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' - VOLUME Lxxxrv: .. i
~- PITTSBURGH . MOND : ' . t
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IN MEMORIAM.
HONORS TO THE HIV
'They Live Always in
Our Itearts I #
11111111 E OF It-GRATEFUL PEOPLE.
Loyalty. ,al the Tomb.
THE PEOPLE RENEWIHEIR YOWS.
7.. • , 77 7 . .r .m. 7,4 I
DECORATION DAY.
Potion, Poem and Exercises.
'"Bring flowers. fresh flowers, o'er the bier to
A cro atted en or the brow o f the patriot dead'.'
• Bring w lowers, they Ar spar:Ong in wood and
rale.
Their breath floats out on the springtime gale.
Though they smile in vain 'for what once was
ours,
They are love's last gift. Bring ye 11..wers, fresh
• Bowers." • •
• ,Saturday was the day set apart ill .this
city and vicinity upon which to do honor
• 'to the memories of the many ,t en he.
the
.memories
who offered up their lives as a sac
rifice upon the altar of their country,
and as a remin der tite heroic deeds
_ _
and patriotic achievements of those who
fell in the last great strligglepn this con
. - tinaat for human liiierty, end most
tingly was it observed. Our citizens,'
whose liberality, patriotism and zeal dur
.,iag the !teailble conflict was excelled by
that of no people in the land, united
with almost- cme adoord, 'without distinc
tion of classes, parties, creeds or sects,
in the observance of the day.
~The b u sh
noeshouses generally, and all the pitiblic
offices, were closed, and the houses along
the route of the procession were, many
of them elegantly and tastefully, deco
. _rated With .draped flags at half-mast and
-other diiplayi of an appropriate nature.
The day was all that could be desired.
Early in the morning alight shower of
• 'rabitell,after :which theisurrehoner pelt
brilliantly and dispelled the floating
` and a refreshing bieeze tempered
its rays to genial pleasantness.
..,4'.&tan early hour ihe people from a die_
tance began' to assemble, and , by
. nine
• • • O'cloCk the principal streets and avenues
here • thronged with those who had come
to do honor to thw who Mid died inn:lair,
country'a.. deferie... Men, women and.
, childretr" by thin:wands - crowded the
streets, each bearing a bog:pet - or wreath
rot. evergreen" and flowers, tributes to the
memory of those they desired to bonor;yet
all was quietness; no dashing.through
the streets by mounted men; no drunken
brawls at the street corners; ajl seemed
impressed With the solemnity of the occa
sion, and the draped flags at half mast, the
solemn strains of the dirges played by
- the bands, and the muffied:sound of the
drums, as the various delegations slowly
and orderly marched - to the places as
.
-signed them in the line; showed clearly
..that although those whose niamories were
intended to be, honored "sleep to wake
- no more," were still deaf,' ,
VAnd they who for their country dic
Stull All an 'honored grave; -
Fur glory lights • be smiler's tomb ,
, deribeamy weeps tue brave, , .
" AT rn ACADBMY OF .1117810.
Childhood, yonth — arid gray hairs, the
-orphan, the soldier, the. civilian, repro
•seritatives of every class and,age and sex,
made up the pstriotio audience which:
packed the Academy of Music, long be
.' . fore the commencement of the literary
- •exercises of the morning s Aside from
e most impressiVe and 'touch
ingslie, th_ .
feature which marked the mem-,
blage above all Others was the appear
ance of the orphans, over one hundred
in number, neatly arraYed, • each having
a fresh baguet of flowers, and filling the
front seats of the parquetto, in fall view
of every spectator. That heart was cold,
indeed, whichcould look on the sight in
all its eloquenCe, and not learn a new , and
deeper meaning in the exercises, and en
, gage withanore heartfelt earnestness in
the after memorial 'observances' of the
_day._ Indeed, few looked upon the bright
• beaming faces of these innocinte,, the
Adopted children of a great and powerful; ' ,
tltats, imt thopght how poble must be-a,
Commonwealth, how grateful, how Jeri
.srai generous, to gather together .theise;',
helpless little waifs left fatherless brit
-crud war, to kindly_ oster 'and nourish,`
thanibeieittr 'the • roof of ihelteiing .
homes, where they will be reared as ten.'
