Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-11-26

| You any conception OF the beauty and thrill
ms I'M pTwtr T o. what he said, only know
which followed the faces OF All OF Us were
oathed in tears. And when that precious
| memento OF his last hours came into my
hands, the volume kept under his pillow ara
read and marked at intervals, day and
| night, while he knew not AZ what hour his
Lord would come, and l saw these penciled
"The eye that shuts il 3 dy ing hour,
| viii open the next I'm bliss.
The ws.cone viii SQUAD in the heavenly world,
Ire the farewell ts hushed in this.
| We pass from the clasp Of mourning friends
| And those smiling faces " ~ greet rs there,
| "hich. on earth, we've valued most. ~
And when 1 turned 10 the close of the VOL
| tographs OF his sainted wife and his soldier
| COY who died, then / thought that 1 under
$1,000 me personal application OF his words.
| MT. Wilson at first hoped 10 live: eNpected
10 live lie told me the day OF his first at
tack There is one thing that want TO nm
| ish before i CO." Without specifying AZ I
knew that he referred 20 his History 81 The
! Rise add Fall OF the Great Rebellion" a
| treatise which of Itself is enough for the life
! WORK OF any single man. Did he have pre-.
| monition that his expectations were 70 he
| disappointed? Was it for this reason that
the day before his death he was cloSeted for
arse at midnight, open that little volume
"Bnt sf,er all these duties have done.
| Must ], ~ point Of mel it, then disown
Aid trust in Heaven, through Jesus blood alone
Ihroueh Jesus blood alone"
| Thinking that perhaps he already heard
| The foot fall OF his coming Lord thinking OF
| his own words: '.Watch We therefore, for We
| know not when the master of the house
colreth, az even, or at midnight, or at the
coo X Growing, or in the morning. Lest com
| ing suddenly he ind you sleeping"
| Having long ago settled all questions re-
n Ia,Ihg 10 maj eternity TO which he was SO
| iniaiilble witness respecting IL: tender, for
| giving, grateful toward man wandering at
| NE way i'm which God had led him. his spirit
| Looded with kind Of celestial summer.
| Keeping vigil as il were upon the very scene
| OF ms greatest services and greatest tri-
! umphS, ministered to by the afIectionate and
| faithful servants of the nation herself as
| though has sickness could be OF no private
| Interpretation, his pathway TO the tomb 1T
| orally and figuratively sprinkled with
| noWerS; the very atmosphere OF the whole
| nation throbbing with messages OF solicitude
! aLd love The press giving united testimony
| 10 his worth, thus died Henry Wilson OF
| Massachusetts. Vice President OF the United
| State.
| II remains only reyerently TO baar this sa-
cred dust bacE tn the keeping OF the old com
| monwealth o. Massachusetts: u soil wbi n
has already, during the first century " our
national lie, gathered 10 itself the dust of
the elder and later Adams; the dust of a
| Webster, an Everett, n STmner-naInes that
viii never Gle. Into such company, and
| worthy OF il, Henry Wilson shah enter un-
challenged. IL was his 10 see in God and in
man mat which the great Statesman OF
Marshneld dreaded so much TO look on with
MS dying eye: one portion of this Union ia
arms against another. But it was his also
TO part!ci pate in the determination OF that
evil, which had so taxed ard defeated the in
geuuity and state Smaushlp OF master minds
before him. III was his also 10 assist in bring
ing order out of the chaos OF civil war: in
| securing tjeir birth right to n nation new
born; and though passing through such trou-
bieSOme times, was his also 10 lie in peace
win not one feeling of resentment toward
the living or the dead. Others may be left 20
determine whether such man was great
for Us 10 thank the God OF our Fathers that
ne stu raises up such men, and to believe
that so long as they continue the republic
Will be safe.
DR.. Rankin read his discourse from manu-
script, and loud enough to be heard in every
part OF the chamber. He was listened -
with respectful attention, aud when he con-
clufsd Rev. DR.. Sunderland came forward
delivered feTvent prayer, anc pronounced
the benediction, after which the President of
the Senate, Mr.. Ferry, said: "The Sergeant
alarms Will Row announce the order OF ar
rangements''
Mr.. James /. Christy, acting assistant
door-keeper, then called the names OF the
different delegations, and as they were an
nounced they aro9e and passed. out OF the
chamber. The remains were then removed
from the chamber 10 the rotunda, and thence
down the east entrance to the Capitol TO the
funeral car.
Much credit is due TO Sergeant-at- Arms
French, Captain S. s. Blackfori, command
ing the Capitol police, Captain Basseit, and
to all of the Capitol employees, for the ad-
mirable manner in which all OF the details OF
the programme were carried out.
The Funeral Procession.
Major General Emory and aids wera al the
Capitol promptly at 10 o'clock a. M, and
took position Immediately in front OF the
east portico OF the north wing, and, with the
assistance of a number of cavalrymen,
designated the positions for the various or
CARNATIONS which were 10 have place i'm
the funeral procession, and directed the
nff f.aS ls,fn
wing. The FIRST organization on the ground
was the United States marine corps, and the
colOred battalion came next.
A very large number of civilians We're out
side the building, unable TO gain admission,
and they waited patiently in the rain for the
AT Il:S5 O'Clock, the undertaken. followed
by the ministers, the attending physicians,
and the committee of arrangements, emerged
band struck up dirge.
THE PROCESSION
formed I'm the following order, headed by a
detachment of mounted police under Cap
tain Brock and Lieutenant Noonan:
Major General Emory and aids; Brevet
Brigadier General Thomas NJ. Vincent as
slstant a6jutant general; Brevet Lieutenant
Colonel s. n. Benjamin, assistant a1iutant
general; Brevet Major James Mcmillan, can
tain Sd artillery; Captain Arthur MacAr-
Fl. Fisher, first Lieutenant 22d infantry; First
Lieutenant Henry Jackson, tn cavalry, &C
ting signal officer; First Lieutenant Charles
officer
L: S. Marine band of A. pieces, under the
lead of Professor Schneider.
Battalion OF U. s. marines under com
mand OF Captain Mel. Tilton, Lieutenant
w. Zeilin, adjuiant, numbering lS0 men.
Company A, Captain Monroe, and First
Lieutenant Watson, Company b, First Lieu.
tenant Goodrell and Second Lieutenant
wainwright; Company [, Captain Nokes and
First Lieutenant Allen.
Colonies Webster, Barnes, and Tanden- |
burg, OF the staff OF the District militia
Battalion of First Regiment, N G., ofD.
C., Colonel II. i. Fleming, Adjutant w. II.
Beall, headed by Reppettis band; Company |
A, Captain w. q. Moore, Lieutenants Dial |
ton, Harrison and Needing; Company z, Cap
tain McCathran, Lieutenant Shaw; Comma
ny ID, Captain Thorpe, Lieutenant Quantril. |
Following these, came Quartermaster Pom /
tier, Commissary johnson, Lieutenanfs |
Spear, Conrad. Katzenberger, Beali and |
Albers, of the Fifth Maryland, who accom- |
pany the remains to Baltimore
First battalion colored infantry, Major C.
b. Fisher, commanding. Company A, Cap \
tain Poland and Lieutenants Moore and /
Lewis; Company B, Captain Graham and /
Lleutenants Buchanan and Womley,