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was promoted rapidly for an officer of engineers, 

 Laving attained the rank of captain of engineers 

 in 1861, when he went over to the Confederates, 

 having resided for some years in Virginia. He 

 was made a brigadier- general in 1862, and a 

 major-general in 1863. In the autumn of 1864 

 he was put in command of Fort Fisher, and 

 . was in charge during both attacks. 



March 11. BRADBURY, EDWARD G., a well- 

 known piano-forte manufacturer (of the firm 

 W. B. & E. G. Bradbury), died in New York 

 city, aged 15 years. 



March 11. STEINWAY, HENRY Jr., piano-forte 

 manufacturer, of the celebrated firm of Stein way 

 & Sons, died in New York, aged 34 years. 



March 14. MILLINER, ALEXANDER, a Revo- 

 lutionary pensioner, died at Adams Basin, N. Y., 

 aged 105 years. He was a native of Quebec. 



March 15. WILSON, Dr. THOMAS B., Presi- 

 dent of the Academy of Natural Sciences in 

 Philadelphia, and an eminent ornithologist and 

 naturalist, died at Newark, Delaware. He had 

 for many years devoted himself to the promo- 

 tion of zoological science, and his liberality and 

 munificence in this direction were unbounded. 

 The splendid collection of birds belonging to 

 the Philadelphia Academy, which ranks as the 

 third in importance in the world, was his gift, 

 and the library of that institution was created 

 mainly by his liberality. 



March 16. GRAIN, COL. WILLIAM 0., a prom- 

 inent Democratic politician, died in Herkimer, 

 N. Y., aged 66 years. He was liberally edu- 

 cated, and studied medicine, but never entered 

 upon the practice of his profession. He was a 

 member of the State Legislature in 1832, 1845, 

 and 1846, and during his last term was Speaker 

 of the Assembly, which position he filled with 

 dignity and ability. In 1840 he was elected 

 sheriff of Herkimer County; was the Demo- 

 cratic candidate for the Senate in 1857, and 

 also for Lieutenant-Governor in 1860. Was 

 several times Presidential Elector upon the 

 Democratic ticket, and frequently represented 

 his party in State Conventions. 



March 18. CROSBY, WILLIAM B., a promi- 

 nent merchant in New York city, died at his 

 residence there, aged 80 years. 



March 19. JOHNSON, Rev. EVAN M., an Epis- 

 copal clergyman, died at his residence in Brook- 

 lyn, L. I., aged 73 years. He was a native of 

 Newport, Ehode Island, graduated at Rhode 

 Island College, now Brown University, in 1805, 

 and was ordained to the ministry in Trinity 

 Church, Newport, by Right Rev. A. V. Gris- 

 wold, July 8, 1813. Removed to New York 

 city in 1814, and became Assistant Rector of 

 Grace Church, which position he held for one 

 year, when he took charge of St. James Church, 

 Newtown, L. I., as rector. In the year 1824 

 he settled in Brooklyn, and built St. John's 

 Church, now situated on the corner of Johnson 

 and Washington Streets, two years thereafter. 

 This thickly built portion of the city was then 

 used as a farm, owned by Mr. Johnson himself. 

 Here ho preached the free gospel until 1847, 



when he retired and hired a little place in Mar- 

 shall Street, near the Jackson Ferry, for tho 

 purpose of continuing his services for the benefit 

 of the poor for a short time. The building 

 proving inconvenient for the purpose, he estab- 

 lished St. Michael's Church in High Street, of 

 which he remained rector up to the day of his 

 death. During the years of Mr. Johnson's 

 ministrations he united nearly 4,000 couples 

 in marriage, and christened nearly 10,000 chil- 

 dren. He was, at the time of his decease, the 

 oldest settled Episcopal clergyman in the State 

 of New York. 



March 19. McLENAN, JOHN, a comic artist, 

 died in Brooklyn, L. I., aged 35 years. 



March 24. BATES, Rev. LEWIS, a pioneer 

 Methodist clergyman, died at Taunton, Mass., 

 aged 85 years.. He was born in Cohasset, 

 Mass., March 20, 1780, and was a descendant 

 in the seventh generation of John Rogers the 

 Smithfield martyr. His childhood was spent 

 in part in Springfield, Yt. He joined the 

 Methodist Episcopal Church in 1801, and com- 

 menced preaching in 1802, but did not receive 

 deacon's orders until 1806, and in 1808 was or- 

 dained a minister at New London, Conn. His 

 subsequent labors as a preacher were in connec- 

 tion with the New England and Providence 

 Conferences. In 1850 he entered upon the su- 

 perannuated relation, and located his family at 

 Taunton, Mass., where he remained till his 

 death. He had been for sixty-one years a min- 

 ister, and forty-six years of the period had been 

 in active service, mostly as a pioneer in the 

 organization or early training of Methodist 

 churches. 



March 25. TERRY, Brig. Gen. WILLIAM R., 

 an officer in the Confederate service, killed in 

 the assault on Fort Stedman, near Petersburg. 

 He was a native of Virginia, and had been edu- 

 cated in the Lexington (Va.) Military Academy. 



March 28. LITTLE, JACOB, a leading Wall 

 Street speculator, died in New York city, aged 

 68 years. He was a native of Massachusetts, 

 but commenced his business career in New 

 York, where for many years past he has been 

 well known as a " bear operator " among the 

 business men of Wall Street. His financial 

 abilities were great, and his vast successes and 

 heavy losses, though causing constant fluctu- 

 ations of fortune, were borne with equal self- 

 possession. Throughout a long and active life, 

 passed in a whirl of excitement, and in a busi- 

 ness most dangerous in its influence, he was 

 considered even by his enemies to be a man of 

 spotless integrity. His mental powers were 

 vast, and his decisions seemed the result of in- 

 tuitive perception. Though for many years 

 afflicted with poor health, his death was the 

 result of a recent attack of softening of the 

 brain. 



March 30. DANIEL, Hon. JOHN M., a Vir- 

 ginian editor, author, and diplomatist, died in 

 Richmond, Va. He had attained to some noto- 

 riety as a newspaper writer in Richmond prior 

 to 1854, and was appointed by President Pierce, 



