+-----------------------------+ |QUEEN VICTORIA: | | | |"Your despatch received; | |Let us hear from you again." | +-----------------------------+ +----------------------------------------------------+ | Lightning | | caught and tamed by | | FRANKLIN, | | taught to read and write and go on errands by | | MORSE, | | started in foreign trade by | | FIELD, COOPER & CO., | | with | | JOHNNY BULL | | and | | BROTHER JONATHAN | | as | | special partners. | +----------------------------------------------------+ In the window of Anson Randolph, corner of Amity Street, was displayed the following: +-------------------------------------+ | | | The Old CYRUS and the New. | | One | | Conquered the World for Himself, | | The Other | | The Ocean for the World. | +-------------------------------------+ +---------------------+ | Our Field is | | THE FIELD | | of the world. | +---------------------+ +----------------------------+ | July 4, 1776, | | August 16, 1858, | | Are the days we celebrate. | +----------------------------+ The Manhattan Hotel was splendidly decorated with colored lights and flags of all nations. On a transparency was the following inscription: +--------------------------------------+ | Married, August, 1858, | | by | | CYRUS W. FIELD, | | OLD IRELAND AND MISS YOUNG AMERICA. | | "May their honeymoon last forever." | +--------------------------------------+ The _Tribune_ describes this procession: "The workmen upon the Central Park and the workmen on the new Croton reservoir made a novel parade, and after marching through the principal streets were reviewed by Mayor Tiemann in front of the City Hall. "The procession was headed by a squad of the Central Park police in full uniform; then came a full brass band and a standard-bearer with a white muslin banner on which was inscribed: +--------------------------+ | | | The Central Park People. | | | +--------------------------+