The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-05-12
OBITUARY.

Died in this city, at the residence of her
mother, on the morning of Sunday, April L.,
1883 Mrs. JACQUELINE S. PENDLEToN.
Jacqueline 5. Pendleton "sleeps with the
dead. For brilliancy of intellect for extent
and variety of accomplishment, and for all those
charms OF social and personal intercourse which
win attachment and admiration, she was one of
tne most remarkable women of her day; but
yetmore remarkable was she for that kindness of
spirit, that benevolence of disposition, that char
ity of heart and life, which never wearies that
Zeal to comfort the destitute to console the
wretched, to reclaim the abandoned to relieve the
oppressed, which never rests remarkable for that
same noble spirit which sent Howard into every
prison of Europe to take the gauge of misery
and distress" and which throughout this Dis
tHct has made her name a household word at
many an humble hearth, in many an humble
heart. Many such hearts will be darkened by
her loss; many such hearths, which her smile
hath lighted, will long be lonely and desolate
The close of her life was clam. Softly her
pure spirit passed away to its far home so softly
that the exact instant of its flight could hardly
De named. AS quietly as the melting of wave
on the shore Of q twilight lake, as noiselessly as
The fading of a summer cloud or the sinking of
sunset zephyr, was her gentle being Welded
And when the summer cloud henceforth comes
over US or the breath of evening signs its mel
ahchoy song around, when we look on the
mower wlthered or the leaf faded, our departed
friend, OF whose fate they are all the sad but
h''lhg enblems, will be recalled to our thoughts;
"nu the memory OF her many virtues and her
"ooie character Will carry our aspirations up
ward to that better world where the cloud fades
nOt ana The leaf and the flower wither no more
unconstitutional Hatelligencer.
NAVIGATION OF THE MISSISSIPPI BY SEA-GO-
ING EsSEIs.-BI7tsselS, Apra2-Itis in contem-
plauon to dispatch ship from Client to New
orleans, and thence up the Mississippi river to
PnelnphlS, calling at the intermediate towns of
baton Rouge, Natchez, and Vicksburg This
:. - indeed realizing the idea of Mr.. Calhoun,
maj me Mississippi is an finland sea-" The
pi'uclple OF using steam as an auxiliary power
sa.llng ships is the one to be applied to the
na'isa'ion OF the Mississippi, and if successful,
soa; no' Iah 10 produce important results. A
a,,,Ig snip, with steam an auxiliary power,
,b Ou'1 oe able to leave MemphisI and ascend
b le amazon with as much ease HAS the coal
cologne on the Rhine.
Inc use Of the screw as an auy;EaA nower IN
salilng ships has been introduced with the
greatest success by Messrs. Gibbs BRIGHT A.
~ OF Liverpool, in the Australian Xade II
OH! remains to apply it TO the nav; tion of
s'ea' rivers, such as the Amazon. tba n. Law.
;;enee, and the Mississippi. Ifthis ey Iriment
eli iaccessiul, the trade relations bet en- the
SEMI! SEM! ~ Inc Mississippi and Europe u be es
msrce "te J0arRN Coe
Up.
OF IN rSioS OF WESTERN STEAMERS AND loss
Lucy NJ NJ" Louis, Nay The ste ers
dav MAY may and Cedar Rapids colIided Ter
was snnii near Quincy Ill. The f her
passeD NON immediately Three of her eek
1sefS are reported to have been lost.