WILLIAM H. HAYWOOD, Jr.
RALEIeH, AUGUST %, 1874.
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Death ofa United States Senator. Hon. Will


liam s. Fulton, one of the U. S. Senator's from the
State of Arkansas, died at his residence about a
mile from Little Rock, on the 18th utmo. The
Gazette, at Little Rock has the following bio
graphical notice of the deceased Senator:


{" Gov. Fulton was native of Maryland, and
during the late war, took part in some Of the bat
ties fought ia that State. He afterwards moved
to Tennessee, and became the Private Secretary of
General Jackson during his campaigns. Upon the
close of the war, he read law in Tennessee, and
settled in the northern part of Alabama, where he
resided for many years, until the elevation of his
illusrious friend to the Presidency of the Union
He soon after received the appointment of Secre-
tary of the Arkansas Territory, under Gov Pope, of
Kentucky. After Gov. Pope's term of service ex.
pired, he was appointed to fill the vacancy by Gen
Jackson, and presided over the Territory as Gov
ernor until we were admitted into the Union, when
he was chosen, by the first Legislature that met
under our State Government, as one of our Sena-
tors in Congress. This distinguished station he
continued TO fill until the day of his death, having
been reelected in 1S4O" g 81