The Arkansas banner., 1845-04-02
From the Globe. SEN ATE

l it being known that the death of tlr. BATES would be announced by his colleague, Mir. 1 WEBSTER, the galleries were soon filled with citizens and strangers.
 After the journal was read, MT. Sturgeon having announced to the Chair that the Hon. Simon Cameron, elected by the legislature of Pennsylvania a Senator of the United States from that State for the residue of Mir. Buch- anan's term of service, was in attendance, and ready to take the oath of office. Mr. Cameron was duly qualified, and took his seat.
 DEATH OF SENATOR BATES.
 MT. WEBSTER then rose and addressed the Senate as follows:
 While we are hastening to bring our ses- sion to a close, a melancholy event, the fore coming shadow of which, growing every hour deeper and darker, has hung over us for some days, at length arrests our attention. One of our number is no more. ISAAC l CHAPMAN BATES, a senator from Massachu- sets, departed this life, at his lodgings in this city, yesterday, at twenty minutes past 6 o'clock in the afternoon, ill .he 66th year of his age.
 At the moment when we are about to sep arate for our respective homes, to meet the circles of affection and friendship which are ready to welcome us, 1t has pleased Heaven that he should pass that bourne whence no traveller returns.
 Mr. BATES had undoubtedly much over worked himself in the discharge of the du- ties of his station during the late session of Congress. Already fatigued and exhausted, he yet felt it to be his duty, on one of the last nights of that session, to make an effort whic.l severely asked his remaining strength, and seemed to prostrate his powers. He ap- peared in his seat, for the last time, on the last day of the last month though then i'll, no such catastrophe as has since happened was, at that time, apprehended. But after that day he did not leave his home, nor hard ly his bed. His dangerous situation soon becoming apparent, his family were sent for, and his wife and son were shortly at his bed side
 All that the highest degree of medical skill could do, all that could be attempted by the solictude of anxious friends, all that could be suggested by coniugal and lilial affection, was done, to the utmost, to save his life. - But all was in vain The will of Heaven was otherwise He had touched on his last hour; he had reached the end of his earth i ly career; his Maker called him to another world.
 MT. BATES was born al Granville, in the State of Massachusetts, and was educated at Yale College. Adopting the law as his pro fession, he prosecuted his studies, for time I and afterwards with the late Judge ITinckley of Northampton.
 His ability and learning, and his high and honorable character soon led to professional distinction, and in due time placed him in the rank of the most eminent lawyers and advo- cates, in the part of the country in which he resided
 But the bar was not long his only sphere of action The confidence of the commit nity in his ability and fidelity, and its appro- bation of his principles, summoned him car y into public life. He rendered long and valuable service, in both branches of the leg islaure of the State, and in it's executive council. But larger field opened to him :; and nearly twenty years ago he became a member of the House of Representatives in Congress. In that body he remained eight years, sustaining his character, through the whole period, as a gentleman of prcbily and i honor, of department at once manly and courteous, and as much distinguished for the firmness with which he maintained his own opinions and principles, as for the liberalty and candor which he always manifested to those who differed from him.
 His subsequent election to the Senate shows the sease which his native State en- tertained of the value of his public services, and her confidence in his further usefulness.
 Of this body he was member for five years. may not now, and here, speak ol his political principles or opinions, the meas ures he espoused, or the measures he op- posed But may speak of him, am sure, with the concurrence of every one who hears me, as gentleman of uprightness and talent, of manly and honorable bearing, wor- thy to fill seat here, by his intelligence and character, his just conceptions of the dnties oi his situation, and his conscientious deyo- ton to the discharge of those duties. In this chamber, am sure, he had not an ene- my. The morning saluations of all of us N,iN StF0ii to Ilo OilC "ltti I1Ore hearty good will. While his intelligence commanded respect, his social virtues and his eminent kindness and good feeling won universal es- teem. The interest felt in him by his asso- ciates in this body could, in no way, have been more strongly manifested than by their daily and hourly and most soicitous noui- res during the progress of his illness; and all feel that his decease has Jeff void in our circle, as men and as senators, not easy to be filled.
 blr. Bates Was not over ambitious to at tract attention as public dehaler. In that respect, he was far more distinguished for abstlnece and retirement than for obtrusive- ness. He left occasion to find him out and call him out. Yet he was an able speaker and an eloquent man. His thoughts were clear, his topics well chosen, and his illus lratlons often quite happy and convincing Ills manner was natural, simple, earnest.- These otalitieS rpndarad him o,,,;,,a,,, zt