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coast is deadly to Americans and Englishmen, 

 he was compelled to return to the United 

 States, with his life-work but partially accom- 

 plished. He lingered in much suffering and 

 feebleness, though with unfailing patience, for 

 eight years. Where he had toiled alone and 

 almost without apparent results, the power of 

 caste is now broken, numerous flourishing 

 churches are established, and a theological 

 seminary for the training of native preachers 

 is organized and prospering. 



Oct. . McCLEAEY, Captain and Brevet 

 Brigadier-General JAMES, U. S. A., a gallant 

 soldier of the late war ; died in New York City. 

 He entered the military service as captain 

 of the Forty-first Ohio Regiment. He after- 

 ward entered the regular army, and was mus- 

 tered out of service at Columbus, Ohio, with 

 the rank of brevet brigadier-general of the 

 U. S. Army and commissioned as captain of 

 the Forty-fifth Regiment of U. S. Infantry. 

 His commissions in the regular army bore date 

 July 28, 1866, and March, 1867. He subse- 

 quently settled in St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana, 

 where he purchased a plantation. He joined 

 the Republican ranks in politics. General Mc- 

 Cleary was elected a member of Congress by 

 the Republicans from St. Mary's, La. ; but the 

 duties of his war campaign in the field had 

 impaired his health to such an extent that he 

 was unable to take his seat last session. He 

 returned to Ohio in the month of August. His 

 health failing continually, he finally came to 

 New York, with the hope of bettering his 

 physical condition by treatment. 



Oct. . SMITH, Rev. JAMES, D. D., a Pres- 

 byterian clergyman, American consul at Dun- 

 dee, Scotland ; died there. lie was a Scotch- 

 man by birth, and early in life a confirmed 

 infidel, but soon after his emigration to this 

 country was converted and turned his atten- 

 tion to the ministry. He became distinguished 

 in the Old School Presbyterian Church in 

 Kentucky and Illinois, his last pastoral charge 

 being the First Presbyterian Church in Spring- 

 field, 111., which Abraham Lincoln attended. 

 Shortly after his inauguration as president, he 

 appointed Dr. Smith United States consul at 

 Dundee, which position he held until his 

 death. 



Nov. 3. ADAMS, Rev. EZEA EASTMAX, D. D., 

 a Presbyterian clergyman and author; died at 

 Oxford, Pa., aged 58 years. He was born at 

 Nashua, N. II., about 1814, and graduated at 

 Dartmouth College in 1836. About 1840 he 

 became chaplain to the seamen at Havre in 

 France, where for a period of ten years he 

 labored with great earnestness and success. 

 After travelling extensively in Europe he re- 

 turned to America, and in 1854 accepted the 

 pastorate of the Pearl Street Congregational 

 Church at Nashua, N. H., where he spent six 

 years. In 1860 he removed to Philadelphia, 

 and entered into the service of the Foreign 

 Evangelical Society, but was soon after invited 

 to take charge of a new enterprise, which 



grew under his efficient labors and eloquent 

 preaching into the present Broad Street 

 Church of that city. His arduous labors, how- 

 ever, undermined his health, and he was com- 

 pelled to relinquish his pastoral charge. He 

 was then, in 1807, called to a professorship of 

 theology in Lincoln University, near Oxford, 

 Pa., a position which he held at the time of 

 his death. In 1870 he added to his labors 

 some editorial work upon the Presbyterian. 

 Dr. Adams was the author of several poems 

 of great merit, and his fine poetic taste often 

 imparted a charm to the productions of his 

 pen, almost unconsciously to himself. 



Nov. 5. LOEING, FEEDEEICK W., a journal- 

 ist, magazinist, and author ; was killed by the 

 Indians near Wickenburg, A. T., aged 25 years. 

 He was born in Newton ville, Mass. ; studied 

 at Phillips Academy, Andover, and graduated 

 at Harvard College in 1870. While at Harvard, 

 and, even before, at Andover, he evinced more 

 than ordinary ability, and acquired some dis- 

 tinction as a writer of gay and lively verse, 

 and as contributor to the Harvard Advocate, 

 a paper published by the students. Mr. Loring, 

 in the brief period after he left college, was 

 connected with both the Boston Advertiser and 

 Every Saturday, and contributed to the At- 

 lantic Monthly, Old and New, and the Inde- 

 pendent. He also published two volumes, one 

 of which, " Two College Friends," an essay in 

 sustained fiction, was favorably received, and 

 led to his being invited to form one of the 

 authors, selected from the ablest in |New Eng- 

 land, who were jointly to write a serial story 

 for Old and New. In the spring of 1871 he 

 was induced to join, as a newspaper corre- 

 spondent, the expedition of Lieutenant Wheeler 

 of the army. Avho had been appointed by the 

 Government to explore Arizona, and he had 

 already contributed several exceedingly valu- 

 able letters to Appletons 1 Journal. 



Nov. 5. STANTON, Colonel DAVID, Auditor- 

 General-elect, of Pennsylvania, died at New 

 Brighton, Pa., aged 42 years. He was a son 

 of the late Dr. Benjamin Stanton, of Ohio, and 

 a nephew of the late Secretary Stanton, and 

 was born in 1829. After studying medicine, 

 and graduating at the Cleveland Medical Col- 

 lege, and the University of Pennsylvania, ho 

 removed, at the age of twenty-one, to New- 

 Brighton, Beaver County, where he commenced 

 the practice of medicine, and continued to reside 

 to the time of his death. In August, 1861, he 

 entered the army as surgeon of the First Penn- 

 sylvania Cavalry, and was connected with the 

 Army of the Potomac until promoted to the 

 post of surgeon of U. S. Volunteers, in 

 November, 1862, from which date, until he 

 resigned, in December, 1865. he acted as Su- 

 perintendent of Hospitals, and as assistant and 

 acting Medical Director of the Northern De- 

 partment, on the staff of Generals Heintzelman 

 and Hooker. In 1864 he was brevetted lieu- 

 tenant-colonel, and in 1865 was made brevet 

 colonel. At the Republican State Convention, 



