Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1851-12-20
DEPARTED THIS LIFE,

Sih inst, JAW rs VI. bkO " NJ son u lie Iale
Own Z, BRowN, aged % years,
DEPARTED THIS LIFE,
On the night oflhe 18th inst, at the Military
Institute, near Frankfort Kentucky Of congestion
Of the lungs, CHARLES II. ALBERT, in the
18th year Of his age, second son OF CHARLES II.
ana JANE c. ALERT.
Seldom have we been called upon to record
more touching affection. But three months ago,
twas, when yielding tohis own generous desire,
and justified by the promise which a mind nat
urally active and asprant, gave Of future useful.
ness, the now woe-sIlcken parents, saw their
dear boy take his departure from beneath their
roof relinquisb all its sweet endeaments, and
haste to a distant Institution OF learning, that at
ter a season Of voluntary punishment he might
again return to thcm laden with The spolls Of
dgent study. We can never forget that depart.
urr. How CHEEKY aud yet with II secret pain
Of parting from friends evidently at work within
how manully he bore the separation. GA his
final round Vi leave stalking, he visited our room,
and we can never forget with what pleasure We
heard his resolves not to disappoint his friends ;
but if application and diligence and good
behaviour would accomplish any thing, to
met their highest expectations. He then eI.
pressed himself, as having found what lie had
long wanted--some object suited 10 his tastes,
aud fitted to give employment to his mind As
he gave lis his cordial hand for the last time, we
cJuld but inwardy excaim there is one, who
| if spared must do well the root Of the mater
IS in him; and It will in due lime shoot forth in-
10 green and heaI,hinl existence. But alas,
alas! what are we now recording are we re-,
cordlng the fu development Of those many yir.
/ lures which, mid the resliyeness Of youth, even
| thus early revealed their budding prom'sel Alb,
no An untmey frost has nipped their growth {!
| An early winter, even the winter of death. has
! bIighted the bloom That form which we then
saw, rapidly taking upon itself the proportions
Of digniied manhood, has been smltten to The
earth The smooth brow has been premature
1 " furrowedb by he touch Of decay The dark
eye has lost its luslre The cheek hen flushed
with health and yis now forever banch'd
That young ardent bosom holds no more its
| ihrobbng hopes and promises All have been
spoiled by the Seoiler All are laid low, by one
sudden fierce sweep ola wintry blast.
"Likcthc blossom'd tree o'erturned by ycrnal storm
The beautcous fabric fllcs.--'
Ia the beautiful land of Daniel Boone, now
rests all that remains Of the young, the hand
some, the impulsve and generous CHARLEY
Ere this time, a strange land has made an ope'
mug TOR the youthful! strarGers last lepose,
Strange hands have piled oyer his sepulture the
saddened sods; and the voice Of a stranger has
told The praise of his diligence, duty and mental
improvement. Oh, would it had been ordered
otherwise would that we who knew him, and
who loved him. aud whose cherished expecta-
ton have so suddenly been blighted, had been the
heaven appointed attendants to wait and to
weep at the last sad rite OF burial! We had felt
as none others might feel we had wept as none
others might weep; and with the sight OF those
fallen promises which we had so iondly cherish.
ed, our voices had been toned to strains Of sadder
melody than any that could be known to a stran
gers Yet il was not altogether strangers who
surrounded the dying YOUTH nor did strangers
untouched and Implying bear him TO his silent
home. Charles Albert made TO himself friends,
Ii that land as reported ii is. he the land ct the
warm-hearted the noble and the generous. our
young deceased friend did not lack for friends,
and for mourners, And we are as we'll assured as
though we had been present, that when the kind
cass-mate and digent student WIS borne to
rest, from those silent scenes,whlch were formerly
the witness of his genial manners, that then, al
so followed along with his desolated brother, a
procession OF mutlled and sorrow. bowed heads to
weep at his grave. God bless you. cur stranger
friends. With another week. and then will come
\ IA tIpr - haH ball
the expression ofyour sympathy. We too send
ours; and with you, and with him, who is now
minated, and with those other comrades who
bore him company hence, we will once more
gather around the grave four friend, cassmae
and brother TO depore loss which heaven only
/ can restore.
| We know not how to condole with the family
SO recently plunged into this abyss of Affections
| Do we point them TO what their son and brother
was, when he was yet with them, or to what he
promised to be when study and years had done
their useful work. All this but shows how ire
parable is their loss Their "present Affections
spring from the memory of their former hopes
Yet let them, o, let them look to heaven There
Fathers eye will be seen to pity; there Broth
er's hand will be extended to afford relief
">tand still, saith the Al,wissI >mercitul, "ant
sec the salvation of God" "Whst | do, thol
knowes 81 not now, but thou shall know hereafter.
Il will be a God TO thee and to Thy seed ahe
thee" With these precious drops Of inspir alton
We feel il were unavailIng, further to mngls lh'
poor consolation OF our sympahes however dee
or sincere. We would not disturb the sanctt
Of private griefs. Its holy ground we tread no
there. But in silence and in sorrow we Vi