cography. In 1847 his revised editions of Webster's octavo and quarto Dictionary were issued; in 1856 the University edition, and in 1859 his Supplement, enriched with an elaborate collection of synonymes. He was one of the largest pecuniary benefactors of the theological department of the college.

May 9.--In New York city, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, aged 66. He was born in Ridgefield, Conn., August 19, 1793. In 1824 he established himself in business in Hartford, Conn., but soon removed to Boston. From 1828 to 1842 he edited "The Token." From 1827 to 1857 he published tales under the name of Peter Parley. He was the author of many volumes and historical and geographical school-books. In 1838 he published a volume of poems, and another in 1851. In 1857 he published his "Recollections of a Lifetime; or, Men and Things that I Have Seen." He says of himself, "I stand before the public as the author and editor of about 170 volumes, of which 116 bear the name of Peter Parley. Of these about 7,000,000 of volumes have been sold, and now (1857) about 300,000 are sold annually." He was at one time a member of the Senate of Massachusetts, and was Consul at Paris during Mr. Fillmore's administration. July 1.--In New York city, Charles Goodyear, aged 59, the inventor of the art of vulcanizing India-Rubber. He was born in New Haven, Conn., December 29, 1800. Aug. 7. In Fredonia, N. Y., Judge Benjamin F. Greene, aged 39, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of New York for the Eighth Judicial District. May 6. — In New York city, George Griffin, Esq., for nearly fifty years a distinguished member of the Bar of that city, aged 82. He was a graduate of Yale College in the Class of 1797. During the latter part of his life he devoted much time to theology and general literature, and published two works, "The Sufferings of our Saviour" a d "The Evidences of Christianity."

July 17.- In New Brunswick, N. J. Cornelius L. Hardinburgh, aged 70, a respected member of the Bar; for several years Prosecutor of the Pleas for Somerset County, and in 1836 and 1837 a member of the Legislature. He was upwards of forty years an active and influential Trustee of Rutgers College.

May 6.-In Marysville, Cal., Henry P. Haun. He was a native of Scott Co., Ky., was admitted to the Bar in 1839, and was Prosecuting Attorney of Scott County. He removed to Iowa in 1845, and in 1846 was a member of the Convention that framed the Constitution of that State. In 1849 he emigrated to California, and was elected the first County Judge of his county in 1850. After the expiration of that term of service, he was engaged in agriculture. He was appointed Senator to succeed Mr. Broderick.

July 3.In Pottstown, Pa., Nathaniel P. Hobart, aged 70, from 1836 to 1838 inclusive, Auditor-General of Pennsylvania.

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- In Trenton, N. J., Hon. Samuel D. Ingham, aged 81. He was member of Congress from Pennsylvania from 1813 to 1818 and from 1822 to 1829, and was for a time Secretary of the Treasury under President Jackson.

Feb. 7.- In New Haven, Ct., Hon. Charles J. Ingersoll, judge of the Federal District Court of that State. He was appointed clerk of that court in 1819, and after thirty years of service was made judge. He had latterly performed considerable judicial duty in New York city.

June 10.. In Washington, D C., Brevet Major-General Thomas S. Jesup, Quartermaster-General of the United States Army, aged 70. He was born in Virginia and entered the army in 1808. He served with distinction in the war of 1812, and was promoted for his gallant services. He became Brigadier-General in May, 1818, and was brevetted Major-General in 1828.

April 14.-In Maryland, Hon. Wm. Cost Johnson, aged 54. He was born in 1806, studied law, and became eminent in his profession. He was member of Congress from Maryland from 1833 to 1835 and from 1837 to 1843.

Feb. 3. - In Philadelphia, Pa., Joel Jones, aged 64. He was born in Coventry, Conn., October 25, 1795, graduated at Yale College in 1817, studied and settled in practice in Easton, Pa. In 1830 he was appointed one of the Commissioners to revise the Civil Code of Pennsylvania. He was Associate Judge and afterwards President Judge of the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia. He was President of Girard College for about two years. In 1849 he was elected Mayor of Philadelphia, and after serving one term he returned to his profession. He was eminent for his attainments in jurisprudence, philology, and theology.

