New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-03-05
From The Richmond Wing.
The Late John Ii. Picas1nfs, Esq

we announce this morning. win sorrow v nicn
we have scarcely words 10 express VIE "a -. e.s -
which this who's, community and the people OF tGs e-
.,s n.vesh WI! share, tic DEATH Tue -Ei.uleiy
death Of JoBS HAMPDES PLEAsANTs Esq !a.e sehlo!
Editor of this paper About ciocA on FTitay morn
ng, IN perfect csirnDess NJ" ''A s-4a'''' -e '- ~
bls spirit to his God ,.,.,s.o
uoon the melancholy circumstances which nzye LED 70
bis hear. rending result we need not say "oFd 4Ae
40 familiar 20 every mind They require no soinheIt
80 sudden appalling mas been the stroke hst we can
ven now scarcely realize the dreadful iruiH we are n
nessure supplied know not how 10 psIe'e i pos
CHE Yet alas i: Is too true The manu- "h'ch mas
nS.en rested upon the table where s.- and welded
mighty power over the public nc-''hlcn. IN
.,bonyhts that ores.teo and words that ouEHeJ, mas
sochsned thousands - adGrug hearts = now cold sn
rsofoniess gifted OF genius has been stricken
sogn In the rnG.heayen OF his career. john Hampden
Peasants is 10 n!o!e
Mr. peasants Wa the cidcs. son o: ne late James
psassuts former Governor OF Virginia, ana United
states Senator from a- STATE Ia the Spring u lc2i he
established Richmond big, ana devoted 70 II ten
years the unwesricd labor before II yielded aim
even living compensation. Since that peTod the paper
hscsne the organ OF the Hhig party aud made s way
10 popular AID reasonable patronage. Hio.e
powerful and brilliant pen than INA: OF Nh has never
5een enlisted in the editorial RANKS o: this country
psrs sincere advocate ofthe great cause TO which hS
Efforts devoted never breatheG the breath oil NE
Amore true gallant and generous spirit never dweit III
human breast HOLCs; strai1 forward iu cl IN
ouse be looked NJ the right ana never counted coLse
oueuces he tram ,d under foot with noOiC scOfn al
.ordd considerations OF sei aud made tue press WHICH
he conducted bright and perfect n1lIo o. 's uahl!
heart.
Mr. pLgAsANrs would have been forty niue years OF
.se some time in March He Tag lci. aged mother
two children several sistet5 Two brothers and large
circle OF devoted relatives and njs mourn his loss
Our deepest sympHtucs with lis ororeaTed mouse
hold win pless orphans early cast, without
orotector upon bleak aud chgsrless world WITH the
rrcy.hsired mother from whose trembling hands has
baen torn The staff with which she sustained her foot
steps down the vale 0f yeaTa. AID rom whose lips the
agonizing cry is forced, Ny s0n my con would to
God tbs, had died thee with all whose hearts
are bleeding under dire calamity, most sincerely
mourn Bat 1t Is idle whisper now word of condo
ence to the beregyed No humun lips can alleviate their
be administered alone by Divine Physician and TO
Him. in humble reverence and adoring ia,a we kno"
they will look TOT gnt in their darkness, and hope In
their despair.
We learn from the Richmond Compiler that
Coroner Rober. I. Wicker held an Inquest on the
body of Mr. Pieasan,s, on the 9th ult., the exami
nation before the jury lasiing nearly the whole day.
The verdict they rendered was that THOMAS
RICHIE, Jr was guilty Of the murder Of Peasants in
s mutual combat had between them on the 18th
inst aud that Peter Je6srSoR ArcAer Washington
Grssah0c and William Scot were presen, aiding
and abetting in said combat and in said murder.
The Coroner has ssaed his warrant 10 arrest said
parties found guilty by the inquisition
A subscription list has been opened III Richmond
and is rapidly filing up for The benefit OF Mr. PIens
ants aged mother and bel qless orphans.