Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 34, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1874 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1874.

TUESDAY, MABCII 17.

De:h has come so olten of late and struck down our greatest, that the language of woe seems meaningless to tell the sense of sorrow of abandoniner.Z and desolation which comes upon the gantry with the taking off of Charles Sumner. Greeley, Chase, Sumner all passed away all in the fulnes3 of years and 1 onors and usefulness, tut not in tLe ccmjrJeteness of time. Greeley sank from bis p:aoe engulfed in mental and political disaster; Chase passed calmly from works to rewards, with his U?k ended, though not done; Sumner falls in the battle, with the victory won. The end gained but hisyears cm 6hort. Suddenly, as death cornea, however. Charles Snmner died in a felicfty that few mat ci aminotit fiver knOW. HlS wer was done. Ho bad rounded very completely the grand mission to which he Ld chivalrously devoted himself, and although death has overtaken bim before his -vse time.be leaves his bouse well in order. He can afford to leave the laurels that would luve crowned his brow, to be gathered for his Krave and woven into his monument by the jL-rateful millions to whom his memory will be a benediction and an inspiration. He La J set himself to a tremendous purpose in tie days of his youth, when the noble imputes and more generous instincts are r ; 'o have play. Although conceived In theeuihusiasmof youth, his life-work was purged wi,h unrelaxed purpose, until trifing finishing touches alone remained to be aci'-ied. He took up the battle of human freeucm when that battlo incurred social degradation and political ostracism. Raked in ice ranks of luxury and refinement, his heart went out so earnestly and tenderly to the woes of humanity tht he forsocü the society which must have been congenial to a man of jms tastes, and plugging headlong into the strife, arrayed himself front to front in the foremost ranks of tie foot men, who were fighting away down at the bottom. Other men who entered the crusade against human slavery had nothing to lose, and niighi gain. Sumner had everything to lo-e, and could by no possibility gain a vao'.tij of the honor or fame men usually sees, that would not have been much more eaaliy his through the roseate pathof preceder.: and expediency. He was not of the base :üetal of the make-shift school. The sandfly of right was as strong to him in the wide: scope of national design as it was in the simple rule of neighborly love. An unlaw t at thing was to him an unholy thing, and he set himself about the correction of a great national evil, precisely as he would had it been a personal wrong. From this his warfare against slavery took the form of an inspired aposüeship. His words were t awakening to the nation. The dulled Benses ot the north, and the demoralized understanding of the south heard his tremendous outpourings with stupefied wonder. He possessed all the faith and much of the method of the typical reformer. Schooled to the utmost in all the branches that enlarge the mind and strengthen the understanding he cam to the work of statesmanship more perfectly prepared than any recent statesman since Bacon, Milton, or Jalleyraad. With a mental organism and natural taste that would have made him counterpart to the most marked figures among the antiques, he possessed at the same time a severity and faith, that would have put him as a parallel to Luther and Cromwell among moderns. In the politics of this country Sumter stood virtually alone. By position and taste, he was debarred from the ignoble strifes and entangling alliances which mar the careers and impede the purposes of other men who start out with great purposes and something like mal capacities. Lawmaking to Sumner, held all its ancient character oiolmity nd credness. Ue could not be brought to consent to legislation for merely temporary ends. His aim was to sireugtben the nation by such enactments as its. representatives were compelled to put forth. Sever in full sympathy with his party, he was so far above and beyond its sordid purposes and ignoble ends that his influence was virtually broken in the Senate, over which he towered a mental colossus. Small men and vile measures have so long filled the public eye, that Sumner's figure has been lost to its vision. We shall need some time ior perspective to catch the stateliness of thf figure he throws on tho canvas J of his tim. Others have taken up more of the publico attention, perhaps, than Sumner, but none have achieved from the beginning looter, work. There are but two a more mea of this generation who may be fairly put on a place with him, judging solely by works Bismarck and Cavour the first ri vetted dissevered Germany into an ircn bound empire the second gathered theiragments of Italy into unity, while Sumner reunited a great country in a bond of gennine union, Ihe ;obliterator of national infamy. There may have been greater Americans, but there have been aone purer than Charles Sumner. Truth was his creed and justice his mission. He built his faith on the broadest faith in humanity, and believed all things possible to truth and constancy. His life was an epoch of absolute stainlessness. No human being ever charged, or insinuated a whisper of blot against Sumner as a man, as an efflcial, nor as a friend. Somewhat cold in manner, reserved in speech and aggressively self conscious, he frequently repelled the honest gratitude and hearty devotion that tht multitude eagerly coveted a chance to paj him. His married life wis a wreck through this singular habit of self-assertion. United to a younz and charming woman, he found the company that her natural tastes brought about his home unendurable, and it was a mutual agreement that tiere should be a separation. This was the! single cloud that appears on the record of Us private life. It was net a blemish or fault .simply an indication of the man's complete absorption In the great work to which his lfe was dedicated.

