New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-07-24
Funeral oBasquIes of General autsYaan NJ
NatcFiez.

~ snen W hha llL accounts OF the funeral eereO-
nies in honor Of the memory of Gen. Cuitman, which
were solemn and imposing in tho highest degrees.
The following description Of the funeral ceremonies
we take from the Natchez Free Trader uf TIE 2Ist
instant
Aids and Assistants, Coils ". w. w. Tood and David
| Stanton, Aids, and Col. John Minor William 6annon
Esq.t Col y. B. Shaw and Capt. Campbell Marsh As-
sistants The public buildings in the efty yzera pnt
closed during the entire of Monday Iasg--faas a.
| peared with the Union down and at haffaast and
also suspended in various places bound in Grape. At
metidian5 in conformity With the Mayors pf0cEama-
ton and the universal sentiment prevailing each
breast, every place of business within the city limits
was closed, and very many buildings were dfaped 10
mourning, an outward manifestation Of the sorrow
and sadHess Of the community. Oar streets were
nearly deserted 1t was a Sabbath of Death.
Shortly after O'Clock P. NJ tie procession was
formed on Wall street, fronting the court h0use and
began to march amid the tolling Of the bells Col I
yer, Marshal, and Cols Wood and Stanton, Aids rid
ing at the head next, the music, the same that had
many time and oft, in days lang syHe, timed the
soldiers step Of the great deceased at homer pa-
Tades then followed the military, the Natehez
Guards Capt. Midderh0f, md the Adams Light
Guard, Capt Clarke, in columns Of sections compris-
ing the First Division, under the command of Assist
ant Marshal Shaw. The Second Division consisting
Of the Masonic fraternity and the lodge Of Odd FeI
lows and other CIVIC associations, was under the com
mand OF Assistant Marshal Cannon. The Third Diyi-
sion, comprising the General Committee Of Arrange
ments, the Mayor and Selectmen Of the city the inv
ted guests from abroad, the Clergy the Bar the Med
cal Faculty, City Officers, County Officers and Board
OF Visitors, Principal and Teachers Of the Natchez
Institute, was under the command OF Assistant Mar
sha Minor and the rear was brought mp BY the
Fourth Division, strangers, citizens and carriages
under the command of Assistant Marshal Marsh
The line, thus formed, passing down State, up
Canal, and through Main to Pine street, and thence
up Pine to st Catherine street moved ont to Mon
mouth, pedestrians Joining in the procession on the
Z 1ana
stretched out fully half mile, being composed Of
from 500 to 1000 people, Arrived at the inner gate
Of F" Monmouth the horses and carriages were left
on the outside and the vast eOneourse passed through
and around the walks to and in front Of the late resi-
dence Of the deceased where the line was halted.
The grounds OF Monmouth were crowded with citizens
and strangers OF all sexes, classes conditions and
: ages, who bore the appearance OF q multitude of
mOurners gathered around the bier Of the Father Of
4 their one common family The funeral service was
performed at the house by the Rev Dr. Perry pastor
Of Trinity Church, and the pail bearers then gathehed
around the coffin, over which had been thrown the
bannerof the United States, fitting pail for the
hero dead Again over this was laid the worn, tat
tered and torn flag of the Natehez Fencihes of
; which company the deceased was wont to speak in
terms of Affection bis nestling He was its founder
and first captain On this flag laid his Fenebles
uniform and sword long since disused, but in excel
lent preservation. On stand near by was his fall
dress Major Generals uniform, the epauletted coat
7 the sash, the gauntlets and his swords Among
these latter, we observed one bearing the nscrip-
| ton @
"Presented By the President of the United States,
agreeable to resolution of Congress- to BRIGADrER
GENERAL JOHN A. QUITMAE, in testimony of the high
sense entertained by Congress of his GaHautrg and
approved March I'd, 1S4T.n
The blade Of this sword was of the finest steel las
were those of all his swords) the seahhard of gold
maghi6centlV chased and ornamented with large and
flashing jewels.
Another of these swords bore this inscription:
/" Presented to MAJoR GENERAL JOHN a., QuETMAN,
By his felo,vcitt2ens Of adams county aud Of Tho
i city Of Natcfez, need due to bis galantTg al
the 8tormHg of Monterey, The Battles IF Ghupatepec
and Gnrita de Bsie7sin tniici he gioiosll sustain
ed his olcn character the character of his state and
: of his country
f a third was inscribed:
j" Presented to GENERAL QUITMAH by Tie Germans
and United German Fusiier Companies Of Charles.
ton, s. C.'i
This latter was the deceaseds dress sword in Mexi-
. co during the war.
