The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-03-06

BIZ sunrise the streets began be hronged and in an
hour thou sands upon the avenue many looking
though they had hunted the night through for lodging
place in vain The various societies and other bodies
formed according the previously published programme
and marched 10 the point OF rendezvous These nclu
ding the military corps, were numerous. Pennsy vanla
avenue, through lis whole length, was packed with
dense of spectators. leaving barely for the pro-
cesson pass In the crowd people might be seen OF
many different nations their national costume from
the North American Indian to the Turk and Persian.
There trains OF four horse post coaches filled with
our neghbors from Louion and Fairfax, Va. Every
window and portico the filed with
eager ladies aud children; while thousands such
perambulaied the street with the throng Al 10 a.
tue thousands began TO in solid body for the
Capitol and at noon precisely the head OF the process
sion came opposite Coleman's Hotel First came the
chief marshal aad his aids cavalry officer, artie
ry company. five companies Of infantry three companies
OF rifles; then body of citizens and strangers next
the President elect, James X. Polk. the Mayor and
the Speaker of the House of Representatives in
coach and four grays, followed by fine corps of
airy; next, clubs and others from distance, tempe
associations, and Juvenile company OF ariille-
ry, with miniature field pieces. These composed
The procession, in which, in all, there
than thousand persons. The throDg and about
the numbered perhaps fifty times many per-
sons. There could hardly have been less than thir-
ty thousand persons in the Capitol and the
grounds surrounding the building. Congress and the
representatives of foreign governments, with the justices
of the Supreme Court assembled in the Senate chamber
at an early hour AMI remained ready perform the
mony prenin ,ry the administration OF the oath OF
office to the new President. Then the oath admin
isered to The Vice President elect who delivered the
usual address In few minutes after the arrival OF
the procession at the front of the Capitol, the
vast concourse in the Senate chamber, the roundo.
and other parts of the building out upon the east
portco. which had been prepared with platform and
railing for the occasion; and there with the space in
front, and every standing clnging place in the
closely packed with human beings Gen Taylor read his
short inaugural address, and took the oath OF Office, ad
minstered by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
This, the most imposing part OF the ceremonies OF
the day, took place in sight OF near thirty thousand
persons-lnen, women and chdren-among whom
as far as we learn, not the slightest accident
occurred, nor did anything transpire to mar the
pleasure OF any portion of the tremendous ihrong
Having been thus inaugurated, the President, Vice
President and the escort, returned in procession 10 the
lodgings the Irving House, where he waited
by his personal AMI political friends in great numbers.
The crowd at the Executive Mansion was, perhaps,
greater than any former similar occasion.
In this assemblage the foreign dipomatists
conspicuous Many thousands pressed into the build
ing TO pay their respects to the Chief Magistrate,
whose bearing appeared 10 crafty all present As
going press, ctIzens and strangers crowdng by
thousands finish the festivities OF the day the three
inaugural balls where. trust, thing will pass of
as happily at the Capitol and elsewhere in the city
since sunrise of this eventiul day.