Those only who have a personal recoil ectof the auti-slavery struggle in its infancy

can fully appreciate the inspiration given to the cause by Charles Sumner. To h Is first orations against slavery Delivered In' Faneuil Hall he added to the fervor of youthful pathos all the exact oratory and classic finish which belonged to the schools. He was eloquent for freedom with all thefire of the revolution, but the polish -of his absolutely perfect rhetoric v captivated the thinker as it moved the politician. Students seized upon his classics as a happy substitute for the orations of Pitt and Burke in their declamatory flights upon the rostrum. But theaboliMoniats, a race ot radicals accustomed to scoffs and ignominy, lifted their heads with pride in so brilliant an advocate. Never in all his history did Sumner receive a more hearty and grateful admiration than, in those early days of championship for the truth held by a small but radical band of dis ciples. He was not only a statesman in the best sense, but a shining example of pure scholarship. lie added to the perfect oratorical graces of tdward Everett, a profounder classic taste and a thorough dlacip line in genuine study. It is remarkable to find in his political Speeches such care of preparation, such a wealth of ancient learning and rigid compliance with scholastic rules. He is in truth the last of American statesmen in the public councils who can claim to recognize the principles of literary excellence founded on the classic models in political debate. There may be left in the halls cf congress men well read in current literature, but a scholar of the genuine type, not one is to be found to equal the dead states nan. Sumner was tin intelligent patron of the Ine arts. His admiration of artistic work hal no bounds. Sculpture and painting aroused an enthusiasm wheih be took no fpains to conceal. It is well worthy of note that thes fine and cultured tastes of his youth did not forsake him in the rough conflicts of political life, and the changes of old. age. v , The pen of the journalist has been called In play too frequently of late in the Voeful work, to admit of a proper tribute to tie last great soul that is passed from sight, but when the proper time comes, the inspired hand that takes up the task, will havt a 1 record to trace, a career to illustrate, fairly matchless for grandeur of purpose, constancy of endeavor, and nobility of conduct, in at the annals of great heroes,general3 or states men. When the proper time comes and the story is adequately told, Charles Sumner will stand as the type of the noblest American of his generation a Washington in purity, a Luther in fervor, a Cromwell In Krsistence and greatness of soul a man yond the loftiest ideal of public virtue. Mr. Murat Halst ead, has gone to the altogether unnecessary pains to write a statement explaining the malice of bis enemies in persistently misconstruing the action of the Ohio legislature in dealing with his testimony in the lottery bill. He had well grounded suspicion that money was being used by lottery men and newspapers to defeat a bill which abolished the lottery business root and branch. He gave expression to those suspicions, and In the fulness of time he was summoned before a legislative committee for examination. His testimony was explicit, to the point, and convincing to any one who had a vision unclouded by malignancy or money. Of course a legislative committee opposed to Mr. Halstead politically and personally, would be apt to see nothing in his testimony, and it was no surprise when tbey so so reported. The citizens ot Ohio who have watched the Commercial's course, were not deluded, however, and the almost instant passage of the bill after Mr. Halstead's exposure, was sufficient to attest the correctness of this suspicion. Of course his enemies might ring the changes on t finding of the committee. That was to l expected. The Washington ridgorgwt-ln-chief took up the tale and 'nat seems to have worried Ualstead int a response showing the facts as they wre. Mr Ualstead is too oid a journalist to be stung by these infinitely small creatures. Mr. Ualstead is by nc means a perfect man or a model editor, Vut his worst enemy can not charge venality, corruption, or sympathy with either, upon him. It is rather an honor than otherwise tobe "branded" by such venial cattle as nako up the average legislature, and the best thing Mr. Ualstead can do is to let his enemies gabble unchecked. The convention of the German Editorial Association, at Terre Haute, has taken Issue with those who favor the Baxter Bill and its enforcement. A number of speakers, prominent among the German editorial fraternity, and others outside, in their addresses are seemingly unanimous in their declarations against the encroachment of the Baxter law upon the personal freedom, liberty of trade, etc., of the citizens. The resolutions adopted declare against the assisting of any candidate who favors the present " prescriptive form " of the temperance law, or who advocates " more stringent restrictions." They further resolved to use all their influence in favor of the organization which most nearly represents their views and desires, and that pledges itself to abolish or modify the Baxter law. They also own a license law that permits reasonable use of beverages In respectable places tc. The movement by the ladies in the temperance movement was credited by the speakers as being sincere though ill-advised. That while temperance was advocated, total abstinence was, in fact, being enforced, or attempted to be enforced. The restriction, the d screes as to what or how much liquor, men must or must not drink, was the feature of the temperance movement, most condemned. Temperance, but not total! abstinence, license and some liberty, but not prohibition, seemed to be the sentiment prevailing. A Herald special from London says that Rouhren, Pietre and several hundred other prominent Frenchmen have arrived at Chiselhurst to attend the festivities on the occasion oi the majority of the Trince Imperial.

