The New York herald., 1845-03-20
BY THE SOUTHERN MAIL
Washington.
Correspondence Of the Herald

WASHINGTON, March Is, 1S45
The senate to-day was engaged 10 &C. brating
the funeral oosequles over the remalpe the lat .
Senator Bates. For some time preyi 10 the
hour for meeting, az M the galleries aid lobbies
OF the Senate chamber were occupied by large:
auditory, who, In consonance with the gravity of
the occasion that called them together wore sub
dued, solemn aspect, and paid that attention which
showed they tell the inpresslveness of the services
At nearly IL o'clock, the President, attended by all
the members Of the cabinet, entered the Chamber
and took possession OF the seats allotted to them
Shortly afterwards the Vice President entered. and
he was followed by the committee OF arrangements
and the pail bearers, preceding and accompanying
the corpse ,whichwas placed upon bier prepared for
it's reception in the centre OF the room. Daniel
Webster and John Quincy Adams, accompanied
by the deceased Senator's son, fine looking young
man OF IL or l8 years of age, followed the corpse
as mourners. and took Sc ats its immediate neigh
borhood
Every thing being arranged, the Rev. Mr. Tus-
ten, late chaplain to the Senate, commenced the
services of the occasion by reading the 90h Psalm,
tence Of the Israetss who had rebelled in the will
terness, that they should die there, and enter
the promised land. The reading ef this psalm was
/ succeeded bya very solemn and impressive prayer,
and then discourse from the text found in the
Prophecies OF Isaiah, 60.h chapter, 10Th verse:
Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall
toy moon withdraw itself Tor the Lord shall be
thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning
shall be ended" The reverend gentleman made
most appropriate, feeling and impressive DISCOURSE
and was listened to with the deepest attention by
tDc WnOlc auulenCc, Wnllc ne ne0 up 10 their
the gores of the world to come, and the sure re-
iefirom all the sorrows and troubles of this world
which will he experienced by the righteous in eter-
nifty. At the conclusion OF the discourse he allud-
ed to his personal experience OF the character Of the
deceased, and OF which he spoke in terms OF high
encomium, and concluded by returning thanks to
the Senate for the kindness he had invariably
perienced at their hands. He then pronounced the
blessing, and the procession was formed, and the
corpse conveyed to the railroad depot for the pur-
pose OF transmission to Massachusetts for burial in
his native village, so feelingy and touchipgly al
luded to by Mr.. Webster, in his remarks in mise
nate on yesterday.
There is quite dearth OF political news here at
present. The death Of Mr. Bates has prevented
the Senate either sitting to do business, or ad-
journing sine die, and there seems somehow or
as the latter event has occurred, there will be con-
siderable to do for the politicians say they are
just waiting until the Senate adouins, to what
he President will do before anything Of intere.t
| dent and Cabinet Intend, as soon as the Senate
nav adjourned, to make a great number OF reno
walls, though thishmpression seems to be so vague
and indefinite that il is very difficult TO say when
or how it arose. The difficulty will, however,
| soon be solved, and we shall then whether
there be any truth in these expectations, and ru-
| nors, and reports.
UCave Johnson promises to make a very good
| Postmaster General / understand he has it in
| contemplation to see if he cannot expedite the
| grent Southern Mail some two or three henrs SO
that 1t shall not as at present, lie over upwards OF
six hours in Philadelphia, and then not get into
ternoon, when it might just as well be in the city
| by moor. hope that his coutemplations will not
result in mere seeing about it," but that he will
| at ence, and theoretically " set about it," and
| have it done right of the reel
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