The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-06-08

a thousand flags half masted; n surging
crowd which for hours flung itself against
the portal Of the chamber where in state Law
tho dead /; a brillinns military column the
m owing strains Of n funeral march enlutes
Of sword and musks. and uncovered head !;
the baptism Of tears. unrcatrnined or con-
| oenled; the snd monotonv OF the passing
hell-th 'se demonstrations Of sorrow we NIL
saw and heard yesterday. They swept past
and eddied around y cofFn whore lay the
remains OF one whose brilliant life and
strangely terrible death have aroused the
quick sympathy OF a people keeuly sensitive
10 the romance and rathcs OF young, and
beautiful, and noble life.
And vet these dem onstration we're not
simply in honor Of the gallant soldier who
went yesterday toward his final earthly rest.
They had grapder purrose vet. The
we're the expressions OF a feeling more ac-
tive and enduring even than Is sorrow for
the dead. Ina new form thav represent the
intense and eternal feeling Of LOYALTY which
burns here in every breast, and IL is well to
take fresh encouragement from the sight.
Ihs fret phase ef~-Amer;can enthusiasm
which six weeks ago caused the whole North
to break forth into a war-crv. and rush to
arms at the notice of an hour. has passed
not however, to be replaced by apathy. but
to give way to a settled, immovable resolu
ton TO suspend the business and pleasure OF
life till the dignity Of the Governm ont be
forever asserted. The rinsous murders of
,ha. April afternoon in Baltimore, the assas-
sination Mt the dawn Of tina. May morning in
Alexandria. have given to this revolution
grim expression which should he TO the
80, al
defeat. #.-
In the honnrs paid to tho young ofi,er,
whom yesterday. with romp and circum.
stance. We passed on TO the burial. the peo-
pie have made known the feeling they now
have and will ever cherish toward those who
shsit taste the sweetness Of death for their
caun.rv. In the natural course OF the con-
fic,. hundreds nrs TO fall for them simple
grave. perhaps on the battlefield itself.
perhaps in the quiet Of their village church
| ward, viii be all the outward honors the
times will allow. But they now know.
hearing of the splendid ehsequles which
we're done about the bier ~ Ellsworth. that
/ for them wreath of unfadisg green will
. always hang in the chambers OF notions
/ memory. and that. though dead. they vii
/ vet speak with voice which hall awaken
/ sympathetic vibration in the hearts OF their
/ conntrymen. - So. .--s4se
rphnrns behind the hearse of him who
! died IN its capture was carried the rebel
I Flag which was torn from Alexandria. IL
| was swung upon the bavonet which sent
/ swift vengeance to the murderer, and vas
ssppors. j on the shoulder Of the man Who
punished the crime. IL the Rebels could
only view the scene justly they would see
! in it a type Of the sure and terrible rssrihu-
ton which follows hard after thsm, svers-
| ing neithsr 10 the RICH. nor left, neither
hastening nor resard,nc i,s step, bot with
/ anchancine parpose waiting to gre the
/ fnal. remediless blow. Tbs CORY eos'gn
/ has passed along. the avengug hsyenef no
| longer flashes before rs in the sun, The asee
which Yesterday hang IN sorrow res Heat
/ again from the summit OF their masts- but
( the remembrance Of the pageant remains.
I and the Lesson Of that Sabbath viii not be
1 forsotten.--N. Y. Tribune, Monday.