city, who desired to do honor to him as a martyr to the cause of his country.

Aug. 6.-BUTTERFIELD, Hon. MARTIN, died at Palmyra, N. Y., aged 76 years. He was a native of New Hampshire, and was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirtysixth Congress, serving as chairman of the Committee on Agriculture.

Aug. 8.-STEPHENS, Major JOSEPH, a wellknown dwarf, died at Lyman, Me., aged 61 years. He was 36 inches high, and weighed 45 pounds.

Aug. 9.-BRANNAN, WILLIAM P., an artist and poet of Cincinnati, died in that city. He was a man of culture and varied information, and wrote under various cognomens, the most popular being "Vandyke Brown." He was the author of the "Harp of a Thousand Strings." Some of his paintings rank high in artistic merit.

Aug. 9.-VITI, VITO, a prominent Italian merchant of Philadelphia, died in that city, aged 80 years. He came to the United States in 1815, and settled at Alexandria, Va., where he was engaged as an importer of Italian marble and fancy goods. Subsequently he removed to Philadelphia, and was soon established in a thriving business.

Aug. 10.-TRACY, Major WILLIAM R., police commissioner of Chattanooga, Tenn., died there in the 27th year of his age. He was a native of Cleveland, Ohio, and a graduate of Yale College. Before the commencement of the war he went to Tennessee, and soon after was major in the First Tennessee Cavalry.

Aug. 10.-WILLARD, CHARLES T., a skilful photographer of Philadelphia, was accidentally killed there. He was the inventor of the system of ciphers for telegraphing, used by the Government during the war.

Aug. 11.-GROSVENOR, Rev. DAVID ADAMS, a Presbyterian clergyman, and founder of several female seminaries of distinction, died at Cincinnati, Ohio, aged 64 years. He was a native of Vermont, studied at Phillips's Academy, and graduated at Yale College in the class of 1826, having been hindered in the prosecution of his studies by a temporary failure of his eyes. After graduating, he spent one year at Ellington, Conn., as principal of the high school, and subsequently studied theology at New Haven; was licensed to preach in 1829, and commenced his labors in the ministry at Pomfret, Conn. In August, 1831, he went to Uxbridge, Mass., and in June following was installed over the First Evangelical Society of that place, as colleague pastor to the Rev. Samuel Judson, whose funeral services he preached and published under the title "The Believer Victorious." After eleven years his connection with the church in Uxbridge was dissolved in the summer of 1842. Accepting an invitation from the First Presbyterian Church of Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, he removed thither, and commenced his ministry there in October of the same year, and was in

stalled in February following. His ministry in Elyria continued for about ten years, and was terminated by a season of illness, which rendered him unable to preach for one year. In the autumn of 1853 he took charge of the First Congregational Church of Medina, where he continued for about nine years. After his pastoral work in Medina ceased, he prosecuted an agency for many months in aid of the Lake Erie Female Seminary, of which he had been from its commencement an active trustee, and greatly assisted in securing its endowment Few ministers have done more to promote the cause of education than he. In each of the three places of his permanent ministry he originated and sustained female seminaries of a high order and extensive influence.

Aug. 11.-PLYMPTON, Major P. W. L., brevet Lieut.-Colonel U. S. Army, died at Galveston, Texas. He graduated at West Point in 1847, and soon after joined his regiment, the Seventh Infantry, then commanded by his father, at the city of Mexico. After the Mexican War he served with his regiment in the Indian Territory, and commanded a battalion of it at the battle of Valverde, New Mexico. For his gallant conduct on this occasion he received the brevet of lieutenant-colonel U. S. Army. In 1863 he was promoted major of the Seventeenth U. S. Infantry.

Aug. 11.-WRIGHT, WASHINGTON, a journalist, died in San Francisco, Cal., aged 38 years. He was a native of New York State, and nephew of Silas Wright the statesman. His early advantages were very meagre, and at sixteen years of age he went with a company of volunteers to the war in Mexico, where he was employed in the hospitals until the end of the campaign, when he returned and entered into an engagement in the editorial rooms of the "Springfield Enterprise," Illinois. In 1855 he conducted the "Citizen" of Chicago, and the following year went to California, where he distinguished himself in connection with different papers in Sacramento, Placerville, Virginia City, and finally at San Francisco, where he was an associate editor of the "American Flag" at the time of his death.

