Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-01-25
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The year 1866 has been made memoir
able by the long list of illustrious names
taken from the scroll of life, no less
than by the great events which it has
ehronicled in the social and political
world. In our own country, we have
lost, during the year, an unusually
large number Of eminent men. In every
department-civil, military and politi-
cal-the loss has been keenly felt.
Statesmen, military and naval officers,
j%urists, clergymen, scholars, and others
in leading positions, have passed away
since the advent Of the expired
year. The old hero who was justly
called the Father Of the American army
Lieutenant General Scott, died on the
2sth Of Nay, in the ripe old age Of 80.
His brilliant military career commenced
before the present generation were born,
and although at the head Of our mill
tary affairs more than fifty years, death
was his own conqueror. General A.
P. Granger, General James Nagel, Gen.
eral Samuel R. Curtis, and other mill
tary men Of eminence, have also died
during the year. In the neurology Of
statesmen the name Of Lewis Cass stands
out most conspicuously. Gen. Csss, like
Gen. Scott, came upon the theatre OF
public life during the War of 1912. He
attained distinction a a military officer
during that trying epoch of the young
Republic, but it was in the forum rather
than in the field that he attained the
distinction which has made his name
illustrious. Daniel S. Dickinson, John
Van Buren, and Dean Richmond, three
of New York's ablest politicians, have
died within the year. The United States
Senate has lost three prominent mem
bers-Solomon Foot, Of Vermont, the
senior member of the Senate; James H.
Lane, Of Kansas, and William w.
Wright, Of New Jersey. Rev. DR.. Cum
mings, the eminent pastor Of the St.
Stephens Church, in Philadelphia; Rev.
J. Pierpoint, the noted clergyman and
poet, the venerable Eliphalet Mott, and
several other distinguished divines,
have died since the beginning of the year.
In the loss sustained by the journalistic
profession, we find the name of Girard
Hallock, the able editor Of the New York
Journal Of Commerce, anda man to whom
the American press is greatly indebted
for its remarkable progress within the
last thirty or forty years. In the list
of scholars who have died, are the name
Of the learned Jared Sparks, of Cam
bridge, Mass; Prof. Mapes, of Newark.
Only q few days ago, we published the
melancholy tidings of the death of Hiram
r. Hawkins, late Consul at the port OF
Tumbez, Peru, but who, prior to leav-
ing for South America, had been almost
constantly connected with the press in
California and this State for ten years F.;
in which capacity he had few equals.
These are only q few Of the many men
who occupied prominent places in their
several spheres ono year ago, and who
are now numbered with the dead. They
have dropped off singly-the loss Of
each one regretted at the time, but now
hardly thought of save when we look
over the neurological record of the year.
One year hence there will be a new list.
That list will comprise the names Of
men who are now busy with the cares
and the e%njoyments, the trials and the
pleasures of life. Thus it is in this pro-
pressive and busting country Of ours.
We see . man drop from the ranks-cut
down by the scythe of the common
eremy-and we heave a sigh or drop a
tear, pass on and think of him no more.