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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



port of the Government ; and, upon receiving 

 an autograph letter from Jefferson Davis, en- 

 closing a commission as a brigadier-general in 

 the Confederate Army, he returned it with the 

 utmost indignation. 



Jan. 20. WILEY, FREDERICK S., a clergyman 

 of the Protestant Episcopal Church, died in 

 Florence, Italy. He was formerly assistant- 

 pastor of St. Anne's Church, Brooklyn. Sub- 

 sequently he went to Philadelphia, and from 

 thence returned to New York, where he was 

 one of the ministers of Grace Church for a 

 number of years. 



Jan. 21. TAEBELL, Dr. JOHN ADAMS, died in 

 Boston, aged 53 years. He was a native of 

 Boston ; graduated at Harvard College, in the 

 class of 1832 ; studied medicine with his uncle, 

 Dr. Samuel Adams, of that city; and, in 1833, 

 went to Paris, where he spent nearly two 

 years in the study of his profession. He then 

 returned to Boston, received his medical di- 

 ploma from Bowdoin College in 1836, and en- 

 tered at once into practice. In 1843 he turned 

 his attention to the principles of Homoeopathy, 

 and soon after adopted that system of practice. 

 In 1852 he became associate-editor of the 

 "Quarterly Homoeopathic Review," and also 

 edited Epps's "Domestic Homoeopathist." He 

 published " The Pocket Homoeopathist" (1849), 

 and "Sources of Health" (1850). 



Jan. 24. MARCH, CHARLES "W., died in Al- 

 exandria, Egypt. He was born in Portsmouth, 

 N. H., Dec. 15th, 1815 ; graduated at Harvard 

 College in 1837, studied law, and settled in 

 Portsmouth in the practice of his profession. 

 He was at one time a representative in the New 

 Hampshire Legislature, and was nominated by 

 one of the political parties for the speakership. 

 Subsequently he removed to the city of New 

 York, and was engaged for a time as an edito- 

 rial writer on the New York "Tribune," con- 

 tributed to the New York "Times," and also 

 wrote for the Boston " Courier," under the 

 signature of "Pequot." His published travels 

 in Madeira and Spain, and " Eeminiscences of 

 Congress," as well as brilliant essays in litera- 

 ture contributed to magazines and journals, 

 gave him a creditable place in American litera- 

 ture. He was appointed United States Vice- 

 Consul for Cairo, and was making a visit to 

 Alexandria when he was seized with typhoid 

 fever, which in a few days terminated fatally. 



Jan. 26. CLAY, JAMES B., died in Montreal, 

 Canada. He was a son of the distinguished 

 statesman, Henry Clay. In 1849 he was ap- 

 pointed by President Taylor Charge cC 1 Affaires 

 to Lisbon, and in 1857 was elected from his 

 father's district in Kentucky to the Congress 

 of the United States. Soon after the com- 

 mencement of the Rebellion he espoused the 

 Confederate cause. 



Jan. 27. HITZ, JOHN, Swiss Consul-General, 

 died at his residence in "Washington, D. 0. He 

 emigrated to this country in 1831, and had held 

 the office of Consul-General since 1853. At 

 one time he occupied an important position in 



the United States Arsena., where he made the 

 composition for the United States standard of 

 weights and measures. He was a. so from time 

 to time in the employ of different mining com- 

 panies throughout the country as mineralogist. 

 As a member of the German Relief Associa 

 tion he spent much of his time in the hos- 

 pitals. 



Jan. 28. MEAD, DARITJS, M. D., died in 

 Greenwich, Conn., aged 77 years. He gradu- 

 ated from Yale College in 1807, studied medi- 

 cine in Philadelphia under Dr. Rush, and 

 received his diploma in 1809. He practiced 

 his profession for a few months in New York, 

 but removed to Greenwich in 1810. In 1845 

 and in 1846 he represented his district in the 

 Senate of Connecticut. As a man, he was 

 stern in his integrity; as a citizen, loyal and 

 patriotic; and as a Christian physician, was 

 ever ready to minister to the spiritual as well 

 as physical needs of his patients. 



Jan. 29. CHAMPLIN, STEPHEN G., brigadier- 

 general of United States volunteers, died at 

 Grand Rapids, Mich. He entered the service 

 as Major of the 3d Michigan, was severely 

 wounded at Fair Oaks, participated in the bat- 

 tles of Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericks- 

 burg, and received his commission of brigadier 

 in 1862. He was in command of the Grand 

 Rapids camp of conscripts at the time of his 

 death. 



Jan. 31. BORLAND, SOLON, formerly a Uni- 

 ted States Senator from Arkansas, and brig- 

 adier-general in the Rebel Army, died in Texas. 

 He was born in Virginia, educated in North 

 Carolina, studied medicine, and settled in Lit- 

 tle Rock, Ark., where he practiced his profes- 

 sion. He served in the Mexican War as major 

 of volunteers and aide-de-camp, and was taken 

 prisoner; was elected United States Senator 

 1849, and in 1853 appointed minister to Cen- 

 tral America, where, in consequence of an al- 

 tercation, he returned in 1854, and Grey town 

 was bombarded by Com. Hollins in consequence 

 of the insult offered him. He was afterwards 

 appointed Governor of New Mexico, but de- 

 clined. He was ardently in favor of Secession, 

 and on the 24th of April, 1861, long before the 

 secession of the State, raised a body of troops 

 and captured Fort Smith, Ark., in the nama of 

 the Southern Confederacy. 



Jan. 31. GAMBLE, HAMILTON R., acting and 

 provisional Governor of Missouri, died at Jef- 

 ferson City, Mo. He had been an active mem- 

 ber of the Constitutional Convention called in 

 the winter of 1861, with the intent of carrying 

 Missouri over to Secession, but which proved 

 loyal and thwarted the designs of the Seces- 

 sionists. "When Claiborne F. Jackson, then 

 Governor of the State, joined the Secession 

 party and fled from Jefferson City before Gen, 

 Lyon, the Convention was reassembled, and 

 Mi*. Gamble elected by it Provisional Gov- 

 ernor, to serve out the remainder of Gov. 

 Jackson's term. Though infirm in health, and 

 naturally conservative in his views, Gov. Gam- 



