New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-12
0BsFoUIFS or HUABOLDT

A Considerable rumter Of the Germans Of the city
upteo ye.terosy il the performance of fa'erai cere'
ones in boror q Humboldt. PROCESSION WAS
supour oed 70 leave Humboldt Hslle," al o'clock
p. u but. or account Of toe io.euse heat, II was
peariy ociocS before II iefe the Hale il Forsyth
street
L. program me vcrv long; ton members Of the
con ui'tee, Rand. Coiei MSrsnal Serges, With ais;
C.upauies f. and +. o. THE 6'b and II. of the llth
Reg ns uts; bsn6, Marshal Hh-r brand, rspreser's'
;lves Of The following singing societies. Aloman'a,
Lo:eity Mspusrcror, LeoeIkrauz tBrookyol, CO.
loIis Saskatchewan tesspeyeFsln, Germana, Rhein-
isch-r Sirgeiburd, EuptCns, Mozart Nere,0
Ttisndbu, 4 New.Yo k,r Liedertafei Teutona, Har
n LA snc Scb.DebuId. Other societies were present.
tie Dramatic Association krakehla, Nes-lorker
Sateerrouds. Frocsun, Mozart.Mabuerch"r, Helvet'a
Mani ercbor Geubr,i4, Fidel,s Emtrsoh., Columbia,
Ttutopis Mann.Icbor, Bloom Dgdale Struve-| ere!D'
1h. fo.lowed q band, MarshaIs Lutz, Schwarts and
Hez.l.
Tho cstasslque. ststey pile OF black, sur
mounted by an empty ooiiiu on the black velvet OF
1hich VS.. reao in silver letters, a. :. HUARoLDr.
The catafsoue was borne by white horses, and
surrounded BY delegates from the societies in the pro-
cession. TIE mouruers followed, delegates from tue
societies, oflc as, the Apothecasies Uton, band,
Narsl al 81 omeDger the &c eIbeNereip, the Arbei
teubunc, bsrd, Marshal Pfctz. the Uuted Social
Z, fo,mels the Socsl Reform Health Societies, Nos
| sn1 = the Social Homeopathic Union. bsnd, the
I, dept ptsnt Order Of Redmsnns. ell Interested,
T,orp r. L.. Regiment, ana che Hudson County
Artillery, t~o bras- pieces.
The riroes zion wa rot very large, the heat was
80 very oppressive. Its many colored bsnuerS
drap.d in mourning. and the gentle melancholy DIFF
fus, q ~ the mar! bands Of music playing tunereai
music produced marked impression. The streets
along the line % march were lined with spectators
The course Of TIE procession up Bowery TO Urion
square, where halted and Psof Fuster read the fol-
lowing:
The German population 10 America, TO the surviving
relatives OF Alexander vol HUMBOLDT:
WITH f.ei 6 ~ the most sincere sympathy the Ger.
man. o. the We-terr Hemisphere unite with those OF
the Eastern urc in expressing "a the surviving re!a
tiver irieDos of the auered Alexander Won HON.
buot their undsseu bt0 emotion of regret ct tie de
lee 1.-THE Sag Of the Century, tie profound PhLoso-
Ib.r the beet OF men.
Wbile all civ hzed ratons are mouruitg their upi-
versa! berta, eIneu, the Geeaus in particular fee!
si,n intensity the calamity Which has removed from
tie sphere OF subui s,y usefulness the noblest orna-
ment # science.
The greatest genius Of mankind mat forever live in
the iSst o. Odd animate future generations, MS well
as the ure>eLt. lie has taned ia mortality! Aud
.hie glitcritg 10 our * Is beai he names OF
sigGiiic te..sC,s, Ale 1aiceI Won hhihon"t has i"t
him-en reared al encurcg monument, Lis radiah!
Cosmos.
Three SHOTS were fred BY tie Hudson Count? Ar
,ilery, the multitude BAKED tbeit heads while the
reading was in progress; a; the same time The al
cIss. printed German and English, was distributed
among tie people.
Tie proc. ssicr then formed sgaiu aud moved down
Boac way to the City Hall, where a. oTstior was to
lave been gwen. Osipg to the ateneSs Of the hour
tie Grafton was not given. Prof. Fdster, however,
stoppeo tor moment ard thanked Mayor Tiemarn
for the aid he he'd given III these ceremonies; toe
bay q responded that BE was proud of his German
booo proud be # tie ans race as the great man
whom they ad me. tSAesor.
The process.Un moved immediately mp Chatham
street g. the Bowery to the Cooper Institute, where
il arrived soon after o'clock In front of the Inst
tu,e was large transparency with the inscriptions