The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-05-16

ticians as VIM, H. Seward; Messrs.
Wall, of New Jersey; Bragg, of
North Carolina; Van Wrinkle, of
West Virginia; Davis, of Kentucky !;
Grimes, of Iowa; and Walker, of
Wisconsin,-all of whom had been
members of the United States Sen
ate. EX-PoStmaster General Ran
dali and Mr.. c. J. Ingresoll, formerly
Minister to Russia, have also passed
away. The journalistic profession
numbers among is departed James
Gordon Bennett, Horace Greeley. j.
K. Spalding, of the y. Y. World.
and Edward A. Pollard, the last be-
ing perhaps more noted for his con-
nection with general literature than
for his labors on the Richmond En-
aminer. The army has suffered the
loss of Gems. Meade and Halleck,
and their late opponents of the rebel
service, Gems. Ewell and Anderson,
have also died. Science mourns for
Prof. Morse, and literature for DR..
Leiber, T. Buchanan Read, G. P.
Putnam, Prof. Hadley, Of Yale Col
lege, and 4" Fanny Fern" Sulley,
Kensett, Duncanson and Ames will
paint no more.
In Francis Vinton, Bishop East.
burn, of Massachusetts,, Peter Cart
wright, Archbishop Spalding and
Bishop McGill, the Episcopal, Meth
odist and Roman Catholic Churches
have lost able representatives. Da-
vid Paul Brown, of Philadelphia,
and Gen. Howard, editor Of the Uni
ted States Supreme Court Reports,
are among the most eminent of the
lawyers who have died. Lowell Ma
son lives only i'll his compositions.
Joseph II. Scranton, Erastus Corn
ing, Samuel n. Pike, John A. Girls
void and James Fisk, Jr., are per-
haps the most prominent men Of
wealth and financial ability whose
career has drawn to a close. The
stage has sustained no common loss
in Hackett, Forrest and Eliza Logan.
In the old world "pale death, who
knocks alike at the haunts of the
poor and the palaces of kings" has
summoned away Charles Nv, of
Sweden; Abrecht, Of Austria, the
Victor of Castozza; the Princess of
Leiningen, halfsister to Queen Vic
toria; and the young Duke of Guise,
the pride and hope Of the House of
Orleans; Mazzini, the Italian revo-
lutionist; Juarez, President Of Mexi-
co; Earl Mayo, Govenor-General of
India; Sir Henry Bulwer. the Duke
Of Bedford; the former Postmaster
General Of England, Lord LOnsdale; ;
| kisseletf, the Russian statesman; :;
AID the Duke of Persigny, one of
the trustiest councillors of the ex-
Emperor of the French, have retired
forever from the political world.
Merle d'Aubigne, the religious histo-
rian, and Feurback, the atheistical
| speculator; Babinet, a Frenchman Of
science; Theophile Gautier, one Of
the most graceful contributors of the
Partisan journals; Sir John Bow
ring, an Oriental scholar and diplo-
mat, hymn-writer and reformer; and
Horace Maynew and Charles Lever,
novelists, are the best known depart
ed literateurs. The German stage
has been deprived of Bogumil Daw-
ison and Emil Devrient, and that
of England of its former ornament,
Miss O'Neil, who abandoned her pro-
fession to become Lady Beecher.
Our list is not short one, but it
is by no means complete, even with
regard to those who have claims on
public notice. Some Of our readers
will perceive omissions which they
will fill mentally, at least, while very
few will fail to cali to mind some
dear friend who, if unknown to fame,
has left a wider gap in the social
circle than many famous diplomat
or writer has done in the world at
large.
Sewing Buttons.