The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-07-21
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.

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NEw YORK, July is, 1853.
Henceforward let the phrase EMANCIPATION
Day. be not connected with Washington af.
fairs alone We have had an Inauguration
Day. in New York, and some of the papers
seem inclined to dedicate the whole of this
week to the great Industrial Exhibition and
call it "Inauguration Week. while others
have designated It "Crystal Palace Week
This latter designation is proper enough, if one
may be allowed to Judge by the extent to which
the week has actually been devoted to matters
connected with the Worlds Fair and how lit
tie else, as q consequence, has been talked or
written about. The public mind has indeed,
been in state of most decided absorption on
this subject. This fact when written of CITY
where It is usually 30 difficult to get attention
fixed upon ANYTHING for even a moment, will
give a pretty good idea, to readers at dis
lance of the intensity of the interest awakened
by the actual opening of the exhibition for, as
told you last week, the people here had but
recently come to realize that there was to be
anything but promises, predicated on hope
deferred" as TO the time of the opening
But the cause of the unusually absorbing in
terest occasioned by the highly important event
of the week must DO looked for outside Of the
intrinsic merits Of the occasion ITSELF and
sought in the presence Of the Nations Chief
Magistrate at the inauguration, which took
place yesterday, and in the expectation ava
kened thereby, all along his route hither from
the seat of Government--for the visit of the
President has given that nationality of sanction
to this industrial movement with which it could
not have dispensed, with the hope of the de-
sired degree of success and eclat. AS one whose
connections with the press Of this city made it
necessary for me to accompany the President
a great portion Of the route from Philadelphia
to New York, | had amplest opportunities to
observe the effect OF his pilgrimage to the great
shrine of industry, to which so many thousands
are now vending their way as to some new
Mecca.
The receptions of the President in Philadel-
phia--no farther back than which can speak
of them-were truly on grand scale, and such
as could not have been otherwise than crafty
ing to himself and accompanying friends; and
there we're "troops of friend" besides his Cab
met Ministers and Private Secretary, in COM
pany with him. What proportion of these were
office beggars cannot pretend to estimate.
| were as
| and unite IA asweetn But for the honor al
our country. / am clad TO report that observed
some gentlemen in the cortepe who had no
such design upon the Chief Maoistrata--,nen
who were above everything of the Kind and
who were moved bv a desire 10 do honor 10 the
renresentat;ve head of the country
The Ranouet given at pbiladelnb;a NV the
municinal authorities with the sanction of the
neonle was a magnificent affair and the re.
cent;on of the masses rext dav IW dnssday VI a,
Hall of Indenendence was an occasion which
the chief actor in ;ts .cenas will not he more
Ikelv to forget than the humblsst n.ytic;nan n,
who tool him nv the hand There WAS tina,
In the assoc;at;ons Of the snot ;tself wall calcu
lated 10 render the occa.;o. an sroasd;nolv inn
nress;,e cha, E,s,v~Ss,e. 49, me yors.
through New Jersey which vas safalv And
nleassnt,v made with spec;aI tra;n az cars care
fully conducted the people wS11b out in larp
numbers TO greet the natio0h chief. The trail
stopped at all the cities and yillares-briefl
at most of them. of course-while at Trento
and Newark there were demonstrations q
great shirt and imposing effect But whs
shall I saw of the reception at Castle Garden
Those of YOUR readers who have been in New
York on an occasion at all similar, need not bt
assured that the pageant was gotten up on a
scale of great splendor. The appropriations by
the Common Council we're on the scale which
always oharactsrises their expenditures Five
thousand dollars were put at the disposal Of. a
committee headed by Alderman Brisley with
quite sufficient reliance that further amount
| could be drawn for, If needed.
The inauguration of the great Industrial Ex-
hbition of All Nations, on Thursday, to which
the doings just noticed were Introductory and
incidental, came fully up to the expectations
which the foreshadowings were calculated to
awaken. IL was respondent and gorgeous in
design, and as successful in the execution as
the unwieldy mass Of feyerish humanity present
would allow. The attendance was very large,
notwithstanding the "privaten character Of IL.
Nearly all the States Of our Confederacy were
understood to be represented, besides the rep
resentatives from other nations. II was a mat
ter Of regret that Lord Ellesmere, the Royal
English Commissioner, was prevented from at
tending by severe indisposiGon. The address
Of the President of the Industrial Association,
Hon. Theodore Sedgwick, was in good taste,
while to the point and well delivered. Presi-
dent Pierce's address was also in good taste,
while very brief I cannot do better, perhaps,
than give ii here in full, at the risk Of making
my ioe'oi hs"o '"ns0' "@@u ooSiIouj snookn
not consuming more of your space than If given
elsewhere; and infer that you will desire to
lay it before your readers in some shape or
other. He said:
"Sir, ] return you, on behalf Of those dfmy
constitutional advisers who are with me, and
on my own. account my warm and cordial
thanks for the reception yous have been pleased
to extend to Us. have come, sir, to testify the
interest feel in, and the respect ] entertain
for, this great Industrial Exhibition-designed
and calculated to promote all that belongs to
the interest Of our country. You, sir, and the
gentlemen who have been ssd are associated
with you, have imposed upon all Of US q deep
debt Of gratitude for your energy and perse-
verance in this great enterprise. Whatever the
shortcomings OF which you have spoken may
be, can only remark that they do not appear