New Ulm weekly review (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892
August 12, 1885 · Page 1 of 8
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mmm iP^IPS' W%G&%W*W?f ff^ 7^mm^w^^wwM3. aei ^3- New TJlm Review, GEN. GEANT ENTOMBED. who had first removed 16 from the-eottage at given him as p. ieepsake tey 'bis -chief. IHch. tion of theeit from the city hall northward man house, just above, aad the other hotels Mount McGregor, a nd the beautiful ritual of' Vice President Hendricks rode his secretary, was beginning to ring with the sounds of on upper Broadway were all draped the Grand Army was begun by Commander Mr. East, his Mend, Mr. Depew of Indiana, martial music. Suddenly following close with tasteful displays. Th use of Alexander Reed of Meade post. No. 1, of and Senator Blair of New Hampshire JOS. BOBLETER, Publisher. upon Gen. Hancock and his staff came Capt drapery was most universal in the business Philadelphia, of which the general was the From the City HaU in New York to life.* Randolph, his light artillery battery with part of the city. Wall street was lined .with most distinguished member. said: A PICTURESQUE GLIMPSE OF THE XJBB. NEW ULM, Riverside Park are the Remains MINNESOTA. guns glistening and horses black from end to end. The sub-treasury Assembled to pay the last aad tribute of respect N EW YORK, Special Telegram, Aug 8.ft to our late commander and illustrious was especially beautiful Black cloth of the Hero Borne.., CAVOEUNG TN THE MORNING ATB seemed that the last height attainable by comrade, U. S. Grant, let ns unite in prayer. CoL Henry L. A bbott, of United States en covered the pillars of the portico and panels The chaplain will invoke the divine blessing. human hands in imposing and majestic display gineer corps, .and Lieut Kimball's jolly tars, of shirred muslin hid the abutments and the THE PRAYER. "Photophone" '4s the'name o! a new was reached when the grandest military from the Omaha, the Swatara, the Tennessee statue of Washington in front Heavy folds Post Chaplain C. Irvine Wright said: and civic pageant of modern times, perhaps invention fey Prof. Bell, which will send The Solemn Jonrney Accompanied by and the Powhattan. Jolly tars they were, of black cloth, hanging from the wide cornices God of battles! Father of allE Amidst this of all time, swept slowly and solemnly across mournful assemblage we seek thou, with whom the Most Imposing Military Display though depressed in spirits, and every inch a pictures by -wire. hopes to reap of the Mutual life insurance- building the broad spaces of Madison square, the there is no death. Open every, every eye to behold sailor was each of them in appearance, and on Nassau street, the great Mills building, as of Modern Times. greater wealth from the photophone him who changes the nijrht of death into heart and center of the city. At that moment' as they marched up in double lines in well as the Fields and the Equitable buildings, wras the center and nucleous morning. In the depths of our hearts we Madison square than from the telephone. Many people would hear the Celestial words, "I am the resurrection their sea rig, dragging a burnish twelveipounder were notable examples of the skillful of the greatest aggregation of people ever and the life he that believeth think the Professor should perfect behind them, they presented a pict.uresque use of draperies on a large scale. The porch me, though he were dead, yet shall he known in America. Th throng was simply Millions of People Witness the Pageant appearance. When after these -with of Trinity church was draped with flags his telephone before attending to any live." As comrade after comrade departs, incalulable, vast beyond comprehension by and we march on with ranks broken, swinging tread came the marines and three covered with crape, and black cloth overhung with Reverence and Curiosity new invention. Th telephone is number of unite. You might as well speak help ns to be faithful unto snore battalions of sailors keeping step to the entrance to Grace church. The Combined. thee and to each other. We beseech thee, look in of a prairie wheat field by the aaumber of unanimously voted a wonderful convenience the music of a, fife and drum corps, Union League club displayed a great number mercy on the widows and children of deceased heads of wheat as to speak of the throng of comrades, and with thine own tenderness console matters for the iime being grew lively along and also a nuisance, that is of flags shrouded with black ou both its to-day by individuals. In and about Madison and comfort those bereaved by this event the thoroughfare, to be traversed a short fronts. The University, the Union, the New accountable for a great deal of profanity which calls us here. Give them "the oil of joy square every place that a person while later by the catafalque bearinsr the York, and the Manhattan clubs also displayed for mourning, the garment of praise for the SORROW'S OWN ECJCTPAGE. could stand upon, crouch upon, climb upon, on account of its imperfect body of the man they had been called upon spirit of heaviness." Heavenly Father, bless many mourning emblems. Two companies of the Tenth regiment or cling to