Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-01-12
THE DEAD OF THE PAST YEAR.
Distinguished Men and Women
Who Have Passed Away.

Distinguished Men and Women
Who Have Passed Away.
Leaving to each one the task of dis
eliminating under which category to
place the respective individuals here no.
ticed, says the Philadelphia Ledger, 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 for forty years had filled a
prominent position in this city as min
lister, and in the theological world ss
writer and commentator. DIR. Rowland
Williams, of England, one of the most
brilliant writer's in the celebrated Essays
and Reviews is another to be mentioned; !;
also Bishops Calvin Kingsley and Ed
ward 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, especially in America;
but among those of underworld celebrity
whom He has called may be noticed
Lord Clarendon, Hon. Anson Burlin-
game, Hon. Pierre Soule, Earl Mayo,
Count de Montalembert, Duke de Brog-
lie, A. I. Marie (of the French Provi-
sional Government of l848), p. j. Ba-.
roche and President Salnave, of Hayti.
Literature has sustained by far the
heaviest losses Foremost stands the
name of Charles Dickens, and next to it
that of Alexander Dumas. Then follow
those of John E. Reade (the poet), Mark
Lemon (editor OF London Punch, Z. T.
Blanchard, Cyrus Redding, John P. Ken
nedy (author of Life of Writ }, George
d. Prentice, William Gilmore Simms,
Captain F. Chamier. R. N, naval novel
ist), DIR. Adolph Boettger TRANSLATOR Of
Shakespeare and Byron into German \
Edward Brayley (the antiquarian),
Brough (the dramatist), Villemain, Miss
Costello, Jules de Goncourt (novelist),
Neuman (the Olientalist), Armand
Barbes, Prosper Merimee and Paul de
Cassagnac Gournalists1, Holtzmann and
Thorpe Qinguists), and, though last, not
least, Joseph W. Harper, the publisher,
of New York. In the department of art
the world has lost Mrs. Anna Mowatt
Ritchie (actress and authoress) Michael
w. Balfe, Lefebvre, Wely, Leigh Wilson,
Moschelles, Strauss and De Beriot (com-
posers and musicians), Joseph Mozier
and Robert E. Launitz (the sculptors),
and Daniel Maclise, one of the greatest
of English painters. Mr.. Maclise was
engaged to be married to Miss Fanny I
Hogarth (the eldest sister-in-law of
Charles Dickens whose melancholy end
(she dropped dead after dinner) has been
pathetically alluded to by the great nov
elist.
The military service at home and
abroad also mourns its losses; so does
the naval; indeed, the mortality among
the superior officers of our own navy has
been extraordinary. The names of Ad-
mirals Dahlgren, Farragut and Breese;
of Commodores Champlin, Richie,
Boyle, Madigan, Carter and Gardiner,
and of Captains Meade, Robinson and
Harrison, will occur to every one. And
in the army and the recent military SER
vice there is to be recorded the loss of
General George H. Thomas, McGroarty,
Granger, Mower, Liddell, Ripley, Hall,
Hamblin Seebach, Leech, Brooks aud
Hitchcock, and their adversaries in arms,
Generals Robert E. Lee, W. F. Brantley |
and J. w Sanford.
The mortality among distinguished
foreign military men has been consider
able. The list includes the Prince of
Salm.Salm, the Count de Flahant, Sir
De Lacy Evans; Marshals st. Jean An
gley and Hesa Generals Lowenstine,
Guyon (of Hungarian fame), Chruleff
and Douay, some of them belonging to
the first Napoleon Empire, some to the
Hungarian and Crimean wars OIL
foreign naval men, the only one known
by repute here is Captain Cowper Coles,
the architect Of the unfortunate turret-
ship Captain, who went down with that
ill-fated vessel off Cape Finisterre, on
the night of the 9th of September.
7 The law has lost at least one distin-
guished man in our own country, the
late Justice Grier, and two in England,
viz: Sir Frederick Pollock (Lord Chief
Baron of the Exehequer) and Lord JUS
tice Giffard. Medicine has to mourn
for Sir James Y. Simpson and Professor
Syne, of Edinbnrg; Sir James Clark, Sir
William c. Hood, DIR. Bright and DR..
Copeland, Of London; DR. Cabarrus, of
Paris; and Won Graefe, the great oculist,
OF Berlin. 1he stage I'm addition 10
Mrs. Ritchie) misses the gifted Lavas-
ser, Leigh Murray, Lemaitre and Marie
Taglioni. And of those who may be
classed as celebrities, without being
great, may be named Jerome Napoleon
Bouaparte, of Baltimore; Baron Nath-
aniel Rothschild, of Paris; Richard Tat
tersall, of London (the great horse
dealer) Rederer (the great dealer in
ehampagne), and Greene (the English
eronaut, immOrtalized by Dickensl. In
these days royalty comes last. There
are the Gulcowar Of Baroda, the Sultan
of Zanzibar, the Dowager Queen of the
Sandwich Islands, Leopold II (the ex-
Of Berry. the Duchess Of Saxony, the
Prince Frederick Of Wurtemburg Prince
Henry of Bourbon KILLED in duel by
the Duke Of Montpeusier), and the
Princess Marie Amelie, the daughter Of