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Fifing and drumming and the march ing of clubs and troops were the enliv ening elements of the early forenoon, while moving serenades, tendered to populai political favorites, served to a muse and iuterest the participants and the crowds. The decorators and the carpenters began ten days ago. and the noise of their sawing and pounding and the click ot their tack hammers has been heard day and night ever since down to the moment of the starting of the procession. A better day for the celebration of any such event never dawned than was to-day. Hundreds of people did not go to bed last night at all, but content ed themselves in walking the streets, anxious for the dawning of day. Many of them carried grip-sacks in hand, while a few held their visiting clothes in bandboxes At au ealy hour the people began to fill the streets and when the time for the formation of the parade had arrived, the largest number of people that this city has probably ev er seen patiently awaited the order to march. All the stands that had been erected for the occasion were packed. The house tops were lined with people, and every available place from which a glimpse of the procession could be ob tained was occupied. The profuse dec orations fluttered in the morning breeze while contentment sat enthroned upon every face. Precisely at ID o'clock the carriage containing President Arthur, President-elect Cleveland, Senators Sherman and Ransom, followed by a carriage containing the vice president elect and Senator Hawley, were diiven to the capitol, and the see ies along the route baflles description The presi dential party was escorted by the First division alone. The presidential party entered the capitol through the basement passage way. Mr. Cleveland went by the pri vate door to the senate, and proceeded immediately to the vice president's room, where President Arthur engaged in signing measures passed by con gress. Later,Vice-President Hendricks was escorted into the senate chamber, and without delay, but with the solemnity and decorum befitting the occasion,the oath was administered to him by the president pro tempore. Mr. Hendricks took the gavel and called the senate to order in extra session. The new sena tors were then sworn in. The Ceremony of Inauguration. Precisely at 12.30 p. m. the head of the procession appeared, coming out of the main east door of the capitol. President Arthur stepped to the front of the platform, followed by the presi dent-elect, Chief Justice YVaile and the sergeant-at-arms of the senate. All uncovered a9 they stood facing the crowd, and the vast assemblage cheer ed again and again for several miuutes. The persons who were to assist at the ceremonies were seated on the platform in the following order : Chief Justice Waite and Senator Sherman sat with the president-e --lect, The committee on arrangements oc cupied seats immediately to the right of the president-elect,ex-presidents and ex-vice-presidents and associate justic es of the supreme court. The yice-pres'dent, secretary and members of the senate occupied seats further on the right. The diplomatic corps occupied seats on the left of the president and the heads of departments. The retired i general of the array, the lieutenant- 1 general of the army, the admiral of the nayy, and the officers of the army and navy who had by name received the thanks of congress, governors and ex governors of states and ex-merabers of the senate, took their seats just behind the president. At. 12.40 p. m. the president-elect a rose and began delivering his inaugural address. The Inaugural Address. Fellow Citizens : In the presence of this vast assemblage of my countrymen I am about to supplement and seal, by the oath which I shall take, the mani festation of the will of a great and free people. In the exercise of their pow er and right of self-government they have committed to one of their fellow citizens a supreme and sacred trust,and he here consecrates himself to their ser vice. This impressive ceremony adds little to the solemn sense of responsibility * with which I contemplate the duty I A PAPER FOR THE HOME CIRCLE. ▼ ow.' to all the people f the land. Noth ing can relieve me from anxiety lest by any act of mine their interests may suf fer, and nothing is needed to strength en my resolution to engage every facul ty and effort in the promotion of their welfare. Amid the din of party strife the j>eo plo's choice was made ; but its attend ant circumstances have demonstrated anew the strength and safety of a gov ernment of the people. In each suc ceeding year it more clearly appears that our democratic principle needs no apology, and that in its fearless and faithful application is to bo found the surest guaranty of good government. But the best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share, largely depend upon a proper limitation of purely partisan zeal and effort, and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged iu the patriotism of the citizen. To-day the executive branch of the government is transferred to new keep ing. But this is still the government of all the people, and it should be none the less an object of affectionate solici tude. At this hour the animosities*bf political strife, the bitterness of parti san defeat and the