'' •derlyande } rtlly as though a mothers'
`...10ve hovered over and guarded and,
.guided their footsteps: Pennsylvania 'la
proud of her record in caring Ler the or
.,.,4phan chlyhtnibeher soldie r s, and these
'' . .Nttle one. willgrow nolo hot*, revere
iiiitifltticina ;and herseli
- with a'lzea Sid l eitintistnesiFPthers •Can
. not know. God bless the soldiers "
t";;PlUilital
At half past ~plue o'clock Rey., Dr.
Howard, Hon. "John" . M. Kirkpatrick,
*Void J. Denniston and Capt.
4 tColiiiii entered and took seata - mpoll'Oiti
platibrni r folloWid by Gen. A. 4!. reshon.
Li.lifhci,noine4 - (40 , Our:dna:Pr test
, -,;•-;;:. •
Gen. Logan's order relativa•to the obser:
vanes offhe occasion.
,Dr. Howard then led the audience,
standing, in a beautiful_ and impressiveprayer.
The Anew
neat introdtit
effect the foi
cotilbosekby
ghepy, ant di
of the Rep9.lll)
Call the bright .
Let garland at
trer the .
_ _ Jlamboring braves,
Who went at our utri's call:'
Rallying •neath the old flag,
Comrades-who gathered before,
But we waltha vain or the messmates slain,
- -Whom the bugle ea 1 wakes no more.
Roll, roll the d ftr. ' ' • '
• ' Butte the no sas tbey fail. •
• For the ranks w ll tell o fmany who fell,
Whom the bu le blast never may call. •
reacefully, : in Y theY lehpr ;
)ear fro m the wild 11 firing fray.
Yet never to anow.h w the. tears st il l flow.
In many sad homes today.
Gathering at the home side
• Sis.ers will meet as Of yore, , .••
/Int to miss the sweet brothat hiss
tbe boys who come no More. •
8011, roll the drum, dc.
Wreaths for the old torn flag,
Draped and half masted In air,
For the boys who gave their life's Hood to save,
Its honor unsullied and fair.
'OvertMully nay It floatthere, • ,
their pillows of ctlaV
Whlse little they heed of ti e flowery weed
old comrades void offer to-day.
Roll, roll the drum, dc. •
This vocal exercise was enthusidati;.
cally applauded, and was followed with
an inspiriting and patriotic air
. by
Toerge's Brass Band, after which the" ;
Orator of the Day, Hon. John M. Kirk
patrick, was introduced. He was re.,
calved with the most marked Alemoki-'
strations ef favor, and. after quiet , had.
been restOred, spoke as follows:
Mr. CHAIIIMAN, LADIES, Sow:ages.Asti
Crrtzg.set—l am profoundly 3 honored by
the positien accorded me • in the scikeni=_
inities of! , thin , I day—honored, by tthis
courtesy-to myself personally,- but
,es
peOlaily and particularly honored in Cie`
ing enabled to speak in commemoration
of the virtues an l Worth of our heroic
dead. I need sea cely ask of this large
akst emblage Why*e are here and now
gathered tegethe , nor why the pomp l
and pageantry of hie imposing ceremon
ial? This is Deco ration Day. A day set
apart, we hope and believe, as a perpettial :
reminder of heroth deeds and patriotic
achieiement, and in all time hereafter
to be calendarod as amongst the
golden days of , the nation's his
tory. This, too, is • the funeral day
of the people, the Dolman, - holy day
oT the Republic, upon which' duty and
affection and inemory—a most sweet als-;
tertmod of virtUe& r go forth, hand in
hand; to strew wits choicest 'flowers, and
to water with mare the consecrated
graves of those-who fought and fell, that
the grand Government of our love might
go down Intact and unimpaired tofature
generations. All hail this day! and
thrice hontTed this pepple ...who thus
honor such dead! Who are these dead?'
They are our own fathers and brothers
and sons: Who are these dead? They
are they who, in response to duty's call,
forgot wife find feareetliegrt, and family,
and home,. and comforpi, and business,
and pleasure, and laying all upon the
altar ' of their country,, rallied around
her deg, marching alwaVS and only to
the musicJof the Union, to their sacred
graves which to-day we honor.
