Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-01-14
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From the New York Daily Times.
THE DEAD OF 1857.

The Neurology of 1887 is crowded list
of distinguished names. Statesmen, jurists,
warriors, literary mep, famous explorers,
scholars and savans are amouDg the dead of
the year. Science loses the active zeal and
indomitable energy of Kane, the industry of
Hugh Miller, the patient study of Andrew
Ure and the research of Scores BY and
Beechey Literature mourns the death of
brilliant writer's. Eminent statesmen are no
more. The military chronicle is shortened
The British nobility of the old stock has
thinned out. Art has lost Crawford and
Rauch. More or less, every class or prom
inent men has suffered.
In little more than one year, the class of
Explorers has been diminished by the death
of four famous men. At the end Of No.
vember, 1856, Rear Admiral Beechey, +.
~, died in London. In the middle of
February, 1857. DR.. Kane died at Ha-
vana, at the early age of 35. In the latter
part of March, Dr. VIM. Scoresby died at
Torquay, England. On the 18th Of May,
Lieutenant Isaac G. Strain, U. S. A., died
at Aspinwall.
Admiral Beechey was veteran Of Arctic
exploration He explored regions in which
few ventured, and where, until the time of
Kane, none had done so much as he. The
admiral died full of years and honors; Kane
followed him, young in years but richer in
fame DR.. Scoresby, in his day, was an
authority in the same field of research ; and
lastly, made the measurement of the waves
of the Atlantic, calculating their force and
speed, and hight, and depth, and giving the
world a record which nobody but he had the
patience to compile. The Doctors descrip-
of the way he permitted himself to be blown
up on the steamers paddle-boxes, and how
he was blown down again, the gale
carried him aft, and how he afterwards
crawled forward, in the teeth of the storm,
how he timed the waves and watched
them, must still be freshly remembered
The name of Lieut. Strain will always be
connected with that fearful Darien Expe-
dition, in which incredible hardship was
endured, and with settled knotty questions.
Beechey, Kane, Scoresby and Stain are
gone.
The name of Hugh Miller leads off the
list of the dead sacans. The great geolo-
gist was 81 years old when he committed
suicided in Edinburg year ago this last
December On the I'd of January DIR. An
drew Ure died in London at the ripe age of
IS. DR.. Ure's Dictionary Of Arts and
Sciences is sufficient record of the value
of his labors as chemist In February,
Mr.. VIM. G. Redfeld, of this city, died,
having contributed largely to the stock of
our information of storm theories, meteorolo-
gical phenomena, and archaeological plans.
In the middle of March, at West Point.
Professor James w. Bailey died-an able
mathematician, reliable chemist, and at
the time of his death President elect of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science. In Edgland, on the 18th of
August, Rev. VIM. D. Conybeare, long a
standard authority in the study of geology,
departed this life at the age of 10.
The ranks of the Scholars and Authors
have been sadly thinned. On the 18th of
January DR.. Eli Smith, one of the Oldest
of the American Missionaries at the Beirout
station, died at the age of Sc, leaving in
complete his great translation of the Bible.
On the 9Th of June Douglass Jerrold died
at Kilburn Priory, at the age of 81. In
july, at Paris, Pierre Jean Beranger died