Aug. 12.-HOLTZMAN, WILLIAM F., editor and proprietor of the "Daily Gazette," Little Rock, Arkansas, for the past twelve years, died there, aged 41 years. He was an able writer, honest, fearless, and independent. His death was caused by pulmonary consumption.

Aug. 14.-RUTHERFORD, JOHN COLES, a prominent Virginian politician, died at Rock Castle, Goochland Co., Va. He was a distinguished member of the bar, served his county in the House of Delegates for twelve years, and for his legal knowledge was frequently appointed chairman of the Committee of Courts of Justice; he was also Chairman of the Committee on Banks.

Aug. 18.-CARDER, Rev. J. DIXON, D. D., an Episcopal clergyman, died at Milford, Conn. aged 63 years. He was born in Richfield, N. Y.

graduated at Geneva College, of which he was subsequently tutor, studied theology, and was ordained deacon by Bishop Onderdonk in 1830, and priest by the same at Ithaca, N. Y., in 1832. On becoming deacon, he took charge of the mission at Ithaca, and organized parishes in Candor, Richford, Elmira, and Danby, N. Y. In 1834 he became rector of St. John's Church, Fort Hamilton, N. Y., and soon after was local secretary of the Domestic Board of Missions, where he remained seven years. He then travelled in Europe three years, and on his return was again chaplain at Fort Hamilton, N. Y. He became rector of St. Peter's, Milford, Conn., May 1, 1848, and was instrumental in building there the beautiful stone church. He resigned the rectorship March 7, 1861, since which he has been secretary and general agent of the Domestic Com

mittee.

Aug. 18.-DRAPER, Miss CHARLOTTE and Miss JULIA, sisters, and founders and associate principals of the "Draper Female Seminary" at Hartford, Conn., died in that city, aged respectively 70 and 68 years. The seminary which they founded, and over which they had presided for more than thirty years, was one of the best in New England, and had educated more than two thousand young ladies, many of whom had in their time become teachers. Aug. 19.-TOMPKINS, Rev. JOHN, a Presbyterian clergyman, died in Marcellus, N. Y., aged He graduated at Hamilton College in 1837, and subsequently at the Auburn Theological Seminary, soon after which he settled at Marcellus, laboring faithfully in his pastorate until his death.

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Aug 21.-KIMBALL, Rev. WILLARD, a prominent Baptist clergyman, and former editor, died at Newton Centre, Mass., aged 71 years.

Aug. 21.-WEYdemeyer, Col. JOSEPH, U. S. Army, a Prussian exile, died in St. Louis, aged 48 years. He was a native of Westphalia, Rhenish Prussia. Early in life he became an artillery officer, and served with credit in the Prussian army at the same time with Gen. Willich, since so distinguished in our own national army. Col. Weydemeyer subsequently devoted his pen to the liberal cause, as assistant editor of a paper at Frankfort-on-the-Main, but after the unsuccessful issue of the revolution of 1848, left Germany with the throng of patriot exiles and located at London. Thence he corresponded with the "Reformer," a leading German radical paper of New York. Arriving in New York in 1851, he was associate editor in the conduct of the "Reformer," in company with Kellner, now of the "Philadelphia DemoFrom New York Col. Weydemeyer went to Milwaukee, where he was engaged for some time as civil engineer. He next became engaged at Chicago in editing the Stimme des Volkes, or "Voice of the People," the organ of the German Working-men's Association of Chicago. About seven years ago he took up his residence at St. Louis, and at the breaking out

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of the war abandoned the pen for the sword, and was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Second Missouri Artillery, commanded by Colonel Almstedt. In 1863 he was associated with Dr. Hillgärtner in editing the Neue Zeit, but on the call for more regiments became colonel of the Forty-first Missouri Infantry, which regiment was assigned to guard the city, and Col. Weydemeyer for a long time held the position, and faithfully discharged the duties of commandant of the post of St. Louis. Col. Weydemeyer was a gentleman of modest pretension and kind disposition, a gallant soldier, an able writer, of strict integrity and honor, and devoted to the elevation of the laboring classes. His favorite theme was the economy of labor and the improvement of the condition of the working-men. Of indomitable industry, he was, up to the end of his life, in addition to his official duties, engaged in writing and publishing essays on his favorite topics connected with the labor question.

