Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-14

! dred strong, came tramping TO Lne
dirge music Of trumpets. The east
was sufused with tints of orange. and
dawn was closer-the dawn of the
funeral day, Tho veterans entered the
plaza and marched past, while mufied
drums timed their footsteps. A heavy
gun doomed out toward the sea. The
chimes of old Trinity pealed mournful
notes, and the sound Of mufled drums
grew fainter and died away. It was
sunrise, The day was born-the last
day for the dead upon earth, before
the tomb should have opened to shell
ter him.
Six o'clock, and the Wilson Post Of
Baltimore marched by with a Chicago
organization.
The corridors had been picketed by
fifteen policemen, while outside one
hundred and twenty-five were at rest
under command of two s~ergeants. The
last guard of the Grant G. A. R. of
thirteen who will attend the body to
the tomb had been mounted since five
o'clock.
At $50 o'clock Capt. Berry and men.
of the Seventy-irst regiment, went on
duty as the last military body-guard
before removal. Inspector Steers, with
three hours sleep in as many days,
was in charge. 81 am awaiting the
coming of the military, and shall have
three hundred and forty men here at 8
O'clock" said the inspector.
At z o'clock the strains of solemn
music hoated in at the grated iron
doors from many directions.
Eight o'clock-Nature was putting
forth signals of an intensely warm
day. The crowds grew denser and
denser around the plaza. Mufled
drums and dirgeful trumpets marched
in at the ons side and took positions at
the east end. The players constituted
the David Island Military Band.
At 8:50-Gen. Hancock and staff
trooped slowly into the plaza from
Broadway, and presented front to
city hall, and then going to the end of
the plaza in Broadway, where they
rested in the plaza. At this time LOO
members of the Lieberkranz So
ciety, filed up to the steps of
the city hall led by four
instruments sang, with impressive eff
feet, chorus OF 1.-THE spirits from over
the water" and chorus of "Pilgrim's
T%annhauser." Honor guard of regu-
lars filed into the open space.
At o'clock--Company A, Fifth Ar
tillery, under Col. w. B. Beck, and
Company E, Twelfth infantry, under
Major Brown. The companys and the
guard Of regulars were under com.
mand of Col. Beck. The regulars took
position beneath trees opposite the city
hall and stood at a rest. Then cam
the original guard of honor that wa
on duty at Mount McGregor
and which alone should b,
left with the remains to-day
filing into the corridors of the Cit,
hall. They took their places besid
the remains, and there, under com
mand of John A. johnson, senio
vice-commander of the Grant Post o
G. A. R. of Brooklyn. The men a
they stood were as follows: left 0
casket, comrades Corwin, Howalt, Nc
Donald, Squires, Knight and Guillam
right of casket, comrades Tibbetts
MacKellar, McKelvey. Brodie, Collins
and Berker
at 8:St-'hs imposing funeral ca
was drawn by t~wenty-four jet blacl
trappings. 1t halted on the plaza direct
ly in front of the city hall steps. Insid
the corridor, Commander Johnson wa
waiting with columns in position
Right and left was his command, tn
veteran guard Of honor was cree
"Lift the remains" was the next con
mand in clear, but low tones. Tn
twelve men stopped to the silver rail
with gloved hands. March" was tn
word. The body moved out upon tn
portico with the remains. Con
mander johnson, Immediately, q
head down, steps with measured treaC
across the opening, to the steps of tn
/ block, and waiting car; Commando
, johnson stepped aside; the silvt
mountings glistened as the burial cas-
, and its honored burden was carried u
and placed upon the diaz of tt
, mounted cawtafalque.
| The c~atafalque passed Twenty-thir
/ street at 10 o'clock sharp. The hum
, expection that had preceded it VIZ
; settled as it passed by, and all heat
, were uncovered. Many heads wei
bowed, and an old negro woman, WI
somehow had been pushed forward
the curb, stood there Wedged in an
} essayed vainly to kneel, with teal
! streaming down her wrinkled fac
, She was held fast by the crowd an
could not stir. On a single telegrap
pole, on the corner of Broadway an
Twenty-third STREET, were perched nj
less than twenty-eight spectators; A
soon as the catafalque had passed, IL
{ carriages containing Col. Fred Gran
his wife and sister, fell in, and tt
{ mourners coaches filed quietly in liz
/, without confusion. Both Mr.. Clev
land and Mr.. Hendricks, had tired
the long wait, and after sitting in the
carriages stared at by the curiol
crowd till half-past IL o'clock, retire
to their rooms in the hotel. They o.
served the parade from their window