We are sorry to learn that
J. J. Hooper,
Esq, late
Secretary of the Provisional Congress, died in this city Saturday night, after a short illness.
For Audry years
Mr. Hooper has been well known throughout this country as a racy and brilliant worker of everyday sketches, and as a political editor.
Among his earlier writings were some admirable articles for the old
Spirit of the Lines, which, at the time, attracted considerable attention.
His first book was "
Simon Suggs," a work of its kind, and which has obtained a world wide reputation for keen wit and genuine satire.
For several years past
Mr. Hooper has been connected with the
Montgomery (Ala.) Mail, which paper he conducted up to a little more than a year ago. When the Provisional Congress met in
Montgomery,
Mr. Hooper was elected
Secretary, and held this office during the Provisional year.
He was about forty years of age, a man of great talent, of unbounded liberal and beloved by all who knew him. our.
Hooper was from
Montgomery, Alabama, at which place his family now reside.