OBITUARY, ' CHARLES 8 Ü MX ER.

Senator Sumner passed away yesterday with very little pain. His health had been very poor for soun months, though the doc tors had expressed no apprehension of fatal result, until within a few hours of the catastrophe. The death of Senator Sumner will create an impression not less profound than that of Abraham Lincoln and Hor aco Greeley. He was not so well known to the masses as either of his great co-workers, but his name is dostined to linger as Ion and be as deeply cherished. The life of Mr. Sumner is altogether as unlike that of his two great co temporaries as his works. He was born in Boston January 6th, 1811. He came of a family distinguished in politics and letters. One member of it was Increase Sumner, one of the most distinguished judges and governors of the commonwealth of Massachusetts. Job Sumner, the grand father of Charles, was a major in the revolutionary war. Charles Piucknev, the father of the senator, was a distinguished lawyer and a poet of some note, lie was the last high sheriff of Suffolk county who wore the ancient English dress of that office. All the members of the family have been remarkable for a magnificent physical development which they derived from their stalwart Kentish ancestry and which harmonized well with the elegance of their manners, the elevation of their minds and thespotlessness of .their characters. Charles Sumner was educated at the Boston Latin School, at Phillips Academy and at Harvard College where he was graduated in 1830. Pursuing the study of the law under Judge Stery at the Harvard law school, he was admitted to the bar in 1S31, soon obtained a larze practice and was appointed reporter of the United States circuit court. At this time he published three volumes of reports,which are known as Sumner's Reports and which contained the decisions ot Judge Story. He edited the American Jurist, and lectured before the law school during the absence of Judge Story. A professor's chair in that institution was twice offered him but was declined. Three years were then spent in foreign travel and upon his return in ISiO.he begun, to the speechless horror of the eminently respectable, to show svmptoms of sympathy towards the persecuted sect of the abolitionists. These were the days when a price was upon the head of Mr. Garrison, when Massachusetts crouched un der the domination of the slave power, and when only the bravest men lifted up tbeir voices aeainst the crying evil. It was upon July 4tb, 1841, under a near prospect of the Mexican war, that Mr. Sumner delivered nis masterly oration upon the "True Grandeur m I ,, i V.-..k., 1Ö1Ä ta nrulla of Nations." In November. lS4o, the walls of Faneuil Hall rang with the echoes of another denunciation from his lips of this 1 war. undertaken as it was. for the propa gation of slavery, and in the whig converftton of 1816 be made an address upon tne "A-ntl Slavery Duties of the Whig Farty,"in wich he squarely put himself upon the platfotui ot the abolitionists. By the year 1848 he kid satisfied himself that the wbijes were joimd to their idols. He left them to become a member of the new Free Soil ptrty and supported Martin Van Buren :'or thepresidency. HIS LIFE WORK BEOU. It was .u the Senate that the great work of Sumner life was begun, a work which culminatedn the freeing of three millions of bondmen. Je had reached the Senate by a coalition of free Soilers and Democrats. Webster had gone down to his grave broken hearted and diuppointed, and Massachusetts sent Sumner to fill his seat. Two men ot nearly equal callibre could not differ more widely in vtheir views of public and personal duty. Sumner believed that the same principle which guides a man's private morals should govern a community a nation. Hence he could not being himself to temporize with 'an apparent evil. Slavery he knew to be an atrocity, and he set to battle it with all the energy e his great mind. The battle began to tell. The vehement bellies of the . south, unable to answer the great orator, resorted to the argument of so-called chivalry, tne vudgeL Sumner fought tne slave power step by step He presented the odious business In eyy aspect, sad his reasons were so-" convincing his arguments so clear, that the sla power har no voIm to raise in extenuation, she fugitive slave law' and the Kansas Nebraska monstrosity brought the contest to the white heat at last. In the speech entitled, "Freedom