Year: 1859




place on Saturday last, at 2 o'clock, P. NJ
The friends of the deceased assembled at the
undertaker's rooms of Mr.. True, on Fourth
street, whence the funeral cortege moved IN
X street and along Tenth to the City Gene
try, where the Rev. o. c. Wheeler. who had
intimately known the deceased from child
hood, performed the last sad rites of Christian
burial to the dead He spoke earnestly and
touchingly, and when he closed there was
scarcely an eye that was not dimmed with
tears 1t is impossible to give the Reverend
| gentlemans remarks verbatim, and anv at
tempt to recall them from memory must ne
cessariy do them injustice STILL so far as it
is possible, from brief notes taken at the time
we givs the Grafton as follows:


Friends and felio,c-citizens This is n Sc
rious moment, and this a solemn OCCASION
We surround the grave-a place always hal
lowed by the thought that it is the gateway
to another world-the grave in which we
are about to bury one of our fellows. Tho
Death lays frequent claim to one and another
of his victims, and the grave as frequently
opens its insatiate mouth to receive them, vet
this is no common occasion. This grave is
not the resting place of weary pilgrim, who
at the end OF tedious Journey through
"three-score years and ten" finds repose
from his tolls nor is it the hidiug place of
an infant form. who shrinking from sin and
its effects has here taken refuge from the Ellis
that flesh is heir to"-this encloses the form
of youthful manhood, cut down in the midst
of the great life-battle of human existence
few years since when dining at the house
of Deacon Shipley, in Boston, this young man
was there, spending his college vacation. un-
der the roof and amid the blessings of pious
parents, every way worthy Of their noble son.
There was then, in his expanded brow, in his
benignant countenance and in his lustrous
eye, rich promise cf an honorable career
Nor was that promise in any wise weakened
when at the end of his scholastic career he
bore from the stage the rich honors of a
prominent New England college. Thus
launched upon the world. he entered its
scenes of strife with high hopes, with uol lie
purposes and firm resolve spirit of enter
prise and independence drought him to this
distant land of excitement, this promontory
of human existence whose base is lashed with
billows more boisterous, and whose super
structure is swept by gales more furious than
is elsewhere found on earth, perhaps Here
he was at once found at a post of service. No
position of idleness or life destroying Sincere
was suited to his tastes Nothing short of
the arena of strife where success" is the
watchword and lifes honors the stake, could
satisfy the ardor of his aspiration. In the
editorial chair, amid the exciting scenes of
the political convention, at the seat of gov
erbment giving tone to legislation, or cater
ing to a refined and advancing literary taste,
he was found diligent laborer, the ready
writer. Nobly did he struggle with every
foe, and as oft as overcome, resolved to sum-
mon new energies to the next contest A
new occasion of interest, promising to eclipse
even our own golden excitement, arose at the
North, in 1858. He hastened to share its
tolls and its triumphs. l saw and conversed
with him on the way thither. To say that
his hopes were high, and that his enthusiasm
burned with fiery glow, is put faint rep
resentation of what beamed in his counten-
ance as he pointed toward the scene of his
anticipated success, and exclaimed 81 am sure
of it this time" He arrived but Just in time
to see few of the fragments of the bubble
it had burst and carried with it all his hopes
But, nerving himself anew. he again sat down
to the editors tolls, and soon breathed again
his wonted aspirations. But an accident
prostrated him: and though for time he
again became our companion, yet the sad
consequences of that fall were not removed
only postponed. Iu an unexpected moment
he has gone from us. With his manly form
and his noble countenance he seems. even
now, looking up from this narrow house, and
urging us in following him to have noble
aims and high hopes. His faults-the few
he had-(and who has them not) he himself
most deeply depored, and with his mortal
flesh let us bury them forever. His virtues
and they were neither few nor small-let us
emulate to the end of our life. And while
we now take this unexpected leave of so
much of youthful ardor and manly patriot.
ism. let US be profted by the occasion-let
us be made wiser and better by the refec-
tions which naturally arise therefrom, and
turning with purpose of heart" to that "sure
word of prophecy" which "is able to make
us wise unto salvation" prepare also to meet
our God.-Sdc Standard