Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1885 — Page 7

AMID THE ROAR OF GUNS

The Grant Funeral Train Departs from Mount MacGregor, After Im- , , ' press h e Ceremonies. j Dr. Newman’s Eloquent Sermon, and Other Services in the Cottage on the Mount. The Remains Conveyed to Albany, Where an Immense Procession Takes Place.

Impressive funeral services were held over the remains of pen. Grant at the cottage on Mount MacGregor on the morning of the 4th in st., in the presence of over one thousand people. The sermon was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Newman, and at the conclusion of the exercises the special train bearing the body left for Albany, reaching that city at 3:46 p. m. The remains were conveyed to the State Capitol, where they were viewed by 27,000 people. A correspondent nrnishes the following account of the funeraT services and the journey to Albany : On the mountain brow by the eastern lookout a gun boomed sullenly at 4 o clock this morning. The shock of the reverberations was yet on the heavy air when a second report shook the earth and startled the birds in the trees. The artillery men had begun firing thirteen guns to mark the sunrise of Gen. Grant’s last day upon the mountain. In quick succession and at short intervals the guns were fired. The soldiers received orders to break up camp, and in less than twenty minutes all the tents had disappeared, from among the trees and were packed a way in boxes ready for shipment. Down on the mountain side at 5:45 o’clock a bugle rang out on the still air. It was the assembly call for the trumpeters. Fifteen minutes later the buglers of the four companies of troops were sounding the reveille. The family at the cottage were astir as the morning touched 8 o’clock, and correspondents and guests were moVing at the hotel.. The mountain train at G.o’clock had begun bringing up people, and every hour thereafter the little engine drew up at the depot. The funeral car to carry the remains from the mountain to Saratoga came up early and lay waiting its burden. At 8:30 o’clock the doors of the Grant cottage had been thrown open, and a stream of visitors poured in steadily for over an hour. About 9 o’clock the head of a long line of buggies, wagons, omnibuses, and various kinds of vehicles appeared, climbing up the steep incline near the eastern outlook, and soon the area in the vicinity of the cottage was thronged with horses and wagons and farmers with their wives and families. At 9:30 o’clock a train of two cars brought Gen. Hancock a number of distinguished visitors. The two companies of regulars were drawn up to receive them. They proceeded from the station to the cottage in the following order: Gen. Hancock and Col. Jones; Admiral Rowan and Gen. Sherman; Senator Evarts and Gen. Rufus Ingalls; Senator Miller and Joseph W. Drexel; Gen. Hancock's staff; Miss Drexe], her aunt, and cousin, dressed in deep mourning. On the same train came the Loyal Legion, Past Assistant Paymaster General Gilbert A. Robinson, Brevet Brig. Gen. Charles A. Carleton, Paymaster George De Forest Barton, Brevet Lieut. Col. Floyd Clarkson, Brevet Lieut. Col. August McClark, Capt. Edmund Blunt. At IQ o'clock services were held in the cottage .in the presence of over a thousand versons. Cane chairs and rustic seats were provided for the ladies under the trees in the grove before the cottage. These who failed to secure leafy shade used their umbrellas. The ceremonies opened with the reading of psalm No. 90, which was followed by an impressive prayer by the Rev. Bishop Harris. The hymn “My Faith Looks Upto Thee” was joined in by the whole assemblage present with fine effeot. Dr. Newman then carne forward and delivered a sermon on the subject of the dead General, the family sitting meantime about the remains in the parlor. Dr. Newman for the funeral sermon took for his text the passage from Matthew xxv. 21: "Well done, thou good and faithful servant. Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.” He said: Such, my brethren, is the eulogy that God shall pronounce upon human goodness and fidelity wherever found among the sons of men. The accidental distinctions between prince and peasant, millionaire and pauper, commanding general and private soldier, are but as the dust in the balance in Bis estimation of personal worth; He regards not the person of any man; He looks upon the heart. If a renowned philpijppher searched an ancient city for a man, God is ever in search for a character, which in His sight outweighs the transitory distinctions of earth and time, and out of which are the issues of life. Tell me not what a man possesses—the beauty of Absalom, the glory of Solomon, the wealth of Dives, the eloquence of Apollos, the learning of Paul, but rather tell me what he is, in his modes of thought, in his emotional being, in the trend of his passions, in the temper of his mind, in the tenor of his life, out of which come the totality of his existence and the finality of his destiny. This-is the man as he is, and by it let him be judged. In the intensity of this divine light let us to-day recall the character of the illustrious man whose death a nation so tenderly mourns.” In eulogizing Grant’s services in war and peace Dr. Newman said: “ For his clear and certain imagination, the future loomed before him clothed with the actuality of the present. Read his military orders, and they prophesy the history of the battles h e fought. He foresaw the enemy’s plans “as though he had assisted at their councils of war. He was one of those extraordinary men who, by the supremacy of their wills, force all obstacles to do their bidding. By the promptitude of his action, he left no time for its contravention. Times, places, and persons he comprehended with mathematical accuracy. Nothing escaped his penetration. Such was the perpetual calmness of his intellect that he could transact the most Important affairs when the storm of battle was raging at its height. His soul was the home of hope, sustained and cheered by the certainties of his mind and the power of his faith. His was the mathematical genius of a great general, rather than of a great soldier. By this endowment he proved himself equal to the unexpected, and that with the precision of a seer. ‘The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong,’ because the unexpected happens to every man. The grandest campaigns are often defeats, the most brilliant plans are unconsummated, the most wished-for opportunities are unrealized, because baffled by the unexpected at the very moment of expected fulfillment. But he appeared greatest in the presence of the unforseen. Then came an inspiration as resistless as the march of a whirlwind, as when on the second night of the battle of the Wilderness, when he changed the entire front of the line of battle, and quietly said, in response to a messenger: ‘lf Lee is in my rear, I am in his.’ ” When he rose to supreme command the nation demanded one dominant spirit, mighty to grasp, strong to execute, powerful to inspire. The country was one, the rebellion was one, and the armies of the Union should be one; and the general who could mold, control, inspire an army a million strong and make them think, feel, and fight as one man was the desire of the republic. Such a one was he around whose bier a nation weeps to-day. To be everywhere present at once by bls spirit and orders was in him a realized fact. His laconic order was: ‘Ah strike together.’ He imparted to all his own spirit and all things became possible to his faith. The nation felt her mighty change, and the rebellion went down beneath the- power of one master mind. He was the logician of war. He conquered bv logic. He reasoned out his victories. In all the annals of war there is no such splendid reasoning on the certainty of results. Others have conquered by the superiority of material force, but he by the superiority of mind over mind. Alas! Alas! that he can no longer think for us. Doubtless he will be best known in coming ages as the foremost soldier of the republic. Unknown generations will read his battles with wonder and admiration. In every hamlet, in every metropolis, his martial form will be cast in bronze and sculptured in. marble. Historians will vie with each other in paying homage to his genius; but the time will come when men everywhere will recognize the greatness and beneficence of his administration as President of the United States." In speaking of his private character the preacher said: “And.whether in camp or Cabinet, in private or public,- at home or abroad, how pure and commendable his moral character! Life in the camp has proved ruinous to the morals of the greatest of warriors. The excitement of a life devoted to arms, ths scenes of excess and plunder to which a soldier is exposed, the ab- , eence of the restraints of home and church,‘ tend to the worst of passions and to the corruption of the, best morals. But- here in the presence of tbe dead, whose ears are forever deaf to our praise and censure, let it be our grateful duty that after five years in camp and field he reiurned to his home without a stain upon his -character. His sense of justice was equaled only byhte love of truth. He preferred honor to wealth and poverty to riches not his own. Gentle, true, and kind, gratitude was one of the noblest emotions of his soul. His words

