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Correspondence of the Herald.l
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WASHINGTON, July I, ls45.
Fsnera Procession in Ge0gstown to the Memory Of
Gen. Jackson The President aud his Cabinet, and
all the Line ON Foot.


The Executive Departments were again closed to-
day, in order that their officers and subordinates
might participate in the Georgetown funeral rites, to
the memory Of General Jackson. And the effort in
that little, old-fashloned city, to do its duty hand
somely, was very creditable and clever.


Shortly after ten o'clock, the procession having
formed in the principal street and others ntersectng
it. moved northward to Parrott's woods, marching
up High to West street, thence to Washington st.,
and up said street to the Grove.


The procession was headed by the Military then
followed in succession, the Offices of the Army and
Navy, the Marine Corps, the Committee Of Arrange
United States, side by side with the Georgetown
Mayor, Mr.. Addison (whig,) Mr. Mason, Mr.. Ban
croft, Mr.. Walker OF the cabinet, Mr. ]. Knox Wal
ker the Presidents confidential Hon. R. M.
Johnson, G. w. p. Custs, Judges, Members Of Con-
gress, the Reverend Clergy, Clerks Of the Depart
ments, Masons, Odd Fellows, the Faculty and Stu
dents Of Georgetown College, and of other Literary


Arrived at the woods, the Orator Of the day, the
reverend Mr. Custis, OF Arlington, scion ot the
W ashington family, together with the Committee
OI Arrangements, the Chief Marshall, j. l. Stull,
ESD, the President of the United States and his
Cabinet, Col. Johnson, and half-a-dozen clergymen
| OF different denominations, were introduced and
seated on comfortable PLATFORM with the Marine
Band. In an orchestra below, and in front, seats
were prepared for the accommodation Of hundreds
of ladies, and they all occupied by the beau-
ful creatures. The military formed guard around
them, together with the masons and odd fellows in
their gorgeous costumes; and outside OF these,
covering several acres OF ground, were the various
civlc detachments, and stragglers and strangers
When the meeting was thus organized, there was
music by the Marine Band and then, after Captain
Polk had helped the Reverend Mr.. Wclks, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, to glass Of iced wa
ter, that popular divine led of in solemn and ap-
propriate prayer, at the close of which the Marine
Band again played funeral dirge; when, leaning
the OF the President, the old veteran OF many
orations for the last forty years. Mr. Custs, deliver
ed, inpromptn, warm, glowing heartfelt, patriotic
euogy upon the ilustrious hero deceased, the lato
sage and soldier of the Hermitage and then, after
the benediction by Father Wicks, the procession
returned to town. and was dissolved.


There was not single horse or carriage in the
procession. From the President and his s,te, down
TO the humblest individual in the line of march, all
were on foot and full mile uphill, the rough
paving stones of Georgetown most of the way, was
no souch Of walk tor Captain Polk, exhausted as
he has been by his late sickness, and incessant APP
plicatlon to duty In this particular of walking, the
procession was truly republican, and gratifying to
| everybody.