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OBITUAKIES, UNITED STATES. 



lie esteem in which Dr. Dwight was held, not 

 only as a faithful pastor and preacher, but as a 

 citizen and patriot. He received the degree of 

 D. D., frotn Bowdoin College, Me., in 1846. 

 His published works were, a " Memoir of Rev. 

 Sereno E. Dwight, D. D.," 1851, "An Oration 

 before the Association of Alumni of Yale Col- 

 lege," " An Address before the Phi Beta Kappa 

 Society of Bowdoin College," 1849, and numer- 

 ous other orations, addresses, discourses, and 

 review articles, all of them characterized by 

 sound logic, profound thought, and a chaste and 

 elegant style. 



Oct. 23. MISSBOON, Commodore JOHN- S., 

 U. S. N., died at the Boston Navy Yard, aged 

 about 55 years. He was a native of South Car- 

 olina, and entered the service in 1824. At the 

 Boston yard he filled the position of Ordnance 

 Officer, and in the last report of the Chief of 

 the Bureau of Ordnance especial commendation 

 is bestowed on Commodore Missroon. 



Oct. 24. JOHXSON, WILLIAM P., brother of 

 President Johnson, and United States Collector 

 at Velasco, Texas, died at Columbia, on the 

 Brazos River, from an accidental gunshot wound. 

 While taking a gun from a small boat in which 

 his party had crossed the river, the ball entered 

 the hand and came out at the elbow, shattering 

 the bone, and making amputation necessary ; 

 but the surgeons of that region, who were reb- 

 els, refused to render him any assistance, be- 

 cause of his relationship with the President. 



Oct. 26. MIXER, Hon. CHABLES, an editor, 

 and formerly member of Congress, died at 

 Wilkesbarre, Pa., aged 65 years. He was a 

 native of Norwich, Conn., and when nineteen 

 years old emigrated to Wyoming Valley, where 

 with his older brother, a practical printer, he 

 started the Luzerne " Federalist." This was su- 

 perseded by the " Gleaner," with Miner as the 

 principal editor. Through its columns he gave 

 for several months the celebrated essays of 

 morals and wit, of fact and fancy, and delicate 

 humor, entitled, " From the Desk of Poor Rob- 

 ert, the Scribe." These gave him such popu- 

 larity that he was invited to become assistant 

 editor of the " Political and Commercial Regis- 

 ter," in Philadelphia, He accepted, but soon 

 went to West Chester, where, with his brother, 

 he established the " Village Record." He here 

 wrote over the signature of " John Harwood," 

 and made the paper very popular. In 1825 he 

 was elected, twice to Congress as a colleague of 

 James Buchanan. He took great interest in 

 the subject of slavery, to which he was opposed. 

 He awakened the country to the silk-growing 

 business, and drew up and introduced the first 

 resolutions on the subject, and wrote the able 

 report which was introduced by General Ste- 

 phen Van Rensselaer, as chairman of the Com- 

 mittee on Agriculture. About 1832 he relin- 

 quished the business in West Chester, and re- 

 turned to the Wyoming Valley. He was the 

 author of a " History of Wyoming." 



Oct. 29. HABDING, J. BARCLAY, collector 

 cf national revenue in the First District of 



Pennsylvania, died in Philadelphia, of conges- 

 tion of the brain. He was publisher of " Tho 

 Evening Telegraph," and an active supporter 

 of President Johnson's administration. 



Oct. . HAWKINS, Col. WILLIAM S., an officer 

 in the Confederate army, and a poet of some 

 ability, died in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1861 

 he entered the rebel army as major of Gordon's 

 battalion, was for a while on the staff of Gen- 

 eral Wheeler, with the rank of lieutenant-colo- 

 nel, and was afterwards promoted to a colonelcy 

 and served in the Army of Tennessee nntU 

 taken prisoner and sent North, where he re- 

 mained until released on the return of peace. 



Oct. 29. McGoRRisK, Rev. BERNARD, a Ro- 

 man Catholic clergyman, for many years mis- 

 sionary priest at the West, died at his residence 

 in Williamsburg, L. I., aged 47 years. He was 

 a native of Ireland, and at an early age showed 

 preference for the priesthood as the chosen pro- 

 fession of his after life. Having acquired the 

 rudiments of education in Ireland, he was sent, 

 when yet quite young, to Paris, in order to 

 finish his education and study theology. At 

 this college he graduated with much distinc- 

 tion. Early in 1842 he came to this country, 

 and for several months was engaged as Pro- 

 fessor of French at'St. John's College, Fordham. 

 While there he endeared himself to his colleagues 

 and the students both by his talents and his 

 devotion. He was not, however, long permitted 

 to remain at the college, as missionary priests 

 were much needed in the far West. He was 

 sent for by Bishop Quarters, of the West, and 

 entering with all the ardor of youth upon his 

 new field of labor in the Western wilds, re- 

 mained as a missionary priest in that section of 

 the country for nearly eighteen years, often en- 

 during the greatest hardships and exposure in 

 the duties of the ministry. While there he 

 built fifteen or sixteen churches. But as he 

 grew older, exposure began to tell iipon him, 

 and it became evident that the seeds of disease 

 had been sown in his heretofore robust consti- 

 tution, and, a change of life becoming neces- 

 tary, he at length reluctantly parted from his 

 flock in the West, removing to Brooklyn, about 

 five years ago, where he built the present 

 Church of St. Vincent de Paul, which has a 

 congregation of seven thousand persons, and 

 was its pastor at the time of his decease. Mr. 

 McGorrisk was a man of fine scientific attain- 

 ments, and spoke and wrote the French lan- 

 guage with fluency and accuracy. 



Oct. 30. FITCH, ASA, a well-known manu- 

 facturer and millionnaire of Fitchville, Conn., 

 died in that village. He was for many years n 

 leading citizen of the town. 



Nov. 2. REYNOLDS, Lieut.-Col. JOHN G., U. 

 S. volunteers, and captain of marines, died in 

 Brooklyn, L. L, aged 64 years. At the age of 

 seventeen he entered the Military Academy at 

 West Point, but left the institution during the 

 third year of his course. In May, 1824, he en- 

 tered the Marine Corps as second lieutenant. 

 Eleven years after, as first lieutenant, he served 



