Gazette Of The United States

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 25.

Extract of a letter from lieut. Ebenezer Frothingham, of the 1st U. S. Regiment, to a brother officer, dated Fort Pitt, 23d June last.

"I had determined to write to you very particularly from this place, but you will excuse me when you know the grief and pain of heart I now feel. I arrived the day before yesterday; Mr. Ernest informed me that he had the evening before received a packet of letters for me from home; my heart gladdened in expectation of hearing from my wife and friends; but O! the astonishment of my soul, when on opening my letters I found my dear wife was no more: My fairest, my brightest prospects on this side eternity are blasted in the very bud; she died suddenly, only five days illness; went off in a fainting fit without a groan. The most comfortable assurance she passed to her Saviour's arms, is my only consolation in this my hour of grief and woe: why was she removed so soon, even whilst my fond heart was anticipating the help and advantage I should receive from her virtue and piety? But should I complain, when she is such an infinite gainer? Yet I feel as though my loss was irreparable. May my soul be well prepared to go and soon to join her spirit above, where sin and sorrow are known no more.

"My dear sir, do not place your happiness on calculations in this world, where grief and disappointments await us. May your hope and mine be beyond the reach of all transitory things."

Lieutenant Frothingham being on the late expedition against the Indians, was killed in battle; his friend thought proper to publish the above extract, in order to shew the great piety and Christian dependance of Mr. Frothingham, and how fearless he must have met death.