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be exercised in favor of the Government. 

 Before the Legislature assembled Baltimore 

 was strongly garrisoned, and the State saved. 

 In his public career he ever proved himself 

 strong and steadfast against political pressure. 

 He died suddenly of paralysis. 



Feb. 16. DAVIES, Rev. THOMAS FREDERICK, 

 a Congregational clergyman and editor, died in 

 Westport, Conn., aged 72 years. He was fit- 

 ted for college by Rev. Dr. Ely of Huntington, 

 graduated at Yale College in 1813, and for a 

 year or two subsequently was engaged in teach- 

 ing at New Haven, at the same time pursuing 

 his theological studies under the direction of 

 Dr. D wight. He was licensed to preach in 

 May, 1816, and in March, 1817, was ordained 

 and installed as pastor of the Congregational 

 church of Huntington, succeeding his former 

 teacher. Dr. Ely being compelled by ill health 

 to resign his pastoral office, Mr. Davies removed 

 to New Haven in 1819, and became the editor 

 of the "Christian Spectator." After having 

 been thus engaged for several years, and sub- 

 sequently connected with the " Religious Intel- 

 ligencer," he accepted a call from the church 

 in Green Farms, now "Westport, where he re- 

 mained from 1829 to 1839. During the next 

 ten years he resided in New Haven, and the 

 residue of his life he divided between his native 

 plane, New Haven, and "Westport, Conn. 



Feb. 17. BOND, GEORGE PHILLIPS, Professor 

 of Astronomy in Harvard College, died at Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., aged 39 years. He was the son 

 of Prof. "William Cranch Bond, Director of the 

 Observatory of Harvard University, and was 

 born in Dorchester, Mass. He graduated at 

 Harvard in 1845, and in February, 1859, was 

 appointed Phillips Prof, of Astronomy and 

 Director of the Observatory of Harvard College. 

 He was a member of the American Academy 

 of Arts and Sciences, and stood in the highest 

 rank of American astronomers. Among other 

 papers he wrote one upon the construction of 

 the rings of Saturn, in which their fluid nature 

 was first established ; another on the orbits of 

 Hyperion, having participated in the discovery 

 of Hyperion ; others on the Nebula of Andro- 

 meda, on various comets, on stellar photography, 

 &c. About a month previous to his death, the 

 Royal Astronomical Society of London voted 

 a gold medal to Mr. Bond for his great work 

 on the Donati Comet. 



Feb. 18. WALLACE, COL. JOSEPH, died at 

 Louisville, Ky. He was formerly a resident of 

 Philadelphia, but for six years previous to his 

 death had been connected with the editorial 

 department of the "Louisville Journal." 



Feb. 20. SHERMAN, WATTS, an American 

 banker, died in the Island of Madeira, whither 

 he had gone for the restoration of his health, 

 aged 53 years. He commenced his business 

 career as a teller in the Ontario Bank at Can- 

 andaigua, New York. Subsequently he re- 

 moved to Little Falls, Herkimer Co., where 

 he became cashier of the Herkimer County 

 Bank. He was then appointed cashier of the 



Albany City Bank, and from thence removed 

 to New York, where he established himself in 

 the celebrated banking house now so widely 

 known by the name of Duncan, Sherman & Co. 

 Mr. Sherman was a man of the most rare quali- 

 fications for his position. His course was strictly 

 governed by commercial integrity unswayed by 

 any bias but the interests of his firm. 



Feb. 22. CAMPBELL, Lieut.-Commander MAR- . 

 SHALL C., an officer of the U. S. naval service, 

 and until a short time before his death instruc- 

 tor in seamanship and naval tactics in the Naval 

 Academy, died in Baltimore, Md. He was born 

 in Tennessee in 1834, but was admitted to the 

 Naval Academy from Mississippi, where his 

 parents then resided, in February, 1850. He 

 was a young officer of fine attainments, and 

 had spent nine years and seven months of the 

 fifteen years he had been in the navy, afloat, 

 his last cruise having closed in September, 1864. 

 His assiduity in the performance of his duties 

 had so far overtasked a somewhat feeble frame 

 that he returned to Baltimore, now the resi- 

 dence of his widowed mother, only to die. 

 Although from a seceding State, he was dis- 

 tinguished for his thorough attachment to the 

 national cause. 



Feb. 24. OGDEN, Hon. E. E. B. D., Justice 

 of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, died at 

 Elizabeth, N. J. 



Feb. 25. FLEET, SAMUEL, publisher and edi- 

 tor, died in New York city, aged 66 years. He 

 was connected with one of the first agricultural 

 journals published in New York, "The New 

 York Fanner." He was afterwards connected 

 with " The United States Farmer," and later 

 still with " The American Artisan." 



Feb. .KELLOGG, Rev. R. 0., formerly Pro- 

 fessor in Lawrence University, Wisconsin, killed 

 himself during an attack of insanity at the In- 

 sane Asylum, Madison, Wisconsin. 



Feb. . HINDMAN, THOMAS C., major-genera) 

 in the Confederate army, was killed by Con- 

 federate soldiers in Texas. 



March 1. WORDS, Hon. JONATHAN L., an 

 eminent lawyer of Lockport, N. Y., died at his 

 residence there. 



March 5. ALSOP, Hon. CHARLES RICHARD, 

 lawyer, and State Senator of Connecticut, died 

 at Middletown, aged 62 years. He graduated 

 at Yale College in 1821, studied law with Chan- 

 cellor Kent and Daniel Lord, Esq., of New York, 

 and commenced the practice of his profession, 

 in Middletown. From 1843 to 1846 he was 

 mayor of that city, and in 1855 he represented 

 the 18th Senatorial District in the Connecticut 

 Legislature. He was a' member of the corpo- 

 ration of Yale College in 1855 and 1856. 



March 10. WHITING, Major-Gen. WILLIAM 

 H. C., an officer in the Confederate service, 

 wounded at Fort Fisher, and taken prisoner, 

 died at Governor's Island, N. Y., whither ho 

 had been removed. He was a native of New 

 York, was born about 1825, and graduated at 

 West Point in 1845, ranking very high in his 

 class. He took part in the Mexican war, and 



