Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-12-19

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the cost thereof what further Improvements are reqo
red t, complete yard for construction and repair
of vessels of war; with estimates teTeor what piaIs
for the Of said yard have been reported 70
his Department by engineers employed Tor the purpose
whether the sa d Navy Yard IS condition 10 furnish
repas or supplies vessels of any class requiring the
same what amount Of appropriations, under their re-
snec,ye heads have been made in each year for the
Improvement of said yard since lis establishment wal
number and desc rption of vessels are employed as
naval force in the Gulf OF Mexico and lis neightor'ng
waters what amount Of appropriation has been made Tor
the naval service in each year since the ADOPTION oil the
\ Constitution.
/ Mr.. j. r. lNGERSOLL offered the following resi-
lutions which were adopted
Resoired That the President be requested to cause
10 be furnished TO this House such Information as may
be on file in any Of the Departments relative to the Tor
nation of juncure between the Atant'c ana acn'
4 Oceans.
R.solred. That the Committee of Ways and Means
no instructed to INQUIRE into the expedency of intro
ducing bill to levy duties upon the importation oil leas
and coffee
Mr.. JAMESON, Of Mo, gave notice, that on to-
morrow or as thereafter as practicable ne wond
ask leave 10 introduce bill TO repeal so much OF the
act approved the 23d day of August 1872 as requires
the regiment of Dragons to be converted INTO
regiment of remen after the 4th day OF March, 1913
n Also BILL making appropriation for the pay OF
horses lost by the NJ ssour volunteers IN the Florida
MIR. Mckay moved that 10000 copies of The an
nual Report of the Secretary oil the treasury De PRINT
ed.
Mr.. THOMPSON, of Mississippi, moved to amend,
By inserting l5,000-which was lost.
! So the original motion Of Mr. Mckay was adopted,
and 10000 copies Of the Report were ordered to be
printed.
/ Mr. STEWART of Pennsylvania gave notice, that
/ on tomorrow he would introduce b directing the
conditional transfer of the stock held by the w. States
in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, to the
State of Maryland, and the cities of Washington,
Georgetown and Alexandria, go as to secure the early
completion of the canal to Cumberland
At this moment several gentlemen were upon the
| floor, which yielded to
Mr. STYLES, of Georgia, who addressed the House
1 as follows:
Mr. Speaker: AT the request of my colleagues this
floor rise to add another shade 10 the gloom which
already pervades this House. Day after day have we
here been admonished from the tomb warning after
warning have for three days successfully received
and yet il hath pleased Him 'ln whose hand are the I-
sues of life that fourth shall not set until tsnail
have furnished still another memento of the uncertainty
Of human existence.
Its perceive time -honored custom of tais House,
tina. the announcement of death is ever followed by
cessation from the duties of life. Whether the practice
"n strike coors n! each repeated triumph OF the
"e!l destroyer be designed emblematc of that day
when ihe wicked shall from troubling and the
weary be at rest, whether intended as an opportu-
nifty 10 listen to the solemn admonton OF our own ira
and transitory being, the object commendable and
of life its purposes its duties, and ta destinations and
enable to return again to the world the purer, the
better and the wiser from this silent and uninerruPt
ed communion with the dead 1t is not my purpose
nnr indeed would it be my WISH to pronounce studied
eulogum or to bestow unmerlted applause upon the
subject of the present resolutions Euloges upon the
departed have become but equivocal evidences OF merit
and ndscrimnotc pansgyrc no honor to the dead and
no benefit TO the living.
Col John NI,llen born in Savannah, elected by the
Icf7 of n
native city the 18th of October last aged about forty
years
Finding himself, in early life, cast upon the world
without parents, and without patrmony, Colonel Nil
len, with an energy which ever characterized him,
and which could alone supply the place oil the former
and dispense with the necessity of The latter, devoted
himself, with farther PREPARATION than detective
early education the laborious profession OF the law
After the shortest term of preparatory study, he was
admitted the Bar, and became at once an efficient
member of the legal profession. He was soon DIS
tnguished among his associates by acute
nesa and eoquence, and by extensive and lucrative
practice, which almost Immediately accompanied ms
efforts she succeeded las it is saidD in accumualIng
property abundanty sufficient 10 satisfy any reason
able man.
Like the sun of his own native South, he was warm
cod hs ang true and hsd IN h
none are spotless were but the result 81 ms
nature-hs faults were such only ms were found TO
nave grown out of virtues and his heaviest offences 10
best and kindest affections.
He was never married. The warmest and tenderest
Ties not severed in his DEATH cleft parents
p!oe, widow 10 mourn, orphans 10 weep over
his untmey end, but there does survive him one, and
alone, of whom is not too much to say, that in
hr, all these dear relations most enderly and
beautifully blended He left lone and single sister,
who ID him these call in one, and one in all, and
who, The grave closed the mortal remains Of
fond and doa,ing brother, must have pronounced an
agonzng farewell to all her earthly kindred, happiness
, and hopes "May that Being that tempers III, wind TO
the sho'n lamb, comfort her in this, the hour OF her
utmost need and sustain her now shorn Of her proec
ton against the wintry blats of cold and hearess
world Col M,llen served for many years IN the Lee
gsature of his native State and BY his readiness in de-
bate we'll his effective and popular eloquence he
enabled to accomplish measures which, comforting
benefit his constituents, and honor on himself, will
render his legislative course long subject OF grateful
remembrance.
AT the last general election for members Of Congress
in Georgia, not by district, not by portion only OF
the people, but by the of the whole STATE, he
chosen Of her Representatives in the first branch
!. of the National Legislature.
His feow-citizens had determined for him change
in the field of his usefulness, but an a-wise and m
scrutable Providence had ordered for him still great
er change-a change from earthly to a heavenly
field Of labor, and instead, like his colleagues the
floor, witnessing on this day the untred scenes Of a
Congressional life, he is now engaged in witnessing
the sunred scenes Of eternity" Let not, my COL
leagues murmur at loss but rejoice IN having reap
ed The benefit that sad lesson intended to mpart
Time, although the destroyer of life, is still the friend
of humanity, although he holds in the one hand sythe
wherewith he through the thread of existence
he holds in the other hour glass whereby lie
US 10 improve the portions of duration which remain
to run And to The members Of this House lei the
! full memorials of the dead which have recently been
crowded upon US, impress US all more sensbly than
= ever with solemn and suitable reflections Let them
convice clearly "what shadows are and what
= shadows pursue And above all, let them suggest
with force before felt, the vanity Of all human
atlainments compared with "that wisdom which COM
eth from above, "whose ways are plsasuntness and
, whose paths are peace"
1t remains TO only 10 pay the last tribute Of re-
spect to the memory of the deceased, by the adoption
of the usual resolutions, which now transmit 10 the
. Chair
i Reso'red, That this House has received with deep
sensbiy the communication of the death of John NJ /
. len, Representative Of the Stale Of Georgia.
o Resolcd, That the members of this House vii! testify
their for the of the deceased BIZ wearing