temporary agent, holding, for the time being, a sublime commission. Right worthily did she perform her trust, aided by every representative force that could magnify homage and solemnize pageantry. The Government lent its presence in the form of President, ex-Presidents, Cabinet, Senators, Congressmen, its Army and Navy. The National Guard was represented by its finest regiments: the Grand Army by delegations of veterans from countless Posts; the Confederate army by numerous detachments of survivors. Civic organizations of all kinds found places in the cortege. Add to these the uncountable hosts that, as citizens, augmented the procession, or fringed the miles of route, on either side, and one can readily realize that popular demonstration of respect for the dead could not have taken more impressive form, nor been more universal. The day was practically a holiday everywhere. The business pulse was still in the North and South, the East and West, either by solemn official proclamation, or spontaneous consent. Muffled bells spoke in monotones from ambitious city spires and modest village belfries. Minute guns sent their sullen notes reverberatingly through the valleys and up the wooded steeps. In town, in hamlet, in family, the day was a memorial one, dedicated to service of tribute, sacred to the memory of the dead. It was a day, too, commemorative of manly virtues, consecration to duty, and patriotic achievements, without which in mourner, as in mourned, there could be no perpetuity for this "government of the people, by the people, and for the people." It was another day of cool summer splendor after a night of storm. It was a general remark that Providence seemed to be specially ordering the weather for the entire obsequies. At 1 A. M. of August 8th the gateway to the City Hall had been closed to the public, and the casket left alone with the guard, its precious contents shut off forever from mortal vision. But, though the silence of death reigned within the sombre corridors, the city's hum did not cease outside, for all the subsequent hours were occupied by the arrival of delegations from other places, and, very soon, by the centreing of the throngs in search of available spots to witness the beginning of the ceremonies. By nine o'clock the route of the procession was a sea of humanity, eager yet decorous, curious yet regretful. The masses alone were making an occasion commensurate with the fame of their dead. At a quarter of nine the Liederkranz singers massed themselves in front of the coffin and rendered "The Pilgrim Chorus." Even before this the regiments, bands and military detachments were taking their designated places in the street, under the direction of General Hancock, and now, at 9.30, they began to move in the direction of the tomb. I. ARMY AND NAVY. MAJOR-GENERAL HANCOCK AND STAFF. Light Battery F, U. S. A.; Band; Engineers U. S. A.; Band; Batteries I, L, M, H, of Fifth Artillery; Band; Battery A, Fifth Artillery; Company E, Twelfth Infantry; U.S. Marines; three battalions of U. S. Sailors. Estimated number of Federal troops and marines, 1438. II. FIRST DIVISION OF NATIONAL GUARD. MAJOR-GENERAL ALEXANDER SHALER AND STAFF. First Brigade.-First Battery; Twenty-second, Ninth, Eleventh and Twelfth Regiments, New York State. Second Brigade.-Second Battery; Seventh, Seventy-ninth, Eighth and Seventy-first Regiments. Veteran Guards.-Old Guard; Governor's Foot Guard, Connecticut; One-hundred-and-sixty-fifth New York Volunteers; Zouave Association; Tenth Regiment, Volunteer Veterans, New York; Fifth Regiment Zouaves; Second Company Washington Continentals; Columbo Guard; Italian Rifles; Garibaldi Legion; three companies Veteran Colored Guards. Estimated number in First Division National Guards, 4850. III. SECOND DIVISION OF NATIONAL GUARD. MAJOR-GENERAL EDWARD L. MOLINEUX AND STAFF. First Brigade.-Third Battery; Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Seventeenth Regiments. Second Brigade.-Twenth-third, Thirty-second, and Fortyseventh Regiments. Visiting Organizations.—First Regiment Pennsylvania National Guards; Gray Invincibles; Second Regiment Connecticut National Guards; First Regiment Massachusetts Infantry. Four Companies Virginia troops; Union Veteran Corps, District of Columbia; Capitol City Guards; Company D, First Minnesota; Veteran Zouaves. Estimated number in Second Division National Guards, 2505. IV. FIRST DIVISION NEW JERSEY NATIONAL GUARDS. MAJOR-GENERAL PLUME AND STAFF. First Brigade.-First, Fourth, Fifth and Ninth Regiments; First and Second Batteries; Gatling Gun Company “Ą.” " Second Brigade.-Third, Sixth and Seventh Regiments; Gatling Gun Company "B." Estimated number of outside military, 5027. PALL BEARERS. General William T. Sherman, Lieutenant-General Philip H. Sheridan, Admiral David D. Porter, Vice-Admiral Stephen C. Rowan, General Joseph E. Johnston, General Simon B. Buckner, A. J. Drexel, substituted for Hamilton Fish, George S. Boutwell, George W. Childs, Senator John A. Logan, George Jones and Oliver Hoyt. After the procession had moved thus far, and before the pall bearers took their places, the heavy funeral car was drawn upon the plaza in front of the City Hall by twenty-four black horses. It was an elevated frame work on wheels. Its width was nine feet and its length sixteen. It was heavily draped on all sides, and the folds fell nearly to the ground, covering the wheels. In the centre was erected a canopy, with heavy ostrich plumes at either corner, and in the centre. The central plume towered fully seventeen feet above the ground. Beneath the canopy was a dais on which the casket rested. The car was heavily ballasted to keep it steady. The festooning was of exquisite design, that on the rear of the car representing a sunset. It was unrelieved by any appearance of white or silver, the only break being the draped silk flags at each corner of the canopy. And now the draped car was to receive its honored burden and take its place in the solemn pageant. The way to the car was lined on either side by regulars, representing the infantry and artillery. Within the Hall was a strong guard of honor. Twelve of these reverently raised the casket and bore it to the car, on which it was placed and fastened. It was now a quarter of ten o'clock. The sombre car moved, preceded by a Grand Army escort and followed by the national pall bearers. Then came the next division of the pageant |