National, Slavery Sectional," he insisted that the constitution was trained by anti-slavery men who never expected that slavery was to exist long in this country, and who carefully, when alluding to slaves,called them persons and not chattels. Indeed, Mr. Sumner was so firmly convinced of the unconstitutionality of the Fugitive Slave law, that he would never acknowledge that it was a law, but ever spoke of it as an enactment or an attempt at law. Then the repeal of the Missouri compromise came up, and on the lttth and 20th of May, 1S5G, came the magnificent effort entitled th "Crime Against Kansas." Having no response to this masterpiece, the slave power delegated a South Carolina bully to respond in the real mediaeval ty;e. Mr. Sumner was known to be a gentleman, and of course incapable of resorting to arms. It was resolved therefore to silence bim by murder. Brooks sneaked upon the great champion as he sat in his seat in the Senate chamber, and without a word of warning beat him on the head with the heavy bludgeon southern gentlemen in those days carried as canes. The victim could of course make no defense. The Senate seats were close together, and when a man's knees were under them it was a work of time to get extricated. The bullv knew the position, and made the best ot bis Chance. The result, thanks to Mr. Sumvigor was not death, but all public service was ended fox years. For this unspeakable outrage, Brooks was Eetted and leted all through the south, not y bar-room ruffians or bawds, but by socalled decent women and leading men. While Brooks was caressed by the people of the south, the victim ef his murderous assault was compelled to betake himself to Europe tor medical treatment. During his absence he was re-elected almost unanimously to the Senate.and returned in the autumn of 18Ö7, but was compelled to go back to Paris the next spring, and te remain there until the end of 1859, when he once more took his seat in the Senate chamber and signalized that -event with his famous address upon the "Barbarism of Slavery." Thenceforth the battle with slavery was a winning fight, but he proved himself as constant in victory as he had been faithful in defeat. He was the strong rock of Lincoln's foreign policy. As chairman of the committee on foreign affairs, Mr. Lincoln heeded his advice in preference to that of Seward Secretary ot State. It was Sumner's prudence which staved off a war with England in the Slidell-Mason crisis and it was to his skill and judgment, the country was indebted for the non-interference of foreign powers at several important junctures of the rebellion. With the proclamation of emancipation, Mr. Sumner's life work may be sa id to have ended. After that ha gave himself to the completion of the details, the civil rights bill. With the inauguration of the gross administration of Grant, Sumner in

the party ceased. He wis at first checked and hampered by the managers, and finally insulted by the presldent,when that person's ban Domingo aggressions roused Mr Sumner to outspoken opposition. Then he was degraded from the position at the head of the committee on foreign relations, which he bad held for twelve years, and one by , one the party leaders lell off. f txe j prodigious corruptions J of the time aroused the great senator to a)-

invst as venement an effort as the slavery crusade, and be joinad Schurz aniTrumbull in t Ka m a. U i a ... u tuoujur&uie onsets wnicn made the """" session or 1871 illustrious. He joined uiuvemcnt wun some reluc taring mat me democratic party could not be brought to abide loyally by the covenant with the colored people. Bat reassured by the work at Baltimore, hn r u ' nuionis neauii would permit, tO tDe CanvaSS for thA rfnrrnAi-e A -Ae or bis old nialadv kept him out nf nti work, and fnr has ventured upon but little effort. Last winter he reintroduced in the Senate nis Datiie-nar reanlnttnn r.f lono it with violent disaDDrohatlon. thA Mih.,. setts legislature going so far as to pass resolUHuus or censure; resolutions which the present DOfly. In deference tn thn nlalniw op pressed will of the commonwealth and country, hastened to expunge from its record. It f fitting comment on the end of a noble life that the last thine Via haorrl nur) ln l.t place In the Senate, Tuesday, was the formal notification from his state legislature to the United States Senateof the expunging of the ill-considered censure. HIS REVOLT FROM PARTY, In