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promising young actor ; died in Philadelphia. 

 He was a member of the Arch Street Theatre 

 ' Company, and his last appearance on the stage 

 was made at that house, on the 9th inst., as 

 Lionel Lynx, in "Married Life." 



Nov. 13. VAN RENSSELAER, WILLIAM P.; 

 died in New York City, aged 67 years. He 

 was the second .son of the Hon. Stephen Van 

 Rensselaer, of Albany, and an elder brother 

 of the late Rev. Dr. Cortlandt Van Eensselaer. 

 His mother was a daughter of Judge Paterson 

 of New Jersey. After graduating at Yale 

 College, in 1824, he spent four years in Europe 

 travelling extensively, and pursuing legal stud- 

 ies in Scotland and Germany. For & number 

 of years after his return, he resided in Albany 

 and in Rensselaer County ; but the last twen- 

 ty years of his life were spent in Rye, West- 

 chester County. He had left his home on 

 Manursing Island, for the city, only a week 

 before his death. Mr. Van Rensselaer inher- 

 ited from his father many noted characteristics, 



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Nov 13. HITCHCOCK, FRANK MURDOCH, a left for this country, where his uncle, Dr. Gil- 

 fill an, and his elder brother, Dr. John Cochran, 

 had been in practice some years. Upon the 

 death of the latter, George succeeded to a 

 large practice, and secured the confidence of 

 his brother's patrons. During the existence 

 of the Metropolitan Police Commission, Dr. 

 Cochran was appointed police-surgeon, and 

 assigned to duty in Brooklyn, having the con- 

 fidence of the commissioners and the police 

 force. At the close of his public labors in this 

 capacity, ex-Ma'yor Kalbfleisch appointed him 

 Health-Officer of Brooklyn, under a law which 

 restored to Brooklyn the control of its Health 

 Department, and in this position he was un- 

 tiring in his eiforts to meet the difficult and 

 exacting duties resting upon him. Dr. Coch- 

 ran was also for years a visiting physician in 

 the City Hospital of Brooklyn. 



Nov. 21. DIMMICK, or DOMINICK, MILO M., 

 a politician and political leader from Central 

 Pennsylvania, died at Mauch Chunk. He was 

 a native of Pennsylvania ; and had been active 



prominent among which was his philanthropic in the politics of the Nineteenth Congressional 



tastes. His intellectual gifts were of a high 

 order, his impulses noble, and he was equally 

 firm in rebuking injustice and approving that 

 which was good. 



Nov. 14. STEVENS, Lieutenant-Colonel ATH- 

 ERTON H., Jr., U. S. Vols. ; died at East Cam- 

 brige, Mass. He was formerly in command of 

 the First Battalion of Massachusetts Cavalry, 

 and Provost-Marshal of the Twenty-sixth Ar- 

 my Corps. He was the first Union officer to 

 enter Richmond, and received its surrender 

 from Mayor Mayo. 



Nov. 19. BREWER, Rev. JOSIAH, D. D., a 

 Congregationalist clergyman, and one of the 

 earliest missionaries of the A. B. C. F. M. in Tur- 

 key; died in Stockbridge, Mass. He was a 

 native of Berkshire County, graduated at Yale 

 College, where he was afterward a tutor, and 

 in 1830 sailed for the East, beginning his la- 

 bors at Smyrna, the capital of Asia Minor. It 

 was but three years after the Greek Revolu- 

 tion. The battle of Navarino had destroyed 

 the Turkish Navy, and, in breaking the pride of 

 the Moslem, had opend the door for influences 

 from abroad. Mr. Brewer was the first to in- 

 troduce schools and the printing-press. He 

 established the first paper in Smyrna, where 

 there are now a number in different languages. 

 The schools which he founded have been the 

 model for others, and have done much to in- 

 troduce European education into the Turkish 

 Empire. After a few years he returned to 

 this country, and had since resided in New 

 England a part of the time in New Haven 

 and Middletown, Conn., and for the last few- 

 years in Stockbridge, Mass. 



Nov. 19. COCHRAN, GEORGE, M. D., an 

 eminent physician of Brooklyn, L. I. ; died 

 there, aged 41 years. He was born in County 

 Derry, Ireland, in 1841 : was educated at Foyle 



District, which he represented in Congress for 

 two terms, 1849-1853. 



Nov. 22. OSTRANDER, Rev. HENRY, an able 

 and venerable clergyman of the Reformed 

 (Dutch) Church ; died near Saugerties, K Y., 

 aged 90 years. He graduated at Union Col- 

 lege in 1799, was licensed to preach in 1800, 

 and very soon thereafter settled as pastor of 

 the Reformed Church of Coxsackie. He re- 

 mained in this position till 1812, when he be- 

 came pastor of the Reformed Church of Caats- 

 ban, Ulster County. He served this church 

 as its pastor till 1862, a period of fifty years 

 the Reformed Church of Saugerties, which 

 was erected in 1825, being also under his 

 pastoral care till 1840, when it became a 

 separate charge. Retiring in 1862, at the age 

 of eighty, Dr. Ostrander passed the residue of 

 his life pleasantly and quietly at his home. 



Nov. 23. DOD, Rev. CHARLES SQUIRE, a 

 Presbyterian clergyman, professor and college 

 president ; died at Centreville, La., aged about 

 61 years. President Dod was a native of New 

 Jersey, a younger brother of the late Prof. 

 Albert B. Dod, of Princeton. He graduated 

 from Princeton College in 1833, studied the- 

 ology in Princeton Theological Seminary, and, 

 after a brief pastorate, was called to the pro- 

 fessorship of mathematics and modern lan- 

 guages in Jefferson College, and about 1857 

 was elected president of the West Tennessee 

 College at Jackson, Tenn., which position he 

 retained until the closing of the college in 

 consequence of the war. He subsequently re- 

 moved to the Southwest, and had been of late, 

 we believe, again in the pastorate. He had 

 been connected with the Southern Presbyteri- 

 an Church since the division at the beginning 

 of the war. 



Nov. 23. FISHER, Rev. GEORGE H., D. D., an 



College, in the north of Ireland, graduated at eminent clergyman of the Reformed (Dutch) 

 a medical-school in Glasgow, and shortly after Church, died in Haokensaok, N. J., in the. 



