New Hampshire Statesman

NEW-YORK Sept. 13.
THE GUEST OF AMERICA.
On Saturday, General Lafayette, in pursuance of previous arrangements, dined at Washington Hall with the natives of France resident in this City. At six o'clock the company, consisting of about one hundred persons, sat down to a splendid table, arranged by Mr. M'Intyre. The room was very elegantly ornamented. From each corner of it there were erected pillars, which supported two very large arches, composed of flowers and green leaves ; these crossed each other exactly in the centre of the ceiling, and at the point of intersection there was suspended a large brilliant sun, which kept constantly revolving: under this and in front of an arch formed by the Bourbon and American flags, sat Gen. LA FAYETTE. At each end of the table there were transparencies. That on the right of the table represented the Genius of Liberty, presented to the Goddess Cybele, (symbolical of the earth) Washington and LA FAYETTE—with the Goddess Minerva presiding over the scene. That on the left, was a figure of Liberty, sustaining in one hand the cap of Liberty, and in the other a scroll with this inscription :—Honour a mon soutien." In the centre of the table was a miniature of our grand canal, two feet in width and 70 in length. On the water. which meandered its winding course within it banks, there floated boats and mimic swans.—The blooming verdure of its mossy borders, was here and there interrupted by rocks and bridges, which stretched from one bank to the other. The canal we are told, is the work of a person who was formerly decorator to the King of Naples : it is very ingenious in design ; and is executed with great taste.
M. Monneron presided. The President, in proposing the health of LaFayette, gave a chronological history of the General's family, from the 14th century to the present time. M. Piliet sent a copy of the truly poetic and well written stanzas, which were rehearsed by M. Chegny.