The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-01-21
THE DEAD OF 1870.
DISTINGUISHED MeH and Women Who
Have Passed Away.


We copy as follows from the Phil
adelphia Ledger
Leaving each one to the task OF
discriminating under which catego-
CORY to place the respective individ-
uals here noticed, it is interesting to
observe how busy Death has been
with the distinguished OF the earth
during the past twelve months.
Giving precedence to the Church,
the first name on the list, as well as
the latest added to it, is that OF Rev.
Albert Barnes, who had for 40 years
filled a prominent position i'll this
city as a minister, and in the theo-
logical world as a writer and com
mentator. DR.. Rowland Williams,
OF England, one of the most bril-
liant writer's in the celebrated "Es-
saws and RcvieWs,' is another to be
mentioned; also Bishops Calvin
Kingsley and Edward Thompson, OF
the Methodist Church; Bishop
Chase, Of the Episcopal Church; !;
and Rev. DIR. McClintock. Death
has been more busy among states
men of all ranks, especiallyin Amer
lea; but among those of underworld
celebrity whom he has called away
may be noticed Lord Clarendon,
Hon. Anson Burlingame, Hon Pierre
Soulc, Earl Mayo, the Count de
Montalembert, the Duke de Broglie,
A. Z. Marie (Of the French ProVls-
ional Government of lSfS), L. ).
Barocle, and President Salnave OF
Hayti.
Literature has sustained by far
the heaviest losses. Foremost
stands the name of Charles Dick
ems. and next to it that of AlcXan-
der Dumas. Then follow those OF
John Z. Reade (the poet), Mark Lc-
mon (editor of the London Punch), f.
T. Blanchard, Cyrus Relding, John
p. Kennedy (author Of Life OF
Wirt"), Geo. d. Prentice, VIM. Gll'
more Sims, Capt. F. Cham!er, H. n
naval noveliSD, DR.. Adolph Boett:
ger TRANSLATOR of Shakespeare and
Byron into Germany, Edward Bray
lev (the antiquarian), Brough (the
dramatist), Villemain, Miss Costello
Jules de Goncout (noveliSt), Neu
mann (the orientaiist, Armand
Barbes, Prosper Merrimee aud Pau
de Cassagnac Gournalists), lloltz
man and Thorpe Qinguists), and
u" though last, not least" DO
seph ". Harper, the publisher, o
New York. In the department. o
art the world has lost Mrs. Ann;
Cora Mowatt Ritchie (actress an'
authoress), Michael w. Balfe, lie
febvre Wely, Leigh Wilson, Mos
chelles, StrauS, and De Beriot (com
posrrs and musians), Joseph MoZle
and Robert f. Launitz (thc sculp
tors). and Daniel Maclise, one OF th
greatest Of English painters. Nh
Maclise was engaged to be marlle'
to Miss Fanny Hogartll (the eIdeS
sister-in-law of Charles Dickens,
whose melancholy end-(she dropE"'
dead after dinner)-has been patiet
ically alluded to by the great move
list.
The military service at home an
abroad also mourns its losses; $
does the naval indeed, the moral
ty among the superior officers ct on
navy has been extraordinary. In
names of admiral Dahlgreen, Fa1
ragut and Breese; of Commodore
Champlin, Ritchie, Boyle, Madigal
Garter and Gardner, and ofCaptail'
Meade, Robinson, and Harrison
will occnr to every one. And in tn
B army and the recent military SCI
vice, there is to be recorded the los
of Generals Geo. Thomas, McGroa'
ty, Granger, Mower, Liddell, Ril
lev, Hall, Humblin, Seebach, Leecl
| Brooks and Hitchcock; and the
, adversaries in arms, General Ro|
ert f. Lee, W. +. Brantly, and .
w. Sanford. The mortality anon
distinguished foreign military me
has also been considerable. TIL
list includes the Prince of Saln
Salm. the Count de Flahault, Sir d
!. lacy Evans; Marshal st. Jean dA'
2 gcly and Hess; Generals Lowestin
(of Hungarian fame), Chruleff an
Douay, some of them belonging
, the first Napoleonic Empire, some t
= the Hungari4 An and Crimean war
Of foreign naval men the only OF
!; known by repute here is Captain Gov
.. per Coles, the: architect of the III
: Fortunate turret ship Captain
who went down with that ill-fate
vessel off Cape Finisterre, on tt
!, night of the 9th Of September.
9 The law has lost at least one di
tinguished man in our own countr.
: the late Justice Grier, and two
~ England, viz: Sir Frederick Pc
lock (Lord Chief Baron of the b
!, chequer), and Lord Justice Gitfar
r. Medicine has to mourn for S
+ James Y. Simpson and Profess
q Syme, of Edinburg, Sir JAM
!. Chalk, Sir VIM. G. Hood, DR.. Brigh
n and DR.. Copeland, of London; d
Cabarrus, of Paris, and Won Grat
the great occulist Of Berlin III
stage lin addition to Mrs. Ritchi
0 misses the gifted Lavasser, Leis
n Murray, Lemaitre and Maria Tag
t. oni. And of those who may
IT classed as celebrities, without beil
is great, may be named Jerome NaI
e eon'Bonaparte, Of Baltimore, Bar
s Nathaniel Rothchilds, of Parl