Aug. 22.-NAGLE, JAMES, Major-Gen. U. S. Vols., died at Pottsville, Pa. During the Mexican War he was a captain in the First regiment of Pennsylvania Vols., and in April, 1861, reentered the service as colonel of the Sixth Pennsylvania Vols. He was attached to the command of Major-Gen. Paterson during the campaign ending with the battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861, and was discharged at the expiration of his term of service. Subsequently he was in command of the Forty-eighth Pennsylvania Vols., and distinguished himself at South Mountain, where he commanded a brigade in Gen. Sturgis's division of Gen. Burnside's army corps.

Aug. 27.-WHITE, Judge FORTUNE C., a prominent lawyer of Oneida County, N. Y., died at Whitestown, aged 79 years. He was a native of that town, and grandson of Judge Hugh White, its founder; received a thorough academic course, and entered a mercantile establishment, but having a taste for study, turned his attention to the law, and at an early age became an active and efficient member of the celebrated firm of Storrs and White. The rapidity with which he rose in his profession attests the native strength of his intellect and the legal drill and discipline of his mind. Not only as a lawyer, but as a citizen and legislator, his forensic achievements, and the conceded statesmanship of his legislative career, marked him as among the prominent men of Central New York. As chief judge of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Oneida County, from 1837 to 1843, he retained high reputation as a jurist and an able expounder of law. Endowed with a commanding presence, and a proclivity for martial display, he enrolled himself among the citizen-soldiers of his "beat," while yet in his minority; and devoting himself to the requisite drill and tactics, he rose rapidly, yet by regular gradations, to the command of a brigade in his county. During his military career, he served two campaigns in the war with Great

Britain; the first, in command of a company at Sackett's Harbor, in 1813; and again, as aidede-camp to the commanding general in 1814. Aug. 28.-MCELHONE, Brevet Lieut.-Col. JAMES F., U. S. A., died at Philadelphia from the effects of a wound received in the battle of Gaines Mills. He served as adjutant-general in New Hampshire, and as mustering and disbursing officer in New York and Pennsylvania. Aug. 31.-FITZGERALD, Rev. FREDERICK, an Episcopal clergyman, died in Hoboken, N. J., aged 41 years. He was a native of England, but came to this country early in life and was educated at Valle Crucis, N. C.; was ordained priest in Philadelphia, Sept. 4, 1853, and soon after returned to North Carolina, where most of his ministerial life was passed. He preached in Jackson, Halifax, and Goldsborough, and in 1861 became assistant in St. Mary's School, Raleigh, and one of the editors of the "Church Intelligencer." In 1865 he came North, and became rector of Trinity Church, Hoboken, N. J., where he won the hearts of his people by his many excellences of character and his fidelity to his work. He had just accepted a call to a church in Nashville, Tenn., at the time of his death.

Aug. 31.-HOWELL, Rev. ISAAC P., a Roman Catholic clergyman, of Elizabeth, N. J., died at Stroudsburg, Pa., aged 57 years. He was a native of Philadelphia, and was educated at Mt. St. Mary's College, Emmettsburg, Md. He was ordained at Fordham, by the late Archbishop Hughes, and was sent on his missionary career to Elizabeth, where he officiated for twenty-three years. He died of pulmonary consumption, the pure air of Stroudsburg, which place he had visited in the hope of benefit to his health, proving unavailing to restore him. He had long been connected with religious and educational establishments, several of which he founded.

Aug.--CRAIDER, FREDERICK, a veteran of the Revolution and of the War of 1812, died at Meadville, Miss., aged 108 years.

