OBITUAJUES, UNITED STATES. 



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Millor, then a major, was in the Quarter- 

 master-General's office in Washington, und was 

 'i>il>lo for all tho arrangements for tin- 

 arrival <>t' troops to defend the capital. Upon 

 1 uk on the Massachusetts Volunteers in 

 Maltimoiv, April 19, 1861, he was ordered by 

 General Scott to go to Annapolis and attend to 

 r.'i-u .inlm- t!ir New- York and Massachusetts 

 troops expected by that route. He found no 

 troops yet arrived, and returned. On the 22d of 

 April he again set out for Annapolis, and, after 

 various adventures, was successful in reaching 

 that city in time to forward the Seventh 

 New York, General Butler's Massachusetts, 

 nii'l a Pennsylvania regiment, the first troops 

 which arrived in Washington. Throughout 

 the entire war Major Miller remained in the 

 Quartermaster's Department at Washington. 

 In the course of four years there passed 

 through his hands about $20,000,000, and upon 

 the examination of his accounts it was found 

 that less than $20 was to be disallowed. 



March 12. BLOKDE, Mrs. MARIE, nee TON 

 S.U.I.KT, a gifted authoress and member of a 

 noble family in Silesia ; died in Brooklyn, N. 

 Y., aged 49 years. Her brother, Friedrich von 

 Sallet, was a poet of remarkable power and 

 sweetness, and an intense liberal in his politi- 

 cal views. He died in 1843, and his sister in- 

 herited not only his poetical gifts, but his 

 liberal sympathies. She married early, and in 

 opposition to the wishes of her family, Dr. G. 

 Bloede, an ardent young republican, well edu- 

 cated but untitled ; and in the revolution of 

 1848, her husband, foremost in the liberal 

 ranks, was arrested, tried, and condemned to 

 death, at Dresden. In the trying times which 

 followed, her courage never faltered, and, 

 when the young republican finally escaped to 

 America, she performed her full round of 

 household duties, yet found time for tho prac- 

 tice of pen and voice in literary and musical 

 work to aid her husband. Her poems and 

 magazine articles, both in English and German, 

 have attracted great attention from their grace 

 and imaginative power. Her husband, as the 

 editor of the New-Yorker Demokrat, a daily 

 Kepublican paper, received great assistance 

 from her literary labors. 



March 12. HOLMES, ROBERT D., a lawyer, 

 journalist, and prominent Mason; died in New- 

 York City, aged 53 years. He was educated 

 in one of the public schools of the city, and 

 subsequently was private secretary to Henry 

 Eckford, the ship-builder, whom he accom- 

 panied to Greece. On his return he studied 

 law under William J. Hackett, Esq., and had 

 an extensive practice until his failing health 

 compelled him to retire from the profession. 

 He was for a number of years editor of the 

 Masonic department of the New- York Dispatch. 

 In 1865 and 1866 ho was Grand-Master of the 

 Grand Lodge of the State. For a number of 

 years he was a member of the Board of Excise, 

 and at the last election was a candidate for the 

 office of District Judge. 

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March 14. FOSTER, Mrs. MAUY, a venerable 

 lady of Newark, N. .)., formerly a resident in 

 New-York City ; din! in Newark, aged 91 years. 

 She was one of the sixty young girls who car- 

 ried baskets of laurel-leaves in the procession 

 at the funeral of General Washington. 



March 14. SWAIN, Dr. JAMES, a wealthy 

 riti/ni of 1'hiladflphia, proprietor of Swain's 

 Panacea, died in Paris. He removed to Phil- 

 adelphia about the commencement of the late 

 war, and gave largely of his means to the Union 

 cause, being an active associate member of the 

 Sanitary Commission. For the lost five years 

 he had resided in Paris. 



March 15. TOWNSKND, Dr. SAMUEL P., a 

 noted patent-medicine vender; died in Felt- 

 villo, N. J., aged 66 years. He achieved a 

 large fortune in his business in a few years, 

 mainly the result of very thorough and per- 

 sistent advertising, which he was one of the 

 first to attempt in his department of trade. lie 

 erected a very costly, though somewhat bizarre, 

 mansion in Fifth Avenue, but, tiring of it, sold 

 it some years since for a boarding-school. 



March 17. CORNELL, WILLIAM W., a wealthy 

 and philanthropic citizen of New York ; died 

 at Fort Washington, aged 48 years. He was 

 born in 1822, and was the architect of his own 

 fortune. By his enterprise he had built up an 

 extensive and largely- profitable business as an 

 iron-founder, and, recognizing his responsi- 

 bility to God for the prosperity granted him, 

 was a most liberal and open-handed giver to 

 all worthy benevolent objects. He had for 

 some years past been conspicuous for his liber- 

 ality in aiding in the erection of churches for 

 the Methodist denomination, of which he was 

 a member, giving many thousands of dollars 

 annually for this as well as other benevolent 

 objects. 



March 18. DBTJHY, Rev. ASA, D. D., an emi- 

 nent Baptist clergyman, teacher, and professor ; 

 died in St. Anthony, Minn., aged 67 years. 

 He was born July 26, 1802, graduated at Yale 

 College in 1829, and the two succeeding years 

 was Rector of the New-Haven Hopkins Gram- 

 mar-School. He was ordained an evangelist 

 in the Baptist ministry, September 14, 1834. 

 In 1835-'36 he was Professor of Languages in 

 Denison University, Granville, Ohio, and the 

 three following years was Professor of Greek 

 in Cincinnati College. In 1839-'40 he held a 

 professorship in Waterville College (now Colby 

 University). Ho returned again to Cincinnati 

 College, and subsequently was principal of the 

 classical school in connection with the Baptist 

 Theological Institute at Covington, Ky., and 

 was also Professor of Ecclesiastical History and 

 Greek Literature. For some ten years later 

 he was principal of the High School and super- 

 intendent of the public schools of Covington. 

 During the last four years of his life he was 

 pastor of a church in St. Anthony, Minn. 



March 19. BURNETT, JAMES G., an actor; 

 died in Chicago, aged 57 years. He was born 

 in Edinburgh, in 1819, came to America at the 



