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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



68 years. She was born in Plainfield, N. Y., 

 April 2, 1804, and in November, 1827, sailed 

 for the Sandwich Islands with her husband, 

 where she lived aDd labored for more than 

 forty years. Mrs. Judd was a woman of sound 

 judgment, and thoroughly devoted to the mis- 

 sionary work. 



Oct. 2. POWERS, Rev. PHILANDER O., a Con- 

 gregationalist clergyman, and missionary of the 

 A. B. C. F, M. to Syria; died at Kessab, near 

 Antioch, aged 67 years. He was born at 

 Phillipstown, Mass., August 19, 1805 ; gradu- 

 ated at Amherst in 1830, and at Andover in 

 1834. The same year he sailed for missionary 

 ground, arriving at Smyrna in January, 1835. 

 His career was unusually varied, as he labored 

 not only in Broosa, but in Trebizond, Siras, 

 Antioch, Oorfa, Marash, and Kessab. Upon 

 the illness of his wife he was compelled to re- 

 turn for a short period to this country, during 

 which he held a pastorate in East Windsor, 

 Conn. He was the author of a valuable col- 

 lection of hymns in Armeno-Turkish. 



Oct. 3. CEOSBY, First - Lieutenant EBEN, 

 Seventeenth Infantry, U. S. A. ; was killed by 

 the Indians, near Heart River, fifteen miles 

 from Fort Rice, on returning from the Yellow- 

 stone Expedition. Lieutenant Crosby served 

 with distinction during the entire war, losing 

 an arm on the field of Gettysburg. He was 

 appointed second-lieutenant Forty-fourth In- 

 fantry July 28, 1866, and May 27, 1869, was 

 transferred to the Seventeenth Infantry, since 

 which time he had served with honor to him- 

 self and to the regiment. 



Oct. 3. MITCHELL, Rev. "W. H., a prominent 

 clergyman, of the Southern Presbyterian 

 Church ; died at his residence in Florence, 

 Ala., aged 59 years. At the time of his death 

 he was president of the Female College in that 

 place. 



Oct. 5. ADAMS, RODNEY L., a New York 

 State journalist; died in Geneva, N. Y. He 

 was born in Wilkesbarre, Pa., January 27, 1816. 

 His newspaper career began about the year 

 1840, in the office of the Rochester Democrat. 

 Subsequently, he edited the Yates County 

 Whig (now Chronicle), the Lyons Republican, 

 the Syracuse Journal, the Fulton Patriot, the 

 Geneva Courier, and in the summer and fall of 

 1872 the Rochester Liberal Republican. He 

 was a man of earnest convictions, and a vigor- 

 ous, pointed writer. He was a Republican from 

 the organization of the party, and, previous to 

 that, had labored steadily on the side of liberty 

 and reform. 



Oct. 9. DEMING, HENRY C., an eminent 

 scholar and author, formerly member of Con- 

 gress from Connecticut; died at Hartford, aged 

 57 years. He was born in 1815, in Middle 

 Haddam, and graduated at Yale College in 

 1836, and at the Harvard Law School in 1838. 

 He served in the State Legislature in 1849 and 

 1850, and again from 1859 to 1861 ; and in the 

 latter year he was elected Speaker. In 1851 he 

 was a member of the Senate. He was elect- 



ed by the Democrats to the office of mayor for 

 six years. In 1861, on the breaking out of the 

 war, he went to New Orleans as colonel of the 

 Twelfth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, 

 and participated in the capture of that city. 

 In October, 1862, he was appointed Mayor of 

 New Orleans, but resigned in February, 1863 

 at the same time resigning his office in the 

 army, and returning home. In April, 1863, 

 he was by the Republicans elected a member 

 of the Thirty-eighth Congress. He served on 

 the Committee on Military Affairs, and was 

 made chairman of the Committee on Expendi- 

 tures in the War Department. lie was re- 

 elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, in which 

 he served on the same committees, and also on 

 the committee appointed on the death of Presi- 

 dent Lincoln. He 'was also one of the com- 

 mittee appointed to attend the funeral of Gen- 

 eral Scott in 1866. In the same year he was 

 a delegate to the "Loyalists' Convention" in 

 Philadelphia. At the time of his death he was 

 United States Collector for his district. Mr. 

 Deming's forensic ability was marked and 

 widely known. He was one of the most elo- 

 quent public speakers in New England, and 

 was a gentleman of fine culture, and of refined 

 literary taste. Thirty years ago he translated, 

 for the American public, Eugene Sue's two 

 great works, "The Mysteries of Paris" and 

 "LeJuif Errant." 



Oct. 9. WELLES, Colonel C. F., a railroad 

 and hydraulic engineer of some note ; died at 

 Auburn, N. Y., aged about 50 years. He had 

 for many years past been engaged in develop- 

 ing railroad enterprise in Western Pennsylva- 

 nia and Western New York, and was attend- 

 ing a meeting of railroad directors at Auburn 

 when he died. He was one of the contractors 

 for the construction of the Nassau Water- works 

 of Brooklyn, L. I. 



Oct. 10. WILLIAMS, Mrs. CATHARINE R. 

 (ARNOLD), a celebrated authoress and poetess; 

 died at her residence in Johnston, R. L, aged 

 82 years. She was born in Providence, R. I., 

 near 1790, and was a granddaughter of Hon. 

 Oliver Arnold, formerly Attorney-General of 

 Rhode Island. Thrown upon her own re- 

 sources at the age of twenty-three, she turned 

 to her pen as a means of support, but before 

 her reputation as a writer was fairly estab- 

 lished she married Mr. Williams, and removed 

 to the western part of New York State. The 

 marriage, however, proved unfortunate, and 

 two years after she left her husband, and with 

 an infant daughter returned to the home of her 

 childhood, and again took up her pen. Her 

 first publication was a volume of " Original 

 Poems" (1828), which proved a decided suc- 

 cess, and was quickly followed by "Religion 

 at Home" (1829), which passed through three 

 editions. In 1830 she published her "Tales, 

 National and Revolutionary," a second series 

 of which was issued in 1835 ; " History of Full 

 River" (1833); "Biography of Revolutionary 

 Heroes" (1839); "Neutral French; or, the 



