OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES.-Dec. 31, 1862.-SILL, Brig.-Gen. JOSHUA WOODROW, an officer of the United States army, killed in the battle of Stone river. He was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, Dec. 6th, 1831; received a thorough English and classical education, and was appointed a cadet at West Point in 1849, where he graduated third in his class. In 1854 he received an ordnance appointment, and was stationed at Watervliet arsenal, West Troy. The following year he was recalled as one of the instructors at West Point, and after serving two years in that capacity was ordered to Pittsburg arsenal, and from thence, in 1848, to Vancouver, Washington Territory, to superintend the building of an arsenal there. Finding this impracticable, in consequence of the difficulty existing about Vancouver's Island with the British Government, he returned, and soon after was ordered to Fort Leavenworth. In 1860 he resigned his position in the army, and accepted the professorship of mathematics and civil engineering in the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute. Upon the outbreak of the present war he resigned his position, and upon offering his services to the Governor of Ohio, was appointed assistant adjutant-general of the State. In August, 1861, he was commissioned colonel of the 23d Ohio volunteers. He joined Gen. Nelson in his Kentucky expedition, and after his return was placed in command of a brigade, receiving the commission of brigadiergeneral, July 29th, 1862. Subsequently he commanded a division for a time, evincing great courage and skill, and upon the reorganization of the army, under Gen. Rosecrans, he was assigned a brigade in Gen. Sheridan's division, at the head of which he gallantly fought, and fell during the memorable Wednesday of the battle of Stone river.

Dec. 31.-GARESCHÉ, Col. JULIUS P., chief of Maj.-Gen. Rosecrans's staff, was born in Cuba of American parents in 1821. At the age of sixteen he entered West Point, and graduated in 1841. He served in the Mexican war, and during eight years previous to the secession was on duty at Washington as assistant adjutant-general. When the war broke out his patriotic nature sought active service, and he accepted the appointment of chief of staff to Gen. Rosecrans, having previously declined a commission of brigadier-general, preferring to win the honor upon the field of service. From his long experience and thorough acquaintance with military science he was eminently qualified for his duties, and rendered himself at once an invaluable aid to his commander. He was an earnest and devoted Christian, gentle and amiable in character and disposition, and was widely known for his benevolence to the poor, and sympathy for those in affliction and sorrow. He

was one of the founders of the Society of St. Vincent of Paul in Washington. His many virtues, added to his gentlemanly deportment and earnest devotion to his country, won the love of both officers and men, and his untimely death by a cannon ball, which took off his head, while on duty at the side of his com mander, was alike a shock to the army and country. A few days after the battle his body was disinterred and taken to Cincinnati, from whence, after appropriate honors, it was forwarded to his family in Washington city.

Dec. 31.-ROBERTS, Col. GEORGE W., killed at the battle of Stone river, was born in Westchester county, Penn., Oct. 2d, 1833; graduated at Yale College in 1857, studied law, and practised his profession in his native county until the spring of 1859, when he removed to Chicago, Ill. The commencement of the war found him enjoying a prosperous business, but his patriotism led him to enter the army, and he began recruiting for the 42d regiment, Illinois volunteers. On the 22d of July he received his commission as major of the regiment. The following September he was elected lieutenant-colonel, and upon the death of Col. Webb, was chosen colonel. With his regiment he took part in the memorable march of Gen. Fremont to Springfield. He distinguished himself in the faithful discharge of his duty at different points, but more especially by his valuable service during a midnight expedition in spiking a number of guns at the siege of Island No. 10. An upper battery of the enemy commanded the river so effectually that no boats could pass. Col. Roberts conceived the idea of spiking the guns, and selecting a dark and stormy night for the occasion, with only forty men in five small boats, he bravely accomplished his purpose. He afterward distinguished himself at the battle of Farmington, Tennessee. At the siege of Corinth he was in the advance, and was one of the foremost in entering the fortification of the enemy. He was in command of the first brigade, first division of the army of the Mississippi, and won much honor during the campaign of 1862. At the battle of Stone river he had the advance of the 20th army corps, and drove the enemy to their breastworks. On the 31st his brigade engaged two divisions of the enemy at once, maintaining their ground until attacked by a third division. At one period of the engagement, observing a Confederate division driving some of our regiments before them, he asked permission of Gen. Sheridan to charge upon the enemy, and galloping before the 42d Illinois, he waved his cap and ordered them to fix bayonets. The men, fired by his bravery, rushed upon the foe with such force that they broke and fled in the wildest confusion. This discomfiture at such

