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his own earnest solicitation and guided by the opinion of the two Doctors in attendance that he was convalescent -- Severe hemorrage suddenly set in, which nothing could restrain, and he sank insensibly to the sleep of death, without pain, and surrounded by as many comforts as we could possibly expect -- This account of his death confirms his London Medical advisors in their opinion, that the, as it has proved, fatal fall from the mule in Mexico was the actual cause --

Captain Cathcart has behaved most nobly, under such painful circumstances. He writes -- "the loss of so gallant & agreeable "a companion, compels me to give up my "trip, and return to New York" -- but he leaves not the remains of his 'gallant young companion' until he settles his affairs in the most minute particulars, and sees erected to his Memory a 'White Marble Obelisk' -- A Mark in 'the Far West' over the ashes of a 'Noble Youth' who loved too well its romantic and stirring scenes --