New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-08-16

DEATH OF WASHINGTON. following vivid
and touching sketch of the last moments of the
Father of his Country is from letter in the Amer
ican:
Passing through the great hall, omamented with
pictures of English hunting scenes, we assembled
the oaken stair case, with its carved and antique
balls,rade. We stood at the door-we pressed the
handle-the room and the bed where he died were
before US. Nothing in the lofty drama of his ex-
istence surpassed the grandeur of that tiaal scene
The cold which he had taken from exposure, in
overseeing some part of his grounds, and which re-
sisted the earlier domestic remedies that were aP-
piled, advanced in the course of two short days
into that frightfu form of the disease OF the throat
Laryngihs. II became necessary for him to take
10 his bed His valued friend, DR.. Crak, was in
stantly summoned, and assisted by the best med-
cal skll of the surrounding country, exhausted all
the means of his art, but without affording him
lief He patiently submitted, though in great dis
tress TO the various remedies proposed but 1t be-
came evident from the deep gloom setting upon
the countenances of the medical gentlemen, taa,
the case was hopeless. Advancing insidiousiy, the
disease had fastened itself with deadly certainty.
Looking with perfect calmness on the sobbins
group around him, he said-s.Grieve not my friends
which we all owe is about 10 be paid am
resigned to the event" Requesting Mrs. Wash
nston to bring him two wills from his escritoire,
he directed one TO be burnt, and placed the other
in her hands, rs his last will and testament, and
then gave some final instructions to Mr.. Lear, his
secretary and relation, the adjustment of his
business affairs. He soon after became greatly
distressed, and as in the paroNysms which became
more frequent and violent Mr.. Lear who was ex
tended on the bed by his side assisted him to tarn
ne, with Kindness but with difficulty, articuluted
81 fearI give you great trouble, sig-but-perhaps
it is duty that we all owe, one to another-I trust
that you may receive the same attention, when you
shall require it.
AS the night waned, the fatal symptoms be-
came more imminent. His breath became more
labored and suiocating, and his voice soon after
failed him. Perceving his end approaching, he
straishtened himself to his full length, he folded
his own hands in the necessary attitude upon his
chest--placing his finger upon the pulse Of the
left wrist, and thus calmly prepared, and watch
ing his own dissolution, he awaited the summons
ofhis Maker. The last fain, hopes of his friends
had disappeared Mrs Washington, supplied
with grief, sat a, the foot of the bed her eyes
fixed steadias,ly upon kim DR.. Crak, in deep
gloom, stood with his face buried IN his hands q,
the are--his faithful black servant Christopher,
the tears uncontrolled irickliug down his face,
one SIDE, took the last look OF his dying master;
white fir. Lear, in speeches. grief with folded
hands, BENT over his pillow on the other. Neught
broke the stiffness of his last moments, ba, the
suppressed scbs of the afFec,ioaate servants col.
lecsed on the staircase; the tick of the large
clock in the hail., il measured off with painful
distinctness, the las, tse,ing moments of hi. cx-
istence, and the low moan of the winter wind, u.
it swept through the lsahess snow-ccvered trees !;
the laboring and wearied spirit drew nearer, and
nearer, TO its goal; the blood languidly coursed
slower and more slowly through its channels--the
noble heart stopped -ssrusgl ed-stopped-aa t,er.
ed--the right hand slowly slid from the wrist
upon which its finger had been placed---it fell ut
the side-and the manly ei'isy of Washington
was all tina. remained, extended upon the death
couch