Who are these dead? They are they
who left their plows sitting in the fur
, rw,,the hammer resting ; mon the anvil,
who left forge and shop, and mill, and
counting room, and office, and bar, and
bench, aye, even the very pulpit Itself,
and folldwing the - highest behests of a
-most sacred duty, went forth for the
good Cause to battle -and to'death as
"gaily as to a marriage feast?" ' '
Who are these dead Y They. are
mighty host whom no man'can number,
who, taking their lives in their hands,
And panoplied only in the justice of their
can* with their face to the field, and
their feet to the foe, fell fighting glori
ously-for liberty and the righti. of man!
Of a truth, of a very truth,. thatnation is
thrice honored, who honors such dead.
The cause and hisfory of this day be
longs to 'thee past, and'four years of
bloody and doubtful war, was necessary
to compel the.mourn.ttirpageant of, and
in, 'Witch we are PriectiPtors, and partic
ipants. • •
Who. of all present hi large assem
blege, does not Well remember. the out
break of nits great war and thecircum
'stances attending it,: and who cannot re-
Call frill's' 'indent and painfunifstory, the
causes inducing and entling ;in this
fearful carnival of death, , the memory of
Which we are to pass in solemn review
this day .
• : "
; ,A great,i , tation," strong in its integrity
i)f - ,Puriose; and intending only' to do
jitsfice wits own, and. all the people of
the earth, , ehiddenly,'lna moment, in the
tivlnkling tif ap eyo;:`,* to aped, finds
;Itself fettrfnlir attacked , by+
ices and enemies
, In its own family And
.honiehnld, :brain:dig only or-, peace, it
440 itself WithPutidte prepanition or
wartunt urUnrikliad; Confrontied with
war whloh, ptutnthe cruelty and !:isitilg4
nitY of site, attack, ~oould only mouth war
tholdiatii"Oi
of anytktng 'arid nll 1iiir02,01.07, but the
"Ruthlased animate aeliJnair - of war." '
it was colnpetlad very
r,hreabbold. "grim' ; ' - 'o l k 047!, :and , of
"wrinkled front," in ut terrible and por--
tentous r a form that even this bast. and
travel4talked, deibtfally: ilespand•
Ittei ofthi iiattaaftha Conitat which all
4mafibramir Alrauld 1W Oag Mai bloody: ,
INMI
.~'~_ .
:tette &rib were
Ang with thrilling
Memorial Hymn,
of Alle
the Grand Army
TEE ORATION.
Who of nkcannot recall the dark days of
Sumter, when treason,• Cowardly and
fierce, as it always is, struck .a blow be
tween the very eyes of the nation with
its mailed hand, that rung throughout
the civilised world; and how men who
knew no fear. upon the corners of the
streets,aud in the public places,with whit.
`eued Ups and brded breath, asked of each
'other, "What next, what next?" How
the great heart of the
. nation stood still,
a nd its "8 1 4 Pulaines ran up to fever'
heat! How the despots of the world,
laughed and jeered, and all the tyrann
,nlea and oppressipnisr of the' old civiliza
tion scoffed at the experiment of man's
eapacitifOr, self-government, saying the
one to the! other, "I told you so;" "the
thing is a failure." Who can forget that
terrible day of April, 1841, when traitors
launched their find thunderbolt of war
upon ..Anderson, and his ' gallant
band. upon - the' thick of which a
light; lurid and baleful as. of ` a
meteor freighted with death, fell upon
the world. But 'the great nation, th6ugh
heart -sick and sore-stricken in the very
citadel of her life, was not powerless:
Pausing but for, a moment to;gatner •isp
her strength and scattered energies, Allie
kyoung athlete stripped for the dontest,
slie leaped into the arena, .and picking
up the bloody gauge of battle that the
. haughty Southron had cast at her feet;
he bid" deflancelonll 'comers - and to all
"odds. Alien-came the tag of war. You
alkretrientber;the elarlen call,ef the' Ex
ectiaebf-the nation, callinwfdr seventy
five thousand men for , three months' der
ilea, to aid in suPpresiling the iehellion.
