we find them each draped with black cloth, relieved by white stars at regular intervals, and in established order. This window was adorned with the following mottoes: "Servant of God, well done. Thy race is o'er, thy victory won." "The last Martyr for Freedom." "Heaven but tries our virtues by affliction." "East, West, North and South mourn, The greatest friend of suffering humanity is gone." "The President dies, we mourn; The Nation lives, we rejoice." The next window north: "Our Country, Washington, Lincoln, Memoriori Eterna!" 'Memento Mori, Born Feb. 12th, 1809, Died April 15th, 1865." "Too good for earth, to Heaven thou art fled, And left the Nation in tears." "He was a good man, and a just one." The third window: "Our Chief has fallen." "In mourning tears the Nation's grief is spent, "The Nation mourns." "His memory, like the Union he preserved, is not for a day, but for all time." "Weep, nature, weep, put on thy mourning garb." The north window: "We mourn our loss." "We loved him, yes, no tongue can tell "Fear not, Abraham, I am thy shield; thy reward shall be exceeding great." "Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust." "His noblest motive was the public good." At the base of the front windows a draped portrait of Lincoln was exhibited, and each doorway was hung in heavy festoons of black cloth. Over all a draped flag was extended. The west gateway of the Capitol Square was arched. and bore the simple inscription, "Ohio Mourns.' The columns at the west front of the Capitol were tastefully draped in spiral turns of mourning cloth from top to bottom. Immediately over the entrance (west front) was placed the inscription, "God Moves in a Mysterious Way," and over the cornice of the columns was placed a quotation from President Lincoln's last inaugural address "With Malice toward none; with Charity for all." Each of the windows in the west front was heavily draped. At about nine o'clock the head of the procession arrived at the west entrance of Capitol Square. The 88th O. V. I. acting as special escort, passed in immediately, forming lines in two ranks on each side of the passway from the gate to the steps of the Capitol. During the momentary delay the silence and deep feeling manifested by the people in the procession, by those crowding the streets in every direction, and by those gazing from every available window, was without precedent. The gaze seemed to alternate between the coffin being From an old lithograph in the possession of the Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society. LINCOLN OBSEQUIES, FUNERAL PROCESSION, COLUMBUS removed from the hearse containing the man dead and his striking living utterance, "With malice toward none, with charity for all," looking down upon them from the architrave of the Capitol. As the coffin, borne upon the shoulders of eight of the sergeants constituting the Veteran Guard, passed toward the archway, the band gave expression to the solemn emotions of the hour in a dirge, the high officials in attendance assumed their places as escort, and thousands of bowed heads said as plainly as the letters arching the entrance, “Ohio Mourns." Slowly and solemnly the escort, headed by General Hooker and staff, and Governor Brough and staff, passed to the Capitol entrance, and reverently the coffin was lowered. from the shoulders of the veterans to the flowerly bed awaiting it. The officers named, with their attendants, Major-General Hunter and staff, the General officers in charge of the corpse from Washington, General Wager Swayne and staff, and members of Committees, assumed their proper places around the catafalque with uncovered heads; the guard from the Veteran Reserve Corps formed in line on each side, and, as soon as the corpse was in place, Rev. C. E. Felton offered an appropriate prayer. Impressive as was this scene, it was surpassed by the one that followed immediately on the opening of the coffin. Amid silence almost painful the lid was raised—a sigh from those present - a slight movement by the undertaker and for minutes all was again as still as death. The veteran officers and soldiers, with bowed heads, seemed immovable as statues, unconsciously every face mirrored the contending emotions. of the heart, and the grouping around the dead of citizens and soldiers, seen by those forming the head of the procession at the foot of the western stairway, formed a scene never to be forgotten, and not to be described. Mrs. Hoffner, representing the Horticultural Society of Cincinnati, the only lady present, stepped softly forward and placed at the foot of the coffin an anchor composed of delicate white flowers and evergreen boughs, a wreath of the same upon the breast of the dead, and a cross at the head. Instructions were given more by signs than words, and arrangements made for the people to look upon the remains. The Rotunda of the Capitol, well calculated for display, grand in its loftiness, and much the resort of our people, was transformed into a gorgeous tomb. The column of light streaming down from the lofty dome, made distinct and impressive each feature of the solemn scene below. There was no stiffness to jar with softened feeling, no unwonted display to mar the solemnity, but beautifully and simply grand as was the character of him whose mortal remains were to repose therein, the rotunda of Ohio's Capitol .emblemed the sorrow of Ohio's people. The entrance ways and the corresponding panels were uniformly draped with black cloth, falling in heavy folds from the arches to the floor. In the panels the drapings were gathered to the sides equidistant from arch to floor, and then allowed to fall in full volume, and closing at the bottom as at the top. In three of these central spaces thus formed, were grouped the war-worn battle flags of veteran Ohio regiments. In the other panel, the one between the north and east entrances, tastefully mounted and appropriately draped, was Powell's painting, "Perry's Victory;" the grouping of the characters and the sublimity of the scene represented, adding much to the general and impressive beauty of the rotunda. Above the panels, entirely |