The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-03-06

Of the building and stood on the porch
watching the approaching procession
Senator Patterson came out and walk
ed hurriedly over to the Treasury. A
number of Democratic Congressman Of
the "red hot" school remained till neal
the last. After the Cabinet, except Gen
eralISchofield,t to whom the building wal
turned over, had left, Mr.. Randall came
back and stayed an hour. By the time
the procession on its way to the Capito
halted to receive Mr.. johnson, most o.
his baggage had been removed. After
declining 10 go to the Capitol at 1890
he abandoned the Executive Mansion
and drove to the residence OF John
Coyle. Just as he was leaving, a tele
graph messenger brought up cable
| dispatch addressed "His Excellency
u. s. Grant, President of the United
| States"
GRANT TAKES POSSESSION.
| When President Grant arrived he
found all things In charge of Gen,
Schofield and Gen. Miller. he was in.
troduced by the latter to the steward
and several of the principal servants.
Hea then, after directing that there
should be no reception, proceeded to
the library, where soon after he was
| Joined by the members of his family.
IT will be several days before the new
President will occupy the Executive
Mansion permanently.
THE MULTITUDE IN THE CITY.
The crowd has undoubtedly been
larger in the city to-day than at any
previous Inauguration. The regular
trains throughout today and yester-
day averaged twelve hundred passen-
gers each, and about ten thousand per-
sons arrived from the North and West
alone. This mornings trains brought
about four Thousand from the same dt-
rection, while the Southern trains were
long and all came crowded, as well as
the boats on the river. A long train
of sleeping cars came over from Phila-
delphiH with large delegations from the
City Councils. AS evidence of the
pressure upon transportation facilities,
it can be stated that the Railroad Com
pany, with all its wagons running, Vlr-
tualIy abandoned the attempt to com :
plete the distribution of baggage, and
many OF the latter arrivals OF cars with
baggage have not been opened at all.
Tonight all the spare cars at the COM
mand of the road between this point
and New York are concentrated here,
and passengers are being forwarded
West and North as fast as long trains
can follow each other.
THE INAUGURATION BALL.
The Inauguration ball of eight years
ago, the first under the Republican
regime, was hardly more than fall
ure. The gay beautities of Baltimore
and Washington and the South kept
away from it for scorn, and the elegance
and fashion of the North did not come
near it for dread and anxiety. The
inauguration reception of tonight Is
sharp contrast in every respect to that
affair. It is q success in the highest
degree; a success 30 great and marked
that two or three columns would
scarcely suffice to tell its story. 1t is
best therefore to say what there IS TO
say in a single paragraph. The recep-
ton is held in the Treasury building.
The basement of the new wing Is con-
verted into a supper room. On each
of the four floors is music and dancing
and promenading. Something like
five or six thousand persons are In at
tendance. Thirty or forty rooms are
occupied, and yet there is no disorder
and nothing to be remembered other
wise than with pleasure and satistac-
tion, The highest social, political and
diplomatic circles are present In full
numbers. There is more of fashion
and elegance and good breeding thrice
told than Washington ever before
saw at a party of any KIND.
Citizens of Boston, and New York,
and Philadelphia, and Chicago,
and Cincinnati, say the affair had no
equal in the history OF their respective
cities. The occupancy of 80 many
floors and the use of so many rooms is
in one respect a drawback, but in
others it is a decided advantage, for
such an opportunity for promenading
was never before offered to gay COM
pany. President Grant and wife, with
Vice President Colfax and wife, came
in II ten o'clock, and at one are still
present. They occupy one of the rooms
and informally receive the thousands
who pass through, bowing and speak
ing but not putting the President to the
torture of handshaking. 1t were mad
ness to undertake the naming of even
a few of the persons who attended. 1t
seems as il every body of whom the city
had ever heard was there. The street
for two or three blocks each way is full
ofcarriages. Tne arrangements for the
evening were all that care and fore
sight and large experience could make
them, and the occasion is passing of 30
admirably that every body is in the best
of humor, and will always speak OF
the reception at the Inauguration of
Grant as most notable and char ming
event.