The Portland daily press., 1870-01-31

-.Tbe Procession to the HnlI.-At City
Hall-.FinaIe.
On Saturday morning last the two great ma
tions-England and America-united in the
commencement of those final ceremonies
which marked their respect and reverence for
the prince of the people. Not for one whose
fame had been won upon many hard fought
battle-felds, nor for him in whose veins ran
the blue blood of long line of kings, but for
the man Of the people whO by his untiring
energy and perseverance, by his strict adher-
ence to the rules of honor and integrity had
acquired wealth equal to that of the Spadss,
which he used not for his own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
but that the hungry might have bread, the
naked clothes, the houseless a shelter from
the diving storm, and the ignorant an educa-
ton that would fit them to become the bene-
factors Of mankind, to follow in the path that
he had pointed out to them
But there are deeds that all the world should know
Those generous DEEDS that must not be untold
Though Kings and conquerors unhonored go
To lie forgotten in their graves and cold;
While such deeds live. the world will ueer grow old
Its useful strength neer waste in slow decay
For they will leaven all, around them rolled.
And We new lite even to senseless clay
And life restore to moulds whence it has passed
away
The morn broke on this eventful day chill
and cold with a leaden sky o'erhead that
seemed most BETTING for the solemn cere-
monies that were about to take place. Nature
herself mourned most sincerely for the honored
dead, and had attired herself in robes of ashen
hue.
From very early hour the different trains,
stages and country teams from a radius of ten
miles about the city began to discharge their
living freight and the streets of Portland were
thronged with an immense crowd of men, wo-
men and children, who moved up and down,
frst one street and then another, eager to wit
ness the formation of the funeral escort that
was to receive the sacred dust. From every
building, as it seemed, the National flag float
ed at halfmast, while the British and Spanish
Consulates displayed their respective colors
draped in mourning. As early as o'clock all
the easterly side of Munioy Hill was co7ered
with people anxious to witness the disembark-
alton, while the wharves, the English steamers
and the shipping lying in the docks, as seen
from the Observatory, presented the appearance
of broad black belt almost eIfcirclng the city.
Taking the estimates of different individuals,
it is calculated that there were at least 10000
people present on the occasion.
THE PROCESSION TO THE LANDING.
About quarter past 10 o'clock the sound of
the drum was heard, and by quarter of II the
military escort, composed of the Portland Me-
chanic Blues, Capt Parker, and the Portland
Light infantry, Capt. Mattocks-both COM
panies parading as a battalion of four COM
pan;es each-under command of Gen. John
M. Brown, of the Governors staff, and headed
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march for the Falmouth Hotel, where they re-
ceived Gov. Chamberlain and the Executive
Council of the State, His Honor Mayor Put
nam, and the heads of Departments, with open
ranks and present arms. The officials having
taken their place in line, the procession slowly
moved down Middle to India street, and thence
to the landing at Atlantic wharf, where the
cere monies of the reception were to take place.
ON BOARD THE MONARCH.
The scene on board the Monarch was most
impressive. We use the word advisedly, and
wish it to be accepted in its fullest sense. The
lights had been extinguished in the Mortuary
Chapel, the casket placed on portable bier
and few moments before eleven it was drawn
out of the chapel and up the main hatch on an
inclired plane where it was received by the
marines, numbering seventy-five men, under
command of Major Gardner, at present arms
the band being stationed on the risht-the
Chaplain of the Monarch in his white surplice
and Capt. John Commerell-who placed them
selves one at the head the other at the foot
and the officers of the ship, all in full uniform
together with Mr.. George Peabody Russell
The crew were grouped forward with heads I'm
covered, and as the casket made its appearance,
the band played the Dead March in SAUL
Twenty picked men from the crew went OIL
board the Leyden to receive the body, Will
another selected force OF twelve seamen raised
the casket on their shoulders and bore it to thu
ships side, the Chaplain, officers, and Mr.. Rus
sell all following. There portion of the bull
wark had been thrown down and whip rig
ged on to the yard arm, while double line o
seamen held the end of the whip which was rut
through block in the deck. Stout black band
were placed around the coffin and hooked t.
the rope, and at the word from the officer il
command the casket swung over the side. Al
the casket touched the deck of the Leydel
and the rope was detached it was precisely
eleven o'clock, the hour fixed for the disembar
kation, and the bow gun of the Monarch boom
ed out the signal. Two minutes afterword
L u yya
repeated every two minutes by the Plymoutl
Miantonomoh and Terror, the guns from Fo,
Preble striking in in the intervals During tn
process of the Decentralization of the BODY fror
the Monarch silence reigned that befitted tb
solemnty of the occasion. The only sound
to be heard we're the orders of the officers, an
they were given in SO low tone that the
hardly seemed above a whisper. Gazing frol
the deck to the shore could be seen the houst
tons. hill-sides and wharves crowded with tt
curious multitude while on the other side tt
islands of Casco Bay lay cold and dreary, wra
ped in their white mantles of snow, their bias
washed by the restless waves, while stern an
grim near by frowned the granite walls
Fort Gorges and the massive stone water pa
teries of Fort Preble, whose classmates eve
now and theu gave forth bright fash follow
edlby puff of wreathing smoke. The vesse
OF the feet also added to the scene, the ia
model OF the Plymouth contrasting strange
with the raft-like monitors from whose gre
'"frets the immense guns belched forth vo
awe VI name and smoke with report tn
ESF6EDeraIed again and