Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-07-27
New York Correspondence of the
Register.

Opening Of the Crystal Patace- Compa1s
son aUith the Inauguration of the London
Brhibitioa-ArriVai of tie President
Gaia day IN tie city-ISAower ard stqm-
pede-the cro1c2 around tie PGlGcs-Afi-
nor shopS-ArriVdI az tie Basil.ling-
Distinguished GueSts-the AdIress-Lu-
teresttng Incidents Banquet to tie Pre-
sizeat- General Impression produced By
the Patacs-the Amazon Group-Co-
logns Water Fountain-Accident on tee
Hudson and Loss Of Life.
New YoRK, July 18th, 1853.
Mr.. EDrroR American enterprise has
been crowned with success the Cry stall
Palace has opened and with degree
of eclat that has surpassed our anticipa-
tons. There was not, to be sure, that
glitter of pomp which at the Inaugural
ration of the London Palace on the 1st of
May. 1851. made Hyde Park the scene of
brilliant pageant. There was no roy
atty to cap the climax of the display with
its purple and ermine. There were no
robed and jewelled princes, no titled la
dies. no Master of the Buckhounds, no
Groom of the Stole, no powdered Cham
berlaiu, no Inverted gentleman ushered Of
Sword and State. no gold stick in wait
ing, no silver stick in waiting, no such
other antedeluvian absurdities as still find
countenance in the royal courts. We
would blush for our republicanism if such
fooleries were here allowed. But we did
have an exceedingly creditable display,
and one that fully accorded with the spirit
of our institutions. It was proud day
to us of the metropolis. proving that to
the energy of our citizens nothing was
impossible The enis of the world have.
as it were, been brought together to vie
with each other in this honorable rivalry
and there are few that have entered in
the strife that will not gather from it some
good impressions and some valuable les
sons.
Arrangements had been made, rs you
are aware, for the reception of the Pre-
sident in manner worthy of the metro
polls. All party feeling seemed to be
lost sight of in a general desire to do ho-
nor to the head of the Republic. He ar
rived at Castle Garden about ten O'Clock,
in charge of committee, and after ha
wing been welcomed by our worthy May
or, and gratifed some ten thousand of
our citizens, with a speech in reply, pro-
ceeded to review the military, who were
drawn up in thirteen regiments on the
Battery. An old war horse which had
served in Florida and Mexico, whose
twenty years of service had not abated
his mettle. was appropriated to the Pre-
sident's use and procession having
been formed, the whole body moved up
Broadway. Seldom have we seen that
thoroughfsre more densely crowded with
men, women and children, oilers and
loafers, silk stockings and ragged ell
bows, exquisites and rustics, than on this
occasion. Stops, balconies and windows,
in word, every place available for
standing or sitting, was put in requisition.
Woe to him whom business or curiosity
led down the sidewalk he had to run a
gauntlet Of shoulders and elbows that left
little breath in him at his journeys end
He who would see, New York in all its
glory. should behold it on some such an
occasion as this. He who would know
something of the different varieties which
make up its 500, 900. must walk its streets
when some great show summons its deni-
zens from the workshops and parlor, from
palace and cellar.
Meanwhile. the observing had for some
time back. noted an ominous gathering of
clouds in the Southern sky. By the time
the front line had reached the Irving
House, about one fourth of the whole dis
lance, the windows of Heaven opened,
and the fountains of the great deep bro
ken up. 1t was none of your puny, insig-
nifcant spray-like drops. but immense
ones, pouring down so thick and fast, that
they appeared like continuous streams,
coming from the spouts of an infnity of
aerial tea-pots. You can imagine the re-
suit. The stampede was universal. Over
innumerable heads went shawls and
gowns. frightened women, crying ba-
6ies, and dripping men, fled to wherever
was the slightest promise of shelter, and
completely took the shine out of the pa
horama of military. Something else
took the shine out of them, too, and that
was the deluge itself Their plumes
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