The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1848-04-12

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ne young men OF ombardy have Of.
erred their services as q military body TO
King Charles Albert on condition that
they be placed in frontof any attack.
3 PsooEssroNss IN Arr THE Paris
correspondent ofithe New York Courier.
and Inquirer, thus describes two of the
recent processions in that city: 4 @
The Sunday after the Revolution, atter
solemn service for the dead in all the me-
ftropolitan churches, a. procession was
commenced at the Hotel de Vile. 9Atits
head marched the Provisional Govern.
ment on foot, and distinguished by nothing
snve tri,eolored sash and small roseile
on the broast, then the students Of the.
military, schools, aftor Tint a body of Co.,
600 National. Gnards splendidly uniforms
Ell and equipped, aud finally an immense
multitude 8of citizens making the weikin
ring withla Marseiszll llaise and cries ofYive
Ia Republiqlo. Having arrived at the
column ofJulyi on the very spot where
the Bastilc was 7demolished, Arngo with
few energetic words. in q lout voice, in
the name ofthe people, reclaimed France
to be Republic. The flags waycd,thc
trumpets sounded, the: drums bent, and
the people answered with deafening .ac-
clamations. The enthusiasm was inde-
scribahle. The. magnificence OF the scene
was bewildering, could almos, fancy
that the giltled angel Of liberty, on the
pinnacle Of the towering column, with his
wings resplcntcnily FURNISHED by tho rays
Of the clear setting sun, was about 10 fly
with exultation. 1t wao spectacle sucl,
ms no country but France ever exhibits.
But glorious rs thisdcmonstrati IN, it was
far exceeded in grandeur and sublimhy
by the celebration Of the funeral obsrquies
Of tho dead, which took place on the en-.
suing Saturday This was one Of those
rare pageants that live in tho memory Of
generations. The bodies Of the victims
were, ut an early hour, carried to the Ma
deleine, the most splendid church in the
city. The exterior Of the nable edifice
was clad in deep black, and the interior
was furnished with funeral catafalqucs,
tripods, and all the paraphernalia Of mour.
ming. The streets around the church, as
far US the eye could reach, soon became
filled with deRse mass human beings.
Atwclvc, the funeral service was read
by the clergy before the altar, while in
the porch of the building The most ccle-
brated singers and harpists Of the operas
and theatres performed chants and dirges
before the people. shall attemp, no de-
scription of the procession. Its priests in
their cassocks, its judges in their vest,
mcnts, its professors in their crimson
robes, ITS uncounted thousands Of infantry
intheir glittering unjforms, it's batlalions
Of Cuirasscrs with the flushing breast
plates, It's schools and corporations, and
masonic lodges, its lriun!pl,nl chnriot,
drawn by eight milk white siccds, capari.
sorcd with gold and velvet, its fasccs. viii,
the place Of the avenging consular hatch
ct supplied by the spear that turns only
against enemies; its provisional govern.
mcnt, ruling nation by the power oftl,cir
genius and integrity; its ,wounded in The
late conflicts; its widows and orphans,
weeping over the friends they had lost, its
two thousand singers, chanting requiems
and dirges; its heroes who had fought in
1880 Tor the same cnusc that triumphed
now; its Polish refugees; its thick ranks of
those who had suffered in prisons for their
political principles; its vast multitudes Of
people Of cve:y calling and condilion-ull
make up pageant that no pen can de-
scribe. Two hundred thousand marched
i'll that procession! five hundred thousand
spectators bchcld it. 1t passed along the
Boulevar'ls, and every foolhold, from door
steps to chimney tops, was occupied.
The stiffness was broken only by the sound
Of fnutiled drums and The chanting OF the
singers rs the procession slowly and
mournfully moved on. The most perfect
order and dccorum rcigned everywhere,
until the sad duty was performed of con-
signing the remuins of freedoms martyrs
TO their last resting place under the col
umn OF July, where already repose the
bodies of the heroes Of 1880. SIGMA.
II is stated that the exculpaton Of Mr..
buchanan from the suspicion which some
persons has entertained or fcigncd, that
the treaty with Mexico was divulgcd bv,
him, is cnmplctc: A resolution Of inaui-
ry has been adopted into the cxpediency
of proviiding, by law, for the punishment
ofnny person who may, hereafter, sur
rcptliously obtain and publish any CON.
fmunicniion from the President to tho Sc
nntc.-Char. Cour.
Matamoras papers TO tho 18th ult.,
state that the Mississippi Regiment had
gone to Mazapil, one hundred and ten
miles in ADVANCE of Sallillo, on the road to
Zacatecas, and ivo companies had been