The Portland daily press., 1870-12-31
Neurology of 1870.
UNITED STATES.

10 the neurology of this country for the past
year, the most prominent and saddest feature
is the disclosure of the fact that death is rapid
ly removing the military and naval heroes who
have cast lustre upon the history of their
country. Farragut the foremost naval COM
mander of the age, Gen. George Fl. Thomas
the hero of Chickamauga, Franklin, and Nash
vile, who died untimely, before his fellow -citi-
zens had fairly begun to appreciate his modest
; worth, Admiral Dahlgren, whose name will
be long remembered in connection with his
inventions, Gen. Joseph A. Mower, formerly
leader of the Twentieth Corps and Command
er of the department OF Louisiana, Gen. E. A.
Hitchcock, Commissary General of prisoners
during the war, Gen. VIM. 7. II. Brooke, Com
modore Meade, and many more less conspic-
uous officers Of the army and navy have died
since January, 1870. Commodore Richie and
Commodore Champlin, distinguished in the
war of 1872 are to be added to the list Gen.
r. e. Lee, commander of the Confederate ar
mics, and Gen. Wilcox of the same service,
who was killed by the falling OF the floor of the
Richmond Court House. are also to be men,
toned.
The list of our public men is longer, but not
SO distinguished. Ex-Governors Cony of
Maine, Packer Of Pennsylvania, Trimble Of
Ohio, and Price of Missouri; Gov Washburn
of Vermont; David G.. Burnet. first President
of the Republic of Texas; ex-Senators Dur
kee, and James s. Green of Missouri, and Sen
ator Norton of Minnesota; Arson Burlingame,
who was cut off in the prime of life
and in the midst of a great work;
George Ashmun of Massachusetts,, who pre-
sided over the convention that first nominated
Abraham Lincoln; Judge Grier, Horace Bin
ney, B. B. French, and Hiram Walbridge; J.
L. Dawson, author of the homestead law, and
the notorious Pierre Soule are the best known
names.
The church has lost Bishops Chase of New
Hampshire, Kemper of Wisconsin, and Thomp-
son of West Virginia; the latter belonging to
the Methodist communion.
None of the foremost names in American
literature have been taken this year from the
list of the living. VIM. Gilmore Simms, the
Southern author, DR.. John McClintock, who
is SO we'll known to theological students, VIM.
Willis, our own amable and accomplished his
torian, Rev. Albert Barnes, author of "Barnes'
Notes." George D. Prentice, A. D. Richard
son, Anna Cora Richie (Mowatt), Henry G.
Sweetsir, Cornelius Wandell, Gulian G. Yer
plank, Nathaniel Willis. Fitzhugh Ludlow,
James Harper, and Eliakim Littell make
up nearly the full list.
Jerome Bonaparte, famous merely because
he scas Banaparte, John Railway of B. R.
Samuel May, the Boston merchant, are all that
are left to mention.
FOREIGN.
Among the foreign literary men who have
died during the year are Charles Dickens,
Mark Lemon, editor of Punch, Dumas, senior,
and Paul de Cassagnac, who was taken pris.
oner with the Emperor at Sedan.
Of military men we may mention Major
General Evans of the British Army, who
commanded the forces that sacked Washing
ton during the war of 1872, Count Flahault,
one OF the First Napoleon soldiers.
Bale, the composer, Sir James Clark, ply
stefan in ordinary to the Queen, Sir James
Simpson, who claimed the discovery of chloro-
form as his own, DR.. Copeland, another very
distinguished English physician, Maclise and
Pyne, two celebrated English artists are to be
added to the list of the ilustrous dead.
vi men prominent jim political life, we may
mention Earl Clarendon, English Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, Marquis of Westminster, rich
est man in England, Baron Tenterden, cele-
brated English Judge, Prince Henri de Bour
bon. killed by the Duke of Montpensier in
duel, Duke de Broglie, Marquis de Olinda, re-
gent of Brazil during the minority of tho
regning sovereign, Leopold IL; ex-Grand
Duke of Tuscany, Lopez, Dictator Of Para
quay, Salnave, President Of Hayti, Provost
Parodol, French Minister to Washington, and
a very distinguished literary man, Montalem-
bert, Baron Nathaniel Rothschild, Gustave
Strive, German Democrat, who engaged
with Hecker, Blind, and Schurz in the revOlu
tionary movements of 1848, and DIR. Rolphe,
who was prominent in the Canadian insurree-
ton of 1887.