The Daily Advertiser

LANSINGBURGH, August 11.

Extract of a letter from a gentleman on his way to New-York, dated Albany, August 8, to his friend in this town.

"This morn about nine I arrived here, and found the streets already thronged with people. The gentlemen which, I suppose, form the federal committee, were extremely active in joining the procession, which moved from a road a little north of town. I chose station in market-street, through which the procession passed, from whence I could observe it to great advantage. It was conducted with the utmost regularity—order seemed the presiding genius of the day of which my stay here will not admit a recital—Let it at present suffice to say, that the different ranks and professions, preceded by ensigns, expressive of their different orders, moved through Market and State streets, with a degree of silence and order seldom known in such a multitude---All, all was elegant beyond expression. There were to be seen stages on which all the different mechanicry of the city were actually following their trades; and from the best observations I could make they wrought to no small advantage, even while they moved in procession. I have seen many processions in Europe, but none performed with such singular brilliancy and activity as this—They all deserved the highest encomiums, but in particular a stage of nailers, the workmen consisted of youths, to appearance about 11 or 12 years of age—They indeed shewed a dexterity truly surprising; neither was it easy to distinguish which best understood his business. At seeing these—Happy America (exclaimed I) if thy morning shine so conspicuously, what will thy meridian splendor produce. Thy childhood is a pattern for the aged nations of the east. The spectators were very numerous, and I could observe flushes of alternate joy and surprise in almost every countenance. The procession moved to the green above the city, where under a truly American summer house, composed of green pines, they partook, like a company of brothers, as truly American dinner, in which numbers affectionate to joined 'Sic &c.