The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-12-20
THE DEAD JOURNALIST.
The Fnnerai Ohse auies Of Horace Greeley
Impressive Token of Esteem and Rev
erence-The Most solemn Pageant Ever
Witnessed in the Country.

New ork, seems to have been one of
most solemnly imposing pageants ever
witnessed IN this country. 1t is said to
nave been even grander than that which
followed President Lincoln's body
through the city. The President and
Vice-PIesident and Vice. Presiden elect,
prominent journalists, distinguished
Senators, the Governors of New York
ana adjoining States, members of Con-
gress and OF the municipal government
OF New York city, with countless thou.
sands of citizens, formed the procession
that followed the remains OF the dead
journalist TO Greenwood Cemetery. A
correspondent of a Western journal
writes:
The occasion was one never To be for
gotten by those who witnessed the sadly
impressive spec acle. One ef the Re
public's greatest and most famous sons
WAS consigned TO the tomb amid sur.
roundings of universal sorrow, sym.
pathy and esteem never yet bestowed
on the most renowned OF the world.
The solemn pageant was in very many
respects strikingly remarkable and
grandly impressive. 1t was as simple as
the character and life of the departed
Journalist as grandly democratic as the
tenor of his actions and the spirit OF
our republican institutions. Denizens
OF every sphere in life in this great
metropolis turned out in countless thou.
sands. On yesterday they waited with
unmurmurng patience for hours at the
City Hall 10 look upon the features of
the distinguished dead. To-day they
thronged the route of the funeral pro.
cesson from Fifth avenue and Forty
\ fifth street 10 South Ferry, distance of
four miles, TO pay last grand and uni
versal tribute of respect TO one whose
memory all, even his enemies, revere.
With the exception of the impressive
display on the occasion of the funeral
procession when the body of the mar.
tyred Lincoln passed through this city,
the demonstration of to-day surpassed
IN simple but imposing grandeur any
honor paid in this metropolis TO the
memory of any American citizen.
The route of the procession was
thronged. Every window and every
doorstep was occupied. Interested
faces, subdUed by the sadness of the oc.
casion, gazed in countless multitudes on
the funeral cortege of the departed
journalist.
Business in New York was almost
suspended. From the public buildings
and from public Offices and stores, and
from private dwellings, hung embems
of mourning. 1t was day Of sorrow
in the metropolis. Flags were at half
mast, and the usual turmoil of metro
politan life subsidized beneath the sol
a.rl,, ~
il was evident that some especial idea
occupied every mind that some serious
feeling animated every breast. Eleven
o'clock had been appointed as the hour
for the funeral, but at o'clock throngs
of people were TO be seen vending their
way toward the Church Of the Taber.
nacle.
Every grade of the population was
represented. 1t was general outpour-
ing of the people. 1t is safe to say that
along the route of the procession there
were over 100000 spectators. Applica.
tons for tickets had been made in such
s,umbers that it was impossible to grant
all, and the greatest discrimination had
10 be used.
The scenes in the house previous to
we Ill VI lAlt NCIt SdNl
and sacred. Mr.. Greeleys daughters
were there, both overcome with grief.
The eldest has, within few short weeks,
lost by death her mother, her father,
and her betrothed, the last mentioned
being young man whom Mr.. Greeley
regarded with the affection of son.
He was one of the lost on the Inflated
Missouri. The time for removing the
corpse from the house was approaching.
The coffin had been left open until this
morning by request, in order that Gen.
Grant might look at the features of his
now liteless competitor for the Presi.
dency. The time for closing the coffin
came. and With it tribute at once
modest and touching. 1t was the last
laid on the coffin of immortal dead.
Whitelaw Reid hal sent simple tribute
in the shape OF bouquet of violets
Mr. Greeley's daughters took the bou
auet and placed it with Mr.. Reds card
appended on the breast of their father
The coffin lid was closed, and the sad
procession proceeded to the Church Of
the Tabernacle, near by.
The scene ia the church was in brie
what il was outside,-solemn, grand,
impressive scene wherein every face
was written a deep feeling Of reverence
and esteem for one Of whom il may be
truly said in Shakspeare's words, ave
may not look upon his like again"
The funeral ceremonies began. The
scriptures were read and psalm sung
and the fervid and iorcible eloquence o
Rev. Drs. Beecher and Chaplin was hearc
in eulogv OF him whose lifeless form lay
before them. There was breathles
silence, general emotion and grie
which would not be suppressed, but ex
pressed itself in sobs and tears even
These sad rites over, the funeral process
sion formed outside the church, an,
shortly before o'clock started en- ro1i
for Greenwood Gem etery.
The coffin containing Mr.. Greeley
remains was borne in an ordinary hears
drawn by two horses no ostentatiou
trappings no aristocratic surrounding
He was buried as he lived, one of tn
neople, and tomorrow the same hears
NAV convey TO its final resting place tn
remains OF longshoreman or mechar
- At the head of the line of processio