The pall-bearers bore names to thrill American hearts today--Hull, Stewart, Bainbridge, Blakely, Creighton, and Parker, all captains of the navy.

A Salem newspaper described the ceremonies simply and with an unconscious pathos: The day was unclouded, as if no incident should be wanting to crown the mind with melancholy and woe--the wind from the same direction and the sea presented the same unruffled surface as was exhibited to our anxious view when on that memorable first day of July we saw the immortal Lawrence proudly conducting his ship to action....

The brig _Henry_ containing the precious relics lay at anchor in the harbor.

They were placed in barges and, preceded by a long procession of boats filled with seamen uniformed in blue jackets and trousers, with a blue ribbon on their hats bearing the motto of "Free Trade and Sailors' Rights," were rowed by minute strokes to the end of India Wharf, where the bearers were ready to receive the honored dead.

From the time the boats left the brig until the bodies were landed, the United States brig _Rattlesnake_ and the brig _Henry_ alternately fired minute guns...