Santa Fe gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1859-1864, 1864-04-02

~ NV"P'S'Voi vi CdIeluI preparation Tor
long roads Of thought that he was never to
traverse, and for shining goals that he was
never TO reach, will he readily believed -
me pam, however that have feItin per.
using IT. has not been deeper than tile con.
vieIIon thst he was in the heaIthIcst yiyor
OF bis powers when he wrought on this
last lJbOr III Respect Of earnest feeling.
tar seeing purpose, character, incident and
certain loving picturcsqueness blending
lhe whole, ! believe it t, be much the Of all
his works That he fully meant it to Ga
so, that he had become strongly attached
to it, and that he bestowed great pains
upon II, | trace in almost every page. 1t
contains one picture which must have cost
hm extreme distress, and which is a mas.
torpcce. There ale two children in il,
touched with hand as loving and tender
as ever a father caressed his lttlrchid with.
There Is some love, as pure aud innocent
and pretty as the truth And it is very
remarkable that, by reason of the singular
construction Of the story, more than one
main incident usually belonging to tho end
ol such fiction Is anticipated in the be.
glnnlng nnd thus there is an appronch to
completeness in tho fragment, M to thu
sathfact on Of the readers mind concern.
ing the most interesting persons, wai b
could hardly have been better attained (
tn" writer's orcaking.oG had been fore.
seen.
"The last line he wrote, and the Ia.tproof
ho corrected, are smong these papers
through which | have 80 s0rrowRnly nal
my way. The condition Of III, IltIv plros
Ofmunu'cript where death stopped sll n f.,
SHOWS thit ne hat carried thom abolt. am,
often taken them ont ofhs pocket here and
there flr patiegt revision, aud iurerInca.
ton The last words he corrected IN print
were, AMI my heart thobbed with an cy.
qnlSitc bliss God grant that ON that
Christmas Eve when h. laid bis head back
on hspIlow and threw up his arms as ho
mad been wont t'do when very weary, sme
consciousness Of duty done and Christian
hoIo throughout life hnmbly chr,iShe .
may have caused his owuhuart sptolh,ob
when he passed away to his Relrcmp,'s
rest!
"lle was fonnd peacefully lying asabove
Described, composed, nndislurbrd. ard 10
all appearances asleep OF the 2j Of IIc.
rember, 1868. He was only in hts fty
thlrd year; 81 young man that the mother
who blessed him in his first sleep hlrssed
hln in bis last Twenty years before, he
llad written, after being ina white Slual:
+" And when, its force expended
IOe harmless storm was ended,
And, sthe sunrise splen.lid
Came bushing or tho sea;
thought, as day was breaking,
Ny little girls were waking,
And smiling and making
prayer ut home for me.
"ThoSr ItllcglIs Ind grown to bo w5
men when the munInly day broke that
saw their father lying dad Il, those
twenty yeats of Gompnnonshp with hm.
they had ltarnel much from him; and one
oI them hasa literary conrso before her
worthy Of her rfimOn1 name. ..
"On the bright wintry day the last bnt
one of the old year. lie was laid in h spr,ye
at Kensal Green, there to mIngle the dast
to which the mortal part of him had return.
ed, with that of third rhd, lost in
her Infancy years ago. The heads of
great concon'se of his fellow.workers in
the arts, were buwed around the tomb"
INDIANS DlsAPPEARISG.-A rapid decline
seems TO I've affecting the Indian tribes on
the Nor herl and Western burlers. A
gentleman who recently travelled thron sl
the NLnW and Il n, fnnL nnilnIrr