The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-19

was one OF the largest and most brilliant that has
ever oeen collected on the island The grand event
@as ushered In by an attractive display OF fireworks
upon the lawn and before the glare OF the rockets
was ended loud outbreak OF applause burst from
the spectators and announced the arrival OF the Pre-
sldent The Reserves, in all the splend0r OF full uni
form, but without their instruments OF slaughter were
drawn up in line extending the length OF the room
ana at haf-past President Grant, leaning upon the
arm OF E. G. Knight, Esq, and followed by the ladies
and gentlemen who bear him company entered The
President Immediately passed down the line and
returned, receiving marching salute ,"Han to the
Chief" meanwhile being played by MoClurgs band.
In rev lifting words, Mr.. knight then formally
welcomed the regiment to the island, and Colonel
Latta made becoming response After the Pres-
dental party retired the regular programme OF
dances--a wild medley OF gaop, waltz, quadrllle
and anciers-was gone through with, the brave
boys from Camp Upton eXerting themselves to the
utmost TO close the day without detracting from its
earlier achievements. Mark Hassler welded the
baton ahd not until the stroke OF twelve impended
was the brilliant affair brought to a close.
A Startling Resemblance.
To say that the arrival OF President Grant at the
island on Saturday created profound sensation
would be telling the simple truth. His visit was not
anticipated until 1t was announced in the papers by
telegraph from Fortress Monroe, and even then the
announcement was regarded by many as a hoax, as
his intended arrival Mt Long Branch on the same
day had been telegraphed all over the country.
guests were forced to believe that the Tallapoosa
was lying of the Cape, profound sensation was the
result And the sensation lost naugh Of its intensity
during the thirty-four hours through which the
Presidential sojourn extended. "Have you seen
him ~ "Have you seen General Grant ?" "Have
you the President ?" Ten thousand queries of
this sort were put and ten thousand yeas and nays
about evenly divided, were given in response.
One free and sovereign citizen, as he was peram-
buating the front piazza of the Stockton House,
on Saturday afternoon thought at one moment that
he stood face toface with the hero OF the apple tree
at Appomattgx, and yet he was troubled by grave
doubts. SO he approached the quiet gentleman in
black, whose personal appearance so closely fulfilled
his notions Of the Presidential physiognomy
"Are you general Grant?" he queried, bluntly
81 am frequently taken for him was the response,
and given With such dehantly impenetrable air,
that the anxious sovereign turned on his heel still
floundering In a sea Of doubt
During great portion OF both Saturday and Sun
day, the President Of course the recipient OF
formal calls by persons Of more less consequence
in the world l am extremely happy to be able to
state, on unquestonable authority that he was as
grave and courteous as usual; that nothing Of the
slightest consequence especially in relation to the
Cuban question or the Alabama claims, escaped his
lips; and that singular and incredible as it may ap-
pear, to the word horse" he did not give utter
ance during the entire thrty-fOur hours OF his stay
| among us.
The President Lights n Cigar.
Despite all the welcome and unwecome calls, and
despite all the annoying glances and persistent pur-
suits in which the morbidly curious induged, the
President in due time found himself at the end Of
his first day at Cape Island, and betook himself to
rest in much the fashion, by way of prelimina-
nares as is customary with the general run OF
kind. AT precisely seventeen minutes after eight
O'Clock on Sunday morning he opened his eyes, and
expressed no astonshment whatever when he dis
covered, on DOING that the already high
n he a
tive habits and exhibiting inordinate passion for
learning the most trihing details of the Presi-
dents movements, who scribbed upon the
hotel register the name OF A. jenkins,
of the New York Enterprise, and whose
departure, well as his arrival proved to be stimuli
taneous with that of the Presidential party stated In
my hearing, on Sunday morning, that the first thing
the President did after opening his eyes and
| tanning the rather unremarkabe fact that it was
| daylight, was to ring for cigar. This, remarked
Mr.. j., with deal of positiveness he lighted before
| moving muscle other than those of his eyeds
right arm, and lips. Mr.. J.'s source of information
| proved to be a reliable contraband who with his
| own hand had struck the match which ignited the
Presidential weed, and with his own tive eyes, half
| emerging from their sockets, had witnessed the
ignition. If your readers choose to put faith in the
story they are at liberty to do so; but deem it due
to them to state, in all candor, that did not succeed
| in confirming or annihllating it.
Be this story true or false, one assertion which fell
| from the lips OF Mr.. j. l am enabled flatly to
| contradict This was to the effect that when the
President entered the breakfast-room, at hafpast
precisely, he held cigar between his Presidential
teeth, the which-the cigar, Of course, and not the
| teeth-he quietly removed as soon as he was seated
at table, and placed carefully under the edge OF his
| plate This report, am fully persuaded, was manu-
factured out of the whole CLOTH for CHANGED to be
| leaving the room just as the President entered it,
and am quite positive that he had not then cigar
about his Presidential person The air was not even
| freighted with the slightest odor of the weed.
| The President at Breakfast.
| Instead of tucking away the remnant Of cigar
the President as soon he was settled in his seat
picked up the bill OF fare and scanned it hurriedly
He then turned his head slightly to the right. and
| pronounced in a tone that perfectly audible tC
the attentive gentleman of color, who leaned over
the back of his chair, the words:--
"a cup of coffee, piece OF beefsteak an omelet
and some dry toast. That is all, believe"
During the three quarters of an hour which the
President passed at the breakfast table, he spoke
frequently TO the members OF his party who were
grouped about him, but not during these three
quarters of hour did he breathe the word 'horse
or ask for cigar. My authority for these statements
is the united testimony OF the five gentlemen Of color
who waited upon the Presidential table, some one Of
whom was constantly Immediately behind the Presi
| dental chair.
AS soon as the President had finished his eisurely
breakfast he left the table, emerged from the room
| into the main hall OF the hotel and proceeded with
out delay to his private parlor My authority ss
these statements is my own unquestioned closenes!
of observation.
The President Takes n Bath.
| Here, again. can vOuch for the entire correctness
OF my narrative. The event transpired between hal
| past eleven and five minutes after twelve countn,
the time during which the President was preparing
| for a wreste with the breakers and that durnl