General Grant, with his suite, escorted by one hundred cavalry soldiers, arrived in Peking on the 3rd June, at 12 o'clock noon, and went to the American Legation, where the Civil Prefect and Military Governor of the city welcomed him and tendered to him the hospitality of the capital.
In the course of the afternoon, several of the foreign representatives called on General Grant, and at 9 o'clock p.m., the American residents, with their ladies; by appointment, called at the United States Legation and presented to the General the following address, which was read by the Rev. Doctor Martin Address of American Citizens, resident in, Peking, to General Ulysses Simson Grant, ex-President of the United States:
"Sim,—Twenty years ago, the American flag for the first time entered the gates of this ancient Capital.' For the greater part of that time your countrymen have been residing here under its protecting folds 5 and it is with feelings of no ordinary type that we gather ourselves beneath its shadow this day to welconie your arrival Because, to you, Sir, under God, it is due that its azure field has not been tent in fragments and its golden stare scattered to the winds of heaven. Having borne that banner through a career of victory which finds few parallels in the pages of history, it was your high privilege to gather round it, in newly-cemented union, the long discordant members of our National Family. Occupying the most exalted position to which it was possible for you to be elevated by the voice of a grateful people, your strength was in the justice and moderation of your administration—a force more potent than that of armed cohorts, "After conferring on our country these inestimable benefits as its leader in War and its guide in the paths of Peace, we reflect with pride that you have shown the world how a great man can descend from a lofty station and yet carry with him the homage of the people and the admiration of mankind. As you travel from land to land, everywhere welcomed as the citizen of @ wider commonwealth than that of our native country, we cannot forget that your visits to their shores possess an international character of which it is ixapossiblo to divest them.
"You are honoured as the highest reprosentative of our country who has ever'gone beyond her borders; and America is the more respected for having given birth to such a son.
"Your presence here to-day directs the attention of this venerable Empire to the great Republic from which you came; it will also have the effect of turning the eyes of our countrymen towards the teeming millions of Eastern Asia; and fervently do we trust that it will help to impress them with the obligations of justice and humanity in their dealings with the people of China.
"Your antecedents, Sir, leave us in no doubt as to the policy that would meet your approval. Hoping that your influence may contribute to the adjustment of difficulties which threaten to reach so disastrously our American interests in China; and that thereby you will add another to the many laurels that crown your brow, we hail your visit as both opportune and auspicious; and again, with one heart, we bid you welcome to the Capital of China."
Dr. Elmore, the Peruvian Minister, who graduated at the University of Virginia in the United States, was present with the Americans last night at the Legation, to bid welcome to General Grant,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.