Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-07-13

&carry them to the post-offlce, and Therefore
Fought to be positive III the matter.
4 Death of Sergeant s. Prentiss.
a 1t is our painful duty to announce the dealt
I of This distinguished gentleman. He departed
This life in Natchez, Mississippi, at 7 o'clock OF
aTuesday evening, the I'd inst, after a long ant
] protracted illness.
1 We forbear any remarks Of our own upor
this melancholy event, that we may give room
10 the following beautiful eulogy from the per
of Mr.. ADAMS, of the Baton Rouge Gazette
swho numbers the deceased as one of the dear.
Test friends Of his youth and of his manhood:
l. Mr.. P~reItIss was one of the most extraordi-
mary men Of the age. His genius was. of the
very highest order. His natural endowments
were probably surpassed by no man upon earth.
The charm of his eloquence, irresistible and
captivating, hundreds of thousand of citizens
of the United States can testify to. The
lgranduer of his mind and the power and sub
Unity of his oratory, gave him, during one ses-
sion of Congress, a place high among the high
est, with the great men-the intellectual jew
|eIs-of this mighty confederaey. We have
heard him when the magic charm Of his elo-
quence held captive the minds of thousands
when the blood ebbed and fowed-when the
breath came and went--as the glorious senten-
ices, sparkling with wit, powerful in argument
and resplendent with beauty, swelled grapdly
upon the free air of heaven. We have heard
him when the heads of thousands were bent
forward in anxious expectation, as if fearful
of losing some one of his precious thoughts
those gems of intellect-With which the God
|of Nature had endowed him. We have heard
him, when all hearts were enthralled by the
melody of his voice, the beauty of his thoughts
the brilliancy of his conceptions, and carried
willing captives, by the power of an elo-
|quence scarcely human. We have heard him
when denoupcing a policy, deemed by him in
famous, speak so witheringly, heap execralion|
upon execration, like Goals Of fire, soaring and
blasting, until strong men turned pale and stern|
opponents took themselves to a place without
the hearing of his voice. And we heard him
once upon an occasion where a poor widow
and her babes appeared before court in the hopel
(and vain it were, but for the noble-heart-
led Pren,iss) of making a wealthy adminis,ra-
tor, who had beggared her and her children by
robbing her husbands estate. disgorge at least
"a portion of his ill-gotten gains. Mr.. Prentiss,|
by some means or other, learned the history of
the case, and determined that justice should be!
done. He accordingly conducted the case for
the widow woman; and never, perhaps, on any
occasion, did the robber of the widow and or
fphan, receive such a terrible castigation. The
administrator was present, and although he was
wealthy enough to have built a wall of goldI
him, his wealth was no protection against
the awful denunciations of Mr.. Prentiss. Asl
the orator unfolded the long lists of his enor-
and dwelt upon the terrible w~ickedness|
of beggaring the fatherless and the helpless
the color forsook his cheeks, and pale and trem-
bling he started TO leave the court room, when|
in a voice of thunder he was told to stop. that
the speaker was not through with him, that he
must and should settle fairly with The widowed
and fatherless, or that he should be pursued
with the power of the law and by one who had
means and influence, as long as he lived. The
consequence was that the wealthy administrator
dsgorged what belonged rightfully to the Or
phans, principal and interest,-and ere this, we
doubt not that the melancholy announcement
above has drawn tears of sorrow and anguish
from two as interesting and intelligent Young
ladies as a neighboring state can boast of-and|
who will long weep over the u%ntinely death
OF him who so nobly came to the assistance of
their mother, in the hour of her utmost need
and which assistance gave them the blessings
of education and social position.
Mr.. Prentiss possessed one of the noblest|
hearts that ever throbbed within a human
He was generous to a fault-no-
BILE in all his actions-a true friend, and use
full citizen. The editor of this paper had oc-
casion to know him we'll in years that are gone
and the recoilections Of the past grow upon him
sadly and mournfully. Would that we possess
ed a pen that could do justice to the memory
Of the kind and generous friend of his early
But he is gone! No more shall wei
listen to his eloquent voice. No more shall wei
gaze upon his noble brow-that "dome of
and palace of the soul" No more shall
we be entranced by the magnifcence Of his in-|
tellectual emanations, the ~splendor OF his dc
lion, and the might ofhis unequalled oratory.
i He is gone! The general doom has swept
as it will us, from earth and earthly things
May the sod lay. light uyon his breast, for the
green turf never pressed upon a nobler heart
Ihan that which lately throbbed in the bosom of
SAR EAN S. PRESTIss. V7
FOREIGN IrEMs.-Eight Archbishops of the
Greek Church have received decorations from
he Sultan, as a mark of his regard for them.
An Italian womanis stated to have been pub
icly fogged with sticks, at Milan, by order of
he Austrian military authorities.
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