The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-01-03
The Distinguished Dead Of 1879.

The death roll OF 1872 lncludes very
large number OF the names OF men who had
become eminent in the various walks OF lie.
Glancing over the list we find that journal
ism has lost Horace Greeley, OF the New
York Tribune; James Gordon Bennett, OF
the New York Herald General Ambrose Il.
Wright, OF the Augusta, Ga, Chronicle and
Senttnez; Rev. DR.. Amasa Converse, editor
OF the Christian Observer, one OF the most
widely circulated journals in the South;
Adolph Geroult, editor OF the Paris Op'n'om
Rationale; and Theophile Gautier, the cele-
brated French feuilletonist. Literature has
lost Charles Lever, whose ''Charles OMal'
lev" attained worldwide fame; D'Aubigne,
the historian OF the Reformation; Professor
Hadley, the Yale Professor, whose Greek
and Oriental writings are we'll known among
scholars; Sir John Bowring, the Reform
writer; Norman Mcleod, whose theological
writings are very numerous; and Horace
Msyhew, the English novelist. Many great
names have also been lost to science;
among them Professor Morse, the inventor
OF the magnetic telegraph; Feuerback, the
German speculative philosopher; Ba0inet,
the French scientist; DR.. Francis Leber, OF
New York, and Mary Somerville, the Eng
llsh astronomer. Among tho artists who
have died are Westmacott, the English
sculptor; Ksnsett, Sully, Ames, T. Bu-
chanan Read, both painter and poet, and
Robert S. Duncanson, who died recently in
an insane asylum. The stage has lost For
rest, Hackett, Miss O'Neil, the greatest
tragic actress in England fifty years ago;
Eliza Logan; McEean Buchanan, the eccen-
trio tragedian; sedisy Smith; Bogumil Daw-
ison, who died insane; and Emil DeVrl-
emit, Not many eminent musicians have
died, the only ones We can recall being
Hastings, the writer OF church music; Low
ell Mason, and Henry G. Chorley, the
famous critic OF the London Athem@uns.
The pulpit has lost The Roman Catholic
prelates: Cardinal Amat; Archbishop
spalding, Of Baltimore; Bishop McGill, OF
Richmond and Very Reverend Thomas
Mulyey. Vicar. General OF the Catholic Dio-
cese Of Virginia. Also, DR.. Francis Vinton,
Rector OF Trinity Church, New York, and
Peter Cartwright, the eccentric Methodls'
Among the prominent soldiers who have
died are Msjor-G Generals Meade and Halleck,
OF the regular army; Lieutenant Generals
Ewell and Patten Anderson, OF the Coniede-
rate army; Marshal Forey, OF the French
army who defeated the Austrians at Monte
bello; and Field Marshal Sir George Pollock.
constable Of the London Tewer, and an East
Indian veteran. Among Americans in po-
litical life are MIR. Seward; e1-Postmaster-
General Randall; ex-Miniseer to Russia In
gersou; Humphrey Marshall, OF Kentucky;
ex-Senators Wall, Of New Jersey; Grimes,
OF Iowa; Walker, OF Wisconsin; Bragg, Of
North Carolina; Van Winkle, Of West Vir-
ginia, and Garrett Davis, OF Kentucky.
Among foreign statesmen, Juarez, President
of Mexico; Earl Mayo, the Governor
General OF India, assassinated by religious
fanatic; Mazzini, the Italian reyolutionlst;
Duke de Persigny, the favorite OF the Third
Napoleon; Sir Henry BuIwer, the brother OF
the novelist, and once British Minister at
Washington; Lord Lonsdale, the late Post
master-General Of England, and the Duke
OF Bedford. Royalty has lost King Charles
XIV, OF Sweden; Marshal Prim, OF Spain; the
Archduke Albrecht, OF Austria; the Duke OF
Guise; Don Angel Iturbide, son OF the first
Emperor of Mexico; and last OF all, his
Majesty King Kamahameha, OF the Sand
wich Islands. "'" '.a