The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-01
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FROM GETTYSBURG.

Wonument-The Town Alive with People
Preparations for the Impressive Ceremony.
Special Despatch to The EUentng Telegraph
GETTYSBURG, July This morning the great
dedication takes place. The day opens ausp-
ciously, rather cloudy, to be sure, but cool and
pleasant.
The Cemetery ThrOnged.
At an early hour the streets were alive with
people, and long before the hour at which the
speeches began the cemetery was crowded.
Noted Arrivals.
The following, among many others of cele-
brity, have arrived here since yesterday after
noon:--General Geary, General Meade and staff,
a committee of Philadelphia Councilmen, Gene
raj Robinson L. S. A.; General Barnum, of New
York; General Alexander U. S. A.; General
Dennison, of Baltimore; Governor Baldwin, of
Michigan; General Rawlns, Secretary of War;
Hon. Eli s. Parker, Commissioner of Indian
Affairs; Colonel w. Hopkins, of Lancaster, Pa.
and General G. A. Cunningham, of Mass.
The Soldiers Monument.
The monument, which now stands almost COM
plete, and about which to-day is gathered such
a dense and interested throng of people, is
probably the most imposing memento of the
late civil war of any now in the country. It's
cost will not fall short of $50, ,000-although the
original estimate was about SOS, 900. 1t is from
designs by j. g. PATTERSON, of Hartford, Conn,
who also furnished the clay models of the
statuary which were worked out in Rome by
Randolph Rogers. The superstructure is sixty
feet high, consisting of massive pedestal,
twenty-five feet square at the base and the die and
cap pcrowned with three-quarter globe, on which
stands colossal statue of the Genius of Liberty
In her right hand is held the vctor's wreath of
laurel, and clasping with the left sheathed
sword. Projecting from the angles of the pedes-
tINo
number of allegorical statues, representing
War, History, Peace and Plenty. War is per-
soniied by an American soldier, who, resting
from the conflict relates to History the story of
the battle the monument commentaries, while
History with stylus and tablet is chiselled as re-
cording the achievements of the field. Peace is
symbolized by statue of the American me-
chanc, with the accessories of a cog-wheel, ham,
mer, and chisel, while Plenty is represented by
female figure, with sheaf of wheat and fruits,
as emblematic of peace and abundance, as the
soldiers crowning triumph. The buttresses on
which these statues-which are all colossal-are
seated, have the sides ornamented with bas-
Ieliefs in unison with the idea embodied in the
statue. The upper die and cap of the monu-
ment are circular, and on the die is circlet of
bronze stars made up of one for each State hav
ing dead in the cemetery. The cornice and
plinth above the main die of the pedestal are
octagonal and heavily moulded, and on the
plinth rests an octagonal moulded base, bearing
upon its face the national arms in high relief.
The panel of the main die, on the west side be-
tween the statues, has engraved on it,
GETTYSBURG,
July ls2,S,
While the corresponding panel on the opposite
side has the following from Lncoln's dedicatory
address: "It is for us, the living, rather TO be
dedicated here to the unfinished work that they
have thus far so nobly carried on 1t is rather
for us TO be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us-that from these honored
dead we take increased devotion to the cause
for which they here gave the last full measure
of devotiOn-that we here highly resolve that
the dead shall not have died in vain; that the
nation shall, under God, have a new birth OF
freedom, and that the Government of the people,
by the people, and for the people, shall not
| perish from the earth. LINCOLN, November 19,
/ 1868
The Procession Formed.
Shortly after 10 o'clock A. NJ, the procession,
''curtailed" i'm numbers and marred in appear
ance on account of the mud in the streets pro-
duced by the late rains, formed in the Diamond
of the town in the following order-
Utica Zouaves from Utica, N " 55 men and drum
corps, Captain S. o. Jones; Worth Infantry from
| York. Pa, ID men, Captain Strme; Sicke Guards
| from York, Pa, % men, Captain r. c. Irry; York
ZOuaves from York Pa, 40 men, Captain r. c. Steig
| Hausam Zouaves from Chamhersburg 40 men, Capt.
| g. w. skinner: Gettysburg Zouaves from this place,
| SO men, Captain T. c. Norris squads OF other mill
| tary orRanzatiOns bar0uches cOntaluing Governor
| Morton, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Bayard Taylor,
| Rev. DR.. Schmucker, the Committee OF Arrange
ments, and other persons OF prominence,wh were to
have seats upon the platform; civil organiZa atons
| citizens on foot; and citizens in carriages.
| The line was quite long and full, Multtudes
formed all along the road TO the cemetery. A
number of bands of music marched at intervals
in the column, playing as they went.
CoHfjsusd IA de Third Edtti0H