a juncture no doubt had its effect on the final triumph of the day. While gallantly inspiring his men to action he received the fatal bullet which ended his brave career.

Dec. 31.-RAINS, Brig.-Gen. JAMES E., an officer in the Confederate service, killed at the battle of Stone river. He was a native of North Carolina, graduated at West Point in 1827, and was appointed to the 7th infantry. He took part in the Seminole war in Florida, and was brevetted major for gallant and meritorious conduct in an action with the Indians near Fort King, April 28th, 1840, on which occasion he commanded the troops, and was wounded. In 1855 he was with his regiment in Washington Territory, and was appointed brigadier-general of the Washington Territory volunteers. When the war broke out he was a lieutenant-colonel of the 5th infantry, but his sympathies being with the Confederate cause, he resigned his commission, July 31st, 1861, and, according to Gen. Sterling Price's official report of the battle of Wilson's Creek, was acting as brigadier-general of the advance guard of the army which fought the battle, August 10th. He distinguished himself at the battle of Shiloh and Perryville, and at the battle of Stone river, where he lost his life, won much credit by his skill and daring.

Dec. 31.-HANSON, Brig.-Gen. ROGER, an officer in the Confederate service, killed at the battle of Stone river. Gen. Bragg, in his official report of that battle, speaks of him in high terms.

Dec. 31.-SCHAEFFER, J. W., acting brigadiergeneral of the U. S. volunteer service, killed at the battle of Stone river. He was a native of Pennsylvania, but was appointed to the service from Illinois. In the official report of the battle of Stone river, Gen. Rosecrans mentions his name with honor.

Dec. 31.-TURNER, ROYAL, died in Randolph, Mass., aged 70 years. He graduated at Harvard College in 1813, and soon after engaged in mercantile pursuits. In early life he was a prac tical surveyor, and assisted in locating the first railroad built in this country, that leading from the stone quarries in Quincy to Neponset river. In 1815 he received a lieutenant's commission in the army, and rapidly passed through all the grades of promotion until he reached the colonelcy in 1823. In 1825 he was honorably discharged. In 1818 he was elected one of the selectmen of the town, and from 1823 to 1828 he was clerk and treasurer. In 1826 he was commissioned justice of the peace, and of the quorum in 1823, continuing in the office until his death. On the incorporation of the Randolph Bank in 1836, he was appointed cashier, and held the office until 1842, when he was elected its president, which position he occupied at the time of his death. He was director in the Bridgewater and Middleborough and Falls River railroads until their union with the Old Colony in one corporation. In all his business relations he was highly respected, not only for his en

ergy and executive ability, but his strict integrity of character.

Dec. 31.-Russ, HORACE P., inventor of the Russ pavement, died in Halifax, N. S., aged 42 years. He had been for some time engaged in gold mining in Nova Scotia.

Jan. 1, 1863.-RENSHAW, WILLIAM B., acting commodore of the naval squadron engaged in blockading Galveston, Texas, was killed upon his flagship, the Westfield. He was a native of New York, from which State he was appointed to the navy as a midshipman, Dec. 22d, 1831. In 1837, he passed the Examining Board, and received his warrant as a passed midshipman, and was attached to the North Carolina, at the New York Navy Yard. In 1841 he was promoted to a lieutenancy, and in 1861 became commander, and was ordered to the Ordnance Bureau, at Washington, on special service. He was next transferred to the command of the United States steamer Westfield, under Admiral Farragut, and was by him assigned to the command of that portion of the squadron which blockaded Galveston. During the recapture of Galveston, the Westfield got hopelessly aground, and having a large supply of ammunition and two magazines of powder on board, Commodore Renshaw determined to destroy her rather than let her fall into the hands of the enemy. Having made due arrangements, and secured the safety of his men, he staid behind to light the train before leav ing; but a drunken man had, it is said, prematurely lighted the match, and the commodore, together with those in the small boats awaiting him, were involved in the general destruction. He was a faithful officer, and had spent thirtyone years in the service of his country.

