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OBITUAKIES, UNITED STATES. 



He served on the staff of General Jackson at 

 New Orleans, and under his Administration 

 was Chief Clerk of the War Department, and 

 frequently, in the absence of Secretary Cass, 

 acted as Secretary. 



Feb. 25. TOWNSEND, Eev. C. C., an Episco- 

 pal clergyman and philanthropist ; died at St. 

 Luke's Hospital, New York City, aged 60 years. 

 He was a native of Connecticut, and we helieve 

 a graduate of Trinity College. Soon after his 

 ordination his attention was attracted to the 

 condition of poor, orphan, and vagrant chil- 

 dren, and he resolved to devote all his energies 

 to. the amelioration of their condition. He 

 established an Orphans' Home in Iowa, and 

 houses for their temporary reception in New 

 York and other large cities, and had collected 

 large sums for their support. He was the 

 means of rescuing very many from ruin and 

 lives of crime, and accomplished great good; 

 but he was unfortunately lacking in business 

 tact and methodical habits ; and thus, though 

 he was conscious of his integrity and strict 

 honesty in the expenditure of the moneys and 

 goods received, he often was unable to give a 

 clear and intelligible statement in detail of his 

 disbursements. Some of the papers had, in 

 consequence, very unjustly denounced him as a 

 swindler, which he certainly was not, and this 

 accusation, operating upon a sensitive and really 

 upright nature, so distressed him as to bring 

 on an attack of erysipelas, from which he 

 died. 



Feb. 25. VALENTINE, DAVID THOMAS, Clerk 

 of the Common Council of New York, and an 

 author ; died at his residence, in the 68th year of 

 his age. He was born in Westchester County, 

 and when sixteen years of age removed to New 

 York, and took a position as clerk in the 

 grocery business. Remaining in this place for 

 six years, he was then appointed to the Marine 

 Court. Soon after this he acted as deputy to 

 General Morton, who was then Clerk of the 

 Common Council. At the expiration of six 

 years he superseded General Morton, and for 

 thirty-six years filled that important position 

 with honor and fidelity. In 1840, pursuant to a 

 resolution of the Senate and Assembly, he com- 

 menced the annual publication of a Manual of 

 the Corporation of New York. These Manuals, 

 twenty-five in number, as containing many of 

 the antiquities of that city, are highly valuable 

 and interesting. In 1853 he published a work, 

 styled "The History of New York," which 

 traced the progress of the metropolis from its 

 earliest development, through the various stages 

 of hamlet, village, and city a work of great 

 value to the student and to the public gen- 

 erally. 



March 3. MoWiLLiE, WILLIAM, a political 

 leader in Mississippi, and for some years Gov- 

 ernor of the State ; died at his residence in Kirk- 

 wood, Madison County, Miss., aged 71 years. 

 He was born near Liberty Hill, Kershaw Dis- 

 trict, S. C., November IT, 1795. His early edu- 

 cation was acquired in that vicinagej and he was 



at school in Camden, preparing to enter college, 

 when the regiment of volunteers from that vi- 

 cinity, for the War of 1812, commanded by his 

 father, Colonel Adam McWillie, was ordered to 

 Haddrell's Point. He accepted the office of ad- 

 jutant, and served in that capacity to the close 

 of the campaign, with the approbation of his 

 superiors and the affection of his subordinates. 

 Upon the disbanding of the regiment he im- 

 mediately resumed his studies, entered South 

 Carolina College in October, 1815, and gradu- 

 ated with distinction in December, 1817, was 

 admitted to the bar in 1818, and at once com- 

 menced a successful career as a lawyer. Mr. 

 McWillie was frequently in the House of Repre- 

 sentatives from Kershaw District, S. C., and 

 had been for many years State Senator, when, 

 in 1845, he resigned his seat and removed to Mis- 

 sissippi, where he had established a large plant- 

 ing interest ten years before. He was elected 

 to Congress in 1849, and was chosen Governor 

 of Mississippi in 1857. His term of office ex- 

 pired in 1860, and, though advanced in life, he 

 plunged heart and soul into the contest, of 

 which he was a prominent and active leader 

 throughout the War. 



March 4. LEFEVEE, Rt. Rev. PETEE PAUL, 

 D. D., Roman Catholic Bishop of Detroit; died 

 in that city, aged 65 years. He was a native 

 of Belgium, and had been twenty-eight years 

 the bishop of that diocese. 



March 4. SEW ALL, WILLIAM BABTLETT, an 

 eminent lawyer and editor of Maine ; died in 

 Kennebunk, Me. He was born in York, Me., 

 December 18, 1782. He was educated at Har- 

 vard University, graduating in the class of 1803, 

 studied law with Chief- Justice Parker, and 

 settled in practice in Portland. He early com- 

 menced writing for the press, and in 1823 be- 

 came the editor of the Portland Advertiser, 

 which he conducted with great ability for fifteen 

 years. He represented Portland in the Maine 

 Legislature in 1815, and in 1828 became a mem- 

 ber of the Maine Historical Society, of which 

 he was for some years treasurer. In 1837 he 

 returned to the paternal homestead at Kenne- 

 bunk, where he afterward resided. 



March 6. CLAEK, J. HENRY, M. D., an emi- 

 nent physician and author, of New Jersey ; 

 died at Montclair, N. J. He was born in 

 Livingston, N. J., June 23, 1814, graduated at 

 the New York University in 1841, studied 

 medicine in New York and in Europe, and, 

 about 1846, settled in Newark in the practice 

 of medicine. He acquired gradually a high 

 reputation as a practitioner, and found time 

 to cultivate physical science to some extent. 

 In 1856 he published a volume on " Sight and 

 Hearing," and in 1861 another on the "Med- 

 ical Topography of Newark and its Vicinity." 

 His abilities were appreciated by his medical 

 brethren, and for some years he was president 

 of the Essex County Medical Society. 



March 6. GILLETTE, Rev. CUAELES, D. D., 

 an Episcopal clergyman of sound learning, 

 deep piety, and sterling patriotism ; died sud- 



