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number of wounded among them was 3,468, 

 who were taken to the hospitals, without in- 

 cluding several hundred who went home. For 

 military affairs in North Carolina, (see AEMY 

 OPERATIONS.) 



On the 15th of May, Edward Stanley, for- 

 merly a distinguished citizen of North Carolina, 

 arrived at New York from California, for the 

 purpose of entering upon the office of tem- 

 porary governor of North Carolina, which had 

 been tendered to him by President Lincoln. 

 The part of Carolina placed under his jurisdic- 

 tion was that in which the Federal arms held 

 control. The instructions of the Federal Gov- 

 ernment to Gov. Stanley were similar to those 

 given to Gov. Andrew Johnson in Tennessee, 

 and were as follows: 



WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D. C., May 2, 1862. 

 Hon. Edward, Stanley, Military Governor of North 

 Carolina : 



SIR : The commission you have received expresses 

 on its face the nature and extent of the duties and 

 power devolved on you by the appointment of military 

 governor of North Carolina. Instructions have been 

 given to Maj.-Gen. Burnside to aid you in the per- 

 formance of your duties and the exercise of your au- 

 thority. He has been instructed to detail an adequate 

 military force for the special purpose of a governor's 

 guard, and to act under your direction. It is obvious 

 to you that the great purpose of your appointment is 

 to reestablish the authority of the Federal Government 

 in the State of North Carolina, and to provide the 

 means of maintaining peace and security to the loyal 

 inhabitants of that State until they shall be able to es- 

 tablish a civil government. Upon your wisdom and 

 energetic action much will depend in accomplishing 

 that result. It is not deemed necessary to give any 

 specific instructions, but rather to confide in your sound 

 discretion to adopt such measures as circumstances 

 may demand. You may rely upon the perfect confi- 

 dence and full support of this department in the per- 

 formance of your duties. 



With great respect, I am your obedient servant, 

 EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. 



On the 26th of May he arrived at Newbern, 

 and entered upon his duties. On the 17th 

 of June he made an address to the people at 

 "Washington, N. C. Permission had been given 

 to the citizens to enter the Federal lines for the 

 purpose of hearing this address, and they were 

 present from seventeen counties. The speech 

 was a review of the past, an examination of 

 present affairs, and an urgent appeal to the 

 citizens to resume their allegiance to the Fed- 

 eral Government. The result showed that so 

 long as the Confederate Government retained 

 its organization and power, the citizens could 

 not be expected to turn against it; especially as 

 the fortune of war might soon place them un- 

 der its control again. 



At all the military posts of the Federal Gov- 

 ernment in the State, the slaves from the interior 

 who had run away collected. This was espe- 

 cially the case at Newbern, where five thou- 

 sand had come in. When Gov. Stanley arrived 

 there he found schools established for their in- 

 struction, but expressed the opinion that it was 

 injudicious, as contrary to the laws of the 

 State, and if upheld by him it must destroy 

 his influence with the people. The schools 

 were temporarily suspended. The course pur- 

 sued by the governor was designed to restore the 

 confidence and good will of the people, which 

 had been lost by the belief that it was the 

 purpose of the Federal Administration to de- 

 stroy their institutions and subjugate the peo- 

 ple. A conference was proposed by Gov. 

 Stanley to Gov. Vance, for the purpose of re- 

 storing peace in the State. The latter refused 

 to meet, but referred the former to the Con- 

 federate Government at Richmond. Apparently 

 little has been gained for the Federal cause 

 thus far by the military organization on the 

 borders of the State. 



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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. Jan. 8.-- WATER- 

 MAW, THOMAS G., died in Binghamton, N. Y., in 

 the 74th year of his age. He graduated at Yale 

 College in 1806, studied law, and settled in 

 Binghamton in 1812. From 1826 to 1832 he 

 was in the State Legislature either as assem- 

 blyman or senator, and during that time as- 

 sisted in revising the statutes of the State. He 

 was judge of the court of common pleas in his 

 own county, and a brigadier-general of the 

 State militia by appointment of the governor. 

 In 1828 he published a volume on the "Powers 

 and Duties of Justices of the Peace." 

 Jan. 10. COLT, Col. SAMUEL. (See COLT.) 

 Jan. 14. INGERSOLL, CHARLES JARED. (See 

 INGERSOLL.) 



Jan. 18. TYLER, JOHN. (See TYLER.) 



Jan. 25. DWIGHT, Rev. HARRISON GRAY 



OTIS, D.D., a missionary of the American Board 



of Commissioners of Foreign Missions, killed 



by a railroad accident on the Northern Vermont 



railroad. He was born in Conway, Mass., Nov. 

 22, 1803, graduated at Harvard University in 

 1825, and completed his theological course at 

 Andover in 1828. In January, 1830, he sailed 

 for the East, and after spending two years in 

 exploring the field, settled as a missionary at 

 Constantinople in 1832, and labored there 

 nearly thirty years, preaching, superintending 

 schools, and editing a religious paper. He had 

 published during his long missionary career 

 several works, one of them, " Christianity 

 brought Home from the East," having met 

 with a large sale. 



Jan. 27. PEET, EDWAED, professor in the 

 New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, 

 died in New York. He was born in Hartford, 

 Conn., May 28, 1826, and graduated at the 

 University of New York in 1847. The winter 

 after his graduation he visited France, and 

 upon his return studied law for one year in the 

 office of James W. Gerard, Esq. In the fall of 