Jan. 1.-WAINWRIGHT, Commander JONATHAN M., an officer in the U. S. navy, was killed upon the Harriet Lane during the attack upon Galveston, Texas. He was a native of New York, but a citizen of Massachusetts, from which State he was appointed to the United States navy as a midshipman, June 13th, 1837. He passed the Examining Board, June, 1843, and received his warrant as a passed midshipman on that date. He was then engaged at the naval rendezvous in New York. On the 17th of September, 1850, he was promoted to a lieutenancy, and upon the commencement of the war was advanced to be a commander, and ordered to the Harriet Lane. He was a son of the late Bishop Wainwright, and had been twenty-five years in the United States service.

Jan. 2.-LEA, Lieut. EDWARD, of the U. S. navy, was killed upon the Harriet Lane in the engagement before Galveston, Texas. He was a native of Maryland, but a resident of Tennessee, from which State he was appointed to the Naval Academy in 1851. After graduating he received an appointment to the Home squadron, and subsequently to the East India squadron. At the commencement of the war, being himself truly Union, notwithstanding his ties of relationship in the South, he was assigned to the

Harriet Lane, then fitting out to join Admiral Porter's mortar flotilla in the bombardment of Forts Jackson and St. Philip.

Jan. 3.-GWIN, Commander WILLIAM, of the United States navy, died in the hospital of his vessel, from wounds received in the action against the batteries on Haines's Bluff. He was born in Columbus, Indiana, in 1881, and entered the U. S. naval service as a midshipman in 1847, in which capacity he made one cruise off the coast of Brazil in the frigate Brandywine, flagship of the squadron, and off the coast of Africa. In June, 1853, he passed a satisfactory examination at the Naval Academy, and, with the rank of passed midshipman, was ordered to the Bainbridge, in which vessel he cruised off the coast of Brazil until 1856. On the 15th of September he was promoted to a lieutenancy. He was next ordered to the Pacific squadron, and, after a brief visit home in 1859, was assigned to the Mediterranean squadron. On the breaking out of the war he was ordered home, and assigned to the Cambridge, on blockading duty on the Atlantic coast. From this he was detached, January, 1862, and assigned to the command of the gunboat Tyler, of the Western flotilla, in which vessel he participated in the battles of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson. He also took part in the battle of Shiloh, at the time when the gunboats fired at night among the enemy, his vessel discharging one hundred and eighty-eight shells. On the 16th of July, 1862, he was made a lieutenant-commander under the late act of Congress in relation to officers in the navy. He distinguished himself in the expedition up the Yazoo river in company with the Carondelet, to meet the famous Confederate ram Arkansas; and his vessel, though sadly disabled, did not cease firing until she had passed through the entire squadron. After the explosion on the Mound City at St. Charles, by which her commander, Capt. Kelly, was so badly scalded, Lieutenant-Commander Gwin took the command of that vessel, which he held until assigned to the Benton, the largest and most powerful vessel of the river fleet. While in charge of this gunboat he participated in the attack upon Haines's Bluff, during which he was mortally wounded.

Jan. 4.-BRANCH, Hon. JOHN, ex-governor of North Carolina, died at Edgefield, N. C., in the 86th year of his age. He was a State senator from 1811 to 1817, also in 1822, and again in 1834. He was elected governor in 1817, and from 1822 to 1829 was a United States senator. In 1829 he was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Jackson. In 1835 he was a member of the North Carolina Constitutional Convention, and in 1843 was appointed Governor of Florida. Since then he has lived in private life.

