The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-09-03

Platoon Of the Guard of Honor-Lieut. Wallen.
Colors and Band Of the Sd Infantry.
Field Music Of the 9Th Infantry.
Company F. 4th Infantry-Captan Page
Company c, Sth Infantry-Captain kello
Medical Faculty.
Mayor and Aldermen, of st Augustine.
Members Of the Bar and officers Of the Court
Masonic Fraternity.
ST. Augustine City Guards Capt. P. R. Lopez.
Citizens generally, of st. Augustine.
The remains being removed from the wagons, amid
the firing Of minute guns, the Reverend Mr. Waters,
of the Catholic Church. addressed the assembled null
titude with great eloquence and beauty. The ser.
vices of the Episcopal Church were read by John
Beard, Esq and concluding prayer offered by the
Reverend Henry Axtel The remains were then
placed in vaults prepared for their receptions and,
after salute Of musketry, the troops retired, and
were marched into quarters. The masonic fraterni-
ty proceeded from the tombs to the Presbyterian
Church, where monody on the dead was pronounce
ed by d. W. Whiishnr.t, Isq Half hour guns were
fired until sunset closing the solemnties of the day
And thus closed the hOnors awarded the victims of
Indian treachery, battle, and disease. From the
Withlacoochee whose banks have drank the blood of
Izard to the Okachobee the field of fame of death
from the plain where untmely fell Mellon, Mcneil,
and Sanderson to the rivers of the Atlantic border has
the earth given up, in part its Dead to rest among
The stream the lake, the margin OF our rivers had
witnessed the daring of these gallant spritsthe open
pine barren had resounded with the fire of their mus
kerry and the grass-water heard their rifles in the
discharge of duty. Gathered by their companions
in danger and glory from the recesses of the forest
and the solitude Of the plain, to rest amid the habi-
tatons of man and civilized life, we leave them
sepulchred among the green OF the orange tree and
the aroma of its flower with the shadow Of our coun-
trys flag as its folds catch the breeze from the staff
of the cupola, resting their tomb, and the boom
ing morning gum the clear note of the buge, the mu-
sic of the drum the ring of the musket and the quar-
tiers of the garrison Fitting home for the martyred
and the honored dead And when we, who have
been the witnesses of this melancholy scene, shall
have passed away-when the wilds of our border
shall have again bloomed with culture, and its soil
tude send forth the busy hum of men, and the song
thanksgiving in grateful voices be heard in the land
that haowed ground will be the resting spot of the
pilgrim as he bends at the sepulchrc of the dead =
from which, if the fires of his patriotism should
grow cold, will be kinded anew as he treads the sa-
cred abiding place of their honored remains.
The tombs, three in number, erected by the troops
Of the Post, in which the remains deposited, are
vaults each about ten feet square, surmounted by a
pyramid of five feet height, rising from grassy
mound, enclosing the body of the tomb 1t is design
ed to these pyramids entirely with marble, on
which will be placed the of all other officers
who have died or been killed in Florida in addition
to those deposited beneath.