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THE BUNKER HILL CEREMONY.


THE BUNKER HILL CEREMONY.
Among the host Of spectators at the late inter
esting ceremony at Bunker Hill was Mr., Whlh
who has furnished to bis paper-the Home Jour
nal-some glowing descriptions of the impressive
scene. As was natural, bis swelling emotions
found expression in bis most fecitous manner, as
the annexed excerpts from his second letter will
exempify:
"My last letter told you Of Mr.. Everetts elo.
quence on the seventeenth; and you will easily
conceive that it was like sea birds toss upon the
waves aiter a storm, "with the swell on" to sit
and realize the spot and its associations after such
stirring of patriotic memories. The military band
followed after with soIenl march while the stat
ue was unveiled, tie heroic marble telling its
own story to the multitude as the superb canopy
of flags was slowly drawn aside. And renem
Der TO have seen nothing in my life more dramat-
ically effective. 1t warns statue wonderfully in
to expression to have ten thousand eager adml'
rers gazing at it with the same feeling at the
instant; and l must own TO thrill OF emotion
very strange under that mutitudinous magnetism.
tried to say something to the friend at my side,
but could not for there is gate somewhere be-
tween heart and brain that proves too small some
how for the passing of thought ten thousand
strong! Why should these best throbs of our
whole existence SO choke off the most emotional
gih-human utterauce? Tell us, oh, Agassiz!
awhile thus powerfully impressed, by eloquent
speech and eloquent marble, with representation
of the men zoe have had it was both apt and graf.
flying to see, upon the stage before us in the elo
quence of life and reality, representation of the
men sUe have got. Fifty of the most distinguished
gentlemen of our country occupied the seats Of
hooor upon the platform, and studied their phys
iognomies with very great interest. '
"For fine studies, artistically speaking, the
sculntor would hove chosen two heads nearer to
the speaker-Mr. Mason's, of Virginia, and Mr.
George Peabody's-both men of large stature and
full person, but alike remarkable also for that mas
s;va robleness of feature that cuts we'll in MARBLE
On opposte sides again, and next to those gentle
men, were two younger men, whom it was impO'
' sbe not to classify as you saw them within reael
! of each other, pair of intellectually model head
" of indomitable irmness--Governor Gardner ant
Sneaker Banks. Then there was the embodiment
of the Pilgrim ideal in the apostolic and scholarly
:, features of the President Of Harvard; and Their
was the large hearted humility of Howard in th'
marked lineaments and self.forgetful air of th'
:. muni6cent Cooper; and there was Robert Win
throp. with his inheritance of the air gubernatori
!, al. and healthy Burlingame, the weI-woven trip
= lcate of fun, fuency and fire; and COL Aspinwal
A the Wellington looking veteran who was chief
- marshal of the day; and the straightforward an
\ nrompt President of the Bunker Hill Association
:. Mayo. Warren, WIN, as the defendant of the be
70 in marble, was the OCCASIONS proper spokesma
to and host.
ms "Upon these, and the forty or fifty other EN-
a. nent men upon the raised platform, looked wit
Itbe natural interest Of comparison, as the orat'
called up for us once more the shadows OF the n
al roes Of '76 and in the vivid array of the two
,r. RODS could feel no disparagemsnt of our tim
mr. With cause for another revolution there would
in nlentv of mind for it, as well as plenty Of sro
lis. WILL courage and patriotism, no spectator OF th
ID. scene could have doubt
bis oof the days main procession OF events I
tbs newspapers have given faithful account; but tht
Mr.. were Two incidental features of very dramatic
ue. Iterest to me-two instances Of ps'S"""' W.
- manner and bearing--which the reporters have
an. luded to very slightly. Both were unforeseen
n,orr.mtue-tbe appearance OF V"gS
rsd r'i !SD Senator upon the pDior and Of y'a"g =.
tle. of seventeen among the audience below, ~
ANA Ter liueal descendant of The heFO whose stat
- v.s to be inaugurated; and Of these let me SS
nm. word in passing; ..,.; n ..
.u -, gMr MssOn's fine head had interested me as
uO sat upou the stage, though bad failed 10 0l''
'l A. wbo he was by inquiries Of those around
WI" y When Mr.. Winthrop, With bis usual par,a"e
ton. ry felicity, introduced bin al '''F as 'H'