April 18. In Northampton, Mass., Sylvester Judd, aged 71, for a long time editor and part proprietor of the Hampshire Gazette.

Feb. 3. In Ipswich, Mass., Rev. David Tenney Kimball, aged 77. He was born in Bradford, Mass., in 1782; graduated at Harvard College in 1803; was settled in Ipswich in 1906, and was for nearly forty years the pastor of the parish, without a colleague.

Feb. 12. -- In Mt. Lebanon, N. H., Richard Kimball, aged 91. His name is identified with the early internal improvements in New England and New York. He was engaged in the construction of the Middlesex Canal in Massachusetts, and aided in the superintendence and construction of the Erie and Champlain Canals in New York.

June 29. — In Brooklyn, N. Y., Emilié Zulavasky Kossuth, aged 43, sister of Louis Kossuth,

May 7.-In Morrisania, N. Y., Dr. Charles Kraitsir, aged 56. He was a native of Hungary, and educated in the University of Pesth. He participated in the Polish Revolution, was exiled, and came to this country in 1833. He devoted himself to teaching, was Professor of Modern Languages in the University of Virginia, and published some valuable treatises on philology.

Aug. 19.In Charleston, S. C., Vincente Antonio Larranaga, the Spanish Consul at that port.

March 14-In Philadelphia, Pa., Lewis C. Levin, a well-known politician, and from 1845 to 1851, member of Congress from that city.

May 24. In New York city, Frederick William Lord, of Greenport, Long Island, aged 59. He was born in Lyme, Conn., graduated at Yale College in 1810, studied Medicine and practised his profession in Lyme from 1828 to 1830, and in Sag Harbor, N. Y., from 1830 to 1846. He was Representative in Congress from New York from 1847 to 1849.

May 5.-In Andover, Mass., Rev. Bailey Loring, aged 73. He was born in Pembroke, Mass., graduated at Brown University in 1807, and was settled over the First Church in Andover, in 1810.

July 9.--In Rome, Ga., Hon. John Henry Lumpkin, from 1843 to 1849 member of Congress from Georgia, and from 1851 to 1857 Judge of the Supreme Court

of that State.

May 2.-- In New York, Rev. Archibald Maclay, aged 82, a native of Scotland; ar eminent minister of the Baptist Church for more than half a century.

May 15. In Worcester, Mass., Rev. John Maltby, of Bangor, Me., aged 65. He was born in Northford, Conn., graduated at Yale College in 1822, studied theology at Andover, Mass.; was settled in Sutton, Mass, from 1826 to 1834, and over the Hammond Street Church in Bangor from 1834 until his death.

Jan. 19. In Utica, N. Y., Hon. Charles A. Mann, aged 57. In 1846 he was a member of the Assembly of New York; in 1850 a State Senator, and had been President of the New York, Albany, and Buffalo Telegraph Company. He was at the time of his death President of the Utica Bank.

April 22. In Sandy Hill, N. Y., Henry C. Martindale, a member of the House of Representatives from New York from 1823 to 1831, and 1833 to 1835. April 20.. In San Antonio, Texas, George S. Mulliken, formerly Judge of the Municipal Court in Augusta, Me. July 14 In Lowell, Mass., Nicholas G. Norcross, aged 54. He was a native of Orono, Maine, and was largely engaged in lumbering in that State, and afterwards on the Merrimack River in Massachusetts, and aided to develop the resources of the Canada forests. He was the inventor of the Norcross PlaningMachine.

June. --In Corpus Christi, Texas, Hon. Milford Phillips Norton, Judge of the Fourteenth District Court of Texas. He was formerly a prominent lawyer in Bangor, Me., and had been a member of the Senate of Maine and Land Agent. He had resided in Texas for twenty years.

