Show t I I fr SENATOR BENJAMIN H HILL of It J Georgia whose death is announced i Ili i + rJ in another part ef this mornings f j HERALD removes from this sphere t t of action one of the best known men r i1t j i a f L of America and one of the grand I I t i F characters of the age Mr Hill was Pi 5 it t if not yet 60 years of age and for more t 611i i t than half his life he bad been prominent i t el n prom-inent not only in his native state l j J t but in the nation Before the war 1 4 Ifl I + he had figured some in national i politics and had twice been a tt i 1 presidential elector on the Fillrnore I and Donelson ticket in 1S5G and on SP t I 1 I t the Bell and Everett ticket in 1460 11 n In 1801 he was a delegate to the t state convention which considered i l the secession proposition and like J r Alex H Stephens advocated the t e Union until secession had boo determined Jt g I i f termined upon when he went wIth i it i his state and was faithful to the t i r I 1 I southern cause to the last Au a jt 11 Ii 1 + delegate to the I Confederate Pro visional 1 i is vis-ional Congress and afterwards as a 1 f I I senator in the Confederate Congress 44 J j Con-gress he made I I J t I himself heard t J y It I 7 1 I and heeded in isoy he w 1 was arrested by the Unionists 1 r = fi and confined in Port Lafayette = f 1 R where he contracted disease from + = 11 i which lIe suffered many years ij though it was not the cause of his i t f death Being released he returned a T t L I to Atlanta where he practiced his iit 3 j profession the law interesting hiin F ° f seir onjy in local politics Garrett l ° t l McMillan representative in the 11 PortyPouith Congress having ° is j hav-ing died General Hill was elected his successor and was reelected re-elected to the FortyFifth Congress tt s but resigned having been elected 4 u United States senator Two years R I ago he was obliged to leave the it senate on account of cancer of the tongue and since then has suffered severely up to the hour of his sad t and untimely death Senator RiB was a college graduate and a scholar of high rank and was a t statesman m the broadest and best r sense of the term Georgia may have an equal to put in his place I but has no superior amoag a2 her I statesmen t 1 < Jt r f = s x r f E 3 |