Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-06-17

T4E LATE JAMES M0NTG OMER 7,
THE POET.

less by his talents and his public works than by
the christian virtues and unbemished purity of his
private life, our readers were informed, week or
two ago, in an article of news copied with some
notifications from New York journal By one
of the late steam.packets the Editors have more
recently received copies of the "Shefield Times"
containing some particulars of his Life and Death,
with copious details of his Funeral Obsequies
Full OF interest as these details are and could
not but be to his friends and relatives, and to the
whole population of the great town by which he
was universally beloved, and even idolized, they
would, in their entire extent, be comparatively
without attraction to those who knew MONTGOMERY
only by name It may, however, serve to give
some idea of the regard in which he was held
whilst living to state that the funeral procession
on the occasion was composed of all the public au-
thorities Of the place, official as well as municipal,
OF representatives Of every public institution and
association, including the Mayor and the whole
body of the Corporation of the town, and ESQ to
speak, the whole mass of its inhabitants It will
perhaps surprise those readers who have only
heard Of Sheffield manufacturing town to learn
that in this funeral train beside the hearse drawn
by six horses, and four mourning coaches drawn by
four horses each, there were upwards Of hundred
and forty carriages. Forming part Of the process
sion were nearly fifty Ministers of many churches,
and among them the Bishop and six Minis
tiers Of the Church of the United Brethren Mora
vians,) in which the deceased was nurtured and
raised; the whole scene being, in the language of
the Times, such demonstration of public feeling
as had never before been witnessed in Sheffield
The remains Of our deceased friend-for such in
our early years he emphatically had been-were
deposited in beautiful rural cemetery on the
borders Of the town.
There was, as we learn from the paper above re-
ferred to, competition for the honor of MONT
aoMERY's burial place. We quote from the Times !:
"The plot of ground suggested and recommended by
the Cemetery Committee for his grave is precisely the
spot which is the most conspicuous in the line with the
late Mr. MoMTGoMERYs residence. 1t may be interesting
to mention that not only did Mr. MONTGOMERY compose
hymn on the occasion of the conservation of the
terry but some time before his death he walked round
the ground and expressed himself delighted both with the
picturesque scenery and the anticipation Of the beautiful
aspect which the ground would present when it assumed
Its ultimate form and decorations This circumstance
trhing as it is becomes gratifying in connexon with
the fact that considerable difficulty had to be
with reference to the alleged implied disposition of
Mr. MoNTGoMERYto be inferred at the village of Ecking-
ton, the burial place Of the Gales farniy-a desire in
which the surviving Miss GALES very naturally concur
red The two Moravian establishments in this part of
the kingdom-Funeck near Leeds, and Ockbrook, near
Derbyhad also been mentioned places where the in
terment was likely to take place"
In another part of the Times, the name of the
same lady occurs at the close Of a very interesting
account of the life and dying hours of the Poet
:" We must not" says the writer omit to mention
to sympathize with the venerable who alone
with her late sisters has been his companion during about
half century, and whose whole solcitude has been de-
voted to the promotion of the domestic comfort of him
with whom she had long walked down the vale of life
We allude of Miss GALES who having been
long to him sister and friend feels intensely be-
reavement which leaves her far advanced in years
alone in the world
The recurrence of this name, together with the
mention, in all the accounts of MoNTGoMERYs life,
of his business engagement with Mr.. GALES, will
perhaps have suggested to some of our readers the
probability Of a family relation between the Lady
above referred to and those persons on this side of
the Atlantic who bear the same name 1t is even
So She was the youngest sister of JOSEPH GALES,
Of Sheffield, who with his Wife and the Children
then born emigrated to the United States sixty
years ago. Among these children the Editor Of
this paper who bears the same name was the Oldest
son, and the Wife of his Associate was the youngest
daughter Miss GALES, therefore, the sole survivor
Of the name in England, is the Aunt of both the
Editors Of the National Intelligencer.
JOSEPH GALES the Senior, with his Family,
came to this country in the year 1795, having in
the transition from his native country to the New
World spent some months at Hamburg, in Ger
many, or rather at the town of Altoona, imme-
dately adjacent to it.
The following letter from Mr. GALES to JOEL
BARLOW, whose acquaintance, with that Of other
Americans, he had made at Hamburg, the original
Of which placed in our possession by sur
wing relative of the latter gentleman, discloses
the precise date Of the arrival of Mr. Gales in this
country, and his first impressions of it.
No. 272 NORTH FRONT STREET, PHILADELPHIA,
AUGUST %, 1876.
DEAR SIR: As you were pleased to express wish to
hear of safe arrival upon the shores of America
take the opportunity which the sailing the Adrana for
Hamburger gives me to inform you that | and mine
reached this port safe and well the 30h Of july after
toleraby agreeable passage Of sixty days for though
the time somewhat longer than is reckoned short
passage it passed away smoothly from perfect good
aerstandng subsstng betwixt and the captain, and
from MS and his mates very kind attentions to the chill
aren what added also to the agreeabeness of the pas
sage we had very little sickness amongst us.
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