exultation of parti san triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the pop ular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal. More over, if from this hour we cheerfully and honestly abandon all sectional pre judice and distrust,and determine with manly confidence in one another to work out harmoniously the achieve ments of our national destiny, we shall deserve to realize all the benefits which our happy form of government can be stow. On this auspicious occasion we may well renew the pledge of our DEVOTION TO TIIE CONSTITUTION, which, launched bj the founders of the republic,and consecrated by their pray ers and patriotic devotion, has for al most a century oorne the hopes and as pirations of a great people through prosperity and peace, and through the shock of foreign contliotsand the perils of domestric strife and vicissitudes. By the father of his country our con stitution was commended for adoption as "the result of a spirit of amity and mutual concession."ln that same spirit it should be administered, In order to promote the lasting welfare of the conn try and to secuie the full measure of its priceless benefits to us and totliose who will succeed to the blessings of our na tional life. The large variety of diverse and corapetiug interests subject to fed eral control, persistently seeking the recognition of their claims, need give us no fenr that "the greatest good to the greatest number" will fail to be ac complished, if in the halis ot national legislation that spirit uf aunty and mu tal concession shall prevail in which tlie constitution had its birth If this involves the surrender or'pofttponement of private interests, and the abandon ment of local advantages,compensation will be found in the assurance that thus the common interest is subserved and the general welfare advanced. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE STATES. In the discharge ot my official duty I shall endeavor to he guided by a just and unstrained construction of the con stitution, a careful observance of the distinction between the powers granted to the federal government and those re served to the states, or to the people, and by a cautious appreciation of those functions which, by the constitution and laws, have been especially assigned to the executive branch of the govern ment. But he who takes the oath to-day to preserve, protect and defend the con stitution of the United States only as sumes the solemn obligation which ev ery patriotic citizen, on the farm .in the workshop, in the busy marts of trade, everywhere should share with him. THE VOICE OF TIIE PEOPLE. The constitution which perscribes his oath, my countrymen, is yours ; the government you have chosen him to ad minister for a time, is yours ; the suf frage which executes the will of free men is yours; the laws and the entire scheme of our civil rule, from the town meeting to the state capitals and the national cpaital, is yours. Your every voter, as surely as your chief magis trate under the same high sanction, though in a different'sphere, exercises a public Nor is this all. Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants, and a fair and reasonable es timate of their fidelity and usefHlness. Thus is the people's will impressed up on the whole framework ot our civil policy—municipal, state and federal— and this is the price of our liberty and the inspiration of our faith in the re public. ECONOMY AND EXTRAVAGANCE. It is the duty of those serving the people in public place closely to limit public expenditures to the actual need of the government economically ad ministered, because this bounds the right of the government to exact trib ute from the earnings of labor or the property of the citizen, and because public extravagance begets extrava gance among the people. We should never be ashamed of the sublicity and prudential which are best suited in the operation of a republican form of government, and most compa tible with the mission of the American people. Those who are elected, for a limited time, to manage public affairs, are still of the people,and may do much by their example to encourage, consist ently with the dignity of their official functions, that plain way of life which among their fellow citizens aids integ rity and promotes thrift and prosperi ty. TIIE POLICY OF PEACE. The genius of our institutions, the needs of our people in their home life, ana the attention which is demanded for the settlement and developement of the resources of our vast territority, dictate the scrupulous avoidance of any departure from that foreign policy com mended by the history, the traditions and the prosperity ot our republic. It is the policy of independence, favored by our position and defended by our known love of justice and by our pow er. It is the policy of peace, suitable to our interests. It is the policy of neu trality, rejecting any share in foreign broils and ambitions upon other conti- nents, and repelling their Instrusion here. It is the policy of Monroe and of Washington and Jefferson — 44 Peace, commerce and frendship to all nations; entangling alliances with none." THE NATIONAL FINANCES. A duo legard for the interests and prosperity of all the people demands that our finances shall be established upon such a sound and sensible basis as shall secure