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WHOLE NO. 10,462. IN STATE. TE BEAD BODY IN THE CAPITOL, TRE GUARD OF HONOR. An Immense Number of Cit.izens View the Romains,. THE METROPOLIS YESTERDAY “Services in Trinity and Otber Churches. BROADWAY ON FAST DAY. The Preparations for the Funeral. Arrangements for One of the Longest and Most Imposing Processions the World Ever Celebration of the Guneral Rites Throughout the Country. FEELING OF THE SOLDIERS. Deep Despondency Prevailing in the Potomac Army. ORDERS OF GENERAL MEADE. | Sympathy of the Canadians in Our National Grief. ROUTE OF THE REMAINS TO SPRINGFIELD. Details of the Special Arrangements for Conveying the Dead President to His Last Resting Place. Proposed Monument to Mr. i i upon the great national heart, and shown thefjas the light of the morning when the sun riseth, even af been taught to regard as their leaders in the path of public Lincoin in New York, cert tee igenteas strength pis) glory in ite— morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing ™ duty. Thero may be great difficulties In the details of the x tenderness, its veneration for goodn its mag- (Mout of the earth by clear shining after rain.” To him, Bg resuscitation of our afflicted land; but there can be none &e., ke, &e. nificent collecteduess and solf-control. His infamous with wonderful accuracy, as we trust, may thes words gM which such a spirit and purpose as wero displayed in deed has made stronger than ever the people whom hej be applied. The robellion is nearly over; the sun of peace {President Lincola would not soon overcome. hates; stronger, a8 they are erage win have been knit (will soon, wo trust, be bright over all the land, and {Mj noWuing will memory more delight to dwell, than upon THE BODY IN THE CAPITOL. B tcgether by the bond Gf acommon affiction. The sound fala ew and grand era is commencing for our country. fi that high, forgiving temper, which lifts up @ fallen 1 of the funeral hymn, now sternly ascending over the fj But the good and honest President will ever stand thero, gm restores a wandering brother, and repays the cruelty of > ay whole land, bespeaks a compactness, a concentration, afin the memory of the people, surrounded with the light gM hatred by an overcoming benignity and love. Wasatnatox, April 20, 1865, fj mutual devotion which, up to this hour, lacked the lever fof that morning in which, just as it was rising upon us, By At the conclusion of tho address a collection was taken By EB GUARD OF HONOR OVER THE PRESIDENT’S REMAINS. After the remains of Mr. Lincoln wero placed upon the eatafalyue in tho rotunda of the Capitol, Major @eneral Meigs, Quartoramster Gencral, remained nmntil they were tuxon in charge by the guard of honor detailed for last aight and to-day. This is composed of the following ARMY OFFICERS, Ets. Gen. John P. Stongh. Brovet Brig. Gen, Willian Gamble, commanding ist aeparats army corps, Fairfax Court 0. House, Capt. RC. Gale, A. A. G. brigade, Bargeon F, W. Mead. NAVAL OFFICERS, 220 Lieut. Com’s Edward E. Stone, Monitor Montavk. Lieat. Com’g ver, Monitof Mahopac, A detachment of the Twenty-fourth regiment Veteran Reserves is doing general guard duty at the entrances of ho rotunda and at the gates of the Capitol. THE CROWDS TO VIRW THE BODY. Aa soon as the doors were thrown open this morning, ‘the throng of visitors began to press forward. All were: required to enter at tho main eastern entrance, and, passing In two lines on elther side of the catafalque, to @° out at tho western door of the rotunda. None were Permitted to lingor. A strong guard was placed across he lower steps of the eastern entrance, and a line of guards in close order on eithor side marked the avenue deft for the people who desired to pasa tn. About ten @’clock @ heavy rain storm partially checked the crowd ; ‘Dut, notwithstanding the rain, the long and coascless Procession of saddened faces came pressing forward at the rate of threo thousand persons per bour, THY CATAFALQUE 4s better arrangod to afford a view of the features of the § Bonersd dead then the ono at the White House, The fenturos aro little changed, and by many are sald to look More aatural today than on Tuesdey, when they lay in Mate at tho White House. ‘Tho whole force of the Cupitel Polics, ander the direc tion of Captain Newman, clad in mouraing habilimenta, ‘Were on duty preserviwg order, and politely, but in sup- tones and elnost noisoless steps, directing the movenonta of the crowd. The rotunda, which was lighte? only by asort of twi- Bat hue, was AWied with solemn atiiiness, unbroken @wvo by the rustling of the drowes of the fom mourners, and oc Mow, Lincola fe still much prontrated today by her re. ent ud auliotion Gays, Sho fe unadle at present to leave her bed, and will aot probably WS ublo to travel to Tiligats for several day. INCIDENTS. May, aatho © Greet, th io and acd the d Ward Woa- Licut. B. F. Day obange carringes, THE NEW YORK f-- f By the caim, conevrrent and deli Yired and eni.ghted nations, aasas ‘crime—an indefensible act, which no careurastances ein Be exouse, That was aot the Pagan view, The change in 4 opinion on this point has como w td tts neeeptancy of the eseachines of Jess Christ, and with the spread of His ref Jigion Waroagh the world, To defend assass nation is no ig loin this age than to de end suicide; no =more possible on Christian principle lassed Ey those rightful enermit es with which lower elvilleations ‘teom, and to whi t men ave more or lesa prone in pro- Ee portion to hg pad or lower position in tha seale of have heard, berate judgment of civi- THE METROPOLIS, FAST DAY SERVICES "A TE CITY, In compliance with (4 yecommeydation of Governor Fenton, yesterday 4g observed 9's a solemn day of hu- miliation and “raver jn thig City and throughout the: State. Tb:, strvets again extibited. the appearance of one fl Vas*, aGase of mourning, the houses being decked in the| Warbs of sadness even mre heavily than on the day pre- ceding. Business was not suspended so generally, it is: true, but after about one o’clock in the afternoon very’ few transactions of a commercial, mercantile or trading Motto be misundensod, thelr hero pee character occurred. The public buildings were'all closed, Be pearanco of that barbarian shape, the polit cal assassin, however, while the churches were thrown open and ser- — the lights of ‘thi eee PD agers one fifty- vices of am appropriate character toak place, from the outer darkness to ularm and astound TRINITY CHURCH. the world. Since A. D. 1610 no ruling sovereign # , The South at the Bar of the