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OBITUAEIES, UNITED STATES. 



critical period of the war, Mr. Loring gave 

 for the national cause the support of his in- 

 fluence and his eloquence, and his speech at 

 the great Republican gathering in Faneuil Hall 

 was one of the ablest appeals made to the 

 patriotism of the people in that exciting time. 

 On the occasion of the death of Edward Everett, 

 he also delivered an oration in praise of his 

 deceased friend, which, though brief, was justly 

 regarded as most felicitous. But his happiest 

 effort was the pathetic address which he pro- 

 nounced at the meeting that assembled to de- 

 plore the assassination of President Lincoln, 

 and in which he gave expression to the sorrow 

 and indignation of the popular mind. 



Oct. 8. STOCKING, Rev. SOLON, a Methodist 

 clergyman, died at Binghamton, N. Y. He 

 was a native of Connecticut, and removed to 

 Binghamton about 1827. He was regarded as 

 a powerful and popular exhorter, and was 

 eminent as a choral leader and revivalist. At 

 that time the circuit embraced a charge of 

 many miles in circumference, including Owego 

 and Tioga County, and nearly if not quite all 

 the towns in Broome County, and the labor 

 was excessive ; so much so, that after five years 

 of continued toil his health began to fail. Hav- 

 ing resolved, therefore, to change his vocation, 

 lie, in looking about for a place to enter into 

 secular business, decided that Binghamton, then 

 a thriving settlement, would eventually become 

 a great business centre and at once established 

 himself in the dry-goods trade. He followed 

 mercantile pursuits successfully for ten years, 

 and in 1844 visited the South and settled in 

 Alabama, where, for a like period, he carried 

 on a profitable dentistry business, returning to 

 Binghamton in 1854, and thenceforward re- 

 siding there, an honored citizen. 



Oct. 8. SWAKTWOUT, Captain and Brevet 

 Major, Seventeenth U. S. Infantry, died of 

 yellow fever, at Galveston, Texas. 



Oct. 10. DE MOETIE, Madame LOUISE, a 

 public reader and philanthropist of New Or- 

 leans, died of yellow fever in that city, aged 34 

 years. She was born in Norfolk, Virginia, but 

 received her education in Boston. In the 

 autumn of of 18G2 she began her career as a 

 public reader in Boston. Her rare ability, elo- 

 quent rendering of the poets, pleasing manner, 

 and good sense, gained for her some of the 

 leading men and women of the country among 

 her friends. After the proclamation of eman- 

 cipation, when the. freedmeh were helpless and 

 friendless, Madame de Mortie went to New 

 Orleans, and began her noble mission, among 

 them. She first gave lectures, and employed 

 the proceeds in establishing an asylum for the 

 freed children. Of this asylum she became 

 matron, and henceforth devoted all her energy 

 and talent to its support. Although urged by 

 her relatives and friends at the North to leave 

 New Orleans until the yellow fever had ceased 

 its ravages, she refused to desert her post. 



Oct. 11. HUNT, Mrs. JANE, widow of the 

 late Rev. Christopher Hunt, a clergyman of the 



Dutch Reformed Church, died in New York, 

 aged 60 years. She was a sister of the late 

 Rev. John Scudder, missionary to India, and 

 was known as a woman of great benevolence 

 and piety, and for more than a quarter of a 

 century was one of the most thorough and suc- 

 cessful teachers in New York City. 



Oct. 11. SEYMOUR, Hon. DAVID L., died at 

 Lanesborough, Mass., aged about 65 years. He 

 was a native of Connecticut ; removed to New 

 York, and in 1836 was elected a member of the 

 State Legislature. He served two terms in 

 Congress, from 1843 to 1845, and from 1851 

 to 1853, and was a master in chancery. 



Oct. 13. COTTING, Rev. JOIIN RUGGI.ES, M. D., 

 LL. D., an American clergyman and physicist, 

 died at Milledgeville, Ga. He was born in 

 Acton, Mass., in 1784, and was educated at 

 Harvard College, and the Medical JSchool of 

 Dartmouth College, and was ordained a Con- 

 gregational minister about 1810. Having a 

 strong predilection for physical science, he 

 devoted himself to the study of chemistry and 

 its allied sciences with such effect as to be 

 employed during the War of 1812 in the manu- 

 facture of chemical compounds never before 

 produced in this country, for a company in 

 Boston. After the war he accepted the pro- 

 fessorship of the Natural Sciences in Amherst 

 College, preaching at the same time to a church 

 in the vicinity. He subsequently- became Pro- 

 fessor of Chemistry in the Berkshire Medical 

 Institute, and in some seminaries of Western 

 Massachusetts. He prepared also text-books 

 on chemistry and geology, the former of which 

 was adopted in Yale College. In 1835 he 

 removed to Augusta, Georgia, and soon entered 

 upon a. geological and agricultural survey, at 

 first of Burke and Richland Counties, and sub- 

 sequently of the entire State. The financial 

 condition of the State in 1839 caused this 

 work to be suspended, after it had been prose- 

 cuted for two years. Dr. Cotting's later years 

 were spent at Milledgeville, where he was much 

 esteemed. 



Oct. 13. FETTERMAN, Brevet-Major GEORGE 

 W., Captain Fifteenth U. S. Infantry, died at 

 Pittsburg, Pa. He was identified with the his- 

 tory of his regiment from its organization in 

 1801, and for his meritorious service won 

 the brevet of major. His death occurred from 

 disease incident to his service. 



Oct. 16. DANA, Hon. CHARLES F., a member 

 of the Executive Council of Massachusetts, died 

 at Boston, of diphtheria, in his 36th year. He 

 was the son of Francis W. Dana, formerly 

 manager of the old Tremont Theatre, and 

 passed a great part of his early life in Belgium, 

 where he received the rudiments of his educa- 

 tion. On returning to America he entered the 

 Harvard University, and graduated there in 

 1852. He was thrice elected a member of the 

 Boston Board of Aldermen, and was made 

 Chairman of the Russian reception committee 

 in 1863. At the time of his death he was a 

 member of the Massachusetts Executive Coun- 



