Death Of Mrs. Sigourney

Airs. Lydia Huntley Sigourney diod at Hartford on Saturday, ia her seventy-iour year. lier reputation as a poet dates back to a period antecedent tó the birth of many of her present adult rea ders; her first volume having been published i'ust fifi y years ago. Her muiden name was Huotley. She was born at Norwicb, Connectieut, Sept. lst, 1791. She ongaged in teaching at the age of nineteen, and four years later removed to Hartford, where hertalents and woith gained her the hand of Mr. Charles Sigourney, a mercbaiit of that city. - Her life was devoted to literature, and her productions have been very numerous, filliog about fifty volumes. Her compositions were chicfly poetioal, though several interestiDg prose works have appeared from her pen. Her subjects are generally of a religious ch araeter, and exhibit refined thought, a warm, but pure and heaHhful imagination, a cultivated ear,-dt)licate sensibili ty, and earnost, Chr stian faith. Had she wiitten less copiously, it would perhaps havo been better for her reputation ; yet thero are many of her poems that wil! long dweil in the inemory and affectiou of the public.