Aug. -ROBINSON, Rev. J. J., D. D., formerly President of Marysville, College, Tenn., was thrown from his carriage and killed at Rogersville, Tenn. He had recently been elected president of a new institution at Bristol in that State.

Aug.---WADE, Hon. EDWARD, died in East Cleveland, Ohio, aged 63 years. He was a native of West Springfield, Mass, where he received a common-school education, and in 1821 removed with his father to Ashtabula County, Ohio, devoting his attention to agriculture until 1824. Subsequently he studied law in Albany and Troy, and in 1827 was admitted to the bar in Jefferson County, Ohio. In 1832 he removed to Unionville, and afterward settled in Cleveland. He was elected a Representative to the Thirtythird Congress, and was reelected, serving on the Committee on Commerce.

Sept. 2.-BURNHAM, Col. JAMES C., U. S. A., died in New York. He was appointed major

in the Second New York Infantry, December 3, 1846, and served with the command in that capacity from Vera Cruz to Churubusco. Subsequently he was promoted to be lieutenantcolonel in September, 1847, and led the regiment through the several battles around the city of Mexico. After the war he returned home with his regiment, and received great honor. Col. Burnham was city marshal of New York under the administration of Mayor Wood, and was a prominent politician for several years.

Sept. 2.-MARLAY, Rev. M., D. D., a Methodist clergyman, died of cholera at Ripley, Ohio. He was pastor of a church at Dayton, and, in company with the Rev. Robert Wallace, had attended the conference at Ripley, and parted but a few hours before the death of each.

Sept. 2.-WALLACE, Rev. ROBERT, a distinguished Methodist clergyman of Ireland, died of cholera at Cincinnati, Ohio. He was appointed as one of a deputation from the Irish Methodist Conference to the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, and to the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada. Having visited Ripley, the seat of the Cincinnati Conference, he was en route for Laporte, Ind., and in passing through Cincinnati was seized with the epidemic which terminated his life.

Sept. 7.-BALDWIN, MATTHIAS W., an eminent citizen of Philadelphia, pioneer in American iron manufactures, died in that city, aged 70 years. In 1829, as soon as the news reached America of the success of steam locomotives upon the Liverpool and Manchester Railroad, he predicted the revolution the invention would accomplish in every branch of business, and the rapidity with which it would develop the resources of this country. In the same year the first model of a locomotive engine seen in America was constructed by him, and exhibited on a miniature railroad. After this experiment Mr. Baldwin devoted his energies to the manufacture of locomotives, and was the first to make them in this country. His work grew with the demand, till for many years before his death his establishment was one of the largest in the world, employing over & thousand workmen, and sending locomotives not only to all American States, but to Russia and other European countries. Many of the improvements in locomotive machinery were invented by him. But he did not confine his influence to a single department of industry. He was a liberal friend of the arts and sciences, and took a special interest in agriculture and horticulture. By enterprise in business he had gained a large fortune, which he freely used for the benefit of every deserving cause. Besides munificent gifts to city, State, and national charities without number, he erected several churches, and devoted freely of his means to the advancement of religious interests.

Sept. 10.-RANDALL, Hon. JOSIAI, a leading Democratic politician and lawyer, died in Phila delphia, aged 77 years. Having received his

school training under the direction of the Rev. Dr. Stoughton, a well-known Baptist minister, he was placed at the age of fourteen in a lawoffice, and early admitted to the bar. Soon after he was appointed clerk to the mayor's court, at that time a responsible and lucrative office. This position he resigned to join the Junior Artillerists, which had volunteered for service in the War of 1812. Toward the close of the war he was promoted to a coloneley. In 1819 he was elected to the Legislature, and, although a very young man, the proceedings of the body show that he took an active and leading part. This was the last office be accepted, as he devoted himself earnestly to his profession, in which he had a large practice. He was a hard-working lawyer, and his industry and ability gave him eminence.

Sept. 10.-SAGE, OREN, an eminent manufacturer of Rochester, N. Y., died in that city, aged 79 years. He was a native of Middletown, Conn., and served as an apprentice to a tanner and shoemaker in that town until twenty-one years of age. His educational advantages comprised but a single month of schooling. In 1809 he removed to Ballston Spa, and in 1827 to Rochester, where by industry and perseverance he soon acquired a competency. He was a man of singular piety, and, while giving freely to the benevolent objects of the day, was specially interested in the Rochester University and Theological Seminary, of which he was a liberal benefactor.

