FUNERAL OF MR PEABODY.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 658, 7 April 1870, Page 4

FUNERAL OF MR PEABODY.

Advices recived in Liverpool on Jan. 19, from Boston to Jan. 7, state that on that day there were in port the United States double*turreted monitors Miantonomah and Terror, and the corvette Alaska. These vessels were being made ready to act as guard of honour to the Peabody funeral fie 3t, which was due at Portland on J,au...18. To Her Majesty's ship Monarch will be assigned the post of honour, whilst the United States steamer Plymouth and the other ships of war will follow in line. The ensigns will be displayed at half-mast, in conjunction with the British flags. The marines and crews would be drawn up iv line, with uncovered-Jieads, the bands were to play funeral dirges, and heavy booming would take place at the time of disembarkation and transferof the remains of the deceased philanthropist to the authorities of the State of Maine. A delegation of the officers of the different war- vessels were to accompany the funeral cortege from Portland to Peabody. The Naval Departement lias designated Admiral Farragnt on the part of the Navy to participate in the obsequies of Mr Peabody.' Her Majesty's ship Monarch, bearing Mr Puabody's regains has been spoken off Rhode Island, and was expected to arrive at Portland on January 25.- Harmony Grove, the spot selected by George Peabody for his burial, is a heautifnlty-wooded rising ground, situated upon the nr.rtl:»western boundary of Salmn, in Massachusetts, and itself h ordering upon the line of the town now calledPeabody, Upon the principal street of the latter, lately the South Danvers of his early life, the. visitor still sees the l:ou*e with its small shop in front, which, as the boy of a village store, many of the y mfchful days of the great philanthropist were spent. The little window of its na- v> w atic is that of his bedroom. From its elevation above the street, doubtless he often looked out upon the rich landscape, which, "in all the country round," indentiica ancient Danvers as one of the most beautiful of the New England towns 1 Among its features nearest; Salem, with which- he was familiar, perhaps the leafy shades of the ridge, now known as Harmony Qroye, may have been prominent.