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Death of Lieut. John G. Swearingen. We regret to learn of the death of Lieut. John G. Swearingen, son of E. B Swearingen, and a native of this city. He died at Bay Point, South Carolina, on the 16th of January last. Lieut. Swearingen entered the service in the 8th Pennsylvania Reserves, in 1861. He entered as a private, but was soon after detailed for special clerical service in the regiment. He was with Gen. McDowell at the second battle of Bull Run. Immediately after this, he was sent along with a corps of engineers with the Potomac army into Maryland, and did service at Frederick City, South Mountain and other points in that State, in the summer of 1862. After this he was with a squad of 600 engineers on the railroad leading out from Washington to Fredericksburg and to Front Royal, and came very near being captured at the latter place, by the rebels under Stonewall Jackson. When Gen. Burnside made the attack on Fredericksburg, in December, 1862, he was in the Quartermaster's Department, and shortly alter he was appointed a Lieutenant, and accepted the position of Adjutant of his regiment, which he held until the expiration of his term. After a brief interval, Lieut. Swearingen again volunteered in the navy, and went southward with the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. He soon entered upon his duty as clerk in the Ordnance Department, and at the time of his death be was faithfully discharging his duties as clerk on board the receiving ship of war, New Hampshire, then at Bay Point. His disease had threatened him for a long lime, but be was unwilling to quit his post, and in fact be died at it. We may remark in this connection, that Lieut. S. has had two brothers in the service since the commencement of the war, and one, quite young, has served a time in a Pennsylvania battery. Both the others were adjutants in Pennsylvania regiments, and one, who is now on the staff of Gen. Cadwallader, has been several times severely wounded.

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