The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-07-29
s.v vobseouies in New York.

IN this c;tv To day in honor of the late hoh
Henry CLAW have been made on the most exten-
sive scale. During all of yesterday afternoon
ond o,eriro and ND to twelve o'clock, to-day,
the occupants of the houses along the route OF
the procession, have been engaged IN decorating
the buildings with emblems of mourning, and at
noon, to-day, Broadway presented one OF the
grandest sights ever witnessed.
The Irving House, American Hotel, Astor
House. City Hall, Lovejoy's, French's Hotel and
Stewards Marble Palace, are objects OF great
attraction. The latter building is surrounded
by thousands of spectators. The decorations
consists of rosetts and folds of black and white
Grape suspended from every window of the i'm
mense structure, while Immediately over the
main entrance scaffolding has been erected,
upon which is placed marble shaft at least
twenty-feet in height, surrounded by an iron
railing with large weeping willows in each cor
ner of the enclosure, made entirely of black
The whole is intended to represent monument
to Henry Clay and from the beauty of the de-
sign attracts universal admiration.
The Astor House is covered with black from
the roof to the pavement, leaving only the WIN
dows exposed to view. The Chatham Bank and
the Chatham and Broadway theatres are also
most superbly decorated. The Broadway House
is hung with black, and the banners of the vari-
Gus Clay Clubs draped with Grape, are standing
at the lower end of the Park.
Looking in every direction the city presents
an aspect of grand funeral pile The people
began as early as o'clock to assemble in the
streets, and those through which the procession
is to pass were at II most densely thronged.
p. M-The bells are tolling and minute
guns are being fired from the Battery and vari-
Gus other paints Broadway is thronged with
military as high up as Grand street. The stores
are all closed in the lower part Of the city, and
business suspended The Banks, Insurance Of
fees, Custom House, and Post Office are also
closed. Thousands are arriving from various
parts of the country to witness the procession
The line of its march will be through to Chath-
am street to the Bowery, up the Bowery and the
Fourth Avenue to Union Square, around Union
Square to Broadway, and down Broadway to
the Park and City Hall.
The banners of the various associations, &c,
all bear devices and notices expressive of the
loss of the nation in the death of such man as
Henry Clay. The banners of the Hat Finishers
of Union Park Row, bear the inscriptons-''All
Mourn his Loss ''He was not for day, but
for all Time ellis memory, like the Pine,
will be ever green
On the line of stores between the Astor house
and Chambers street, are the mottoes-'A
World Mourns his Loss;' 'He would rather be
Right than be President s'Henry Clay-his
Memory will abide in the hearts of his country
men"
The inters' Library has upon its front the
Description
''Thou art Freedoms now and Fame's
''One of the few immortal names that were moi
born to die" From 30S Broadway, is suspen
ded large engraving representing the United
States Senate, and bearing the lines-''A Nation
Meurns; its leading Star has fed; it's creates
Statesman's numbered with the dead On the
Gem Hotel is suspended a portrait of Henry
Clay, with the motto-''In our National Council
who shall fill his place." Over the Apollo
Rooms is displayed the scription-''While the
Tree of Freedoms withered trunk puts forth 9
leaf, even for thy tomb garland let it be-"
The st. Nicholas Hotel bears the Inscription
-''Dust to dust, but Clay immoral
The Collamore House is appropriately drapeG
The Lafayette Hall and National Academy o.
Design, are decorated with fitting insignia, and
from the latter are exhibited the favorite lines
eve tell thy doom without a sigh"
The line of the procession being at length for
med, it began to move shortly after three CLOCK
andIreached the City Hall shortly after six O.
clock, when an eloquent funeral oration was de
livered by n. B. Blunt, Esq, and the assemb
lage then dismissed with the benedictioh by thu
Rev. Joseph NJ. Price. -.
The display, as a solemn and imposing spec
tacle, was never equalled in this city.
The Panama Herald. of a late date, gives al
interesting account of the pearl fisheries in Pan
anna Bay. About fifteen hundred persons ar
engaged in the business, and the value of th
pearls obtained varies from 900 to $3.50,
900 per annum, seldom less than one hundred
thousand dollars The best divers remain un
der water from fifty-eight to sixty-one seconds
and generally bring up from twelve to ffteeI
Sha ba Of