade OF
carriages for the President and all his company-neat
carriages and good fat horses-marched through the
principal streets Of the city Of const-la
tons Of Yankee girls in all the windows Of all the houses
the way-bouquets waving handkerchief ringing of
BELLS and firing of cannon, cheering and bowingtaken
into State House. where the President and company
while the citizens the town authorities the ladies' and
stood the public schools defled before the Chief Mags-
trsts, and passed out
The President and company then taken to College
Green between two long lines of the students along the
green and the way tho young men chsered as their dis
tngushed vister and his distinguished friends passed
along exceeded even'the enthusiasm Of Old Tammany'
and oven Chapel HILL Escorted into the chapel where
the college choir sang national land on coming out
| the choir sang another national air Company passed
| over to the library buiding-inspected the library
then out again and to the Trumbul gallery he
old Revolutionary National Gallery Trumbull) then
across the Campus and the public square to the
Tontine House to dnner-or rather to hasty plate Of
soup for before the company had clsvery commenced
upon the substantial hungry the whole deputa
ton 1t three O'clock the memorable hour for the de-
parture of the express train All into the carriages and
OF again to the depot. Swift up to Hartford and
from the speed of the train the smoke sparks fire and
ashes from the smoke pipe and the dust om the dry
into the open windows Of the making all hands SO
dusty and smoky that old coat was as good as new
rsqpesescorted in by squadron Of
round Insane Retreat at the front door Of which two
the came ana s n thu .ns
requires time to describe It, For two hours the city MI
litary continued to escort their honored visiters
| through the streets, which blocked up in
hicles, horses, and human beings, and not even in
ty nor in Philadelphia nor in New York. did we
more brilliant assembase than the fair daughters of
Brother Jonathan All the DOORS all the windows, the
sidewalks even tops of the churches occupied
by the ladies Of the city and neghborhood In the two
hours occupied in the march, thirty thousand
pie must have seen the President. 1t was complete
triumph; but the day excessively hot-thermometer
at about &c. judging from the perspiration OF the com
experienced
fhe Presidents feur-horse coach, and that OF Mr..
Buchanan, hauled up at Mrs Sigourneys residence,
and the hostess out and helped the Chief Magis
trate Secretary of State and others glass Of water
while engaged in this hospitable duty some thief
some miscreant Of thief-sos into her house and
red of from her chamber, valuable gold watch, gold
pencil case and other trnkes "of no mean value
An interoper afterwards detected in the cars who
had stole in at New Haven, and arrested and de-
was recognized as an old pickpocket, who had been
caught in the act at New Haven some years ago Passed
by the elegant residence Of Bishop Browne and he and
his family came out the green, and welcomed with
bows and handkerchief the President and company
they passed Partook Of a nice collation. at the City
Hotei-then off again, at the rate Of one mile In two
minutes to Springfield the people cheering en- masse at
several points on the way.
All hands, some thirty odd in number, quartered at
WARMERS Hotel Took supper. People dismissed TIL
the morning when they invited down to see
the President before he goes out to the Armory on at
s fs to Boston" 100 miles and at 10 be there without
For the present under the xamped labor and heat
the day and the ateness Of the hour and covered as
yet with dust and SMOKE close with the promise of
full report shr0u RsspsoaaIly THE pocron
THE RUN FROM NEW YORK UP TIE SOUND NEW
HAVEN, AND THE RECEPTION IN THE CITY OF THE
It's the PRESIDENT" I" and who is he 90
why, James X. Polk Of Tennessee"
REVERE HOUSE, BosToS, June 90, ls47.
Here they are-the President and all his travelling
party, including those from Washington and a number
accessionshere they are, sir in the enterprsng
tropolis of the Down Casters and in this elegant
establishment.
Assuming that your local corps will have recorded
to Peck slip, will from that point resume our
minutes currente caiamo, Of the journey. The
official party, leaving New New York, consist
ed of the following persons The President and suh,
Msssrs Clifford, Burke, and Appleton (secret.ry the
Secretary Of State and part Of his suite from Washing
ton or Phiadelpha, to wit Commodore Stewart; Gov
Mouton, of Louisiana; Col Manu-. (of the Hanover
treaty. and Capt Steen of Buena Vista; all Of whom,
including Mr. buchanan, henceforward may be consid-
attached to the train of the President We also
and Assistant Alderman Kohler, attendants and
Gen. Thos J. Green, of the Mier expedition; also
committee from New Haven, Messrs Wilcox, Backman
and BRISTOL also committee from Boston, consisting
Aldermen Parker and Head, and Coucimen Bailey,
Sewer and Whiting and the United States Marshal,
Isaac o. Barnes; committee from Hartford whose
names have lost but Marshal Mann WAS among
Kem, s. H. Porter, Col. Fornsy Dr. Lehmand, and Geo
Pitt Of Pa came down to the boat to see the deputa
ton of and then returned to their quarters at the
Aston most Of them intending to return forthwith to
Philadelphia.
We viii pass over the salute at the wharf, the heavy
hundreds Of children under the of the city fathers
at Baokwes Island the boiling pot Of Hell Gate the
delightful breeze which played
"Over the smooth waters of summers sea-,
the good substantial breakfast aboard and will land
the party at ut New Haven. Here the President
and received by salute by the military and
by the Mayor, and distributed into carriages, the very
bes that had the route to this point }
All ready, the military led of, and the procession
followed, a cavalcado Of citizens on horseback
; bringing up the rear. Went round the city, and
through the principal, streets under those UNI.
brageous elms. And here we had the first exhibition
Of Yankee beauty, and beautiful sight All the
DOORS and all the windows to the tops Of the houses
brilliant with the sweet faces Of the fair daugh
of the town and neighborhood. The streets
thronged with pedestrians. The young cheered-
young ladies waved their handkerchiefs the Presi
dent passed along The clean and charming little city
uniformity oftaste and comfort about all the houses
the general neatness Of the peopethe fat horsesthc
elm trees-the green parks, aud the public and college
buildings well calculated to impress stranger
tering New England with the fixed constitutional fact
that the Yankees are a smart and thrifty people.