walked the whole length of the route before the procession
moved, and the _coup d'oeil_ was perfect. The military portion looked
remarkably well; but when the open carriage appeared in which rode
Lord Elgin and his friends, the representative of Great Britain was
greeted with such shouts and by such waving of handkerchiefs from the
windows by crowds of elegantly dressed females, as I am sure his
lordship can never forget. On his part, Lord Elgin continued bowing in
acknowledgment, almost without intermission, for two hours and twenty
minutes--the time occupied in passing.

Nearly equal to this was the enthusiasm elicited by the appearance of
an open carriage, drawn by four grays, and containing only two men,
wellnigh ninety years of age, then the sole survivors, in the State of
Massachusetts, of those who fought in the War of Independence. It is
the custom to shew honour to the survivors of that event on all public
occasions. On the 4th of July last, the last public gathering, there
were four in the carriage: two are gone. Before the carriage, was
carried the banner of Washington, used in the struggle. When these old
men raised their withered hands to remove their hats, in reply to the
welcome of the crowd, they appeared like spirits of the past. In all
probability, they will not appear in public again; but the fruits of
their courage will live for ever. The appropriateness and beauty of
the arrangement of details were remarkable in the representation of
the particular trades. The most imposing objects were the two new
locomotives, shining brilliantly in their might of brass and steel,
and richly painted; and as they loomed in sight, turning the bends of
the streets, they were truly magnificent and appropriate objects. Each
was raised upon a car, so that, on the whole, it was thirty feet high;
it was drawn by eighteen iron-gray horses, all in line, decorated with
blue ribbons, and handsomely caparisoned; each horse being led by a
workman, in clean, new, working costume. The next was a procession on
foot. Eight negroes, in Eastern costume, walked as guards round a
platform, carried palanquin-fashion by four negroes, with 5000 ounces
of manufactured silver-plate, built up in a pyramid, and forming a
splendid object, fully equal in workmanship to anything of the kind I
have seen. A very interesting part of the pageant was the children of
the different schools, in four-wheeled cars, covered with drapery, and
decorated with