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and three months. For over 13 years he was 

 on shore duty, and for ahout 16 years he was 

 unemployed. He has served his country as a 

 naval officer for 53 years, during which time ho 

 has performed acts which have rendered his 

 name famous. For his services at the Sand- 

 wich Islands, the people of those islands will 

 ever cherish his memory with the warmest 

 affection. He was assigned the duty of bring- 

 ing Kossuth to this country in the steam-sloop 

 Saranac, but would not allow that excited pa- 

 triot to deliver revolutionary harangues at Mar- 

 seilles, which gave Kossuth so much dissatis- 

 faction that he left the Saranac at Gibraltar. 

 Commodore Long left active service about five 

 years ago, and resided at Exeter, N. H. His 

 last command was of the Pacific Squadron. 

 He was esteemed by all who knew him as a 

 gallant and faithful officer. 



Sept. 2. RnEA, Rev. SAMUEL A., missionary 

 of the American Board of Commissioners for 

 Foreign Missions to the Nestorians, died of 

 cholera, between Tabreez and Ooroomiah, in 

 the thirty-ninth year of his age. He was a 

 native of Blountville, Tenn., and when fifteen 

 years of age became hopefully pious and united 

 with the Presbyterian Church of that town. 

 He graduated at Knoxville University in 1847, 

 and at the Union Theological Seminary, New 

 York, in 1850. In April of that year he was 

 licensed to preach the gospel by the Fourth 

 Presbytery of New York, having previously 

 determined to give himself to labors among the 

 heathen. He was ordained at Blountville, Feb- 

 ruary 2, 1851, and sailed for Boston early the 

 following month for the Nestorian Mission. In. 

 November, 1851, he, in company with other 

 missionaries, went to the new station at Gawar, 

 among the Koordish Mountains. Here his labors 

 were very arduous, and in 1858 his health was 

 so much impaired that he returned to Ooroo- 

 miah, and subsequently to the United States. 

 In July, 1860, he sailed again for his field of 

 missionary labor, arriving at Ooroomiah in Oc- 

 tober, where he was stationed until his death. 

 Mr. Rhea had been appointed by the Mission to 

 the work of translating the Scriptures into the 

 Azerbijan-Turkish language, under the auspices 

 of the American Bible Society, and was return- 

 ing from Tabreez, whither he had been to ob- 

 tain facilities for the work, .when he died. 

 As a scholar, he was studious, thorough, and 

 accurate. He was a profound Hebrew scholar, 

 spoke the modern Syriac with great accuracy 

 and fluency, and his knowledge of the Tartar- 

 Turkish was such as to enable him to preach 

 in that language with great acceptance. 



Sept. 4. BOYLSTOX, Hon. R. B., a prominent 

 politician of South Carolina, died at Winnsboro, 

 S. 0. He was a native of Charleston, but re- 

 moved to Fairfield District, where he gained 

 great distinction at the bar, and was for several 

 years the representative of that district in the 

 State Legislature, occupying in succession the 

 positions of chairman of the Judiciary Commit- 

 tee and Speaker of the House of Representatives. 



Sept. 6. TAYLOR, Hon. "WILLIAM, M. D., a 

 prominent physician of New York State, and 

 ex-member of Congress, died at Manlius, Onon- 

 daga Co., aged 72 years. He was a native of 

 Connecticut, but removed with his parents when 

 very young to Onondaga Co., where he was 

 educated, and for many years settled in prac- 

 tice. He was at one time President of the New 

 York State Medical Society, and having removed 

 his residence to the city of New York, was a 

 member of the Board of Supervisors. In 1832 

 he was elected to Congress, and was reflected 

 in 1835 and 1837; served two years in the As- 

 sembly from New York city, and, after his re- 

 turn to Manlius, he represented Onondaga Co. 

 in the General Assembly for two years. He 

 subsequently retired to private life and devoted 

 himself to the practice of his profession. 



Sept. 7. BAY, WILLIAM, M. 1)., an eminent 

 physician of Albany, died at the age of 92 years. 

 He was a descendant of the Huguenots, his an- 

 cestors being among those who fled first into 

 Holland, and subsequently into Ireland, from 

 whence they came to America, and settled in 

 Maryland in 1720. The subject of this sketch 

 was born in Albany, graduated at Princeton, 

 N. J., and removed to New York in 1794, 

 where he studied medicine with Dr. S. L. Mitch- 

 ill, and entered upon the practice of his pro- 

 fession in Claverack, Columbia County. In 

 1810 he was induced to remove to Albany, and 

 after a few years became a leading practitioner. 

 Upon the completion of his half century of 

 practice, the profession of Albany gave him a 

 public dinner in honor of the occasion, and in 

 appreciation of his long and faithful services as 

 a citizen and a physician. 



Sept. 7. Dow, AUGUSTUS F., a prominent 

 merchant of New York city, died in Fayetteville, 

 Onondaga Co., N. Y., in the 52d year of his age. 

 He was a native of Connecticut, and started in 

 mercantile life in Hartford; subsequently he 

 removed to New York, and for the past twelve 

 years had been at the head of the "Wall Street 

 commission house of Dow, Young & Co. He 

 had been an active member of the Republican 

 party from its organization, and was nominated 

 for Congress in the sixth district in 1858, but 

 withdrew in favor of Hon. George Briggs. He 

 was an ardent friend of the public school sys- 

 tem, and served at one time as school commis- 

 sioner. 



Sept. 7. ROBKSTS, JOHN, an old and prominent 

 merchant of New York city, died at his resi- 

 dence, aged 86 years. In 1797, having just 

 returned from a voyage to Port Royal, Marti- 

 nique, he sought a situation as under clerk in 

 a dry goods house, with the determination to 

 learn the business, and after a service of eighteen 

 months, took a small store and set up in business 

 upon his own account. By industry and per- 

 severance he succeeded to such an extent that 

 he soon became well known as a merchant and 

 banker. In the war of 1812 he entered the 

 army as private in an artillery regiment. Ho 

 was for many years a large stockholder and 



