Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-08-08

Final Prspsra.,sas for n. Eu.er.,.
LYING IN STATE.

LYING N gTATR.
NKv York, Angas, The CITY Hal
gates we're siosed at l o'clock this morn.
Tag. and the remains of General Grant
we're ieft alone, watched by the guard
OF honor. Between 4 and 5 o'clock ths
crowd bad become q throne, and its lins
reached from the fountain along Psrh
row 20 Center street, turning the corner
OF Chambers street. Every train on tia
otG bridge brought recruits, Who hnrrisd
across Chatham and Ceater streets 4
the point where the loose crowd was bS
iaR made into q solid procession. Al
she same relative hours today there yer.
thousands more In the stream than yes
tsrday, and sue fast vas due TO the be
lief and experience thai the early cnes
DAD yesterday the least time 20 wait, @
70 was that the early down town cars
besween and 9 O'Clock, brought hun
drsds Of tas,es and gentlemen who mac
Thought 20 Ds in advance Of the greai
croSd. The City Hall clock marked
5:B o'clock when the covers fron she
oaaket we're shifted St. Paal's was toll.
ina s O'clock when the iron gates were
thrown back. The hrss 10 pass through
we're, ~ On yesterday. women.
A horal remembrance from Genesa a
Grants old homo, Galena, Illinois, wa
pissed near the remains today. Tue In
speetoF this morning states that be has
orders to Gloss the gates ct o'clock to-
niRht. and that the remains vIll then
be turned ever 10 the undertakers, and
the public will not again be permitted
TO zee thsm.
At noon the line had extended M
broadway above Leonard street, and ur
to thai hour 5000 persons bad visited
the remains.
Midday passed and there vas no
diminution in the constant travel OF
people 20 anxious 10 zee the unreooQ
nizabie face Of the dead general. At 10
o'clock ths line reached up Broadway 10
o point near @ anal street, bat the tide
waa lowing pas. she remains at about
100 per minute a. on yesterday, and n
2 o'clock nearly 5000 persons, had
viewed the body since the gates opened
At 9 o'clock this morning.
The procssaion TO the city hall at the
hour of midnight extended above Canal
street, half mile assay, and was -four
deep. IL In estimated that ~ many "a
10000 persons have visited the hall
within the tvo days that the remains
have besn In state. At 1:i0 .. m. the
gates were closed for the night, and
about SEQ persons, Who had bsen In
line. were disappointed in not seeing the
fsoa of the dead General. The process
aioEl began 10 diminish about half an
hour after nidnight and near O'Clock
10 was Of rather slim proportions.
Al 10 o'clock this morning the body
will be taken 10 Riverside park, and the
last obsequits over the great general will
be over and his ashes will have eternal
rest.
from NORTH AND FROM SOUTH.
Nxw YoRK, Aug. 7.--Is looked like
old war tunes as the hotels last night.
Great crowds Of strangers arrived on
every train and boat, In anticipation Of
Saturdays funeral pageant. bat il was
At the hotel Hobbies that the most en-
tFaordinary assemblages gathered. and
friends Of twenty years ago, who vers
made enemies BY the var, sheok hands
and made IL all up. some OF the scenes
between the soldiers Of she North aud
shose Of the south were heart stirring,
and there we're groupings Of grand old
figures on all sides.
In the midst Of che scene stood Gen.
erai Phil Sheridan. Suddenly q red
faced man advanced, leading John b.
Gordoa Of Georgia toward che Union
soldier. He then introduced them, and
the two old warriors seixsd hands with
@ irm grip and looked each other In
the eye. Then their hands trombled,
bat they did not release she friendly
grasp. bat stood there looking st each
other with sparkling eyes.
General Belknap, the on Secretary Of
War, came up ~ith g neral Curtis, the
one.eyed conqueror Of Fort FISHER, and
forrned part Of the group. Il was 4
pietnre worthy Of great painter, a.
TIE southern General. tall. black eyed.
lons haired and SCARED, pressed The
hand Of the famous soldier OF the
N ,rth. "rhis ts hoW tue soldiers Of
me North aud South meet today" said
General Cnrtis. God grant that 10 is
only an smolem q what 10 coming TO
the wAols oonntry."
THE raEsfpxSr.
WAmn,orox, Ans. The President,
ace0mpaniea by tue members OF the
Cabinet, except Secretary Manning, she
wsnt yesterday, Justice Woods, Of ths
tseprsme Court, and others. Isfs WASH
inason for New York In special car II
4 O'Clock.
new Yoax. Aaa. T.-Prssidsnt Clevs-
land and party arrived es che Fifth
Avanas Hotel eboat II o'clock tonieht,
and proosedsd Immediately 10 thsis
rooms.
TINE GRAND ARGx KxKACmEs.
Nrw Yoax, Aug. 7.--General Hancock
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