National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-01

| and thought death has been singularly busy dur
ing the year now closing. The world is the poorer
| by many an honored name. Poet, priest, and
painter, soldier, scientist, and statesmen have
| left US
! That innumcrable caravan that moves
| To that mysterious realm where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death.
But though the Silent Majority" is thus con-
stantly augmented by the nobleSt and best of
earth, there is wonderful law of compensation
which provides TO fill each niche left vacant.
And SO the world moves on.
| In Divinity the list opens with the name of
Bishop Gilbert Haven, "the Sidney Smith of
America" who died January 5; then follow those
| ofponathan TOwnley Crane, February 16; Robert
l. Dashiell, missionary secretary of the Methodist
| Episcopal Church, March 8; Samuel 0sgoOd, d. D.,
LII. D., April II; Rufus Anderson, D. D., May 30
Henry A. Boardman, d. D., June Is; Nathan
Bishop, D. D., August7 William Adams, ID. d.,
Ii. D., August 81; Samuel Dexter Denison, ID. d.,
| September 3; Samuel Hanson Coke, d. D., father
of Bishop Coke, October 6; Bishop David S. Dog
gett, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South,
October %; Stephen NJ. Vail, d. D., November %.
| The long list closes with the name of Edwin Hub
bell Chaplin, D. D., December &c.
| Early in the year the ranks of science were de-
| pleted by the death in England of James Clerk
| Msxwell: David Thomas Austed died May 10;
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astronomer, May 8; William Hallowes Miller, the
mineralogist, May 81; Cyprien NJ Tessie du No
| tay, French chemist, died at New York June
8; Louis Francois Pourtales, the pupil and friend
of the late Professor Agassiz on July 90 General
! Albert J. Mycr, of the Signal Service, on August
| 2t; William Ballantyne Hodgson, August %
/ Charles Thomas jackson, one of the reputed dis
cOyerers of an;rthctics, on August %; Samuel
| Stehman Haldeman, the geologist on September
! 10; Benjamin Pierce, LID, the astronomer and
| physicist on October 6; Edouard Scguin, thespc
cialist on October 2S, and Balthazar Buoncom-
/ pagni, on December 10.
In the department OF the law on both sides of
| the Atlantic there are many names missing from
/ bar and bench In England, Edward Vaughn
Hyde Kenealy, of TichbOrne trial notOriety, died
| April 16; in France, jules Nicolet, the advocate
| died September 10. RecroSsing the channel, we
| have the name of Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Judge of the
| English Court of Exchequer, who died September
II; of Right Hon. Baron Thesiger, October 20, and
| Of Sir Alexander COckburn, who also promi-
nenty before the world in the Tichborne case, No
vcmber %. In the United States Judge Winthrop
| W. Ketchum died January 1; ChiefJustice San
| ford E. Church, May IA; Judge William E. Curtis,
| Of the Supreme Court, July g. Judge James P. Sin
mott, september 10, and Chancellor ErastuS C. Ben
edict, October -.
In diplomacy the names are all those of for
eigners. France mOurns the loss of Jules Claude
Gabriel FaVre, who died early in the year; of the
Duke de GramOnt, January IS, and of NJ. Hippo
lyte-Philibert PasSy, June 3 From among English
diplomats two distinguished names are absent,
that of Lord Hampton, who died April :, and that
of Lord Stfatford de Radcliffe, the father of Eng
! lish diplomacy" who died August t. The Spanish
| Liberal Don Jose Maria Oreuse died NOvemberS.
In the department of letters the list is long one
Gustav Flaubert, the French novelist, died May 9;
| EdOuard Fourier, French dramatic author May
! 10; James Robinson blanche, the English anti
quarian authority, May 30; William Thomas
Thornton, June Il; George Ripley, LII. D., July 4;
Pierce Egsn, the novelist, July Tom Taylor,
! playwright, July u: Juan Emilio Hartzcnbusch,
| the Spanish dramatist, August s; William Henry
Wills the associate of Dickens in several liter
AIRY enterprises, September3 Maria Louisa Charles
worth, October 10; Lydia Maria Child, October 20;
| E. D. Mansfield {" Veteran Observer, October %;
| Lueretia Mott, November Is; Estelle Del Monte
Lewis {" Stella ~ November 49, and, greatest loss
of all to English-speaking peoples Mrs Cross,
e. George Eliot December p. On the Continent
! of Europe, the Countess Hahn-Hahn and Paul
Edme de Musset, brother of Alfred de Musset,
| missing.
| In naval and military affairs, the names of many
gallant souls dropped from the roll, the loss
| being heaviest in this country. The name of Rear
| Admiral Henry X Thatcher L. S. N, heads the
list; General Joseph Yinoy, French veteran, died
| April %; General Frederick Filmar, n. G. S. n. V
June ,; Major-General Samuel P. Heintzeman, U.
