and placid and the breeze cool and agreeable decidedly the most interesting sight was the recep tion of the general by his old companions in arms : colonel marinus wiilet now in his eighty-fifth year general van cortland general clarkson and other worthies whom we have mentioned â€” col fish general lewis and several of his comrades were absent he embra ced them all effectionately and col wil let again and again he knew and re membered them all it was a re-union of a long separated family in philadelphia the room of the state house in which the declaration of inde pendence was signed will be fitted up by direction of a committee of the city coun cils and appropriated as a levee room for gen lahe burst into tears the sympa thetic feelings extended to all present ; and even the hardy tar rubbed away the tear he could no longer restrain on thusday thc 19th ult the gentle men of the bar of the city of new york to the number of about 300 received gen la fayette in the common pleas room of the city hall ; when mr hoffman their chairman addressed the general in a feel ing and eloquent style to which the general replied in a handsome manner about four or five hundred french gen tlemen resident in the city of new york proceeded to the quarters of gen la fayette and by a committee tm>de an address to him ; to which he returned an affectionate and