every boat that arrived to take its station was completely crowded with elegantly dressed ladies and gentlemen the appearance of the robert fulton as she came down x the east river from the navy yard escorted by the connec ticut and oliver ellsworth all superbly decorated was rich beyond description her yards were manned to the round top6 with about two hundred seamen from the onstitution who made an elegant ap pearance and a battalion of marines un der the command of maj smith was on board with a band of music and many of the naval officers upon this station together with several ladies and private gentlemen arrived at the place of rendezvous the several vessels comprising the fleet took their stations and proceeded in re gularorder to the quarantine as follows : first the chancellor livingston on board of which were the committee of tbe corporation major general morton and suite a number of the members of the cincinnati including colonels wil lett vaiick trumbull piatt and others together with a few ladies several officers and professors from west point accom panied by the excellent military band at tached to that institution on the right of the chancellor and about a length in rear was the connecticut and on the left to correspond was the oliver ells worth directly in the rear of the chan cellor was the robert fulton whose lof ty masts and wide-spread aims which literally swarmed with men towered proudly above her less pretending but not less gay and