Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-01-14

August, at Hampton, England, John Will
son Croker, at the age of rs, was numbered
with his fathers. On the 9th of the same
month DR.. Rufus W. Griswold died in New
York at the age of AZ. In August, also,
Rev. Thomas Dick died at Dundee; and on
the 10Th of November GeO. R. Gliddon ex-
pired at Panama, in the 50th year of his
age. To these names should be added that
of the Baron Won Hammar, Oriental scholar,
whose death occurred at Vienna at the close
of the previous year. The Baron was 49,.
Rev. John Harris, a relgio-scienti6c writer,
died in December of last year at St. Johns
Wood, England; and soon after at Boston,
died Sidney willard, veteran Professor Of
Harvard College, at the age IS. Nor must
Charlotte Elizateth's husband be forgotten !;
Mr.. L. H. J. Tonna died last Spring in
England, and soon after him died William
Walton, voluminous writer on Spanish
history, at the age of "a.
The dead Sculptors are Crawford and
Rauch. Thomas Crawford died in London,
Oct. 10. Christian Rauch at Dresden,
Dec. 5.
The dead Statesmen are Marcy, Hamil-
ton, Birney and others. William L. Marcy
died at Balston, in this State, on the 4th
of July. Mr.. Marcy was II years Old
Two Southern Ex-Ministers to England
have died Andrew Stevenson, in Virginia,
in January, and Louis McLane, at Balti-
more, in October. Ex-Secretary Dobbin in
Fayetteville, North Carolina, on the 4th of
August; VIM. E. Venable, United States
Minister at Guatemala, in August; James
G.. Birney, in New Jersey, in the latter part
of November; Jas. Hamilton, in Galveston
Bay, killed by the disaster to the steamship
Opelousas, in November. Senator Butler,
of South Carolina, died in May. Several
members of Congress have died. Among
others, Senator Rusls, of Texas. This was
a case of suicide. Rusk and Hugh Miller
are the sole Instances of suicide among the
catalogue we have given. Preston S.
Brooks, NJ. c., from South Carolina, died
at Washington, on the 9th of January
The Military chronicle is very full
England has lost heavily in the Indian war;
not to dwell upon the fact that considerable
numbers of her troops have fallen in battle,
or that fifteen hundred persons have been
cruelty massacred by the mutineers, her loss
of general officers alone has been remarkable.
On the 9th of June, Gen George Anson
died at Kurnaul, aged SO. His successor in
command, Sir Henry Barnard, died eight
days afterwards (July l5) before Delhi,
aged So. Sir Henry Lawrence was killed
in battle, at Lucknow, on the 4th of July, at
the age of 81. Two Gays after, Sir Hugh
Massey Wheeler was killed at Cawnpore,
while heading the charge Of handful of
soldiers against the crew of Sepoys who
afterwards committed the terrible massacre
of the English in that place. Sir Hugh
was 68 years old. Then followed the siege
and capture of Delhi, and the deaths of
Generals Meill and Nicholson and Lieut.
Salkeld; the latter the brave young officer
who gave enterance to the troops, by blow
ing open the Cashmere gate at the cost of
his own life. At home, England lost many
old officers of the Royal Navy. In the Isle
of Jersey, in May, died Sir Thomas lie Mar
chant Gosselin. Admiral of the Red, the
oldest officer Of the Navy, at the age of 80.
On the 18th of May, at East Sheen, Lord
William Fitzroy, Admiral of the Blue, died
at the age of IA at Plymouth, in January,
Rear-Admiral Rogers, aged 73; at South
ampton, in June, Sir Thomas Brown, Ad-
miral of the Blue, aged 10. Prince
Woronzoff, veteran Russian General Of
the time of the Napoleon campaign, died at
Odessa in the latter part of 1856, at the
age of Il. In France. in October, General
Cavaignac, of Revolutionary fame, died
suddenly at the age of 55. At CONSTANT.
nople, in the same month, General Guion
died. The American Navy list is shortened
by the death of Commodore Newton, at
Washington, July 27.
Of the Clergy, the prominent names are
Bishop Bloomfield, who diedat London Aug
5; the Bishop of Aberdeen, died in Scot
land April Is; Father Mathew, who died
in Ireland at the end of 1885, and, nearer
home, Rev. John F. Schroeder, who died
in Brooklyn, in February. NJ. Sibour,
Archbishop of Paris, was assassinated in
January by the Priest Verger, who was
executed for the crime.
The Nobility Of Great Britain comprises
neurological notices for the year of the fifth
Duke of Rutland, the Earl of Ellsmere, the
Earl of Amherst, the fourth Earl Ct Morn
incton, the sixth Duke of Marlborough and
Others
Other notable deaths were those of DR..
Marshall Hall and DR.. Paris, eminent Eng
lish physicians, who died, the former in
August, and the latter in January, in Eng
land Chief Justice Oakley, of this city,
who died on the 18th of May John Bar.
ney, son OF Commodore Barney, who died
at Baltimore, in January, at the age of 70 !;
John NJ. Gregor, formerly Governor of the
Bank of England, who died at Boulogne, in
April Wm. Ranney, artist, who died at
Hobokcn, in November and lastly, the
poor, half-crazy individual, John Sayers
Orr who claimed the privilege Of blowing
the trumpet of the " Angel Gabriel" who
raised many rows here and elsewhere, and
6nally died miserably at Demarara, at the