were were few, but pregnant with grateful recognition. .To one who had been a friend in need he declared: I am glad to say that while there is much unblushing wickedness in the world, yet there is a comprehensive grandeur of. soul. In my case I have not fonhd that republics are ungrateful, nor are the people.’ The reverend gentleman then referred to the dead hero’s tastes in the following terms: “He loved life and enjoyed it; he loved children and caressed them; he loved his family and found therein his chief delight. He had not taste for music, but he had melody in his heart. He despised pretense and show, but admired the real and beantitul. He was not fond of books, yet by carefulness of observation, by thoroughness of reflection, by attentiveness to the conversation of the well-informed, by extensive travels in many lands, by the daily study of current events he was the most intelligent citizen in our republic He was the most diligent newspaper-reader in the land. He was a living encyclopedia of facts, figures, and men.” Dr. Newman then made a most touching reference to the home life of the General, depicting the great love borne by him to his wife and Children, which was exemplified by his desire that his wife should be buried with him. The minister then reviewed Grant’s religious life, showing how he leaned on the Scriptures as a guide and ever-present help. The death-bed scene was reviewed minutely and the sermon Closed as follows: “ ’Tis morning. The stars have melted into the coming light. The rosy-fingered morn lifts the drapery of the night. The distant mountains stand forth aglow. The soft, pure light of early dawn covers earth and sky. The dewdrop sparkles on tbe grass and in the daisy's cup. The birds from their sylvan coverts carol the melody of a thousand songs. The world rejoices, and its many minstrels challenge the harpers of the sky. In a humble cottage', prone upon his couch, lies *our old commander.’ He is dying. ( “ ’Tis morning, and in the light of that day thousands of earnest faces flash with renewed concern. From many a shaded lane and mountain slope, from many a farm-house and splendid mansion, eager eyes look toward the mount of suffering and breathe a prayer to God for the one we loved. Alas! He is dead. “ ’Tis morning. It is the promise of a brighter day. The trumpters of the skies are sounding the reveille. Their notes have reached the earth. Their notes have reached our General’s ear. He has gone to join the triumphant host. ’Tis morning in heaven.’’ At the conclusion of the discourse the hymn “Nearer, My God, to Thee” was rendered very impressively by the al fresco congregation. The services ended with the benediction. U. 8. Grant Post, 327, of Brooklyn, bore'the remains from the cottage to the station shortly before one o’clock. Tbe military were drawn up and a salute was paid the remain# as they passed to the depot, and the throng stood with uncovered heads while the casket was borne to the car. The mountain train waited at the little rustic depot. Seven cars were there. Next the engine the funeral-car, with open sides and solid, massive drapery, was placed. The transfer from the cottage to the train was completed withput difficulty, and the train started for Saratoga. Among those representing the military were the following: Gen. W. 8. Hancock, Gen. William T. Sherman, Gen. Rufus Ingalls. Gen. H. A. Perry, Col. Sutherland, Col. John P. Nicholson, Lieut. Col. Finley Anderson, Capt. G. S. L. Ward, Capt. John H. Weeks, and Lieut. Eugene Griffin. The guard of honor, U. S. Grant Post, Brooklyn, consisted of Col. William H. Barker, Maj. B. R. Corwin, Dr. George W, Brils, Reese B. Gwillim, J. P. Howalt, Commander John H. Johnson, Henry ,W. Knight, R. S. Mackellar, William McDonald, William J. McKelvey, George J. Collins, Noah Tibbltts, George B. Squires, and six men of the Legion of Honor. The general mourners were represented by William M. Evarts, Admiral Rowan, Warner Miller, Joseph W. Drexel, Potter Palmer, Gen. J. A. Cresswell, and others. At 1 o'clock the order to start was given. Engineer Martin shut all steam from the cylinders, mid the train, stmding as it did upon a grade, slowly started by its own weight and impetus down the mountain. The bluffs and ridges on each side of the track were densely thronged with people. The grove south of the dottage, where the General’s’' little grandchildren played, was alive with spectators. Every rock every jutt.ng point, every vantage ground was -occupied. But from all the throng-standing uncovered in the afternoon sunlight no sound escaped. The mountain was hushed and still, except for the heavy booming of guns thundering a grim farewell. It was a funeral occasion-a death scene in sunshine. Slowly the little engine started, but quickly it felt the