World. the most violent o: servative and woneficent in th enjoyment of mankind, well as that of tory attained Diviae Prov dence, pegple at th All have heard that ery, from those who have never been fon our side, and who do not alter their feelings concern- MgFlavery. ing us; but as men, and as Chrstians, they think it due tert liberty, reach even a measure issue of and iomaaness ely the very avsault Southern heart! Pot am ghty people has actually thus been hurried o: f40f the world. Have we not, therefore, in this event, a test which noingenu ty can evade of the real tempor tone, and qrality of that community with which we would probably have betrayed sleep! national idea that we area land General Dix occupied prouinent seats in the nave. The first part of the service was imtoned by the Rev. Dr. }Ogilby. Dr. Weston road the first lesson; the Rev, Mr. Baaetions * people before the bar of the opinion of man- fy Breese, of Hoboken, the second lesson. Tho Rev. Dr. BA kind, and put them on trial at that gigust teibupal: The Vinton intoned the prayers, and the Rev. Dr. Dix, rector Bijudement ts Bt and the books are opened; Chriatian BE civilization waits attentively to hear them speak. ‘There fy eri tierparteh, ands ana of! General: Dis, Wain OME oxe one thing: to do, if choy would aleno twrenin ane Litany. As is always the case at Trinity, the musical por- Fito denounce tho act, to join in the common cry against tion of the service, under the direction of Dr. Cutler, # ne cneae done to She (e en: to elie, i was most effectively rendered, ‘The anthem, “Happy pg'0 disclaim any responsibility for {t; to shrini rom. e bloody act i r and blessed are they who havo entered into their rest, for, Christians, Piriteed ben aon Weaee wate a3 though the body dies,,the soul shall live forever,’ fell BByou can a deed lixe this. arge it not on us; it is the work of desperadoes for whom we are not accountable, ide ate imipresatyenene ‘upom the: ears!’ G8 $0 Mirani not oF ua as though we would! exonse-or atand. a that they did; for among the results of those ferocious 4 his; that they have arraigned the whole circling them to perm't a longer denness of despair, in an {i lution. Ahithophel ! plung ruler of this people. the price, this rebellion, He took as follows:— ithe eyes of the whole nation. He that ruleth over man must be just, ruling in the by fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning when the ‘sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender ia grass springing. ont of the earth by clear shining after fy rain.—Second Samuel xiii., 4 These were the last words of David. He spake them adhe saw the time drawing near when he must go the way of all the earth; they wero the last song of the apsalmist. Each man knows begt the way of his own profession; and he, asa ruler, knew what a ruler ought to be, and delivered his judgment on that subject Frome of that country, all parts of which he loved. But ‘before he died. The sentence on his own performances fear, I tremble lest it should be otherwise ; lest we shall he lett his Lord to utter; but the general law by which fm hear gome quite different voice, perhaps a brutal cry of 4 he ought to have guided his course, ho was moved so to Mapproval, perhaps a glorifying of the act even more mon- mj state and express in the moment in which the rod of em- Py strous than the deed itself; for he who could calmly and in pire was about to be taken from his relaxing hand. Those PM cold blood justity it, must be at heart like those who did words of David, the anciont king, may be most hae ers it; and if that sullen response should come, if those assas- ‘as proper to a description of the dead President. ‘e as- Ri sins should be received as heroes, their crime applauded, ff sembled yesterday, and again, in response to the Gover. fm their persons admired, the judgment of mankind defied— nor’s proclamation, to-day, on an occasion without a pre- Mm if such should be the answer, then, of a truth, must the cedont in our past history. There has been, on this side fm heart grow heavier than it is now, and a thoughtful man 4 of the world, no sorrow like our sorrow, 80 far as we can must ask himself, “What are those people? What ts read back the history of the men who have dwelt here. MM their normal how ed What are their thoughts, their prin- Regarded in its cause and in its manner of manifvatation, Bm ciples? What catse has been at work to keep them back it stands beyond comparison fn its awful grandeur. By fMmbehind the rest of the world, to depress them, to hold that act, to which the sober judgment of mankind#™them at the old heathen positions, at the old stand- has awarded the crown in degrees of atrocious crime; {iM points of Paganism, to keep them blind while all the rest by that deed, of which language fails to paint the infamy; #M of the world ses? What is that civilization which appro- by that sin, against which Christian civilization cries out MM priates and glories in deeds like this, which calls thes as involving the reversal of all progress towards midnight murderer a hero, the eta gf killer of the old, and as throwing back mankind into the slough ithe sick, the defenceless, a demi-god? Is it a work ot 4 barism, the act, the crime, the sin of murderous assassi- this ago? or is ita thing of the past? Is it a systems nation, a man has been laid low, who held in his handsi™ which rests on Gospel principles and Christian ideas? or the destinies of twenty millions of his countrymen, and figis it a remnant of a hard old Roman Paganis: to whoin they were at that moment looking with jally and friend of the Thugs? And can there be And would to God git might come back to us from the other side in unmis- by ‘akable terins—a full, clear, hearty, manly voice—assurin| ‘us that the weapons of their warfare are and ever wil bo thore of honorable, though mistaken, mon, and not the poisoned chalice, the midnight torch, the secret Fj dagger, tho mufiled pistol. Then might good come even ¥ of this awful catastrophe. We, loving the dead as wof do; they, horror stricken at his murder, might yet Join Shands over his bloody grave, and ask forgiveness of God § and of each other in whatsoever, all through these years, we have done amiss, Would to God it might be so; the blood of the martyr might indecd make“Yertile the i country. and most loved and honored the last guidance, ag shown in the Sani Saw. of sufferers by the war, and our bitter retaliation; nor would the consented to it as a princi drink, and let them go.” ‘and heart of President Lincoln, of the action fluence and