The Arkansas banner., 1849-07-24
rho Late William E. plar,1,,.-

We noticed. la past number sf our pauay ,h. reaeeonter which resulted In ths death of ,h,. ..n. ueinan. The LoaissiiIo Journal gives the follow. ing details of is origin, and paysa handsome and well-deseryed ribuie e the memory of the decrased Mr. B. was well known to a Iarse number of en,. Eens ia the southern part of this State. Few men have enjoyed higher repaa,Ios. or grra,er share of personal popularity. Tho death of Mt B is 30, e"iy to be moaraed by those who were bound to him by ,he desrer lies of association but lamea,ea as severe loss o the State that claimed the exercise oi his talents and requirements.
 pn the lbth inst a personal rrcean!er teak Paee sa W oedtcya county, near place called Mar.
 mo"y 6e'"eea William F Blackburn, Esq. of La ! gnu ahotass etceie, Of fraakla county, iR which
 Mir bhckbafn iost his lite by shot from Stselr's pistol. |, appears there had been difficulty anl quarrel among the boys in the neiShhorhoed nad Mir R., eonceiVing that Mir Steele has hren aatsn, an nnluslisiahe part towards his yoanv hroihers ehauced to meet him, and required aa explanation ol him, which no one who near heard Ths conference ended in a mutual and simuitaneoas
 attack Blackburn, with loaded whip, and Sspele with heavy stirk. h the course of the afFssy Steele drew his pistol and fired, woundns Black
 burn mortsliy in the breast the latter pistol haVin previously dropped ont of hts side pocket Mr B
 live twenty-four hours. Steele has been tried be-
 fore the examining court and sent further trial
 w k: Blackburn was the son of Col K. Nj 1 Blackburn, of w Woodfard co., Ky. He was twenty | six years of age. He was graduate of Miami
 University, 0hio Having studied the principles of
 the common aud civil law, he weat to Lake Prov,. dence, La, and commenced the practice in he spring of lSf3. He soon acquired an cninence in
 his profession unexampled for hts years. Few men
 m north Louisiana enjoyed so large share of pabc favor and Satronage He was a successful com petitor against the most experienced and veteran
 attorneys. As friend aud compan nion he possexsssl
 all those qualities of mind and heart that could endear him him to ali who knew hun. He was brave, generous aud sincere, and he was learned
 sagscioas and accomplished, He knew Ho distiac-
 lion between himself and his friend aud he pursued
 boldly and firmly the path that duty in his opiaien pointed out, without thought of the dangers and | difficulties that might beset it.
 l "ln May, 1916, when steamboat landed al Pro- videnoe and announced that Gen. Taylor was sur rounded by an immense army, and could hold out only lew days. and had called on Louisiana for
 aid, the boat had scarcely left the wharf before Mir E. had mounted the stage, and in a speech of great
 feeling and eoquence, urged the immediate orYani-
 zation of . company. |, was made up the same day, and in two days he on his way to Ihs banks of the Rio Grande with the six months vol
 unteers They were dlSbanded at the end of threo
 months ane, in speech made by him at a dinner
 given them at Lake Providence en their return, on
 the 18th of August, 1916, he proclaimed that Gen Taylor ought to be, and would be, our nexi Pres- dent.
 '' As proof of the high estimate placed upon NIT Backburns talents and merits by the people sf his district in Louisiana, he was recently nominated
 by the whig party there, without solicitation, for the Senate, although only twenIy-six years of aga
 thus wanting several mouths of the age required by law He lett Louisiana still undetermined whsthsr
 his name should be used, although in whig dis trct He was considered by all who knew him as one of the mos, highly gifted young men that ever went from tlIis State to tl,e Soath.''