impetus of the descent. Out upon the first bluff of the mountain and clear of the forests crept the little engine, and the train trailed around the curve where, seven weeks before, Gen. Grant, alive, had turned to view the same sweep of valley and mountain, with Saratoga Lake glittering in the sunlight ten miles away. And to-day, as the train rounded this outlook, the General s sons gazed out upon the scene and mayhap thought of the other day as compared with this. Sweeping about curve after curve, to the right and left,, the train passe l slowly down the mountain. On it rolled toward the plain, and away up on the mountain by the famous eastern lookout, yet now in full view, there was a puff of white smoke. In an instant the sound of a booming cannon echoed in the trees and rattled a volley of little echoes over and down across the plain. The artillerymen were yet bidding their farewell. The descent to the little village of-Wilton was safely accomplished, and on the platform a few hundred villagers silently saw the train pass through, and their heads were uncovered. The level plain was reached. Seven level miles lay between the train and Saratoga. The speed was a little Increa-ed. Farmers and their families stood near and sat upon the farm fences to see the train that bore the dead General. Again the cannon on the mountain spoke out over the valley, but only the edge or its echo reached the moving tran. The spires of Saratoga were coming in view, and from that direction came the dull booming of the cannon planted half a mile out of the village beside the Mount MacGregor track. Soon this battery was reached, its brass guns saluting the train on its passage. The last curve was rounded and the train straightened away parallel to the tracks of tbe Delaware & Hudson, on which, just north of the Mount MacGregor depot, the fuperal train of the New York Central Road was waiting, while thousands of persons were being held back by the military. The mountain train drew alongside of the other train and stopped. There were nine cars in the New York Central train. Next to the enginejeame the funeral car "Woodlawn.” The other cars were occupied as follows: Second car, clergy and Dr. Dougjs; third, the sons and notable mourners; fourth, Gen Hancock and staff; fifth, Gov. Hill and staff; sixth, the press: seventh and eighth, the military escort; ninth, the baggage. Tbe remain's were lifted in silence by the- guard of honor to the car “Woodlawn,” which was draped with black and hung with flags, and tbe funeral parties were transferred to their respective cars, which were all trimmed in plain black. The Brooklyn guard of honor and the six men of the Loyal Legion, with a detachment of regulars, entered tbe dead car; also two men of Wheeler Post, G. A R. Soon after 2 o’clcck Superintendent Voorhees bade Conductor Thornton give the signal to start, and the impressive and heavy train moved through the throngs and away from r'aratoga. The clock-tower dial in Saratoga indicated 2:10 o’clock as the train passed through the suburbs. Twenty-five minutes later the train pulled slowly into Ballston. About the depot were throngs of men and women. The church bells were slowly tolling. and a field-piece near the depot saluted the train. High streqf was passed at 2:37 p. m.. and the cast line four minutes later. The train was quickening its speed. In the funeral car the U. 8. Grant Post, who were with the remains, mounted guard at the casket. The remains rested upon a black dais, and the compartment tn which they lay communicated with tbe main saloon by folding doors, which were open. The doors at the sides of the funeral compart‘ment were also open, and the afternoon sunlight shone upon the royal purple velvet and” the silver mountings of the casket. The first and each succeeding detail mounted on. guard consisted of two men of the U. 8. Grant Post. One stood with folded arms at the head of the casket and the other at the foot The first ’guard was mounted as Ballston was being passed,, Round Lake, the Rev. Dr. Newman’s summer home, was passed at 2:48 o'clock. The depot, platform, fences and the fronts of the, cottages in the grove were black with mourning drapery. The resident population of the resort formed lines of uncovered heads on each side of the tracks, and scarfs of mourning were fluttered by many ladies in the throng as the somber train moved by. The hamlet of Coons was left behind at 2:55 o’clock, and Mechanicsville was only five minutes ahead. The sound of the village bells came faintly above the rumble of the train, and signals of grief were displayed. Waterford Junction was passed at 3:14, and between there and West Waterford, which was three minutes beyond, a train going in the opposite direction slowed and halted as the funeral train approached.

