Died

In Detroit, on the morning of the 7ih nst., )r. Arthur Livkrmorb PoRTEa,aged 50 years nd 11 months. He was bornat Haverhill, on the Connectcut river, New Ilampshire, on 7ih Jan. 1794, nd received a Doctors degreeat Dartmouth, Í. H. in 1817. After praclising his professon for one year, he visitrd Europe nnd 6pent two years in London, Dublin and Edinburgh, in completing his medical studie?. Some yenrs afier his return to Oiis country, being favorably known as a person of high scientific attainmentsj eepecially as a clienmt, he was selectcd by the New England manufucturers as the most competent person to procure for tliem accurate informntion of the eystem adop ted by European manufacturera, and accordingly visited France, England, and the Netherlands, and returned to lay at the dieposal of hi5 countrymcn mnch valuable information, to which no do'ibr New England owes much of her present successful rivalry with England. This journey gave rise to a Jarge worlc in two volumes, published by Dr. Porter, containing very valaable addition? to the' science. Dr. Porter was a professor m the University of Vermont, and occasonally lectured on the Steom Engine, Chemistry, Pharmacy and othci eiibjects. In 1834 he emigrated to Detroit.Dr. Porter was a scientific and skillfol phy sician. He rankcd among the first of his pro feesion n Detroit, and wasbeioved by a Jarg circle of families, to whom he was the affectionate and faithful physician. By theni his 'oss is feit to be irreparable. He was of the kindliest disposition, the strictest imrgrity, and the sternest principie. A devoled chrislian, and a warm advocate of every moral, philanthropic, and christian enterprise, hie chariiies feil, as the dew front heaven, noiseless, refreshing and incessant. Among the early und devoted of the nnti slnvery host he encountered the full tide of its early unpopulanty. Though it lost Jiirtï friends and gainedhimfoe?: though it injured his interes's, and embiuered hts daily intercourse, he ewerved not in his course. To hïs last day he was the most consistent friend of this, hi dcar cnufe, ohd among the few things whic found utlerance during the waning intellect o his djHngbed, broken Bentènces evinced how inïerwoven with his heart etrings was th canse of tle slave. He hos died urt'iversally regretted. Be paid to the credit of his orce opporients, tha no tear is more sincere - no regret more dee - no expression more spontaneous, thn tlieirs. OU differences are forgotten, am there are recollected, but the virlues and hear and talent of a ear ana respected citi zen. His complaint was Errsypelae in the Heat caught by exposure toinclement weather i nn endeavor to save the life of the lat Schyler Hodgea of Pontiac. He rode t Pontiac on one day and returned the nc.t i an open car. The following day he was at lacked, ond in nine days was no more He lias left a widow, but no cliildrrn, to unite her tears to those of a eorrowing circle of friends. To them it is consoling to know that his wa3 a blessed death bed. He feil asleep in ihearmsof the Lord Jceus: thougli in the full sense of his own unworthinpss, yei with a briglit hope in the atonement of ha Savtor.