The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1866-10-04
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DIED.

On hoard steamer. on Mississippi river, between
81 Louis and So Paul HE way 10 the latter city
an ths isth ult. BENJAMIN W. SANDERS, late
N Holmes county, Mi-- Tho deceased was bora 10
Holmes county on thr 9Th August isJ5i was edu-
eatsd az te University VI north Carolina returned
60 his native state Ia is51. ard was shortly after
a-Ars. elected STATE libra. ian.
rs those who knew him intimately. II will not be
considered battery 10 say that nature has endowed
him most hbsrally In all the qualities Of bead and
heart which calculated "a excite emotions Of ad
mir.ton and affection Possessed Of an intellect Of
no ordinary mould, aud Of enthusiasm la the pur.
suit Of knowledge seldom met with, very few, Al
his age. had made such attainwents in varied and
general learning. OF naturally metaphysical and
investigating order Of mind, he devoted himself to
congeniaI studies. Many Of his writings appearing
editOrially in prominent reviews and magazines, ~
also in the political journals Of the country when he
was but youth have been read with admiration
by hundreds who never knew 'ohe source from which
they proceeded. Devoted to his native ate, he
had been long and laborOuAy engaged In compiling
history Of H. beginning with the Territorial Cow
eminent, with sketches Of the distinguished men
who have illustrated ana adorned its ann Ia He
has left large Of manuscripts bearing upon this
subject, the result of many years Of lAbOring and
cafeiui fAnthIAH Oi AuAnfutlt W
access, many Of which were, doubtless, lost de.
stroycd during the war, and could not now DO sup
piled A. they originals, and those who pre-.
pared them have long since passed into history with
the events they recorded 1t is to be hoped that his
! labors In this department will be resumed by some
one eomp tent to the task and that the history which
he designed to publish viii yet enrich the archives Of
the State and the literature Of the country.
OF the many noble and generous qualities which
were conspicuous IN the life and character Of our
deceased friend 1t unnecessary TO speak. lie
IL enshriBed in tho hearts of those who knew him
but to love, and who require eulogy in portray
ing them and II read by strangers wOnld be thought
of only ~ intended to show not what he was, but
what h, should have been Suffice 1t to say that he
died as he lived without stain upon his es.
outcheOn, and giving no Of Tegtet except that
| life which promised 80 much usefulness aud dis
tnction, should have been extinguished at noon
| tide.
wilmington, N. C., paper spease copy.
Died of cholera in Claiborne county Miss, near
Rodney on the 9th inst X. Il. GALrNEY in the
twenty third year of his age, only son Of widowed
mother
The deceased was from childhood always most
obedient and attentive to the shes and wants of
afectionate mother. He was the only male and
stay o dependant family. Therefore there is great
mourning. being an only son, in whose grave the
hopes of his family are buried. The of child
en- for the death Of parent is sometimes counter
feited and oftentimes very small but the sorrow Of
aren't for child, for son, for an only son, for a
first born is natural sincere, unfeigned and unatfcc.
ted, It is secret and lasting. Therefore as God
tempers the wind to the shOrn lamb" 80 may this
dlspensatlon rest lightly that afflicted family As
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