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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. r,7 



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:I:Y, !!cv. \Vn.i.i.\M M., a 

 iaii clergyman, died at (iraiid llavi-n, 

 Mich, llv' \\ as born at (Iran by, M:i*s., on 



:li nt' September, IT!";, and at the ago of 



i, desirous df In-coming a minister of the 

 an. unaided, a struggle for an 



tion. A! tin- a.-e of tweiit y-oin- In- coin- 

 id. -ted his collegiate course in 1'nion College, 

 and then entered upon the study of theology, 

 under the tutor-hip of the Ucv. Gardner Spring, 

 uo\\ of N'cw York City. In 1822 he was or- 

 dained a minister of tin- Presbyterian Church 

 in New York, but tendered his services as a 

 mis-ionary, and, having been accepted by the 

 American Hoard, was sent toMackinac. There 



:ablished a school for both whites and 

 Indians, and labored twelve years with ^ratify- 

 ing success. Hut his constitution having been 

 undermined, ho sought other employment, and 



'.4 struck into the wilderness, and with 

 two other gentlemen purchased a section of 

 land in the Craml River Valley. Here they 

 founded a >ett lenient, which is now a thriving 

 town. He was one of the first to perceive the 

 future value of the immense pine-forests of 

 Michigan, and soon commenced the manufacture 

 of lumber, rapidly extending his operations 

 along the lake-shore, until his family were so 

 largely engaged in the business that the several 

 mills cut and shipped about 15,000,000 feet of 

 lumber during a single year. His bequests to 

 benevolent objects exceeded $120,000. 



Dec. 31. AUUIXGTON, Hon. ALFRED W., died 

 in Chicago, 111. He was born in Iredell Coun- 

 ty, North Carolina, in September, 1810, and was 

 the son of Hon. Archibald Arrington, a Whig 

 member of Congress from that State from 1841 

 to 1845. In 1829 young Arrington, who had 

 received a good education in his native State, 

 was received on trial as a Methodist circuit 

 preacher in Indiana, and subsequently preached 

 as an itinerant in 1832 and 1833 in Missouri, 

 his remarkable mental powers and his fiery, 

 glowing eloquence everywhere drawing crowds 

 to hear him. In 1834 he abandoned the ministry 

 and studied law, being admitted soon after to 

 the Missouri bar. lie removed in 1835 or 1836 

 to Arkansas, attained distinction in his profes- 

 sion, and was sent to the Legislature. In 1844 

 he was nominated an elector on the Whig 

 ticket, but withdrew his name, and avowed 

 hims'-lf a Democrat. Soon after Texas became 

 independent of Mexico he removed thither, and 

 in 1850 was elected Judge of the Twelfth Dis- 

 trict Court, over which he presided till 1856. 

 His health failing, he was compelled to seek a 

 more northern climate, and spent a few months 

 in Xew York City, and removed to Madison, 

 Wisconsin, win-re he remained but a short time. 

 In 1857 he came to Chicago, which thence- 

 forward was his home. In that city ho soon 

 won a very high reputation as a constitutional 

 lawyer, and such was his ability, that ho was 



constantly retained in tin- important ca0C com- 

 ing before the I'nitcd States J)i.-lrict and Cir 

 cuit Court-, and the Supreme ( 'ouri 

 ton, and his death \\ a- ha-tciit d by the prcmore 

 of over-work. He hud a fine reputation o a 

 M-holar and writer, and hi.s contributions to the 

 Democratic Review and the Southern Literary 

 Metseii'f /; under the ///-////// /ifnme of " Charles 

 Siimmerficld," will be remembered by many. 

 In one of these occurred the famous "Apostro- 

 phe to Water," which he puts into the mouth 

 of an itinerant Methodist preacher, and which 

 John B. Gough has so often quoted with thrill- 

 ing effect. 



Dec. . BARCLAY,Mrs. CHRISTINA, d'n-d near 

 Mount Washington, Bullitt Gonnty, Ky., at 

 the age of 103 years. She was oorn in Phila- 

 delphia, February 11, 1765. On the anniver- 

 sary of licr hundredth birthday she was so active 

 as to dance at the party collected at her honse. 



Dec. . STEVENS, Brigadier-General WAL- 

 TER II., an officer in the Confederate army, died 

 in Iber\ ille, La. He was a native of New York, 

 born about 1827, graduated at West Point in 

 1848, fourth in his class, and appointed Brevet 

 Second-Lieutenant of Engineers in July of that 

 year. He served as assistant-engineer at Fort 

 Adams, Newport, R. I., in 1848; in repairing 

 the fortifications below New Orleans, in 1849- 

 1853, and in various engineering services on 

 the coast of Tesas and the approaches to New 

 Orleans and to Galveston, Texas, from 1853 to 

 1861, having meantime been promoted to be 

 Kir-t -Lieutenant of Engineers in July, 1855. 

 He had married in Iberville, La., and at the 

 commencement of the war took the side of 

 the South, and was dismissed from the U. S. 

 Army May 2, 1861. He was attached to Gen- 

 eral Beauregard's staff as engineer officer and 

 promoted to the rank of brigadier-general. Ho 

 remained in this position through the war, and 

 surrendered at Appomattox Court-Hous in 

 April, 1865. After this he went to Mexico, 

 where he was for a time chief engineer on the 

 railroad from Vera Cruz to Mexico, but returned 

 to Louisiana to die. 



Dec. . THOMPSON, Major Jons, died in 

 Vergennes, Vt., aged 85 years. He was a veteran 

 of the War of 1812, captain of a company of 

 Vermont volunteers in the battle of Platts- 

 burg, and captor of a company of British regu- 

 lars in that fight. He was subsequently 

 mayor of Vergennes. 



OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. Jan. 1. CLIS- 

 SOLD, Rev. HENJ:Y, M. A., a clergyman of the 

 English Church, and author, born in 1796, edu- 

 cated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he grad- 

 uated H. A. in 1818. In 1830 he was pre.-ent- 

 ed by Lord Lyndhurst to the rectory of Clul- 

 mondiston, Suffolk, and held that benefice 

 twenty-eight years. He was also for a period 

 of thirty-three years minister of Stockwell chap- 

 el, Lambeth, -holding it during a portion of the 

 time with his Suffolk rectory. Mr. Clissold 

 was best known, however, as one of the leaders 

 of the Evangelical party in the Church, and as 



