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worth. He was greatly esteemed and beloved 

 throughout the circle of his acquaintance. 



Dec. 28. CLAGGETT, WILLIAM, formerly a 

 prominent Democratic politician of New- 

 Hampshire; died in Portsmouth, aged 80 

 years. He was born in Litchfield, N. H., in 

 1790 ; served as a Representative and Senator, 

 and from 1830 to 1838 was a naval officer of 

 Portsmouth. He wrote freely for the press 

 for many years, on agriculture, antislavery, 

 and other matters. The latter portion of his 

 life was passed in obscurity. 



Dec. 29. WELLFOED, B. E., M. D., a promi- 

 nent physician, and for many years a Profess- 

 or of Materia Medica in the Virginia Medical 

 College; died in Eichmond, Va., aged 74 years. 



Dec. 31. HAMMOND, EDWIN; died in Mid- 

 dlebury, Vt., aged 70 years. He was the most 

 famous sheep-breeder in the State, some of his 

 sheep having been sold at fabulous prices. He 

 was the founder of the State Agricultural So- 

 ciety, and was prominently identified with the 

 agricultural interests of the State. 



Dec. . OLAEKE, Judge GAYLOED J., a ju- 

 rist and journalist ; was murdered in El Paso, 

 Texas, aged 34 years. He graduated at Union 

 College, Schenectady, in 1859, and entered upon 

 his career as a journalist on the West Troy 

 Democrat. Subsequently he entered the Al- 

 bany Law School, and was admitted to the bar. 

 In 1860 he returned to journalism, taking the 

 editorial direction of the Lockport Advertiser, 

 which he conducted successfully until 1862, 

 when he was allured into politics, and was 

 elected Inspector of State Prisons at the age of 

 twenty-six. He held this office for three years, 

 discharging its duties with honor to himself and 

 fidelity to the State. In 1866 he removed to 

 Nebraska, and there practised law for two 

 years. In 1868 he settled in El Paso, Texas, 

 where he had since resided, practising his pro- 

 fession, and also holding the position of In- 

 spector of Customs. In July, 1870, he was 

 appointed by Governor Davis Judge of the 

 Twenty-fifth Judicial District of Texas, which 

 position he occupied at the time of his death. 

 Judge Clarke was known as a man of great 

 integrity and unflinching patriotism. He filled 

 the places he was called to occupy with uni- 

 form ability, and in all cases gained the high 

 respect of the people with whom he was 

 thrown in contact. He had contributed several 

 poems to our war-lyric literature, which at- 

 tained more than passing notice, and in his 

 .new sphere, among the turbulent elements of 

 Southern society, he had exerted marked in- 

 fluence for good. 



Dec. . LEESON, Mrs. ELIZA, a centenarian ; 

 died in the almshouse at Hartford, Conn., in 

 her lllth year. She was a native of Canada. 

 Her father at his death had completed his 

 112th year. 



OBITTJAEIES, FOREIGN. Jan. 1. CEES- 

 WICK, THOMAS, E. A., an eminent English land- 

 scape and genre painter ; died in London, aged 

 58 years. He was born in Sheffield, in 1811, 



and, having early exhibited n taste for drawing, 

 studied his art in Birmingham, and in his sev- 

 enteenth year removed to London for the fur- 

 ther prosecution of his studies. But already 

 he was so far advanced that two of his pic- 

 tures were the same year admitted to the ex- 

 hibition of the Eoyal Academy. Among his 

 greatest works are "England," "London Eoad 

 a Hundred Years ago," "The Weald of Kent," 

 " Home by the Sands," and " Wind on Shore." 

 He also painted an extensive series of pictures 

 from the scenery of North Wales. He was 

 elected an Associate of the Eoyal Academy in 

 1842 and a Eoyal Academician in 1851. 



Jan. 3. .HASTINGS, Admiral Sir THOMAS, 

 K. C. B. ; died in London, aged 79 years. He 

 was born in 1790, entered the navy at an early 

 age, and saw much active service in the Wal- 

 cheren expedition and in the Mediterranean. 

 He was first lieutenant of the Undaunted ; was 

 in command of the gunnery establishment on 

 II. M. S. Excellent from 1834 to 1845, and for 

 six years was at the head of the Eoyal Naval 

 College at Portsmouth. He was principal 

 storekeeper and a member of the Board of 

 Ordnance from 1845 to 1855, when that office 

 was abolished, was made a C. B. for his im- 

 provements in naval gunnery, K. C. B. for his 

 services at the Board of Ordnance during the 

 Crimean War, and was a Deputy-Lieutenant 

 for the County of Hereford. 



Jan. 10. PEATT, JOHN TIDD, an English 

 philanthropist and author ; died in London, 

 aged 72 years. He was born 1797, was admitted 

 to the bar at the Inner Temple in Michaelmas 

 Term, 1824, held the office of consulting bar- 

 rister to the Commissioners for the Eeduction 

 of the National Debt since 1828, was Registrar 

 of Friendly Societies, and barrister for savings- 

 banks. He was the author of numerous val- 

 uable legal treatises, among which are, " Sum- 

 mary of the History of Savings-Banks " (1846), 

 "Law relating to Friendly Societies" (1855), 

 "Laws of Highways," and an "Analysis of 

 the Property Tax Act." He was a Deputy- 

 Lieutenant for the County of Middlesex. 



Jan. 14. LEVASSOE, PIEBEE, a French co- 

 median and singer; died in Paris, aged 62 

 years. He was born at Fontainebleau, in 1808, 

 educated in Paris, and engaged in the mercan- 

 tile business, but in 1830 commenced his 

 career as a singer in the Grand Theatre of 

 Marseilles, and subsequently made an engage- 

 ment at the Novelties, of that city, but this 

 was soon terminated by the closing of that 

 theatre. He returned to business again, but 

 only for a short time, when Mile. Dejazet pro- 

 cured him an engagement as a comedian in 

 the theatre of the Palace Eoyal. He retained 

 his connection there from 1832-1856, with the 

 exception of the years 1840-1843, when he 

 played at the Varieties. In 1857 he made an- 

 other short engagement at the Varieties. As 

 an actor he was original, and in caricature had 

 no superior on the French stage. He wag 

 best known abroad, however, as a singer, and 