May 10. In Florence, Tuscany, Rev. Theodore Parker, of Boston, aged 49. He was born in Lexington, Mass., August 21, 1810; entered Harvard College in 1830, but did not graduate; entered the Divinity School at Cambridge in 1834, and was settled in West Roxbury in 1837. In 1840 he received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Harvard College. In 1841, in an Ordination Sermon, he uttered the sentiments which led to the theological controversies which marked the active years of his life. In 1843 he visited Europe, began to preach in Boston in 1845 and in 1846 was settled over the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society in Boston. In 1859 his health failed and he went to Europe to seek its restoration, but without success. He was a ripe scholar, of extensive

and varied attainments. Radical in his opinions in religion and politics, and vigorous and denunciatory in his utterance of them, he excited a large opposition. But he was much beloved by those acquainted with him for his simplicity and purity of character. He collected a valuable library, which he bequeathed to the city of of Boston, to be made part of the Public Library.

April 5. In Hyde Park, N. Y., James Kirke Paulding, aged 80. He was born in Duchess Co., N. Y., Aug. 22, 1779. He removed in early manhood to New York, and became acquainted with Washington Irving (his sister marrying Irving's elder brother), and began with him the publication of "Salinagundi in 1807. He was from that time to the close of his life engaged more or less in literary pursuits. He was a voluminous writer of novels and political essays. A pamphlet of his, entitled "The United States and England," brought him to the acquaintance of Mr. Madison, and into the political arena. In 1814 he was made Secretary of the Board of Navy Commissioners; afterwards Navy Agent at New York, and he was Secretary of the Navy during the Administration of Mr. Van Buren, after which time he retired from public life.

April 5.-- In West Newton, Mass., Rev. Cyrus Peirce, aged 69. He was born in Waltham, Mass., in 1790; graduated at Harvard College in 1810; was teacher and preacher chiefly in Nantucket until 1839, when he took charge of the First Normal School in Lexington, Mass., and made the experiment a success. After three years service his health failed, and he left the school, but resumed it again upon his restoration to health, when it was removed to West Newton in 1844. His failing health compelled him again to leave it in 1849. He then went to Europe as a Delegate to the Peace Congress at Paris. On his return he again was a teacher in a private school in West Newton.

July 29.In Boston, Mass., Jonathan Phillips, aged 82. He was born in Boston April 24, 1778; was a merchant and amassed great wealth, and was a Repre. sentative and afterwards Senator in the State Legislature. In 1818 Harvard College conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. His acts of public and private munificence have given deserved honor to his name.

April 9. -- In Troy, N. Y., Job Pierson, aged 69, a member of the House of Representatives from New York from 1831 to 1835.

May 23. In Columbia, S. C., Hon. William Campbell Preston, LL. D., aged 66. He was born in Philadelphia, Dec. 27, 1794, his father being then in that city as a member of Congress from Virginia. He graduated in 1812 at South Carolina College, studied law in the office of William Wirt, and in 1816 visited Europe, and there continued the study of his profession. He was admitted to the Bar in 1821, and after practising a year in Virginia removed to Columbia, S. C. He was Senator in Congress from 1834 to 1843, where he was an advocate of States rights and free trade. Upon leaving the Senate he resumed the practice of his profession. He was President of the South Carolina College from 1845 to 1851, when he resigned in consequence of ill health. In 1846 he received from Harvard College the degree of LL. D.

April 25.-- In Charleston, S. C., John S. Robinson, a distinguished citizen of Vermont, and a Delegate from that State to the Democratic Convention, Governor of Vermont in 1853-4, and frequently a member of the Legislature.

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June 3 In Baltimore, Md., Dr. Joseph Roby, aged 51. He was born in Boston; graduated at Brown University in 1828, studied medicine and began practice in Boston. He was Professor of Anatomy at the same time in the Medical School of Dartmouth College and in that of Bowdoin College, and also lectured upon the theory and practice of medicine. While discharging these duties, he was appointed Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the University of Maryland, and there spent the closing years of his life.