How little dreamed this good man, how
_far short these Instruments would fail of
their purpose, and how millions would
takelhe place of, thousands, and weary
Years the place of months:ere the rebel
lion.would indeed be suppressed. But..
ao it was. You all remember how, as if
by magic,this first contingent was raised,
.
and how strong , men wept and offered
money for
. places in the ranks of those
who first made muster roll in the Grand
"Army -of the Republic. And so the war
went on. The,strong, young giant of the
North, with his Union auxiliaries of the
South wherever found, grappled with hie
foe, "and all the world wondered," • and
all the world leaked at this Mantic
struggle, which-all the world saw and
knew had.only life and death wrapped
up In its issues. Pedestaled upon the
malt, of eternal truth, and backed only:
by the justice of his cause—from the
plains of Manasses to the apple blossoms
of the Appomatox, he hewed hisky to
success and victory, and upon ath wand
battle-fields carved his name .8,o high in
i •v
the marble of history, that there shall
come none after him, as none came be
fore, who can so much as touch them
with their sword's point! Theseeiliattle
fields are the bead-roll of the don's
sainted dead, whose memories to-day are
to us, more fragrant, and laden with a
sweeter perftimk than the blossoms of
this genial , springtime: they are they over
whom we this day weep; they ate they
whom we cover with immortelles and
flos . vers of amaranthine hue, are they.
who -loved us, and they who, though
dead, do honor this "decoration day."
Honored, thrice honored, 18 that people
who'have such dead in their keeping,
and holy, holy, holy! is the grave that
holds their sacred dust! , But Upon the
field of battle these dead did n t all die.
Would that IL were so; but al , and alas,
it is not. 4.
Anderson Ville and Libby,.lelle Isle
and Saulsbury, Millen and Macon, and
other prison pens, whose infamy is only
equaled by their supporters and the cause
out of which they sprang —they, too, con
tributed in a form and in a mauve: too
fearful to contemplate their more than
share to this terrible death roll of the
"nation. Starvation—dedth certainly , in
its most fearful form—slow, cruel, sys
teniatically planned and terribly exe
cuted starvation—wrote its.nameless (be
eau's* too infamous) history on the blood.
led pages of the lost, lost cause.
The cause demanded and it was done,
"and in yonder cemetery, and in all the
church yards and burial placis of this
land, llealeeping the sleep of death huu
dreds, aye thousands;df strong and stal
wart forms of whom it might be truly
said they were starved to death by a
merciless and cruel foe; that the Republic
might live.
Shall we attempt to recall' the long
weary years •of doubtfal and eickening
war? '1 ,do so we deem useless upon
such an occasion as this. We may not
even enumerate the countless bank,•
fields upon which the nation stood in the
miler of her sons, and 'rought and strug
gled,as if for her very life... Their name
is Legion, and the synonyms of each of
diem are hcnor and courage of the high
est type. EVerywhere and nixm ail these,
those dead rcenfought and fell
•..e.s thick as autumn leaves
14Vallaustorcutp vatc. 21
How fainillar the natnes, and lifiNV pain.
fully each. suggests some vacant- chair
to many a household in this loyal' Tin
#.tinitir eats. s aro* and Shi
_eolfite mont and Violcsb b
urg Cke
tnauglAndlittcp a •Hiver, Nashville_ i g ia
Lookout Mountain, Allatoona and Watt
ttetelila, spd Atleatkand - ,Mamin,: and Sa
vannah, and Hudson, where black .men
Were made white by that Rand aleinhio
which Wilitinisihe'ditikelt' skin, whole
posse,Or fenghr and :fell foi the flag.
And MN tictt,Of
; South
:slotiotaii4, 'Antietam, and the tforklaa
V - 4
MEI
4'~~ k,;
- a6hievements of the Peninsula and Get
tysburg, the pivotal battle of the war,
pie Wilderness, Cold liarbor,Petersburg
gd nameless others , down to the great
owning victory of the ApPiamattox,
iwhere the young giant of the North, sit
ing down to his great rest, and wiping
he i: s g w ri e rn at m and e: t b h ro e w b , att lift le e p s c r u okefroni his
his
voice
land swore that “this Federal Union must
bepreservedV . that the North could
not, that the South should not,
.:.d that the iro ld in arms could not
. dissolve R."- And so this war was fought
to . the bitter end, by a path lumlno
With victory, radiant with valor, and all
effulgent and aglow with a patriotism that
knows* nothing but success, and dares
everything and ail things in support of
this grandest and greatest Goyernment
that this world-has ever seen.
