Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-08-27
Mrs. Sarah Johnson.

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 Mrs. Sarah Johnson.
 Death has been very busy during th2 past we k, in erecting another trophy of his power in the re, mOval Of Mrs. JOHNSON from :he circ'c. s'e 90 beautifully eraced, ftom the fau,iiy of wAi. h he has so long been the life and the light.
 Our taste might shrink t.nm an ob.uarv moi .o ol one who would hAva preferred the expressive silence of sorrow, bu the heat cannot lc restrained by the head, aud We feel compelled to express, however fseb!Y. the sentiments we feel in c,n aoa with every one who knew the estimibe won4n Who' m the inscrutabe plan of an All-ni:e Proyi- deHce, has been rem Jvet from husbaud, children aLu friends, to whose happiness her presence Was. to all human appearances, SO indispensable.
 A lingering illness pr)str,tsl the frame that was full ot active life and nntring duty, and it vii! be many days before the wound thit has been inflicted upon 50 many loving hearts will b. heal d in the poor mea sure promised hy time and christian hone
 Such life of bensyolence and love coaI! ios but have peaceful and happy close, au t any thing could reconcile the husband oi such ap4ytner to such sudden sePiratjon--the child.eR for the ever5 whcl! has rendered their home so desol.te, the friends that will ketuiy feel lhe vol .:! tl.. socia! circie--it mast be the perfect tllst wh cA they may rghttuiiy cherish, that tine heaven to which sue ia removed had lorg existed in her ovss hos jTn, and the transfer oi worlds did no violence to her pure and gentle nature, and only aA0r e,l a wider scope for the exercise of those qualities which must take their root on earth, but cnn attain to their fu growth ia the spirit taai.
 The delight of many eyes las 6eoa removed the joy Of mdiy true hearts has been suppressed, t,.- sonis dtrkonad aaI cur steps fllte9, and xs arc ready to stunAieoyer even the shadows Of che p'th it is lift to tre4l; bue it is cons, ,l.nA thought that, although she h unseen she i. present still, and to the eye of ta! the with lrlwal of such spirit is only pledge of more efTectut plrtic;- puion in the happiness of those to wh0n she was so dear.
 The departed has shrine h every hotrt that was blessed with her love- and her transfer to abet ter country, even heavenly, viii serve t) smooth the passage ot hundreds over Chat gloomy riyer on whose remote bank the spirit ot the blessed st ,ni beckoning to tho broken he lrtei an dis.,ns,lA,o, who must soon on them in an inlissoluble union,
 The lesson oi her lio and the lesson of hcrdelta are both tull of instruction, anu We lru t!l, the
 living may lay 1t to hcait. A FRIEND.
 DIED-ln camp, re,r Little Rock, on the 2j Aug, iSb2, oi measles, after illness ot ,sslriy three weeks, WILLIAM Y. MCCRrIGHT, in the 2Drn year oi ms age lie Was q volunteer in Can't McNeiil's company, from Dluls county. s,.i in CQi Morgan, regiment. On returning from val'5 biutt, whthcr they hai gone expecting ts meet the roe, he was attacked, and continued t , decline until death relieved him. lie wasa n4- tive ot Fairfield district, : C., and leaves young bride, and parents, and brothers and sisters to mourn his de,th. R.