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it was his duty to prepare for the ministry, and 

 commenced a course of preparatory study. He 

 entered Princeton College in 1840, and grad- 

 uated in 1844. After spending one year in 

 teaching, and three in the Union Theological 

 Seminary, New York, he was licensed to preach 

 by the Newark Presbytery in 1848, having two 

 years previously decided to become a mission- 

 ary. He was ordained in June, 1848, at New- 

 ark, married the following October, and sailed 

 from Boston for Smyrna in January, 1849. He 

 was first assigned to a mission to the Jews at 

 Salonica. After a little more than three years' 

 service, the state of his health was such that ho 

 was constrained to return to the United States. 

 Having recovered his health he again sailed for 

 Smyrna in September, 1855, and for the next 

 eight years labored as a missionary among the 

 Armenians at Smyrna. In 1863 he was trans- 

 ferred from Smyrna to Marsovan with special 

 reference to tlie superintendence of the girls' 

 boarding-school to be opened there. The or- 

 ganization of this school was unavoidably de- 

 layed till the summer of 1865, and meantime 

 Mr. Dodd Avas engaged in ordinary missionary 

 labors, and in preparing the building, &c., for 

 the school. It had been opened but two months 

 when he was attacked with cholera, and died 

 after only twelve hours' illness. Though a 

 constant sufferer from feeble health, Mr. Dodd 

 was a very active and useful missionary. He 

 was an excellent Turkish and Hebrew scholar, 

 and had contributed a large number of hymns 

 of great merit to the Turkish hymn book. 



Aug. 19. SEWALL, KIAH B., an eminent 

 lawyer of Mobile, died at Boston, aged 58 

 years. He was a native of Edgecomb, Maine, 

 and a son of the late Eev. Samuel Sewall, of 

 that State, widely known and honored as an 

 example of piety and faithful service in the min- 

 istry. Mr. Sewall graduated at Bowdoin Col- 

 lege in 1829, with high honor, his scholarship 

 giving him the position of President of the Peu- 

 cinian Society, one of the chief literary associa- 

 tions of the college. .After graduation he was 

 selected as a tutor in the Gardiner Lyceum, 

 where he remained two years ; thence he re- 

 moved to New York, and after teaching there 

 two years, went to St. Louis and travelled over 

 Missouri and Illinois. Keturning to Portland, 

 he engaged in speculation. In 1838 Mr. Sewall 

 commenced the study of law in New York, to 

 which he earned matured powers of mind and 

 varied experience, which qualified him for the 

 reception of the subtle principles of jurispru- 

 dence, and the discharge of the duties of a pro- 

 fession requiring keenness of perception, calm- 

 ness of judgment, and readiness in the use of his 

 faculties. Thus equipped for the practical du- 

 ties of life, he entered upon the pursuit of Ins 

 profession in Mobile with ardor and success. 

 He soon acquired a high standing at the bar, 

 and prominent official station ; every thing was 

 bright and encouraging before him, when the 

 war broke out and dashed his fond hopes 

 and well-founded expectations. Mr. Sewall, 



from his New England education, from his an- 

 cestral antecedents, and from his firm Northern 

 principles, could be no other than a Union man. 

 For this he had been badgered by the Secession- 

 ists among whom he was living, and had beet 

 subjected to great pecuniary loss and peril tc 

 his life. Even after Mobile surrendered, the 

 expression of loyalty to the United States Gov- 

 ernment was attended with inconvenience if 

 not actual danger. But Mr. Sewall, nothing 

 daunted by the threatening aspects around him, 

 persevered to maintain the highest expression 

 of devotion to the Union and its flag. At the 

 meeting of loyal citizens on June 6th last, he 

 was appointed chairman of a committee, and re- 

 ported and advocated a series of resolutions ex- 

 pressive of devotion to the Constitution and 

 laws of the United States, and of a desire on 

 the part of the citizens of Mobile and Baldwin 

 Counties for a reorganization of Government 

 under that Constitution. Although these reso- 

 lutions encountered severe opposition, they were 

 carried by the earnest advocacy of Mr. Sewall 

 and his associates. He did not cease in his 

 efforts for the cause of the country and a 

 peaceful submission to its laws, up to the time 

 of his departure from the city in the early parfc 

 of August ; and it was his intention to return 

 immediately, to give his effectual aid to the 

 cause of a good, peaceful, and stable Govern- 

 ment under the old Constitution. After more 

 than four years of anxious solicitude and con- 

 stant peril in Mobile, he was conducting his 

 wife, with her children, to visit Portland, her 

 native place, when he was seized, upon his 

 passage up the Mississippi, with a severe cold, 

 which terminated in his death in Boston, hav- 

 ing the previous day reached that city, in a 

 state of complete exhaustion. 



Aug. 21. HAEDIXG, JESPER, Collector of In- 

 ternal Eevenue, and former editor and pub- 

 lisher of the Philadelphia " Inquirer," died at 

 Philadelphia, aged 65 years. He was a native 

 of that city, and was educated a printer in the 

 office of the "United States Gazette." At 

 twenty-eight years of age he commenced the 

 publication of the "Inquirer," which, through 

 his energy and industry, proved a decided suc- 

 cess. In 1835 he commenced the publication 

 of Bibles, and gradually extended his operations 

 until he became the most extensive publisher in 

 that line in the country. He was also largely 

 engaged in the manufacture of paper at Tren- 

 ton. The commercial disaster of 1857, which 

 brought ruin upon so many, did not spare him ; 

 and during the administration of President Lin- 

 coln he became Collector of Internal Revenue 

 for the First District of Pennsylvania. His 

 health had been failing for a year previous to 

 his death, and he had recently gone to Cape 

 May in the hope of receiving some benefit, but 

 was there stricken by paralysis. 



Avq. 22. MCCARTHY, Judge FLORENCE, of 

 the New York Marine Court, died in New 

 York city. As a jurist he was industrious 

 faithful, and honest, always carefully investi- 