her sketches of representative Ameri cans, Mrs. Stowe Bays of Sumner at this time : In the outset of Sumner's career It was sometimes said of him that he was a brilliant theorizer, but that he would never t a practical policitian. His mind, indeed, be longs to that class whose enthusiasms are more for ideas and nrincinlM than lie had the capacity for loving the absolute right, abstracted fron its practical uses. There was a tendency in his mind to seek ideal perfection and completeness. In study, his standard was that of the most finished scholarship; in politics and the ereneral condnct of life it was that of the severest models of the antique, elevated and refined by Christianity. He returned to his native city at a time when the intention in irood faith tn lm an ideal patriot and christian, was, in the general estimation of good society a mark of a want of the practical faculties Th Whig iarty, in whose ranks, by birtb and tradition, he belonged, looked upon him as the son of their right hand; though they shook their heads gently at what seemed to them the very young and innocent zeal with wnicn he began applying the weights and measures of celestial regions to affairs where, it was generally conceded, it would be fatal to use them. Just at this season. the great Babylon, which now is cast down wim execration, sat as a queen at Washington, and gave laws, and bewitched northern politicians with her sorceries. Church and state were entangled in her nets, and followed, half willingly, half unwilling, at he chariot wheels. The first, loudest, most in, portunate demand of this sorceress wasv that the rule "Do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you" should be repealed. There was no objection to itsforming a part of the church service, and being admired in general terms, as an ideal fragment of the apostolic age. but the at tempt to apply it to the regulation of national affairs was ridiculed as an absurditv. and denounced as a dangerous heresy. What then was tne dismay ot Beacon street, the consternation of State street, when thi young laurelled son of Cambridge, fresh from nis foreign tor, witn all bis career o3 honor before him, showed symptoms of de clining to arda the abolitionists. The abo litionists, of all men ! Had not - Garrison been dragged by a halter round his- neck through the streets of Boston ? And did not tue most reapectaDie citizens cry, Well done? Was it not absolute social and poli& cal death to any young man to fall into. those ranks ? Had not the legislature of the sovereign staia of Ueoreia in an oUWal proclamation signed by their governor, set a price oa Garrison s head as a mcenaiarv, and had not a governor of -Massachusetts In. his message to a Massiusetts letrislatar. so far sympathized th his southern breth ren as to lntrocuro iulo ma inaugural a severe censure f the abolitionists, and to inti mate his belief that ia their proceedings they were utility of an offence punishable- hv coHJöon Uw Had not Maasachusetts.le"UMtnres taken into respectful consideration resolutions from siaveholdinsr letrislaLrj-mi. dictating to them in that high style for. waica sucn oocuuiesu arenmous, tnat they should" pass laws making it penal to uttea aDoutioutst 8enximent87 All this had been gouig on crnring the three years while Sun ner was in Jiirope, and sow, when he- was coming hoau to take his lace as by right in the political ranks, did it not become him to oe very careful ow be mtrered indiscreet moral enthusiasm to be; ray him into-ex pressions wfcicn mught identify him -with these despised aboliCjonUts? Was not that socially to amen nis turtirlgbt. to clone ax on him every parlor arid boudoir of Beacon street, to make state street his enemy, to shut up frota bim every office of advancement or profit, and maks him for every purpose of the Whig party a useless impaaetiao tne rising young man was warned to let such things alone; not to strive for the impossible ambrosia oi the higher- morals, and to content himself like his neighbors, with the tangible cabbuge of comprouaise, as fitted to our mortal state. He was-warned with fatherly unction, by comfortable old Whigs, who to-day are shouting even louder than he, "Down with Babylon, raae it, raze at to the foundations !" But in, spite of such warnings and rautions, Sumner became an ardent and thorough-going aati-slavery man, and did not hesitate to avow himself an abolitionist and to give public