Mr. GARFIELD, the reading of the Journal of yesterday was dispensed With Mr. GARFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I desire to move that this House do now adjourn. An before the vote upon that motion is tnkenI desire to say a few words. This day, Mr. Speaker, will be sadly memorable so long as this nation shall endure, whl God at may he “till the last syllable of recored time, " when the volume of human history shall be scaled up and delivered to the omnipotent Judge. In all future time, on the recurrence of ti"! da, I doubt not that the citizens of this republic will meet in solemn assembly toreflect on the life and character of Abraham Lincolin and the awful tragic event of April 14, 1365 an event unparalleled in the history of nations, certainly on aralleled in our own. It l5 eminently proper that this House should this day place upon its records a memorial of that event. The last 5 years have been marked by wonderful developments of individual character. 1,000s of our people before unknown t3 fame have taken their places in history. from"? with immortal honors. In 1,000s of humble homes are dwelling heroes and patriots whose names shall never die. But greatest among all these great developments were the character and fame of Abraham Lincoln, whose loss the nation still deplores. His character is aptly described in the words of Englands great laureate written 30 years ago in which he traces the upward steps of some t Divinely gifted man. Whose life in low estateboean and on a simple village green; ” Who breaks his hirths invidious and bar and grraosapssts the osbkliortwssooffhcairpepuymcshtaannocee and grapples with his evil star: “ Who makesb forcehismerit known and lives to c ntch the olden keys To mold a mighty;State adecrees and shapethe w isper of the throne: " and moving up from high to higher. Becomes on Fortunes crowning slope, ghc pillar of a peoples hope, he center of a worlds desire." such a life and character will be treasured forever as the sacred possession of the American people and of mankind. In the great drama of the rebellion there were 2 acts. The 1st was the war with its battles and sicges, victories and defeats, its sufferings and tears. That act was closing one ear ago tonight and just as the curtain was li ting on the 2nd and final act. the restoration of peace and liberty; just as the curtain was rising upon new characters and new events, the evil spirit of the rebellion, in the fury of despair, nci ved and directed the hand of the assassin to strike down the chief character in both. It was no one man who killed Abraham Lincoln; it was the embodied spirit of treason and slaver, inspired with fearful and despairing hate, that struck him down in the moment of the nations supremest joy. Ah! sir, there are times in the history of men and nations when the stand so near the ved that separates mortals mm the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatin and feel the pulsations of the heart of the In nitc. Through such a time has this nation passed. When 250,000 brave spirits passed from the field of honor through that thin ved to the presence of God, and w an at last its rting folds admitted the martyr President to t it: company of the dead heroes of the republic, the nation stood so near the ved that the whispers of God were heard by the children of men. Awe stricken by His voice, the American people knelt in tearful reverence and made a solemn covenant with Him and with each other that this nation should be saved from its enc mies, that all its glories should be restored, and on the ruins of slave and treason the temples of freedom and justice should be built and should survive forever. It remains for us, consecrated by that great event, and under a covenant with God, to keep that faith, to go forward in the great work until it shall be completed. Following the lead of that out man and obeying the high behests of Go, let us remember that " Ho ha: rottinded forth atrumpetthatshall novercall 1; Hc baffling outthe heartsofmen before Hisjudgment seat. Ba swift mysoul to Muwerhim, bejubilant myfeet; For God is marching on." I move, sir, that this House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed toand thereupon gt 15 minutes after 12 oclock) the case adjourned.