The President of the United States arrived in New York last night, on his way to New Hampshire.
    President PIERCE left Washington yesterday morning, accompanied by his private Secretary, Mr. Sidney Webster, Gen. Anderson of Tennessee, and Mr. Hoover, U. S. Marshal of the District of Columbia. He was escorted by the President's mounted guard to the railroad depot, where he was received by the staff and a company of officers of the District Volunteer Regiment, who accompanied him to Baltimore.
    On his arrival at Baltimore he was escorted by the military to the Gilmore House, where he breakfasted with the Mayor, and then was escorted to the depot, where he took the cars for Philadelphia, attended by the Baltimore City Guards.
    At Wilmington, on the route, he was met by Mayor Vaux, Collector Brown, Marshal Wynkoop, and a number of the members of the Common Council of Philadelphia. Arriving at that city, the President and the committee took carriages and drove rapidly to the Walnut street wharf, where they crossed to the river, and left by the next train for New York. A crowd of several hundred persons were present at the wharf to witness his departure. The President was attended by the Philadelphia Committee as far as Trenton, where they took leave of him.
    The President reached Jersey City at ten minutes past nine o'clock, and, on his arrival, was greeted by a throng of his personal and political friends, who had assembled at a very short notice. The President seemed to have laid out his plans of travel so as to avoid, as far as possible, all public demonstrations on the route. Little or nothing was known in New York of his intended movements, and consequently no steps had been taken by any of the democratic associations of this city to give a reception befitting his eminent position and public services. The President was immediately conducted to the Astor House, arrived there at a quarter before ten o'clock. He expressed a desire to retire at once for the night, as he was somewhat fatigued by the journey. He was at once shown to a suite of apartments reserved for him, where he was visited by Hon. John McKeon, Hon. J. R. Brodhead, John Cochrane, Esq., Judge Connolly, and Henry Libenew, Esq., and the usual congratulations followed. The interview lasted but a few minutes, and the President was then left to seek the repose which he evidently required after the fatigues of the day.
    The President was to leave New York for New Hampshire via the New Haven Railroad, by the eight o'clock train, this morning. He visits his native state, to attend to his personal and private interests, preparatory to resuming his residence there at the end of his official term. In a letter declining the invitation of the New Hampshire State Agricultural Society, to become the guest of that body at its next annual meeting in Concord, during the second week in October, the President expressed his intention to devote the remainder of his days mainly to agricultural pursuits.
    There will be a vast concourse of people at Concord, N. H., to-morrow, to participate in the ceremonies of a public reception to the President of the United States, on this his first visit to his native home since his inauguration. An extra train of cars will leave Boston for Concord early to-morrow morning. The poor miserable Black Republicans of Concord, who sought to insult the country in the person of its President, by withholding from him common civilities, have before this time discovered their mistake, but too late to correct it. Even the Boston Atlas, one of the blackest of the black, admonishes the faithful that "nothing will be gained by studied and offensive demonstrations of political hostility," and that "silent disapprobation will be more effective than any coarse and insulting demonstrations."

Source:

Unknown, "Arrival of President Pierce in New York," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, Monday, 1 October 1856, p. 2.