at teranee to his moral feelings, contrary te the stringent discipline of the Whig party. Again Mrs. Stowe says: And now cane the great batfieof the fugitive slave law The sorceress slavery meditated a grand coup d' etat that should found a southern rtave empire, and shake off the troublesome north, and to that intent her agents concocted a statute so insulting to northern honor, so needlessly offensive in its provisions, so derisive of what were understood to be its religious convictions and human sentiments, that it was thought verily, "The north never will submit to tbto, and WB shall make here the breaking point.' Then arose Daniel Webster, the lost archangel of New England be who had won aer confidence by his knowledge of and reverence for all that was most sacred in her, and movd over to the side ot evil ! It was as if a great constellation bad changed si&a In, the leavens, drawing after it a third j&rt of the stars. The north, perplexed, silenced troubled, yielded for a moment. For a brief space all seemed to go down before that mighty influence, and all listened, as if spellbound, to the serpent voice with which he scoffed at the idea that there was a law of God higher than any law or constitution of the United States. But that moment ot degradation was the last. Back came the healthy blood, the re-awakened pulse of moral feeling in New England, and there were found voices on all sides to speak for the right.and hearts to respond, and on this tide oi re awakened moral feeling, Sumner was carried into the United States Senate, to take the seat vacated by Webster. The right waa not yet victorious, but the battle had turned so far that its champion had a place to stand on in the midst ot the fray. And what a battle was that! What an ordeal! What a

gauntlet to run was that of a man in Wash

ington who in those nays set himself against the will of the great sorceress! Plied with temptation on the right hand and OO the left, studied, mapped out like a fortress tobe attacaed and taken, was every northern man wno entered tne arena. Could be be bought. on bed, cajoiedflattered, terrified? Which ; or au: oo planned me conspirators in their secret coaelaye. The gigantic Giddings n wno DTougm to tbe stnJs nerves toughened by bwkwooda toil, an4 frontier fights wim Indians once said of this warelare: I've seen hard fighting witb eiobs and bullats; I've seen men falling oil around me, bat I tell you it takes more cowage to stand up in onea seat in congress and7 say the right thing, than to walk up to the cannon's month. Tnere's no ich courage ae that of the anti-slavery men there." ISow, Sumner's-superb vitality, that hearty yeoman blood which his ancestors brought from England, stood hiai in excellent stead. His strong and active brain was based on a body muscular, vigorous, and healthy, ircapable of nervous tremor,, bearing him with a steady aplomb through- ranch that weuld be confuslns and weakninsr to men of la physical force. Sumner had not tne characof a ready debater; not a light-armed skirmisher waa he; he resembled rather ens oJ the mailed warriors sf ancient toucney. When he had deliberately pot on his armor, all polished and finisheddown to buckle and shoe-latchet, and engraved with what-nst of classic, or Venetian, or Genoese device; when he pt down his visor, steadied his lance, took sure aim, ani went man and horse against his antagonist, all went down before him, as went down all before the lance of Cu?inr de-Lion. Suh a charm int the enemy was his first great speech, "Free-i aom national. Slavery Sectional," which he directed against the fugitive- slave law. It was a perlect land-slide of history and argument; an avalanche und 9 which the onposing party were logically bwried, and it has been a magazine from which catapults have been take to beat down their fortresses eyer since. M Daniel Webster merited the title of the great expounder of tbe ronstitn. tion, Sumner aft. this crisis merited that of the great del der of the constitution. In this speech we see clearlv th nrtnnia on which Charles Sumner, whäe holding the same conssientlous ground- with Mr Garrison in regard to the wickedness of slavery, could yet see his way clear to take the oath to suppert and defend the sonstitution of the United SUtes. AT HIS HOME. THK LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHTrSETTS. Boston, March-12; Neither branch of tbe Massachusetts legislature transacted any