The Arkansas banner., 1846-11-25
GENERAL. WASHINGTON

WETm ssfs MuFm9n Foa a1fE E1sT TfME.
 Who thu has parted with his aged mother, and received her last blessing as he was about n go ford, into . land of strangers to seek z home for himself. can read the Gnl- lowing last interview between Washing t0B and his mother, and suppress ihe rising teer slsas starts umhidden. at she remember anse ofsnch scene. Time may dim the sssolle<ainn af many of 'he incidenis of yoalh when we come in contact with the Morid, but there is . magic ia the mother's Foicp--her well-remembesesl tone of aimi- ration, her kindness and uacessing eaEe will tsse up before him who loved her. and fol- low him as . guardian angel in all the varied sfenes nf lie. Happy the man who was blsssed wish such mother, and loved her ---llsppisr he who, having such, sorge,s not her Iovs, her kindness and instructions. lnmedsieiy sfler the organization of the present. Government, Gen. Washington re. paised 10 Fredcgieksburgh, to pay his hum- ble duty so his mother preparatory to his scene ensaed. The son fselingly marked the ravages a torturing disease had made apon ihe aged frame Of his mother, and thus addressed her:
 tsThe penple, madam, have been pleased, wiih the moss Aasiering unanimi,y, to cleo, me io the chief magisiracy of the United Saaiss. hus before can assume the functions of that office, have come Co bid you an af- fecsionaie farewell. So soon as the public business, which must necessarily be encoun- tered n arranging new government, can be disposed ol. shall hasten to Virginia, and'' z--IFere the malron interrupted h m. sYou wili see rse no more. My great age, and the disease which is fas, approaching my vi,als, wam me that \ shall not be long in this wofid. trust to God, am somewhat pre- pared for better. But go, George, fulfil the high destinics which Heaven appears to as- *sign you; go, my son, and may Heavens and your mothers blessing he with you al- ways."
 The President was deeply affected. His head rested on the shoulder Of his parent
 The brow, on which Fame had wreathed the pafest laurel virtue ever gave to created man selaxed sscsa its lofty bearing. That look, (which could have awed Roman Senate in
 ts Fabriran day, was bent in full tenderness |5Bpon the iims-worn features of this yenera- sle nsairon.
 The great man wept A thousand recol-
 eetions crowded upon his mind, as memory,
 etracing scenes long past, carried him back zo his paternal mansion and the days of his epush, and there the centre of attraction was his mother whose care. instructions and dis |cipline had prepared him to reach the top E9n0ss height of laudable ambition; yet how xFess his glories forgotten while be gazed apon her from whom, wasted by time and xuelady, he must soon part to meet no more E The matron's predictions were true. The
 isesse which had so long prayed upon her
 tanse, completed its triumph, and she expir- $d aa the age of eighiy-ivc, eonfding in the prsmises of immortality to the humble be- 1lieves.
 Colonel William R. King was passenger
 Tn board the Great Britain when sine was
 wseeked. The colonel had been minister oI
 be United States to the court of France,
 Eheuce he was recalled at his own request (Is had yeached Liverpool. aud was ,o em.
 ,ark ia the packe.-ship New York on the 2l October, and would probably arrive in this G.,s fss