Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-04-12
Another description OF the CeIebra,
IiOn in washington.

AnOtEer description OF the CelebrR.
lion in Washington.
The following description OF the recep-
tion Of the news of the fall of Richmond
in Washington is furnished to the Gin
einnati Gazette by its correspondent
"Agate:" :"
Washington was ahame with ifs tri-
umphsnt glow. The War office was sur
rounded with great multitude clamoring
for more news, cheering, waving hats,
singing, Orally Round the Flag" embrac-
ing each other, and making the most for
midRble effort to embrace Stanton 81
forgive ye all yer sins, ye old blizzsrdP
shouted 8 jubilant soldier at heSecretary;
while Seward shook him by the hand till
the radical and conservative had melted
into one, in the nervous, spssmodie grip;
and tears stood in Stsnton's eyes, as he
turned from one another, to acknowledge
the rush of blood-hot congratulations that
had suddenly transformed him-revival
though it was of the age of mirscles-into
the most popular man in Washington.
Foreign ministers were hurrying TO the
State Department with their congratula-
tions; the Secretaries we're giving holidays
10 their armies Of clerks, and vainly trying
TO make speeches enough to furnish fit an
swer to the endless volleys of cheers; pro-
cessions, headed by the omnipresent Stars
and Stripes, suddenly sprsng out of chaos
on the streets; every glimpse of bunting
with the Red, White and Blue was
cheered, as it passed, to the echo; Ben.
Butler was summoned from the hotel
TO receive the homage of the vast crowd
that hailed him organizer and author
Of the army that took Richmond; Vice
President johnson, sober as to his stomach,
but amazingly excited and even incoherent
SIS to his head, was making speeches from
Admiral Lees door-steps, from MontgOm-
cry Blair's door-steps, from the hotel
piszzas; the faces of the negroes yswned
into vast csverns of red, bounded BY ivory,
while the more sedste managed TO exclaim
to one another, amid their shakings and
chucklings, "I say, Sam, dye hear, de
niggshs tuck Ricnmond;;" the crowds
blocked the streets till our carriage could
hardly force It's way through them TO the
wharf of the boat for City Point.
Aboard, the scene was scarcely less
tumultuous. Every man insisted on every
GNAgA AAHA EkAhl lkhshAy DDAhAAk
and whisky in alternate swallows in inter-
minable succession; and it really required
8 good deal of self-denial to resist. Carl
Shurz was in the crowd, nervous and rest
less, because steam couldn't make faster
time. He had just procured an assign
ment to duty under Sherman, and here the
war wss going to end before he could get
into the field. Barlow, boy and MsjOr-
General, with the scars of half dozen
surgicslly- -pronounced-m wounds upon
him, was hurrying direct from the last
Cunsrd steamer, to get into the field again
and see the last of it. AsWarm Of officers,
recalled by the army's triumphs from half
expired furloughs, or just exchanged from
rebel prisons, we're eager to catch up with
their commands before the final struggle.
And, TO be sure, there were not wanting
men whowsnted trade permits for stores in
Richmond, and suffers who must hurry
their stock up to Richmond, and Quarter
masters clerks, who thought thaY could
make money in Richmond; and sll the
myrisd-tormed parasites that feed upon
great armies, who wanted to dig for money
Ground the garbage of Richmond.