exampie have of assassination—t ing confidence in his honesty of purpose, his integrity [while any vestigo remains of those peculiaritics, what- nt owes it to the y of of character and his ability to do Bis ‘duty in that posi-(Mever thoy may be, which make that Ryetom what it is, authority of God, which tion unto ‘which it had pl God to call him. Mand, under it, debase and distort those And wo are gathered together to mourn and wee; himself. There is a great cry throughout land; seoms as though there was not a house where there is not one dead. Some few words would I reverently haps, a solemn silence might! better suit the occasion. And, first, of him who been wrested from us by the murderer's hand. That uinary fiend, that nocturnal demon of the darkness jin their name. Wo will not think the worst until all hope is gone; we will yet hope against hope. But if it must be so, then, indeed, will it scem as {f all hope were jatan end—as if all that has boon said were just—as if veadiegeal hamper made had not been rash; and, 50 far as defence of that ey is regarded, impartial faced, unmasked, tho result of no national ediot, of no majesty o# its authority. Let t proclamation by authority, the simple, w real ‘ter, a8 official commander- demonstration of the heart of this great family of free- Mm in-chief in the power of th nation; in emancipating men, Thero is a grandeur in this scene with which nofm™from the fetters of slavery an ‘entire raco of human occurrence hitherto can compare. Let the blood-stained [i beings. Let the historian write of all these things in his felon, wherever he be now skulking, mark what he has—™account of that they man. Let me rather repeat done. He thought to spread dismay and confusion—™the words of Kin; vid, spoken concerning the just through tho land, Hoe has but lifted a veil which lay {ruler that raleth in the fear of G@od:—For ‘he shall be ‘tience and kindness, to edify possible application of the nation’s safety and the honor of who have been swept down the cv of de\elopment and the cause of expression; this funeral fi he was called to his rest; and his name wiil be, in the wa'l hus in it the music of a coming era, through which fim hearts of the American Decple; ae green'as Sect’ sind sy the dead of to-day shall walk in spirit, canonized and pleasant as in to the eyes the tender grass springing out] gloriued in the undying love and veneration of coming Mf the earth by clear shining after the rain. Alas! that # ages. Just as the French look back to the good Henry grain was the rain of his own blood—the blood of his ac- TV., and love him for the fate which brutal passion in-fagtive brain, of his generous heart; but there is already a flicted, so will the American people, to theirfgreatand clear shining upon the earth whore that red remotest generations, speak tenderly and reverently of E% shower fell; and, while the lights of martyrdom and sac- that good, that honest, that kindly-hearted man, theirfMritice shall continve to shine, they will rest on that ven- sixtoeuth President, erable plave, and glow there, like sacred fires, trom gene- “He that rul.th over man must be just, ruling ing@ration to generation. Let us pray in the words of the tifty- 3 F the fear of God." How fairly do these words desoribe qj Oret Psalr ‘Have merey upon me, oh! God.” ; him. Who was just, if he was not? or, also, if we may The fifty-first Peaim was then chanted with solemn f# (fread the man’s inmost heart irom’ his words, did iM effect, and the service was closed with the benediction. Surgeon Hard. M. La Tourette, post chaplain:— Capt. Brown, A. A. G. ever rule more conscientiously in the (ear of God? Honest; —- Lieut. Gamble, 4. D. 0, A and his name were synonymous; and now that he is dead, ‘ known. It fs not an hour of despatr. Lient. Pearson, A. D. 0. what more could he ask, what nobler record than that he ST. GEORGE’S CHURCH. of discouragement. The telegraphic wires are (rombl.ng Lieut, More, A. D. O, was proverbially ths hoot man? And then, how tender www now with the burden of now victories, But in the dying * thow it last almost t ; tas ener thine of “that ad, Christhike trait mn Rev. Dr. Tyng on Our Treatment of the # throcs and contortions of tho great dragon of rebellion it Lieut, N. H. Farquhi thankfulness, that it beamed forth 'so brightly from his Conquered. Lieut, A. R. MoNair, out. E, M. Shepard. erson at the Inst, When they struck him down hoff ‘And tho King of Isracl said unto Elisha, when he was ieditating how to do them good;. his last oflcial etc unto Elisha, when acts wore acts of kindness and leniency, so, marked as tog" ‘hem, ‘My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite excite, in some quarters, alarm; in him @hey murdered MM them? And he answered, ‘Thou shalt not smite them: their Best friend; his Weart, was full of ‘plans of conctlia- Hl would’st thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive} on ne mome: 1 ey ai a exe- crable blow. That is enough for every lover of peace fm Vi thy sword and with thy bow? Set bread and water to make him look, with moistened oyes, at that un- before them, that they may eat and drink and go.’ ” tmely grave. There lieth one who, so far as wo can ‘The point of this story is very manifest, Tho princi- no ill will to any creature that lives; ‘ See ae o maid “himesit hen we ‘tala “Tesi ple which it establishes is also very cloar, ‘Tho simple that he was hic age! felt eit be triumph # Question proposed to the prophet and answered by him over any one; who was seeking, In those’ treat! i his last fow days, to find how he might sofvin to-thopy “a What shall bo our treatment of an enemy sub: enemios of his country the circumstances of their late pg dued? One olags of sentiment demands, in the very lan- j disastrous defeats, how he could save them mortideation Baiguage of man’s nature, ‘Shall L smite them?” Anothr ‘and humiliation; how much he cou! ly give them HM replies, in tho spirit of the Divine toaching, “Set bread back of that which they had forfeited; who would, I land water bofore them, and Jet them go.” The combi. think, have pardoned, if it came to the last, even the chief man of the insurgents; who would have had the fnation of both would be in tho analogy of the Divine fej tion's vengeance will only serve 1 A heaven. hour in our history, It is not B starved to death in rebel prisons, Abitierly; for though darkest feature of this lovked upon it as one of bounds of honorable warfare By which of Ue two were true was awassin Worse than those who cr more abominable, than that which haa been