Mr. SITGREAVES. Mr. Speaker, no event in a land of Christianity and civilization is more solemn or makes a deeper impress on the human mind than death; the song, the jest, the voice, are hushed when we stand around the bed of a fellow mortal gasping in his last agonies, when the silver cord is being loosed and the golden bowl broken, for it teaches us what we so often forget, that we are mortal, that we too must pass away. It is a sermon from the dead to the living, and in presses us with the truth of the declaration recorded in that Book which bears in itself internal evidence that it was compiled by the Spirit of the Almighty and has its every leaf impressed with His own high and eternal her aldry, that there is, “after death, the judginent.” Sir, the death of every mortal is a sermon to the living, whether that mortal is the infant in the cradle, the young men in the strength of his early manhood, or the old man who has his 3 score years and ten; whether e dies by disease or pours out his heart's blood on the battle field, or is stricken down by the assassin; all preach a sermon and teach a les son to the living. Our young men who fell in battle for the Union by tens of 1000s have taught our people and will teach generations yet unborn fidelity to the Union and devotion to the “old flag, ” the symbol of that Union. The assassination of President Lincoln has taught the nation and the world detestation for the murderer. The death of WILLIAM WRIGHT, U.S. Senfrom NewJersey, teaches a useful lesson to the young men of the nation. It teaches them to reverence institutions on whose broad platform the son of the poorest day laborer may stand a peer side by side with the son of the proudest and wealthiest of the land. It teaches them to reverence laws which know no distinction between the poor and the rich, under whose aegis wealth and honor are alike accessible to all. It teaches probity in business transactions. No man ever impeached the integrity of WILLIAM WRIGHT in his business transactions, carried on for more than half a century. It not only teaches that “honesty is the best policy, ” but it teaches industry and temperance, which were the foundations of his ample fortune. He was not only honest in his private dealings, but his political opponents will concede that he was honest in the main tenance of his political opinions. WILLIAM WRIGHT the Senator, William WRIGHT the mechanie, has gone. We remember him as a gentleman who possessed the “suaviter in modo, fortiter in re.” The scenes of time have closed on his vision as they will on ours. Peace to his ashes. The Judge of all the earth doeth right. The resolutions submitted by Mr. NEweli, were unanimously adopted. And thereupon (at 15 minutes before 4 o'clock p. m.) the House adjourned.