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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



deposits, giving "inside views" of those inter- 

 esting events. Of late years Major Lewis has 

 lived in close retirement. 



Nov. 15. CARPENTER, DANIEL, Senior Inspec- 

 tor of Metropolitan Police, died suddenly in 

 Now York, aged 51 years. In 1847 he joined 

 the old police, and was appointed captain and 

 assigned to the Fifth Ward, which soon became 

 noted, under his management, for order and 

 quiet. In 1857, upon the appointment of a new 

 board of police commissioners, Captain 0. was 

 made Deputy Superintendent, and it was mainly 

 owing to his exertions that the force was so 

 soon organized, and has since attained its present 

 high state of efficiency. When the office of Dep- 

 uty Superintendent was abolished, Captain 0. 

 was made Senior Inspector, and held this posi- 

 tion until the time of his death. At the time 

 of the riots, July, 1863, his energy and firmness 

 contributed largely to their suppression. His 

 labors, during the last few months of his life, 

 were unusually severe, and were continued up 

 to the day of his death. 



Nov. 15. WHITE, Colonel CALVERT C., Pro- 

 vost-Marshal General of the Department of Ar- 

 kansas, died of typhoid fever at Evenston, 111., 

 aged 36 years. He was born in Cazenovia, 

 New York, in the year 1830. His family re- 

 moved to Waukeeha, Wisconsin, when he was 

 quite young. When the war began he was 

 practising law in Waukesha, and was the Dis- 

 trict-Attorney for that circuit. He entered 

 the military service as captain in the Twenty- 

 eighth Wisconsin Infantry in December, 1862, 

 and served the entire period of enlistment 

 three years rising to the rank of lieutenant- 

 colonel. During the last year of his service he 

 held the position of Provost-Marshal General 

 of the Department of Arkansas, on the staff of 

 Major-General J. J. Reynolds. He participated 

 in Steele's campaign to Southern Arkansas, 

 which was only saved from being disastrous, 

 from the failure of Banks' Red River expedi- 

 tion, by the hard fighting of Steele's command. 

 His abilities as a lawyer were of a high order, 

 and his brilliant social qualities and nobility of 

 character endeared him, to all with whom he 

 came iu contact. 



Nov. 16. PORTER, JOHN F., agent in New 

 York city of the Michigan Southern Railroad, 

 died in Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 61 years. He 

 was originally from Albany, a man of fine edu- 

 cation and irreproachable character. He re- 

 sided many years tit Niles, Michigan, and was 

 Regent of the University of Michigan, and 

 Commissioner of Internal Improvements under 

 Gov. Felch. He went to California in 1852, 

 T>ut returned, after a time, to New York, and 

 became the agent of the railway, and continued 

 in that position till his death. He was a man 

 of the most genial and affable manners, and 

 benevolent almost to excess. 



Nov. AQ. ROUSSILOX, Very Rev. ETIENNE, 

 Vicar-General of the Roman Catholic Church 

 of the State of Louisiana, died at St. Vincent's 

 Hospital, New York, aged 66 years. He was a 



native of Leon, France. While upon his pas 

 Bage from Havre to New York, in ascending tc 

 the deck of the vessel, he slipped, and falling 

 backward down the companion-way, received 

 injuries which a few days after proved fatal. 



Nov. 17. WHEELOCK, MERRILL G., an artist 

 in water-colors, architect, and writer on art 

 topics, died in Chelsea, Mass. He was a man 

 of fine intellectual attainments and great energy 

 of character. Among his latest sketches may 

 be mentioned a review of Church's " Heart of 

 the Andes," published in the " Christian Ex- 

 aminer" of March, 1866. During the war he 

 entered the army as a private from motives of 

 pure patriotism, and served with patient faith- 

 fulness during the term for which his regiment 

 enlisted. 



Nov. 19. WALKER, Capt. WM. M., U. S. Navy, 

 died in New York, aged 53 years. He gradu- 

 ated at the Naval School at Norfolk, with 

 honor, and was passed midshipman, June, 1833. 

 After service in the Mediterranean and in the 

 waters of the West Indies, he was appointed, in 

 1838, to take part in the famous " Exploring 

 Expedition " of Captain Wilkes in the Antarctic 

 Ocean, during which voyage he evinced a rare 

 combination of courage, fortitude, and skill. In 

 the year 1851 Captain Walker was directed by 

 the Navy Department, in recognition of his 

 scientific attainments, to visit France and Eng- 

 land, with a view to the collection of informa- 

 tion on steam in its special applications to pur- 

 poses of naval architecture and equipment. The 

 fruits of his study and observations under this 

 head were subsequently published in an able 

 monograph, which attracted much attention 

 from members of his profession. At the out- 

 break of the civil war Capt. Walker was detailed 

 from the navy to perform a confidential duty in 

 Europe, under the direction of the State De- 

 partment, and on subsequently returning to the 

 United States, was placed in command of the 

 steamer De Soto, composing a part of the Gulf 

 Blockading Squadron. His patience and vigi- 

 lance during this irksome period of care and 

 wearing apprehension was the result of a 

 thorough patriotism and devotion to duty, and 

 it cost no little self-sacrifice to one who so 

 longed for the more active duties of the service. 

 During 'the thirty-nine years of his official life, 

 more than sixteen were spent in arduous sea 

 service and more than ten in "shore duty," 

 leaving a comparatively small portion of his 

 time unemployed in the immediate engage- 

 ments of his profession. At the date of his 

 death he was inspector of light-houses in the 

 Third District of New York. 



Nov. 22. BEEWSTER, JAMES, an eminent 

 manufacturer and philanthropist of New Haven, 

 died in that city, aged 79 years. He was a man 

 of singular purity of character, energetic in busi- 

 ness, and thoroughly devoted to the interests 

 not only of the city and State, but to those of 

 humanity at large. He erected the large public 

 hall, in New Haven, bearing his name, and A 

 number of tenement houses in a section of the 



