New-York daily tribune., 1861-03-05
hours, from O'Clock yesterday evening to

As the dial of the clock pointed to IL o'clock
last night, and the Sabbath gave way TO Monday,
the 4th of March, the Senate chamber presented
a curious and animated appearance. The CALLER
les were crowded to repletion, the ladies' gallery
resembling, from the gay dresses of the fair ones
there congregated, some gorgeous parterre Of
flowers, aud the gentlemen's gallery seemed one
dense black mass of surging heaving men, push
ing, struggling, and almost clamberlng over each
others backs in order to get good look
at the proceedings. Some most ludicrOus scenes
were the result of the intense desire of the out
siders to get peep into the Senate Chamber,
and the persistency with which the applicant for
admission to the overhowing galleries would urge
that he had come oil the way from Indiana or
Vermont, or some other place, afforded the seat
ed ones intense amusement. On the floor,
Messrs Crittenden Trumbun, Wigfan, Wade,
Douglas, and Others kept up q rolling FIRE of
debate, while those not engaged IN the discus
sion betOOk themselves to tho sofas for COM
Portable nap during the session, which it was
known would last all night
As the morning advanced the galleries and
floor became gradually cleared out, when, in the
gray morning light, the Senate took recess tlll
10 O'Clock to-day. A few minutes after O'Clock
but few remained. The morning broke clear and
beautiful, and though at one time few drops OF
rain fell, the day proved just calm and cloudy
enough to prevent the unusual heat OF the past
few days, and the whirlwind of dust that would
otherwise have rendered it excessively unpless-
hill nil N
business, &c, were closed throughout the day.
The Stars and Stripes losted from the City Hall,
Capitol, War Department, and other public
buildings, while not few of the citizens flung
out flags from their houses, or across the prin-
cipal avenues. From early dawn the drum and
fife could BE- heard in every quarter of the city,
and the streets were thronged with the yolun-
teer soldiery, Fastening TO their respective rem
devious.
Three or four hours elapsed before there was
the least chance of entering tho Capitol. Penn
sylyania Avenue was thronged with people wend-
ing their way to the famous East Front. For
four hours the crowd poured toward the Capitol
in one continuous stream Of old and young, male
and female. staid old Quakers from Pennsylvania
going to see friend Abraham, and lengthy Suckers,
Hoosiers, and Wolverines desirous Of peep at
Mr.. Lincoln. Buckeyes and Yankee men from.
California and Oregon, from the North, East
Northwest, and few from the border States
The large majority, however, were Northern
mon, and but few Southerners, judging from the
lack of ong-haired men in the crowd, attended
the inauguration. The order of arrangements, as
settled BY the Committee, was as follows:
To the left Of the Vice-President were the
Committee of Arrangements. Immediately behind
them the heads OF the various Departments OF
the Government, Senators, Members and Members
elect of the House, officers of the Army aud
Navy, Governors of the States and Territories,
Controllers, Auditors, Registers, and Solicitors OF
the Treasury.
To the right of the Vice President were the
Judges of the Supreme Court, Senators, the
Diplomatic Corps, eI.GOyernors of the States
Assistant Secretaries OF the Departments, Assist-
ant Postmaster General, Assistant Treasurer
Commissioners Judges, and the Mayors OF
Georgetown and Washington.
Previous 70 the arrival of the procession the
Senate Chamber did not present very animated
appearance. Many of the ladies' waiting 10 see I
the display, did not arrive until late and the /
officers, whose gay uniforms and flashing epau-
ettes relieve SO we'll the sombernesS Of the |
national black, were with the Presidential cortege.
During the passage of the procession to Wizards |
Hotel. and the march thence to the Capitol, /
Senator Bright killed in the most approved man
ner certain gas bill, TO Wit, BY talking it to
death. This not proving very interesting, matters
yaxed somewhat dull in the interior.
At ) minutes 10 II O'Clock Vce-President .
and Senator Foot Of the Committee
Df Arrangements entered the Senate Chamber
rscortug the Vice President elect, the Hon.
hannibal Hamln, whom they conducted to
,eat Immediately to the left Of the chair of the
President of the Senate
As the hands of the clock pointed to the hour
Of II the hammer fell, aud the Second Session
of the Thirty sixth Congress came to sn end.
Vice President Breckenridge bave the Senate
farewell in the following well chosen and touching
erns:
SENATORS: In taking final leave Of ths position
hal ask few moments In which TO tender 10 you my
,rtell for the resoauon declaring
,our approval of the in which | have dis-
harged my duties and express my deep sense of the
inforn courtssy which, the presiding oihcer, have
eceived from the members OF this body. If have
ommted errors your generous orbearnnce refused ~
ebuke them, and daring the whole period OF my ser
,ice have neye appealed in vain to your justice or
harity.
The mepory of these acts will ever be cherished
mong tbs most grateful recollectious Of my life and
or nv successor can express better wish than thar