The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07
THE DEAD OF 1874.

The years OF the present century
hitherto most remarkable for the
number of their distinguished dead
were 1882 and 1859, The twelve
months added to those memorable
predecessors--perhaps, indeed. it
surpasses them in the length of it's
catalogue of departed genius and
worth.
In our own country we have lost
such prominent statesmen and poll
ticians as William I'll. Seward, Messrs.
Wall, Of New Jersey, Bragg Of North
Carolina, Van Winkle of West yir-
ginia, Davis Of Kentucky, Grimes Of
Iowa, and Walker of Wisconsin,. nil
Of whom had been members Of the
United States Senate. Ex-postmas-
r.general Randall and Mr.. G. j.
Ingersoll, formerly minister to Rus
| sia, have also passed away. The
journalistic profession numbers
among its departed james Gorden
Bennett, Horace Greeley, J. Il.
Spalding of the New York 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 Err
aniner. The army has suffered the
loss Of generals Meade and Halleck,
and their late opponents OF the rebel
service, generals Ewell and Ander-
son, have also died. ScienEe mourhs
for. Prof. Morse, and literature for
DIR. Lieber, Z. Buchanan Read, G..
Z. Putnam, Prof. Hadley of Yale
college, and Fanny Fern" Sully,
Kensett, Duncanson, and Afnes will
paint no more. In Fraucis Vinton,
Bishop Eastburn OF Massachusetts,
Peter Cartwright, Archbishop Spald-
ing and Bishop McGill, the Episco-
pal, Methodist and Roman Catholic
churches have lost able representa-
tives. David Paul Brown of Phila-
delphia, and Gen. Howard editor of
the United States Supreme Court
Reports, are among the most emil
nent of the lawyers who have died.
Lowell Mason lives only in his COM
positions. Joseph II. Scranton,
Erastus Corning, Samuel n. Pike,
John A. Griswold, and James Fisk,
Jr., are the most prominent men OF
wealth and financial ability whose
career has drawn to 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 huts of tie poor
and palaces of kings" has summon.
ed away Charles Nv. of Sweden
} Aibrecht of Austria, the Victar oi
Custozza; the Princess of Leiningen
} half sister to Queen Victoria, and
the young Duke of Guise, the prid,
, and hope of the house of Orleans
Mazzini, the Italian revolutionist
Juarez, president of Mexico; Ear
|. Mayo, governor general of India
!, Sir Henry Bulwer, the Duke of Bed
ford; the former postmaster-genera
of England, statesman, and the Duke
J of Persigny, one of the TRUSTEES
counsellors of the ex-emperor of til,
5 French, have retired forever from
| the political world. Merle DAub
: igne, the religious historian, ant
Feurbach, the esthetical speculator
Babinet, French man of science
r Theophic Guntier, one of the mos
: graceful contributors to the Parisial
journals, Sir John Bowring, an orr
o entail scholor and diplomat. an,
: writer and reforrner, and Horac
a Mayhem and Charles Lever, novel
!. lists, are the best known departe
literateurs. The German stage ha
y been deprived of Bogumil Dawso
4 and Emil Devrient, and that of Eng
S land of its former ornament, Mis-
e O'Neil, who abandoned her profess
n ion to become Lady Beecher.
r Our list is not e short one, but
r is by no means complete, even wit
1 regard to those who have claims O
It public notice. Some of our reader
: will perceive commissions, which the
a we'll fill mentally, at least, while yer
J, few will fail to call to mind som
:, dear friend. who, if unknown to fame
n has left wider gap in the socia
circle than many famous diploma
4 or writer has done in the world {
b large.