Litchfield enquirer., 1865-06-01
THE GRAND REVIEW.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

WASHINGTON. D. G., May 29th, 1865.
 How shall I describe to you the brilliant dis plays of the 23d and 24th inst. Come and see for yourself; accompany me to the roof of the Treasury Building and take your stand above the south porch Behold the magnificent dis. tances of which the capital is proud. Every where but toward the south, hills with fortified EHs yeE gs ass, Ig Sass Snas Sa ariia Yond the shipping of Alexandria without bend until it reaches Fort Washington and that bluH on the right bank which hides Mt. Vernon About us is the city. Before us Pennsylvania Avenue, alive with men, stretches to the Capi. tol. The roofs and windows and walks are crowded with people and brilliant with flags everything swarms and even the lamp-posts support, like parasites. each person eager for the spectacle. And now, at nine o'clock on the morning of Tuesday the 23d, We await the approach of our army. See in the distance a dark mass almost beneath the dome of the cap. itol, gradually it hears and you See an irregular body oe horsemen proceeded by single cava Her. It is Meade the hero of Gettysburg and the commander of the Army of the Potomac who with horse adorned with flowers and him. self loaded with wreathes receives the plaudits of the multitude and bows his acknowledgment. His staff follows like hower-garden on horse back. A single squadron of cavalry succeeds and is followed by Gen. Merritt the commander of the Cavalry Corps with his staff likewise ar. rayed in evergreen illets and bouquets. Then a space and then comes the third cavalry di vision led by similar irregular band. the staff of Gen. Custer, who precedes them. His horse prances from one side of the avenue to the ether as if impatient for the hot onset of the charge. Now pour along the solid living mass. es, division on division, brigade on brigade regiment on regiment each division and each brigade preceded by its commander and his staff. Colors are flying, bands playing and the clank of sabres filling every chink of sound. In an hour and kalf they have passed and the Ninth Corps follows. The infantry are nore solid and more glittering than the cavalry. The bayonets catching the sun gleam like mirror :: on, on they pour, their flags tattered and stain ed with the deeds of many fight and the dust of many march. The rear is brought up by artillery whose guns though burnished for the holiday remind one of the grim work they have done so well. Thus on they pour in unceasing flow until past three. The heroes of 8 hundred battles torn by hostile missiles, soiled with the smoke of the affray, march in peaceful phalanx through the capital of the nation they have secured to us.
 All through the day you have seen on the other side of the river. long lines of Shermsn,s army winding down from the Notifications on the heights and gathering near the Long Bridge ready to pass it in the morning fer the review of that day. You have seen. too, as the van of Meade's army passed mp the avenue, the bayonets of the rear gleam along Long Bridge, as they pass from the sacred soil to that of the Dist. of Columbia.
 Such was the view on the first day of the military review from the roof of the Treasury i: very similar was the display on the second day. From this point the stands of the reviewing officers were not visible. Yet though such was the case, and the faces of the officers and sol diers could not be distinctly seen, from no other point was the review, as whole 50 imposing.
 Mas. OLNsrEAD, aged about 76 years, the of Mir. Lockwood, Presidsnt of the D. &N.R R. R. O., while witnessing the Masonic procession in Norwslk, on Tuesday, from the piazza of MT. L's house, made mis- step and fell, breaking her ankle, making . very serious and painful wound.