was occupied, and one could feel and save our country -with the freedom and working. to honor. As Hancock's prancing steed led United States infantry marched across the THE LAST RESTING PLACE. peace and righteousness and truly great mercy, the weight of the presence of the other the procession th at followed over the miles a Savior's grace and thy holy spirit favor may plaza and formed two lines facing each It was the extreme northern end of the yard, hundreds of thousands that one could not and miles of streets, it was probably the we all meet at last before thy throne in heaven, other, reaching from the porch nearly to the a broad, rolling plateau, five hundred feet rid the state of a troublesome see. For nine miles the narrow ehannel of and through thy great name shall be praised most remarkable that -ever gathered to pay car. The gates swung open, and the guard above the Hudson, embracing twenty or tor ever and ever." the procession ran through two vast, crushing, pest two years ago, the New Hampshire tribute to mortal man. Following the tars of honor, preceded by Kev. Ir Newman, thirty acres of new ground, that was the spot All ComradesAmen: dirge, band. crowding and clinging masses of human legislature passed a law granting dragging the cannon and carrying the Post Commander Alexander ReedOne by Bishop Harris and other ministers, and DoctorsDouglas.Shrady selected for the final ceremonies. I was a beings. From the street edge maintained one as the vears roll on we are called stretchers, came the First New York division ten cents a tail on woodchucks, provided and Sands, emerged. The beautiful spot The level was broken by by the police the compact crowd took all the together to fulfill the last sad rites of onr of the National guard. Gen. Schaler's pride. two companies emerged, a band at the edge numerous knolls topped by waving pines. comrades of the war. The present, full of tee none were killed on Sunday. As space. They packed the pavements, covered It was a division to be proud of, and the cares and pleasures of civii life fades away, and of the piaza played a dirge, and ewery man At the base of the first of these was the tomb all steps, stoops and balconies, and a consequence nearly every farmer we look back to the time when, shoulder to First battery and the Ninth, Eleventh, within sight removed his hat as the guar itself. The workmen had just completed the filled all windows. They hung upon lampposts, shoulder on many battlefields, we fought for Twelfth a nd Twenty-second regiments and went into woodchuck raising. Since, slowly advanced bearing the casket! Slowly interior and the implements for making the the dear old flajc. We may indulge the hope that and telegraph poles were black with the Second battery wheeled into line with a the spirit with which on land and on sea hardship, they descended the steps, slowly they bore final fastenings were lying on the sward then 144*000 bounties have been paid them. Swarms of people covered the roofs, precision of step and a measure of discipline privation and dangers were encountered their burden to the car, and placed it in behind it In front was the heavy copper some of them looking down from a height and 20,000 more remain to be adjusted, by our dead heroes may never be b:ct:ed out that is seldom equaled. Quickly following position or its last journey. Then the covering for the casket and the soldering from the history or memories of the generations of from ten to twelve stories. Windows and the tax payers are calling came the Second brigade of Gen. Louis Fitzgerald, to come. infantry companies formed by twos on each irons were already in the fire. There along the line of march were eagerly rented with the Second battery in the lead, A SPIRIT UNCOMPLAINING, a halt on the woodchuck business. Another side, the Grand Army men formed platoons were two knolls further to the at enormous prices. Balconies and temporary obedient to the behest of duty, whereby to-day and then the grey haired veteran guards. In front and rear, the band stationed itself right and on the further one of stands sold at case of over-production, under our national honor is secure, and onr loved ones Col. Austin and his staff were as at the head, a signal was given, and the car these was the Claremont mansion, rest in peace under the dear old flag, may the PRICES THAT WERE SIMPLY AMAZING, the stimulus of a bounty. illustrious lite of him whom we lay with its purple burden moved out and upon GRAY HAIRED AS THE VETERANS and a chance to stand upon a flight of steps its large porches completely enshrouded in in the tomb to-day prove a glorious who came after them on foot, and with heroic Broadway. Carriages containing a host of was worth from $ 1 to $3 Some single mourniner. Long tables had been set here incentive to the youth, who in the front and marching step to the sound of distinguished men followed, and the scene windows brought $75, and one balcony capable for the refreshment of distinguished guests, ages to come, may be called upon to uphold The Chicago Journal has of late received martial music, the governor's foot guard, the destines of our country- As the years at the city hall was ended. I was