Twenty-five hundred jostling, pushing persons crowded the halls, corridors, and reception rooms.

The General stood in one of the hotel parlours surrounded by the committee, with Mrs.Grant and other ladies to his right, and on his left Generals Wool, Cook, and Hooker, John Van Buren, Ethan Allen, and others.
Little judgment seems to have been used in issuing the invitations.

The throng was indiscriminate.

Farce comedy was in the air.

Religious fanatics, passing before the hero, offered up prayers for the salvation of his soul.