SM;:T SMITH. 



the ratio was 35 in 1000, and has boon nincli further l*t')l his time was devoted mainly to bank-note en- 



fednoed since vaccination liecame e<)in|iiilHiiry. In graving, and he is regarded us the ]>i<m< -ei- in that 



Goimany, before vacoi nation WOK practise,!, the line. Ills artistic reputation, however, rents on his 



deaths from small-pox were Ati.5 in 10UO from all landscape work, and he probably Lad no equul li<-m 



causes, and after vaccination came in use, only 7.-G. in that brunch of engraving. 



Among those partially protected by vaccination, and His son, JAMBS DAVID SMILLIE, born in New York, 



who still contract the disease, its severity i.s so miti- Jan. 16, 1833, is well known both as engraver and 



gated that the average mortality is .V24 jx>r cent., painter. The best productions of his burin are ]]- 



while in the unvaocinatixl it H nearly 50 per cent. haps the illustrations for Cooper's novels, after 



I'HU'KBN-POX (I'ttriotUn). This is a trivial con- Dai ley's designs, although much of his work was on 

 Ugions affection, from which ehihlren rarely escape j bank-note vignettes. In 1864 ho turned his atten- 

 in cities and towns, but to which adults are equally ] tion to painting, and has since then produced Tho 



liable. An access of moderate fever is followed in Lifting of the Clouds ; Dark nirainst Da 



a few honrs by a vesicular eruption, which matures Death; Evening Among the .Sienas; Tho Adiron- 



in 4 or 5 days and dries up with the formation of docks, Tho ('lilts of Normandy, and other important 



small .scabs. Two or throe crops of those vesicles works. He became a member of tho National Aeml- 



may occur without an interval. The vesicles are omy in lN7li, was one of the original mem be re of the 



easily broken, and often leave small depressions Water Color Society, and one of the founders of the 



permanently in the skin. 



New York Etching Club. His In-other, GEORGR 



The chief importance of this affection arises from HENUY. born in New York, Dei-. _!!(, 1840, studied 



the liability of confounding it with varioloid, or 

 m:iH-]M>x modified by previous vaccination. The 

 points of distinction are as follows : 



VitrtolouL Eruption appeal's on 3d day, and fever 

 declines. 



Eruption first papular, then vesicular, finally 

 pnstular. 



Eruption most abundant on face and hands. 



Fever violent. 



Chicken pox. Eruption and fever occur together. 



Eruption vesicular throughout. 



Eruption most abundant on trunk of body. 



Fever moderate. (a. s. H.) 



8MET. PRTKB JOHN DE (1801-1873), Jesuit mis- 

 sionary to the Indians, was born at Dendermonde, 

 Belgium, Dec. 31, 1801. He was educated at Mech- 

 lin, and in 1822 was sent to Maryland. In 1824 

 he was appointed a teacher in the University of St. 

 Louis, and labored there until 18:i!. An embassy 

 sent from the Plat head Indians about 1834 to ask 

 for religious instruction had created a profound son- 

 nation. Father De Smet was then sent out and es- 

 tablished missions both among the Flatheads in 

 Oregon and among tho Blackfeet on the Up|x>r Mis- 

 souri. To obtiiin assistance in the work and support 

 he visited France and Belgium three or four times, 

 and gave accounts of his work in English, French, 

 and Oermin. He was said to have more influence 

 with tho Indians of the Northwest than any other 

 person. Ho died at St. Louis, May -2:!. !*?:. His 

 chief publications were teller* nml .S'/.-/-/ V/-?.i of a 

 Resilience in the Knclri/ Mnntit'thix (1 843); Orn/rm 

 : Western .Mission* (1863) ; New Lid- 

 V< (1868). 



SMKLTINU. See IRON. 