May 6. In Cambridge, Mass., Rev. Ralph Sanger, D. D., aged 73. He was born in Duxbury, June 22, 1786, and graduated at Harvard College in 1808; taught school in Concord, Mass. ; was Tutor in Mathematics in Cambridge in 1811, and studied theology. In 1812 he was settled in Dover, Mass., and continued the pastor of that society until his death, having a colleague settled with him in 1858. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by Harvard College in 1858. July 5. In Wakefield, N. H., William Sawyer, Esq., aged 84. He was born in Westminster, Mass., graduated at Harvard College in 1800, studied law with Henry Mellen, Esq., of Dover, N. H., and commenced practice in Wakefield in 1804. He was for several years a member of the Legislature of New Hampshire, and after the division of the County of Strafford, was chosen President of the Carroll County Bar.

May 18. In Camden, N. J., Ferdinand S. Schenck, M. D., aged 72, a highly respected citizen of Somerset County, a member of the House of Representatives from 1833 to 1837, a member of the Convention which formed the Constitution in 1844, and several times of the State Legislature. He was also a Judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals.

June 7.-- In St. Catharines, C. W., John L. Schoolcraft, an eminent and highly esteemed citizen of Albany, N. Y., and from 1849 to 1853 a Representative in Congress from New York.

May 5.- In Philadelphia, John Thomas Sergeant, aged 78, late a Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 3.In Wiscasset, Me., Hon. Samuel Emerson Smith, aged 71. He was born in Hollis, N. H., March 12, 1788, graduated at Harvard College in 1808, studied law, was admitted to the bar in Boston, and settled in Wiscasset, then a part of Massachusetts. He was Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of Maine in 1821, and a Justice of the State Court of Common Pleas from 1822 to 1830, when he was elected Governor of the State, and was twice reelected. He was again appointed Judge of the Common Pleas in 1835, and resigned in 1837. In 1837 he was appointed one of the Commissioners to revise the Public Statutes of Maine.

June 24.-In Portland, Me., Woodbury Storer, Esq., aged 76, a prominent lawyer and eminent citizen of that city.

Aug. 28.--In Cincinnati, Capt. Jacob Strader, aged 65. He was born in New Jersey in 1795, and removed to Cincinnati in 1817. He was first engaged in the banking business and .afterwards in mills. He early became connected with steamboats and was one of the pioneers in the steamboat business of Cincinnati. From 1830 to 1846 he had the mail contract between Cincinnati and Louisville. He was one of the promoters of railroads in Ohio; in 1844 he aided in establishing a large cotton factory in Cincinnati, and he was for a time the head of a large banking house that bore his name.

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Feb. 6.- In Columbus, Ohio, Gustavus Swan, aged 71. He settled in Columbus in 1812; was a Representative in the State Legislature; Judge of the Court of Common Pleas ; one of the State Fund Commissioners, and the first President of the State Bank of Ohio.

April. In Jackson, Miss., Colin S. Tarpley, Esq., aged about 50, an eminent lawyer and a Christian gentleman.

May 7. In Norfolk, Va., Hon. Littleton Walker Tazewell, aged 85. He was a distinguished lawyer; was Representative in Congress in 1800 and 1801; Senator in Congress from 1824 to 1832, and from 1833 to 1836 Governor of Virginia. He had also held some diplomatic offices under the federal government.

March 22. In Sharon, Miss, Rev. T. C. Thornton, D. D., aged about 73, President of Madison College, Mississippi, and an eminent divine of the Methodist Church.

May 23. In Natchez, Miss., Hon. Edward Turner, aged 82. He was born in Fairfax County, Va., and removed to Mississippi in 1802. In 1803 he was appointed Register of Land Office west of Pearl River. He was Mayor of Natchez from 1814 to 1821; was elected by the Legislature to make a Digest of the Laws of the Territory; was for several years in the Legislature, and was Speaker of the House. He was a member of the Convention which framed the first Constitution of the State, and successively Attorney-General, Judge of the Superior and Supreme Courts, Chancellor of the State, and Judge of the High Court of Errors and Appeals.

Jan. 10.. -In Willoughby, Ohio, Rev. Elijah Ward, aged 90, for more than fifty years an eminent member of the Methodist Church.

Jan. 16. In Jackson, Miss., Col. B. R. Webb, aged about 48, Secretary of State. He had just entered upon the duties of his office. He was for several years in the State Senate from Pontotoc County.