But, my countrymen, we owe the liv
ing before us to-dey, ifilOt greater honor,
a higher and holier atits , than we owe to
the dead. I mean these widows and or.
pans who honor us. with their presence
here this hour. Surely it should not be
said • that the great Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania ever permitted the wife or
child cif aoyeoldier who fought and fell
under and rex' the flag, to be in want of
daily braid.' These are in very deed the
children or theOtate—children of whom
she should be proud, and whom it should
be her, delight and honor to guard and
protect. Let na awe to it that it be done,
snot as a charity, but of duty and right.
These children are fatherless save as they
have one In the great Father oftufall; and
I call upon those entrusted under the
laws with the distribution of the larges:.
as; and bounties of this grand old
State.to see to it, that not in skniggardly,
but in a right royal and princely manner
they care for and protect each wife and
child of all, no matter what be their creed
or color, who struck deeply and well in
the honor of the state, and fell fighting for
the starry banner of the Republic.
I honor Massachusetts. I honor her
for her coitus°, her brain power and her,
thought.' I honor her for the many good
andki eat men that she has given to the
canip and court of the nation, from its
birth hour to the present time. Espe
..cially dcrl I honor her in this, that in
April 1775, in the streets of Lexington,
shesbed the first blood for the great rev
olution, and that by a most strange coin
cidence, in.the bloody streets of Balti
more, in' April, ISO, she shed the first,
blood other sons in suppression of the
great rebellion. But here give me a
pause to say to the everlasting honor of
the old Keystone State of our love and
affection, that which I am vindicated in
Baying by , the truth of history. 'When
the national capital was a beleagured
city, when it was encompassed with foes
without, and Infested with traitors with
in, when the Chief Executive of the na
tion and his Cabinet were almost prison
ers, and hope seemed afar off, the first
troops to come to their assistance, aye
the very first regiment that defiled
through her broad avenues and flashed
back the early light of an April morning
'from the folds of their banners, and their
glittering stall, was a
{ Pennsylvania
regiment, officered by Pennsylvania
men, and led by a boy from our grand,
old county of:Allegheny. Ail hail the
Keystone of the Royal Arch! Ail hail
loyal old Allegheny! Pause not, I pray
you, to ask his religions creed or politi
cal party, but if you have flowers in your
chaplet that are brighter thau all others
else, if you have tears that if possible are
deeper and tenderer than all others, let
them fall -I begot you upon that young
hero and leader as' to-day he sleeps his
last sleep in yonder lieautiftil and silent
"City of the Dead.", (Judge Kirkpat
rick,here referred to Col. P. P. McDow
ell of the Fifth regiment.)
And now in a concluding word, let'me
ask why should we mourn? Should we
not rather rejoice, that by the death of
these heroes of the nation, the nation it
self, freed from all wrong and oppression
of every kind, has, been born again into
an Immortal life. Out of their graves
shall grow truth and principles which
will never die, and which shall educate
,our" people up to a standard of morality
and patriotism which they: might not,
nay, otherwise could not possibly obtain.
True it is, they are no more with us
and amongst us, as of yore. ,True - is is,
that, • •
"Onfame'eeternalatmptnground
melt silent tents are spr , ad,
Andglory guards, with solemn round,
the' bivouac or the dead,"
True it is, alas, too true! that--
"They sleep their lad sleep,
. They . have (onset their/ad battle;
• No sound can awake them
-To glory agile. " ; ;
But in the light of the grand and -glo
rious results which .they have sworn-
Oished, can we' not smile through our
tears, anfibrushingaWay the mist's that
will conies unbidden to the eye of afro°.
tion, lookup and far away with a sub
lime hope to the better and brighter land
beyond.., They lave not, they could not
have died in! vain:
Tker never oiu aim die •
In:* great cause, tnetri blood may soak the
Their lfe r Z l inity sodd'etitir the tun; their limbs
Be strung. to city gate, and castle wails-
rut still totir spirits wale ebroSed. Yeats
Itiapse. and others share as dark a doom.