At Albany. 001. Grant, Jesse and U. 8. Grant, Jr., alighted first from the funeral train when it had stopped at the foot of Spencer street in Albany. Gov. Hill took the first upon pis arm, Asst..,Adj.Gcn. McEwen the seconi,4fid"Col. Gillette the third. The Rev. Dr. Neyman, Dr. Douglas and Gen. Sherman followed 'with Gen. Porter, and the party was at onee escorted to carriages and driven to the Governor's mansion. Before the remains were removed, Gov. Hill and the other officers returned to the train

and there greeted Gen. Hancock and staff, who were at the moment alighting*from the car they had occupied. The remains were placed within the mounted catafalque. Six blac t borsea with black trappings were hitched to the funer il car, and at the head of each horse as leaders were members of G. A R. post# 5 and 12L The crowd was dense. The remains havingbeen deposited on the funeral car it was drawn out into Spencer street, where it was flanked by Company A Fifth Artillery, and Company E. Twelfth Infantry. Grand Army men guarded the remains at posts of honor, and four men of the Tenth battalion were mounted at each corner of the catafalque. Gen. Hancock and staff filed out into Spencer street, where the General was mounted on a powerful black horse, splendidly caparisoned. The organizations to take part in the procession were waiting in various streets along the line of march, and assumed their assigned positions in tbe procession as the head moved on. There were 4,311 men in the procession, t Many compan’es outside of Albany and its vicinity were present and joined in the proc-ssion. The column moved through North Pearl street to State, to Eagle street, to Washington avenue, to Knox street, to State street, to the Capitol. There Gen. Hancock dismounted and retired, and the remains were deposited beneath the great catafalque in the Senate corridor. Before being so placed the body was conveyed to a private room in the Capitol building, where the undertakers and embalmers removed the lid of the casket to inspect the body and learn its condition after the journey from the mountain. They said they found the remains in excellent condition. The public was admitted, finally, about 5 o’clock, being permitted to walk two abreast on each side of the casket, which lay on an inclined dais. Seven thousand four hundred persons viewed the remains the first hour. The U. 8. Grant Post of Brooklyn had 125 men waiting here, and a detail of six men on each side of the casket kept the throng moving. The details for guard duty will be relieved by members of their respective organizations at intervals of three hours each until the remains are again moved. Company B, of the Fifth Battalion, under command of Captain Stackpole, was placed on duty in tbe corridor to stand guard until midnight, whefr>4t__was relieved for six hours bw Company. D of the same battalion. - --- -- -

IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Imposing Services, Attended by Many Americans. The Grant memorial service in Westminster Abbey, says a London dispatch of, the 4th inst., was an imposing event added to the history of England. The edifice was crowded with a congregation nearly every member of which- was a distinguished p- rson, many Americans being present. The order of the service was as follows: Sohubert’s “Funeral March”; the funeral procession up the nave of the cathedral to the choir: the opening of the burial service; the ninetieth psalm; the day's lesson; fnneral sermon by Canon Farrar; Spohr’s anthem, “Blest Are the Departed’’; Handel’s anthem. "His Body Is Buried in Peace”; two concluding prayers; the burial service; blessing; the dead march in Saul. The funeral address delivered by Canon Farrar was most impressive, and was listened to in almost breathless silence. Canon Farrar took his text from Acte, chapter xiit, verse 36. He said that he desired to speak simply and directly, with generous appreciation, but without idle flattery, of him whose death had rm de a nation mourn; that he would touch only upon his public actions and services. The speaker then traced Gen. Grant from boyhood to manhood, compared him with the great men of the world, andranked him”with the foremost. In the course of his sermon Canon Farrar said: - - Gen. Grant has been grossly and unjustly called a butcher. He loved peace and hated bloodshed, but it was his duty at all costs to save the country. In his sHence, determination, and clearness of insight GrafiU resembled Washington and Wellington. In the hottest fray of battle his speech never exceeded “yea, yea,” and “nay. nay.” Among the distinguished English personages present were Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone, the Earl of Iddesleigh, Earl Cranb:ook, the Rt. Hon. Mr. Forster, and a great number of peers and m mbers of the House of Commons. There were also pre-ent Prime Minister Salisbury, the Duke of Cambridge, commander-in-chief of the British army; the Marquis of Lome, Gen. Lord Wolseley. Senor MsOftinez, Chilian Ambassador to England; Cures Justice Waite, exAtty. Gen. Brewster, Senator Edmunds, Senator Hawley, and other prominent Anierici’-ns. Queen Victoria was represented at the service by her equerry. The Prince of Wales, the Duke of Connaught and the puke of Edinburgh were also represented by equerries.

“Blue Blood.”

The tei;,m blue blood, from the Spanish phrase sangre azpl, is much used without a very clear idea of its signification, Its real meaning is—not that the blood itself is blue (excepting that all venous blood has a bluish tinge)— but that the person or class to whom the term is applied have skins so white and transparent that the veins show blue through them, and this is taken as a certain indication that the class or persons thus designated are without an admixture of races. Any one who has traveled in Spanish-American countries, or in Spain, where the term originated, would see at once its applicability. The descendants~ of the Gothic conquerors of Spain retain to this day the characteristics of their ancestors—the white, transparent skin, blue eyes, and auburn or tawny hair, and their veins show blue through their cuticle; but in case of an admixture of African or Moorish blood, the blue blood (veins) gradually disappear, until in case of a great preponderance of the latter races the veins show merely as ridges. Tourists in Mexico will notice this peculiarity in all Mexican cities, as well as in the haciendas throughout the country, on account of the great admixture of Indian (Aztec, Toltec, and Tlascalan) blood in the population, and everywhere they will find that the people whose veins show blue through the skin are the ruling class.—■ Letter in Boston Transcript.

Cinderella’s Slipper.

