The Arkansas banner., 1846-01-21

ie"th' prosperity and haPpiness-hopiug that tht only pain they may ever feel, inay proceed from tn, pleasures they enjoy. We wish them long an, useful life.
 In Pope county, on the l7th Dee. last. bv tb, Rev. John Braton, the Rev. Jouy Cow of th, Arkansas Conference, to Miss MARTHA p. daugh ter ol the Rev Robert $. Bewley, all of Pope co. A rkansas. NfN e0'
 OBITUARY.
 At his residence in this vicinity, on Tpes- day morning, the 18th inst, EucIp L JOHNSON, EsQ., aged 10 years. The deceas- ed was a native of Kentucky, and received his education at Pennsylvania University, and Tn that State has left large circle of family connexions and friends.
 He emigraned to Chcot county. in this State, many years since, was elected Judge oi that Circuit, which office he held with credit to himself, and the public approval. until he voluntarily reiuqushed it; and al the time oi hs death was Attorney for the Bank of the State at Little Rock, which re. sponslble station was conferred upon him by the Legislature The death of fudge John son was very sudden, and or. Tuesday morn4 ing the announcement was SD uneypected. and owe. whelming, that 1t was hard to leal- ze that, indeed, we should sec him no more amongst us-him whom, but one short day before, we had met, apparently, ill the vigor ot health, with cheerful cotntenance. and friendly salutation fer all. Alas it was but too true, he had ceased to .smiugle in the strife of menn
 Few persons have died in this community more generally regretted than Judge John son. His immediate family consists of two sons, just emerging into manhood, whose poignant grief attests the severity of the af- illcuoh they have sustained, while the recol- lection of the generous impulses of his na- ture, and his amiable and hospitable dispo- sition, will be cherished by his numerous kindred and friends, who will long chant a requiem of peace 10 his departed spirit He was buried with masonic and military hon. ors, and an unusually large concourse ol citizens sWeled the solemn procession. and as his mortal remains were lowered to their last resting place, amid the impressive forms oi masonry, many manly heart was wrung for the loss of a valued friend, and in agony bewailed the evanescenee of all earthIy ties: and when the last volley Of the"Guards3' died away in the stiffness.
 " May the dews of Heaven distil in mild
 ness OCT his graye,D
 was the silent invocation of all hearts therel
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 DEPARTED this life, or the 9th inst, al her residence, near this city, in the 25th year oi her age, Mrs. MARY c. PopE, consort ol William I. Pope, Esq, and daughter of the late Major Nicholas Peay. Her family and friends may mourn their irFeparable loss yet not as thcy mourn who have no hope: she was apiousmember ofthe Methodist church, and met death as the sincere christian alone can, without fear or dread: and, looking by faith through death's dark valley to the rest. prepared for those whose hearts are purified by the blood of the lamb, she repeated to hel mourning husband, just as life closed, 'sall i. we'll" kind and afactionate daughter wife, mother sister, and friend-a sincere humble, and pious christian, we may wei hope that death was but the messenger tc call our departed friend from the trials and sorrows of time to the joys of eternal life.
 Gf Louisville papers will please notice the demise.
 In this county, on the .30th ult., Miss THURzA, daughter of Mr. AMBROSE LErE- yRE, aged Is years.
 Also, on the Sd day of January, only three days aller, AIr. AMBROSE LEFEFRE, the Path CT, aged 43 years.
 Mir Leleyre was born in Arkansas county, in this State, and belonged to one of the old est and most respectable French families that in the country, before its purchase by the United States. He had resided for 30 years in Pulaski comrty, and was always esteemed as Q worthy and excellent citizen, being constant in his attachments, devoted as a husband and father, and obliging as a friend and neighbor. The twofold bereavement, sustained by the family and relatives, in the death of father and daughter, following each other 50 soon, has turned the house of peace and content into one of mourning and an- guish. The lesson 1t teaches, of the vanity of all earthly pursuits, should instruct their so 10 act in this life that they may be prepared for that blisslul immortality which is the reward of the righteous, and with which the highest ambition of man here below is but as the dross of the world!. L.
 In this county, on the morning of the llth inst, at the residence of his farther, Mr. JAS. B. DOUGLASS, in the twenty-lifth year ofhis age,-son of John Douglass, Esq., He was a young man possessed ofan amiable disposi- ton, and beloved by all who knew him. He had been lately married, was the pride and glory of young, accomplished, kind, loving, and aflaciionate vile, the last son of one of the best and kindeSt of fathers, the staff and comfort of his declining years Blessed with an abundance of this worlds goods, and fair prospect of length of hap py days, he has been cut down in the full yigor of useful manhood, possessed of SO many good qualities and surrounded with almost every pecuniary advantage that this world affords, with the nearest and dearest 1 friends around his sick couch, and as good medical assistance as any one could desire, all endeavoring to soothe the pillow of ahliction. He was anxious 10 live, and what mortal man would not, similarly slt- as he was, with every thing that could make life desirable3 Yet when he become satisfied that his end. was ap-