We saw also, near by, several other swords of the
lamented Quitman, bearing no inscription. Among
these was one taken from guerrilla chief at the
+ storming of Chapultepec. This sword has knife
case, forming part of the scabbard with the knife
species of hunting knife in the case Another, the
sword he wore whe he commanded the Fencbles.
f third, the battle sword he wore in Mexico
1t was contemplated to have in the procession the
horse Quitnan rode in his Mexican campaign, but,
like his master, that noble charger is numbered with
the dead. Henry, the faithful body servant who
followed his master and with him in all his bat
ties, was one of the humble, but much observed
most sadly heartstTcken mourners at the funeral
4 The pail bearers were Col. Adam L. Bingaman,
Capt .. 3. Neyitt Col. Henry Ghotard Capt. W. ,.
Minor, VIM p. Meen, Esq, Mr.. O. G. Dahlgren, Mr..
( Cab. Shields, and Aylette Buekner ESQ., civilians,
Z old and intimate friends of the deceased and his
family and Messrs. Geo. j. Dicks, Il. O. Pollock, j.
A. HaTpharn, Henry Polknghofhe, Robinson Walker,
James Hardie, John Rountree and Thos Grafton, Of
9 the Masonic fraternity.
The body Has borne along the line of the military
and Aasons, with salutes, to the place assigned it in
line, and the procession moved then from the resi-
dence Of the living to the resting place Of the dead,
left in front, and with sad and solemn football in the
!, following order: Marshal and Aids, Adams Light
9 Guard, Natchez Guards, Masonic fraternity, the
Chaplain DR.. Perry, with the Rev. Messrs Stratton
and Watkins on his right and left, the body, borne
by the pail bearers, after which followed others
posing the procession which marched from town, in
the order they started as mournefs those preceding
+ the body being the escort at the grave "a place
selected by the deceased not many months ago. as if
in view of an early deatb) the church services were
eonCluded-the Masonic funeral services were then
g performed by Acting Chaplain, Past Grand Master
G. NJ. Hilyer, and the military concluded the cere
monies by firing, by company, the usual sautes. The
procession then re-tomed returned to the city and
} was dismissed.
The horses of the Marshal his Aids and Assistants
were all eaparisoned in heavy mourning, as were also
their riders.
! The Cannoniers, Capt. W. Il. Wood, commanding,
were Vgilant and punctual in their half hour and
minute salutes during the fory.sx hours they were
on duty, each gun from 63 P, NJ on Saturday, to 4
P. M. Monday, booming with the sound of tile
half hour bell, and the seventeen guns the highest
military salute given to any except the President Of
the United States, fired promptly within the
seventeen minutes Immediately succeeding the hour
J of 4 P, M-the hour of the funeral.
!, Speaking Of the illustrous deceased, the Free
Trader of the 10th says:
John Anthony Quitman lives now but in the
memory Of his eountrymen and the hearts of the
good men of this world. His career is over ; his
has been 1t has been Of distinguished
honor and untarnished fame that embazons the
brightest pages of American history His ashes are
with the dust, and his spirit commnnes in fathoms
less eternity with that Of his lHstrOus political pre-
decessor, the great South Carolinan, John G. Cal
{ hounl Bearing the honors OF nuexpTed commits
! sons as Brevet MaiorGeneral in the United States
army, and Congressman from the Fifth Congress,
sona District of Mississippi he breathed his last in
/ his palatai home monmouth surrounded by his
family like respondent light burned out and gone
. leaving gloom and sadness in melancholy reign over
the hearts Of his eountrymen. The insidious disease
of the National HOTEL whose fatal effects had pros
trated Others penetrated and shattered his system
bending the iron frame the storm does the oak and
making the stalwart like the weak and helpless
infant. Added to this leaving nothing half done and
doing all things we'll he consecraed att his energies
nay, his life in the Halls of Congress to his dearly
beloved South aud to the vindicaton Of the Consti.
tuition of the United States and the majesty Of its
people.
: The Natehez Courier of the same date says