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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



Gibson early became prominent in Arkansas 

 politics. Between 1838 and 1856 he was four 

 times a member of the Legislature ; in J840 he 

 was the Whig candidate for Governor. In 1849 

 he was appointed by President Taylor Surveyor- 

 General of Arkansas, and held the office for four 

 years. In 1865 he was chosen Representative 

 from the State in Congress, and at the time of 

 his death was a prominent candidate for United 

 States Senator. 



Sept. 29. ALEXANDER, CHARLES, one of the 

 oldest journalists in the United States, died in 

 Philadelphia, aged 70 years. He was a native 

 of that city, and at the age of 16 years was 

 apprenticed to a printer. Subsequently he pur- 

 chased the old printing-office of Benjamin 

 Franklin, with type and presses. He edited and 

 published the "Daily Chronicle," and afterward 

 the " Saturday Evening Post," and was publisher 

 of "Graham's Magazine," Burton's "Gentle- 

 man's Magazine," and the "Lady's Book." 



Sept. . SPAULDING, Miss ALMY, a noted 

 teacher of Providence, R. I., died in that city, 

 aged 70 years. Her early life was passed in 

 Bristol, R. F., whence she removed to Provi- 

 dence about 1833, and opened a private school 

 in the third ward. After teaching thus for 

 two years, she was appointed principal of a 

 primary school, a position which she retained 

 until 1864, when she was transferred to 

 another primary school, which she con- 

 ducted for one or two years. Miss Spaulding 

 was a veteran teacher, having served the 

 city of Providence for nearly a generation. 

 During that time, more than three thousand 

 different pupils received more or less of her 

 discipline and instruction, and she lived long 

 enough to receive under her care the children 

 and grandchildren of those who first learned 

 their alphabet from her. She possessed a 

 strong love for her work, especially that por- 

 tion of it which partook of a benevolent char- 

 acter, and not only attended to the mental 

 wants of her pupils, but was constantly using 

 her own mean?, or procuring aid from others, 

 to clothe and feed those who came to her school 

 in destitute circumstances. 



Oct. 1. BURNETT, HEXRY C., a lawyer of 

 Kentucky, died in Louisville, of cholera, aged 

 41 years. He was a native of Essex County, 

 Va., but removed early to Kentucky, where'he 

 entered upon the practice of law, and was for 

 two years clerk of the Circuit Court of Trigg 

 County. He was elected to Congress in 1855, 

 and again two years afterward ; also in 1859 and 

 1861, but was expelled for his open sympathy 

 with the South. Serving in the Confederate 

 Senate, he remained until the overthrow of the 

 Confederacy, and since that time has exerted 

 himself to restore the peace Democrats to the 

 ascendency in his State. 



Oct. 2. HAPPERSETT, Rev. REESE, D. D., a 

 Presbyterian clergyman, for many years Secre- 

 tary of the Presbyterian Board of Domestic 

 Missions, died in Stockton, California. 



Oct. 3. CULVER, JAMES I)., formerly a prom- 



inent lawyer of New York, died on his planta- 

 tion on the Wachita River, Louisiana, aged 50 

 years. He was a man of highly cultivated in- 

 tellect and extensive influence. 



Oct. 3. KINGSBURY, Colonel CHARLES, Jr., 

 U. S. Yols., died at Ironton, Ohio, aged 28 

 years. His first connection with the army was 

 as major in an Ohio regiment; then he became 

 assistant adjutant-general, served with General 

 Rosecrans in West Virginia, and was appointed 

 on the staff of General John F. Reynolds, where 

 he won military honors. At the battle of 

 Gaines's Mill he was taken prisoner, and after 

 his release was appointed to the staff of Gen- 

 eral Sheridan, sharing in all the exploits of that 

 renowned officer. At the termination of the 

 war Colonel K. returned to the peaceful pursuits 

 of business, where he was ever beloved and re- 

 spected for his integrity and faithfulness to 

 duty. 



Oct. 4. DICKENS, AUGUSTUS N., brother of 

 Charles Dickens, the celebrated novelist, died 

 at Chicago, 111., aged 40 years. He was the 

 original " Boz," this being the pet name given 

 by his family, and was born at Landport, near 

 Portsmouth, Eng. ; emigrated to America, and 

 purchasing land at Amboy, on the Illinois Cen- 

 tral Railway, engaged in mercantile pursuits. 

 Losing his money invested, he removed to 

 Chicago with his family* and entered the land- 

 office of the Illinois Central Railway as cor- 

 responding clerk, which position be filled at 

 the time of his death. Previous to his coming 

 to this country he was a correspondent of the 

 "London Daily News." 



Oct. 4. OSBAND, General D. E., a distin- 

 guished cavalry officer of U. S. Yols., died on 

 his plantation in Mississippi. His death was 

 caused by over-exertion in the care of the 

 freedmen in his employ, during an epidemic of 

 cholera. 



Oct. 4. RAREY, JOHN S., the celebrated 

 horse-tamer, died at Cleveland, Ohio, aged 38 

 years. He was born in Franklin County, Ohio, 

 and at an early age showed a knack in the 

 management of horses, which induced the 

 neighbors to submit their intractable beasts to 

 his powers. His own system, by which he 

 gained so much celebrity and profit, was worked 

 out by degrees from his observations on equine 

 peculiarities. In 1856 he went to Texas, and 

 found plenty of material to experiment upon. 

 When he returned to Ohio, he began to give pub- 

 lic exhibitions, and from that time was almost 

 continuously before the public. About five 

 years ago he went to Europe, and surprised 

 every one by his complete mastery of the most 

 incorrigible horses. In England particularly, the 

 most vicious beasts that could be found were 

 brought to him, and in no instance did he fail to 

 get at least temporary control over his subjects. 

 One of the greatest triumphs of his skill was 

 manifested in the taming of the racing-colt 

 Cruiser, which was so vicious that he had killed 

 one or two grooms, and was of necessity kept 

 under control by a heavy iron muzzle. Under 