Jan. 4.-KENDALL, Hon. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, was assassinated at Olympia, Washington Territory. He was born in Bethel, Oxford county, Maine, about 1830, and by his own exertions procured a collegiate education, gradu

ating at Bowdoin College in 1852. After his graduation he was for a time a clerk in one of the departments at Washington, and afterward joined the expedition, sent out under the late Gen. Isaac I. Stevens, to explore a route for the Pacific railroad, as astronomer, and having terminated his labors in connection with that expedition, settled as a lawyer in Olympia, Washington Territory, where he speedily became the leading lawyer of the territory, was secretary, of the Territorial Legislature, and largely engaged in lumbering and navigation. At the commencement of the war he came to the East, and finding that it was necessary that Gen. Scott and the War Department should have a more thorough knowledge of the aim and plans of the Southern leaders, and of the real condition of the South, he volunteered to go on an exploring expedition through the Southern States. His offer was accepted, and he made a tour of four months, and, returning, reported to Gen. Scott a very minute and detailed account of the condition, resources, and war material of each of the Southern States, and the plans and purposes of the leaders. For this he received the most hearty thanks of Gen. Scott and the War Department. He was, soon after his return, appointed Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Washington Territory, but having been removed, in the winter of 1862, through the influence of the delegate from the territory, returned at once to the practice of his profession. He was assassinated by a man named Howe, whose father had been implicated in the burning of some valuable buildings, and had been exposed by Mr. Kendall in the columns of a journal he edited.

Jan. 7.-WHITTLESEY, Hon. ELISHA, died in Washington, D. C., in the 80th year of his age. He was born in Connecticut, but in early manhood removed to Ohio. In the war of 1812 he was aide-de-camp to Gen. Wadsworth; was a prosecuting attorney for sixteen years, and served in the State Legislature in 1820 and 1821. He served seven terms as a representative in Congress. In 1841 he was appointed by President Harrison, Auditor of the Post Office Department and in 1849 was appointed by President Taylor, First Comptroller of the Treasury, which position he relinquished in 1857, but was reappointed by President Lincoln in 1861. His whole public career was marked by an unswerving integrity and untiring devotion to duty.

Jan. -CRAWFORD, RICHARD R., Judge of the Levy Court for Washington county, died at Georgetown, aged 77 years. He was born in the District of Columbia, and for many years was in public office.

Jan.-.-.KIRK, Brig.-Gen. EDWARD N., an officer of volunteers in the U. S. service, died from wounds received at the battle of Stone river. He was born in Ohio, but subsequently removed to Sterling, Whiteside county, Illinois. In the autumn of 1861 he was instrumental in raising and organizing the 34th

Illinois volunteers, of which he was chosen colonel. At the battle of Shiloh he acted as brigadier-general, and was also engaged in this capacity at the siege of Corinth. At the battle of Stone river he commanded one of the brigades in Johnson's division of McCook's corps, and was mortally wounded while bravely withstanding the enemy during that fierce en

counter.

Jan. 10.-BEECHER, Rev. LYMAN. (See BEECH

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Jan. 11.-McDONALD, Brig.-Gen. EMMETT, an officer in the Confederate army, was killed at the battle of Hartsville, Mo. He swore that he would neither cut his hair nor shave until the Southern Confederacy was recognized.

Jan. 12.-RENWICK, JAMES, LL.D., died in New York, in his 71st year. He was born in the city of New York, in 1792, and graduated at Columbia College, in 1809. From 1820 to 1854, he filled the Chair of Chemistry and Physics in that institution. In 1838, he was appointed one of the Commissioners for Exploring the Northeastern Boundary between the United States and New Brunswick, and the reports of that commission led to the Ashburton treaty in 1842. Prof. Renwick was passionately fond of mechanics, and of all the applications of science to mechanical improvements. He was also a chaste and vigorous writer, and contributed largely to the literature of the country, not only in his own chosen walk of scientific pursuit, but in political and belles-lettres essays. He was a frequent and valued contributor to the first "New York Review," where he was the associate of Bryant, and other eminent names in literature, and after the establishment of the "Whig Review," its pages were often enriched by his graceful articles. His published works were biographies of Robert Fulton, David Rittenhouse, and Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford), in "Sparks's Series of American Biographies; "Outlines of Natural Philosophy," published in 1832, the earliest extended treatise on this subject published in the United States; "A Memoir of De Witt Clinton," published in 1834; "Treatise on the Steam Engine," and another on "The Practical Applications of the Principles of Mechanics," both published in 1840; "Outlines of Geology," and other text books. Prof. Renwick was of Scotch origin, his mother having been a friend and pet of the poet Burns, who addressed to her some of his sweetest poems.