unostentatious, wise, kind-hearted, friendly man, letit be named, that we may not seem in the scale of wickedness one degree below any yet known. The people know,of M the just penalty of their offence, The subordinates, sub- nothing worse, and, therefore, is the lament for, as none pa jects of relation and influence, victiius of determined E] was ever lamented for by them wnto this day. ’ Whither B§ power—often more sinned against than sinoing—wre ba Ed can the assassin fly? Whither, that the justice of Heaven BM never to be dealt with on the same plan of responsi-™ F} shall not fell him? Whither, that the arm of tho govern [B bility; for them mercy delights to rejoice aguinst judg- Buth mercy and justice and power from a proportionate discernment. The leaders {mn crime ate never be excused from lerlve their very “nature jon. ‘They are w ; Abraham Linc the aby enough to k f of eternity the ke morey to them—a door which heart he bad haif unlocked, Ti magnanimous terms of suri foe than those lately render xehangod ? nation has been really @ warfare against G Isracl_ was more truly a divinely governed, divinely cou be within its limite, Only one part of the world is there to-day where he can breathe and walk abroad in enfoty—- jectet, sioned, divinely pros’ | elves, foi another, the decision ¢ in th ; m ee parts of this rowntry #tll in an insurgent eondt petpal promises, or Lave ott calla & @ labor; to or ate inact and cont and d r t t iS dnd matin Mounting davt!, toa . mv tire peptlation le p tor “dan, é During tha progross of the funeral procession yestor. fiiwukind. Tt has been urged by mony—by most—thac Bil succes# would lia “ t soven upon the ruins of teye was povelog the corner of Fittobnth Bx this.act of assassination is vut the natural rewdt of ABM thirsty hatred ove motto whie# Waa hurled back u horses of tho carriage In which President John. fs #0¢ al covd tion to which euch seont properly to be f tee Wan, Nie tor K beoam jong. It is kaid that (he moral and social tone, t ate of Virginia, whe nator Kiag were seated became unmanageable, itd Apirit OF the “ourhern people are such that acte » mother of Prosidatity,' and ca shed ocoupan'a wero compolicd to Milo famy like thia might aattrully be expected from ther t * is the cuardes Bat thers are others who ha yiewe , Character: of ' dents of yesterday worthy of record fe tt nr 5 r 1 che box at Forde BF 1) born the? ‘ ‘ tm or \ nr ’ borne in } 4 Pa ; { i 10 tho colors of tho Treasury Ary onganlzation of omph tt as ‘ of ment ‘The horns yestorgay by f ‘ y at Lieutenant WW NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1865. and suffer ng—@ag planned, encou sipaiion ty held t be af, public’papers as a deed of honor—to make pacteegy daant @ot thal the whole warfare bas bem an assault has prevailed was the providence of veverend doctor illustrated and enforced this, ‘ash hs third position—that the vic- was the gift of God—by a sur- vey of tho whole contest, in which every event was 60! ovrreled by the Alin gity that it was Dut a review of Ho dwelt sp cially upon the divine jeoncealment of the real issue from commencement of the struggle, whem but fow were willing to accept the thought that God would overthrow the giant wrong of haman ‘ij Nost tlowly did even that wisest man among 4 hus, who has been the last great sacrifice upon the aliar of liberty should be in the wag at all, persistently did this great issue rise! was the union of the North er ated by on Sumter which was to fire the g What a providence for us was their sudden seizing of all forts and arsenals and public pro- perty, when a calm and pretentious scheme of counsel How mercifully God has tra ned us up to the @ people! The new currency, §4 march through th> whole length of rebel territory ; their lying in constrained idleness around Richmond until the gathering hosts from abroad were too manifestly en: (4 derful prov.dences of God. And perhaps the last act of #4 Providence was the most remarkable of all. jcombined for the murder of the President and his Cabin-t, in the hope of creating’ an unexpected anarch: of a nation without a ruler, and involving us, in the ped xtricable and hopeless revo- But how God has confounded the’ counsel of $tinding out,” has ordained the lite of nations Satan was not more deceived when he the Jewish mob into the murd-r of their Lord ®™ than when, on this very commemoration day of his cruci- fixion, he has aimed a traitorous bullet acainst the exalted It is a costly sacrifive indeed to us. But the blessings which it wll purchase may well be worth E It has demonstrated the spirit and fruit of It has made it abhorrent and hateful in It has introduced a raler often covered with thorns and unseen pitfalls, whose stern experience of Southern wickedness will cut @ off all pleas of lenioncy to the base destroyers of their It has cemented for ever the national union rit of this people by making the man whom they liberty and order of the people. Thus has Providence} triumphed over our enemies and given us the vic- tory. Speaking of the growth of divine teaching and > sions and other organizations to ameliorate the condition prisoners, Dr. T. contrasted these with the recklessness of life and comfort and cruelty which marked the history of the agents of the rebellion. No cruelty to our prison- ers in Southern bands could move our Fourth—The resulting treatment of the captives in the fi Lord’s example:—‘Thou shalt not smite them—seti@all the great and good until the morning of the resar water and bread before them, that they may eat and fi The carrying out of this re-§ suscitating plan se.med eminently adapted to the mind ‘spirit and wishes, his readiness to give the utmost pos- sible latitude to mercy, in the arrangement of their turn to national duty and penitent loyalty, were pe fectly understood and known, That he should have been slain ina time like this can never be anything but a sorrow to every serious mnd. That his death willf change in some degree the character and measure of the F sottlement cannot be doubted. That a restriction shall : come, as the consequence of his death, upon the freeness faq Pit and commenced the following oration: — of mercy to most natural and just. That yhose words and often before encouraged and incited {1 responsible for it, is inevitable and just; \ey represent, not to allow such an abhorrent viciation of human authority and safety to pass without avery clear and distinctretribution apon the guilty inditers and accessogies in such a crime. jt millions over a bereavement whi janxiet; many ere now waiting for Still, a) ‘et lige