The origin of this nursery tale is sufficiently curious. About the year 1730 a k’rench actor of equal talent and wealth, named Thevenard, in passing through the streets of Paris, observed upon a cobbler’s stall the shoe of a female, which struck him by the remarkable smallness of its size. After admiring it for some time he returned to his house, but his thoughts reverted to the shoe with such intensity that he reappeared at the stall the next day, but the cobbler could give him no other clew to the owner than it had been left in his absence for the purpose of being repaired. Day after day did Thevenard return to his post to watch the reintegration of the slipper, which proceeded slowly, nor did the proprietor appear to claim it. Although he had completed the sixtieth year of his age, so extravagant became his passion for the fair one that he became (were it possible for a Frenchman of that day to be so) melancholy and miserable. His pain was, however, som,ewhat appeased by the appearance of the little foot itself, appertaining to a pretty and youthful girl in the humblest class of life. All distinctions were leveled at once by love; the actor sought the parents of the damsel, procured their consent to the match, and actually made her his, wife.— London Globe.

Gen. Toombs is on record in an autograph album as answering the question. If net yourself who would you rather be?” with the word “Gladstone,” I Never knew a man that lived upon hope, bnt that he spent his old age at somebody else’s expense. , *’ ~ The Philadelphia Times says the devil has no more effective ally than the venomlipped Jersey posqui to. '

A SOLEMN PROGRESS.

The Remains of General Grant Trams* 1 ferred from Albany to the Metropolis. Imposing Civic and Military Procassion to the New York City Hall The remains of Gen. Grant lay in state at tbe Capitol building tn Albany from 4:30 p. m. of Tuesday until 10:40 Wednesday morning, the sth inst, during which time they were viewed by 77,200 people. At noon of Wednesday the funeral train started for New York, Gen. Hancock and Gov. Hill, with their starts, and committees representing the State Legislature and the city of Nevy York, being on board. Great crowds were gathered at all the stations along the rout?, and when the metropolis was reached avast multitude was wait n-r. The following incidents of the journey and arrival at New York we clean from the coj.iocß reports telegraphed West: At the Executive Mansion in Albany the sons of Gen. Grant, with Drs. Douglas and Newman, breakfasted quietly with the Governor. The morning papers were a terward scanned in silence by the party, the voluminous details calling forth no comment from the sons except among themselves. The day had dawned bright, and from the country side farmers and their families had come in early to view the dead. Trains east and west added to the number of in the city, and the morning boats brought many more. At 10:30 o’clock this forenoon the Capitol doors were swung shut. The compact line of waiting visitors, which extended over a block, was shut off thus, and those who had entered were permitted to pass rapidly out, when the State street doors were closed. Slowly the fnneral car, drawn by six black horses with their mourning trappings, moved to the State street side of the Capitol. Gen. Hancock, mounted upon a black charger from West Point, and followed by his staff, approached the Capitol, as also did Gen. Farnsworth and staff. Eleven o’clock had passed, and it was half an hour later when the great doors ot the Capitol swung open on the State street side. The somber car was waiting at the foot of the steps in the street. Four men were inside the car, and assisted in lifting the remains to the black dais within the mounted catafalque. Then Colonel Black and Major Brown ranged their compalnies of regulars on either side of the car, the front being level with the heads of the horses. The Grand Army Kin.rd took positions, the blare of trumI>ets rang out, and the procession started at a measured p ee down State street, the various organizations falling in to form the procession —reaching Broadway amid the dull boom of cannon and the tolling and chiming of °1 ells In the steeples. The march through Broadway to Steuben street, and thence to the depot, was viewed by a dense throng. Guns boomed while the remains were being placed in the car Woodlawn, and the bells tolled s.owly. The committee from New York entered their- cars, Gen. Hancock and staff were aboard, the regulars were quartered, and the great train started. At the instant the train started a dirge came Up to the ears of all in the train from the band ot the Jackson Corps, that stood in line and saluted. Hundreds of persons standing nearest the tracks laid coins on the rails tohave.them flattened beneath the wheels of the train that carried Gen. Grant on bls last journey. On the roofs of the houses in the vicinity hundreds witnessed the start, and, as the black train -tumbled across the long