sissippi, and, under the new act of Congress, became lieutenant-commander in 1861. He was

next in command of the New London, the "black devil," of the Mississippi Sound, and subsequently of the gunboat Calhoun, on which he lost his life.

Jan. 14.-DILL, Rev. JAMES HORTON, a Congregational clergyman, died on board of a vessel on his way from Louisville to Nashville, whither he was going to join his regiment, of which he was chaplain. He was born in Plymouth, Mass., Jan. 1st, 1821, studied theology in New Haven, Conn., and was ordained pastor of the First Congregational church in Winchester, Conn., Aug. 26th, 1846. In Feb. 1852, he was installed pastor of the First Congregational church in Spencerport, New York. In 1859 he removed to Chicago, and became the pastor of the South Congregational church. His devotion to his country led him to accept the chaplaincy of the 38th regiment of Illinois volunteers in the autumn of 1862. His death was hastened by his unsparing activity and devotion to the cause he had espoused.

Jan. 19.-WELLES, MARTIN, died at Martin, Ottawa county, Ohio, aged 76 years. He was born in Wethersfield, Conn., graduated at Yale College in the class of 1806, studied law in Farmington, but subsequently was admitted to the bar in the State of New York, and prac tised in Newburg, and afterward in New York city. His health failing, he returned to his native place, and refrained for a time from professional activity. During this period he interested himself in planning and superintending the Connecticut State Prison, in the establishing of which at Wethersfield he was the chief instrument. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1824 to 1827 inclusive, and also in 1831 and 1832, the last two years being speaker of that body. In 1837 he was elected a member of the State Senate, and was reelected the two following years. While a senator he was a member of the corporation of Yale College. He was also an associate judge on the bench of the Hartford County Court, and during the last fifteen years of his life was successfully engaged in the practice of his profession in Hartford.

Jan. 21.-THORBURN, GRANT, died in the city of New Haven, in the 90th year of his age. He was born in Dalkeith, near Edinburgh, Scotland, of humble, but worthy parentage. In his early childhood he was delicate and sickly, but later he recovered his vigor, and became an expert in his father's business of nail making, and was said to have manufactured with his own hands, in one day, three thousand two hundred and twenty-two nails between the hours of six o'clock in the morning and nine o'clock in the evening. Though his early advantages were exceedingly limited, his mind was strong and vigorous, and in 1792 he became involved in some political movements concerning parliamentary reform, which caused him, in company with a number of his associates, to be summoned,

by an order from Edinburgh, to appear before the Lords upon a charge of treason. Being released upon bail, he subsequently concluded to try his fortune in America, and accordingly took passage for this country, arriving in New York on the 16th of June, 1794, and with but twenty shillings in his pocket. Here he entered into his former employment as a nailor, and soon after married. In 1801 he went into the grocery business for a time, and afterward engaged in the seed business at Newark, in which he was unsuccessful; but nothing daunted, he started anew, and on a more extensive scale, and in time amassed a comfortable fortune. After retiring from business he went to reside in Astoria, and subsequently removed to New Haven, Conn. He married his third wife when eighty years of age, the lady herself being about forty. He was, during his later years, a frequent contributor to the newspapers of the day, over the signature of "Laurie Todd," many of his articles being reminiscences of New York at the commencement of the present century, and possessing great interest from their quaintness and fidelity of description. The signature, "Laurie Todd," was the title of a work, published many years ago, by the novelist Galt, in which the adventures of the hero were mainly drawn from incidents in Thorburn's life. He was a liberal, genial, kindhearted man. During the epidemics of yellow fever in New York in 1798, he and his wife did not leave the city at all, but devoted themselves to the care of those who were stricken down with the pestilence, with the utmost assiduity and tenderness. Through life his counsel and purse were at the service of those who were suffering from want; and he had bestowed in charity a much greater sum than he possessed at his death.