! 5 A. MayI; Lieutenant-Colonel David p Han
| cock, L. S. A., May 81; Colonel Joseph C. Auden-
ried, [. s. A, June 3; General Lord Alfred Paget
| X c. B., the leader of the famous Balaklava
| charge, June 90; MajOT-GeneTal Joseph B. Kid
doc, L. 5. A, August 10; Major-General Alfred T.
A. Torbert T. s. ~, whose death recalls the loss of
the City of Vera Cruz off the Florida coast August
%; Brigadier-General Richard s. Satterlee, L. S.A
| November 10; Field-MarShal Sir Charles Yorke, a
veteran who fought at Waterloo and in the Crimea,
November 2l; Brigadier-General Zeilin, US NC,
| November Is; Captain r. B. Lowry, L. S. n, No
vember D, and Chief Engineer William S. Osborne
| L. s. N, December ).
| Nor has the drama escaped George Honey
comedian the original Eccles in Caste" died May
| %; John Brougham, June I; Mrs. Charles Kean
| formerly the celebrated Ellen Tree August 20:
Lillian Adelaide Nelson, August Is, and Harry
Beckett, comedian, October p.
| Art has lost several of her most favorite SONS
| William Morris Hunt, the American portrait
| painter died in June; Pierre Paul de Pommayrac.
the French portrait painter, July H. William F. de
Haas, marine artist July 16; Philippe Lemaire,
the French sculptor, August 5: Sanford Robinson
Clifford American landscape painter, August %;
Robert NJ Pratt portrait painter, August 81; Jules
! Jacouermart, etcher and engraver, September %
| and Leon Cogniet French historical painter, No
| vember %.
OF musicians Sir John Goss, the English organ
| ist. died May l; Rev. John Curwen, the improver
| of the tonic-sol-fa" method of singing, May q;
Henri Winiawski the Polish violinist July 10; Ole
Bornemann Bull, Norwegian violinist, August IS;
Jaeoues ofenbach, French composer, October 5,
and william Jarvis Wetmore, the American COM
poser. November &c.
In home politics the following prominent men
| have died during the year: Henry S. Foote May
10. Governor William Bigler, of Pennsylvania,
Anoust Q: Herschel v johnson, the candidate for
fhe Vice-Presideney on the ticket headed by
stephen A. Douglas, 1860, August 10; Lafayette :.
Roster. ex-iudge and ex-senator OF Connecticut,
September 10, and Governor James Douglas VIII
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General Garfield on Horseback.
! c,aneraI Garfield is a good hOrseman, and his
manly form shows to good advantage IN the ssdae-
have seldom seen more striking inquire tnanthls
nman on horseback" presents as he gaiiops down
tho road. erect and graceful in the saddle as
.-o,.od csvaIrvnan, but dressed like plain
forner and the broad brim of his SLOUGH hat nap
TOO in the wind. His neighbors never tire Of gaz
st hin, as he passes by in this fashion, and his
,rroesuming manners help to confirm them IN the
belief which they most deYoutiy cnerlsn, anu
which they emphaticany oeci aats o Nan h The
occasion, that ne Ia 'nS s'e"e'' '
world" ,, corGald desired to see a
me otneL va; lives in remote part of the town,
lt.nt 10 his house on horseback: Riding up
gate he 61Gsd in ths st
WHICH y ~ IL, ~ the house came to the door.
Tgs bor inquired whether her husband was
and PeP told t6 Rht h he S EsS aS pedfS
the lazy 70 ten hnlt certain matter of business
% Garfield s s5G sSs
public OCCASIONS and If y 9i TaEnsES ss gheTs
did not 'sc sSg ass Ri@ viii tell hsbaRd
70 call i al your house my name sb Is adR viii
said the General m0desbl ana 1aas nsf and
pro3aSt at not Recognizing her distinguished