Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-04-29

from the Temple to Erie street, "a
entire breSdth of Superior street = -ek-
ed full, and thousands were still in the
Square outside of the enclosed ground,
and in the streets surrounding and
leading into Superior. But vast
ss was this crowd, aud anxieUs ss all must
have been to crafty their desire to pay the
last act of homage to the dead and escape
fLom the rain and mud that rendered their
situation so uncomfortable, there were but
two or three occasions where any por-
tion of them lost their modera-
ton, and upon these occasions
the interruption was so triAing and
order SO easily restored, 81 to offer no
cause 70. complaint. The arrangements of
the authorities for the easy ingress and
egress all were so complete that no mate
rial difficulty could have occurred, and
with the aid of the skillful management
of the general committee of citizens whose
especial duty it was to keep everything
in order, the result was of the most salts
fstory and commendable character, and we
were informed by several officers who have
accompanied the remains from Washing
ton, thai from beginning to end, in every
detail, arrangements in this city were the
most perfect they had yet seen.
APPEARANCE AND NUMBER OF TIE CROWD.
There were probably never before gath
cred together in the city of Cleveland, in
common participation, SO varied a crowd
as were assembled here and looked Up1n
the remains of the dead President yester-
day. There were no social lines, no boun-
dsries between condition, separating those
who in solemn pageant moved past the
coffin that held the mortal parts of Abrs-
ham Lincoln. The banker and merchant
walked side by side with the laborer, the
lady of fashion and estate with the lowly
kitchen maid, and none thought aught of
the association. All felt in those solemn
moments how weak is man, how
shallow are all his Vanities, how
utterly vslueless is his power
when taken into account with
that fthe 0mnip3tent, and leaving pride of
position, and the worldly power that wealth
and place give, behind them, met on com
mon level SIS mOrtals bending before COM
mon God. One great feature of the occasion
was the many aged people who were pres
ent-the sires and matrons of several gen
eratiOns passed-whose tottering forms,
almost "sans eyes, sans teeth, sans every
thing" trembl ID with the in6rmities of
age and emotion. It was from the fading
eyes of many Of these, who had looked for
near century, with love and honor, upon
their eountry's banner, made truly the
''fsg of the free" by him who lay stiff and
mo:ioaless before them, that the tears
would gush and flow with that speechless
eloquence that springs unbidden from the
heart.
Of the number present there were various
estimates. From actual count by several
gentlemen, the average number passing
through the temple may be placed at one
hundred and forty minute. The move
ment of the civic societies and citizens
commenced at twenty minutes to ten
O'Clock, and the column was kept in mo-
tion necessarily until half past FIVE in the
afternoons period of nearly eight hours,
which would give total of about 65, 900
who saw the remains. This figure is un-
doubtedly not too large, but more probably
is short of the fact. Had it not been for
the bad weather, the number would not
have been less than one hundred thousand.
TIE TEMPLE AND THE CATAFALQUE
Has already been fully described by US
in the LEADER Of yesterday morning, and
IS there were 10 essential additions made to
it to day, we omit further particular men
ton of it.