In Memoriam. - Madam Williams,

Widow of the late EZEKIEL WILLIAMS, Esq., and Daughter of Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth, died at Hartford, February 28th, 1860, aged 87.     She was a link that bound us to the past,--     To the great days of Washington, when men     Loving their country better than themselves     Show'd to the world what patriot virtue meant.     She on the knee of her majestic sire     Drew to her listening heart when life was new     Those principles that made his honored name     Synonymous with wisdom, and the might     Of holy truth.                         So when in woman's sphere     She took her post of duty, still in all     The delicate proprieties of life,     The inner sanctities of household weal,     In social elegance, and in the deeds     That christian pity to the poor extends,     She was our model; and we saw in her     The perfect lady of the olden time.     Thus on the pleasant hill-top where she dwelt     In her green-terraced home, o'ercanopied     By graceful elm, mid evergreens and flowers,     The years stole over her, and slowly wrote     Their more than fourscore on her faded scroll,     While the kind care of unexhausted love     Guarded her long decline.                         And now she sleeps     Where thro' the riven snows, the quickening turf     Gives emblem of the never-ending Spring,     That wraps the accepted soul in robes of joy.