New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-11-24
HENRY WILSON.
Arrangements for the Funeral of the IN
Vice prcstdaus

Arrangements for the Funeral of the late
Vice President.
WASHINGTON, November 23-The funeral
OF Mr.. Wilson is now fixed for Friday.
The funeral services in the Senate Cham
Der will occur, when the remains will go to
Philadelphia. where they will lie in state.
L lie weather is cold and wet. Few were at
the Capitol.
Orders from the Navy Department
TIE Secretary of the Navy directs that
the day alter receiving the formal order,
which Is published, the fl ags be placed at
nalf-mast from sunrise to set; that thir-
teen guns be tired at sunrise, nineteen min
ute guns at noon, and national SALUTE at
sunset; the officers of the navy and marine
corps will wear the usual badge of mourn
ing three months.
Details of the Funeral Services.
The committee of arrangements met at
the Capitol this evening and agreed upon
the following order OF prOcessi for the
funeral Of Hon. Henry Wilson, late Vice
President of the United States: The com.
mittee LOT arrangements, pell bearers and
mourners will attend at the Vice Presiden.'s a
chamber in the Capitol on Friday, No
vember 70, at 10 A. NJ at which time
the remains of Hon. Henry Wilson. late
Vice Presiden. of the United States. will
be removed from the rotunda in charge of
the committee of arrangements, attended
by the pail bearers and mourners and Ser
geant-a farms of the Senate, to the Senate
Chamber, where, at 1890 A. NJ, divine ser
vice will be performed. When these cere-
monies shsll have been completed, the fune-
raj procession, under command of Breye.
Major General w. H. Emory, United
States army, will move in the follow
ing order from the Senate Chamber To
the depot of the Baltimore and Potomac
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be placed in charge of the committee an.
pointed by the Governor OF Massachusetts
to receive them. Military escort chaplain
OF the Senate and an assistant clerg yIpan,
the physician who attended the deceased,
the committee of arrangements, Senators
Thurman, and Morrill, of Vermont, Hon j.
A. Garfield, Hon. Samuel Randall, Hon. W.
W. Warren, ex-Goyernor Dennison, Asso-
clate Justice Clifford, Secretary Fish.
the Massachusetts committee, the pail
bearers, Senators Edmonds, Sherman.
Bayard and Wbyte, ex.Speaker Blaine
Representatives Mile, Wood and Kassop
the hearse, the relatives of the deceased
the Sergeant alarms of the Senate, mem.
bers OF the Senate preceded by the Presi
dent OF the Senate pro tenn, and the
Secretary of the Senate, the Sergeaut-at-
Arms of the House Of Representatives, the
members Of the House of Representatives
preceded by the clerk of the House, the
President Of the United States, heads of de-
partmente, Judges of the Supreme Court of
the United States, judges of the Supreme
Court of the District of lColumbis. Judges
of the Court of Claims, the diplomatic
corps, the commissioners of the District of
Columbia, officers of the army and navy
and OF the marine corps, organized associa-
tions which nay desire to attend, and citi-
zens and strangers. The body will leave
here at l:37 P. NJ. and. upon arrival in Bal
timore, will have military escort from
that city, leaving there az P. NJ Rev. DR..
Sunderland. chaplain of the Senate will
offer prayers at the funeral ceremonies on
Friday morning, and Rev. DR.. Rankin will
pronounce the discourse.
The body will be placed in the rotunda
on Thursday morning, where it will be in
state on the same catafalque used for Presi.
dent Lincoln, Sumner, CHEF Justice Chase
and Hon. Thaddeus Stevens. Upon reach
ing Philadelphia on Friday night, the body
will be taken to Independence Hall, where
it will lay in state until ten or eleven
O'Clock on Saturday morning, and then be
removed to New York. 1t is not the intep.
tlon of the committee to stop in the latter
city; they intend to leave for Boston on the
nine o'clock train Saturday night.
Courts Adjourned.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, November 23-The
State and federal courts in this ety ad-
loi armed to-day as a token of respect to the
memory of late Vice President Wilson.