SMILLIK, JAMES (1807-1885), engraver, was bora 

 in Edinburgh, Scotland, Nov. 23, 1807. He was 



under his father and James M. Hart, ami is well 

 known us a painter. Among his works are A Luke 

 in the Woods, A Florida Lagoon, A (Scat Pasture, 

 Merrimack River, and Light and Shudow along 

 Shore, in oil, and Under the Pines of the Yosemite, 

 Near Portland, Maine, and Sopteml>er on the New 

 England Coast. He became a National Academician 

 in 18K (F. uw.) 



SMITH, CHARLES FEROCSON-, a distinguished sol- 

 dier of the civil war, wits born April 24, 1807, in 

 Philadelphia, son of Dr. Samuel Blair Smith, assist- 

 ant-surgeon in the U. S. army, his maternal grand- 

 father (from whom he had his middle name) having 

 been Ebenezer Ferguson, a colonel in the Revolu- 

 tionary war. In 1825 he was graduated at the U. S. 

 military academy and entered the Ken-ice ns '2d lieu- 

 tenant in the 2d artillery, being promoted to 1st 

 lieutenant, May, 1832, and captain in July, 18H8. 

 From 1829 to 1842 he filled several posts in the mili- 

 tary academy instructor of infantry tactics, adjutant, 

 and commandant of tho corps of cadets. In the Mexi- 

 can war he served under Gen. Zaohaiy Taylor with 

 such distinction that the four companies of artillery 

 he commanded became famous as "Smith's light 

 battery," while he himself received, in rapid succes- 

 sion, the brevet* of major, lieutenant-colonel, and 

 colonel for "gallant and meritorious conduct" nt 

 Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palnm, Monterey. Contreros, 

 and Chumlmseo. He took part in the storming of 

 Cliapul tepee and in the capture of the City of Mexico, 

 and was again honorably mentioned. From 1S4'.I to 

 ix.'il lie was member of a board to devise a course of 

 instruction for siege, garrison, sea-coast, mid moun- 

 tain artillery which was adopted, May, 1851. In 1 s ". t 

 he was promoted major of the 1st artillery, nnd in 

 1855 was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 10th 

 infantry. He commanded the Red River expedition 



apprenticed in 181'J to a silver engraver, and later i in 185G, the Utah expedition in 1857-61, and was, for 



worked with an engraver of pictures. His family 

 came to Canada in 1821, and young Smillie worked 

 there for some years. In 18-27 he went to London, 

 and after studying for live months under one An- 

 drew Wilson in Edinburgh he returned to Quebec. 



time, in command of the Department of I'hdi. On 

 the outbreak of disturbances preceding the civil war, 

 be was appointed to the charge of the city and de- 

 partment of Washington. In August, 1861, he was 

 promoted brigadier-general of volunteers and sent 



He made his permanent residence in New York in to Kentucky, where, next month, he became colonel 



1830, and 



there elected a National Academician of the 3d infantrv, and took command of the 



in 1851. In 1874 he retired to Poughkeepsie, where at Piulucah. His conduct at the capture of Forts 



lie died, Dec. 4, 1885. The engraving after It. W. Henry and Donelson acquired him the reputation of 



Weir's Convent Gate first drew attention to the young a skilful tactician as well as of o gallant soldier. In 



engraver, and it was followed by a series of plates, the fight for possession of Donelson lie commanded 



many after Weir's paintings, executed for tho New the division holding the left of the investing lines, 



York Mirror during 1832-36. Other im|>ortaiit plates ! and led in person the assault that stormed the high 



from his hand, all executed in the line manner, are ground commanding tho fort. Of his exploit hen; 



Dream of Arcadia (1850) and the Voyage of Life Gen. W. T. Sherman says in his Memoir* : "Gen. 



(1868-54), after Cole: Dover Plains (1850), after A. ('. P. Smith was a very handsome and soldierly man 



B. Durand ; Mount Washington (1851), nffer Ken- of great experience, and at the battle of Donolsoii 



sett; American Harvesting (1851), after Cropsey ; had acted with so much personal bravery that to him 



and Bicntadt's Rocky Mountains (1865-66). After many attributed tho success of the assault." lie 



