OBITUAEIES, UNITED STATES. 



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Nov. 30. EVANS, Brigadier-General N. 

 GEOEGE, an officer in the Confederate service ; 

 died at Midway, Bullock County, Ala., where 

 he was teaching, aged about 40 years. He was 

 a native of South Carolina, and graduated at 

 West Point in 1848, thirty-sixth in his class ; 

 was appointed brevet second-lieutenant, 1st 

 Dragoons, and employed mostly on frontier 

 service, in which he distinguished himself, and 

 rose to be captain in the 2d Cavalry in 1856. 

 He resigned in February, 1861, and was soon 

 after promoted to a command in the Confed- 

 erate army, in which he served throughout the 

 war, and subsequently engaged in teaching. 



Nov. . HABTZ, Captain E. L., U. S. A., 

 an able officer, died while on frontier duty at 

 Fort Eeno, Dakota Territory, aged 34 years. 

 He was born in Pottsville, Pa., graduated at 

 "West Point in 1855, and served on the frontier 

 in Texas from that time until 1861, then on 

 staff and quartermasters' positions until 1864, 

 when he was dropped from the Army. In 

 1866 he was reappointed captain of the 27th 

 Infantry, in which capacity he was serving at 

 the period of his death. 



Nov. . ROYCE, STEPHEN, formerly Gov- 

 ernor of Vermont ; died in that State, aged 81 

 years. He was for twenty-five years Chief 

 Justice of Vermont, and, from 1854 to 1856, 

 Governor of that State. 



Dec. 3. HENDEESON, Mrs. JANE, an aged 

 widow, died at Brooklyn, L. I. She was born 

 in Monmouth County, N. J., in 1768, and her 

 memory of the battle of Monmouth, in which 

 her father participated, was very distinct. In 

 1817 she removed to New York. Her mental 

 faculties were preserved until just before her 

 death. 



Dec. 3. McCEAE, JAMES MAIZE, a veteran 

 journalist of Washington, died in that city, in 

 his 86th year. The active portion of his life 

 was spent in literary pursuits. For some time 

 he was editor of the New Orleans Tropic, at 

 one time a leading Whig journal in that city, 

 and at various periods subsequently was con- 

 nected, as contributor or correspondent, with 

 leading papers in different parts of the country, 

 including the old Washington Union, the Na- 

 tional Intelligencer, the New York Tribune, 

 The New York Times, and some of the promi- 

 nent Western journals. 



Dec. 3. MATNADIEE, Brevet Major-General 

 HENEY E., U. S. A., died at Charleston, S. 0., 

 aged 38 years. He was a native of Virginia; 

 graduated at West Point, July 1, 1851, as bre- 

 vet second-lieutenant 1st Artillery ; served on 

 garrison and frontier duty until 1857; accom- 

 panied the Utah Expedition in 1857-'58 ; and 

 from 1859 to 1861 was with the expedition 

 for survey and exploration of the Upper Mis- 

 souri and Yellowstone Rivers. During the 

 war he participated in some most impor- 

 tant engagements the bombardment of Island 

 No. 10 ; attack on Fort Pillow ; naval action 

 before Memphis; bombardment of Vicksburg, 

 Mississippi; battle of Fredericksburg, etc., etc. 



In 1864 he was on the Board for inspecting 

 hospitals in Michigan, and on special duty in 

 the Adjutant-General's office at Washington, 

 D. 0. He also served in various other im- 

 portant positions. He was promoted to be 

 brevet brigadier-general U. S. Volunteers, 

 March 13,1865, "for gallant and meritorious 

 services during the rebellion," and brevet 

 major-general, March 13, 1865, "for distin- 

 guished services on the frontier while operat- 

 ing against hostile Indians." 



Dec. 3. RIVEES, HENEY WHEATON, M. D., 

 an eminent surgeon of Rhode Island, died at 

 Providence, R. L, aged 50 years. Having been 

 educated at the Harvard and Pennsylvania 

 Medical Colleges, he commenced practice in 

 Providence in 1839. In 1845 he published a 

 very useful little book on "Accidents and Poi- 

 sons." At the breaking out of the war he was 

 one of the first to volunteer, and remained in 

 the service till after Lee's surrender. He was 

 at various times detached as brigade surgeon 

 of the Third Brigade, Department of North 

 Carolina ; surgeon to Third Division, Depart- 

 ment of North Carolina ; medical director of 

 the army for the defences of Harper's Ferry, 

 Virginia ; surgeon to headquarters, Army of 

 the Potomac ; surgeon to headquarters, Depart- 

 ment of the Ohio ; and medical inspector of 

 Third Division, Ninth Army Corps. At the 

 close of the war he was brevetted lieutenant- 

 colonel for meritorious services. 



Dec. 4. OLMSTEAD, HAWLEY, LL. D., an 

 eminent teacher of Connecticut, died at New 

 Haven, Conn., in the seventy-fifth year of his 

 age. He was a native of Wilton, Conn.; 

 graduated at Yale college in 1816, and entered 

 upon the work of instruction, first at the acad- 

 emy in his native town, and later as rector of 

 the Hopkins Grammar School at New Haven, 

 resigning his office in 1849, on account of ill- 

 health. He represented Wilton four times in 

 the State Legislature, and the second senato- 

 rial district once. 



Dec. 4. PAEVIN, Rev. ROBEET I., an Epis- 

 copal clergyman, Secretary of the Evangelical 

 Educational Society, was lost on the steamboat 

 United States, on the Ohio River, near Madison, 

 Ind., aged 45 years. He received his theo- 

 logical education at the Virginia Seminary, 

 and entered upon the work of the ministry at 

 Leroy, N. Y. Subsequently he was rector of 

 a church at Pittsfield and afterward at Chil- 

 ton Hills, Pa. During the late war he ac- 

 cepted a general agency for the Christian Com- 

 mission, whose organization he was largely in- 

 strumental in perfecting. On the organization 

 of the Evangelical Education Society, he was 

 appointed its first secretary, and it was while 

 engaged in fulfilling an appointment in its be- 

 half that he met his death. 



Dec. 4. RISING, Rev. FEANKLIN S., an Epis- 

 copal clergyman, Secretary of the American 

 Church Missionary Society, was lost on the 

 steamboat United States, on the Ohio River, 

 near Madison, Ind., aged 32 years. He 