They bat suguezt c the deep. eau sweeping
thought_
Wilted overpower all others. and conduct
The no.ldet gait to freedom. •
Thusliellesing, and so recognizing ,in
aitthis great chastisement ,of this most
terrible war the finger of that God
.•Who rides the whirleing
And:_ directs the e torte.
aFid ig,lhOft Nrt, , tqtr.tkt the light, of events
pow Et plain that-hemho TWA may read,
that WO Of all rudilons are .14 yery deed
IM . FZi: J . ' l - • .
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and truth the asytum for the oppressed
and downtrodden all nations and pep
. pies!, without respect to color, or clime,
or sect, or Creed. Let us to-day—aye,
evennow sound the "Jubilate," instead
of chanting the "Silserere," and let us,
and
"Ail people that On earth 4.1 dwell.
Ulug to the Lord with cheerful vo'ce.
Glut serge with Micah,• Ws praise forth tell,
Coale ye bettrdllim and rejoice."
At - the conclusion of the oraition the
Quartette Club sa• •ng - the Doxoldgy, and
afterwards tne song entitled, "The Ulme
r
urnlngßraves." . • : • .
I
TECEruE3I.
••4,44. EL A. Collier-was then Introducel s
Itit a •:levy .feeling, and expretailye
tit:ltrir• rest the. following Pout; by Mr.
litizinett, of this city, entitled.
• •;-
, DECORATION DAY.
; 41 al mast the gag and muftis the drum. -
4.h0 mama with a mournful tread; .
An hour meet sacred to freemen has come,
As with garlanus we honor our dead.
The battle's cry, the cannon's rear,
The sounds of combat antiwar's dread fray,
. Ate borne upon the breeze no more:
I'eace rules our happy land to -day.
We gather now from scenes t. f
To drop the flowers wi It sorrowing tears,'
Ai, wick mournful thoughts. 'we tarry while
Uur naem'ries turn to bygone years.
We see again the stalwart forms •
Of th',se who were our Nation's pride,
Who answered to the tall—"To arm., l"
And in the battle bravely died.
We see again the gatnering cloud
The" strttcued acroaethe southern sky;
W. hear again the thunder loud
That called our soldiers out to die- '
We stand again with beating hearts,
T i e list-n to the se:Pains news,
Toleel the dreadful pain that darts,
And human comforts all refuse.
We see again the dear ones brought
lu riutnph Irwin the gory Selo,- -
Where bravely tote front they fought,
Refusing to the last to yield.
'Bel Itle the open graves we stood, •
And heard the harshly rattling clod,
And w, pt us only mourners could, •
While Patriot Souls went op to God.
. Could each sad heart that throbs to day
It's mournful, weary story tell;
For mouldering heaps of tireless clay,
What leaves the record, cad would'swell.
lint they have gone to the better land.
T-heir well kuown forms we'll see no more, .
Obedient to a high command
They died and crossed to the golden shore.
No-I:store upon the picket line,
' Nur In the battle's awful strife,
Nor in the r: fie ult and mire
0 (dieted up the treennan'tillfe.,
. .
O'er many a grave. these(' has grown, • •
And many a flower Is blooming where
'I he 10 , 41 by kindis hands WiLS. sown. •
And watered by many a sacred tear.
.But many more. Alas I Teere are,
Who steep in unknown, unmarked tombs,
- I rom homes did friends and kindred far,
And Wer their graves,. the wild flower
blooms. • -',
Today we meet with hearts °neve,
To honor all the %. stion's dead,
A lid strew it itt flower:, the ground above
The spot where, ests the Patriot's bees.
What mean the gathering throngs that
And march as In au army line.
And fill tee crowdrd city's street, • -• •
&pie iloWers of soya arid hope.to twine
It theanathe Nation-loves-her.braves,
Aud loves the pasteritit Memories filing : hi;
Unmans, we strew with .scenths the!. graves:
Thaugh dead they ne , er sha.l to forgot. .
A sOng entitled the "Soldier 's Memori
al" was then stingily the quartette club,
at theiconclusion of which the audience
was dismissed with the benediction, by
Rey: Dr. Howard, of the Second Presby
terianl Church.
