The Arkansas banner., 1843-10-07
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 From he Chillicothe Ioteligencer.
 MRS. GENERAL PIKE.
 We have been favored with the perusal of an interesting letter from Major Amos Hol- ton, of this city, to Col. Thomas II. Benton, of Missouri, and permitted to extract the fol- lowing passage having reference to the widow of the late gallant and lamented Gen. Zebu- lon Pike:
 aI had been misinformed, in regard to Mrs. Pike being deceased. attended the Oregon Convention, held in Cincinnati on the Sd, 4th, and 9th ult., and learned there from Col Taylor, Postmaster, and son-in-aw of the late President Harrison, that Mrs Pike was still alive, and resided about eighteen miles below Cincinnati, on the Kentucky side of the river. 1 went down to see her-and had most interesting intervew-not having seen each other since 1872, at Plattsburg, N :. Y, as alluded to in my article She had had, by Gen. Pike, three daughters and one son. One daughter only, the oldest, having grown to maturity, was married to Symmes Harrison, son of Gen. Harrison, who died at Vincennes, la, twelve years ago. His wife, daughter aai af Mrs aE ii,o, iia, six years since, leaving half dozen children, burthen for Mrs. Pike to support, who is not in affluent circumstances. Mrs. P. informed me, that she had been allowed, by act of Congress, half pay of her deceased husband, for four or five years; but it had been withheld, after that time, and she did not know the reason why. How strange-that the widow of such high-minded and gallant hero, who sacri- feed his life in the service of his country, should be doomed to pine in poverty and want, under such a government as ours L. Mrs. P. is an intelligent and accomplished lady, but lives in almost total seclusion, not minglng in society in any decree. and seeing company of any kind but seldom and casu- ally. She has not visited her friends, i'll Gin cinnati, for the last eighteen or twenty years |; spends most of the time alone-mourning or breeding over the memory-the fondlv cher ished idea-of her dear departed husband.- 1 obtained some interesting facts from her, in relation to him. l went into Indiana, few miles back of Lawrenceburg, to see the only surviving brother and the only surviving sis ter of the late Gen. Pike. They reside in the same neghborhood. Of them obtained some more facts. The brother lives on the small farm, where Lieut. Col. Pike, the father of Gen. Pike, died in 1892, and is in com fortable, but humble circumstances So, also. the sister.
 " Is not the case of Mrs. Pike, sir, worthy of the attentive and kind consideration of Congress- Other nations erect cenotaphs, monuments, iad mausoleums, in grateful com memoration of the patriotic brave, who fall Tn their service-generouslyb bestow fortunes upon their families, always; and; sometimes, confer titles of nobility upon their deseend- ants, with suitable estates to support the dig nlty of the stations to which they have been elevated. The contrast: Gen. Pike fell, in accomplishing one of the most glorious achievements of the last war His bones now slumber in obscurity, on the shore of Lake Ontario; and no monumental inscription indicates their final resting place; no stone has risen, to mark the sacred spot, or tell the passing traveller of the hallowed dust on which he treads; and his forlon widow, and orphan grandchildren, are now neglected by that government, for which he so noblv lost hls life, and are left in strengthened anu en- oarrassed circumstances, to struggle with ad- verse fate, as best they can! Is not this an instance of national injustice and ingratitude, which calls loudly for redress And who so suitable to bring forward the proper mea- sure of relief in Congress, as yourself? You. SIT, shared in the dangers of the hostile field. Tn the same glorious war; and know, by ex- perlence, the ennobling-the elevated dauntless feeling, which inspires the brave man, on such occasions, and nerves his arm for battle which electrifes the soul of the patriot, and lifts 1t above all selfish or sorlid views or motives-stines all apprchensions ot lear, and steels him with determination. that lmpels to action, resolved to conquer, or the tor his country. And you cannot but know, and feel, too, the weighty obligations due from the government to the gallant spirit who falls n, so noble cause-and to his bereaved family and descendants. If such circumstances arc calculated to excite the warmest sympathy of every feeling and gen. erous heart, what must be the emotions that thrll the bosom of the magnanimous bfother soldier, at their contemplation? I indulge the sangulne hope, that some just adequate acuon, by the government, may be had on the subject, at the. next session of Congress. B
 Omfy ot O5ject.-Unity of aim, aided by ordinary vlgor of character, will generally in- sGfe perseverance; quality not ranked among the cardinal virtues. but as essential as any ol them to the proper condAet of life. Nine tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from likeness; with men of ouick mnds, to whom 1t is especially pernicious.