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.
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