the safety and confidence of business interests and make tht wages of labor sure and steady, and that our system of revenue shall be so adjusted as to relieve the people from unnecessary taxation, having a due re gard to the intetests of capital invest ed and workingmen employed in Amer ican industries, and preventing the ac cumulation of a surplus in the treasury to tempt extravagance and waste. TIIE PUBLIC DOMAIN. Care for the property of the nation, and for the needs of future settlers, re quire that the public domain should be protected from purloining schemes and unlawful occupation. HUMANITY AND MORALITY. The conscience of the people demands that the Indians within our boundaries shall be fairly and honestly treated as wards of the government, and their ed ucation and civilization promoted,with a view to their ultimate citizenship,and that polygamy in the territories.destruc tive to the family relation and offensive to the moral sense of the civilized world, shall be repressed. The laws should be rigidly enforced which pro hibit the immigration of a servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention of acquiring citizenship and bringing with them and retaining habits and customs repugnant to our civilization. BUSINESS PRINCIPLES IN PUBLIC AF FAIRS. The people demand reform iu the ad ministration of the government, and the application of business principles to public affairs. As a means to this end civil service refoim should be in good faith enforced. Our citizens have the right to protection from the incom petency of public employes who hold their places solely as the reward of par tisan service, and from the corrupting influence of those who promise, and the vicious methods of those who expect, such'.rewards. And those who worthily seek public employment hayc the right to insist that merit and competency shall be recognized instead of party subserviency or the surrender cf hou est political belief. THE RIGHTS OF THE FREEDMEN. In the administration of a govern ment pledged to do equal and exact jus tice to all men, there should be no pre text for anxiety touching the protection of the fieedmen in their rights or tlieir security in the enjoyment of their priv ileges under the constitution and its a mendments. All discussion as to their fitness for the place accorded to them is idle and unprofitable, except as it suggests the necessity for other im provement. The fact that they are cit izens entitles them to all the rights due to that relation and chargt s them with all its duties, obligations and responsi bilities. PRACTICAL AND INDUSTRIOUS AI'PLI- CATION. These topics, and the constant and ever-varying wants of an active and en terprising population, may well receive the attention and the patriotic endeav or of all who make and execute the fed eral law. Our duties are practical, and call for industrious application, an in telligent perception of the claims of public office, and, above all, a firm de termination, by united action,to secure to all the people of the land the full benefits of the best form of government ever vouchsafed to man. And let us not trust to human effort alone ; but, humbly acknowledge the power and goodness of Almighty God, who pre sides ovei the destiny of nations, and who has at all times been revealed in our country's history, let us invoke His aid and His blessing upon our labois. Mr. Cleveland turning to the chief justice and bowing to him, said ; "I am now prepared to take the oath pre scribed by law." As the chief justice rose to adminis ter the oath the vast assemblage cheer ed again. The president-elect stood facing the chief justice,with the crowd on his right. Chief Clerk McKeuny,of the supreme court, stood just to the side of Mr. Cleveland and held the Bi ble upon which the oath was adminis tered, the president-elect stood holding it with his right hand. The Bible used is a small morocco-coyered, gilt-edge volume, pretty well worn. It is the Bible which Mr. Cleveland's mother gave him when he hft home as a young man,and at his special request the com mittee of arrangements had it in readi ness for the ceremony. The crowd pre served perfect quiet as the impressive ceremony of administering the oath was taking place, but when it was con cluded, and after President Cleveland laid down the Bible after reverently kissing it, and shook hands with the chief justice, who was the first to con gratulate him, the cheering was long and loud. The Parade. % At the conclusion of the ceremonies at the capitol the procession escorted the presidential party back to the White House. The two carriages which contained President Cleveland and ex-President Arthur, Vice Presi dent Hendricks, and the senate com mittee of arrangements took positions in the first division,and the line started The greatest enthusiasm was manifest ed all along the route. When'the head of the line reached Fifteenth street, a halt was made, and tlie president and ex-president left the line and proceed ed byway of Executive avenue to the White House, which the party entered by the rear door. The vice president's carriage proceeded up Fifteenth street nearly to New York avenue before Terms, SI,OO per Year, in Advance. leaving the line. II end ricks, however, soon joined the president at the White House, and when everything was in readiness the