It was a solemn, an imposing scene.

The Hall of Representatives was hung in sable habiliments.

The portraits of Washington and La Fayette, the beautiful statue of the Muse of History in the car of Time, and the vacant chair of the deceased, were wreathed in crape.

In the midst, and the most conspicuous of all, was the coffin containing the remains of the illustrious dead, covered with its velvet pall.

The President of the United States, and the Heads of Departments, the Members of both Houses of Congress, the Judges of the Supreme Court, the Foreign Ministers, Officers of the Army and Navy, Members of State Legislatures, and an immense concourse of the great, the wise, and the good, were present, to bestow honor on all that remained of the statesman, the philosopher, and the Christian.
A discourse was delivered on the occasion, by the Rev.R.R.