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appointment had been that of commandant at 

 Sackett's Harbor, N. Y. 



Nov. 11. MORGAN, MATTHEW, Sen., an emi- 

 nent New York shipping merchant of the well 

 known firm of Matthew Morgan and Sous, died 

 in New York city. 



Nov. 11. PORTER, Hon. JAMES MADISON, died 

 in Easton, Penn. He was the son of Gen. An- 

 drew Porter, of the Revolutionary War, and 

 was born in 1792. He was educated for the 

 bar, but served as a volunteer in the war of 

 1812. He was a member of the Constitutional 

 Convention of Pennsylvania in 1838, and bore 

 an important part in the revision of the State 

 Constitution. In 1843 he was appointed Sec- 

 retary of War in President Tyler's cabinet, 

 and skice his retirement from the cabinet had 

 held many prominent positions, lie was greatly 

 honored and esteemed in Easton, where ho had 

 resided for more than 40 years. He was one 

 of the founders of Lafayette College in that city, 

 and for 25 years president of its board of trustees. 



Nov. 16. PP.ESTON, Hon. WILLIAM BALLARD, 

 a senator from Virginia in the Confederate Con- 

 gress, died at his residence in Montgomery 

 county, Va. He had been a member of the ' 

 Congress of the United States, and was Sec- 

 retary of the Navy under President Taylor. 



Nov. 22. PATTERSON, Brig.-Gen. FRANCIS 

 E., killed himself by the accidental discharge 

 of his pistol in his tent at Fairfax Court House 

 during the night. He was a native of Philadel- 

 phia, born in 1827, and had entered the army 

 from civil life as second lieutenant of the 1st 

 artillery in June, 1847. In March, 1855, he 

 \vas promoted to a captaincy in the 9th infan- 

 try, then first organized. In May, 1857, he re- 

 signed, and devoted himself to civil pursuits. 

 On the raising of the 115th Pennsylvania vol- 

 unteers, Gov. Curtin offered him the command 

 of the regiment, which ho accepted, and ac- 

 quitted himself so ably in the field, that on the 

 llth of April, 1862, he was appointed brigadier- 

 general, and in the subsequent battles on tho 

 peninsula rendered efficient service. 



Nov. 27. MANCHETT, Hon. LUTHER, repre- 

 sentative in the 37th Congress from the 2d dis- 

 trict of Wisconsin, and representative elect in 

 the 38th Congress from the 6th district, died 

 at Madison, Wisconsin, of brain fever. He was, 

 at the time he was taken ill, on his way to 

 Washington to take his seat in Congress. 



Nov. 28. IRVIN, Gen. JAMES, storekeeper of 

 the Philadelphia navy yard, died in Philadel- 

 phia, aged about 60 years. He was a native 

 of Pennsylvania, and had formerly been a prom- 

 inent merchant of Centre county. He repre- 

 sented his district in Congress from 1841 to 

 1845, and was at one time the whig candidate 

 for governor. During the Fremont and Lin- 

 coln campaigns he took an active part, and in 

 the latter contributed materially to the success 

 of the party to which he was attached in the 

 State. He was one of the founders of the 

 Pennsylvania Agricultural College, and gave 

 two hundred acres of land for a farm for it. 



Nov. . WILKINSON, Hon. JOHN, died in 

 Syracuse, N. Y., aged 70 years. He was one of 

 the founders of that city, and had been for many 

 years a prominent man in the State of New 

 York, both in railroad and political matters. 

 He had been for some years a leading director 

 of the New York Central railroad, and was at 

 one time president of the Michigan Central 

 railroad. 



Nov. . VILLIPIGTJE, Gen. JOHN B., a briga- 

 dier-general of the Confederate army, died at 

 Port Hudson, La., of pneumonia. He was born 

 in South Carolina about 1834 ; it is said that 

 his father was of French and his mother of 

 Spanish extraction. lie graduated at West 

 Point in 1804 ; was appointed to a second lieu- 

 tenancy in the 2d dragoons, and was promoted 

 to a first lieutenancy in 1857, and assigned 

 to service in the Southwest. In March, 1861, 

 he resigned from the U. S. service, and at once 

 accepted an appointment as colonel in the 

 Confederate service. In Nov. 1861, he was 

 wounded at the bombardment of Fort Pickens, 

 and soon after was made a brigadier-general in 

 the Confederate army. He was assigned to 

 the command of Fort Wright, and retained it 

 until the evacuation of that post ; participated 

 in the battle of Corinth in October, 1862, and 

 was soon after assigned to the command of 

 Mobile. 



Dec. 6. JACKSON, CLAIBORNE F., late Gov- 

 ernor of Missouri, died at Little Rock, Ark., 

 of cancer in the stomach. lie was born in 

 Fleming county, Ky., April 4, 1807, and emi- 

 grated to Missouri in 1822. In the " Black 

 Hawk 1 ' war he raised a volunteer company, and 

 served as captain. He was for ten or twelve 

 terms a member of one or the other House of tho 

 Missouri Legislature, and for one term Speaker 

 of the House. In tho Session of 1848 he drew 

 up and carried through the Legislature the 

 famous Jackson resolutions. He was one of 

 the prime movers in the organization of the 

 present banking system of Missouri, and for a 

 number of years Bank Commissioner. In 1860 

 he was elected Governor. His own sympathy 

 with secession, and his determination to draw 

 the State into it soon became evident, and hav- 

 ing fled from the State capitol on the approach 

 of Gen. Lyon, in July, he was deposed by tho 

 State Convention, and Gov. Gamble appointed 

 provisional governor in his place. He acted for 

 a short time as a general in the Confederate 

 army, but his disease, from which he had long 

 suffered, becoming aggravated, he retired to 

 Little Eock, where he died after some months 

 of suffering. 



Dee. 7. WOODBRIDGE TIMOTHY, widely 

 known as " the blind minister," died at Spen- 

 certown, Columbia county, N. Y. He was 

 born in Stockbridge, Mass., Nov. 24, 1784, and 

 was a grandson of Jonathan Edwards, the 

 noted theologian. While at Williams College 

 his vision became impaired, and for most of 

 his senior year he was entirely blind. After 

 graduating he studied law, and in 1810 entered 



