Mr. JOHNson was my friend, and he exhibited that friendship on more occasions than one. It is therefore a duty in which regret and pleas ure are mingled to stand forward and cast upon his bier an offering of some few, poor words. The closing of a life career, especially of one which has been passed under public observa.tion, is well calculated to arrest the attention and to subdue the passions of the human breast. We know that we are all destined, sooner or later, to pass through the dark valley and experience new conditions of existence in a future state; and naturally we feel concern and interest in the character and fate of the traveler who precedes us., Human sympathy is roused in contemplating his departure from among us to that bourn from whence none have returned to reveal to us the dread secrets of the future. such occasions as this allay passion, because they render the contests of the time insignificant in our eyes. They are made to appear to us as the accidents of an imperfect life, utterly unworthy of comparison with those tran scendent possibilities which lie hidden beyond the portals of death. What we can affect in this life we will be apt to think must appear of little moment in the eye of the Deity, under whose power are the gates of life and of death; who openeth and no man shutteth, and shut the th and no man openeth; in whose Presence we are as the dust of the balance, and our proudest works as naught. Come, ye proud and lofty ones of the earth, whose eyes are lifted up and before whom men make abject obeisance. Behold the end of life, to which you are destined in common with the humblest and weakest of men Will you not perceive in the august Presence of death that wealth is nothing and fame but empty sound, and that your ordinary cares and labors are. but vanity and vexation of spirit. But thanks be unto God, whose power and Presence fill alike the earth and the heavens, that He hath established a moral government for the world, and that whatsoever is excellent and true and noble and just is pleasing in His sight and accordant to His will ! and that even finite man, in his low estate, may in some measure glorify His government and His laws. Our departed associate had earnestness of conviction and sincerity of soul. He did not ever bow basely to Mammon; he did not scorn or scoff the humble; he was not abject before the face of power; he was not subservient to the passions of others; nor did he shrink and cower before difficulties and opposition. While he was gentle and generous to the appeals of friendship, he was courageous and brave in the Presence of danger. But that feature of his character as a public man for which I bespeak particular commendation and praise was his fidelity. He was no changeling. During the last hours of his existence he had faith in and stood by that creed which had fired his zeal in boyhood by the banks of the Delaware. He did not make shipwreck of his faith; he did not abandon his honest convictions when solicited by temptation or assailed by disaster. He was firm and intrepid in defending what he esteemed to be the right, and in denouncing and opposing what he believed to be wrong; and his i.upon political opponents, whether of defense or of aggression, were both manly and effective. His warfare was honorable, while his sagacity adapted him to leadership and secured him within the limited field of his action frequent and signal triumphs. He made no pretensions to high ability. He claimed no front rank among the men of his age. But the place which he chose to fill he filled completely and with honor, and his chief ambition to be considered a true man by hisIfellows was completely realized. have reason to believe that our deceased associate, in spite of the dePressing influence of disease and of what he regarded as unfortu mate and unpropitious occurrences in the political world about him, was not dispirited and unhopeful of the future of his country. He looked beyond the clouds to that light which, though it may be obscured, cannot be extinguished, and which will surely return after a time to adorn and Leautify the earth. He knew that war gives way in time to peace and to the works of peace; that charity and good will, though they depart from a nation, will return to its councils and to the hearts of its people; that the wounds of conflict may be healed; lives sacrificed may be replaced; industries suspended may resume their activity; and that vice and passion and crime, sown broadcast from the wings of war, may be checked in growth and subdued by generous statesmanship and by Christian labor. He left us with his faith in the destiny of our country unsubdued and unbroken; and shall we not share in that hope and contribute some what to its fulfillment? Are there no duties upon the living to execute the designs and complete the works of the departed? At least let us be hopeful also, and confident in the future of our country. If evils afflict us, if difficulties beset us, if dangers threaten, if wickedness prevail, let us “bate no jot of heart or hope, ” but emulate that spirit, that indomitable courage, with which Milton, old and blind and poor, within hearing of a ribald court and surrounded by a degenerate people, sang the advent of truth, justice, and brother hood among men. Mr. President, I offer the following resolutions: fPeosolved.That the Senate has receivedwith deep Philip Johtnhseoxa, nnouncement of the death of Hon. RePresentatives late a member of the House of from the State of Pennsylvania. Reso?red.That the membersof the Senate, as a gmoairnktoofmreosuprneicntgfobrythwe emareinmgocrryaopfethoendtehceealesfetdaw, rimll for the residueof the session. Reso?red.That the Imembersof the Senate will at tend the funeral of Hon. Philip Johnson tomorrow, the hour designatedby the HoRep. Resolved.That, as a further mark of respect for jtohuermn.emoryof the deceased, the Senatedo now adThe resolutions were adopted meminecontra dicente; and the Senate adjourned.