Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-30
wAsHrreror,s INAUGURATION.

Following is an account of the inaugura- tion of President George Washington taken from the issue of May 9th, 17s9, of the Con- necticut Journal published in New Haven, which is still published from this office es our weekly edition, and of which the JOUR- NAL AND COURIER of to-day is the lineal outgrowth.
 NEW YORK, May 1.--Yesterday at 9 o'clock was solemnly inaugUrated into office, our INDUSTRIOUS PRESIDENT.
 The ceremony was begun by the following procession from the Federal State House to the Presidents house, viz:
 Troup of Horse
 Assistants
 Committee of Representatives
 Committee of Senate
 Gentlemen to be admitted in the Senate chamber
 Gentlemen in coaches
 Citizens on foot
 On their arrival the President joined the procession in his carriage and four, and the whole moved through the principal streets to the State House, in the following order:-
 Troup of Horse
 Sheriff on horseb
 Committee of Senate
 assistants-Presidept Presidents suite-assistants Gentlemen to be admitted in the Senate chamber Citizens on foot
 When the van reached the State House, the troops, opening their ranks, formed an ave-
  ident advancing to the door, was conducted to the Senate chamber, where he was received by both branches of Congress, and by them accompanied to the balcony or outer gallery in front of the State House, which was dec- orated with canopy and curtains of red in terstreaked with white for the solemn ecca- sion. In this public manner the oath of office required by the Constitution, was ad ministered by the Chancellor of this State, and the illustrious Washington thereupon declared by the said Chancellor, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, amidst the repeated huzzas and acclanations of numerous and crowded audience.
 After the inauguration, the President re- turning to the Senate Chamber, delivered to both Houses of Congress, the following speech:
 Fellow citizens of the Senate and the House of Representatives: Among the vicissitudes incident to iife,no event could have filled me with greater anxiety than that of which the notification was transmitted by your or der received on the fourteenth day of the present month. On the other hand, was summoned by my country, whose voice can never hear but with veneration and ! love from a retreat which I had chosen with the proudest predileotion, and in very flat tering hopes, with an inimitable decision, as the asylum of my declining years; a retreat which was rendered every day more necessa- ry well as more clear to me, by the addi- ! tion of habit to indication, and of frequent \ interruptions in wealth, to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other | hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which my country called | me, being sufficient to awaken in \ the wisest and most experienced of her citizens, a distrustful scrutiny into his ! qualifications, could not but overwhelm with \ despondency, one, who, inheriting inferior | endowments from nature, and unpracticed in the duties of civil administration, right to | be peculiarly conscious of his own de6cien- | GIGS. 1- 'his conflict of emotions, all dare ' collect my duty from a Just snnreciation of every circumstance, by which 1t raiobt be affected All dare hope is that, if in exc cutting this task, have been too much swayed by grateful remembrance of former instances, or by an affectionate sensibility to I this transcendent proof of the confidence of ! my fellow citizens; and have too little consulted my incapacity well disincli- nation for the weighty and untried cases be- fore me; my error will be palliated by the motives which mislead me, and it's conse- quence be judged by my country, with some share of the partiality in which they origi- mated.
 Such being the impressions under which l have, in obedience to the public summons, \ repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first off clal act, my present supplications to the AL ! mighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benedictions may | consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States, a government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes: and may enable every instrument employed in it's administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge In tenderings this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own, nor those of my fellow citizens at large, less than either. No people can be bound to ac- knowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the affairs of men, more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an inde- pendent nation, seems to have been dfstin- guished by some token of Providential ! agency. And in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government, the tranquil deliberations and voluntary content of so many distinct ! communities, from which the event has re- | suited, cannot be compared with the means | abolished, with some return of pious grati- | tude along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seems to presage. These reflections, arising out of the | present crisis, have forced themselves too I strongly upon my mind to be suppressed. | 4Ou VIII 1O10 W1LQ me brueJ m t0lnklnS, ! that there are none under the influence of ! which, the proceedings of a new and free government can be more auspiciously com- ! menced.
 Having thus imparted to you my senti- | ments as they have been awakened by the \ occusion which brings us together shall take my present leave, but not without refer \ ring once more to the benign Parent of the | human race, in humble supplication, that | since he has been pleased to favor the Amer ican people with opportunities for deliberat- ing in perfect tranquility, and dispositions | for deciding with unparalleled unanimity on | 6 form of government for the security of ! their Union, and the advancement of their happiness, so his divine blessing may be equally conspicuous in the enlarged views, | the temperate consultations and the wise measures on which the success of this gov- ernment must depend.
 | GEORGE WASHINGTON.
 After this the President, accompanied by both houses of Congress, proceeded on foot | to St. Paul's church (wheFe divine service I was performed by the Right Rev. Dr. Pro- voost, suitable to the important occesiop) in the following order, viz:
 \ Troop of horse. Assistants
 Doorkeeper and messenger of Representatives. Representatives. President and Vice President. Presidents suite. Senators.
 ' Secretary.
 ! Doorkeeper and messengers of the Senate. Gentlemen admitted into the Senate chamber. | Sheriff.
 | Citizens.
 | In the evening fireworks were displayed ! under the direction of Col. Bauman. The ! brilliancy and excellency of them does honor ! to the projector.
 The houses of their Excellencies the French and Spanish ambassadors were most elegant \ ly illuminated on this suspicious occasion. AT THE CITY HALL. 1 Board of SeIectmen-Commftte on Claims.
 The board of selectmen at their regular meeting last evening voted to insure the new