Sept. 13.-ORME, Brig.-Gen. W. W., U. S. Vols., died at Bloomington, Ill. He was formerly a successful lawyer in that town, but at the commencement of the late civil war threw up a lucrative practice to enter the military service. He served with credit, but returned to his home in poor health, from which he never recovered. Sept. 13.--WALKER, Rev. AUGUSTUS, missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. to Eastern Turkey, died of cholera, at Diarbekir, aged 44 years. He was a native of Medway, Mass., graduated at Yale College in 1849, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1852; was ordained the same year at East Medway, and sailed, with his wife, for Smyrna, January 7, 1853. He was an earnest and faithful worker in the missionary field for more than twelve years.

Sept. 17.-CALDWELL, Hon. GEORGE ALFRED, a prominent lawyer of Kentucky, died at Louisville. He was a native of that State, and was a Representative in Congress from 1843 to 1845, and again from 1849 to 1851.

Sept. 17.-WRIGHT, Rev. E. W., D. D., a distinguished Presbyterian clergyman, died in Alleghany City, aged 49 years. He was a native of Lancaster, Ohio, graduated at Miami University, Ohio, studied theology one year at Princeton, and completed his course in the Theological Seminary at Alleghany in 1838. In October, 1839, he was ordained an evangelist at Frankfort, Ind. Previous to this he had labored some time in Lafayette, Ind., and had received a call to the church in that place, but

had declined it, owing to the troubles growing out of "the division of 1838." Afterward the call was renewed; he accepted, and was installed pastor in October, 1840. He continued in this pastorate five and a half years, and then accepted an agency for the Board of Education in the West, the duties of which he performed for six months. He then took charge of the church at Delphi, Ind., of which he continued to be pastor for a period of nearly twenty years. But his labors were by no means confined to his own particular field. Very many were the protracted meetings which he held, or at which he assisted, in neighboring and also in distant churches. Because of his vigorous constitution in early life, he seems to have considered himself possessed of special fitness for the extensive travel and "much hardness" encountered by pioneers in founding and caring for churches in new countries. For him to swim his horse and himself through canals, creeks, and rivers, and to continue his journey "just as he was,' 17 was no uncommon occurrence. At the time he became connected with the Synod of Indiana, it extended from the Ohio River on the south into Michigan on the north, and to Missouri on the west; and to attend the meetings of the synod required a ride on horseback sometimes of 150, 200, or even 300 miles. Dr. Wright was stated clerk of the Synod of Northern Indiana from the time of its formation, in 1842, until his removal to Alleghany.

Sept. 20.-PEASLEE, Gen. CHARLES H., one of the most conspicuous public men of New Hampshire, died at St. Paul, Minnesota, aged 62 years. He was born in New Hampshire, in 1804, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1824, and coming to the bar after a regular study of his profession, settled in Concord, the capital of that State. He was a State representative from 1833 to 1837, adjutant-general from 1839 to 1847, and a member of the National House of Representatives from 1847 to 1853. On retiring from Congress, he was immediately appointed Collector of Customs at Boston by President Pierce, a position which he filled four years with eminent ability and success. Since 1857 he had resided in Portsmouth. was a gentleman of generous and genial impulses, upright in his life, public-spirited, and filled with honor every position to which he was called, enjoying the respect and confidence of the people of his State to the last. He was among the most active originators of the insane asylum of his State, and a member of the board of directors from its establishment to the time of his death.

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Sept. 21.-HANSON, Mrs. JOHN T., a niece of Oliver Goldsmith, died at West Hoboken, N. J., aged 80 years.

Sept. 21.-SCRIPPS, JOHN L., a journalist of Chicago, and former postmaster of that city, died at Minneapolis, Minn. He was a native of Missouri, graduated at McKendree College, Lebanon, Ill., and temporarily filled a professorship in that institution. Subsequently he