long, of holding twelve or fifteen people, but for the most part they were unused. a great mas* of alleged "poetry" roll on we too shall have fought our battle volunteers of the old One Hundred and however, before the people dispersed. They near the Hotel Brunswick, brought $400. Through the tree tops on the high bluffs in through and be laid to rest, onr souls following Sixty-fifth Volunteers, and the Tenth Washington on General Grant, but it has too profound loitered about the plaza, gazing at the Peddlers in the crowd sold hundreds of footstools, front of all could be discovered the tall the Ions column lo the realms above as grim Continental Guard, the four patriotic death hour by hour shall n ike its victims. Let draperies, and bought the endless variety of about eight inches high, and they were masts of the naval fleet anchored under the a respect for the dead General us so live that when that time shall come those Italian organizations, with their gleaming photographs, medals and lives of the dead eagerly snatched up at 5 0 cents each. People shelter of the shores. Fa away the light we leave behind may say above our graves, to insult his memory by publishing suits and jaunty hats, and Capt. Williams' general that street venders had to sell who were fortunate enough to secure and shade played upon the rippling waters, "Here lies the body of a true hearted, bravo and three companies of colored veterans, made such mawkish nonsense in his honor. earnest defender of the republic." one of these and to elevate themselves and the white cottages along the distant THE PROCESSION. Senior Vice-Commander Lewis 51. Moore (laying way for the younger men who followed them above the level of the crowd were much envied shores lay like snow banks in the sun. At And of all the absurd caricatures The order of procession as it moved away a wreath of evergreens upon the comniIn in the third division. Two brigades from by those who could only see the horsemen 1:15 Maj.-Geu. Hancock, his white moustache was as follows: behalf of the past I give this tribute, a symbol published in some of the newspapers Pennsylvania were in this division, and Maj. of undyinc love for comrades of the war. and the tops of the folded flags. Those and goatee looking like chalk marks Gen. Hancock and Staff. as pictures of .ferera Junior Vice Commander John A. Weidersheim, Gen. Molineaux had cause to show in his the Journal Regular Troops. lucky ones were kept busy calling out the on his sun-burned face, arrived. (laving arose or floweriPupon the coffin): Symbol Sailors. manner that he was proud of the men names of the organizations as they passed says: "The most of them'&ear no of purity, we offer at the sepulchre a rose. First Division New York State National Guard. AN ORDERLY GATHERING marching behind him, while Christensen and along. A person of ordinary height a few May future generations emulate the unselfish Old Guard of New York City. likeness whatever to the dead iwro and which packed three grand stands and had so Gen. Brownell, the brigade commanders, devotion of even the lowliest of our heroes. feet from the line of march, could see very Governor's Foot Guard. good a view that they waited patiently. The Past Post Commander A. J. Sellers, (laying a patriot.. There is no i?eseia&Jsaice between Veteran Association One Hundred and Sixtyfitth marshalled their men in splendid order. little. Now and then he caught the flash laurel wreath upon the coffin): Last token of" space in front was well filled, and fully iiO,000 New York Volunteers. Pennsylvania's quota soon came, and as the of a plume, and all the time he heard the features in iihese pictures aOection from comrades in arms, we crown theseremains Veteran Zouave association, people waited anxiously for the bugle First regiment stepped forward with the with a symbol of victory. the solemn music and the tread of marching Tenth Regiment New York Volunteer Veterans. and those &icli they purport to represent." sound to announce the approach of the ADDRESSES. regularity of clockwork the crowds lining Fifth Regiment New York Volunteer Zouaves. feet. I is probable that ma ny thousands column. In full view of all was the Rev. J. W. Sayers. chaplain-in-chief, department Second Company Washington Continental the sidewalks could not suppress a burst of who stood for long hours hardly saw the of Pennsylvania G. A. K.: The march Guard. tomb. A host of policemen found little applause. Following came the Grey Invincibles, of another comrade is over, and he lies down procession at alL Added to the difficulty Columbo Guards. difficulty in keeping their line, and the after it in the house appointed for all the living. the colored company. They numbered Italian Rifle Guards. was the fact that all the people occupying troops, shaded by the dark green leaves The South has done a great deal Thus surrounded, this open tomb reminds us of Garibaldi Legion. forty-eight and showed great proficiency in front places kept up their umbrellas and the frailty of human life and the tenor of the oaks seemed like statues. I twas after Columbia Guards. towards putting itself in accord drill. Immediately following the passage of parasols all the