Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1879-09-27


forward and took their places in line.
AS the carriage containing Gen. Grant
appeared, cheer after cheer went up, and
the crowd pressed forward and swayed
from side to side in us efforts to obtain
a passing glance of the familiar Inca
ments of the great captain. With the
greatest difficulty passage was opened,
the procession formed, and the line Of
mareh was taken up.
TIE PROCESSION.
The procession was under the com
mand OF Maj. Gen. w. /. Elliott, grand
marshal, with brilliant retinue of aids,
and comprised soldiers and sailors of
the late war, Federal and Confederate,
Mexican war veterns, Gov. Irwin and
staff, Maj Gen. Mcdowell and staff,
Commodore Chadbourne and staff,
Judges of the United States Supreme
Court and other civil diguitaries; Cali
fornia pioneers, board of trade, civic So
cieties and military companies of various
nationalities, the schools, the Nellie
Grant Invincibles, steam calliope and
bells. The procession marched up Mar
ket street. Bonfires blazed at street
corners, illuminations lit mp every win
dow, and the glare OF roman candles
and electric lights made the broad thor
oushfare as bright as day, while a
continuous archway OF flags, banners
and festooued draperies marked the en-
tire route of the procession to the Pal
ace Hotel. Here a magnificent arch,
forty feet in height,spanned New Mont
gomery street, blazoned with national
colors and bearing the inscription 'Wel-
come to Grant" AT this point the car
riagc containing the General was drawn
mp, while the procession marched in
review.
The procession was forty-three MIN
utes passing Nevada Block. kearney S
followers participated in the reception
apparently as heartily as any other per
sons. The display by the Chinese OF
silken and other flags showed that on
this occasion, at least, they identified
themselves with the American people.
As soon as notice was received OF the
approach of the City of Toxic the news
flashed all OVER the Pacific coast, and
dispatches poured into the office OF the
California Associated Press from interi-
or cities and towns of California and
Nevada announcing that the news was
received with demonstrations only sec
ond to the reception In this city. Flags
were flying, streets decorated, guns and
anvils booming, parades, bonfres, fire
works, and every token of JOY and en-
thusiasm abounded.
TIE SCENE AT TIE HOTEL
The scene within The immense court
of the Palace Hotel last night, when
Gen Grant arrived, was of surprising
beauty. Electric lights and five hun
dled gas Jets lit up the vast interior
with brilliant glow, and the dense
.hrongs that packed the court and filled
the spacious balconies and corridors
SWAY, d to aud fro in anxious cXpectan-
CIV of the coming guest, whom the pack
streets had detained. AT 10 clock the
wide doors were thrown open and a ba-
ROUGH containing Gen. Grant was driven
within the building. He Instantly
aliyh,cd, and, crowding his way through
the packed mass of human beings, was
hurried To his room. AS he got out
Madame Fabbri and chorus of five
hundred voices opened from one OF the
balconies with an ode of welcome.
TIE CROWD RUN MAD.
The crowd rushed after Gen. Grant
VIXEN he appeared, leaving the singers
for moment almost without an audi
ence, but Icing stopped in their mad
chase 10y force of police, who blocked
the way, they returned TO the court, be-
inc rpassured 10y the announcement shat
the General would appear on one OF the
balconies after he had time to take of
his ovelcoat.
KEARNEYs INSULT wIrED OUT.
A, soon as the review was finished
and the various divisions had disbanded
the soldiers aud sailors, veterans OF the
late war, repaired to the sand lots with
a field battery. 1t seemed a kind of
poetic justice that here, where Dennis
Kearney had threatened a few weeks
ago 10 hang Gen. Grant in cfligy, the
insult although meaningless and uttered
without the slightest thought of carry
ing it into effect, should be wiped out.
The guns, manned by the Boys in Blue,
told with their deep voices that the peo-
ple of San Francisco have no sympathy
with the spirit that would offer an in
suit on political grounds to man whom
the citizens are glad to welcome as their
guest.
GEN GRANT APPEARS.
After a chorus was rendered Gen.
Grant, in response TO repeated calls, ap-
reared on the balcony of the fourth floor
and bowed TO the shouting crowd, and
when the noise subsidized he addressed
them as follows:
"Fellow Citizens of San Francisco ::
After twenty-five years absence am
glad to meet you and assure you OF my
cordial thanks for the kind greeting you
have given me. l shall stay in your
city long enough to greet you more fal-
w."
The General is looking extremely
well, and expressed his satisfaction with
his experience of his trip and his sur
prise at the tremendous demonstration
which greeted his arrival home He es-
pecially remarked the good health that
had attended him during his trip, and
related with evident relish that he had
got rid of some of his supertiuous flesh,
as he weighed lS6 pounds when he left
the United States, and now pulled down