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the battle of Waterloo. Subsequently ho came 

 t<> America, and was the founder and editor 

 .f the Truth-Teller, the first weekly Catholic 

 journal published in America, and which wns 

 about fifteen years ago merged in the Iruh- 

 American. 



Sept. 12. LYMAN, JOB, died at Burlington, 

 Vt. Ho was born in Northampton, Mass., 

 December 9, 1781 ; graduated at Dartmouth 

 College in 1804, where he was a fellow-student 

 with Daniel Webster; studied law at Windsor 

 and Ilaverhill, N. H.; practised his profession 

 at Woodstock ; was cashier of the old Ver- 

 mont State Bank, and president of the Wood- 

 stock Bank for many years ; was Court Auditor 

 for a long period, and a member of the Gov- 

 ernor's Council. Ho removed to Burlington in 



Sept. 12. MILLER, WILLIAM IT., a political 

 loader in Pennsylvania ; died at Harrisburg, 

 aged 42 years. lie was Clerk of the Supreme 

 Court of Pennsylvania, Middle District, 1854- 

 1863, and member of the Thirty-eighth Con- 

 gress, Harrisburg District. 



Sept. 13. LTTDLOW, FrrzmrGn, a magazine 

 writer, and author; died at Geneva, Switzer- 

 land, aged 33 years. He was the son of Rev. H. 

 G. Ludlow, a Congregational ist clergyman, 

 and was born at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 1837. 

 He commenced his literary career in 1855 by 

 anonymous contributions to various New- York 

 journals. In 1857 he published the "Hash- 

 eesh Eater," which portrays the pleasures and 

 pains attending the use of that drug, to which 

 he had for some time been addicted. Soon 

 afterward he wrote a series of stories for Har- 

 per's Magazine, which attained considerable 

 popularity, and were collected under the title 

 of " Little Brother." He also contributed for 

 other magazines and published two more books 

 "The Heart of the Continent," a collection 

 of the articles he had written for the Atlantic 

 Monthly on a journey he had taken across the 

 plains, and " The Opium Habit," in which he 

 described his experience with opium. He final- 

 ly gave up the use of this drug as he had 

 previously that of hasheesh, but not until his 

 health had been utterly shattered. 



Sept. 16. KETCHUM, HIRAM, an eminent 

 lawyer and politician of New- York City ; died 

 at Riverdale, Westchester County, N". Y., aged 

 78 years. He was born in one of the northern 

 counties of New York, and removed to the city 

 about the year 1831. He was educated for the 

 law and became distinguished in his profession, 

 was a devoted Whig from the inception of the 



Birty. He was a warm personal friend of 

 aniel Webster, and a vigorous advocate of 

 the public schools, which he ably defended in 

 a sharp and well-remembered contest with 

 Archbishop Hughes. Of late years he had 

 sympathized with the Democracy. 



Sept. 17. PILAT, IGNATZ A., chief land- 

 Bcape-gardener to the Central Park; died in 

 Now York, aged 52 years. He was born at Asch- 



Rich, Austria, in 1818, received a collegiate educa- 

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tion at Vienna, and subsequently studied at the 

 I'.otanical Gardens at Vienna and Schonbruun. 

 IIU lirst work of magnitude was the laying out 

 of the grounds about the palace of the famous 

 Prince Metternich. On account of political 

 troubles, he left Vienna in 1848, and came to 

 this country. After remaining in New York 

 for a short time, he settled at Dalton, Ga., 

 whore for some time his services were sought 

 in laying out the grounds of Alexander II. 

 Stephens and others. He returned to Vienna 

 in 1852, and was made Director of the Botan- 

 ical Gardens there. While thus engaged he 

 wrote a work on botany that has become a 

 text-book in schools. In 1856, or the year 

 following, he accepted the position of chief 

 landscape-gardener in the Central Park of 

 New York. His personal superintendence of 

 the entire work, which was conducted chiefly 

 according to his own plans, continued up to the 

 time of his death. Meantime he planned arid 

 superintended many improvements in the pub- 

 lic squares of the city. 



Sept. 18. DAWSON, Jomr L., a Democratic 

 politician of Pennsylvania; died in Fayette 

 County. He was a native of that county ; 

 received a liberal education at Washington 

 College, studied law and entered upon the prac- 

 tice of his profession. Entering into politics at 

 an early age, he soon took a leading part on the 

 Democratic side in all current controversies, 

 and was appointed United States Attorney for 

 the Western District of Pennsylvania in 1845, 

 by President Polk. He was subsequently 

 elected to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third 

 Congresses, and again to the Thirty-eighth, 

 during which he was a member of the Com- 

 mittee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Dawson was 

 the author of the Homestead Bill of 1854, and 

 a delegate to the Democratic National Con- 

 ventions of 1844, 1848, 1856, and 1860. Dur- 

 ing the Administration of General Pierce he 

 was tendered the office of Governor of Kansas, 

 but declined the position. In 1864 he was 

 chosen to the Thirty-ninth Congress, which 

 ended his public career. 



Sept. 19. KITTS, JOHN-, centenarian of Bal- 

 timore ; died there, aged 108 years. He was a 

 teamster in the United States Army in the 

 Revolution, and was for many years Sergeant- 

 at-Arms of Baltimore City Council. 



Sept. 19. ROBERTSON, HEZEKIAH D., an ac- 

 tive Republican of New- York State ; died in 

 Bedford, Westchester County, aged 42 years. 

 He was first elected to office in 1851, when he 

 was chosen Supervisor by the people of Pound- 

 ridge, and was reflected the following year. 

 He then removed to Bedford, and represented 

 the Ninth Senatorial District, comprising West- 

 Chester, Putnam, and Rockland Counties, in 

 the State Senate for one term, and had also 

 since 1854 represented Bedford in the Board 

 of Supervisors of Westchester County. 



Sept. 21. GHOLSON, WILLIAM Y., an able 

 jurist; died in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was for- 

 merly a resident of Mississippi, but removed 