time, regardless of the re by which we hold our own. In Three Companies Veteran Guards (Colored). three hours' waiting when the sullen drum such an hour as ye think notthe the Pennsylvania Contigent at Fourteenth quests and entreaties and aften imprecations Second Division National Guard of New York. with the North, by paying honor to was heard in the distance, and it seemed to son of man cometh." It seems well we First Regiment National Guard, Pennsylvania. street came a scene which was repeated of those in the rear. The promptness should leave our comrade to rest where over him the memory of General Grant. I bring every one to their feet, and the look Invincibles. from Madison square along the entire line with which the procession appeared before will bend the arching sky as it did in great love Gate City Guards of Atlanta, Ga. of expectancy was as apparent as if an electric recognizes his merits as a soldier it when he pitched his tent or lay down weary by to the place of interment, such as is not the Fifth Avenue hotel was astonishing. At Second Regiment National Guard, Connecticut. battery had touched each one. All turned the way or on the battlefield for an hour's sleep. often witnessed. Behind the colored In First Regiment Massachusetts infantry. remembers his magnanimity at Appomattox. 10:30 o'clock to the minute Gen. Hancock As he was then, so he is stillin the hands of in their direction from vhich the tardy troops Four Companies Virginia State Troops. vincibles came the well known Georgia company, and staff came in sight, when nobody expected the Heavenly Father. God giveth his beloved In the words of the New First Company Union Veteran Corps, District were to come. I was wounderful to see how sleep. As we lay our comrade down here to rest the "Gate City Guards," of Atlanta. him for an hour. This showed the of Columbia. quick the center space was filled. The carriages let us cherish his virtue and strive to emulate Orleans Times-Democrat-: "Vanquished They numbered about sixty. Along the Union Veteran Corps, District of Columbia. good of having the procession headed by his example. Reminded forcibly by the vacant deposited their burdens and drove Capital City Guards, District of Columbia, route which the guards passed through were as was the South by his arm*, in his and under the managemento the regulars. places so lately filled by our deceased brother away, and the casket was lifted from the Company D. Minnesota Guards. many Grand Army posts, awaiting the time that our ranks are thinning, let each one be so Division National Guards, New Jersey. chivalric kindness we were doubly vanquished catafalque with all the expedition possible. ALMOST EVERY NATION ON EARTH, loyal to every virtue, or true to every friendship, when they could take their positions in the Pall Bearers. faithful in our remaining march The crowd that gathered about the doors even China, with her violet and white, the at Appomattox." The passions Funeral Car, Drawn bv Twenty-Four Horses, line. They were cheere again and apain that we shall be ready to fall of the tomb was singularly democratic, and mourning colors of the Orient, horse, foot Each Led by a Colored Groom. and the most positive proof of goodfellowship out here to take our places at the great review, engendered by civil war are the Family and Relatives. efforts to keep any order of precedence and artillery, civic, public and private: not with doubt but in faith the merciful captain was given. President Cleveland. deepest and least irradicable of all of our salvation will call us to that fraternity were speedily abandoned. None who looked music of muffled drums, of brass bands, of Vice President and Cabinet which on earth and in heaven may remain down from the little eminence will ever bagpipes, of fifes and cymbals and so THE COMING PAGEANT. antagonisms, save perhaps those of Ex-Presidents Hayes and Arthur. unbroken. [A pause for a moment.] Jesus United States Senators. N EW YORK, Special Telegram, Aug. 8.The forget the sea of faces that they saw. Policemen through the long hours the mighty pageant saith thy brother shall rise again. I am the religious animosity, and therefore it is Members of Congress. great plateau extending over that portion of resurrection and the life. (The body is here deposited forgot their duty, and crowded in upon passed by. All the conditions and circumstances Admiral Jouett. a pleasure to know that it has not in the tomb.] Behold, the silver cord New York from the eastern boundary of Central the coffin. Of course, they did not lift their were colossal. Men grew to greater Commodore Chandler. having been loosed, the golden bowl broken, we Park for miles up the Hudson river, to hats, and they seemed far more intent on taken but twenty years to heal the Foreign Ministers. stature by hours that intervened. To be commit the body to the grave where dust shall Ex-Foreign Ministers. what is known as Manhattanville, and of return to the earth as it was and the spirit to seeing themselves than in preventing others. part and parcel of such a stupendous demonstration breach between the North and South. Cabinet of Gen. Grant. God who gave it. Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, which the Riverside Park is the western Gen. Hancock then stood patiently with half was to have higher ideas of mankind Retired Army Officers. dust to dust, looking for the resurrection and the boundary, suddenly found its scanty population a dozen people in front of him, while the Gen. Grant's Staff. and its capacity to exult in the pride of life to come through Onr Lord, Jesus Christ. Clergy. quadrupled before noon, and every short, stout figure of Gen. Sheridan was overshadowed common humanity capable of such Matthew Turnbull, of Chicago, has A prayer by Rev. H. Clay Trumbull followed. Attending Physicians. cross street and every avenue crowded. by|the tall, straight figure of the scenes as these. A great deal the Gen. Sheridan and Staff. These formalities concluded. Bishop an article in the current number of a Riding along the Elevated railway on the hero who, as Lincoln said, "skinned them most impressive feature of the event Chiefs of Bureaus, War Depart ment Harris of Tennessee stepped forward and London magazine, called the Nineteenth Gen. Sehofteld and Staff. West side, and overlooking this portion of while Grant held them." Sherman's black was the vast silence. I was comparatively read three verses beginning, "I am the ressurrection Judge!) of^ gjiprerne Cor^t, and the life." Every person in the city, it seemed as though some invading eyes seemed brighter than ever, and the contrast absolute. No matter how softly the Century, bewailing the increasing Governor of Illinois and ocaff. the great throng forgot himself as the bishop army had landed at the lowest point on with his white hair made him the conspicuous muffled drums were rolled you could Governor of Michigan and Staff. power of American aristocracy. proceeded. Dr. Newman followed, and then Governor of Wisconsin and Staff. Manhattan island and was driving the figure in the crowd. Sheridan, too, hear them squares away. The only heavy the benediction was prononnced. Governor of Massachusetts and Staff. He says it is idle to deny the existence populace slowly but surely into the has aged, and many of the veterans gazed sound was tile rumtlihg of tHe cannon Governor of New Hampshire and Staff. THE GOOD-NIGHT TAPS. neids or into the river. Every with surprise upon the close-cropped, white of such a body, for it is ingrained the wheels. When the band of the Third New Governor of Connecticut and Staff. Then Trumpeter Krouse, bugle in hand, Governor and Staff of Maine. street was a stream of humanity, head of the little hero. Jersey regiment passed by, playing "Nearer steyped from the ranks to the" side of the very system of American Government. Governor of Vermont and Staff. on elevated trains, in overcrowded street casket, and sounded the good-night "taps" My God to Thee," the sweet, solemn strains Governor of Pennsylvania and Staff. It is not only legal but it is clearly established over the great soldier's final sleep. A moment PORTRAITS OF THE DEAD GENERAL cars and hastily improvised wagons,, and were distinctly audible far up Fifth avenue, Governor of New Jersey and St aff. of silence followed after the family had Governor of Rhode Island and Staff. along the dirty streets of this unfashionable were everywhere. They represented him at in the Constitution of the many squares beyond where they would taken their last look at the closed casket, Governor of Iowa and Staff. section of the metropolis nothing was seen all periods of his life, from a lieutenant to have been lost in the noise of an ordinary United States. A Senator in the and the three little grandchildren of the Governor of Minnesota and Staff. but moving masses of women and men. recent years. The absence of drapery on day. The wailing ound.of the fifes of the Governor of Virginia and Staff. dead general, one scarcely high enough to American Congress as twenty times Representatives of the Governor of Indiana. Every point of land was covered by the many of the private residences along Fifth Fourth Connecticut drum corps, playing the touch it with her tiny fingers, deposited a Legislature of New York. chaplet of oak leaves on the conqueror's bier. the political power of an English peer, moving tide. Many had fled to the unblasted avenue was noticeable. I was due to the sad, sweet notes of "Pieyel's Hymn," could Gen. Franklin, President ot the Soldiers' Home. It was a simple ceremony, but there were rocks, apparently to avoid the coming absence of the householders from the city. be heard almost from the time they swung Messrs. Drexel and Childs. and the Senate is the main source of no dry witnesses to it, and all the surrounding Board oi Indian Commissioners. flood of people. For miles behind was the There were many signs of mourning to-day into Fifth avenue from Fourteenth street pomp and greatness seemed to melt away American aristocracy. The only way Mayor and Representatives of the Citv of Brooklyn. apparently victorious army. Strange aside from the decoration of buildings. The drum corps of the Sixth New Jersey before its sweet simplicity. Tears were to check the*growth of the system is glimpses of moving columns, broad flashes There were black bordered flags on many band played