svar ren To[Mresponse of the’ Southern” people = to let not a spirit of individual v be allowed to rear ga ars of the edifice, felled by the hand of tho assassin; A misruto trom the ithe monument of one fallen head. utterance of welcome to those who honestly desire to_re- turn to their loyalty and duty to the nation which they have outraged, and the government which they have in- ‘sulted and despised. The intelligent leaders in this re- bellion deserve no pity from Oa ora being. Let enough to need no retributive violenee to maintain the be, to the almost extent of personal relations, our rule jand purpose, determined, in tbe spirit of union and pa- d re, rit consistent with th orrent dominant influence and example of those whom they have up for the aid of the orphans of our soldiers and gailors, THE SOLDIERS. Governor's Island. The following sermon was delivered at St. Cognelius’ church, Governor's Island, yesterday, by Rov. James A. By tuitior unto ¢ By His light I walked in darkness. —Jon, xxix., 3. This is the saddest hour that our country hag ever py % zealously labs has inflicted a final sting which, in the, recoil of the na. scatter its dismembered fragments to the four winds of & It isan hour of sadness to us unlike any other murdered. Sixty thousand noble patriots have beon that had miserable rienovs of war, either with an impoverisicd foe, or else with @ brutalized enemy, who would ge beyond fi But it is because the President of the United States, our By official representative of republican liberty before the hworld of nations, ig stricken down by the band of an im Jett the body tt carried with it into of they understood usfavorabie in the highose degre HERALD. It was his remark that if he did not study to be cheerful the enormous weight of respon- sibility which rested upon his shoul would efush and urged in®{study to be cheerful. themselves in s or more gentle and kind than Abraham Linceln, an@she was diffusing the spirit of kindness «ud forbearance throughout the land, No! the motto ‘ie semper (yran- nus” Was shouted by the frantic fend, doubtless in eon. formity to his instrvetions, that we might know from what source the cowardly blow came. }would otherwise have lost a larg: @ratification; and now that they have dono the deed, his- tory will re.ord the terrible vengeance of a nation roused to the highest pitch of indignation, upon which all our fq reaching of Christian forbearance, it may will fe we as little influence as @ man’s band in staying theif fall'‘of an avalanche. I must honestly confess that, minister as I am of a gospel of peace, it re- oe ® hard fight with the feelings of m: 4 cart to , in accordance with the instructions of 44 ja Divine Master, “Forbear.” Cold the voice of our) martyred Pres'dent reach vs from that better land, (into/® which, thank God, he entered without pain), he would [i aud of the i counsel us, a8 a natiun, yet to forbear, to wreak not vpongg@ Mundie of life. ef esident, the body of our The conspirators Y thus: Congregation During the eervices at of willingness that (he ‘And yet how How wonderfuily & tion, the fountain of life! our giant power on its 4 thou find the gates of EE hold the city of p just, and may the angels o! the i read saine power and wisdom with which H» has held and Gg\.ided the course of every star in the heavens above us, in which this earth is so small a star, a} ‘control our late President o freqiently and bea:titully g acknowledged, sovght and coniided im, publicly and privately, as shown irom his first address to his iriends| PJon leaving his home for the capital, to his last days. PJSaid the psalmis, “My times are in Thy hand.” He PE who guides the heaven of heavens and who has never pi erred, whose ways are frill of mystery, are “past quiet—these were won- High Priest sta: ‘They had without, and mayest thou offering before God, and their limit,’ and the limit of the life of every man, Our way is sometimes dark bot by his light weds can walk securely. ‘‘In God we trust’” is one motto of #1 jour nation, From the blood of righteous Abel, to the J death of the proto-martyr st. Stephen, through the long & Wi line of ages to the present time, men have died in the fj inysterious dispensation of Divine Providence, as martyrs in the cause of right and truth, ‘The path of duty is) It never turns froma {ts straight cours», though black clouds con- front, and mountains of difficulty obstruct, but there is aff Wight Which shines upon it, and a light which never fades. i “Wit tells us that what we know not now we shail know great sacrifice for the Hj hereafter in another state of being; that tho mystories of qihis lie will be fully unfolded (o us in the unclouded flight of God’s presence. with the 1 g th {sri companies o! Eden ma priests and the jast and rest, ‘The great metropolitan And while we mourn over the a death of on» whom we never knew we valued so much fi until we lost him, the pure minded patriot, tho faithful gM the death of tho late ig ardian of our’ Union, upon whose shoulderswe bad f¥ nation, Abraham Line: placed the mantle of government for the second time fig because he had proved so faithful, let us take this mys. id itary Christian Commis- generous treatment of If 8 a napleit of humble resignation to the wiilof the Almighty, Hu government to @ ful that Abraham Lincola lived long enough 10 #02 enoral sentiment have fathe final great and glorious vicuory which crushed thizeyelly ead mournfully ple of national rule. Mjfoul rebellion. He sleeps the sleep of the ju st, and neat ga throughout the whole to Washington his name will be loved and revere by ®cloccd, ond the air of rection. THE SYNAGOGUES. Service Held at the Congregation “Bnai,’ ’ Isracl.”” REV. M. R. DELEEZUWes On Wednesday, April 19, after appropriate psalms P EM sung by tho congregation, the minister ascended the pul- Pe, The generosity of his droope A displayed. the conquered, is 0, bow doth she sit solitary; the city that was full of & those whoso {n- people hath become a widow.