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OBITUAEIES, UNITED STATES. 



July 27. HAYWAED, Prof. JAMES, civil engi- 

 neer, and formerly professor of mathematics in 

 Harvard University, died in Boston, Mass., 

 aged 80 years. He graduated at Har 'ard, in 

 the class of 1819. 



July 29. SMITH, Gen. MAETIN LUTHEB, an of- 

 ficer in the Confederate army, died at Rome, Ga. 

 He was a graduate of West Point, and served 

 in the Mexican War. During the late war he 

 was at the head of the engineer corps of the 

 army, and, among other prominent performan- 

 ces, planned and constructed the defences of 

 Vicksburg. At the time of his death he was 

 chief engineer of the system of railroads which 

 is to connect Selma, Ala., and Dalton, Ga. 



Aug. 2. PANGBOEN, HENEY H., paymaster 

 in the U. S. Navy, died at Pensacola, Fla., aged 

 27 years. He was formerly connected for sev- 

 eral years with the press of New York, Boston, 

 and Philadelphia. At the outbreak of the late 

 war he entered the navy, and served through- 

 out with great distinction. 



Aug. 2. SIMPSON, JOHN W., an eminent citi- 

 zen of Newark, N. J., died there, aged 65 years. 

 He was a man of -fine scholarship and attain- 

 ments, and was well known as a book-collector. 



Aug. 3. BEALE, JAMES M. H., died in Put- 

 nam County, W. Va. He was a native of that 

 State, and was a Representative in Congress 

 from the Shenandoah District from 1833 to 

 1837, and again from 1849 to 1853. 



Aug. 3. NEWMAN, Eev. WILLIAM P., a colored 

 Baptist clergyman of Cincinnati, died in that 

 city, of cholera, aged 51 years. He was born 

 a slave in Richmond, Va., but escaped from 

 bondage when a young man, and made his 

 home in Cincinnati ; was educated at Oberlin 

 College, and entering the ministry became pas- 

 tor of a church in Madison, Ind., and after- 

 ward of a church in the home of his adoption. 

 Upon the passage of the fugitive-slave bill in 

 1850 he was obliged to leave the States, and 

 settle in Canada, where he was pastor of sev- 

 eral churches. Subsequently he labored for 

 several years in Hayti and Jamaica as a mis- 

 sionary, under the auspices of the Free Mission 

 Society, and, returning to Cincinnati, accepted 

 the pastorate of the Union Baptist Church, 

 which relation he continued until his death. 



Aug. 3. RUTHEEFOED, Col. JOHN, died in 

 Richmond, Va. He was for several .years 

 Lieutenant-Governor of that State. 



Aug. 4. PIEESON, Judge THOMAS B., a promi- 

 nent Democratic politician of New Jersey, died 

 at Newark, aged 66 years. He was twice ap- 

 pointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas of 

 Essex County, and was highly esteemed through- 

 out the State. 



Aug. 4. RUSSELL, GEOEGE ROBEET, LL. D., 

 an eminent foreign merchant and scholar of 

 Manchester, Mass., died there, aged 66 years. 

 He was a native of Providence, R. I., graduated 

 at Brown University in 1821, studied law in 

 Philadelphia, and was admitted to the bar of 

 Rhode Island. His business tastes, however, 

 soon induced him to abandon the law for a 



mercantile career. He went to Lima, then to 

 China, and finally founded a house in Manilla, 

 where he gained a competence in a few years, 

 and, retiring from business, returned to thia 

 country, and passed the remainder of his life at 

 Manchester in the pursuit' of agriculture and 

 literature. In 1849 he received the degree of 

 LL. D. from Brown University. 



Aug. 5. DOSTIE, Dr. ANTHONY P., a citi- 

 zen of New Orleans, died from wounds re- 

 ceived from the mob in that city of July 

 30th. He was a native of Saratoga County, 

 N. Y., and was a barber by trade, but hig 

 fondness for study was such, that he eoon be- 

 came a prominent member of society. Turn- 

 ing his attention to dentistry, he became a 

 proficient, and removed to Chicago to pursue 

 his calling in a broader field. Here he con- 

 tinued some years in the successful practice of 

 his profession, and subsequently removed to 

 New Orleans, where his integrity of character 

 and genial nature won him many friends. His 

 support of the Government during the war 

 drew the attention of those who desired its 

 overthrow, and his fearlessness in the expres- 

 sion of his sentiments, while winning the re- 

 spect of his friends, secured at the same time 

 the intense hatred of his enemies. On the 

 reorganization of the government for Louisi- 

 ana, he was appointed auditor, and filled that 

 position with credit to himself and profit to the 

 State. In the spring of 1866 many of the citi- 

 zens of Louisiana were desirous of having an- 

 other session of the constitutional convention 

 of 1864, which had adjourned to be reas- 

 sembled by the call of its president. (See LOUIS- 

 IANA.) The mob which, on the 30th of July, 

 broke up that convention, sought out Dr. 

 Dostie as one of its first victims, and, though 

 unarmed, he was shot and beaten till he was 

 supposed to be dead, and thrown into a cart 

 with the dead bodies of the other victims of 

 the mob. Being finally taken to the hos- 

 pital, he survived six days, though in great 

 suffering. 



Aug. 5. HOETON, Rev. JOTHAM WELLS, chap- 

 lain of the Louisiana constitutional convention, 

 another .victim of the New Orleans mob of July 

 30th, mortally wounded while endeavoring to 

 dissuade the mob from murderous violence. He 

 survived until the 5th of August, though in in- 

 tense suffering. He was a native of Nan tucket, 

 Mass., and after obtaining a good education in 

 his native State, had been called to the min- 

 istry in the Baptist Church. He spent some 

 time in New York City, in connection with a 

 new city mission enterprise, and after the oc- 

 cupation of New Orleans by General Butler, 

 went to that city, and became pastor of a 

 Baptist Church there. He was much beloved, 

 and had distinguished himself by his unwearied 

 ministrations, both temporal and spiritual, to 

 the sick and wounded soldiers. After his 

 death his body was sent to Boston, and the 

 funeral services were attended by an immense 

 concourse, such as has spJdorn been seen iv tbat 



