Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-03-27
ALEXANDRIA, ID. CO.
TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH IT. 1882

Obituary-The remembrance Of those we
have loved in youth, is like the memory Of
Joys that are past-pIeasant and mournful to the
soul" How iondly do We finger around the re.
collection Of their VIZ tues How solemn is the
"reminiscences Of our friendship and our inter.
course!
But yesterday, almost, and we left the subject
of this b. ref notice in the full flush of youth and
heaIth-we grasped the warm hand aud babe him
a temporary farewell!-Aas! 1t was fated to be
an eternal one. Little did we then imagine that
we should never grasp that hand again, and that
in few hours it would BIZ unnerved and power.
less in DEATH. Little did we think that We were
then taking last and final look, and hat the
6. clods OF the valley" would forever after hide
him from our sight Mysterious, yet all.ase.
Prov,dence!-h inscrutabe are thy dispensa.
tons; how fearful the realities thou sometimes
bringest before US.
Death, at all times, is awful. Even when il
strikes down those who shave fallen into the
scar and yellow leaf Of life," we regard it with
fear and trembling. But when it lays its blight
ing touch upon one just ripening into MANHOOD
whose eye IS bright with the anticipation Of lu
ture happness-whose blood gushes warm and
quick through his youthful veins-whose facul
ties, already developed, are expanding daily by
experience,-we feel sensibly and keenly the
weight of the affection. 1t was so with our de-
parted friend. ALBERT C. THOMPSON stood up.
on the threshold of the active and busy scenes
Of life. He stood there with the hopes and wish.
es of his relatives and friends. He and they
looked forward to the future with exultatiOn.-
God has seen proper to remove him before these
hopes could be realized; and we must bow in
submission to the mandate Of the Supreme Dis
poser of events.
A recital of the virtues and good qualities Of
our departed friend would be unnecessary: nor
can we with our present feelings. we,ei
proper, pen his euIogium. Ii has been already
said that he was a fond son. an afectOnas
brother and warm friend Let this suffice to
tell what he was.
This hasty tribute must be taken as the only
offering which the writer was able to bestow
the memory of his departed friend. WoudU
Heaven that his prayers and wishes could ha"
ayaled!
We observe that active preparations are max
ing at the different Fisheries on the Potomac for
the approaching fishing season.
Exposure Of Fraud Yesterdays Telegraph
contains long address to the public, By Duh
Green. in which he fulfils the promise he made
some time since to "expose stupendous pec'
niary fraud, with regard to contract made o'
supplying emlgrant Indians, BY Major Eaton and b
Gen. Houston, with the c0nDivance Of the Pre-
sdent. Ii is stated that the contract could have
been made at a far more advantageous price '@
the United States, but that these favorlte; were
needy and had to be rewarded" Mr.. Greea
himself waited upon the President, and repre-
sented the facts to him; but nothing could
done. The whole plot is laid bare with cons
derable minuteness, and those who have hfhef! M
reposed their faith in the purity OF certain OIL
tinguisheA individuals may well pause in as"
nishment As for ourselves, we are not surPf'
ed at the exposure, and only lament the evil un"
on which we are fallen. III
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