160 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
OBITUARY. 
- Genera AnpreEw A. Humpureys.—Brigadier-General An- 
drew Atkinson Humphreys died in Washington, on the 28th of 
November last, in the seventy-fourth year of his age. Gene 
Humphreys was graduated at West Point with the rank of Second — 
Lieutenant on July 1, 1831. After active service in the war 
_ against the Cherokee Nation in Florida, and in the Seminole war 
in 1836, he entered the service of the United States as a civi 
engineer, to assist Major Bache on the plans for the Brandywine 
Shoal Light-house and the Crow Shoal Breakwater, Delaware Bay, 
and he was engage@ in this work until July 7, 1838, when he was 
of the Coast Survey office at Washington. The topographic and 
Creek. On June 27, 1865, he was placed in command of the ili- 
Mississippi levees, a work which occupied him until Aug. 8, 1866, 
when he was placed in command of the Corps of Engineers and 
in charge of the Engineer Burean, in Washington, and promoted 
own request, Colonel Horatio G. Wright succeeding him. Dur 
ing his service as commander of the Engineer Corps he also served 
m many important commissions, among which were the commis: — 
sion to examine into the canal routes across the Isthmus of Pat 
ama, from 1872 to 1877, the Board on Washington and George 
town Improvements, the Revising Boards for Bulkhead and Pier 