entire party proceeded to the reviewing stand on Pennsylvania avenue, directly in front of the mansion and the order was given for the line to move. The reviewing stand had been profusely decorated with flags and bun ting, and presented a beautiful appear ance. The presideut and ex-president were placed on a project platform, which was covered with flags so as to make a handsome canopy, and at the same time so arranged as to afford a clear and unobstructed view of the pro cession. Arm chairs were placed upon it for their use, but the president re mained Btanding during the entire re view. Ex-President Arthur sat ou his left, Vice President Hendricks and the members of his household occupied Reats to the right and just back of the president, while the families and friends of the presideut and ex-presi dent sat in the front row on the right. Among those who occupied seats on the presidential stand were Secretaries Frelinghuysen, McCullocb, Liucolu, Chandler and Teller, Postmaster-Gen eral Hatton, Lieutenant-General Sheri dan. Major-General Hancock, Messrs. Manning, of New York ; Vilas, of Wisconsin ; Eudicott, of Massachu setts, and Seuators Bayard and Gar land, Colonel Lamont, Mayor Grace ex-May or Cooper, of New York, and a large number of other prominent per sons, including many officers of the ar my and navy and members of the di plomatic corps. There were a great number of ladies on the grand stand, and their rich costumes added brillian cy to the scene. It is estimated that there were on the stand about one thousand persons. It was 2.10 o'clock wheu the presi dent, escorted by Colonel Berrett, of the inaugural coram ittee,took his place at the front of the stand and the head of the procession started from the cor ner of Fifteentll street to pass in re view. The president's appearance was the signal for a great shout from the concourse of people who had gathered in front of the stand and filled the streets for several hundred yards both ways. The president quietly bowed his acknowledgements. A good deal of confusion was caused in the vicinity of the grand stand by the efforts of the police t<r clear the street for the approaching procession. The work was finally accomplished but witk great difficulty, mounted police moving into the dense throng of spec tators and driving them back with their batoons. The review from the presidential stand was a grand sight and it was the generally expressed o pinion, that no moie brilliant pageant had ever been witnessed in this coun try. All the organizations gave a marching salute as they passed the graud stand and the president at first recognized tin complimeut by raising his hat to every separate command, but the length of the line and the chill iness of the breeze which sprang up compelled him before the second divis ion passed to keep his head covered and in most cases to limit his acknowledge ments to a slight bow. In view of the fact that the procession was three hours in passing it is not a matter for surprise that the president had to aban don his intention of standing with his head uncovered through out the re view. The civic organizations made a very fine display, and were highly compli mented by the presidential party. Ta ken all in all, as a combined military and civic display, the processlou was undoubtedly the largest and finest ever seen in Washington. The number of men who marched past the presidential stand is estimated at 25,000. Vice-President Hendricks felt some what fatigued,and returned to the exe cutive mansion before aU the civic or ganizations had passed. Many other persons also left the stand before the parade was over because of weariness. At the conclusion of the review the president and party proceeded to the dining room of the White House, where they partook of 'lunch prepared for them by ex-President Arthur. There were present, besides the mem bers ot ex-President Arthur's cabinet, Vilas, Manning, Lamont, and several others. The Inaugural Ball. The brilliant finale of the inaugura tion ceremonies was the ball to-night. It put the cap sheaf of gaiety on the more formal and serious though grand ceremonial which preceded it. Beauty lent it's aid to crown the triumph of tho incoming administration, and amid the light festivities of the ball room, the celebration of the day came to a close. The daucing hall was ablaze of light and color, lighted by sixty Siemens of gas burners, cf five hundred caodle power each, suspended from a roof whose peak is lost to sight, ninety feet NO. 10. , rNBWBPAPBR LAWS If subscribers order the dfocontl Dilation! of newspapers, the nuMlnhers may continue to send them until all arrearages are paid. If Mil hsorlhers refuse or neglect to totre their new-spapers from thcofltae to which they are sent they are held responsible until they have set tied the hills and ordered them discontinued. If subscribers move to other places without In forming the publisher, and the newspaper* art sent to the former plnoe, they are responsible. ADVERTISING RATBB. 