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GRIER, EGBERT C. 



HAMBURG. 



Soutzos, Minister of "War. The bodies of the 

 prisoners were recovered and brought to 

 Athens for interment; the King, the diplo- 

 matic corps, and an immense number of peo- 

 ple, joined in the funeral procession. Lord 

 Clarendon exchanged dispatches with Mr. 

 Erskine, the British minister at Athens, and 

 demanded a thorough investigation of the 

 massacre. Five hundred Greek troops were 

 sent in pursuit of the lawless band, and seven, 

 who were captured, were decapitated and 

 their heads publicly exposed in Athens. The 

 Government were also in communication with 

 the Turkish Government to intercept them 

 should they cross into Turkish territory. In 

 June the last surviving member of the band 

 was captured. The inquiry into the causes of 

 the murder was continued under the super- 

 intendence of the ambassadors of England and 

 Italy. Several members of the Greek Cabinet 

 were anxious to fix a limit to the investiga- 

 tion ; but the King considered that the dignity 

 and interests of Greece demanded the inquiry 

 to be carried out without limit or impediment. 



On his return from Corfu, on July 18th, the 

 King appointed a new Cabinet, composed as 

 follows: Deligiorgi, Minister of the Interior 

 and of Foreign Affairs ; Christiadi, Minister of 

 Finance; Gidraccaki, Minister of War; Brosio, 

 Minister of Marine; and Bonplo, Minister of 

 Justice. Another ministerial crisis took place 

 in December, when the following new appoint- 

 ments were made : Coumondoros, President of 

 the Council ; Cotostavios, Minister of Justice ; 

 Bozzaris, Minister of War; Sotiropoulos, Minis- 

 ter of Finance ; Christopoulos, Minister of For- 

 eign Affairs ; Amargyros, Minister of Marine. 



In September the English Government de- 

 manded an indemnity of 10,000 for the 

 widow of Mr. Lloyd, one of the massacred 

 English tourists. The Greek Government ac- 

 ceded to the indemnity in principle, but stated 

 that the Treasury was empty. 



A destructive earthquake occurred in the 

 Greek Archipelago in June. The town of 

 Santorin was nearly destroyed, and several 

 small islets were submerged ; the King con- 

 tributed fifteen thousand francs from his pri- 

 vate purse for the relief of the sufferers. 



A submarine telegraph cable was immersed 

 between Athens and Syra, and thrown open 

 to the public in September. 



GRIER, ROBERT COOPER, LL. D., an emi- 

 nent American jurist, born in Cumberland 



County, Pa., March 5, 1794; died in Philadel- 

 phia, September 25, 1870. lie was educated 

 by his father, the Rev. Isaac Grier, until, at 

 the age of seventeen, he entered the junior 

 class of Dickinson College. He graduated in 

 1812, and, after teaching a year in the college, 

 went to Northumberland, Pa., whither his 

 father had removed in 1806, to take charge of 

 an academy there. On the death of his father, in 

 1815, young Grier, then only twenty-one years 

 of age, succeeded him as principal of the acad- 

 emy, and in the intervals of his professional 

 duties studied law. He was admitted to the 

 bar in 1817, and began the practice of his pro- 

 fession in Bloomsburg, Pa. In 1818 he re- 

 moved to Danville, where he pursued his pro- 

 fession with energy and success, supporting 

 his mother and ten brothers and sisters, whom 

 he liberally educated. During the twenty years 

 that followed he attained great eminence at the 

 bar, and when, in 1838, he was appointed pre- 

 siding Judge of the District Court of Alle- 

 ghany, the apointment was recognized by the 

 legal profession as one eminently fit to be 

 made. His ability as a judge was so manifest 

 that President Polk, in 1846, appointed him to 

 the Supreme Court bench, in place of Justice 

 Henry Baldwin, deceased. For twenty-three 

 years Judge Grier filled this important posi- 

 tion with great learning and ability. His 

 opinions both in the Circuit Court and in the 

 Supreme Court were always marked by sound 

 judgment, profound legal knowledge, and thor- 

 ough integrity and conscientiousness. His opin- 

 ion, in 1851, of the points in the case of Cast- 

 ner Hanway, charged with resisting the execu- 

 tion of the Fugitive Slave law, a case in which 

 H. H. Kline, of Philadelphia, was concerned, 

 was characterized by the firmness, integrity, 

 and high sense of justice, which were his well- 

 known attributes as a judge. The prisoner was 

 declared "not guilty," and was discharged. 

 Judge Grier was originally a Federalist, but, 

 though not a strenuous partisan, had acted with 

 the Democratic party until the civil war, when 

 he gave to the Government a firm and unques- 

 tioning support in its great struggle for exist- 

 ence. In 1869, having suffered for some time 

 from infirm liealth, he resigned his seat on the 

 bench, and the late Edwin M. Stanton was ap- 

 pointed his successor, but never took his seat. 

 In private life Judge Grier was highly esteemed 

 for his integrity, patriotism, and purity of char- 

 acter. 



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HAMBURG, a free city of the North-Ger- 

 man Confederation. President of the Senate 

 and first burgomaster for 1870, Dr. N. F. 

 Haller. Area, 156 square miles; population 

 in 1867, 305,196. The revenue for 1870 is 

 estimated at 5,462,464 thalers, and the ex- 

 penditures at 5,575,062 thalers, showing a de- 



ficit of 112,598 thalers, which is to be covered 

 by part of the balances on hand from pre- 

 vious years. The public debt on Decem- 

 ber 31, 1868, amounted to 30,619,023 thalers, 

 exclusive of a railroad loan contracted in 

 1868. The imports by land and sea, in 1869, 

 were as shown in the following table : 



