The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1844-03-22

sworn account oI al hIs ItCtlpts OF Irts, anu 10
pay into the state or county treasury all the e1-
cess over the sums above stipulated Tax sales
to be advertised IN the county paper that will DO
the job cheapest. Hamilton county, including
Cincinnati, is exempted from these reductions Of
the fees OF county officers.
Tie Big G,m.--The Big Gun" which explo.
ded Oh board the steamship Princeton, was fifteen
feet long. She weighed ten tons, her bore was
twelve inches, and tho ball discharged from ii
weighed two hundred and twenty-five pounds.
She was English manufacture, aud not American,
a. stated by some of the papers.
From the Washington Globe, March 4, 1914.
Tho Funeral Obsequics.
On Saturday the last rites were paid to
the distinguished men who laid down
their lives on the deck of The Princeton.
The funera! procession presented the most
sad, solemn, affecting scene ever witness
ed in this city Of The Union. The Pre-
sldent's house was again as on the demise
OF General llarrlson--m ade the recepta-
Gle OF death. Instead Of one, five bodies
were now laid out in the lately illumina.
ted east room Of that fair mansion, which,
before the melancholy fate which there
awaited General Harrison in the first
month of the first year Of his presidential
term, had never known Il pail within its
precincts. The first month Of the last
year of the same term found it again
turned almost in charnel house. Like
tie C0pctS' monument, it became a pai-
arc Of dim night, and gathered within It's
gloom the bIackencd and bloody remains
Of most fright(ul lragcdy-thc bodies
Of five intimate friends Of the Presidents,
Two Of them his cabinet associates, all
hurried out of existence while he sat
unconsclousIy, with only plank between
them, enjoying song. VIVA, a thin
partition in this life separated It's scenes
of greatest enjoyment and bltcrest grief.
Religious rites were performed over the
dead by the Rev. Mr.. HawIey and Mr..
Butler, Of the Episcopal Church, and Mr..
Laurie, Of the Presbyterian Church, be-
fore leaving the Presidents house. The
bodies were then hearscd, and tie process
sion led off by the military companies.
which filed the avenue in front of the
Presidents square. The military array,
composed of horse, infantry, and artillery.
made a very imposing appearance and
the train Of carriages which followed cx-
tended along the avenue more than a
mile. \ vast multitude, on foot and on
horseback, from tho neighboring cities
and adjoining country, filed the space not
occupied by the procession. The whole
distance between the Presidents and the
Capitol squares, as lai as the vision could
reach through tho darkness Of the day
and the dust, seemed to be living cur
rent in slow movement 10 the wailng
and m0urnlul music Of the band which,
with the sound Of distant cannon and
solemn-pealng bells, alone broke the ST.
lence. The immense crowd was perfect
ly mute in its march. The dread guie,
that rcigned over all the almost twilight
darkness that dImmed The whole day I;
the deep mists that Swallowed the sur
rounding hills and horizon from sigh, {;
the cloud of dust that covered the long
and gloomy procession; tho sweeping
trains OF Grape that blackcned the closed
windows and doors Of the dwellings, on
the way,-gavo, altogether the most sad
dened and impressive aspect Of woe ever
worn by this city. 1t was rendered the
more deeply affecting by the contrast of
but few days before. when the warmth
of vernal sun had shone out, giving
light and gaiely TO our streets, opening
the buds upon the trees, and bringing out
the tender green upon the grounds wher-
on the snow had so recently lain.
The m0urnlul ceremonials had Just
been concluded, when The city was alarm
cd with the apprehension OF another fatal
accident to the Chief Magistrate himself
As he returned in his carriage of state
from the place of iniermenl, (he Con
gress burying ground, about three miles
from the Presidents house. his horses
took fright. and ran with fury along the
great lhoroughfare, filled with people and
carriages. There was no arresling their
wild career; the reins were broken in the
attempt to RESTRAIN them, and all that could
he done was to give room to their head
long iilght,-As they approached the
turn ~ the end of the avenue, INSTRUCTED
by the Residents square, they got scared
at something on one side of the street,
and SHE'D of in their course TO the curb.
stone on the other side, which gave the
advantage to an intrepid cclored man on
the sidewalk to seize them by the shor,
rens and stop them. A little beyond,
in the direction they were going, lay
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