br.dge of the Hudson, it was between two dense lines of people, who filled the foot-paths on either side. There was no clang of bell, no scream of whistle, only the dull rumble ot the wheels beneath the memorable train. Across the river were crowds of people. The shops aud stores and factories had closed their doors to business. All who work and those of leisure seemed to have come out. to stand with uncovered heads to witness a scene never again to be enacted. The long, sweeping curve was rounded, and the black train straightened out level with the Hud-ou on its way to the metropolis. Looking back from th: engine cab as the trailing train swept around this curve a. Greenbush the impressive effect was thrilling. L At every town and station along the rout. from Albany to the metropolis the people range “ themselves along the track, and with bared heads testified their respect to the memory of the illus-trous dead, as the funeral train swept by. A few minutes before 5 o’clock p. m. the train arrived at the Grand Central Depot. As soon as it halted all the passengers alighted and formed a long line on the raised footway beside the train. Facing it ahead, drawn up in the line, were the regular army soldiers-Com-_panyEoftheTwei,fthJ.ufantiry._im_dfir_Maj. Brown, and Company A of the Fifth Artilleryr under ' Capt. W. B Beck. The thirteen men of Grant Post, G. A. R., of Brooklyn, who have acted as the guard over the coffin since the Sunday after the General’s death, were the last to leave the train. They went to toe car that contained the coffin, lifted it out. anti put it on a new and handsome baggage-truck that had been brought to the side of the car for the purpose. The soldiers presented arms as the coffin came in sight,'the civilians removed their hats, the truck bearing the coffin was rolled to the front of the depot. and transferred to the funeral car, while a band played a solemn dirge. The funeral cortege marched in the following order: Battalion of Mounted Police. *r Maj. Gen. Hancock and staff;Lifiht Battery F, Mounted, from Fort Hamilton, Capt. W. F. Randolph Commanding. Company A of the 6th United States Artillery. The Fort Hamilton Military Band. A Battalion, Comprising Four Companies of the sth United States Artillery, on Foot. Two companies of marines and blue jackets, under Lieut. Commander W. W. Mead, j Two companies of sailors under Lieut. Emory. Mai. Gen. Alexander Shaler and staff. Second Battery, First Division, National Guard. Brig. Gen. Ward and staff. The First Brigade N. G. 8. N. Y., comprising the 9 th, 11th, 12th, and 22d regiments. The catafalco. The guard of honor, consisting of members of the U. S. Grant Post, of Brooklyn, the George G. Meade Post, of Philadelphia, and the Loyal Legion, of the United States. Brig Gen. Fitzgerald and staff. The Second Brigade N. G. 8. N. Y., comprising the 7th, Bth, 69th, and 71st regiments. The Mayor’s Committee of 101. \ AH along the line of march the people stood with uncovered heads, silently and reverently gazing at the purple-covered casket that contained the remains of the great soldier. It was an imposing pageant and one long to be remembered. When the head of the funeral cortege reached the eastern entrance to the City Hall plaza the line was reformed. 'I he Twentysecond Regiment, a fine body of men, splendidly uniformed, formed on either side of the entrance to the City Hall, and, forming a line from the steps to the catafalco, tbe marines and regulars were drawn up in a line facing the entrance. Again tbe command to present arms was giyen, and the bearers carried the coffin into the rotunda of the City Hall through a glittering wall of steel. Here it was deposited on a catafalco erected in the-Center of the rotunda. At 9:15 the central iron door was swung open to the public. The five thousand people who had been massed out-ide of the police lines on. tbe plaza were ranged in double file at the edge of the plaza opt d'site the gate, and marshaled across the plaza straight up the steps. ’ They passed through the gateway two at a time at the rate of 160 a minute. Each one who passed the ca tafalco bent over slightly to lock at the face bf the dead hero, and then hurried on. In the first five minutes 490 had passed, and a count ma :e during the first hour showed that s,B*i had passed the coffin. All sorts and conditions of people wire in the throng. Two Chinese laundrymen, wearing fluttering shirts -Of silk and embroidered Chinese slippers, stooped far down over the coffin and looked at the face of the General untii a Grand Army veteran caught their sleeves and. hurried them on. One of the Chinamen pressed his hamCkerchief to his eyes and went away with bowed head Barefooted newsboys, negroes, and.azed mep passed up quickly, and women and girls walked by in groups. Every man lifted his hat reverently as he entered the building. It is estimated that ;4,<i00 persons passed through ; the corridors of the City Hall and viewed the remains between 9 p m. and 1 a. m.

