Charles Sumner Dead

Charles SüMXEK, Massachusetts, ablo Senator, and an American statosman known throughout tho civilizad world, ia dead. The dailios of Wednesday moniing scattered wide the intolligcnce of his dangerous illnoss, and before night the announcetnent oí' his death flashed over the wirefe. Ho died qnietly and painlessiy at '2Aö l'. M. Charles Sumxek was boni Jauuary 0, 1811, and had, therefore, just coniploted his 03d yoar. He graduated at Harvard in 1830, was aduiitted to tho bar in 1834, and soon thereafter was appointed Reporter to tho Massaohusetts Supremo Court. Ho also temporarily leotured in tho Harvard Law School, for both Justice Story and Mr. Greexleaf, and editod a Law Reviow. After spending several yoars abroad he roturncd and soon ontered upon hia political career. In 1848 ho was an activo supporter of Van Buhen and AuAM3 ; and in 1850 he was olected, by a coalition of Demócrata and Freo Soilers, to the seat in the United States Senato vacated by Daniel Webster to accept a seat in Mr. Fillmore's Cabinet. His career in the Sonate is known to every intelligent reader. It was an aggressivc one frotn the first, procuring him tho adiniration and love of the abolitionists and the early Eepublicans, and tho oninity of the Southern politicians. For refloctions upon a South Carolina Senator in his famous speech, " The crime against Kansas," he was assaulted in the Senate Chamber by Frestox S. Brooks, struck down with a cano in a most cowardly manner, an act condomncd by oven his political opponents. His service in the Sonate has been continuous, and he was recognized as the most scholarly member, and the one bost vorsed in international and constitutional law. And yet getting into disfavor with his party - because soeking by different, milder, and wiser methods - to restore peace to tho country, he was removed from tho chairnianship of the Committeo on Foreign Affairs, to givo place to au ignoramus in international law - one Camerox. Tho Logislature of his own State also passed rosolutions of censure, because of a proposition to strike the names of the battlos of the rebellion from tho national flag. These resolutions of censuro have, howe ver, just boen reseinded, and announcoment of the fact was made in tho Sonate on Tucsday, by his colleague, Senator Boutwell, It is unnecesaary to extend this article other pens must sketch his biogra-phy and write his eulogium - Immediately after prayer by Chaplain Sunderland, at the opening of Wednesday's session, in which ho alluded to tho dangerous condition of Mr. SumJiETt, and the reading of the journal, Mr. Siiermají, said, " One of our number lies ill, and porhaps dying, I thereforo move that the Senate adjourn," which ..uaotion prevailod without dissent. At 3 r. M. the Speaker of the House announced Mr. 3ujiner's death, whereupon tho House adjourned. The letteks of Hon. James F. Joy publisbed in tUe sevoral Detroit dailies ought to convinco the business men anc every cuiten interestcd in the prosperity of Detroit, both of the necessity and practicability of bridging the Detroit river a ;hat point. We have read most of these etters as well as many of the letters in re jly, written in the shipping interest, anc as an outsider and disinterested party we are free to say that Mr. Joy makes ou' lis case. We do not believe that a bridge with 160 feet draws would place the leas' embargo on the commerce of the Lakes .t seeuis preposterous to allego that in such a cbannel as that at Detroit a. tug cannot take a tow of vessels through a draw of the diinensions named and without either delay or danger ; and the estimates of Messrs. Bissell and Hackett of the loss of time aud damage consequeni upon a bridge f urnish excellent food for 'udgeons. This is an old struggle. Il ïas boen fought out on the Ohio, the Mississippi, and the Missouri. Those streams ïave been bridged, and without injury to navigation, but to tho great benefit of the jassenger and freight traffic öf the coun;ry. And people who have been ferriec across the Mississippi at Rock Island or St. Louis, or the Missouri at Kansas City jeavenworth or Omaha, and subsequenty have crossed at either point in a palace car and without change or delay mow the advantage bridges have over 'erries. Railroads dependent on ferries cannot compete with roads ever which ;rips can be made without interruption Sooner or later Detroit Eiver will be jridged ; not in the interest of railroads, mt in the interest of the public using the roads as passengers or freighters. De;roit has an incalculable interest in seeng it bridged at the earliest possible peiod and at that point. The ladif.s of Adrián have organized a Temperanee Union, and on the llth, Wednesday) comtneneed the visitation of ;he saloons, singing and praying after he Ohio method. The Plint ladies are orgauizing for a similar crusade. At Jackon an immense muss meeting was held n the Opera House on Wednosday. The ietroit Post report says : The meeting was rather conservativo in its views, and he feeling was very largely in favor of gnoring prohibition and similar hobbies, which experionco has shown to be failures, nd bring to bear a persistent and united mblic effort of a moral character, to seek ;o dissuado and elovate by personal soliitations, both liquor sellers and their parons, and build up a substantial sentiment against an evil which thxough reaxation has grown to alarming proporions." The " praying crusado" was not n favor. Ix a loxg and feeling doublé loaded ótico of the death of Mr. Sumnek, the jouisville (Ky.) Courier-Juurnal says: - Fifteen yiiars ago the news that Charles uuiner was dead would have been reoived with somcthing like rejoiciiig by ho peoplo of the South ; 10 years ago ley would havo hailed it as a message rom Heayen, telling theru an oneray waseinoved trom the face of the earth ; but o-day they will read it rcgretfully, and ïeir conimont will be : ' He was a great man, ho was an honest man ; and as he orgave us so have we long ago forgiven ïim." And the voice of partisanship will )e similarly and generally stiflec}.