Tlee as a Bird to the Moun- coursing down Gen. Sherman's cheeks as the Mayor and Common Council of New York City. of scarlet coats and gold lace, the tramping street cars and black plumes nodded above little folks stole timidly back to their mothers, Mayor and Common Council of Boston. tain," and the band of the Continental Foot to stop the supplies of that fountainhead Mayor and Common Council of St. Louis. and Gen. Hancock looked down upon, of many horses, the rumble of artillery the ears of rough cart horses. A colored bootblack Guards of Massachusetts played "Sweet of aristocrats, the American Senate. Mayor and Common Council of Hartford. thein with tender compassion. Gen. Sherman wagons, the blaze of trumpets and roll of on an uptown corner had covered his Spirit, Hear My Prayer." As a general thing, Mayor and Common Council of New Haven. was the first to move. With uncovered drums told of the coming pageant. stand with black, and had painted in rude Mayor and Common Council if Jersey City. head, he advanced to Nellie Sartoris and Mayor and Common Council of Eliz .beth. letters on a piece of cardboard: "He set me THE CHOICE OF MUSIC shook her hand. Gen. Joe Johnston followed THE BLUE AND THE GREY ENTWINED. Order of Cincinnati. free". Another bootblack down on the and extended his hand kindly to the daughter by the bands was not good and was of too Wheeler and Grant Posts, G. A. R. The absorption of the West Shore Following this apparent joining of hands of his conqueror, and the great assemblydispersed. Bowery had wrapped the arms of his rickety Grand Army Posts and Veteran Organizations. high an order to appeal to the emotion of a between the North and the South came a Railroad of New York by the Central, Society of the Cincinnati old chair with alternate strips of black and general gathering. From the hundreds of Chamber of Commerce. similar unbending between the First Massachusetts white. I was a common thing to see black is regarded as a great misfortune by THOSE AT THE TOM3. musical organizations that passed but few New York Historical Society. regiment and four companies of Behind the burial party stood Gen. streamers hung above fruit stands and newspaper Union LeagueClub. played the simple and tender airs familiar to the people along these lines, as it removes, Virginia troops. All differences between the Hancock at his eibow was President Cleveland, Aztec Club. booths. The building for whose the people, and a dozen of the bands played Vice President Hendricks, and members Uhited States Christian Commission. all hope of vigorous competition, two bodies were amicably bridged when the decoration the most money was probably the "Dead March in Saul," and more than that Ex-Dir-lomatic and Consular Officers. of the cabinet Near the head of the casket, hero died and again the men who wore the and virtually annihilates $65,- spent was the city hall, where Citizens' Law and Order League of Boston. on the right, were, Sherman and Sheridan, played Chopin's "Funeral March." The funeral blue and the men who wore the gray fraternized the body lay in state. The building is itself in full unifoim, were uncovered. At the 000,000 of invested capital. Bradstreet's hymns of the operas were the favorites, but Association of Exempt Firemen, as evenly as though they all had fought sides were ex-Presidents Arthur and Have? architecturally one of the finest in the city, when such an air as "Nearer my God to Delegation Volunteer Firemen's Association, journal says: The moral to be for one common cause. Whenever an organization and Senator Sherman. On the other side' of and the wide space in front permits a good Excelsior Council, No. 14. O. U. A. M., Thee," was played, the affect could be seen the casket opposite were Admiral Porter, from the South passed along the line drawn from this can be found in the Valley Forge Council, No. 2, O. U. A. M., view of its facade. The work was skillfully at once, the deepened hush, the uncovering Fitzhugh Lee.Gen. Gordon and GenBuckner. Societa del Fraterno Amore, it was clapped and cheered. The New Jersey done and the decorations tra nsformed the tendency towards the unlimited consolidation When the guard of honor bore the remains of heads and tears in the eyes of the women. Excelsior Association of Jersey City, troops made a fine showing. They were white marble pile into a temple of mourning. within the tomb, and at 5:03 o'clock placed Stock Exchange, The bands about the catafalque played of corporate enterprise, divided up into two brigades. In the first The effect was marred by two stanzas of them within the steel case, the sealing of Cotton Exchange, Chopin's "Funeral March," and played it magnificently, both the leaden lining and steel case then and, unrestrained by law or some brigade were the First, Fourth, Fifth and Produce Exchange, ridiculous doggerel which Commissioner but would have touched the hearts being performed. Che family entered the Board of Trade and Transportation, Ninth regiments, the First and Second batalions Squires had written and inflicted on the other powerful influence, it is quite Mercantile Exchange, tomb, remaining only a few moments. Thevthen of the people more tenderly