1 wk. 1 mo. I 3 mos. 6 mos. 1 yea 1 square * 200 #4 00 If ft 00 #6 00 f'B 00 K •• 700 1000 WOO 30 00 40 00 1 " 1000 Woo| 2800 4SQO 7800 One Inch makes a square. Administrators* and Executors' Notices #2.50. Transient iwlver. tlaement* and locals 10 cents per line for first insertion and 5 cents ptr line for each addition al insertion above the floor, to a perfect breast or streamers and flags, and on whose acre of waxed floor several thousand couples in brillaut toilets are moving about in the mazes of the dance, while thousand more circle around on the outskirts in a ceaseless promenade, and other thous ands look down upon them from the surrounding balconies, is the frame work of an ensemble which, bursting suddenly upon one's view, is magnifi cently bewildering. One must be in the bail room some time before the de tails of the scene begin to present themselves to notice. Dancing began at 11 o'clock, the mu sic furnished by the Germania Orches- . tra of Philadelphia. Chas. M. Smith, conductor and Henry Felting, Jr., as sistant conductor. It was half past 10 o'clock when President Cleveland arrrived at' the ball room. He was immediately es corted to the president's room, where for half an hour he held a formal reception committee and a small number of dis tinguished persons being presented to him : The president was accompanied by Miss Cleveland and Mrs. Hoyt, his sisters, and by his brother,the Rev. W. N. Cleveland and wife and their two sons ; Mr. Hastings.his nephew ; Miss Hasting, Miss Nellie J Yeoman# and Miss Annie Yeomans, Mr. and Mrs. Bacon, the president's brother-in-law and wife, of Toledo, and Colonel and Mrs. Lamont. About the same time ex-President Arthur arrived at the ball room, aad he too was escorted to the president's room. With him were Secretaries Lincoln and Chandler, Secretary and Mrs. McCnlloch, Attorney General Brewster and Mrs. Brewster, Postmas ter Geoeral Ilatton and Mrs. Hatton, Secretary Teller and Mrs. Teller, Judge Davis, of the court of claims, aud Mrs. Davis, Miss Lucy Frelinghuyseu, Al lan Arthur and Marshal McMichael. Vice President Hendricks arrived a bout tbe same time and joined the president. In the room at this time there was a large and distinguished gathering, in cluding persons of the roost diverse shades of political opinion. Besides persons already named there were pres ent Senator Bayard, Colonel Nilas,Gen eral Sheridan and Mrs. Sheridan, Gen eral R >secrans, Daniel Manniug and wife, Senator Pendleton, Richard Mer rick, Representative Barbour, Senator Wade Hampton, Senator Biown, of Georgia, Justice Field of the supreme court and Speaker Carlisle and Mrs. Carli&le. There was no informal reception Ly President Cleveland, but a large num ber ol persgtas pressed about bim, and some of th£ gentlemen standing in tbe immediate vicinity made the presenta tion. After half an hour speut in this manner the room became overcrowded, and the president and vice president, the former escorted by Senator Pendle ton and Richard T. Merrick, aud the latter by Representative Elton and S. V. Niles, left the room and made the rounti of the ball room, the baud play ing "Hail to the Chief" during the time occupied in walking around the room. After the presidential party had left the room the crowd continued to pour into it through doors, unaware that Cleveland had left. The scene in the ball-room at this time was exceedingly brilliant The large hall was completely filled with a constantly moving crowd, numbering several thousauds, while from the bal conies thousands more looked down up on the scene. The bright toilets of the ladies,the flowers and glittering jewels, the decorations atfd lights? were the prominent features of a scene long to be remeuibared. Extraordinary Fireworks. To-night, about half past eight, just as the immense crowd was returning from the exhibition of fireworks on the White Lot, the Flambeau club, of To peka, Kansas, came marching in regu lai open order down Fifteenth strest, between the Corcorau building and the treasury departmeut in a perfect torna do of fire, accompanied by an incessant volley of explosions and the continuous hissing and roar of ascending rockets. Every member of the club carrying o ver his shoulders a capacious white bag filled with rockets, roman caudles, red and green fire, Catherine, wheels, torpe dues, bombs, and fireworks of every conceivable desciiption, which were lighted on portable frames,or discharg ed from sheet iron tubes, with such never slackening rapidity as to literally fill the streets with a hurricane of firery projectiles and a deuse cloud of smoke, through which could be only dimly seen the white spectral uniforms of the club. The marching was perfect in time and regularity, the incessant discharge of fireworks not beiug allowed to inter fere in the least degree with the preci sion of movement. People in vehicles fled in terror before the advancing col umn of smoke and flame, which was headed by two or three huge blazing wheels, aud from every part of which burst fire and explosions. The club was constantly and skilfully supplied with fresh ammunition from a large wagon which followed it, aud as it wheeled from Fifteenth street into Pennsylvania avenne in the glare of red tires, amid the shouts of a vast multi tude of spectators, it suggested a mov ing British square attacked ou all sides at night, aud defending itself with musketry, bombs, rockets and hand greuades. It was one of the most strik ing features of tne whole pyrotechnical display, and the club- was followed down the avenue by at least 10,000 peo ple.
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