—Jer. |., 1. nourished ba gow In every corner whero I cast mine eyes mourning on be held greets the gaze. The aged and the infant, men ands and our govern- Ml women, palaces and huts, alike draped in tho sable hue: lof desolation; and for whom? In tho midst of tho great- lest rejoicing the administration deprived of its head, land the people of its fathor; Joachin amd Boaz, tho pil. might Abraham Lincoln, of blessed memory, the victim of Tot tho widest possi Ba ihoir bloodtiirsty desperation. Willlam’ H. Seward, the restore him, that we may reap the beneiit of his wisdom, § jand that he may be enabled to guide us through the ba death-throes of the rebellion. “In those days I, ‘el, |was mourning three full weeks; I ate no picasaat bread, not that of the republic’s neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth; neither did of this world, thought to have done him a harm when heg™lips must be silent henceforth. A few words in conclu- gm them go. Some other land must be their home. Their int myself all till full weeks were Me fitted up tho'weapenagalust his life. How ahoreighted sion, I revarn tothe subject, to him whose memory wofgjown attained relations and results will beMMtuiniieg (Dantel x," 2 ful ‘ud “wheggPresenied “a vast contin aro the calculations of the wicked one! That act has {honor to-day, for whom we make loud and bitter lamen-fa punishment and sorrow enough in time to come, could, my friends, after the dire intelligence: been, not the eyes pe but the immortalizing of the—tation. But ‘he is beyond the reath of our cry; he is eir property is justly forfeited to the nation which they conveyed to us on the Sabbath abstain from mournti venerated and beloved victim. When or whore, at aay pot, however, beyond that of our praise. His name is gg have attempted to destroy. If the Just utterance of law His unto Daniel. The great grief with which the wholo| time, im any age, has a mam gone to with us—in our households, on our national an-js condemns them personally to suffer as traitors, let no country was stricken so unexpectedly, and which sont ravo as this ruler of the land is going to his, M™jnals, on the roll of the world’s inent nen, fa life be taken in the spirit of vengeance. Let the world Hi forth trom the breast of millions « wail of lamentation, is hour? Who ever saw or dreamed of # manifestation #jand in the heart of @ great nation while that nation ij #ee one Instance of a government that is great enough to and powed every head with a burden of a great sorrow, of sorrow. of ish, of interest, of devotion to onegmshall endure. 1 do not enumerate his amazing suc-gassk no revenge, and self-coufident and self-sustaining finds on this day its culmination when the precious dust; of the great and good departed is laid in tho grave tom rest till the last ‘trump’? sounds and time will roll into eternity. The thought that his remains were yet amon, ‘us has pent Ce our hearts a moiety of our grief, which will burst forth in @ moro overwhelming stream as the MW grave closes over the mortal remains of our murdered President. The fear of tho land is the beginning of knowledge—Proverbs i, 7. A pious fervency and just appreciation of the Almiyhty pervaded the public actionsg of Abraham Lincoln; trusting in God be met uniinching- ly and calmly the storm of rebellion that broke over him upon entering on his firet term. For four long ears, unmindful of jeors and taunts and derision, § te moved calmly, the cause he had to defend, aad troetin in God to judge the merits of his actious, the Lord blessed his works; and though his toil was arduous, but, in the words of rolomon, he gave no sleop to his ey.’s nor slum ber to his eyelids. (Proverbs vi., 4.) or watchful mand unremitting in tis endeavors, under the divine BG cuidance, be triumphed, And when his eyes closed in ‘ hougo tra from the earth in & manner we wild beast of the forest, his ; and he had lted similarly placed. he Lord’s own example. in the widest the maltitud tho law, of rebellion by the with crape, And upon pon plicity. being pendant from roof the public were notified press will i of mourning, 0 the k cing in prog Bian line of and the Southar J The ofice of the Cor teronomy Xxxi., 2.) Yotthou but thou shalt not go give the cliidren of , 62) And thus, im the ® Lord, Abraham Lincoln s sweets of the peace he had My ablith. Like unto Mose, who had brought the children of Israel frum the land of Bibondaze Within eight of the promised innd, eo he had Bbrouglt this nation within reach of the great boon he. fought to attain; and unto his successor, ag unto Joshua Aromains this task of finally occupying the pro fmgised land, as Moses said unto the children of; Isreal, f*ibe Lor thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations before thee, and thou shalt possess them’’—Deut, xxxi. And so we trust may the Lord do by this nattc y. The character of, our late Chief Magi lage in our hearts will ever be next tot untry, his character was marked kenerous and 4 nanimity, to the grand devel { which the glory of our arma had jw when he was stricken Edown, Lot us hupe thet lis successor will S course he had proposed to himself, The just is blessed; but the name of the wic Prov. x., %. Abrsham Lincoln! That name, Rago over this Jord shalt see the be Bf Israel. —(Dextoronc mysterious dis was not deat ding was artisticatly ue It is not an hour * prope oan the more effectually to 4 the store of Chas. King & ‘the store No. Born February malicy towords none because a man has been and we felt not half so been hitherto tho rebellion, incidental expe- pany, 170 Brondwa nngle of their buil sy motto, in lary ye with the maby asso fatious that cluster around it, the memory of, ba yi € he — w A is b ; niality ve , ment and fires “ to destroy an army— 4 Wis kindness and goniality, will ever couplo its repetition p@ & ¥ With w blessing, words of sympathy and sweet remem. fy gtraitor. If T were Pree yot to bo ascertained. fy yinpathy eran heedall: souks an rance in every household and to every individual of this great naticu; to the world it will prove a watch. B word, a tower of strength for men to rally around, to: move them to combat maufully for right. $ : convicted, by the eter hung.” Manon 2, 1961. ucifled our Saviour; forff ay kne 4 s bie’ i As for his assasin, who, taking advantage of the eon- blood of no ons on his hands; and also, if he knew infMadministration. “Behold the goodies and th severity Renta oy reat eee Ot MeGiitag patare of his Vielits—which retueed shy quate bulE,. The above extract to t those Inst hours what had happened to him, and who had BR of God.” There are those involved in everf such crisis, different times. by acta of the wildest folly. No loyal fag the honost W citizens-—to assassl- FE the new Presideut Johu. done it, would, I verily believe, have prayed fer his mur Ei the sparing of whom is false to the true operation of B heart received the news of: this sesaseination with asf Date him, intending by his foul deed to erasa his mo- BS March, 186i dorer, and been ready to do what no one elso can do~-for- fa mercy. er are those, also, the punishing of Mi great a shock as the hearts