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gating the cases submitted to him for adjudi- 

 cation. 



Aug. 25. SWEAT, MOSES, M. D., an eminent 

 physician and anatomist of Maine, died in 

 North Parsonfield, Me., aged 77 years. He 

 was widely known among the profession as one 

 of the most skilful anatomists of his day, and 

 many of his most difficult and successful op- 

 erations are recorded in the leading surgical 

 works. He was in the House of Representa- 

 tives several terms, and was also a member of 

 the State Senate. 



Aug. 25. THOMAS, MOSES, trade sale and 

 real estate auctioneer, died in Philadelphia, at 

 the age of about eighty-four years. Mr. Thomas 

 was for many years engaged in the publishing 

 business, but relinquished it for the sale of real 

 estate, dry goods, etc., at auction nearly thirty 

 years since. For the last sixteen or eighteen 

 years he had also, in connection with his sons, 

 held the semi-annual book-trade sales hi Phil- 

 adelphia. He was a man of rare integrity and 

 superior business ability, and had won the con- 

 fidence of the community by the upright and 

 honorable manner in which he conducted his 

 business. 



Aug. 25. WHEATON, HENRY G., an eminent 

 lawyer of New York, was killed by a railroad 

 accident in New York city, aged 59 years. He 

 entered the legal profession at an early age, in 

 Albany, and by his assiduity and perseverance 

 in a short time attained to a very high position 

 at the bar. For many years he held the high- 

 est rank as a criminal lawyer in that city, and 

 prosecuted, as District Attorney, some of the 

 most important causes ever tried in that State. 

 Thorough in his preparation, his acuteness, per- 

 severance, and logical powers were always 

 equal to the occasion. He was equally distin- 

 guished as a popular orator and a parliamentary 

 debater, and for several years was a member of 

 the Assembly from Albany. About ten years 

 since he removed to New York city, and there 

 also stood high as an advocate in the civil and 

 municipal courts of the city. 



Aug. 26. HOPKINS, G. R., chief engineer of 

 the Cali and Buenaventura Railroad, died at 

 Buenaventura. Mr. Hopkins, who held a high 

 rank in his profession, offered his services some 

 time since to the Government of Colombia, to 

 construct the great wagon-rond from Cali to 

 Buenaventura, on the Pacific, through the fer- 

 tile valley of the Cauca, and was employed by 

 Gen. Mosquera as assistant engineer. He per- 

 formed his duties with such credit to himself 

 that he was soon promoted to the position of 

 engineer-in-chief, and was progressing success- 

 fully with the work, but the humidity of the 

 climate affected his health, which was never 

 very robust, and he soon sank under the ex- 

 posure incident to his professional duties. 



Aug. 27. Tumm,, FKANK, M. D., editor of 

 the " San Francisco Bulletin," and former assist- 

 ant editor of the " New York Times," died in 

 Brooklyn, aged 43 years. He was a native of 

 Suffolk County, L. I., graduated at Amherst 



College, at the early age of eighteen years, 

 studied medicine in New York, and, ere he had 

 scarcely attained his majority, commenced the 

 practice of his profession in the vicinity of his 

 early home. After a period of seven years he 

 removed to New York, and having great lit- 

 erary taste, soon after the "Times" was estab- 

 lished he began to write for its columns, man- 

 ifesting such marked ability and originality that 

 he accepted an invitation to embrace journalism 

 as a profession, and abandon the practice of 

 medicine. He remained in that office ' until 

 1859, when he resigned his desk to go to San 

 Francisco, upon an engagement with the " Bul- 

 letin," where his talents were soon so highly 

 appreciated that he was taken into a partner- 

 ship by its proprietors, with whom he was still 

 associated at the time of his death. Dr. Tut- 

 hill held a seat in the Legislature of New York, 

 as a representative from Suffolk County, in 

 1851, and again in 1859, from the city of Brook- 

 lyn. As a legislator his course was marked by 

 intelligence, industry, fidelity, and an integrity 

 which no man thought of questioning. So 

 well satisfied were his constituents with his 

 services, that he was renominated for the Legis- 

 lature in 1859, but declined because of his en- 

 gagement to go to the Pacific. In California, 

 as already intimated, he speedily made his 

 mark as an editor, a philanthropist, and a 

 friend. Nearly a year ago he left San Fran- 

 cisco for Europe, to recuperate his failing 

 health. A few weeks previous to his death he 

 returned from a tour in Spain, France, Switzer- 

 land, and Italy, greatly benefited by the jour- 

 ney, and confident that he would return to 

 California by steamer of the 16th September, to 

 resume his professional duties with renewed 

 energy and strength. The last work in which 

 Dr. T. engaged was the completion of a history 

 of California, finishing its preface and reading 

 his last proof-sheets but a few days previous to 

 his death. 



Aug. 30. DRAPER, Brevet Brig.-Gen. A. G., 

 U. S. volunteers, died from the effects of a 

 wound received in Texas. Early in the war ho 

 recruited a company of volunteers for the 14th 

 Massachusetts regiment, and was commissioned 

 captain, July 5, 1861. In January, 1863, he 

 was promoted major, and after being trans- 

 ferred to a colored regiment was promoted to a 

 colonelcy. He was attached to the Twenty- 

 fifth Corps, and for a month had charge of a bri- 

 gade in Maj.-Gen. Paine's division, where his 

 gallantry won for him the title of brevet brig- 

 adier-general. A few months previous to his 

 death he left Virginia for Texas, with the 

 Twenty-fifth Corps. 



Aug. 30. JORDAN, SAMUEL, paymaster U. S. 

 Navy, died at Poland, Maine. He was a native 

 of Maine, graduated with high honors in the 

 class of 1861 at Bowdoin College, and imme- 

 diately entered the navy, serving on the block- 

 ade along the coast, and latterly in the West 

 Gulf Department, where he contracted the dis- 

 ease which ended a promising career. 



