Washington telegraph., 1849-08-22
o Is 1T U A r. Y

At the residence of his father, in Lafayette
county, the 10th inst, and in the 33d year
of his age, died WILLIAM w. WYNN, in the triumph
Of the christian faith.
Death, though presented to our contemplation
in thousand different shapes-though proclaimed
TO us, by every moment of created time, the
Inevitable destiny of man, yet it is irreconcilabe
to our though ghts--it cannot be regarded with the
cOnpacency of natural event. So intense the
abhorrence of fannhlation implanted in the heart;
SO eager the aspirations Of existence, that, from
time unreckoned, the intellect, the arts and the
sciences of every age have been taxed to preserve
from decay this frail tenement of perisha.le mat
ter--nay, to reverse the immutable decree of cor
ruption, by which it is analterabIy doomed to
turn to the ''dust' whence it came. At the grave
that closes Upon bis earthly career man involun-
tariy shuddeIs, as though its dismal gloom was
irradated hy no ray of light bursting from the
portals of another world: anu desparng OF future
being, he satates but poor aud ptiful ambition
when he shall have perfected perpetnity of his
remembrance OIL earth-when he shall have
spread but perishabe lustre around his name;
and thus moved upon by the ruder Influences OF
his nature, man rebels against his fate and wars
against his destiny. But, alas! immortal Iongings
heave and dash his anxious bosom, and future
existence irresistably fixes upon his belief, how
ever embodied in Pagan superstition, in iAfidel
blindness, or stultiied by the Turing gloom of
munUdue COnCepuOu. So udturdi 10 tue ScutilI1tuI
of an immortality, whether the result of instinct
or of revealed reason, that no period of society
has existed when it unknown. 1t shone in
the morning of race; its lurid ray was never
eclipsed in the darkest OF human degeneracy,
and eliminating in this memorable epoch of men,
tai supremacy and gospel regeneration, it spreads
the spendor Of cloadiess midday heaven the
hopes of mortal man-the confidng expectation
OF the ignorant-the stern conviction OF the phil
osopher-and the cheering hope, the lasting con-
ISOLATION of the christian. The christian, confiding
in the truths of the sublmest of faith, beholds in
one uncIouded prospect eternity expanding to his
shakes the frmness of his belief, and bis religion
assures him that he is the legitimate "heir of
eternal life" Such was the faith, such the
lvening hope of our departed friend. With chris
tian camness in the full hope Of eternal happiness
he resigned his spirit to his God, having calmly
exhorted his surviving friends to prepare to meet
him in an upper and better world. J. N. w.
DIED, on Sunday the 18th inst, Of consumption,
at Spring Hill, Hampstead county, Mrs. Cynthia
Matilda, consort of Col. John w. Cooke, in the
2lsl year of her age. Shortly before her death
she requested to be received in the bosom of the
Church, and to partake of the emblems of a
Sayiours dying love. The sacrament Of the Lords
Supper was administered to her the day before
her death; and then, in a perfectly calm and
pleasant frame Of mind, this humble child Of God
soon "fe asleep in Jesus" without struggle or
a groan. "Biessed are the dead who die in the
Loid."