Daily Richmond Whig

GENERAL GRANT'S PHILADELPHIA RESIDENCE.

Gen. Grant has gone to Burlington, N. J., to remove his family to the splendid residence presented to him by the citizens of Philadelphia. We find the following notice of its finished aspect in the papers of that city.

The handsome furnished mansion on West Chestnut street, purchased and fitted up at a cost of fifty thousand dollars by the citizens of Philadelphia as a present to our Lieutenant General, was opened on Saturday for inspection, and in the course of the day was visited by a large number of ladies and gentlemen. The mansion is twenty-two feet front, one hundred and five feet deep, and four stories in height. The front is of sandstone, and has a balcony under the first story windows. In the interior the arrangements combine elegance and convenience. There is a spacious hall, and a handsome staircase ascending from it to the fourth story, lighted by a window on the roof. There is also a private staircase leading to the dining room and kitchen. Back of the chambers on the second and third floors are bath-rooms, which are elegantly fitted up. The parlor, about seventeen by forty feet, is superbly furnished, the carpets being of velvet, the furniture of walnut, and the curtains of the richest lace. The piano and all the articles of furniture in the room are in the highest style of mechanical art. Vases of an antique pattern decorate the richly carved marble mantel, and an elegant clock, surmounted by a figure representing the historian, is in the centre of it. On the centre-table is a magnificent copy of the Bible. Passing on to the dining room are exposed to view, on an extension table, a silver tea set and a china dinner- and tea set, together with pearl-handled knives and silver forks. A prominent figure on it is a large silver candelabra and flower stand combined. In the dining-room is a very beautiful sideboard. The chambers on the second floor are finished in almost as costly a style as the parlors. Velvet carpets are on the floors, a splendid Jenny Lind bedstead is in each room, with beautiful dressing bureaus and wardrobes. The reception room, on the second floor back, is also richly furnished. In the third story chambers the floors are covered with Brussels carpeting, and the furniture is of a superior kind. All portions of the house are furnished in the most complete manner, and when the family of the General takes possession of it, which they are expected to do to-day, they will find in the pantry some of the substantials of life, and coal in the cellar with which to do the cooking.