The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-10-01
Arrival and Decentralization of the
Remains---The Procession
and the Interment.
TRIUMPH EVEN IN DEATH,
The President, Members Of the Oabi-
net, State and Civic Authori-
ties and the People
as NIourners.
AN IMPOSING PAGEANT.
How sleep the brave who sink to rest
BY all their country's wishes blest.

BY all their country's wishes blest.
yesterday the remains OF Admiral Farragut were
received by the people OF New York, and, escorted
by OF the most imposing pageants that has ever
appeared upon the Continent, were conveyed to
their final resting place at Woodlawn Cemetery A
singular train OF mishaps attended all the arrange.
ments for the funeral. First, misunderstanding
arose between the New York Committee OF Arrange
ments and the Navy Department respecting the
ordering Of the frigates Guerrero and Brooklyn to
Portsmouth to bring the remains to this CITY, which
was only adjusted after the Interchange Of nume-
rous telegraphic dispatches. Next the Brook
Ign collided with the schooner Onward In the
bay as she was departing for Portsmouth,
and following closely upon this came the dis
appointing intelligence that Guerrero had run
ashore OF Nantucket and must abandon participation
in the obsequies. Finally, when the remains had
reached New York, and the elaborate programme
was completed, dismal clouded morning threatened
rain, which before the procession had commenced
Its march poured down In torrents. TRAINED little
early In the morning and nearly every one supposed
that, as indicated by the programme would be the
should 1t Storm the funeral would be postponed
until Monday; but the sky lghtened up about eight
O'CLOCK abe troops and other divisions Of the process
sion assembled at the appointed rendezvous, and
the feet OF vessels accompanying the remains started
up the narbor. When the storm did break upon thel
city the ceremonies had already advanced too far to
be checked for postponement without great trouble
the Committee CT Arrangements decided to pro
coed with the obsequies.
THOUSANDS OF STRANGERS
had come to New York participate In and witness
the ceremonies, and the morning ushered In with
nags at half-mast and mournfu minute guns, wit
nessed in the sombre draperes Of public and prvate|
edces and the serious faces OF the mutitudes that
thronged the streets an expression or sorrow
equaled only by that when the bier OF the amented
Lincoln moved solemnly through the city. Boston,
Providence, Hartford New Haven, Albany, Brook.
Ign, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and many
other cities represented at the Obsequies either
bymtary and civic bodies prominent citizens and
hundreds OF nonest-hearted country people, seldom
drawn TO New York by grand occasions, swelled
the funeral train and sadly lined the crowded side
walks. Nor were the brilliant and distinguished
names of the land less spontaneously represented.
THE PRESIDENT,
with General Belknap, Secretary OF War; Hon. G..
M. Robson, Secretary OF the Navy; Hon. J. A. j..
Creswell, Postmaster General General Porter,
President Grants secretary; Governor English and
STAFF OF Connecticut; Governor Winthrop and Gov
ernor CLIFFORD, OF Massachusetts,; Generals Meade,
Mcdowell, Fitzpatrick, Webb, Stahl, Sackett, Ire
NAME Sharpe, Darling, Carleton, Peck, Draper,
Meany, Tarbox, and other distinguished
officers OF the army; Admirals Porter and String
ham, the gallant Commodore Worden (who
fought the Merr1mac), and scores Of naval
officers who fought under the grand old
Admiral; Senator's members OF Congress- foreign
Ministers and Consuls. judges, clergymen, orators
and merchant princes were oil present to express
their OF the great national loss. 1t would be
impossible to particularze the countless methods
by which the public manifested their sympathy with
the sorrowful occasion. Hotels and club houses
were covered with black drapery and appropriate
inscriptions to the dead hero the flags Of the ship
ping hung at halI-mast along all the wharves and,
az the imposing cortege moved along the silent
Streets its solemn drges swelling the breasts Of the
thousands who watched it from sidewalks, balco.
nies windows and housetops, the bells joined in the
toling requiem OF the minute guns and repeated to
the weeping sky the grief which sllenced every
other tongue.
THERE WAS RARE FITNESS
In the place for such august obsequies. 1t was
Ceedingly appropriate that the Empire State should
receive the nations Admiral into her BOSOM and
that New York city should bear him to his tomb.
An empire in herself, respondent with battle fields
won In the OF independence and liberty, glo-
rifed by the heroism OF four hundred thousand men
who fought in defence of the Union, queenly In
merce and science and art the grand old State is a
proper mausoleum for so grand hero. New York
city, throned upon the islands OF the sea, crowned
with intelligence wealth and splendOr, whose brain
conceives the progress OF the New World
whose heart throbs with every pulsation
OF the nation, whose ships whiten every
ocean. and whose skill has given so many frigates
70 no hot apdf ri hrooy tho hoot
Commonwealth to take him whose only nag had so
long and gloriously defended her prosperity and
happiness and lay him away to his last long sleep.
As the minute guns doomed and the magnificent
pageant moved along through the sorrowful city
what thoughts and memories were stirred upl How
the mind went back through the darkness and
smoke OF the rebellion far down beautiful vista OF
peace and grandeur to the conflict Of 1912 and lin
gered about that scene on the gallant Essex's
deck In her death struggle with overpowering
numbers where Farragut's name first began to
shine. II followed the young officer he rose step
by step In the navy until it found him in 1861
t Norfolk steadfast to his country in the midst OF
desertion and treason. On through doubts and
disasters the retrospect accompanied him, ever nnd-
ing him true and brave, until at New Orleans he
eaped into the full stature Of his being and emerged
rom the appalling scene calm, victorious hero.
Again he looms up dashed to the masthead, In the
centre Of shot and shell and flames and ramming
lron-cads at Mobile, ana. following him across the
seas. memory revisited the fleets that, hailed him
great and the palaces where royalty loaded him
with 1avors Through all these grand vicissitudes
those who yesterday followed him to his grave
chiefly recognized the noble qualities OF the man,
Farragut To them he was not only all that is
heroic-the peer OF Nelson and the admiral of the
present aQc-but he was the model ana nride NJ
America, the type of everything that is frank and
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