The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-06-26
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT.
From the Norfolk Herald Of Tuesday.
Arrival OF tho Presid emit Mt Old I, DIN

Arrfval OF tho President mt Old Point.
President FILLMORE arrived at Old Point
Comfort on Sunday morning in the steamer
Osceola, Captain Mitchell. from Washington,
and took possession Of the handsome apart
ments fitted up for him by the worthy proprie-
tors of the Hygeia Hotel, Messrs. j. p Rey-
nolds s. Co., whose guest he is, by their invi-
tation, while it may be his pleasure to remain
The President is accompanied by the Hon.
ALEX. III. H. STUART, Secretary OF the Inte-
rior, and lady; Captain POWELL and Lieuten-
ant SCoTT, Of the navy, and their ladies' Mrs.
N. X. HALL, the lady of the Postmaster Gene
raj Miss JAGELLo; Hon. ID. JENIFER and
JOHN o. SARGENT, esq, of Washington. We
learn that the Secretaries of the Army and
Navy and the Postmaster General will arrive
at the Point tomorrow in the steamer from
Baltimore.
Yesterday morning the committee of the
court and councils of the city of Norfolk, and
the committee of the trustees and citizens of
the town of Portsmouth, deputed to wait on
the President, and invite him to partake of the
hospltalities of their respective communities,
went down to Old Point and fulfilled their mis-
sion. At the time of their arrival the President
was engaged in the routine of inspection and
review of Fort Monroe, from which he return
ed at II o'clock, and received the committees
in the splendid saloon of the hotel; when John
u. n. Hatton, esq.,, president of the Select
Council of Norfolk, and chairman Of the joint
committees, addressed him as follows:
Ma. PRESIDENT: We wait on you as deputa-
ton from the court and councils of the city of Nor
folk, and the trustees of the town OF Portsmouth,
in the name and behalf of the citizens of both
places, to greet you your arrival here, and to in
vte you and your suite to extend your visit to their
respective towns.
''As pleasing as it may be at any time 10 be the
organ of go respectable body it is douby SO to me
at the present to be the medium of communicating
with 80 respected parsonage as the President of
the United States.
"As American citizens proud of our glorious Re-
public, we delight to honor her Chief Magistrate
and we hail you, sir, with deep sense of the re-
spect due to your distinguished position. AS vir
ginians, we cordially welcome you within the
borders Of our old Commonwealth. God save her!
And, citizens of Norfolk and Portsmouth, we are
DESTROYS of giving you this evidence of our esteem
And agreeable as the duty of mission ia to US,
the discharge of it will be attended with pleasur-
able finale, if we may be permitted to be the bearer
of the intelligence to people that it is compati
BILE with your arrangements to accept the tender of
their inequalities, and, with the gentlemen com
prising your retinue, become the guest of our re-
epective communities
To which the PRESIDENT replied, in sub
stance, that in his visit to this vicinity to in
spect the public works, he had anticipated the
pleasure of visit to Norfolk and Portsmouth,
for the qualification of desire to contemplate
the historical mementos of the Revolutionary
war which still remained; yet, while it af-
forded him great pleasure to accept the polite
invitation of the citizens of Norfolk, his ar
engagements necessarily restricted him to very
brief space Of time in which to enjoy their hos
pitalities. He could only devote one day, and
that the following one, to this purpose, when.
after visiting and examining the different de-
partments OF the public works in the neighbor-
hood, he would, with pleasure, accept the ten
dered inequalities of Norfolk and Portsmouth.
He cordially thanked the committee for their
flattering sentiments of regard, and expressed
his warm acknowledgements of the courtesy
Of the communities which they represented
The President and suite will come up in the
steamer Engineer this morning and proceed
immediately up to the navy yard, where they
are expected to arrive at 10 O'Clock. After
inspecting the different departments Of the
yard, dry dock, and the ship Pennsylvania,
they will proceed through Portsmouth to visit
our city, in which they may be expected about
IL or ! O'Clock.