had they played and Gatling company. In the Second public under the delusion that it was poetry. Maritime Association, sought their carriages, and when enter possible for nine or ten or even less oi "Rest Spirit, Rest," or "Rock of Ages." I brigade were the Third, Sixth and Seventh Metal Exchange, The picture of Gen. Grant in front of the ing. the Seventh and Twenty-second regiments, was 1 o'clock when the catafalque Republican County Committee, the powerful railroads corporations regiments and another Gatling-gun company. city hall is said to be the largest photograph in line on the bluff, fired three vollevs Young Men's Republican Club of New York, passed through Madison Square. I was the toward the river, after which Battery After that came another evidence of ever taken. Worked in white on a black of the country, controlled by a few Young Men's Republican Club of Kings County, mome nt of the day. For that all waited Fifth artillery, fired three salutes from' the ground were many designs all over the city. Young Men's Republican Club of Jersey City, the fraternizing feeling between the North men, to combine and by the same Knoll toward the hotel. The familv carriages about that all interest centered from that Young Men's Republican Club of Baltimore, A broken pillar, a cross, sword and pen, and South. A detail of the Fourth Massachusetts drove away, but wero not out of sight Lincoln League, radiated and influences reaching to deeper methods as were applied to the West sheaves of wheat and sickles and gates ajar regiment had become separated from when persons attempted to deface the tomb Third Ward Lincoln Club, and holier depths of human emotion than were most favored. Anotations i om Grant's Shore to absorb the entire railroad Association of Exempt Firemen, the main body. One of the bands of the by writing their names upon it all the music, all the trapping* of grief, or Volunteer Firemen's Association, famous sayings, in white letters upon black, Southern troops lost the company they were system of the country. Excelsior Association of Jersey City, DULUTH. all the vast display could go. There was a were frequent, and poetry worked in the playing for in the confusion, and met the Knights of Pythias, DULUTH, Special Telegram, Aug. 8.Th*- long break and open space before the car of same manner were almost as abundant Le Knights of Sherwood Forest, Massachusetts boys. They quickly found Grant memorial exercises to-day were death, and the suspense in the presence of Sons of Veterans. one of these quotations serve to end this largely attended. The procession was interfered It will be a surprise to many to each other out, and the Northerners marched that advance was almost painful. Down that HOW THE CONGRESSMEN BODE. with by hard rain, but was quite large. description: up Broadway singing to the music of the learn that during .the late heated term The congressional committees and other The opera house was filled, and hundreds open channel between the living banks could And the night dew that falls, though in silence Southern band. The band belongs to the of people were turned away. The exercises at the North on no day did the'thermometer officials from Washington were distinguished be seen the great black plumes upon the Staunton Grays, and is known as the "Stonewall opened with a dirge by the band and it weeps, by broad white sashes. Speaker Carlisle and funeral car approaching the glitter of the at New Orleans register so band." As the procession passed the a prayer. Judge A. P. Sceans' presided, and Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he ex-Speaker Randall rode with Congressman silver trimmings in the sunshine the purple sleeps payed a fine tribute to Grant as a soldier Fifth Avenue hotel the Grant family, with high as in New York, Cincinnati, St. Hiscockof New York and Reed of Maine. And the tear that we shed, though in secret it of the casket that contained all that is mortal and man, and read general orders of the G. the exception of Mrs. Grant, who is at Mount Louis or St. Paul. This prompts the rolls, One carriage held Congressmen John DeLong A. R. on the memorial meeting, and Giant's and perishable of Gen. Grant. Around it McGregor, assembled at the windows overlooking Shall long keep his memory green in our souls. address to the army of volunteers at the close of Massachusetts, Randolph Tucker of Virginia, New Orleans Picayune to remark: the guns of the guards shone. At every moment, the street and viewed the line. The of the war. The Glee club sang two selections. THE BODY ENTOMBED. Ben Butterworth of Ohio and Gea from the pavement to roof tree, 10,000 "New Orleans is a cooler summer city Maj. D. G. Cash read resolutions of Willis A features of Col. F. D. Grant, so well known to N EW YORK, Special Telegram. Aug. 8.CoL King of Louisiana. The senatorial delegation faces gazed upon it Gormon post G. A. R. Kev. Levi Gilbert a nd nearly every one in the line, were especially Fred Grant stood at the head of the coffin than many places situated far to the paired off as follows, the senators rid-^ C. Tower. Jr., delivered addresses. Both APPEARANCE OF THE TROOPS. prominent He stood with uncovered head, and his