The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-22
From WASHING TON.
Funeral of NJ. ParadoI-Fuller Particulars.

Despatch to the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON July 22.-The funeral services
over the body of the late NJ. Prevost-Paradol
were held this morning at half-past o'clock in
st. Matthew's Catholic Church, Right Rev.
Charles j. White d. D., officiating, assisted by
Fathers McDevitt and Mccarthy. The process
sion started from the late residence of deceased
shortly after o'clock. The remains were borne
in hearse decorated with black plumes and
drawn by six grey horses, and attended by an
escort of thirty marines under Captain Wallace
The pall-bearers were Victor Roux NJ. de
Jardin, Jules Henault, Felix Gentry, VI. Demon
geott G.. Gautier Antoine Deguel, j. Robert,
and A. Baudoin. Upon arriving at the church,
the coffin, shrouded in flag of the French
nation was deposited on catafalque just out
side the altar. NJ. Berthemy, principal mourner,
remained standing during the services at the
head of the catafalque, as is the custom in
France
The carriages of the funeral procession were
mostly those of private individuals. Baron
Gerolt Minister of the North German Confede-
ration, attended the funeral, together with the
attaches of all the other foreign legations in
Washington.
Among those present were the Cabinet Minis
ters General Sherman, Vice-Admiral Porter, in
uniform; Senators Sumner and Stockton, and
other prominent gentlemen. The church was
well filed, a large proportion of the French and
other foreign residents of Washington being
present The ceremonies commenced with the
performance of the solemn Requiem Mass.
This concluded, the Reverend Father read in
English portion of the De PrOttuadis, saying
it was an expression of the only hope and con-
ISOLATION that could be felt under the lamentable
and distressing circumstances. He then de-
livered funeral address of nearly thirty
minutes duration, in which, after anlearnest tri-
butte to the past greatness OF the distinguished
dead in the field of science and journalism, as
well as to the great attachments which had i'm
PEELED the Emperor of France to choose him
as the representative of that nation to this coun
try, the speaker alluded to the manner in which
his career came to its close, saying however un-
Christian or anti Christian it may have been, or
whatever may have been the moral influences
that exerted sway at that moment upon the dis
tinguished individual whose remains were before
u.s. il should be remembered that it was not
for man to set himself up in judgment upon the
case; not eveh the Catholic Church would VEN
ture to condemn man after he had departed
this life.
Upon this point the reverend gentlemen spoke
with considerable feeling, eXhorting those
gathered in the presence of the dead to learn
| that no matter how man sank into the jaws
of death, whether it be by sudden attack of
delirium, the effects of disease, or in any other
state of mental arrangement, the question was
what we're his disposition and sentiments before
he was deprived of his rational faculties.
| At the conclusion the remains were borne
| from the church. the marines presenting arms
as the burial case was deposited within the
| bearse. and soon after followed by a sympathiz-
inc and distinguished crowd. The cortege
moved on to the railroad depot from where the
] remains will be conveyed to New York.