of those arch traitors whogginory frum the world’s record, in his purpose he hasgll Thee give him. 0, if there was a crime more Uni more bao whom would be an avenging undue to justice. Bi pricinated and ha kept alive the flames of this rebol. By *ignaily fated, as its Lesouces merits, aud bis name gg ton stree jone on tha rot and be forgotten, as his bones, in an unhal-@ lowed obscurity. Whilc, in acceding years, as our grief subsides and the victim's good work ts surveyed, bie mory will grow more green in our hearts, and freshon erighed remenb dent martyr, wident of the con- window, B deere cnnrecrennoe ster Tho joy of our I ‘ned into mourning. now that when the soul his nat on’s door of the kinduess of his § ¢ never were moro g Sti On the other tha nnant Of their BM Gregation Prosident, whoxe polic pove of holding vervices appropri After tho usual ceromonics a very je urs ¥ ‘ Prayer for the te our late Pr it was sald, mont cannot lay hold of him? ‘This ia case in which MM mont, and the highest sovereignty may well display BB ycc Screwed he tuangureses. by ( so very brain winch A Hyfnala wore sung, mgrogation dispersed. Qreeveosnvornroseccovesononcocoee. f) tliete need be no fmpatience, no hurry. ‘Tho retribution Pi itself in the most completo forgiveness, 1 aseume four Wa juol's bullet plerced, aad. they doubtless know that a mene } All niurdors past do stand gy be deferred; but tt will come, The whole earth K propositions us absolutely and miavtely illustrated by | © unwise act fur their interésts could never, in such aay Services at the Synagogue of Bnai Israe has not @ place where he cannot be known #our national condition:—Fitst, the warfare which this té juneture as the present, have be ommitted. What Mm This synagogue, situated at the corner of Stanton and H tud followed and found. The government does not Southern robellion has made 'on our government and Kaye they gained? "A tieircons rane alent ge ng as : stexist which dare refuse to give him up, if he Not Wat have they e OC Ubgnation. HM Forayti streets, was thrown open to the congregation on day for the pu f whose cliars e to the occas: Digar Cholim U-Kadisha Synagouge, 63 Chryatte Ktreet. ambition nent Mitte howke of worship wis, on Weinontay Be eo orto ernie ts i pont rhoon, «4h scene of yery solemn ceromonios, Tif nf tue galleries and in fw volo house Wire mow BM ares soses>crsearsroees re a omely draped fn tooura sired. 0 Wall to (hiNt’ Tho ceremonies wera opened ty a choir with tho { ey ¥ ‘ jog prayer (Matowah), after which a y v eORVIC aw ret nan by AB I nd the conge 1 ; The Rew of Shan Omnipotent God of Life, ‘over bin, thou King of ¢ and tue % that purtended achange fro a terious event in accordance with the Divine intention, inpathe past few days, The wind blew in fitful gusts, and the purturbed drapery of sorrow from every house waved ‘of black muslin, and inside wreathed with wide bands of crape. Bbonded warchouse, No. O6¢was tastefully draped, the fStars and Stripes flying hd-mast fromthe roof, The express offices were very touchingly draped and festooned nemblems of movraing, streamlets of black and white despatched the national omblemi heavily draped ip Broadway, PAP PERE POCEEDROLIL ET OPEE this synagogu fh 6 Universe, {i dwe! f rejoicin ly tor from above, go ty thy end, open the gates of tho sanctuary, aud of 1 thy 50. Wilb> founa with theo the redeeming angol to Me gates of the ple where Israci is; fa this place muyest thou merit to sand, O may thy soul be bound in the bundie of life, wgetior ads of the colleges o. and captivity with and with the seven ul Lev tes pervect, nd in highway yest Paeven toa larger extent than on any previow we pray Thee havo m PRICE FOUR CENTS. pgtasted, The Israelites cannot enough express the sor- row of their hearis were they even, a8 of old, to clothe joth and ashes, ‘upon all that was orderly, con-@@ him; and in this cheerfulness he gave courage to others, After the close of the sermon, Pealme 27, 31, 37 and 91 itt of God and A the BJ And in the long list of acts in his disp nsation of exect were said by the congregation; also the prayer for tho econd—The power which 89 tive authority no finger can pont to a single deed which Ug@dead by the reader, Mr, Goldstein, Rev. Dr. Wasser- God. The F§ bears upon itsface even the shadow of tyranny. TherefM man then breathed a'fervent payer 6 prosperity of never was a ruler more free from the nature of a tyrant, Ba Presid nt Johnson, the health oi Secretary Seward and fauily, and the strougthening of all the officers of tho rnment, State and city; also for tho family of the ov. Mr. Goldstein closed the solemn ceremonies by pa chanting Yidgdal, the whole audience joint s well filled, aud every face expressed th » part of their demoniacal PH that had befallen the nation’ The house p sorrow othe following Prayer, propared expressly for the occasion, was offered up by the Rey, Max Cohn, minister of the congrega- y lor with Theéia O ey Le continually be led m ibe land of the living, and may his soul receive sent O may the Gracious, in His many cies forsive his sius; and may his good fu His sivht and be placed in His view, (oj the 6 cher with all rics b> pres ear : : Mapp doe *g His faithful ones, and may he beled ‘a moo in 6B2MON PREACHED YESTERDAY AT ‘TRINITY CHUROH, rey been for, ed {nto contention? We wait to hear what bg founded om tne Sgaroune of SS Een, of the nation; ot in atrocity its counterpart in the annals of this Behe land of che thelng. py be Pave aeiaiieaoriat OVERNOR pattey, Will say. They must speak, and the whole world Mfthe remarkable ad:eut of the Mon tor, when our nay world’s history. "His memory is now stcredly embalmed 3 ; 4 eines or H Be TE MEV. DR. DIN, BEPORE THR GOVERNOR BA will listen to every word they uiter, He who favaded qwas thr atened wth annihilat on by the monster Merry Pin the heart of ovr nation as ber chet mariye. Let it harp dtp Bay 8 lnc dl rta enka — PA Shan OF THE STATS AND MAJOR GENERAL DIX, iy (he family circle of the President and did him to death; fmac; the crops of cotton laid up for Northern f¥o°r part to follow the covnsels which he prescribed; tof Whe formed hm, that he may approach w His Uput, re- At morning service at irinity church yestefday there #Bhe who, with a dasiardiy cowardice which most simply farmies to size; then tho order to plant only pursue the path in which his wisdom had fo successt ly fy tunio in Hie. vision aud in the ¥ivton of Heme: rd, since jwas again a very large congregation. Governor Fenton fag Pronounced immense, entered the” chamber of that for food, which prepared the way | for the fig vided vs, cndor the eoutrol o: a Divino Providence, who gg MY Covenant of life and peace was with Him} therefore bag rill sick and helpless man,’ the Secretary of State, andggsupport of Northern troops in their glorious t#holds the destiny of this nat‘on in His baud, with tie 4 {ct 4is soul recelve rest in the bundle of Ife. 