business to-day. On the assembling of the senate a message was read from- the gov ernor, announcing the death of Senator Sum ner, and paying aa eloquent tribute to his memory. The inessa?econcludes aw-follows: "Gentlemen, youmust derive unspeakable satisfaction at this hour in your recent action in- the matterr relative to the army register and th national battle flags. It was communicated to Mr. Sumner while be was in the full possession of all his faoultias, and we may well believe tfaat he rejoioei'in his vindication by a. f a.t. a . nis constituents, wnoaa ne naa so long and so faithfully served." General Bank of. fered the following;: Ordered, tiat the message of the government commuaicatinz the melancholy intelligence of the sudden death of the Hon. Charles Sumnen, senior senator from Massachusetts in tbe congress of the United States, be referred to a special committee-of five members of the Senate, with suci members- as may be appointed by the- Hbuse oft Rep resentatives, with instructions tn consider and report what measures-it may be-expedient and proper to adopt asa recognition of the important services of the distinguished senator and aa nutUn acknowl edgement of the gratefub esteem in which nis memoTT and character are heldi by the people of tiiis commonwealth." The order was adopted in both Houses withoue debate. A public öeetlng will be held at Faneuil lEaii Saturday. All citizens withoufedistinction to party are co-ope ration to Have all proper resject paid to the deceased-senator. The board of trade and numerous aoHAtiAa have takea action in regard to the sad event. I IN BOSTON. ACTION OP'THH-OITT GOVERNMENT A PUBLIC MBETINOTOBK HEUH Boston, March 12. The- city council to1 a - . . aay passes a series of resolutions on the death of Senator Sumnen; Among them .were the Allowing: esoived,.That his honor, the mayor, be requested si an early day to calL a meeting ot the citlaens in Faneuil hall, to. taks such notice or this event as may be appropriate iu mw o sue irreparauieioss wJrtcn tbe peo ple oi Massachusetts, and particularly of Boston, have sustained. Resolved That a joint special committee of the city- council be appointed to act im co -operation with the mayor, and the statsW ana natiooal authorities, in making arrange merits ror tbe funeral ceremonies and suci otner tokens of respect as are- due to the purity or ais character and the-greatness of ms pu Dil o -services. AT TUE METROPSEJS. THE BODY IN NEW YOK. New TSork, March 12. Mayor ilavercyw to-day telegraphed Mr. Dawes, requesting that th committee having, in charge tbe arrange anents of the funeraiof Senator Sucaner, oa their arrival here. shoHld allow time for the- remains to lie in state, in throvernor's room, in order to- give tbe cisieens an opportunity toview tte Jace of the dead. The governor's room has. been draped in mourning, and .lags hae been tljucg at half-auist all day from public andTnrivate and public builclnes. anil from the shionine in tile harbor. Tbe ch&raber of omuMn has sailed a spesial meeting for Uwnorrow. to take action on tne death of täe-distin-guä&ed statesman. IUS SUCCESSOR. JJO XtACK OK CANDIDATES. Boston,. March 12 Among the name saost promiatfntly miafcioned us- Mr. Sur net's successor are those of Heiirv L. dwm. ex-Govern o0. u. X&iJiock, ST. It Hoar, Governor John II,- Clifford Gov. Wiwhburn. Genw Banks. Gen. ButWr. and SrwVor Santord. The election will nrobablv lakA place on ahe 26th iast. SOUTHKSX SYMPATHY. CHARLESTON MALF-MSBS. HER FLAS3. Chahestos. Sk C March 15 TKo of Reueral sessions wu cLckukI twiv . flags ylaced at half mast in conseqüence of the daath ot Mr. Sumner, THE COLORED CHICAGOANS. A atKRTINQ TO BE HELD, Chicago, March 12. The colored people of this city have arraoged to hold a mass meeting to-morrow evening, to take appropriate action with reference to the death of Senator Sumner, The flags on many public and private build ings were displayed to-day at half mast iu honor of the memory of the deceased senatox. THE CUE. END OF THE BOSTON TOCBNAMENT. Boston March, 13. The Billiard tournament was concluded to-night. Gamier takes the first prize, Cyrille Dion the second, Joseph Dion the third, Ubassev the, fouJth and Daly the fifth,

A FLOWER'S RATr

