The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-03-13
The Procession in Honor of Dr. Kane in Ra,,;,,or..
coRREsPo OF FrHEpfsp.rrr
BALTIMORE, March 10 1ss7

coAhEsPoNDErcE OF THEpfsparcH.
BALTIMORE, March 10, 1857.
The remains of the lamentsd DR. Kane .,rtv.d
10 our city this morning At 18 O'clock aud remain,
atths Camden Depot, 10 charge of the committee
ofthe Maryland Institute Of which he was both An
active and honorary member.
The procession was formed at p M on En-.
taw street, and from thence proceeded down Bal.
timore to the large all of the Maryland In
stituse From every public building In the city the
American flag hung at half mast, and iu many in-
stances draped In Grape. At tine appointed hour
for tho moving of the process on most ofthe stores
on Baltimore street were clos sed-severai hung in
deep mourrfng-and fiom the roofs down to the
side walks and out in the streets there but
immense mass Of human beings. There could not
have been less than one hundred thou usaud persons
looking on, or participating in the solemn services.
As the mighty mass commenced moving from Eu~
taw street. to the solemn tolling Of the bell which
had been dirging its monotone all day, was added
the heavy roar of the minute guns from Federal
Hi fired by the Eagle Artillery, under the COM
maad of Capt. Farlow.
The procession was the largest ever saw, and
you know you have had scpe very large ones in
Richmond; but nothing could equal this, that
have ever seen. The greatest order was observed
the greatest seriousness pervaded the immense
concourse and the moral effect Of that solemn pa.
geant, trust, will not soon pass away. The
bearing of the military was fine, the masonic por-
tion OF the pageant was large, each Individual ex-
Ctpb buo oluC6tS Cldu III utep OtaCk, Will WnI6
aprons and white gloves and bearing in their midst
the banner of the Grand Lodge of Maryland. The
6 lard OF honor the Independent 0xeys, Captain
Brush. we're tiue and noble looking BET of men
The coffin was shrouded in the folds of the Amer
lean fag-on it was laid a Masonic apron, and
above that the sword which had cleaned in the
northern light lay brightly crossed with its scab-
bard above the rest The body was followed by =
arge detachment Of gallant sailors from the steam.
ship Alleshanv-his personal friends. the Naval.
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The members of the various bodies, institutions
orders, &c, which sw elled the mighty procession
seemed by the sslemuty which mark ed their move
ments to feel that it was ordinary occasion that
elected as il were nations grief
The Hall of the Maryland Institute capable of
holdisg about six thousand, where the body will
lie 10 state uutil its departure for Philadelphia,
was crowded with ladies'. Thousands left that
could not possibly gain admittauce.
At the front door OF the Institute, was erected
an arch deeply draped in mourning, while above
dropped the U. s. fag-upion down. The i'm.
mepse galleries are draped in black, caught up at
regular intervals with white rosetts.
The platform from which the lectures of the
season are delivered, is draped and festooned, and
the desk shrouded in mourning, According to the
programme, lin the centre of the Hall is q cata>
falque, covered with black and trimmed with sil>
yer gimp" On this now rests the coffin with its
precious deposit. "At each corner of the struc
ture is an American flag fured upon its staff, and
capped with Grape. On each side, and suspended
from the gallery, is large national standard and
on the left dropping over the catafalque, is blue
fla covered with white stars. and on the right in
tho same position a small American standard"
Among the distinguished strangers and scientific
gentlemen, who were in the procession, to do hon
or to the noble young Kane, were Lieut. M Z.
Maury, Henry GrinneIl, Campbell Morfit Peter
Force, Professors Henry and Bache.
And Elisha Kane has passed away in the blush
and flower of his young manhoodl And yet be
lives! Lives "in deeds, not years" He counted
time by heart throbs." And the spontaneous
r.ing up as it were of the nation to do no to
mark his funeral as one of the grandest ovations
his country has ever paid to man, living or dying
No warrior with garme nts rolled in blood-no civic
hero-no eloquent orator-no dead C8sar. he!-
But one who, at the cry of woman in uncertain
wid0whood, and the still small voice of the plead-
ing angel in his heart, went forth to brave trials
such as only martyrs can meet and such SIS The
God--sustained alone. can brave and through faith
over come-that he might send happiness to that
deserted English home, where Lady Franklin still
waited for her absent Lord, and that his cour.
try might win new glory from bis discoveries and
that he might feel when he bad done all he could
for both-that he had not toed and struggled and
suffered 10 vain. How unselfsh his heart How
modest his mention of himself in all his reports,
official to his friends and how hopefully in the
midst of the gloomest hours of that cheerless and
depressing and trying time, when in the midst of
those terrible ice cliff, and beneath those sunless
heavens. do find him and his noble .suf fferers
and co workers, with the Bible, and the prayer book
calling daily mpon God, their Father! truly in
these degenerate days, when the station posi-
ton of the Great Official requires pompaus flner-
al for his remains, it is pleasant (whle it is
full TO feel, that nation in honoring the memory
of Elisha Kent Kane, exalts herself to moral
eleva;ion while the sublime lesson which is taught
by such a scene as the city of Baltimore has w.t.
messed this day, may net be forgotten BY those
who remember, that
"Only the actions of tn. uat,
Smell sweet and blossom in the dust"
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