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in Water-Colors, and tho fripnd of the pro- 

 fession, both in that city und iu New York. 



Dec. 14. WKKD, Rev. HBNKT R., D. D., a 

 \u-rian clergyman; died at West Philu- 

 i!rl|.liiu, aged 83 years. lie took his theologi- 

 cal course at Princeton, graduated in 1814, 

 and soon after become pastor of tho First 

 yterian Church of Albany, N. Y. Ho 

 was also for more than thirty years pastor of 

 tho First Presbyterian Church of Wheeling, 

 V;i. Although for several years, owing to the 

 iiiiinnitk's of age, he had ceased from the ac- 

 tive ministry, he continued to hold the rela- 

 tion of pastor emeritus until ho died. He was 

 a man of commanding ability, who in other 

 days exerted a profound and wholesome influ- 

 ence in the church of that region. 



Dec. 17. BBKESE, Rear- Admiral SAMUEL L., 

 IT. S. N. ; died at Mount Airy, Philadelphia, 

 aged 76 years. He was born in 1794, and re- 

 ceived his naval appointment December 10, 

 1810. He took an active port in the War of 

 1812, served as a midshipman in the battle of 

 Lake Champlain, and, passing through tho 

 grades of lieutenant and commander, was com- 

 missioned captain in 1841, and was assigned to 

 the command of the Cumberland in 1845. In 

 tho Mexican "War he did good service at Tuspan, 

 Tobasco, and the siege of Vera Cruz. Subse- 

 quently he served on the lakes, at Norfolk 

 Navy- Yard, and as commander of the European 

 squadron, 1856-'58. At the breaking out of 

 the war he commanded the Brooklyn Navy- 

 Yard; was made rear-admiral in 1865, and 

 port-admiral at Philadelphia, in 1869. After 

 sixty years of public service he went on the 

 retired list in accordance with the order of the 

 Department restricting the position of port- 

 admiral to the port of New York. 



Dec. 17. CASWELL, Rev. HEXRY, D. D. ; 

 Vicar of Figheldean and Prebend of Salisbury, 

 England ; died at his residence in Franklin, 

 Pa. He was the first ordained graduate of 

 Kenyon College, having come to this country 

 in 1828. In 1842 he returned to England, and 

 procured a living in the Established Church by 

 special act of Parliament. After holding sev- 

 eral church offices there, he came here again 

 about two years ago to resume his old duties. 



Dec. 18. GAKDNKB, Commodore WILLIAM 

 H., IT. S. N., an officer of great merit ; died in 

 Philadelphia, aged 70 years. He was born in 

 1800, entered the service in 1814, was made 

 lieutenant in 1825, commander in 1841, and 

 was appointed to the Vandalia in 1850. In 

 1855 he was promoted to the rank of captain, 

 and in that capacity commanded the frigate 

 Colorado. In 1861 he was in command of tho 

 Mare Island station, and the following year 

 was commissioned commodore. 



Dec. 19. HOLLAND, GEORGE, a veteran act- 

 or ; died in New-York City, aged 80 years, 

 lie was born in London, in 1790, hod good 

 educational advantages in boyhood, but was 

 more fond of sport than books. Between his 

 eighteenth and twenty-sixth year he was suc- 



cessively clerk, bill-broker, editor, printer, 

 singer of comic songs, in tho prize-rin;', cir- 

 cus-rider, commercial traveller, peddler, and 

 tr:nli 'Milan. Iii 1^17 ho settled up his affairs 

 and betook himself to tho stage. After nu- 

 merous successes in England, he came to the 

 United States in 1827, and from that time to 

 January, 1870, ho had been an actor almost 

 constantly in. comic parts, winning golden 

 opinions from audiences in almost every con- 

 siderable town in tho United States. Ho was 

 one of tho best of the humorous actors of tho 

 old school, and was honorable and exemplary 

 in all the relations of life. 



Dec. 19. TALBOT, Lieutenant Jonx G., U. 

 S. N., a gallant young officer ; was lost on tho 

 breakers of the Island of Kami, Sandwich 

 Islands. He was an officer of the Saginaw, 

 which vessel was wrecked on Ocean Island, in 

 the Pacific Ocean, and volunteered to go in an 

 open boat to Honolulu, a distance of 1,500 

 miles, to seek assistance for the relief of his 

 shipwrecked comrades. After experiencing 

 with the utmost fortitude every privation and 

 hardship, even to tho last stages of starvation, 

 he, with two of his men, was lost just at the 

 completion of his fearful voyage. He was a 

 young man of the most upright character, and 

 of great moral worth, conscientious and exact 

 in the performance of all his duties. 



Dec. 25. KXOWLTON, Captain MIXER, U. S. 

 A. ; died in Burlington, N. J., aged 66 years. 

 He graduated at West Point in 1829, and was 

 commissioned brevet second lieutenant in the 

 First Artillery. With this regiment he con- 

 tinued until 1861, rising through the grades of 

 second and first lieutenant to that of captain 

 in 1846. He was for a period of nearly four- 

 teen years instructor in mathematics, French, 

 and artillery, at West Point. With a view of 

 studying foreign military science, he went to 

 Algeria in 1845, and served on the staff of the 

 celebrated Marshal Bugeaud. Subsequently 

 he participated in the war with Mexico in 

 1846, and later was in the recruiting service 

 and on engineer duty. In 1861 he was retired 

 from active service for disability resulting 

 from long and faithful service, and from dis- 

 ease and exposure in tho line of duty. Cap- 

 tain Knowlton was tho author of " Notes on 

 Gunpowder, Cannon, and Projectiles," 1840; 

 and the compiler of " Instructions and Regu- 

 lations for the Militia and Volunteers of tho 

 United States," 1861. 



Dec. 27. CUTLER, EI.BRIDGE JEFFERSOX, 

 Professor of Modern Languages in Harvard 

 College ; died at Cambridge, Mass. Ho was n 

 brilliant writer, and an able, though generous, 

 critic. A volume of poems published by him 

 some years since awakened the desire in all 

 who read them that he should write more. His 

 criticisms in the North American Review and 

 other periodicals gave evidence of remarkable 

 critical ability. In private life Prof. Cutler 

 was modest and diffident, but genial when 

 among those who know and appreciated his 



