OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 







OBIT I'. Mil KS, AMERICAN. Jan. 1. DOR- 

 I..IIN AM MI.I:, a young port of much 

 promi-e, di'-d in Philadelphia, aged thirty-one 

 lie was a conveyancer l.y profc-Mon. 

 "init hi* acknowledged talent- gave him a warm 

 ::to the literary circles of his own 

 MIX! his poems, l>y their beauty and 

 genuine iin-rit, hail made him friends among 

 journalists, artists, actors, and musicians. A 

 volume of his poems, collected from the jour- 

 nals and maga/ines in which they had origi- 

 nally appeared, was ])iil)lislied two or three 

 months before his death, and attracted great 

 attention, but at the time of their publication 

 he was already far gone in consumption. 



. 8. MAUCIIHA.NKS, ANDUEW J., a Ten- 

 6 jurist, died :it MeMinnville. Ho had 

 been chancellor of the State and circuit judge, 

 serving as a judicial officer twenty-five years. 



Jan. 4. FINE, Hon. JOHN, a prominent citi- 

 zen of Northern New York, died at Ogdens- 

 burg. N". Y., aped eighty-two years. He grad- 

 uated at Columbia College in 1809, studied law 

 at Litchlield, Conn., and removed to St. Law- 

 rence County in 1815, where he practised his 

 -sioti with marked success. He was judge 

 of that county from 1824 to 1839; elected to 

 Congress in 1838 ; reappointed county judge in 

 1844, and held that position until the adoption 

 of the uew constitution. But three of his judi- 

 cial decisions were ever reversed. In 1848 he 

 was chosen State Senator, and held that posi- 

 tion for one term, during which he introduced 

 and aided in passing measures of great impor- 

 tance. Since that period he has occupied 

 various positions of trust in St. Lawrence 

 County ; but of late years, owing to hi* im- 

 paired eyesight and increasing age, he did not 

 participate actively in public a:' 



Jan. 4. FLINT, WILSON, a State Senator of 

 California, died in San Francisco. He was a 

 well-known pioneer and public-spirited citizen 

 of that State, and had been prominently con- 

 nected with its wine, silk, and hop-growing 

 inter 



Jan. 5. TAYLOR, Mrs. NANCY, died at East- 

 port, L. I., aged 100 years. 



Jan. 5. WALKU.S, MARY, the last survivor of 

 the Montauk tribe of Indians, died at Shinne- 

 cock, L. I., aged 100 years. 



Jint. G. CfMMiN'os, Rev. MOSES, aChrist-ian 

 minister, long an editor of the leading religious 

 paper of that denomination, died in New York 

 City, aged 51 years. Ho was born at Haverhill, 

 , entered the ministry at eighteen years of 

 age, and gave his earliest labors to Now York 

 and New Jersey. In 1854 ho assumed editorial 

 charge of the central denominational organs, 

 The Christian Messc H;// r and The PaUaaittm, 

 'ing his position in the spring of 1802. 

 He was a determined opponent of slavery, and 



while deprecating the action of the Southern 

 branch of the Church in 1858, was firmly op- 

 po-ed to all compromise or fellowship with 

 slaveholders. As a friend and admirer of 

 Horace Mann, Mr. Cummings took the greatest 

 intciv-t in his peculiar educational views, and 

 during Mr. Mann's presidency of Antioch Col- 

 lege, his measures were unwaveringly sup- 

 ported by. the denominational organs. 



Jan. 6. Ki \M:I>V, DIEOO LENNOX, vice- 

 consul of the United States to Jalapa, Mexico, 

 died at Vera Cruz at an advanced age. He was 

 for many years a resident of this country, and 

 laid the foundation of his fortune on the Pacific 

 coast. He was one of the founders of Mazatlan, 

 but in 1838, attracted by the delightful climate 

 and beautiful situation of Jalapa, established 

 himself there, where he continued to reside 

 until a few months previous to his decease. 



Jan. 7. HAYNE, Colonel ARTHUR P., a prom- 

 inent citizen of Charleston, S. C., died there, 

 77 years. He was a grand-nephew of 

 Isaac Hayne, of the Revolution, was educated a 

 merchant, but at the commencement of the 

 war with Great Britain obtained a commission 

 in the light dragoons under Colonel Wade 

 Hampton, and was conspicuous in the battle of 

 Sackett's Harbor in 1812, where he was pro- 

 moted for his gallantry. During the Creek 

 war in 1814, he was appointed inspector-gen- 

 eral and acted as adjutant-general under General 

 Jackson. For his gallantry at Pensacola he 

 was made colonel, and subsequently was honor- 

 ably mentioned in the official dispatch of Gen- 

 eral Jackson to the War Department. In 1820 

 ho resigned -his commission in the army, 

 studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 

 Charleston, where he soon distinguished him- 

 self. Subsequently, he became a member of 

 the State Legislature, and in 1858 was ap- 

 pointed to the U. S. Senate, but shortly after- 

 ward resigned his position. During the recent 

 war he took no active part in politics, but, 

 while lamenting the attempt to dissolve the 

 Union, gave his sympathies to the South. 



Jan. 7. JAMES, CAROLINE, a j-lave until the 

 evacuation of Richmond in April, 18G5, died in 

 that city, aged 130 years. 



Jan. 7. MILLY, a colored woman, died at 

 the residence of Captain Harris, Nelson Couuty, 

 Va., at the advanced age of 135 years. 



Jan. 8. STABR, Rev. FREDERICK, Jr., a Pres- 

 byterian clergyman, died at St. I.ouis, Mo., 

 aged 41 years. He was a native of Rochester, 

 N. Y., graduated at Yale College in the class 

 of 1846, and at the Auburn Theological Semi- 

 nary in 1850, soon after which he was ordained 

 pastor of the Presbyterian church in AVeston. 

 Mo. His location, on the western border of 

 the State, but four miles from Fort Leaven- 

 worth, exposed him to the agitation concern- 