Ten Finest Buildings.

The ten finest buildings in this com/try, according to <a tbe majority vote in the American Architect, are: Trinity Church, Boston; the Capitol at Washington; W. K. Vanderbilt’s house. Trinity Church, and the Jefferson Market Court House,' New York; the City Hall, Hartford; City Hall and State Capitol, Albany; Sever« Hall, Cambridge; and Town Hall, North Easton. When a man measures irirf-glory for himself, he always heaps the measure.

TAKING THE LAST LOOK.

Tens of Thousands of People Pass the f Containing Gen. Grant's , Remains. . I . ' , ■ . V * ' ' J The Mechanic, Working Girl, Clerk, and Business Man Side by Bide. One hundred and seventy-five thousand people viewed the remains of Gen. Grant ou Thursday, tbe 6th inst, as they Jay in state at tbe City Hall in New York. During the entire day great throngs, representing every condition of society, surged through the building.- Two lines of policemen, says an eye-witness describing the scenes, were placed across the plaza from the City Hall entrance to the fountain. These two lines formed a passageway, through which four men might walk abreast, and ah ng which all day tbe visitors to the remains should pass. Meanwhile the officers of tbe '1 wenty-second Regiment; who had been on duty through tne early morning, were filing out of the City Hall, ’ihey were going home, aipt their places were being taken by the officers of the Twelfth Regiment. Sergt. Riley, with thirty men, picketed the corridors through toe building so as to form the channel through which the throng should move to tbe exit on the Court House side of the City Hall. The Grant Pest had mounfeil .vdetail at 5 o’clock tp serve from that hour until 8 o’clock. These men were place ! nearest the catafalque, and the two lines of visitors' passed between them and the casket on either side. All within the gloomy corridors was in readiness. Outside on the top step of the City Hall, and in the middle of the channel of officers to the fonntafn, stood a big brawny police officer, who acted as a w idge to split the current of i eople and send tneirt in lesser streams tnrough the gates, where they should flew past toe casket as detailed. The clocks pointed to 6:06 o’clock, and at the Inspector's orders the iron gates were thrown open.- Ten or twelve hundred people had jammed np against the officers who barred the channel at the edge of the fountain-circle, but when the gates swung open the officers ceased to hold the people in check, and. the stream began to flow past the remains and through the building. The first person to review the remains was a spare but sweet-faced little woman, who led with each hand a little boy. She was anxious her children should see the General's face, and the children were permitted to halt an instant and gaze over the side of tbe casket and peer into it. It was yet early. The police refrained from pushing the very first visitor, and she a woman. The police had not yet begun the annoying practice of bumping persons forward upon the heels and necks of their immediate predecessors. In the first minute only eighty-four persons passed the casket. This rate of passage would neve/ answer when the dense crowd should be waiting outside. People were hastened: they were hurried through at 101 a minute; then the pressure was increased to 104 a minute. The procession was almost a lock-step, and the tramp was quick. It was 6:25 a. m., and the pulse of curiosity had sunk to 56 to the minute. At 6:28 the rate was 52. A little bootblack with bls box on his shoulder came along to see the dead General. His face shone and his hair had been freshly wet and smoothed jjut by the fountain. Many women came, too, and they caused delay. They must needs examine every detail, and would fain put their noses to the flowers, Men and boys ifnd wan-faced women, with lunch-baskets and dinner-pails, filed along. At 6:40 the running average per minute was 91, and the total then passed was lietween two thqpsnnd seven hundred and two thousand eight.hundred persons. The channel was just full, with ho clogging or crowding. • The hour from six to seven o’clock was employed by workingmen and women, boys and girls, in viewing the remains. They were on their w.:y to work; the day was young, and their opportunity better than at any hour of the day. After seven o'clock the line changed as to its personnel. There wen- less women and girls. They had gone through and were at work. Then the line began to lengthen. At 8 o’clock there was another change taking place ip the complexion of the visitors. The laborers had gone and the clerks coming downtown were stepping from elevated and surface cars into t.hq line that was moving then at the late of 110 and 120 per minute. The police were re-entorced at 8 o’clock. Details under sergeants and roundsmen had been arriving and reporting to the Inspector from 7 o’clock. At 8 o clock there were 487 men on duty. The channel, with walls of police, was extended in Yshape around the sides of the fountain-circle, which, like a hopper, received the people ana from which they were straightened out in lines of twos and. threes up to the City Hall steps. The guards'at t* e casket were hastening toe people: 150 per minute were being hurried through. The hands on the clock dials marked 9 o’clock. The fountain circle was no longer the point or formation of the line. Every car and train coming down town added its quota to those anxious to look upon the face of Gen. Grant. By the remains the U. 8. Grant post had mounted another detail of thirteen men, and the men of Wheeler post, ot Saratoga—which first mounted a guard about the Mount MacGregor cottage after the General’s death—were standing at the foot of the casket, while members of the military order of the Loyal legion were likewise. represented. Rapidly the people were augmenting. The crowd was fast becoming a throng: the lips was being hurried through the hall at the rate of 140 per minute, and tor a little while the pace was 170 per minute, which rate, if maintained for an hour, would have pa sed 10.21>0. This could not he done, ho wever. Toaccomplish it the visitors most be hurried through and pass the remains almost upon a trot. This rate of speed comported illy with the dignity of the occasion, and more time was given. But the accretions were too rapid to be-caredJTgr, and the line ot'Waiting people <stretched out finally at 10 o'clo k around the bend at the Register’s office and down Center street. At 11 o’clock a m. between 30,000 and 31,000 persons bad passed the casket and looked toward toe remains, thougji many coming rapidly jfi from the bright sun ight were scarcely able io distinguish them in toe somber shadows of the black-draped corridor. It is difficult to form an idea of bow entirely cosmopolitan this procession of citizens was. Within a block there was every shade of wealth and poverty, of lowliness and highness, of cu tnre and ignorfcnee, of tottering age and curious childhood. They passed on in the line together with all possible qniet and respect. Throughout the entire day no unseemly conduct marred the solemnity of that extraordinary occasion. Further than to ke- i> the line straight and to make way for wagons at crossings and for font passengers on the sidewalks, the police were without occuj ation. All seemed to realize that this was no ordinary concoprse ot citizens, and that their presence in a c ntinuallv re-cnforced procession ot thousands was the spectacle ot a lifetime. They moved along quietly, quickly, and with a gentle decorum that savored not of an unpleasant cu iositv, tint of Concern, devotion, and respect for an illustrious memory. At different horns the poir.t where the line began varied. It got as far up town in the early and late portions of the day as Cahal stre-1. and fell off several times down to Duane street, but in the main it kept about the vicinity of Franklin street. Near the Citv IlalLitwa; no uncommon thing to see from il to 52.50 offered for a coveted place. The crowd all day was orderly. . * After 5 o'clock n. m. the rush became greater than ever. . The line was then forming at Worth street, and it was an hour and twenty minutes beiore a person.could reach the City Hatl steps. At 6 o'clock tbe line had readh<‘d Canal street add Broadway, half ,a mile away, and showed no signs of •diminution. It was then composed of young clerks and shop-girls, who chattered merrily along the route, but seldom addressed themselves to other than their immediate companion, and all sound died away long before they reached the stone steps of the building. Officers of the guard of honor of the Loval Legion who were making freqnent counts ot the people i passing found that they varied from 7,0t0 to 9.0(0 an hour. These reports were i orroborated by the police rejxirts at the same time. At 1 o’clock, when the doors were closed for the nicht.it was calculated that 175,000 persons had passed through the building.