brothers and the ladies of the family ingintwos: were fine efforts, full of tribute to all phases northward, and while the people of St. N EW YORK, Special Telegram, Aug. 8. and as the veterans passed, they doffed their stood close behind him, all clad in the uniform of Gen. Grant Business was generally suspended. Senators Merrill of Vermont and Cockrell of Louis and Cincinnati and other There were few glittering bayonets in the hats in respect to the son of their old commander. of mourning. Senator Evarts' strong Missouri, Sherman of Ohio and Ransom of parade. Warlike signs were concealed North Carolina, Ingalls of Kansas and Harris of face was solemn rather than cynical. Senator Northern centres are sweltering with FORT TOTTEN. Tennessee, Paimer of Michigan and Miiler rather than displayed. The soldiers went by Instead of attempting to cover the whole Miller appeared impressed with the im excessive heat and falling in the streets of New York, Wade Hampton of South Carolina DEVIL'S LAKE, Dak., Special Telegram Au- with reversed arms and slow tread to the Eortance of the occasion, and President front of a building with cloth, it was gathered 8.No special memorial services were had and Manderson of Nebraskn. Eustis of Louisiana from its effects the people of New Orleans roll of the muffled drums. The corps was and Blaire of New Hampshire, Brown of Georgia here to-day. Flags were at half-mast The levelund, who had come up with Secretary into masses around cornices and pillars, and Evarts of New York. postoftice and all business houses were closed marked not only by the long line of people are enjoying a mild and salubri' Bayard and had been formally re and over doorways. The favorite way of Congressmen Bush of Brooklyn, and Ward from 1 to 5 p. m. At Fort Totten the day who stood, with uncovered heads, on the ceived by Gen. Hancock, seemed a little treating panels, which were sometimes triangular, ous climate and are following their was observed I obedience to general orders of Chicago, rod together, and Gen. Bingham street, but by the guidon, the bobbing columns surprised. had shown a prom pt sometimes oblong and sometimes issued by the war department, at dawn usual avocations without discomfort of Pennsylvania, Wheeler of Alabama of national corps and the battle flags appreciation of the loss the nation had sustained square, was by fluting and plaiting the folds of day thirteen guns were fired, a single run and Lowrey of Indiana were one coach. and with no risk of death from sunstroke. draped with crape. The soldiers took part and yet he seemed to stand as if he running from the center outward. A fine every thirty minutes, and a national salute One of the carriages containing members of in a soldier's funeral, and more devoted was a part rather than a voluntary participant of thirty-eight guns closed the day The en Indeed, cases of sunstroke are example of this use of mourning was seen Gen. Grant's military staff carried Generals tire command comprising three companies tribute was never paid by warriors to hero Looking down on the mos3 ot heads at the Fifth Avenue hotel The great front so exceptionally ra re at the South as Horace Porter, Rui'us Ingalls, C. B. Cornstock of infantry and one of cavalry, was paraded it was interesting to see that all were impressed dead. I was shortly after 9 o'clock that of the buildinga stretch of grayish white at 1 0 o'clock in full uniform under the pose and William Henry Smith. In another to be almost unknown, and although not only with the solemnity of the Gen. Hancock, with his staff close behind stonedisplayed no black save about and commandant, Mai. Bacon, and staff rode Gen. Parker, Grant's military secretary occasion but with a sincere personal interest him, looking neither to the right nor to the the continuous and long-protracted above the front entrance. There the marble trumpeters played a dirjre. Memorial services during the war, who was present at the Events here followed as rapidly as the left, and sitting upon his horse like a centaur, were held at 8 p. in. in the chapel, consisting pillars were covered with rich-looking black warm weather is somewhat "wearing," meeting between Generals Grant and Lee at mourners had gathered around the coffin of devotional exercises, led bv the rode slowly up Broadway. Already the cloth, which also was spread over the cornice Appomattox, and still has in his possession there are no such excessively hot days post chaplain. Rev. Collier and Rev. Mr which had been deposited in front of the military were astir, ma ny companies belonging a nd balcony above. The general colpr of the original draft of the terms of the Head of Streator, Ili., with appropriate addresses tomb. I was lifted from the catafalque by as are experienced in the north. to state organizations were pouring in the the building greatly heightened the effect of surrender in Grant's handwriting. I was by both. Th post library was the same faithful guard from Grant pos side streets of Fourteenth street, a nd the sec- this concentrated mass of black. The Hoff- draped in mourning by the ladies. $M& ji" i i"i,"**&"..'Mi",'J.iiJc- "i* 'iC.i &1& &>^^*%ji *& & *Sfc ^A^,^ ,j-^^ f.:.f|Ls&&% i{]