Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1855-04-05
HisteIlaneous ReaoinD.
The Distinguished Dead---IsS4.

Probably il viii be conceded that not 80 mapy
Distinguished men say their last ofearth,' in
1854 IS in some previous periods, yet the past
year has been noted for the great and sweeping
calamites on land aud sea, which has carried
od its victims, who had their own circle OF use
fulness, to which they were the centre, and
where their loss was felt as strongly as when A
giant dies.
On the 4th Of January, the death of Lord
Plunket vas announced. He had betn Chan.
cellor Of Ireland and was the last of that con.
Alellstion Of Irish orators that made the bar o.
I,.,.ns =. '.-''nOus some tifty years ago. He
was 80 years Of age. A.,
ViscOunt Beresford. noted English estenerAl'
died on the 18th of January. He served in
Egypt. Ireland, the Cape Of Good Hope, and
BaeRos AyreA He was in the peninsular war
under Wellington, commanding the united for
ces of the Portuguese and English in Portugal,
where, as Marshal Beresford. be gained the
battle Of AIbusTa over Soult.
Thomas H, Perkins, a distinguished mer.
chant. Of Boston, died on the 10th Of January,
aged SO.
On the 10th, Captain Alden Partridge, aged
20, at Norwich, VI, long and favOrably known
as military Instructor.
Judah Touro, q distinguished member Of the
Hebrew nation, at New Orleans, January 18th,
aged 70. He was especially distinguished for
his benevolence, and the proper use to which be
applied his great wealth.
Some time ddNhg the month, the MARQUIS Of
Londonderry, Who was distinguished in the ar
my Of Wellington, and subsequently as a
statesman.
January 7th. Count Thibadeau, ct Paris, the
last survivor of the Convention that voted
death to Louis XVI.
January 18th, Thomas Noon Taliourd, one
oil the Judges Of England
Selah B. Hobbie, Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Of the U. s., January 2Ist.
January 2ad. NJ. de Bodisco, Russian Am.
bassadOl to the United States, aged 10.
March 18th, the reigning Duke Of Parma was
stabbed in his capital
April Sd. Professor ]. Wilson, distinguish
ed Scotch writer, aged Sc known as the Chris
Fopher North of Blackwood His best, poet
cal productions were the elsie of Palms" and
the City of the Plague He wrote the Lights
and Shades of Scottish Life
April 29th. Marquis of Anglesea, aged SO
He was much distinguished as a military off,
Ger. and probably ranked in England next to
Wellington He lost = leg at the battle of Wa.
terloO.
April SUth, James Montgomery, aged e.
He was well known az an English poet. and
his works were universally read They are
noted for piety and purity Of thought, beauty
of dctation. and sweetness of numbers.
May esd John Smith, Patriarch of the
Church of Latter Day Saints at Salt Lake
City.
May cath. Admiral Hyde Parker, well
known English Naval Commander
On the lst of June Mrs. Emily Judson, EN-
lily Chubbuck) widow of DR.. Judson, the mis-
slonary, whose writings under the name Of
Fanny Forester are we'll known.
Thomas Ritehe long known as the editor of
the Richmond Enquirer, and as the most pow
erfui political writer of the Southern States
died on the 3rd of July. aged 76.
Count Cassimir Battbyany, distinguished
Hungarian exile, died at Paris, July 18th.
On the 18th Of July, Abbas Pasha, Viceroy
of Egypt. He was the grandson of Mahomet
Ali and the nephew Of Ibraham Pasha, whom
he succeeded
July 10th, N B. Blunt, we'll known Law
yer of New York city, aged 52,
In New Yolk, August 4th, Don Jose Bar
rundis, Minister of Honduras to the United
States, age 10.
August 10th, the King of Saxony was killed
by fall from his carriage
Near Metz, August 18th, General Paixhau,
aged 72, known for the invention Of piece Of
artillery that bears his name.
Reverend Leonard Woods, D. D., an able
theologian, died at Andover, August Gath, a.
ged 80.
September 2lst, Right Reverend Jonathan
Wainwright, D. D., Bishop Of New York, aged
sa. He vas man highly respected and be-
loved.
September 2eth, Marshall st. Armand, COM
mander of the French army in the Crmea.
died there. He had been noted in the French
wars in Algiers
October let Mrs. Annie Royal, we'll known
ct Washington some years ago.
November 9th, at Washington, Mrs. Eliza
beth Hamilton, widow of Alexander Hamilton,
aged 81
November llth, Charles Kemble, distin-
guished English actor, aged 79.
On the 25th of October. John Gibson Lock-
hart, aged 63 He was an illustrous English
writer, editor Of the Quarterly, and son.in-law
a Sir Walter Scott, whose biography is one OF
the ablest of his works.
December 10th. Mrs. Anne Bayard, widow
sef James A. Bsysrd, aged n, whose father,
thmskNand and two sons have been United States
Senators.
December 9Th. T. W. Dorr, of Rhode Is
land, who will long be remembered as the lea.
der ofthe Rebellion against the constitutional
authorities of that State in lS41.
December 98th, Ex-Governor Morehead, oI
Kentucky. aged SO.
The Emperor Nicholas.