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OBITUAEIES, UNITED STATES. 



rical Clinique" for the gratuitous treatment 

 of poor women in the ills and troubles to 

 which they are subject. As a medical writer 

 Dr. Bedford stood deservedly high. His " Dis- 

 eases of Women and Children" has passed 

 through ten editions in this country, and his 

 "Principles and Practice of Obstetrics" five 

 editions, and both have been republished in 

 England, and translated into French and Ger- 

 man. Both works, as well as his occasional 

 addresses and memorials, are characterized by 

 that elegance and affluence of diction which 

 were marked features of all his public address- 

 es. In private life Dr. Bedford was exem- 

 plary, courteous, and genial in all his relations 

 to his family, to his professional brethren, and 

 to society. He was a devout and consistent 

 Catholic, and his fine talents and large in- 

 fluence were freely given to the promotion of 

 the Catholic faith. 



Sept. 6. CHILDS, OKVILLE "W., an eminent 

 practical civil engineer ; died in Philadelphia. 

 He was early in the employ of the State of 

 New York, and was from 1840 to 1847 chief 

 engineer of the State works ; aided in the 

 construction of the Champlain Canal, was. one 

 of the surveyors of the ship-canal across the 

 Isthmus of Nicaragua, and a designer of the 

 enlargement of the Erie Canal. He was 

 highly accomplished in his profession, and 

 sought by every means in his power to elevate 

 its standard to the highest point, contributing 

 by his pen to its literature and its scientific and 

 practical treatises during the past forty years. 



Sept. 7. CLABKE, DE WITT CLINTON, editor ; 

 died in Burlington, Vt. He was born in Sandy 

 Hill, N. Y., in 1810 ; graduated at Union Col- 

 lege, Schenectady ; studied law, but never 

 practised ; purchased the Burlington Free 

 Press in 1846, and established the Burlington 

 Times in 1858. Previous to 1840 he was 

 Quartermaster-General ; was Secretary of the 

 State Senate from 1840 to 1851 ; member of 

 the Constitutional Convention of 1857, and 

 Secretary of that body in 1857 and 1870; was 

 a presidential elector in 1860 ; and Executive 

 Clerk of the United States Senate for nine 

 years. 



Sept. 7. MONROE, Colonel JAMES, United 

 States Army, and late member of Congress 

 from New York ; died at Orange, N. J., aged 

 71 years. He was a nephew of President 

 Monroe, and was born in Albemarle County, 

 Va., September 10, 1799, graduated at the 

 Military Academy at West Point, March 2, 

 1815, as third lieutenant in the corps of artil- 

 lery, served in the war with Algiers, and was 

 wounded while directing the guns on board 

 the United States Frigate Guerriere in an ac- 

 tion with an Algerine frigate off Cape Bagot. 

 After his return to the United States he served 

 as battalion-adjutant of artillery at New Or- 

 leans, December 28, 1816, to December 18, 

 1817 ; as aide-de-camp to Brevet Major-Gen- 

 eral Winfield Scott, December 18, 1817, to 

 April 4, 1822 ; and on ordnance, garrison, and 



commissary duty at various posts for the next 

 ten years. After leaving the army he entered 

 political life at the solicitation of numerous 

 friends who appreciated his clear intellect and 

 high character. His first service was as 

 assistant alderman in 1832-'33, and alderman 

 in 1833-'35, of the third ward of New-York 

 City, being elected in 1834 to be president of 

 the board, when it was a distinction and proof 

 of integrity to be in the City Council. In 

 1836, William L. Marcy, then Governor of the 

 State, tendered to him the position of his 

 aide-de-camp, with the rank of colonel, but it 

 was not accepted. From 1839 to 1841 he 

 served in the United States House of Eepre- 

 sentatives. In 1850 and 1852 he was a leading 

 member of the New-York Legislature, but upon 

 the death of his wife, dirring the latter year, 

 retired from public life until the outbreak of 

 the late war, when he visited his native State 

 for the purpose of dissuading her, by public 

 speeches and private efforts, from severing 

 herself from the Union. Though disappointed 

 in the result of his efforts, he remained thor- 

 oughly loyal to the Government, and through- 

 out his life manifested a deep interest in the 

 welfare of his country and the progress of civil 

 liberty. 



Sept. 10. ALDEN, Colonel BKADFOKD E., 

 U. S. A., a distinguished army officer; died at 

 Newport, E. L, aged 60 years. He was the 

 son of Major Eoger Alden, aide-de-camp to 

 General Washington in the Eevolution, and 

 was born at Meadville, Pa., graduated at West 

 Point in 1831, and was an officer of the Fourth 

 U. S. Infantry. For several years he was aide- 

 de-camp to General Winfield Scott, and was 

 commandant of the corps of cadets at West 

 Point from 1845 to 1852. In 1853, while sta- 

 tioned at Fort Jones, California, as Captain of 

 the Fourth Infantry, he was summoned to 

 quell a formidable uprising of the Indians on 

 Rogue River, Oregon. Instantly repairing 

 thither, a distance of 200 miles, with a small 

 detachment of regulars, he raised a battalion 

 of volunteers, of which he was elected colo- 

 nel, and met the Indians in a fierce battle near 

 Jacksonville, Oregon, receiving a wound in the 

 spine, from which he never fully recovered. 

 Subsequently he resigned his position in the 

 army, and travelled in Europe for his health. 

 Unable to ride on horseback, from his wound, 

 and therefore unfitted to share in the civil war, 

 he went in 1861 to the petroleum region in 

 Northwestern Pennsylvania, and was fortunate 

 in initiating some of the most successful petro- 

 leum enterprises in that region. Colonel Alden 

 was a man of polished manners and elegant 

 tastes, while his acquaintance with literature 

 and art, heightened by his extensive travels, 

 rendered him a valuable companion. 



Sept. 10. DENMAN, Major WILLIAM, British 

 Army, and an editor ; died in Brooklyn, L. L, 

 in the 76th year of his age. He was a native 

 of Lancashire, England, held the position of 

 major in the British Army, and participated in 



