The Arkansas banner., 1844-01-30
Washington, December I2 EUIOGY ON DR LINN

EULOGf ON DR. LINN.
 In the Senate, to-day, MT Benton an- nounced the deeease of his late colleague, Dr. Linn, in the following appropriate man. ner:
 MR. PRESIDENT: rise to make to the Se- nate the formal communication of an event which has occurred during the recess, and has been heard by all with the deepest re- gret My colleague and friend, the late Se- nator LINN, departed this life on Tuesday, the 3d day of October last, at the early age of forty-eight years, and without the warn ings or the suf1erings which usually precede our departure from this world He laid him down to sleep, and awoke no more It was to him the sleep of death :; and the only drop of consolation in this sudden and calamitous visitation was, that 1t took place in his own house, and that his unconscious remains were immediately surrounded by his family and friends, and received all the care and aid which love and skill could give.
 discharge mournful duty, Mr. Presi- dent, in bringing this deplorable event to the formal notice of the Senate; in offering the feeble tribute of my applause to the many virtues of my deceased colleague, and in asking for his memory the last honors which the respect and affection of the Senate be- stow upon the name of deceased brother.
 LEWIS FIELD LINN, the subject of this an- nunciation, was born in the State of Ken lucky, in the year 1795, in the immediate vicinity of Louisville. His grandfather was Colonel William Linn, one of the favorite officers of Gen. George Rogers Clark, and well known for his courage and enterprise in the early settlement of the great Vest At the age of eleven he had fought in the ranks of men, in the defence of a station in Western Pennsylvania, and was seen to de- liver deliberate and effective fire. He was one of the first to navigate the Ohio and Mississippi from Pittsburg to New Orleans and back again-a daring achievement, which himself and others accomplished for the pub lie service, and amidst every species of dan ger, in the year l776. He was killed by the Indians at an early period, leaving fa- mily of young children, of whom the wor- thy Col. Wm. Pope (father of Gov. Pope, and head of the numerous and respectable family of that name in the Vest became the guardian. The father of Senator Linn was among these children; and at an early age, skating upon the ice near Louisville with three other boys, he was taken prisoner by the Shawnee Indians, carried of, and detain- ed captive for three years, when all four made their escape and returned home by killing their guard, traversing some hundred miles of wilderness, and swimming the Ohio river. The mother of Senator Llnn was a Pennsylvanian by birth, her maiden name Hunter, born at Carlisle, and also had hero- ic blood in her veins Tradition, if not his- tory, preserves the recollection of her cour- age and conduct at Fort Jefferson. at the Iron Banks, in l7S1, when the Indians at lacked and were repulsed from that post- Women and boys were men in those days.
 The father of Senator Linn died young, leaving this son but eleven years of age.- The cares of an elder brother supplied Gas far as such loss could be supplied) the loss of father, and under his auspices the edu- cation of the orphan was conducted. He was intended for the medical profession, and received his education, scholastic and pro- fessional, in the State of his nativity. At an early age he was qualified for the practice ol medicine, and commenced 1t in the then ter ritory, now State of Missouri, and was im- mediately among the foremost of his profes- sion. Intuitive sagacity supplied in him the place of long experience, and boundless be- nevolence conciliated universal esteem. To all his patients he was the same-fying with alacrity to every call, attending upon the poor and humble as zealously as on the rich and powerful, on the stranger as readily as on the neighbor, discharging to all the duties of nurse and friend, as well as of physician and wholly regardless of his own interest or even his own health, in the zeal to serve and to save others.
 The highest professional honors and re- wards were before him. Though commen- cing as on provincial theatre, there was moi a capital in Europe or America in which he would not have attained the front rank in physic or surgery. But his fellow-citizens perceived. in his varied abilities, capacity and