'O iayest eaven open, and mayestthon be- ing place of (ho ng approach thes ive thee, and thon go to thy end and receive thy firm stand atid rest. May thy soni go to the cave of M: to the checubia where God will gi PS wilt behold a pillar attracte an et and Mick as wn the garicen of BROADWAY YESTERDAY. YY presented 8 day of our mourniug th universality of the grief of the people at mented chief magistrate of the in. The day set in with clonds 2 the ra to the blast. extent gloom which downfall. uity of shade,” The joneral of Thly Co. 179 was tho motio:—“Abrah: 1800; with charity to all’? fof tho American Mutual Li had a large transy ¢ facing up Bromlway, with the war on the govern. ill show you n of the U ed April 1 Tnewrun: ho make at ow rested, and w unl @ ANDREW from a proy mourning. i 1 would have iful weather of . The stores of Broadway wero hangs like o pall over tho city found a deeper response in the bear- ing of the citizens and im the display of emb! Firourning than heretofore since the dread{ui Ma were fiashed from the capital. The rain, which in tho afternoon began to fall slowly, increased as the day waned; and soon tho innumerable flags, half-mast high, d the pendant drapery (black and white interspersed), heavier, and the big drops—nature’s tears— came full and fast from sombre fol of tidings of woe everywhera It wes indeed a day which even the elements Would seem to have devoted to themselyes as one on which to participate in the feclings of the people. And ihe heart of the people will spring like nature horself—tho betier from the temporary visitation—for, though the nation mourns her fallen chief, sho does not “mourn as one without hope.” The republic can ratee op many Emore Presidents like unto Abraham; and those who look for and anticipate disorganization and late terrible crime perpetrated in her midst, will Qnd that the Union, one and fodi- t statesman of the age, we trust in Thee, oh God, toRalvisible, still lives—that ehe can “smile at tho drawn dagger’? of the impotent assassin, whose deadly aim is but the precursor of his own wretched but just fate— From the Battery to Union square the whole exten$ Commencing at the Union Ferry Company's new forry houses, for Atlantic street and Hamilton avenue, Brook- lyn, theso buildings were beautifully draped with mourn- ing, the Stars and Stripes from the turrets flying at half mast, while the boats bore the samo national ensign Fromi this point to the Bowling green Mall the stores—the humble grocery and the well fill 4 Si yranaries of the produce merchant—al! 1 displayed the emblems of mourning. Nowhere were the poople too poor or too rich ‘to do him reverence,” tastefully draped with mourning emblems, harbor police boats, as thoy rowed upon thoir missions, carried the Customs flag and the Stars and Stripes draped Bowling Green row was festooned through- ont, the California Steamship Company having its em- and assured of tho justice ofp% blems very artistically arranged. Tho Produce Exchange, fu Whitehall street, was decked with great taste and sin Over the various enirouces were hung festoons the broad pillars were The United States Barge Office was and tho to store, Tu Adama expres by o placard that 1m ex. re Friday, Trinity “decorated with the emblema ry being brought from the porch crosswise, Kk and white rtions. ‘The office of the Ta- the New York and Glasgow line jon and Mavre live were all draped. also presented Over was @ beauti+ ern Tan 1365, W: 5, The of nd Trust areney on tho nited States 1 hen tried and then JOHNSON, i z POLLO AOLOULAN TE DELEDLOD ADEE POOLS DELP LODE EDIODE TE hotic speech of n, delivered iv the month of OOOO RECO EP PERE DE IEEE consed ; eeined tingalarly apropos, wen & oa in the Ui 4 mn Ht ims tA lern ry ,008 spectacte, PORE LEEL EEL ELEL ISLE LDL PELEDPIDLODP ODI DEDEOIE D 1 urn, sup, : oe stallishment of Mr. Knox, at the corner of Ful. splayed two very appropriate mottos; op one ho passage from Lamentations: our dance bi from Shakespere’s Macbeth, which perod, than have been the United “tates of Ainerica, It hasan potion teregrer - ’ . 10 site factng Fulton street way a representation Won, and not yet reached by our armies, But around fils no boastful national ein to say that cuts nat Wil tave Dec Meee date echaeie tr ann oes ont and touching eulogy on tho martyred Prosident gy OF the stile fectt si : rer 4 hedges tanen hat le-seaing region the circle hovrly contracts, He shall M establishment nnd prosperity, was the lw tion, They have not stopped the whocie of our emer Ea was pronounced by the Rey, MR. De Lecuw, having of! ® Willow t RaAING ULOReR Column, On the ve ul Hot long have ehelter therw; the years at iat ahall bring MM weary world that tau could over on earth enjoy a Bi in-ut ot hindered the mevonents ef ite voor wacker ‘ Who heard it, The ‘synagogue gg of which wns inscribed, wsloually & deep sigh from somo 0°82 jim into our hands, tie months and the daya do not PY poacetul and protected lib Tho warfare through per ie repirit whieh, four years age, Dred. ite Bret od. The aro wat covered Wit MM Gascessvrceresnerersscnsrsrenernnncrogs srennrette ceeo® BS ctv it sooner. re (8 exnall consolation in the thought; BF whicl we have pax anized expr tthe Ont ef-he Ballon tad foreet an ved > The two fing piilars Kupporting it were draped LAM. LINCOLN. the evil cannet bo rr d. But that “man owes PM tbrow the govern grity of the tah GiEpecting Bowb Inko one of t ly the top held arable curtan dotied with we AOR PPOLOLEDODL IAD hd Bla debt to the nation; and sooner of lator thofM tion, and for tho nt of local rections history, hag with the gu: LM rosciton’ ond pendants, ‘The reader's desk was covoerod im, WHO Wan eee hour of its payment will come, to he. for the batera: “And: thie a bite riehly worked cloth, its siagle p vetay and the trying scones of tho Inatfawpe we have but be patient = and forinion of ri Oelier ¢ulore whe bx pares in black inaslin, “I } My brethren, amid the thoughts whieh eom noe and ation havélia Various Hist ' chose cha motoent as tt of wt wna to establish a m ertous nalnhoss, been tyra peenereeeeeant ne aud wit APLOMPOE DIE LEDS Hb bE ony + wore: | k crap Gt rant 8 lighes at

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