Jan. 23.-COIT, JOHN TOWNSEND, died in Albion, N. Y., aged 38 years. He graduated at Yale College, in the class of 1844, studied theology at Auburn, N. Y.; also at Andover, Mass., and subsequently spent two years in Halle, Germany, under the instruction of Prof. Tholuck. He afterward passed some time in Göttingen, and then made an extended tour in Europe. After his return to this country he became the settled pastor of the Presbyterian church at Albion, and at the time of his death was pastor of St. Peter's church, Rochester.

Jan. 23.-HALL, BAYNARD R., D. D., an American clergyman and author, died in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was born in Philadelphia in 1798, and was son of Dr. John Hall, a distinguished surgeon, who died when the subject of our sketch was but four years of age. By his father's will he was heir to a large fortune, but, owing to mismanagement, he never came into the possession of any great portion of it. Great attention was paid to his early education with reference to his becoming a lawyer, but upon his conversion his attention was turned toward the ministry. After passing the greater part of his college course at Princeton, he removed to Union College, where he graduated

with high honor. His theological studies were pursued at Princeton Theological Seminary, after leaving which, he commenced his labors as a missionary in the West. While there, he was pastor of a church in Bloomington, Indiana, and was also the president of the college in the same place. Leaving the West, he became the pastor of a church in Bedford, Pa., and was also the principal of a flourishing academy in that place for eight years. He was successively the principal of academic institutions in Bordentown, Trenton, N. J., and Poughkeepsie and Newburg, N. Y. In 1852 or thereabout, he removed to Brooklyn, and was for a time principal of the Park Institute. The last few years of his life were spent in preaching the gospel to the poor. He was the author of a Latin Grammar published about 1828; "The New Purchase, or Seven Years in the West," and several later works of much merit. He was a thorough scholar, a vigorous thinker, and as a writer, was said to be a "master of all styles."

Jan. 24.-STEWART, Lieut.-Col. WARREN, a cavalry officer in the U. S. service, was killed opposite Vicksburg. He first entered the United States service during the present war as captain of an independent cavalry company from Illinois, and was attached to Gen. McClernand's brigade. On the 2d of February, 1862, he was appointed acting adjutant-aid on Gen. MeClernand's staff, with the rank of captain. He took an active part in the memorable battle of Fort Donelson. The several companies of cavalry connected with McClernand's brigade were next consolidated, under the title of Stewart's Independent Battalion of Cavalry, the command of which devolved upon him, with the rank of major, dating from February 1st, 1862. He was wounded at the battle of Shiloh, and was especially mentioned in his general's official report for his gallantry on that occasion. He also participated in the siege of Corinth, and subsequently was attached to the division stationed along the Memphis and Charleston railroad. On the promotion of Gen. McClernand he was made lieutenant-colonel. He was engaged in destroying the ferry boats opposite Vicksburg, when he was killed by a shot from the enemy.

Jan. 25.-MICKLE, ANDREW H., ex-mayor of New York city, died at Flushing, aged 57 years. He was a prominent merchant, and for a number of years was engaged in the tobacco business, by which he amassed a large fortune. In 1846 he was chosen mayor of New York, and was asked to accept the nomination again in 1858, but declined.

Jan. 26.-HOOKER, JOHN WORTHINGTON, M.D., died in New Haven. He was born in Norwich, Conn., July 14th, 1833, graduated in Yale Col lege, in the class of 1854, and in 1857 from the Medical School connected with the college. For some time after the completion of his studies he was on the surgical staff in the New York City Hospital, and subsequently continued