The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-01-05
NEcReLoa1 FOE 1870.


Every year removes familiar faces from bur
sight and beloved voices from our hearing.
And al it is with families, 80 1t is with commu-
nities, which, In Hike manner, are called upon
from time to time to mourn the loss OF those
whose names have become 'household words, I"
whose wise counsels have guided the nations,
whose genius has enlightened and Instructed
| or entertained US, or whose labors among their
fellows have added multifarious benefits to the
race. So also have those who "blazed the
comet of season." for evil o. for good, passed
away, bequeathing to the world their example.
to shun or to initiate. Leaving to- each one
the task OF discriminating under which cate
CORY to place the respective individuals here
noticed, it. ls interesting to observe how busy
death has been with the distinguished Of tae
earth during the past twelve months.
Giving precedence to The church, the irst
name on the list, as well as the latest added 70 it,
is that OF Rev. Albert Barnes, who foE forty gears
had filed prominent position In PhllaGelpna
as a minister, and in the theological 'iorld as
u writer and commentator. Dr. hoT iana alt'
lams, OF England, one OF the most orl!llant
writer's in the celebrated "ESsays anu Ee-
Bishops Calvin Kingsley and Edward Thomp.
son, Of the Methodist Church; bishop Chase, OF
the Episcopal Church, and Rev. Dr.. mcGnn.
took, Death has been more busy among
statesmen Of all ranks, especially In America
but among those oil underworld celebrity Wnom
he has called away may be noticed LORD Clar-
rendon, Hon. Anson Burlingane, Hon. Pierre
soule. Earl Mayo, the Count de Montalembert,
the Duke de Broglie, A. T. Marie, OF the
French Provisional Government Of lS4e, z. j.
Baroche, and President SalnRve, OF Hayu
Literature has sustained by far the heaviest
losses. Foremost stands the name OF Charles
Dickens, and next to 1t that Of Alexander Du'
mas Then follow those Of John y. Reade
tthe poet,) Mark Lemon (editor Of the London
P. Kennedy (author of life of Writ" Geo.
D. Prentice, William Gilmore Slmms, Cap
tain F. (hamier, z. N. (uayal novelist DR..
Adelph Boettger TRANSLATOR Of Shakespeare
and Byron into German, Edward Br Sley 1.-THE
antlquarIan,) Brough (the dramatist,) Vile
main, Miss Costello, Jules de Goneouft Snovel-
ist,) Neuinan Che orlentalIst, Armand Saroes.
Prosper Merrimee and Paul de Cassagnac
(journa!lsts,) Hollznann and Thorpe (ln-
guists, and s4though last, not least" !eseph
W. Harper the publisher,) Of New York. IN
the department Of art the world has lost Mrs.
Anna, Cora MoVatt futehte stactpese land a,l-
thor, lMio6aeHW, BSlfe, Il efehvre Mel5, ! eigh
Wilson, HaseleHs,ss Strauss and Re Berlot
composers and musi clans, Joseph Mozier and
Robert E. L sunitz (the sculptors.l and Daniel
Maclise one OF the greatest OF English paint
era. Mselise Was engaged TO. be married 10
Miss tahny Hogarth, the eldest aster,'n<LaT
of Charles Dlckens,) whose melancholy end
(she dropped dead after dinner) has been
pathetically alluded toby the great novelist:
The military service at home and abroad also
mourns ita losses SO does the naval; indeed,
the mOF a a@g 1ne Se rceps eames es
of Admirals Dahlgren, Farraglt and Breese; of
Commodores Champlin, Richie, Boyle, Madi-
can, Carter and Gardner, and Of Captains
Meade, Robinson and Harrison, Wiz occur 10
every onS.f And IN the army and the recent
military service there is to be recorded the
loss Of Gehsfals Geo. H Thomas, McGroarty
Granger. Mower; Liddell, iK'pley, 'Hai, ham-
bin. Seetjaeh, Leech, Brooks and Hitchcock,
and their adversaries in arms. Generals Robt.
E. Lee, w. F. BrantlyaRd ]. W. Sanford. The
mortality among distinguished foreign military
men has also been considerable. The list In;
cludes the Prince of Safnl-Srin, the Count de
Flahauit, Sir de Lacy Evans, Marshals ST. jean
d'Angely and Hess, Generals LoWesttne, Gily-
on, (of Hungarian fame,) ChrHleG and Douay, \
some OF them belonging TO the first Napoeonci
Empifc, some to the Hungarian and Crimean \
wars OF foreign naval men the only oneH
known BY repute here is Captain Cowper Coles, \
the architect OF the unfortunate turret ship A
Captain, whg went down with that ill-fated \
vessel off Cape Nnisterre, on the night OF the
9th Of September. t, .;..,,,s.,
The law. has lost at least one distinguished
man in orr own country, the late Justice Grier,
and two In England, viz: Sir Frederick Pollock \
Uord Chief Baron of the Exchequer,) and
Lord Justice Gifard. Medicine has TO mourn
for Sir James Y. Simpson and Professor Srme. 1
OF Edinburgh; Sir James Clark. Sir VIM. G. 1
Hood, DR.. Bright and DR.. Copeland. OF London;
DR.. CatnrrlB, OF Paris, and Won Graefe. thei
ereatoSulIst Of Berlin. The stage Gin add ton
to Mrs. Rtchie) misses the gifted Levasseur,.
Leigh Murray, Lemaitre and Marie Taglioni.:
Aud of those who may be classed as celebri-
ties without being great, may be named Je-
rome Napoleon Bonaparte Of Baltimore, Baron
Natlariie Nothschild ol Paris, Richard latter
soil of London tthe great horse dealer,) RG1
derer ithe great dealer In champagne and
Greene (the English eronaut, immortaized BY
Dickens.) IN these days royalty comes last
There are the Gulcosyar of Baroda, the Sultan
OF, ZaEzibar, the Dowager Queen OF the Sand!
wieh 1slafls, Leopold II (tbe e1-Gfend Duke
or Tuscany, ! the Duchess OF Berry, the Dhch-
ess OF Sa2ony, the Prince Frederick OF Wurt.
embnrg, Prince Henry of Bourbon Killed in Q
duef by the Duke Of Montpensier,) and the
Princess Marie Amelie, the daughter Of SAID
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