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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



Supreme Court of South Carolina, and one of 

 the ablest jurists of the South, died at Sumter- 

 ville, S. C. 



Dec. 12. HELMSMTJLLER, FREDERICK B., mu- 

 sical composer and orchestral conductor, died 

 in New York city, aged 47 years. His musical 

 productions evinced a high order of talent. 



Dee. 12. HUNTINGTON, Dr. ELISHA, former- 

 ly Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts, and 

 many years Mayor of Lowell, died there, aged 

 69 years. 



Dec. 13. ROVERE, Signer AUGUSTINO, buffo 

 opera singer, died in New York city, nearly 60 

 years of age. He was a distinguished member 

 of the Maretzek opera troupe, and had won 

 much fame in the musical world. 



Dec. 14. BARSTOW, Col. WILLIAM A., an ex- 

 Governor of Wisconsin, died at Leaven worth, 

 Kansas, aged 54 years. He was Governor of 

 his State from January, 1854, to January, 1856. 

 When the civil war commenced, he called upon 

 Gen. Fremont, then commander of the Western 

 Department, and offered to raise a cavalry 

 regiment in Wisconsin. After raising it he 

 was made colonel, and the regiment served with 

 credit in the Southwest; but owing to the fail- 

 ing health of Col. Barstow, during most of his 

 military term he was sitting on courts-martial at 

 St. Louis. He was a man of strong mental 

 characteristics, of indomitable energy, and un- 

 swerving fidelity to his friends. 



Dec. 14. DUCACHET, Rev. HEXRYW., D. D., 

 an American Episcopal clergyman, died at Phila- 

 delphia, aged 79 years. He was a native of 

 Charleston, S. C., was educated in Philadelphia, 

 and for some years practised medicine in New 

 York, but in 1825 was ordained an Episcopal 

 clergyman, and assumed the charge of a parish 

 in Salem, Mass. He afterwards resided in Nor- 

 folk, Virginia, and in 1834 was instituted Rec- 

 tor of St. Stephen's Church in Philadelphia, the 

 duties of which position he fulfilled up to the 

 time of his death, though his declining years 

 led to the appointment, some time since, of an 

 assistant rector. He had several times repre- 

 sented the Diocese of Pennsylvania in the Gen- 

 eral Convention, and was for many years Sec- 

 retary of the Diocesan Convention. He also 

 occupied the position of Rector of the Burd 

 Orphan Asylum, an institution which owes its 

 origin to his untiring exertions. 



Dr. Ducachet was a man of high scholarly 

 attainments, and of a most genial temperament, 

 and was beloved and respected by a very wide 

 circle of friends. A few weeks previous to his 

 death, his only child, a surgeon in the army, 

 died in Washington, an event which doubtless 

 hastened the father's decease. He had retired 

 to his study for the purpose of writing, as was 

 his habit in the evening, and early in the morn- 

 ing was found therein lying dead upon the 

 floor. 



Dec. 16. BOTD, Rev. A. H. H., D. D., an 

 eminent Presbyterian clergyman, died at Win- 

 chester, Va. He was a native of Winchester, 

 but was sent to Scotland to receive his collegi- 



ate and theological education. On his return 

 he was ordained by the presbytery of Winches- 

 ter, and passed his life in the pastorate of the 

 Presbyterian church in that section. A man of 

 commanding presence and genial manners, and 

 of considerable intellectual power, he exerted 

 a powerful influence in his native State. He 

 was connected with the New School Presbyte- 

 rian body, but at the session of the General 

 Assembly at Cleveland in 1859, the discussion 

 of the slavery question was long and angry, 

 and Dr. Boyd, with a number of other 

 commissioners from the slaveholding States, 

 seceded from the Assembly, and soon after or- 

 ganized the " United Synod of the Presbyterian 

 Church," composed of those Presbyteries in the 

 slaveholding States which had belonged to the 

 New School General Assembly, but which 

 were dissatisfied with its course on the subject 

 of slavery. Of this Synod Dr. Boyd was, we 

 believe, the first Moderator. At the beginning 

 of the war he took decided ground in favor of 

 secession ; but his disposition was so gentle and 

 amiable, that he was far less bitter in his hos- 

 tility to the North than most of the clergy of 

 that section. He maintained the organization 

 of the United Synod till his death. 



Dec. 18. O'FALLON, Col. JOHN an eminent 

 citizen of St. Louis, and founder of the Poly- 

 technic Institute, now the scientific department 

 of St. Louis University, died in St. Louis. He 

 was a man of large wealth and great benevo- 

 lence, and had devoted himself with zeal to the 

 welfare and improvement of the city which he 

 had made his residence. 



Dec. 19. JONES, CHARLES DAVIS, lieutenant 

 in the U. S. Navy, died at Boston, aged about 

 25 years. He entered the service at Annapolis, 

 Md., in 1859, and throughout his short life bore 

 his part with honor to himself and to the navy. 



Dec. 20. AMES, Hon. SAMTTEL, for ten years 

 Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme 

 Court, died suddenly at Providence, R. I. He 

 had recently resigned his office on account of 

 ill health. 



Dec. 20. STILES, Col. WILLIAM H., of the 

 rebel army, formerly Charge d' Affaires at 

 Vienna, died at Savannah, Ga. He was a 

 native of that city, where he began life as a 

 lawyer in 1831. In 1833 he was elected Solici- 

 tor General of the eastern district, which oiBce 

 he filled with ability until the beginning of 

 1836, when ho resigned it, and soon after he 

 retired from practice altogether. He after- 

 wards removed to Cass (now Bartow) County, 

 where he was living at the beginning of the re- 

 cent struggle. While residing there he was 

 elected a Representative in Congress, in which 

 body he served for the term of two years. On 

 the accession of Mr. Polk to the Presidency, 

 Mr. Stiles was appointed Charge d'Affaires 

 at the Austrian court. During his residences 

 al Vienna he found time to collate valuable 

 materials for a history of that country, and 

 which he published soon after his return home 

 in 1849. Soon after the commencement of the 



