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aSThe members of the Western Star Lodge No. 2, request, Mir. Editor, that you would give place in your columns to the following brief and imperfect, but sincere and heartfelt tribute of respect to the memory of one with whom they have been intimately associated, and for whose virtues and services they will long cherish a lively and affectionate regard.

 We were called, a few days since, to at tend the remains of WILLIAM GILGRIsT, Esq, to their last resting place. To all, this sum- mons was sudden and unexpected. But a little while before, he had left his residence in this city, for his plantation, about fifteen miles below town, to all appearances in his usual health During the day on which he died, he had taken more than ordinary exer- else in the hot sun, and when he came in to dinner, for the first time complained of be- ing unwelI, he laid down upon the bed, and in few moments the cold hand of death was upon him.

 Mr. Gilchrist was native of Worth Caro- lima, and graduate of Chapel Hill College. At an early age he removed to Tennessee, and studied law under Judge Overton, and afterwards commenced the practice in Shel- byville, Bedford county, where he long re- sided, and where, by his assiduous devotion to the duties of his professionally his sound and discriminating iudgment-;ind by his sterling honor and integrity, he soon acquired