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Gen. McCall's reserve corps, and participated 

 in the various battles of that fighting corps. 

 On the 20th of Nov. 1861, he made a most 

 brilliant and successful dash at the head of his 

 regiment upon Drauesville. On the 10th of 

 June, 1862, he was nominated as brigadier- 

 general of volunteers commanding cavalry, 

 his commission dating from the 28th of April. 

 During the autumn he had done excellent ser- 

 vice with his brigade, making frequent dashes 

 into the enemy's lines, and driving them from 

 the gaps of the Blue Eidge. At Fredericksburg 

 he was attached to Gen. Franklin's corps. He 

 was buried with military honors at Princeton, 

 N. J. 



Dec. 13. CURTIS, Lieut.-Col. JOSEPH BRIDG- 

 HAM, was killed at Fredericksburg while lead- 

 ing his regiment in a charge. He was born in 

 New York in 1836, and was a son of the late 

 George Curtis, president of the Continental 

 Bank, and brother of the author, George Win. 

 Curtis. He had received an education as an 

 engineer, and at the commencement of the war 

 was a member of the engineer corps of the 

 Central Park, and volunteered in the 7th 

 regiment N. Y. S. M. as an engineer. Soon 

 after that regiment was mustered out of the 

 service he reentered the volunteer army as 

 adjutant of the 4th Ehode Island regiment, 

 one of the regiments attached to the Burnside 

 expedition. He distinguished himself at the 

 capture of Roanoke Island for coolness and 

 daring, and was soon after appointed by Gen. 

 Rodman assistant adjutant-general on his staff. 

 The ability he displayed in this position led to 

 his promotion soon after, at Gen. Burnside's 

 request, to the lieutenant-colonelcy of the 4th 

 Rhode Island, and with his regiment he joined 

 the army of the Potomac on the peninsula, 

 and was with it in that succession of terrible 

 battles between the Rappahannock and Wash- 

 ington, and at South Mountain, and Antietam. 

 In the last-named battle his regiment was so 

 cut up that it was by command of the general 

 withdrawn from the field, but the lieutenant- 

 colonel did not go with it ; seizing the musket 

 and cartridge box of a dead soldier, he joined 

 the ranks of a Pennsylvania regiment, and did 

 duty as a private to the close of the battle. 

 At Fredericksburg he was in command of the 

 regiment, the colonel being disabled by a wound. 



Dec. 20. BAKER, WILLIAM L., American 

 consul at Guaymas, on the western coast of 

 Mexico, was murdered by a band of Apache 

 Indians while visiting some silver mines near 

 that city. He was a native of Rhode Island, 

 but was appointed as consul from Maryland. 



Dec. 24. PEARCE, Hon. JAMES A., U. S. Sen- 

 ator from Maryland, died at Charleston, Md. 

 He was a native of Alexandria, Va., and was 

 born Dec. 14, 1805. He graduated at Nas- 

 sau Hall, Princeton, in 1822, and devoting 

 himself to the legal profession, settled in 

 Maryland, whence his family had emigrated. 

 He early entered upon political life, being a 

 member of the Legislature in 1831, and in 1835 



was elected to Congress, where he served two 

 terms, and in 1841 was reflected for a third 

 time. In 1843 he was chosen U. S. Senator, 

 and continued to represent Maryland in the 

 Senate till his death. In the Senate he did 

 much for the promotion of science, being an 

 earnest advocate of the coast survey, and, as one 

 of the regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 was active in carrying out its great principle of 

 the diffusion of knowledge among men. He 

 was a member of the democratic party, and ar- 

 dently devoted to the preservation of the Con- 

 stitution and the Union. 



Dec. 30. BULKLEY, JUSTUS R., died at his 

 residence in Rye, Westchester county, N. Y. 

 He was born in 1813 at New Haven, graduated 

 at Yale College, and entering the legal profes- 

 sion in New York city, soon attained a good 

 practice. Being a large stockholder in the 

 New York and New Haven Railroad Com- 

 pany, he was elected, when the overissues of 

 stock in 1854 had nearly ruined the company, 

 as its president. He was annually reflected 

 to the presidency, which he held at the time 

 of his death. 



Dec. . OWSLEY, WILLIAM, ex-Governor of 

 Kentucky, died at Danville, Ky., aged about 

 70 years. He was a man of great decision, 

 firmness, and integrity of character. In 1824 

 he was Judge of the Supreme Court of Ken- 

 tucky, and though young, maintained with 

 great courage the principle of anti-repudiation, 

 which Henry Clay had so eloquently advocated. 

 The repudiation party, who were a' majority in 

 the Legislature, attempted to get rid of the in- 

 flexible judge by abolishing the supreme court 

 and establishing a new one, but he held his 

 position firmly, and the act of the Legislature 

 was by the Supreme Court of the United States 

 declared unconstitutional. When partisan zeal 

 expired the people honored with their confi- 

 dence the man who had dared to be just. In 

 1844 he was elected governor of the State by 

 the whig party, and served for two terms. 



OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. Jan.W WYATT, 

 MATTHEW COTES, an eminent English sculptor, 

 died at his residence in Paddington, London, 

 aged 84 years. He was educated at Eton, 

 where he was the contemporary of Lord 

 Stuart de Roth say. At the age of nineteen he was 

 employed under the immediate patronage of 

 His Majesty George III, in the design and ex- 

 ecution of several works of art at Windsor 

 Castle. The most remarkable of these was the 

 cenotaph in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, to 

 the memory of Her Royal Highness, the Prin- 

 cess Charlotte Augusta. He subsequently at- 

 tained a high reputation by his equestrian 

 statues, among which are those of the Duke of 

 York, the Duke of Wellington, and the horse 

 for the statue of King George III, at the east 

 end of Pall Mall. One of his finest specimens 

 of sculpture was his "Bashaw," the favorite 

 Newfoundland dog of the late Earl of Dudley, 

 to whom a poetical allusion was made by Lord 

 Byron. 



