OBITUARIES, UNITED STATIC. 





t of danpor while in the port'crmanco of 



.ty, ami he ;it last met liis fate, while on- 



tii a tearful death his snf- 



i! IMIEV, Jr., n briga- 



i .iiilVdcrate army, died at 



L years. Ho was a native 



i'. At the commencement of 



lipped a battery of 



:iu\\n as the Beaufort Artillery. 



i -land, August, 18C2, he corn- 



'Mttcries, and was promoted for 



Shortly after ho was placed in 



and of Fort Sumter, where ho continued 



during the long bombardment to which it was 



sulije. .'Imoro. In July, 1864, he 



was wounded by tho explosion of a mine under 



his quarters, by order of Gen. Buraside, and 



wa> laid up until the end of the war. In 1865 



>k tho oath to support the constitution of 



Hate and of the United States, nnd later 



was a candidate for congressional honors, being 



opposed l.y ex-Governor Aiken. 



M<irch 21. PARKER, Rev. SAMUEL, a Presby- 

 terian clergyman and author, died in Ithaca, 

 N. Y.j aged 87 years. lie was an eminent 

 Christian, and an able exponent of the doc- 

 trims of Christianity, and was well known to 

 the public as the author of "An Exploring Tour 

 beyond tho Rocky Mountains." 



March 22. BRICK, EDMUND, a lawyer and 



officer in the civil service of the United States, 



iu St. Augustine, Fla., aged 86 year?. 



He was born and educated in Philadelphia, and 



.dmitted to the bar of that city in 1860. 



-iiiLr line literary taste and decided poetic 



talent he was a frequent and welcome contrib- 



utor to the ablest literary journals. His health 



tailed in 1862,' and he removed to "Washington, 



., and became secretary of Maj.-Gen. 



Hitchcock in the bureau of exchange of pris- 



oners. Ho was evidently suffering from pul- 



monary disease; but his friends, hoping so 



jnncli from tho climate of the south of Europe, 



' procured his appointment as consul at Valencia, 



Spain; but he was unable to enter upon his 



duties. A trip to Florida, undertaken in tho 



vain hope of arresting his disease, was soon 



followed by the relief of death. 



March 22. JACKSON, JOHN J., a brigadier- 



.d of tho Confederate army, died in Alil- 



led-eville, Ga., aged 37 year's, lie was a native 



of Augusta, Ga., and a lawyer by profession. 



At the opening of the war he raised a force 



known as tho First Georgia Infantry. Being 



promoted to a brigadier-generalship, he com- 



manded a brigade in Bragg'a corps, which 



t Grant at Shiloh. In August, 1804, ho 



was placed in command of the Confederate 



Department of Florida. At tho close of tho 



war ho resumed the practice of law at Au- 



gpnta. 



Al-irch 25. CHAMBER, lion. GEOKOE, a dis- 



tinguished jurist and author, died at Chambers- 



bur^ J'a., aged 80 years. He was a native of 



that town, his ancestors having been its fouud- 



VOL. vi. 36 A 



era; graduated at Princeton in 1804, studied 

 law under Judge Duncan, of Carlisle, and waa 

 admitted to the bar iu 1807. At Chambers- 

 burg his talents, energy, and integrity soon 

 placed him in the front rank of ins profession. 

 IK \\as elected a member of the United .States 

 Congress in 1883, and reflected in 1835. Ho 

 was also a member of tho convention which 

 formed the present constitution of the State of 

 Pennsylvania. In 1851 Gov. Johnston ap- 

 pointed him one of the judges of the Supreme 

 Court of Pennsylvania. Ho was much inter- 

 ested in the early history of his State and 

 county, and besides furnishing valuable mote- 

 rials to others, he published some of his re- 

 searches in his " Tribute to the Scotch-Irish," 

 and had embodied others in a MS. history pre- 

 pared for the Pennsylvania Historical Society, 

 but which was unfortunately destroyed when 

 the rebels burned Chambersburg. He was n 

 diligent student, not merely of the law, but of 

 other branches of knowledge. In 1861 ho re- 

 ceived tho degree of LL. 1). from Washington 

 College, Pa. 



March 31. LOOJIIS, Hon. LUTHER, formerly 

 a prominent politician of Connecticut, died in 

 Sutiield, Conn., aged 85 years. In 1886 he was 

 a candidate of the Conservative party for Gov- 

 ernor. 



March 31. SWAN, BENJAMIN L., an eminent 

 merchant and philanthropist, died in New York, 

 aged 79 years. He was vice-president of the 

 American Bible Society, and identified with 

 many of the religious and benevolent institu- 

 tions of the city. 



March . TIIIBODEAUX, Hon. BANNON G. f 

 died in Terrebone, La. He was a graduate of 

 Hagerstown College, Md., studied law, and 

 became a distinguished member of the Louisiana 

 bar. He served several sessions in the Legisla- 

 ture, until in 1846 he was elected to Congress 

 as a member of the fifth Representative district 

 of that State. 



March . GALTIER, Father, a priest of the 

 Roman Catholic Church, died at Prairie du 

 Ghien, Minnesota. He was the first Catholic 

 missionary in that State, and landed at Fort 

 Snelling in 1840. He gave St. Paul its name. 



March . TAYLOR, Rev. JACOB, a distin- 

 guished Methodist clergyman, died at Piketon, 

 Ohio, aged 69 years. He served in the war of 

 1812, and was with Col. Croghan when he was 

 besieged by the Indians at Fort Sanders, Ky. 



April 1. UARDINO, CHESTER, an American 

 portrait-painter of much celebrity, died in Bos- 

 ton. Ho painted the portraits of Webster, 

 Clay, Madison, Monroe, J. Q. Adams, and All- 

 ston. Also, in England, the Dukes of Norfolk, 

 Hamilton, and Sussex, and of Lord Aberdeen. 

 At the time of his death ho was engaged on a 

 likeness of Gen. Sherman, which ho left unfin- 

 ished. 



April 1. WATSON, Gen. H. P., Adjutant 

 and Inspector-General of Alabama, died at 

 Montgomery, Ala., aged about 60 years. He 

 was a native of South Carolina, but had resiled 



