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OBITUAEIES, UNITED STATES. 



Aug. 30. LIVERMORE, GEOKGE, historical 

 and antiquarian writer and book-collector, died 

 in Cambridge, Mass., aged 56 years. 



Aug. . CLAY, SMITH, an aged negro, foster 

 brother of the Confederate Gen. J. F. H. Clai- 

 borne, and a soldier in the war of 1812, died in 

 Mississippi. In early youth he was the body 

 servant of the late Gen. Ferdinand L. Claiborne, 

 of Natchez. He served in the war of 1812, and 

 had a narrow escape from the terrible massacre 

 of Fort Mims. During the Murrell excitement 

 in Mississippi, in 1836, when the central coun- 

 ties of Mississippi were under martial law, from 

 an apprehended insurrection of the negroes, 

 and many persons, white and colored, were 

 summarily executed, Clay had charge of one 

 hundred negroes in Madison County, the focus 

 of the excitement, and by his prudence and dis- 

 cipline, and the universal confidence reposed in 

 him, it was almost the only plantation in the 

 county that escaped suspicion. There was no 

 overseer on the place ; for six weeks he per- 

 mitted no one to leave or enter the premises, 

 and he stood guard every night around the 

 dwelling of his mistress. On his master's re- 

 turn from Congress he offered him his freedom 

 and a farm ; but he refused to accept them. 

 The Governor of Mississippi (the late Hiram G. 

 Runnels), who had been an eye-witness of his 

 conduct, presented him a certificate, on parch- 

 ment, of his fidelity. 



Aug. . IBVIN, Dr. WILLIAM, United States 

 Consul at Amoy, China, and formerly a distin- 

 guished physician in Central Pennsylvania, died 

 in Amoy, of cholera. He was appointed 'Con- 

 sul in 1864, and devoted himself to the practice 

 of his profession among the Chinese, but being 

 unacclimated fell a victim to the disease which 

 he had been successfully treating in others. 



Aug. 31. LEFLOEE GREENWOOD, an Indian 

 half-breed of the Choctaw tribe, died at his 

 residence in Carroll County, Miss., aged 65 

 years. He was the oldest resident of the coun- 

 try, and, proud of his descent, used often to re- 

 fer to the boast of his tribe, that it had never 

 fought against, but always for the white man. 

 It was chiefly through his influence that the 

 fairest portion of Mississippi was ceded by the 

 treaty of Dancing Eabbit Creek to the United 

 States, thus giving up the State to the culture 

 of civilization. When his tribe took up their 

 march to the lands west of the Mississippi, Col. 

 Leflore, as he was called, remained, and became 

 a citizen of the State. He was a member of 

 the State Senate, and his counsels upon the 

 political questions of the day were always 

 listened to with respect. 



Aug. . McLEOD, Rev. XAVIER DONALD, a 

 Roman Catholic clergyman and author, was 

 killed upon a railroad in Indiana, aged 44 years. 

 He was a native of New York, and the son of 

 Dr. Alexander McLeod, a Presbyterian minister 

 and author. He graduated at Columbia Col- 

 lege, studied theology, and in 1845 took orders 

 in the Episcopal Church. After a pastorate of 

 a few years, he sailed for Europe in 1850, spend- 



ing the two following years in travel and study, 

 and returning to this country a Roman Cath- 

 olic. He then gave himself for a number of 

 years to literary pursuits, contributing to va- 

 rious magazines, and publishing "Pynnshurst, 

 his Wanderings and Ways of Thinking " (New 

 York, 1852), "Life of Sir Walter Scott" 

 (1852). "The Bloodstone" (1853), and the 

 "Life of Mary Queen of Scots" (1857). Mr. 

 McLeod is also the author of "The Elder's 

 House ; or, the Three Converts ; " " Chateau 

 Lescure; or, the Last Marquis," and a "Life 

 of Fernando Wood," the mayor of New York 

 (1856). McLeod's "Fugitive Poems" are his 

 most characteristic productions; some of them, 

 "The Weeder" (Putnam's Monthly) and the 

 " Saga of Viking Torquil " (Knickerbocker 

 Magazine),' have great merit. In 1857 he re- 

 moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he was for 

 some time editorially connected with the 

 " Leader " newspaper, then under the direction 

 of Dr. J. V. Huntingdon. He subsequently 

 became professor of Rhetoric and Belles Letters 

 at Mount St. Mary's College, near Cincinnati. 

 After the long and trying preparation necessary 

 for the Catholic priesthood, Mr. McLeod was 

 ordained, and spent the last few years of his 

 life in a little cell in the basement of his church, 

 from which he came forth at times for works 

 of charity and love. 



Aug. . McCnESNEY, Col. J. M., United 

 States volunteers, died in Beaufort, N. 0. He 

 entered the army as a private in one of the 

 Brooklyn regiments, and eventually gained the 

 colonelcy of the Ninth New Jersey. After- 

 wards he was transferred to the First North 

 Carolina volunteers, and had command of Fort 

 Macon and the district. About the time of 

 Gen. Johnston's surrender, being satisfied that 

 the war was over, he resigned and went into 

 business at Beaufort, but until the time of his 

 death suffered from the effects of a severe 

 wound received at the siege of Washington, 

 North Carolina. 



Aug. . PARSONS, MONROE M., a General 

 in the Confederate army, was killed in a fight 

 between the Liberals and Imperialists, near 

 Camargo, Mexico. He served under Sterling 

 Price during the war. After the surrender of 

 Kirby Smith, he went to Mexico with several 

 of his men, and joined the forces of Juarez. 



Sept. . HORTON, Hon. ALBERT C., ex- 

 Lieut-Governor of Texas, died at Matagorda, 

 in the 67th year of his age. He was the first 

 Lieutenant-Governor, and President of the first 

 Senate of Texas as a State of the Union. At 

 the expiration of his term in 1847, he retired 

 from public office. 



Sept. 2. LONG, JOHN COLLINS, a Commodore 

 in the United States Navy, died at North Con- 

 way, N. H., aged 70 years. He was a native 

 of Portsmouth, N. II., and joined the navy in 

 1811. He participated actively in the engage- 

 ments of the war with Great Britain, and was 

 on board of the Constitution when she fought 

 the Java. His sea service amounted to 21 years 



