It becomes my painful duty to announce to you the death of my husband, Horace B. Simonds. He died Dec. 14th, 1856. His disease was of such a nature (spinal, and terminating in softening of the brain) that he was deprived of his senses for twelve days before he died; but the last he was known to say on religious subjects was in confirmation of his professed belief in the Third Angel's Message. He had felt for a long time that his time was short, and that he must rest from his labor, which we trust he does, and that in the morning of the resurrection he will be called forth to his reward.