New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-04-21

The draped streets, the dropping flags, th
/ open churches, tho closed stores, prove made
\ quate to symbol the solemnity of the grie
which this city feels, bearing its share Of th'
sburdon which tho death of the President lay:
I on the national heart. 1t was supposed thG
feeling would DO the deepest aud lis expression
most universal on the sad Wednesday wher
! The funeral ceremonies at Washington accom-
spanied the body from tho White House to Tx
Capitol, and whom tho sun looked down on The
lar more impre siye spectacle of twenty million.
! Of people, covering continent whose hearts
beat time TO the tread of that iune
, raj cori6gc on Pennsylvania Avenue
But yesterday was if possible more solemn
Sday than "Wednesday. The fasting and prayer
which are seldom moro than conventional were
real and sincere. The procession which makes
. its mournful way norlhwaid casts lorg shadow
forward, and tie approach of the remains of oui
murdered President was listened for in the hush
Of all business on two successive days, and the
great city mu;ely reached oH its myriad hands
to receive the sacred ashes that for thirty-sl
hours Will be nlrustcd to New-York.
Chastcncd indeed Is this people by the allie.
tion which was decreed 10 iall upon them, bui
purified also, upllIted, aud strengthened. New
York has been the center of all that was merely
mercantile. of devotion to s'solcly material
prosperity, Of disregard Of the highest purpose
of indy dual and national existence. BY IT,
vulsion that seems to be- as durable Gs it was
sudden, tie city casts aside It's baser gods, aul
walking day by day in fiery furnace, day IS
day finds the dross and scum and Stag OF Us
poor previous life melted out Of il, and its inner
thought and faith refined, and brought to tho
surface cleaning with an Unknown splend0r.
There seems no exception TO The general de-
yotion, 90 the religious sorrow that peryaaes
this people. The richest and the poorest share
the same generous emotion, and each II human
lied by it and brought into closer relations with
The other. Coftl.est grape and silk that enye.-
ope the palaces OF trade ON Broadway, and the
poorest strip Of muslin that clincs plifuly 10
he window OF tenement house or the negro
poor hut in wretohed street, ore the tokens y!
but one sympathy. 1.-THE rich and the poor
meet togc her: the Lord is the maker of theia
all" 4, Stewart, in Wall street, Or ny the
apple-women in the Park, no business was done
either Wednesday or Thursday. And from
everywhere, though yesterday was not, except
IN this State, Get aside Gs q fast by pruclana-
'ton, we hear the sumo accounts OF isolation
from ordinary pursuits, aud rcyerent regard OF
the dead.
Needless to say that no official request could
thus convert a busy nation into people with
no thought beyond the great calamity which
bad visited them. Needless 70 suppose that
such calamity with such influence came or
was sent with 10 deeper purpose Than human
eye can now penetrate. Needlc-sfor the human
eye 10 seek 10 penetrate tho Divine monition
and pan. We but mask tie events which pass
before us in This tremendous procession. Th-ir
meaning ana fail Signiicanco tho hereafter shall
reveai