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ties appeared to have claim on the bounty of the country Many revolutionary vet eran yet lives to bless his memory many an aged widow owes her daily bread to his benevolent, patient, and assiduous labors.

 Mr. Bales's death will severely wound many hearts among family, domestic, and social friends.

 There is the partner of his life, now soon to follow his remains to the family vault !; there are sons, and daughters, and kindred of various degrees. will not invade the sanctity of their sorrow by empty words of attempted consolation. They will look for solace to resignation and religious faith; and bow humbly to the will of God.

 When information of his death shall reach the beautiful village in which he lived, 1t will be q day of general grief l sec many an aged and venerable form, known to me, and better known to him, leaning tremulously on his staff. and shedding copious tears at the sad intelligence. see the middle aged pause in their pursuits, to regret the death of a neighbor, and adviser and friend. l see the youth of both sexes lamenting that the mansion, always open to their innocent as sociations, always made instructive by the conversation and kindness of its head, is now closed against its accustomed visters by the stroke of death and hear the sol emn tones which shall call afflicted families and an afflicted neighborhood into the house of God to pay respect 10 his memory, and supplicate the consultations of religion.

 MT. President, have spoken of my de- ceased colleague in his professional and public character, and in his social and domestic re- lations. But Mir. BATES was conscious of a relation higher than all these He felt deeply and severely that there was a Supreme Author of his being, and all beings, and that he had a connection with world to come. He was believer in Christianity, and devouily thank full for the revelation of the New Testament.

 Several years ago, and before his entrance on public life here, he united himself with d church in the town in which he lived, and continued member to his death. There is reason to believe that his last hours were cheered by the light of Christian hope. He uttered no repining, but expressed his willing ness to depart, if such was the will of his Maker. Not that he did not desire life for he enjoyed life, and had much to live for. Domestic love, general respect, public honor, and consciousness of usctulness-al these conspired to render his life happy, and it's continuance desirable. Nor was 1t that he looked with indifference on death; for who has such icy stoicism, or, rather, who has such blunted sensibiIties, such a stupid mind, as to contemplate with indifference a change of being and change of worlds. But he regarded death, with all its terrors, only IS a passage to another stale of existence-a state in which this corruptible shall put on incor- ruption, and this mortal shall put on immor- tality."