Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-03-09

Death of Bishop Bascom.
 We learn with great regret the death of Bish- op Henry B. Bascom, one of the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church south, who died on Sunday last, at the residence of the Rev Mr. Stevenson, in Louisville, Ky, where he had been a long time ill.
 Bishop Bascom's illness arose from a bilious fever caught in Missouri some time since while on his first tour of duty in his office of Bishop.
 Bishop Bascom's place in the church south connot easily be filed He was man of great energy, of great talents, of great fearlessness, and, Ill the matter of the church difficulty be- tween the north and south. having taken sides with the south, he stood forth her admitted leader. The celebrated pamphlet on the subject, setting forth the grounds which the south meant to maintain in the premises, was from the pen of Bishop Bascom, and was full of point, argument and energetic declamation
 Bishop Bascom was also editor of the Review. which was published under the auspices of the Methodist church in the west and he contribut- ed many powerful articles to it. But it was as pulpit orator that Bishop BaScum shone His style as writer was loo stilty and too ornate; t wanted ease aud uaturalness. He was always for saying Keen things, and wanted repose of style, i the expression may bO used. This same fault, ln measure, Followed him into the pulpit. He was never content unless he was in the upper region, ike the spirit ot the storm. welding the lightning and speaking in the thunder That varied gracefulness and self command which distinguished his ssrly and hs fist friend, Mir Clay, that graeelulues. which, Ike the swallow, now skins the lake, and now darts iltu the cloud. Mr Bascom hal tnt.
 He wanted uaturalne-s He blazed, aud r.r. ulsiicated, and startled but hc seldom melted k
 impressed them, but the tear seldom followed But iu deuuuciarion. in srorn. in the terrors of the laW, De was fearful lle ec.uld seize nhdeh- ty ty the throat and shake the lifa out of it; or he could hurl against it the wrath of Divine vengeance uuul < WOuld call on the mountains to cover t from an angry judge; but ne could not melt lt .niD hopeful ant peuiteut, Yet trust- ir-, trar,. llc had great elevation and expan- sion of mind. and delighted to expathte with uuiriterc' afd ut.trcUmscrihcd wng. He loy- e,i to dwell uprE The bcaitude of the saved. or the uultterahie misery of the lost; and, in this last cates ry the needless, and tho reckless. and the criminal, would look as if the clenched ifs, of the preacher wal stamping on their ioreheads their inevitable doom.
 Bishop Bascom was man of remarkable per- sonal beauty and manlness. He had the ample chest which almost all orators have; rounded neck supported a head of classic mould; thin, dark hair, cut close, shaded bot at all his ample forehead. which projected like a wall; his eyes were of dazzling blackness, and quailed not be- lore power, position, wealth. on the contrary, they qualed before him.
 He has been heard to say that the only eve he ever met with, which made him feel its power was that of Aaron Burr; that, on one oc- casion when that fallen spirit was pointed out to him in New York, he stopped and gazed at him with curiosity which forgot its courtesy. when the offended and piercing glance which Burr cast on him caused him to pass on, hurrid- ly and abashed. Bishop Bascom had brilliant color, indicating the highest health, and at the same time, temperament of bilious tenden- cy. It has been often remarked that he looked very much like Mir. Webster, though he was a much handsomer man, without that look of massive intellectually in which the great con- sttntional expounder surpasses all other men.
 Bishop Bascom was remarkably fastidious in his toilet, and like Whitfield, set off his person to advantage.
 Many anecdotes are told of him, and some of the more rigid of his church, in ths matter; but he did not obey the precept of St. Paul, and paid no respect to their weakness" He was fond of telling the story that an old Dutch Methodist, who did not know him. and at whose house he was to stop on his way to fulfill his appointment, sad to him, on learning who he was: "Well, if l had loaded my rife to shoot Methodist preacher, l never should have snapped at you"
 There was none of that preciseness about him which is so often remarked in the bearing of minister; on the contrary, it almost seemed. so marked was his bearing to the contrary that he somewhat affected don't-care of manner. In his pulpit efforts he avoided everything like what is called cant, and what he called pathos. All his life, he said be had endeavored to avoid: he certainly succeeded. He seemed like states man or lawyer, whom the stern reflection of Paul, "Wo is.me if preach not tho gospel of Christ" had driven, duty-called into the pulpit. And there he stood, and there gloriously he full filled his mission. It was Methodism.in earnest to hear Bishop Bascom preach and Methodism which Chesterfield would have been compelled to respect if but for the high and courtly, yet christian bearing of it's advocate. He was the son of thunder, and, like St Paul, he bore him. self to the enemies of his faith bravely, yet with a touch of consummate address, like the apostle before Festus. Bishop Bascom has fulfilled his mission; he has been true to himself and to his church, and to its Great Head, and it is earnest lv hoped that some biographer may be selected by his friends, capable of doing justice to his memory.