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DEATH OF JOHN FV. QUINNEY.

Our correspondent has sent us a truthful and succinct narra-
tive of the prominent events in the life of JOHN W. QUINNEY,
which we subjoin. We are requested to state, that the friends
of the deceased would be gratified if the New York Tribune
and the Evangelist would copy this obituary notice.-Pond
du Lac Union, Aug. 9,1855.
JOHN W. QUINNEY, ex-Stockbridge Indian Chief, died at
his residence in Stockbridge, Wisconsin, upon the morning of
the 21st of July, 1855, after having been in a state of decline
for about one year. His death is deeply felt and mourned by
his people, as he has been to them what HENRY CLAY and
DANIEL WEBSTER werc to the American people. He was
among them a great man, and to them, the great has fallen.
No member, in the history of the Stockbridge tribe, has been
his equal in usefulness, in penetration of mind, and soundness
of judgment. When a boy, he was one of three who received
a common English education, under the patronage of the Unit-
ed States, being placed under the tuition of a Mr. CALEB UN-
DERHILL, of Westchester county, N. Y., where ho pursued
his studies with alacrity and great proficiency. By degrees
he gained the confidence of his people, until almost the entire
national business rested upon him. In 1822, he, with two
others, formed a deputation to Green Bay, whero a treaty was
made and concluded with the Menomonees, by which was pur-
chased all the Green Bay lands, designed for the future home
of the New York Indians. 1Ie procured, in 1825, the passage
of a law through the New York State Legislature, to give the
Stockbridge tribe full value for their lands, which remained to
them in that Statc, and which enabled them subsequently to