The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-06-26
The Final Obsequies in Honor of Minis
ter Orr.

UT, WHICH dppedreu III Oui Coiulhii' ie"'o "N0i>'
renders it appropriate to give an enlarged de-
scription of the ceremonies in to-day's issue.
We cannot perform this duty more effectually
than by adopting the report made by cores
pondent of the Columbia Th@nir, adding
thereto such items of interest as will tend to
perfect the report. The correspondent says;
This community has been warmly interested
in the ceremonial observances paid to the late
Minister to Russia, Judge Orr, both in New
York and Columbia The friends and acquain-.
tances of the deceased within and outside OF
the political party to which he was recently
attached, to whatever church they belong, and
of all colors and conditions, have derived satis-
faction from the honors thus heaped on his re-
MAINS He was a popular favorite here. even
among those who disagreed with the political
positions which he has latterly taken. Many
who lamented his sad step into the republican
ranks, who then saw as plainly as they DO now
how fruitless would be his efforts to reform 1t
in this State, and who recall the spasmodlc and
hopeless attempt he made. to introduce the
principles of common decency and honesty
into its counsels and practice last summer, give
kind and charitable construction to ms mo-
tives, and unite in the general grief felt for
the loss of man who held so many titles to
popular regard and esteem. The belief is uni
versal that he was a disinterested adviser, an
excellent neighbor, most useful citizen; in
word, an honest man, but mistaken politician.
They even recognize some official propriety in
the exclusively partizan parade made IN 20
lumbia last Sunday. Governor Moses and his
committee of ffty-two appeared for the State
as she now is. They are the leaders and rep
resentatiye men of q party which holds the
rens of government, and to which Governor
Orr belonged, but which he had taken issue
with in severe denunciation of its practices
There was official fitness in the honors thus
paid him by the Administration, and there
NAV have been unconscious recognition of the
Justice of the structures in which he habitually
INDUCED toward it. The Columbia pageant
has its lessons. The motives were no doubt
mixed, and some we're doubtful, yet, as philoso'
pher Suuare would say, it was according to "the
eternal fitness of things" that it should have
taken place as it did. Of different style was
the funeral which your correspondent has wit
messed here. The personnel participating in it
was of different character. 1t had different
meaning.
A large concourse of people assembled at
the Anderson depot Monday evening, to receive
the remains and the cortege of the late Minis
ter. 1t was intensely hot, and the train was
long delayed, but they mostly kept their places
till the arrival. A few friends and commit
tee of Masons followed the hearse to the family
mansion, and kept watch over the body until
Tuesday morning, when it was conveyed by
a guard of honor from Hiram Lodge to the
Masonic Hall, on the South of the public
square. On its transfer to the hail. appropriate
remarks were made by Messrs. B. F. Crayton,
J. P. Reed and J. A. Hoyt. 1t lay in state in
the centre of the hall, beneath an arch, sur
rounded by the habiliments of mourning until
Wednesday morning. Your readers have seen
the handsome casSet, with its rich decorations
of silver, white silk brocade and covering OF
black broadcloth, and its costly wreaths OF
flowers. Anderson made handsome addition
al contribution of fresh wreaths, flowers and
evergreens. Portraits of the deceased hung
round the walls one of him as Speaker of the
House of Representatives of the United States
Congress of 1858. Beneath another were the
lines of Pope:
"A statesman yet friend of truth of soul sincere,
In action faithful and In honor clear;
Who broke no promise, served no private end
Who craved no title and who lost no friend;
Ennobed by himself by all approved,
Praised, wept and honored by the State he loved"
The day was keptas holiday. The exercis-
es in the schools were suspended, stores all
closed and draped in mourning. A large and
constant stream os visitors, male and female,
poured in and out of the Masonic Hall all day,
from town and country, and natural and
beftting seriousness sat on ever countenance.
At 1880, Wednesday morning, the hearse
moved from Masonic Hall, drawn by four
handsome, well-matched dapple grays, to the
Baptist Church, spacious building, which was
soon filled with the eager throng of interested
friends, neighbors and associates of the de-
ceased in war and peace. In the rear of the
pulpit sat venerable pioneer Baptist minister
."cld Uncle Bobby King"-eighty-eight years
of age, and Rev. MIR. Harmon, of the Metho-
dist Church, not yet one-fourth of that age.
On the left of the pulpit, on the front seat were
the surviving family of Judge Orr-Mrs. Orr
and her sons, Mr.. James Lawrence Orr, and
Samuel Orr, and Christopher, and Mrs. Patter-
son, her daughter, and Mr.. VIM. Patterson,
son-in-law. In tile next pew, sat DIR. Samuel
Marshall, brother of Mrs. Orr, and family,
bers, in full regalia, occupied seats on the same
side. and on the other side, in corresponding
pos IN, were grouped, under command of
Col. McD. Miller, we suppose for the first time
since the close of the war, and probably the
last on earth, about 200 men, the remainder
of that gallant and noble band which mustered
at Sandy Spring, and went out to the war in
Virginia as Orr's Regiment of Rifles. Rev.
Ellison Capers, of Greenville, read, in clear
but sometimes trembling tones, the burial ser
vices of the Episcopal Church.
There were two sets of pall-bearers-one
representing the Masonic fraternity and the
other appointed by the family. The honorary
pall-bearcrs, chosen from among the intimate
friends and associates of the deceased, were
Messrs w. Y. Leitch, B. +. Crayton, j. p.
Reed, o. H. p. Fant, ]. N. Brown, Samuel
MCGOWAN, B. +. Perry, l.. NJ. Aver, Col. John
Martin, r. A. Thompson, j. NJ. Baxter, III. P.
Hammett, S. L. Maxwell, +. E. Harrison, j.
w. Norris and w. Ii. D. Gaillard. Of these,
Messrs Perry, MCGOWAN, Maxwell and Baxter
were not present.
The actual pall-bearers from the Masons
were Messrs. W. j. Ligon, ]. j. Baker, r. l..
Keys, T. p. Benson, John b. Moore, c. S. Mat