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Show 1VI.NU. Just as the nation felicitated itself on the reoovery of General Sherman a dispatch dis-patch to The Times brings the melancholy melan-choly tiding that he is again on the brii k of eternity and the spark of life in liiiu Dickering its last, (ireat soldier who in the hour of need and peril drew his gallant sword in defence of the republic re-public and faced the thousand dangers of a four year war without flinching, how hard it is for him to surrender to the lust assailant, Death, and how hurd it is for us, his country men, to give him up. Fast they are going, the heros and leaders of the great struggle for the preservation of the union. One after another they answer to the tiual muster in the dim beyond. Only a few brief years ago we had wit h us (irant and McClelland, Logan, Hancock, Crook, Sheridan and Terry, all of them gone now to that mysterious country from whose bourne no traveler returns, lint they are gone accompanied by the sorrow sor-row and blessing of a grateful people that now surround the dying bed of one of the foremost of their comrades, the matchless William Tecumseh Sherman. Sher-man. Still, having performed his duty nobly and well in this life ami having achieved immortality of fame, ho may go hence sustained by the prayers of a mighty nation. Good bye, American soldier! |