The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-01-03
News from tho south.


WAsHrNeror, Dec. 81, 1886
Funeral of hb. Barrow-7reasury Business Military
Affairs
Both houses Of Congress have to-day been occupied
in the obsequies OF the late Senator Barrow
thick fog has enshrouded the city all day. but the cs
remonal in the Senate chamber nevertheless attend
ed by large of citizens and strangers Tho
galleries were densely crowded with ladies' and the
moor OF the chamber was entirely occupied Shortly
after half past eleven o'clock the President and mem
bers OF the cabinet entered, and took their seats on
chairs placed inside the inner row Of desks On the
other side ranged the diplomatic corps consisting OF
MIR. Pakenham Mr.. Pageot, Mr.. Bodisco the Baron do
Gero and two or three Others the Russian minister in
diplomatic uniform which he wore a mourning
scarf Shortly after the members OF the Supreme Court
arrived and ranged themselves the side and on
line with the President and his cabinet The body of the
chamber was occupied by members OF both houses
seated promise uously.
few minutes before twelve the Vice President tsok
his seat and called the Senate TO order He was soon
alter joined by the Speaker Of the House OF Representa-
tives who took his seat beside him
Precisely at twelve o'clock the coffin bearing the NOR.
tai remains Of the deceased Senator was carried in M
tended by the committee of arrangements the pail bsa
rers, and the immediate friends of Mr. Barrow and
placed on bier directly in front of tho Secretary
desk Messrs. Mangum, Berrcn, Crittenden, Archer,
Cass Breese, Benton, and the other members of the
committee OF arrangements ranged themselves on seats
round the coffin and on the side with the diploma
tic corps, and line with that body the Represep
tatves and remaining Senator from Louisiana together
with a OF the deceased Senator, a boy of about
twelve years Of age.
The funeral service was commenced by the chaplan
of the Senate with the reading Of chapter from tho
Bible This was followed by prayer, delivered by the
Rev. Mr.. sprole and then the funeral Grafton by tho
Senate chaplain.
This discourse, and speak in all fairness and with
great reluctance sadly inappropriate to the occasion
Shut your eyes for moment and the tone the delivery
the manner-and great portion Of the mater-would
have struck you az characteristic of stump speech de-
hvered by stump orator Of the most approved stamp
tmed illusions to profane history texts Of scripture
and quotations from the modern classics we're mingled
together in horrid confusion The staple of the sermon
was an argument to prove that all die and to estab
lsh this proposition the reverend gentleman quoted tho
examples Of Samson, solomon, Alexander, Louis the
Eleventh. Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison
Monroe, Jackson and Harrison, that solemn sssem
blage needed any other instance than the nd bodily
before them-not in record in story not in their
minds eye. in their dreaming but In awful pre-.
sence bound up in the cerements Of the grave enclosed
in that sable coffin that sorrowfu object Of the sad rc
CARDS OF all How coldy, tho stricken heart Of tina
fair haired boy bowed down with grief his fearful eyes
resting on the cnvous lid that shuts a parents
features from his gaze, must have fallen tho loud
and noisy tones OF that preachers voice. while with an
almost hippant air. scarcely clerical seasonabe he
entered on an elaborate and illogical disqusiton on
ethical distractions That boy needed not wordy ar
gument to prove that his father was more What to
him, at that moment, the death Of by gone worlds
His fathers death absorbed in grief his every faculty.
and whilst the dullc old common places OF raocnation
we're poured In his unwilling ear, his thoughts far
away In his southern homo, where dwes his widowed
mother, all unconscious Of her sad bereavement How
that untimsy rhapsody must have grated the Of
that friend whose grief too deep for uerance arrested
yesterday the eulogy his lips, and whose heart
fraught with all the pure, noble and genuine sensbil
ties Of true man.
There Is task painful TO TO find fault with
clergyman There 10 10 me something sacred In the
holy Office Of minister Of God besides that his profess
sion which dcprives him Of the power OF defending him
self like other men, from injurious remarks, should al
ways shield him from obloquy But such glaring Of
fence against good TASTE the sermon delivered by the
chaplain OF the Senate to-day should not be permitted
70 without apprehension The Of its delivery
instead Of being subdued and marked with suavy, was
brusque and uncouth The tones loud noisy, and
raised to the highest pitch Of the voice an the subject
natter altogether unued to the time, the place
he occasion.
What have said is Of the discourse alone with
he gentleman who delivered II, I am entirely upac.
luainted. do not know 10 what denomination he
'elongs, nor In fact anything concerning MIN. there