BADEN. 



JJALFE, MICHAEL W. 



.-a rate. Ho claiinod to have a distinct 

 i-tion of tho treason of Arnold, unl of 

 turn of the soldiers from the war of tho 

 i'. ion. Hi> graduated from Yale College 

 in 17:'l, Mndied law with Nathan Dana: 



ihor of tho Massachusetts Legislature in 

 IK! ism; ; was ;i Representative in Cou- 

 iVom Massachusetts from 1807 to 1813, 

 and part of tho time chairman of the Committee 

 of Ways and Means; was chosen Chief Justice 

 of the Court of Common Pleas for the Western 

 l>istriot of Massachusetts in 181:1 ; and in tho 

 autumn of the same year appointed First Comp- 

 troller of tho U. S. Treasury, which office he 

 held till 1815; removed to Utica, N. Y., in 

 1 >!,;, his health having hecome so much iin- 



Siired that he was obliged to resign his office. 

 ere ho hecamo one of the leading citizens of 

 that now section, and in 1821 was a delegate 

 to the Constitutional Convention of the State, 

 lie \vas while in public life the associate com- 

 nid friend, and afterward for years the 

 -pondent, of Madison, Gallatin, Calhoun, 

 Clay, Elbridge Gerry, DeWitt Clinton, etc. ' 

 For many years ho had been an invalid, but 

 his mental powers retained their strength till 

 itli. For some years past he had been 

 "Idest living graduate of Yale College. 



HA DEN, a grand-duchy in South Germany. 

 Grand-duke, Friedrich, born September 9, 1826 ; 

 succeeded his father Leopold, as regent, April 

 24, 1852; assumed the title of Grand-duke, 

 mber 5, 1856; heir-apparent, his son, 

 Friedrich Wilhelm, born July 9, 1857. Area, 

 5,912 square miles; population, according to 

 tho census of 1867, 1,434,970, of whom 931,- 

 007, or 64.9 per cent, (against 65.1 per cent, in 

 1864) were Roman Catholics, 475,918 Prot- 

 estants, and 25,599 Jews. Tho grand-duchy is 

 divided into the following provinces : 1. Con- 

 stanz, containing 1,686 square miles, with 

 273,860 inhabitants ; 2. Freiburg, 1,837 square 

 miles, with 433,050 inhabitants ; 3. Carlsruhe, 

 i)9li square miles, with 349,943 inhabitants; 4. 

 Mannheim, 1,393 square miles, with 378,117 

 inhabitants. Tho public debt on January 1, 

 1870, amounted to 36,125,781 florins, exclusive 

 of a railroad debt of 113,829,359 florins. Re- 

 ceipts for tho year 1870, 28,884,607 florins; 

 expenditures during the same period, 28,418,- 

 625 florins. The president of tho ministry is 

 Dr. J. Jolly, appointed February 12, 1868. 



The Diet of the grand-duchy was closed on 

 the 7th of April, after having adopted several 

 reform bills, and expressed an entire sympathy 

 with the desire of the Government to enter 

 the North-German Confederation. A bill for 

 the abolition of the death-penalty passed the 

 Chamber of Deputies by a vote of 40 against 9, 

 but the First Chamber, from considerations of 

 expediency, refused to concur. On tho out- 

 break of tho war between the North-Gorman 

 ' Confederation and France, Baden at once took 

 sides with North Germany. On tho 15th of 

 November a treaty was concluded, at Ver- 

 sailles, between Baden and the North-Ger- 



man Confederation, by virtue of which Baden 



1 tin- C.mf.-ileratiori. (See GKKMASV.J 

 I: Al.DWIN, i:,-v. TIIKKIJJT, D. D., a Congre- 

 gationalist clergyman and writer, for twenty- 

 soven years Secretary of tbo " Society for tho 

 Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Edu- 

 cation in tho West;" born in Goshen, Conn., 

 July 21, 1801 ; died in Orange, N. J., April 10, 

 1870. He graduated from Yale College in 1827, 

 and, after spending two years in Yale Theolo- 

 gical Seminary, \\ a< onlained as a homo mis- 

 sionary in 1829. Ho was stationed for two 

 \vars at Vandalia, 111., whore ho was active in 

 procuring tho charter of Illinois College, and 

 in 1831 became tho agent of the Home Mis- 

 sionary Society for Illinois. In 1838 he or- 

 ganized, and for five years conducted thcMon- 

 ticello Female Seminary near Alton, 111., being 

 at the same time pastor of the church adjacent. 

 In 1843, on the formation of the " Society for 

 the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological 

 Education in tho West," usually known as tho 

 Western College Society (the plan of which 

 was his own), he became its Corresponding 

 Secretary, and so continued until his death. 

 No more earnest or devoted laborer in tho 

 promotion of education, and none wiser in 

 council or more efficient in action, has been 

 known to our age. It is largely due to his 

 exertions that the West has now so many pros- 

 perous and growing institutions of learning, for, 

 though his direct efforts were confined to those 

 under the patronage of the Presbyterian and 

 Congregationalist denominations, yet they were 

 the means of stimulating other denominations 

 to educational effort. Mr. Baldwin received 

 the honorary degree of D. D. from Marietta 

 College in 1862. 



BALFE, MICHAEL WILLIAM, a musical com- 

 poser, violinist, and vocalist, born in Dublin, 

 May 15, 1808 ; died at his country-seat in Hert- 

 fordshire, England, October 20, 1870. He took 

 violin-lessons when a mere child, and at tho 

 ago of eight years played a concerto on that 

 instrument at a public concert. At the age 

 of nine he wrote the ballad called " The Lov- 

 er's Mistake," which was introduced into tho 

 play of "Paul Pry" with success by Madame 

 Vestris. After the death of his father, he 

 went to London in 1823 with Mr. Charles Horn, 

 where ho became principal violinist in the 

 Drury Lane orchestra, under Mr. T. Cooko. 

 In 1826, he appeared on tho stage as a vocalist, 

 but at first made a signal failure, on account 

 of his timidity. After studying further in 

 Italy, which ho visited under the patronage of 

 Count Mazzera, who took an interest in him 

 on account of a fancied resemblance to a lost 

 son, he made a second and successful essay on 

 the stage, first appearing in Paris, and subse- 

 quently in Italy, England, and other countries. 

 His Paris debut was as Figaro in " Tho Barber 

 of Seville," with Sontag as Rosin a, tho opera 

 then being under Rossini's own direction. In 

 Italy ho had already composed a ballet, "La 

 Perousc," which was well received. 



