American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-06-26


IN NJ YORK IN HONOR OF GEN. JACKSON.
This grand but mournful pageant took place
III New York on Tuesday afternoon, in the pre-
sence Of an immense multitude of citizens and
strangers. We extract the following report of
It from a letter in the Philadelphia Ledger of
yeterday:
The sun rose this morning beautifully. The
sky is clear and the day warm, but a gentle
breeze which Is stirring, will moderate the heat
to a considerable extent. From an early hour
in the morning the streets began TO present a
lively appearance, but not to any thing like the
extent anticipated. The only indications of
any extraordinary proceedings, are flags on the
City Hall, Astor House, and all the public
places in the city, not forgetting Tammany
Hall, at half-mast, and shrouded in mourning;
the struggling attachments Of Military which
are moving about the streets, and the firing of
minute guns from Governors Island and one
or two other places. A staging has been erect
ed IN front of the City Hall in the Park.
O'Clock. The North Carolina commenced
firing minute guns in answer to those from Cas-
tie William, on Governors Island, at IL o'clk,
and these are replied to by four II FOUNDERS on
the Battery, worked by number of men in
tended to represent soldiers of the revolutionary
and last wars They are dressed in citizens
dress, but have blue body coats with belts and
swords, black leather cockade with the gilt
letters '76, and from each cockade towers a
long black feather tipped with red. The troops
have cleared the Battery of the crowd and are
performing military evolutions. In addition to
the pieces which are being used in the firing,
there is a battery of nine brass six Founders
which are manGuvrng, and detachment of
u. S. Artillery from Fort Hamilton, with four
more pieces, have joined the train
The citizens are forming under their respec-
tive banners in and around the Park and streets
adjacent and the military are about TO take up
the line of march for the purpose of forming so
as to lead off the procession when the hour of
two arrives. There are doubts whether the
whole will get started much before three. The
stores are nearly all closed, every house is APP
propratey decorated, and the streets are
thronged with people. The afternoon is get
ting very warm.
O'Clock. The Procession is off, but the Sc
cond Division has not yet passed Chatham st.
and the Park. The whole neighLorhood is one
dense mass of people. Along Chatham street
and East Broadway, and in fact along the whole
line of the Procession, every window, the tops
of the houses, and every emnence is lined with
men, women and children, anxious to get
view Of the pageant. Even the eminences at
distance are crowded, and people can be seen
on tlptoe as far as the eye can reach, in every
direction. An immense pile of bricks up Chat
ham street presents the appearance OF huge
living mass; not particle of the brick is to be
seen-nothing but human heads and bodies
To borrow figure from Carlysle, the patriot
ism OF New York has rushed into the streets,
three hundred thousand strong.
When the procession commenced moving it
was announced by the discharge ofthree pieces
of artillery in succession, the bell of the City
Hall commenced tolling and the knell was an
swered by the bell of the Rev. DR.. Springs
Church, and, in fact, all the bells in the city
commenced tolng. While the troops conf
posing the head of the column were filing past
Chambers street, as they left the Park, man
on the top of house amused himself in firing
off a fowling piece, to the no small alarm OF
the laeies near him. They, however, soon be-
came accustomed to the explosions.
o'clock The minute guns at the Battery,
from the North Carolina and Governors Island,
stlh continue, and the bells are tolling with a
mournful sound.
The correspondent here details the order OF
the procession. Ex-Presdent Van Buren,, CO.
vernon Wright, and other dicnitaries were in
the line. The funeral Urn was drawn by four
white horses, with car This Urn was bronze,
surrounded by bronze eagle bearing a scroll,
on which was inscribed the name of Jackson.
On the Urn was the inscription, Washington,
Hamilton, Jefferson, Adams, Harrison, Jack
son. The whole was on a platform hong with
black The account here proceeds as follows ::
There were thirteen divisions in all. The
remaining divisions il is unnecessary to emu
merate. Suffice it, that every beneficial poll