April 21.-In Cambridge, Mass., William Wells, aged 86. He was born in England; came to this country with his father in 1793, graduated at Harvard College in 1796; taught school; was a bookseller in Boston; removed to Cambridge near 1830, and kept successfully a classical school there for many years. March 30. In Boston, Mass., Thomas Wetmore, aged 64. He was born in Boston, Aug. 31, 1795, graduated at Harvard College in 1814; studied law, but left the bar. He devoted much of his life to the interests of his native city, being for three years a member of the Common Council, for eleven years an

Alderman, and for several years a member of the Board of Water Commission

May. In Newark, N. J., Asa Whitehead, Esq., aged 66. He was a native of New Jersey, studied law, and was frequently a member of the State Legislature. Feb. 16. -In New York city, Stephen Whitney, aged 83, one of the richest men in that city.

Aug. 25.-In Poughkeepsie, N. Y., William Wilson, aged 58. He was a native of Scotland, and before coming to this country was a contributor to the periodical literature of Great Britain, and in this country has written poetry of merit for some of the leading magazines.

April 2. In Society Hill, S. C., John Dick Witherspoon, aged 82. He was a native of South Carolina, and graduated at Brown University in 1797. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1800, and became known as "Honest Jack Witherspoon." He served in both branches of the State Legislature, and was a Commissioner for revising the Statutes of that State.

March 18. In New York city, George Wood, one of the oldest and most successful lawyers of that city. He began practice in New Jersey, where he become eminent as a Chancery lawyer. He had been of the New York bar for twenty years. His knowledge of law was extensive and thorough, his judgment was sound, and his sagacity was almost unerring.

April.In Yazoo City, Miss., George S. Yerger, Esq., aged about 60, one of the most eminent lawyers of Mississippi, and a man of cultivation, refinement. and piety.

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Dec. 24. In England, Robert Baker, aged 66, the father of the protection societies, author of a prize essay of the Royal Agricultural Society, on the farming system of the country, and the editor of a valuable edition of Bayldon.

Sept 14.-In London, Eng., Isambert Kingdom Brunel, aged 54, a distin guished engineer. He constructed many of the most important railways in Great Britain, several tubular and suspension bridges, some mammoth ocean steamers, including the Great Eastern, the Tuscan portion of the Sardinian railways, and the hospitals on the Dardanelles during the Crimean war. In 1857 the University at Oxford gave him the degree of D. C. L.

Dec. 5. In London, Eng., Sir Richard Budden Crowder, aged 64, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas.

Nov. 6. -In England, Sir Francis Sacheveral Durwin, aged 74, last surviving son of the celebrated Dr. Darwin.

Dec. 8. In Edinburgh. Scotland, Thomas De Quincey, aged 74, known as "the English Opium-Eater." He was the son of a Manchester merchant, and was educated at Oxford. At the age of forty, he published in the London Magazine his "Confessions of an Opium-Eater," and afterwards, although with feeble health and uncertain spirits, he prepared various contributions to periodicals. "While yet a very young man, he adopted the baneful practice of opium-eating, and thus made shipwreck both of a high intellect and a good fortune."

Nov. 20. Near Limpsfield, Surrey, Eng., Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone, aged 81, distinguished for his great civil services in British India, and the author of a "History of India," published in 1841.

Sept. 8. In Warwickshire, Eng., Major-General Sir William Eyre, aged 53, late commander of the English forces in Canada, and one of the heroes of the Crimean war.

Oct. 15. In London, Eng., Sir Thomas Tassell Grant, aged 64, late Comptroller of the Victualling and Transport Service in the Admiralty. His application of steamn machinery to the manufacture of bread and biscuits for the navy proved of extensive utility in the Crimean war. He was also the author of an apparatus for distilling fresh water from the sea.

Oct. 1. In Birmingham. Eng., Rev. John Angell James, aged 75, author of many popular religious works, and one of the most esteemed ministers of the Independent denomination. He was pastor of Cavis Lane Chapel for 56 years.