South Australia is coming into competition with South Africa as an ostrich-farming region. The feathers thus far produced are of superior quality and bring high prices. Moreover, the chickens seem to arrive at plumebearing muc|i earlier than at the Cape, A Georgia man tried to cut the cOrds in the feet of his daughter, so that she .could hot imperil her soul by dancing. He who rules m;:at humor full as much as he commands.— George Eliot.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The New Albany Gm Company has reduced the price of gas to $2 a thousand feet. w —Nealy King, a yonng boy at Terre Haute, was severely bitten in the arm by a vicious horse. —New Albany Royal Arch Masons, when they call “from labor to refreshment,” refresh on a dozen or more watermelons. —Mrs. Lucind i Acres, of Aurora, has been adjudged insane, and sent to the State Hospital Her disorder is caused by religious excitement. \ —The tie-binding of the Justices of the Peace at Jeffersonville mostly comes from the other side of the river, runaway couples from Kentucky. During the past week ten marriage licenses were issued by the County Clerk of Clark County, none of which were to Jeffersonville parties. —lndiana has got a w.itering-place. It is a lake they call Maxinknckee, and is actually four miles across. Indiana newspapers talk of the climate about that lake with wild enthusiasm nnd tear themselves all to pieces in describing “oderous breezes” and “changeful skies. "—Chicago Tribune. —Michael Kain, an old citizen of Wayne Township, was found murdered near his house, and Patrick McGuire, a neighbor, who has disappeared, is suspected and y~ reward offered for his arrest A broken rail was the weapon used. There had been frequent quarrels and lawsuits between Kain and McGuire.

—A special from Vincennes, says: Dr. McKenzie, a wealthy and prominent citizen of Eldorado, Kas., while en route to Corey, Pa., jumped through the window of a pas-senger-coach this morning on lightningexpress train No. 2. east-bound on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, near Flora, 111., and while the train was skimming along at the rate of forty miles an hour.* The train was soon stopped and backed up to look for the stranger, who was found comparatively unhurt. Dr. McKenzie is regarded as insane. He weighs about 200 pounds. When found he was sitting upon the grassy embankment of the railroad, and he said: “Gentlemen, I’m not hurt, and my money is safe, thank God. ” He had $2,000 with with him. —The most interesting thing at settlers’ reunion at Plainfieai, perhaps, was the presence of two twin brothers and their twin wives. The brothers are named March, or Martz, and live in Arcadia, Hamilton County. They are 87 years old, and their wives, who are twin sisters, are 84. The two couples were married at the same time—the 27th day of the month. Each has reared twelve children —seven sons and five daughters—every one of whom was born on the 27 th day of the month. The parents and children all belong to the same church, the Christian. The fathers, to a stranger, look alike as two peas, and so do the mothers. The maiden name of the latter was McCormick, and it was stated that their father was the first white man in Indiana. His cabin stood where is now the site of the new State House at Indianapolis.

Married In Haute. [Letter from Vincennes.] There is a story told in this city of two lovers who courted, wooed, won, wed, and were separated, all in twenty-soux 1 hours. Last Saturday a well-dressed and lather handsome stranger arrived here and began meandering aimlessly around town. He seemed to have no particular miss on here. In his careless walk the stranger, whose name is Jerry Kelly, and who claimed to be _a nephew of Senator McDonald, halted in front of a house on Main street. He entered, and in just thirty minutes fell madly in love with one of the young women residing there—Miss Marie Mosier, on whom he had never laid eyes before. Miss Mosier makes no pretensions to a display of that feminine fascination or witchcraft which is supposed by some to entwine itself around the heart of susceptible males. Nevertheless, the stranger fell deep in love as sincerely as ever any man did. Hrs love was reciprocated, and the two were engaged. Immediate marriage was proposed and accepted by the girl. Kelly left the house shortly afterward, only to return again in a buggy. He called for his sweetheart. “J’ve got them! I’ve got them!” he exclaimed, excitedly, meaning the marriage certificate, which he waived in the air. Miss Mosier was requested to go into the' house and put on her hat She complied and soon returned, jumped into the buggy, and the two drove rapidly down the street to the office of a Squire and were made man and wife. The couple returned to the house in which the bride was first seen, courted, wooed, and won. She startled her friends by the announcement that she had just been married, and before they had recovered from the shock she hid procured her wearing apparel, jewelry, etc., and was off again with her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly engage ! lodgings at a boarding-house near the Union Depot, where they cooed and billed like doves until the time came for them to retire. Bright and early the next morning the inhabitants of Mrs. 'Kelly’s former home were again saf lied to see her return alone. Being questioned, she told them that her husband said he was a nephew of Senator Joe McDonald of Indianapolis; that he had married her to give her a home and because he loved her. The new-made wife, however, did not likerthe treatment of her liege lord, and considered his methods of matrimonial demuch at variance with her own ideas on that point He wanted to whip her, she says, and threatened to kill her. One day of married life was quite enough for her. and she preferrd to return to her former life of single blessedness. Kelly disappeared suddenly the next day and has not be-n heard of since. It is said that years ago he. was connected with the “William Tell” srloon here, which at that time was conducted by Prof. Jake Brienig, leader of the Ringgold Band of Terre Haute. —lsaac Nnger, John Walter, and John McEndeifer, prominent residents of Wabash County, and the last-named a farmer worth $75,000. have all been declared insane and applications made for their admission to the asylum., —Miss Matilda Rowles, living near Lafayette. made a misstep during a storm, and fell over the balustrade to the floor below, breaking her neck. She was 68 years old. »,' : ; —Valparaiso makes vigorous objection to Sunday excursions from Chicago.