The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-07
The Remains of General Grant on
the Way to Their Last Rest
ing-Place.
The Funeral Services at Mount Mac,
GregOr-Dr. NeWman's Eloquent
Tribute TO the Dead.
Lying in State in New York's Capitol
Preparations for the Final Ceremo-
MES highlands Sympathy.
FAREWELL TO THE MOUNT.

lookout, gun doomed sullenly at four
O'Clock yesterday morning. The shock of the
reverberations was yet on the heavy air
when second report shook the earth and
startled the birds in the trees. The artillery
men had begun firing thirteen guns to mark
the sunrise of General Grants last day
upon the mountain, and at short intervals
the guns were fired. At five o'clock the
soldiers received orders to break camp, and
in less than twenty minutes all the tents
had disappeared from among the trees and
were packed away in boxes ready for ship
ment. AT 5:45 o'clock bugle call rang
out on the still air. 1t was the assembly
call for trumpeterS. Fifteen minutes later,
the buglers of the four companies of troops
were sounding the reveille, and, as the
last strains fioated over the mountain,
they were swallowed up in the booming
of the gun. The family at the cottage
were aStir as the morning touched
eight o'clock, and the correspondents and
guests were moving at the hotel. The
mountain train at six O'clock had begun
bringing up people, and every hour there
after the little engine drew up at the depot.
The funeral car to carry the remains from
the mountain to Saratoga came up early
and lay waiting the burden it should carry.
Monday night, the family, in group and
alone, had taken their final farewell of the
remains of the dead General. At nine
o'clock the family, with the exception of
Mrs. Grant, breakfasted at the hotel, and on
returning preparations were at once made
for the funeral journey.
At half-past eight o'clock, the doors of
the Grant cottage were thrown open and
stream of visitors poured in steadily for
over an hour. At $50, a train of two cars
brought General Hancock and number
OF distinguished visitors. Two companies
OF regulars were drawn up to receive them.
They proceeded from the station to
the cottage in the following order:
General Hancock and Colonel Jones; Adj
miral Rowan and General Sherman;
Senator Evarts and General Rufus ingalls,;
Senator Miller and James w. Drexel; GEN
eral Hancock staff; Miss Drexel, her aunt
and cousin, dressed in deep mourning On
the same train came the Loyal Legion,
under Past Assistant Paymaster Gilbert A.
Robinson, Brevet Brgadier General Charles
A. Carleton, Paymaster George De Forest
Barton, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Floyd
ClarksoD, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Au-
gust McClark and Captain Edmund Blunt
At ten O'Clock Mrs. Grant and her chill
dren and grandchildren came down to the
parlor and took seats about the casket.
They were accompanied by Mrs. Corbn
and Mrs. Cramer, sisters or General Grant;
Mr.. Cramer, Mr.. Dent brother of Mrs.
Grant, who was accompanied by his
wife; Simpson Grant, son of Or
vile Grant. brother of the General;
Paymaster Sharpe, U. S. A., and Mrs.
Sharpe, Mrs. Grants sister, Mrs. Grant
took seat inside the parlor, but near the
door. On the piazza sat Bishop Ravens,
General Sherman, General Hancock and
staff, the pallbearers, Mr.. Camp the
Brooklyn choriSter, X-P0stmaster-G General
Creswell and wife, ex-Secretary of State
Fish and wife, DR.. and Mrs.
Douglas, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph W. Drexel,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Arkell and Mr. and
Mrs. Potter Palmer. The veterans of the
Grand Army posts who had been acting as
a guard of honor about the casket and on
the piazza withdrew, and the sentines out
side were also withdrawn for the most part
There were over thousand persons
gathered on the outside of the cottage.
The exercises opened with the reading of
the ninetieth psalm by Rev. Dr. Agnew, of
Philadelphia. Rev. Bishop Harris offered
prayer, and the hymn MY Faith Looks
Up to Thee was sung by the gathering of
people who came about the cottage.
The funeral sermon was preached by Rev.
DR.. Newman, General Grants old pastor.
He took for his text the words from the
Gospel of st. Matthew, chapter XIV, verse
81: well done, thou good and faithful
servant; enter thou into the joy of thy
Lord" DraNewman's discourse was long,
occupying about an hour and half in de-
livery. After reviewing General Grants
career and eulogzing his character as
soldier, statesman and private citizen
the sermon closed as follows:
Who does not regret the death of such a
man9 Heaven may be richer; but earth is
poorer. On one of those delusive April days
when hope revived in all our hearts, / said to
MIN: GU are man of Providence; God
made you the instrument 10 save our Nation,
and He may have great spiritual mission to
accomplish by you, and may raise you up"
In the most solemn and impressive manner,
with mind clear and voice distinct, he re-
should he spare my life it is my intention and
resolve to throw all my influence by my ex-
ample in that direction
He is gone, but shall death defeat purpose
SO benefcentS Is he not mightier in his death
than in his life? What home has not felt the
sympathetic chord touched by the invisible
hand of his terrible but patient suffering?
How the embers of sectional strife have died
out on the hearthstone of the Nation!
How political animosities have skulked
away in shame from the peaceful spirit of
udice shrank into oblivion Ehen around his
couch all bowed in prayer before universal
Saviour! How the young men of the Re-
public realized that life is worth living when
they tet the touch of his great soul!
How the little children of the Nation
united his name with that of father and
mother IN their purer prayers, and opened the
tablets OF their young memories to receive
the image OF his life and characteri And
wherever he had touched the circuit of the
earth, there came from Japan, China and In
Ola, from the temples of Jerusalem and the
pyramids of Egypt, from Attic plains and
ancient Troy, from the Bosphorus and the
Golden Horn, from the Danube and the
Rhine, from the Seine and the Thames, the
voice OF love that made all men akin. o, who
much for mankind? Aud this was his
consolation. Wnen near his end he sought
70 cneer tfat precious woman who loved
under any circumstances Ny expected death
called forth expressions of sincerest kindness
from all the people, of all sections of the coun-
try, The Confederate soldiers Wed with the
Union soldiers IN sounding my praise. The
Protestant. the Catholc and the Jew appoint
ed days for universal prayer in nv be-
half. All societies passed resolutions of SYM
pathv for me and petitions that / might re-
cover. 1t looked as if my sickness had had
something TO do to bring about harmony be-
tween the sections. The attention of the pub
lie has been called to your children, and they
have been found to pass muster Apparently
! have accomplished more while apparently
dying than it falls to the lot of most men to
be able to do" o. Let me die the death of
the righteous, and let my last end be like hist
And where in all the annals of the church
shall we find dying hour so full of divine re-
pose? His calm faith in future state was
undisturbed by ANXIOUS doubt. His suffering
and wasted body was but the casket for the
Respondent jewel OF his soul. and when death
rua lessly broke that precious casket an angel
carried the jewel to the skies to lay it at The
SaviolI's feet In the early light of April /,
when all thought the end was come the suf-
ferer said to me: doctor, an going.
hope the prospect of the future Is clear
and bright, was my response; and the an
swer came: Yes; oh, yesl' Then followed
a scene of infinite tenderness. The honored
wife, the precious daughter, the devoted
sons and their wives. each in turn APP.
preached and he tenderly kissed them do
you know me, darling?" was the low
ing wife's inquiry, and he whispered
back: Certainly do, and bless you all in
my heart. Such love melted the marble heart
of Death and the.King of Terrnrs., fed af-