It was a thorn ...... At,d It stood forlorn In the burning m-riae land: A blighted thorn Tbu, it an morn - ui me assert "Every flower, , -"o crown have I j ror a crown Ini?h For a crown that 1 hSveSffonnd. A crown! a crown ! . , A crown of mine own To wind In a maiden 'a hair r T'hru' wby Klieve? Knt ? noa frown .halt weav iat not for a roafcfcn to wean ' Thatciwn shall bine For. thorny my the rn. IMPROVXATI02r. BATARDTWYLOR. "' ywLtfad,s m-T warlike laxe. i5vnclun ?ry ont, Aiy camber lor the ßdd. ' Against rarld in iron rsall TLhK 'ro of t he f, rose-leaf m'y IIZ?!,? 8 wis; Then dances Ver the water-fall tÄ rlnlw ii its pier rierbellaor viniy. AI ra armed where'er IKC And moanUyK.nit or daiAnd who the aunbeam aTay?6 ' A.BRAYER. Oh i -en list, wit i. . . are ui vinonI".1.1 m My heart taSarv lo vermore !' Till, over-brimmlnV uXn f dote ÜIv'iUr,,D!?' ÄÄe J?"" Jove mtenn-and deVo . A 'heroic to endure. P' itethai knws not MU aleen fi AR OUTSHINES TB E FAR. Kindly perapectUe! Llttw eat thine, reraäu- fn- Vy art' . TH OBSEQUIES OF FILLMORE. FCSEBAL AT BITFAAC YESTERDAY BCFSALO, .Vew.Tork.March 15,-Tbe peoplehere today exhibited; Jn a narked aannerT hat veneration for on.of the naticar. , illustrious statesmen, d heartfelStsorrow foroiof theoldctaad most bel"u7bor.. Tin'. ra-" me. car uui jfrss was nti. "T . rencT. Sla0 !Prito funeral procession SSSSSSSS: in mournins parh. a t . J, . "r?1 ' fnneral nr. "OI caweb-of tbe morning, the f.miiof t&SataKd , at the latepnvate residence ot tie deoÄ wbere.aolemn religio exerci w!5 aoctea Dyane Rv. r. Hotchkv" Baptist cWh, and -the Rev.Tshn a rd o."nPbyterian ahurch. tJaTonlli ITJJL"? 8ervltnonamiSoned" i6 S Ä.i8 Mdybw the Ka ZV" ua ucir tbe eaoort of tbe faa company con veyed the aatae to CT PAU1Ä- CATHED.-IL, here ty lay ir state. Tta. casks containing the body w of rosewood, .covered rith white silk, with eight 3Urer bandies . and silver triminit On the lid waa solid l silver rflate contxiaiag the fo A winr-Jnscrip- - enth.lfuv DieisMarcheigfcaSiiaSTl Whiledeposited in the west front room. At thehead as a crown of rlowti conaposed off meaf. c Oa.the Kdwasa, SffaJ floraijwrtath and Iwo lar crosses. . On i the right was a large star, ed on thel.aSTW4'"! flower "ching thT cathedral, the casket was , posited in theLuhlSLU!e,,f Ifbnrch, aTcoverod, with.apall ot black velvet, . triaimed wUh white crape and- silver s'axa w;th rosea, ofexotic flower at. the hea(H and foot. T!re it lay instata-Mioh eomravoy Das a guard or honor. XciwithstandirRtheccJd, raw day, from ten o'clock until Jour, . the hou- forclosing the casket, tlusaBds of citirens. anJfetranopra.taronged.the vestibule tjiakea last look at the distinguished daacL snortly after two o'elc 1A rlnAM af, eKw cathedral were openeJ to arlfnit tha irr.; Siates Seaotorial and ouse-oommittses, th V? , ,T. 4UU1"iee. tne members of Got. Dix's mptary staff, the mjwor, dtv aythojw itiea and committees from Un council of tie Xfniversity ol I Bunal.the-bar of Erie-aeuaty, the board of trade and presentaüvea of other civic societies. At a auarter past two, the family having entered the rathl:.! sergeaatsj, detailed irom the first Unite States InA.trv stja St -lOrt PortOV hara th. ..dut FROM Tias VXSriBXJLB Intothe cathedraJlEad by the Rot. Dr. Sheltonthe Episcopal clergy of Buffalo, aud foliowa by W m. A. Bird, Noah P.Sprague, E. k aewett, O. H. Marshall. Ov G. Steele. Judge George, W. Clinton, IJenry Martla ana warren Bryant, pall bearers, eight ot tk oldest and moat influential citizens and mends of tbe deceased, and depoaited ta same in front of the chancel. The ceremonies in the cathedral were of a soIosoa and impressive character, Including a brief resume of the life of the illustrious deceased by tbe Rev. Dr. Sheiton the venerable rector of St. Paul's and a lifelong friend of Millard Kilmore. Tbe casket was then borne to the hearse, and the procession moved in the followinz order; Mair r General Howard and Britradier General Rogers and staffs, company D. of tbe Buffa lo City guard9.tbe 65th and 74th regiments ot the national guards, companies A and E, of the First United States inlantry! under Colonel Derussy, as a guard of honor. The hearse was dfionmfAi witb national and funeral emblems, and was followed by a long line of carriages filled with bearers and mourners national, state and city representatives, md citizens to Forest Lawn cemetery, where after the final services of the Episcopal church had been performed, the remains WArA riianneited in a stone erave in the family lnt oAtntr.ing the graves of Millard Fillmor for mopartners, the Honorable Solomon O. IlaveivAnd Judge N. K. Uall 1