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WASHINGTON. Wrch 18th l>i5- Funeral
Of I'm. Isaac C. BaieS.-'rhe Senate Chamber
tu-dly, presented a moprnill spectacle lie
who but few evenings since ned The Senate
listening to his eloquent voire pleading against
what he conceived to he a violation of TIE Com
stiiuton, was NOW no more. His body was en-.
closed in a coffin covered with black velvet,
placed IN the middle aisle Of tia, Sera,e cham.
her which he had 50 long adorned with his liv.
Ing presence. HIS soul had returned TO God
who gave il.
There sat the Presilen, of the United S a,oe,
with all the members of his Cabinet, and his
private Secretary There WAS The venerable
sage Of Quincy, full of years and grey in The
service ni his country. There was Webster
the colleague Of the deceased, his dark features
rendered stIldarker by the cloud Of SORROW which
settled upun them. There was General Scott
with his s'aifin inll uniform There were the
Senate and It's Pres dent; committee of ar
engagements and the pail bearers. dressed in
weeds OF mourning; there were Mr.. Packen-
ham and the other Foiegn Ministers. in plain
Republican Style, mel In pay the last tribute of
respect TO the remains of one whom they had
known aud loved as n friend There lao was
the young son ri the dcrsased weeping for a loss
which Was only sa!scch ly the Consciousness
that he had departed FIR better world.
The galleries we're filed with ladies' and gen.
tlemen who had come 10 parlake in the solemn
exercises The flag of the Senate lua,ed at
hall mast ia the keefi am WHIT I-1r
As have already mentioned, the remains If
the deceased had been brough, into the Senate
They had been brought from his former loduin,s
a. MIS- W hiiNeiis, under charge of the Ser.
geani.atArm Of the Senate, the Com,nl,,ee of
arrangements, the pail bearers and n,ourners.
The committee OF arrangemenis-- Messrs Evan.
ManguG, Woodbury., Barrow, Sever. and Cass.
and the pail bearers, Messrs. H"ger, Woud.
bridge, Benton, berren, and Sturgeon we're
dressed m while scar.s. Daniel Webster and
John Quincy Adams wore black scars, as cbist
mourners.
Al II o'clock, the chaplain Of The Senate N,
fusion, commenced The exercises in ,he Sena,c
hanber, by reading an appropriate por,,on Of
Scripture. This was followed by short but
eloquent and touching prayer
Mr. Tus on then delivered n short f,,or.I
Sermon from the following teM:-
4, my sun shall 40 more go down, neither shall,
my non Withdraw ITSELF for The Lord shall be Ibine
baandIn gym ""d '"e ua!s o! my mourning shall
W s'''u' llsaiah LX-2O
FROM these words he preached a very .lo-
quent sermon, descriptive Of the happiness of
Heaven. Ihereshuuld be no nat iona darkness-
no intellectual darkness-no darkness OF Tenn
tatlon-no darkness of sorrow and di.appont.
meni. Upon these points he dwell with much
elnquence. He closed his discourse with ,r.
bu'e to the virtues OF the deceased Tbouph
these had been SD elnquenily PORTRAYED. he
would beg Ia hang his humbie chaplet On his
h1llowed arm. lie had died without leaving /.
single enemy on earth to plant thorn upon hi.
grave. lie was vsnqushed in the struggle w,h
dea'h,'o rise conqroror IN a bet,cf norid--