TU PROCESSION.
During the timo occupied by the ser
vices in the Academy.of Music, the sev
eral. delegations composing thii. proces
sion arrived and formed in their 1 -respee
tiva divisions in the following order:
I THE HEAD OF COLUMN,.
Thel head of the column formed on
Water street, with the right resting on
Watei street, as follows: Fifty uniformed
police en marching, in fours, followed
by th Great Western Band. •
Chi Marshal—Maj. E. A Montooth.
Chief of Staff—Gen. Win. Blakley.
_Adjittant Generdt—H. A. Collier...
Aide—John H. Stewart, Martin Shaffer,
B. 1% Kennedy, Robert Pollock, W. 'J.
McGrOtty, B. F. Jennings, C. Eberhardt,
W. B.iCook, B. Galliseth, Hiram P. Cal
low, Foster Alward, J. K. MoLanahan,
Mot:nits B. Cluley.
/
Delegation from the Soldiers' Orphan
School at Uniontown, numbering seven
tyntivni boys, on fcot, and thirty ; one girls
in cariages, and three wagong contain
ing children from the Soldiers' Orphan
AsYlum on. Bluti street, Sixth ward.
The i ; Ladies' Committee in carriages,
came next.
FIRST DIVISION.
The first Division formed on Water
street,lwith the right resting on. Wood
streetl, in the following order:
Chief Marshal—Major A. P. Callow.
Chiej` of geaff—J. P. Pctegenry. I •
Adjkant Genera:l—A. Patterson.
Surgeon General—W, B. RM.lep.
Aidd---J. C. Bartley, W. It, Johnson,
Jamespresseb,W. K. McClintock, It. M.
Blair, C. McKelvey. '
Ironi City Brasil, Band, followed by
Post N . & 35, numbering one
hundro men having went*. of flowers
and ev:ergreens. . ' • --
The Germania Turner Band, preceding
the Columbia Hose and Hook and Lad
der Conipany, of Allegheny, numbering
sixty Men, wearing fire hats and red :
shirts,laccompapied by their fire apam,
tus, which was tastefully decorated with .
flowereand evergreen&
FollOwlug in line was the Hope Fire
Company, numbering fifty men, headed
by a Willi bind from Canton, Ohio. The
steamier_ was elegantly decorated with
wreaths, floWers, , and .the hose
carriage .was decked with , largecblack
plume& ' •
, Irma came the General Grant, Fire En
gine and :Hose pompany, preceded by.
Little's martial Band, and nuniberin
• .
sixty-tlyamert.', The company pmented
a fine , appearance, the steamer, and boll
carriage being richly draped.
Rent In the procession wis 6 4agon.
containing merdhersj of the •Ellsworth
11088 company. followed bythecarriagcs
which;was bandlintee!Y deocirattst; :-
.PoetlBB G. A. R.,,umbeitui a r e **f.
men;firV3 .• d the Houte of Refuge
Braes ge -- ;followed next, and present
ed ana;trictive appearance.
The'Goed-Will Hose Company, num
berinkseventy-five men, followed in
line. They were dressed in white shirts
and tire hats, and made a decidedly neat
dppearanoi. 1 • •
SECOND. DIVISION.
The Second Division formedon Market
street, with the right restirg
,on Wood,
in the following order:
Chief Manshat,T. GJ McConnel.
Chief qf Sta,--Lee S. Smith. -
AdjutantG r einertra—iamuel ,W. Bey
nolda, I
Aida—Josepli .Gray i AK. M. Kerr, l
ELL. Young, J. Cunningham, Charles
F. Porter, J..-C. Paul, J, D. Forrester,
Wm. M. Kirby, . S. Easton, A. T. Har
baugh. Samuel ' gore.-
The Greet-Wes ern Arass Ilsnd headed
the division. an. immediately behind
Were the orphan 'eye 'froln the Soldiers'
Orphans' Sehool in UnientoWn. Pa.
They marnbered eventi•sin;eit".nere un
der charge of A G. Beeson. " and F. I.
Thomas, and ma. e a goad appearance.
