Weekly Trinity journal., 1867-02-16
The. Dead OF 1866.

The year 1866 has been made memorable by
the long list of ilustrious names taken from the
scroll of life, no less than by the great events
which it has chroncled in the social and politi-
cal world In our own country, we have lost,
during the year, an unusually large number of
eminent men. In every departm ent-civil, mill
tarv and political-the loss has been keenly felt
Statesmen, military and naval officers, jursts,
clergymen scholars, and Others in leading posi-
tons, have passed away since the advent of the
expired year. The old hero who was justly call
ed the Father of the American army-Lieutenant-
General Scott, died on the 29th of May, at the
ripe old age of 80. His brilliant military career
commenced before the present generation were
born and although at the head of our military
affairs more than fifty years, death was his own
conquerer. General A. P. Granger, General
James Nagel, General Samuel r. Curtis, and
other military men of eminence, have also died
during the year. In the neurology of statesmen
the name of Lewis Cass stands nut most con-
spicuously. Gen. Cass, like Gen. Scott, came
upon the theatre of public life during the War of
1912. He attained distinction as military Off
Ger during that trying epoch of the young Re-
public, but it in the forum rather than in the
field that he attained the distinction which has
made his name illustrious. Daniel S. Dickn-
son, John Van Buren and Dean Richmond, three
of New Yorks ablest politicians, have died
within the year. The United Safes Senate has
of Vermont, the senior member of the Senate !;
James II. Lane, of Kansas, and William W..
Wright, of New Jersey. Rev. DR.. Cummings
the eminent pastor of the St. Stephens Church,
in Philadelphia /; Rev. ]. 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, and
man to whom the American press is greatly in
debted for its remarkable progress within the
last forty years. In the list of scholars who
have died. the name of the learned Jared
Sparks, of Cambridge, Mass. Prof. Mapes, of
Newark Only few days ago, we published
the melancholy tidngs of the death of Hiram
r. Hawkins, late Consul at the port of Tumbez,
Peru, but who, prior to leaving for South
America, had been almost constantly connected
with the press in California and this State for
ten years, in which capacity he had few equals.
These are only few of the many men who oc-
cupied prominent places in their several spheres
one year ago, and who are now numbered with
the dead They have dropped off singly-thc
loss OF each regretted at the time, but now hard
ly thought of save when we look over the necro-
logical record of the year. One year hence there
will be new lists. That list will comprise the
names of men who are now busy with the cares
and the enjoyments, the trials and the pleasures
of life. Thus it is in this progressive and bus
Ting country of ours. We see man drop from
the ranks-cut down by the scythe of the COM
mon enemy-and we heave sigh or drop tear
pass on and think of him no mcre.-GoId Hill
Neacs.