The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-10-22
Mu rider Of Frederick.


On Saturday, at 10 o'clock 4. H., the lower
! part OF the Union Hotel was thrown open to the
pubic, and all day the public thronged in tc
see the body of Senator Brederick as it Law in
state. The corpse was placed in metallic cof-
MI, in the inner apartment, the approach to
which was hung with American flags. The out
side Of the Union was draped with habiliments
Of woe, and every face wore that unnlistakab!e
expression which denotes taat sone PUBLIC ca.
istnlty has fallen upon the community. The
coffin was go placed that the moving throng
could file past and around it and out through
another door. The hands Of living friends had
wrought wreaths and boquets of flowers, with
which the coffin was loaded, and SO numerous 3,
last did these become, that no room being found
for them, they we're placed on the floor about
the bier. The corpse was dressed in a suit oil
black with collar and neckcloth, the hands lying
along the sides, crossed upon the body. The
face was somewhat shrunken, probably from the
intense pain which the sufferer had undergone
during the previous three DAYS. 1t were, how :
ever, the same expression as in life, and the
Senator might almost have been supposed TO be
in deep sleep, so calm aud natural was the
appearance of the face. All day long the CROW I'd
pressed in-men, women and children; slowly
they passed round, lingering at the coffin, and
gazing with faces full Of grief and reverence
upon the last spectacle.
THE COURTS ADJOURNED.
There were adjournmenis lin respect to the
memory Of the dead Senator) in the q. s. Dis
trict Court, the Court of the Twelfth Judicial
District, the County Court and the Police Court.
Appropriate speeches we're made on these coca
sOne.
THE PIONEERS AND REPUBLICANS.
Meetings of the Society of California Pioneers
and Of the County Republican Committee we're
held, when appropriate resolutions were adopts
ed.
INQUEST ON THE body or Mr. BRoDgaIcx.
We, the undersigned Jurors, convened 10 in
Gnire into the cause Of the death OF David G..
Frederick, who died in the city OF San Francisco
on the lath Of September. 1859, do Gnd that
the deceased was born in the District oi Coum.
Ola, aged forty years, and that he came 10 his
death from wound inflicted by pistol ball
hred IRON pistol, Intentionally, bv David s.
Terry, on the forming OF Sept. ID, 1859
WV. A. KEITH, .. DICKINSON, JR.,
Y. A. FISHER, CHARLES MAIN,
THos. GoRDox, j. w. GILMORE
GEO. @. SCHREvE,
APPEARANCE or THE CITY ON THE DAT or THE
FUNERAL.
Many buildings were dressed in<meurning
throughout the day; men passed et&M other in
the streets with silent recognition, or If thew
spoke II was in low and suppressed voices as il
. pail hung upon their hearts and mpeded their
utterance. loud laugh or smiling lace was
rare thing TO hear or sec. Even children saw
that black cloud hung over the spirits Of all.
and read b" general gloom in every face. Al
night the places ol amusement were thinly MT,
tended. The great event was the theme OF all
tongues, the thought OF all hearts. During the
night the hall where lay the corpse was illumi-
ned with several large caBdeiahrss, the candles
oeing repienlshed until daylight. Until late
hour the throng pressed steadily in. the nemher
OF ladies' increasing during the evening and
until ten o'clock. L. is estimated that more
than forty thousand passed in aud out OF The
hall during Saturday and the ensuing eyen,ns,
PREPARATIONS FOR rHG 2uNsRsL
- an early hoar preparations we're made Tor
me obsequies. That funeral was the one object
which seemed 70 occupy the public mind. On
tne fiaza, lust below the flag STAFF. was erected
An imposing catafalque, consisting Of ! p,a,iorm
twenty ieet square; raised Eve lee, trpm ms
ground. and shsouded in black and white crsna
and alpaca. Above tnis staging was ! bl.ck
Grape canopy some twenty feet 10 height. The
supporting posts were striped with crape az
black and white, aud black Grape formed the
oack ground. The front opened tovards The
east facing towards Kearny streell. The ton
81 the supporting pillars were crowned with
funeral BLACK plumes and fest0ons Of the same
oiAck mantling hung around the entire strue
lure. y Was calculated 10 strike the beholder
Win deeP sense Of the momentoas nature or
sae occasion Tor which 1t was erected. Over II.
y hsit mast, hung IN immense American dae
lr'nged with GRAPE and waving mourniully il ~
breeze. = -
Inc day WAS beAaiiful-perhaps the 6nest Of
me eesson. clear blue sky, aud lack 81 tha
usual p roDg sea gales; little Or 10 dues. ana I
.otl bAi@y. Italian atmosphere. froea eyerv
1agseaa hung The insigaia Of grief and nourn-