The orphans w :re followed; by Posts
Nos. 3 and 117, G A. B.' The delegation
from Post No. 3 . umbered one, hundred .
men, and was . der command of Cap
tains Hunter and W. B. Cook. post 117
had forty men in line, under command
of Captain Curtis : aven.
The Plyshurgh..letter carriers, nine
teen in nunber, came next in line. They
wore their uniform, and had Wreaths
and flowers.
The m4inbers of Typographical 'Union
No. 7, eighty in nutnber, followed, and
were under the marahalshiP offpir. An
drewsWayt. . .
The tidePe4deppOrder of Cadets of:,
Temperance, ,repreeented by Ally boys.
wearing the rega4of the Order! appear
ed next in 11 - ne, under command of George
HOlinee., •
Following the boys were a ndmber of •
carriages, containing soldidrii from' the
Soldiers' Home in the old MIA *Std.%
A large number of private carriages fol
lowed in the rear of the division!'
THIRD DIVISION.-
The Third . Division fornod - on WoOd
street, with the right resting on: Water;—,
in the following order:
chief Marshal—C. , S. Wood.
Chief of 4!taff:--D. A. Jones.
• -
Adjutant Gentir .
Surgeon Generat—Dr. J. H. Roberts. •
Chapiai-- - Prestly Brown:
Aide—S. B. Barr, G. B. Van Emon, E. I
McKee, P. Daniel, J. Eichley, G. Quar.
R. R. Jones, J. W. Ballantine, M. 11. Fel.
ker, James Duncan, A. Ammon, S. P.
Heizel, H. IL Miller, Louis Fritz, A. M. •
Arnholt, Charles Rink, H. Meisterfeld.
J. W. Carl..
Washington Cornet band of Birming
ham had the lead, and was followed by
Pos No. 115, Grand army of the Republic,
numbering two hundrezynd fifty men.
Each man carried, wreath and poquet
of flowers and evergreenti and - wore the
G. A. It. badge.
Walton Hose. Fire Ccimpany, of East
Brmingham,.cane next. They num
bered fifty men, wearing fire hats and
red shirts. The company was headed by
the Birmingham Silver' qvnet Band,
Jacob Dupont, loader.
Mechanics' Hose Company, of Bir
mingham, numbering fifty men, wearing
fire hats and white shirts, preceded by
the band of the company, led by D, C.
Stewart, came next.
Then followed a •large number of car
riages, in which were prominent citizens,
soldiers' widows and otherladies.
ROUTE OF PROCESSION
At half past ten o'clock the procession
moved, passing along• Smithfield street
to Second avenue, up Second avenue to
Grant, up Grant to Fifth avenue, down
Fifth to Market, along Marketto Sixth,
down Sixth to Penn. and along Penn to
Wayne, when the First DSvlsl.ori halted„ ,
and formed in open order, 'ane) . the Sec
ond Division passed through et; route to
A LtEGHFNY CEMEIISI3i...
.
As the colume passed out Penn street ita
i l p
ranks swelled; the sch 1 chili:4.ou from
the various public school along the lino
of march joining in the !emu cortege,
and a mighty throng of . le crowded
the sidewalks along the mire route. A.
long line of school ehild u, dressed in
white, each bearing 'a all flag and
boquet of beautifial Bowe Were form
ed on Penn, near Bald street, and as
the procesalon pissed, sittig a
,beautiful
patFiotic hymn., As the procession
passed the Araturat a national ,salute of
thirty-seven gugs was fired, and the dif
ferent 'church bells were tolled. The
children' from the Episcopal Orphans'
Rome foineethe procession at 'this point
and proceeded_with it to the : Cemetery,
near the gate of ' which, at • least five.
thollsarid persons had assembled swat
ing the arrival el the coluum.
DacQßATipfe ?nark. onAvgs.
When the head or the oolunm reached_
the Cemetery gate the band struck up. a..
_
solemn dirge, to which the. quiet , and...
funeral_ like , procession • marched, with.
slow and solemn tread until the left at
the colunan had passed through the gate the Oight menus at the Cemetery °Mee._
when a halt was made.' The / members
of the G. A. R. then formedin iime, and
marched to the grave of General Airmail
der Hays, which bad ,beau .beautirall7
luidlaate.fulty'deoOrated:.by the friend;
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