New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-08
OUR DEAD PRESIDENT.


From Our Special Correspondent
In ROUTE FROM CHICAGO TO SPRINGFIELD.
Wednesday. May 3, 1866 O. IN. :
Nearly all of day before yesterday, all of night
before last and all day yesterday the remains Of the
President lay in state amid the imposing funeral sur
roundings In the Court House at Chicago and stu there
was not sufficient time for all who sought the privilege
TO look upon his face. And when it was night and thu
collin was closed and young ladies place upon
fresh flowers wrought into significant and touching
enblemS, and the last drge being chanted BY tina
unseen choir overhead and the guard of honor and the
funeral escorts surrounded the bier and the coffin Was
borne upon the shoulders of the sergeants To
the hearse in the street, between lines of farinr
torcheseven hen when the gates Of the public square
had been closed an hour, long dense column still
waited in the vain hope Of being admitted
Taken all in all. Chicago made deeper IMPRESSION
upon those who had been with the funeral from the first
than any Of the ten cities passed through before
had done. 1t was to be expected that such would be
the case yet seeing how other cities had honored the
funeral there seemed TO be for more and the
Eastern members Of the corege could repress sur
prise when they how Chicago and the North West
came with accord, with tears and with offerings
to help bury this Duncan who had been so clear in
his great Office" The last Of these tributes the
escort of torches to the funeral train, showing the
corege as it passed to thousands who we're themselves
wrapped in darkness.
On board the train now, beside the original escort,
are the delegation from Kentucky headed by Gov
}ramlette the Committee of hundred from Chicago
Lieut. Gov Bross Speaker Colfax Senator II. s. Lane.
and Others At every station Of fifty houses during
the night say forty fifty in all the train has passed
under elaborate ARCH and at nearly ALL chors have
stood by the way and sang requiems The dcmonstrs
tons at joliet and Lockport particularly surpris
ing for the mutitudes gathered at the dead Of night
At many paees where the train did not even slackep
speed, where there seemed to be dwellings for miles,
large companies were assembled many sitting in the
vehicles that had brought them from their homes-aD
this in the middle of the night We have now. at day
light just passed Bloomington, where had assembled
vast uncovered throng. The passengers perhaps
akened by the sound of the minute guns emerg
ing from the many couches Of the sleeping
Of the train. These sleepng-cars all and ara
most beautifully draped inside well outside. They
were decorated for the OCCASION and rendered to the
escort By George NJ Pullman, esq, of Chicago. the
manufacturer and owner. This acknowledgment Of
his courtesy is made the instance Of the various dele
cations on board.
The vast prairie stretching away to the horizon in
cultivated FARMS is novel sight to many Of the party.
and there is little surprise when Ilinosan re-
marks: Now, for the next eight miles we shall be
going through the Funk estate which consists OF
81. 600 acres in body and a number of outlying
farms. Peter Funk who accumulated the estate died
asst Winter He viii be remembered for his rough but
powerful inyective against copperheads in the State
Senate two years ago He used to speak Of body Of
1000 of his inclosed grazing land the cafpas
ture'
There is but time to get cup Of coffee in the forward
car before the train will be nearing Springfield
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