The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-03-12

early as 9 o'clock, and the numbers constan
, tly increased, until, between 10 aud IL, al
the denizsns and visitors in the city seemec
TO be out OF doors; and The whole line along
which The procession was 10 pass, was throng
ed with people MOSTLY iu.Waiting positions
The sidewalk we're filed, and all the win,
a doEs, baIceni ss steps tree. boxes, and Il
some cases, Ssoss. u some parts of Penn.
sylfAnia AVahue, q aprOftabls trade wa.
driven in the sale of positions on balconies
and at windows. Those who have been
here at Inaugurstions before. agree in saying
that the turnout at this Inauguration ex-
ceeded by many thousands, any of its pre-
decessOrs.- Between and 8 O'Clock, the de.
pressing effect of the weather was surprising
ly.ceunteaeted by the ipspiiipg strains d
the bands Of music Of the numerous uumneAroouss Norpsui.
zations, 70 be heard in any part- of the city,
whittier one Glanced to go.
The immense procession was arranged and
moved by Breyet Maj. Gen. A. S. Webb,
tsonOf Hon James Watsln Webb, oar Min
istsr 70 Brazil, a leading Journalist in New
York lcity, before sGreelcyI Raymond Dana
de-, had got their pin -feathers.) Gen. Grant
# bis bead QqaFters, having been Informed
by the Grand Marshal that all was in readi
ness, he entered an open carriage, taking
vita him Gen. Rawlins, his Chief Of Staff;
and, followed by the other members of his
Staff the procession commenced to move. =
ThissRas sxaotly at IL o'clock. Mr.. OoIfsx
in an open carriage, accompanied by Admiral
Theodorus Bailey, came next. The Presi-
dential party was escorted by u s. troops,
consisting of detachment ofthe 5th Cavalry
and The s2th and 18th Ihfabtry with their
bands; the Cavalry preceding, and the In
fantry following. Preceding all, was body
OF mounted police, led by the Superinden-
dent Major Richards, and following the In
tantry, came United States Marines, and
battery Of .. S. Artillery. This constituted
the First Division. There were seven Di-
visions more, of Bsxter's Fire Zouaves,
Washington Grays, Republican Iuvinci5les,
and one Or two Fire Companies, all of Phila
delPhia; Washington Fire Companies; Eagle
zouaves Of Buffalo; Albany Burgesses;. &C.,
the Supreme Court Justices Diplomatic
Corps, dc, occupying some twenty carriages;
large omnibus full Of survivors of the war
1912; political organization; Printers Grant
and COlfax Club, working their press as they |
moved; German Target Association and
Schgetzen Nerein of Washington; the BOYS
IN Blue, (eolofed men); Political Commit
tees Presidential Electors, Delegations of
statessthe New York and Washington city /
Boards of Aldermen and Common Councils.
Political Officials and ex officials of high
rank, as Governors, &C., too humerous to
mention. Iattempt DO order in this mention.
PROFESSIONS are such exceedingly familiar
sPeetseles toIevery school-boy and girl, that
1 dare not ia ke the room necessary 10 give
a panoramic view of this. The moral of The
event is the grandest and most peculiar of
II; aud that needs not enumeration and de-
-4E os sg f.l SO H}sU
Z The drizzting rain ceased between IL and
II, in ample time to determine that the IN
Of the President should ia Ike place l
IN the East front of the Capitol, which
otherwise was to come off within the Senate
Chamber. hHow eu H5ce 7i s7I.a
laon the floor of the Senate Chamber before
2, we're assembled the Senators of both the
zertieth and Forty first Congress, the foreign
diplomats, in lheis gold lace court dress, the =
Supreme Court Justices, and number of
Personsges, for whom seats
lad been assigned, Of the Army and Navy,
nd Of civil life.7 ya .i1
As soon as the Senators elect were sworn
q, rush was made BY the Members Of
congress, who were already on their feet, a
nd near the door, and the people in the gall Z
cries, to gain position on the platform to
fitness the Inauguration Of the President. l
or a time there was terrible press in the
assages of the Capitol. And when the
rowd got out, there was no chance for a
the Of those who had no places assigned
lem. Horace Greeley had taken his chances
smocratically with the mass. --.-.+
. /
The address is universally admired every
here as far | have heard auy expression L;
garding it. 1t is certainly remarkable for
J clear and suficient treatment of SO many j.
biects in 50 short aspace. In very few :
inutes after the reading was concluded, the L
lmense concourse had dispersed, and the
n shOne ont for the first that day, to cheer N
EN- on their way. As the crowd proceeded :.
eng Pennsylvania avenue, the sidewalks
ere 50 filed that progress was slow and !
ficuIt and people were glad to turn down D.
cry cross street to be able to accelerate
cir speed. ..-.-.. ..-.s
Ex President johnson did not make his
10 any part of the proceedings o,
ring the day. Mayor Bowen was pre- =,
nted by illness from participating in the mi
and from taking his place at the I
ad Of the city Government in the enter 2,
nment of the New York Alderman and
mmon Council, as he would have liked. 6.
letter of explanation of his absence, from +
clerk, was read at the dinner given to I
, New York bodies, by the Washington
lnicipal bodies at the Metropolitan HOTEL
er their return from the Inauguration cere-
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