New-York tribune., 1870-09-29
TIE BURIAL OF EARRAG

We have no taste for the solemn mockeTy of
funeral parades, which stretch the trail of tic-
titious woe across seas and continents, make
a popular spectacle of decorated biers, and lay
the honOred dead to rest with salvos of rheto-
ric and prolonged mortuary revels. That was
far more impressive and appropriate cere-
mony when Charles Dickens was buried quiet
ly in Westminster Abbey with only few
sorrowing friends grouped about his grave,
than when the great Peabody exhibition
moved its slow length along from Portland to
South Danvers, or the pageant over the
coffin of gallant and supplemented George
II. Thomas dragged from the Pacific to
the Hudson. In the funeral, however, which
is about to take place in New-YOrk harbOr,
there is an element of propriety and good taste
which those other ceremOnials lacked. 1t is
not to be inordinately prolonged; it is not we
feel assured, to be attended by the countless
cOnvivial relaxations with which the attend
ants upon long travelling funerals must almost
of necessity seek companionship in grief and
sOlace for their sorrows; it is genuine mark
of respect, prompted by sense of past omis-
sons, and originating in the affection OF the
old Admiral's companions in the service and
the sharers of his exploits. The American
! Navy is illustrious by long roll of
| distinguished names, and Farragut's is one of
| the greatest of them all. The brilliancy of
| his exploits the practical value of his services
| to the country, his splendid personal in
trepidity, his patriotism under severe trials, his
fidelity when there was so much to tempt him
away from his flag, and the purity, simplicity,
and amiability of his private character, COM
| olro IVbI 10
| Americans will long dwell with admiring
affection. 1t would certainly be unfit that a
man like this should be committed to the
grave without some mark of national recOgni-
ton, and especially some distinguished tTib-
ute of respect from the Government
which he so hOnOrably served. The
! circumstances under which his remains were
conveyed to their temporary resting place in
| Portsmouth were not creditable to our naval
authorities, and their neglect of the great cap
tain excited among the people profound feel
ing of chagrin. The resolution of the Loyal
| Legion, the civic authorities of New YOrk, and
| the Government at Washington, that the trans
fer of his body to its place of final sepulture
should be attended with all possible solemnity,
has been hailed with peculiar satisfaction
throughout the country.
The arrangements for the funeral thus far
seem to be appropriate and impressive. The
chief organizers of the ceremony have been
the Loyal Legion, of which Farragut was
President, and the City of NewYork of which
he was resident; but the Navy, at whose
head he stood, naturally takes the principal
share in the pageant, and claims the honor of
bearing his remains from Portsmouth to this
harbor. The President of the United States,
the Secretaries of the Navy and War, the
Governor, detachments of United States sailors
and soldiers, the National Guard, and great
number of military and naval officers, besides
various organizations and societies, are to take
part in this national testimonial, and all our
people, in spirit if not by active participation,
will unite in paying the last honors to one Of
the most illustrlOus of American heroes.