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MOORE, CLEMENT C. 



the same time the people are to vote on the 

 proposition whether they desire a convention 

 or not. If they decide against a convention, 

 then the delegates are not to assemble, and the 

 whole thing falls through. Should the people 

 vote to sustain the proposition, then the con- 

 vention meets in St. Louis, on the 5th of Jan- 

 uary, 1865. 



During 1863 about fifteen hundred were re- 

 cruited in the old regiments in the Federal 

 service. No new regiment of infantry was 

 raised, but one of cavalry, and two regiments 

 of negro troops. 



For the purpose of promoting emigration to 

 the State from Europe, an agent was sent out, 

 with the promise of a small salary from some 

 of the railroad companies. Another was sent 

 to Germany by a manufacturer in St. Louis, to 

 procure laborers necessary to the conduct of 

 his business. 



The institutions of the State have suffered 

 from the disturbances, but are generally in a 

 favorable condition. 



MOORE, CLEMENT 0., LL.D., an American 

 scholar, died at Newport, R. I., July 10th, 

 1863. He was born in New York, July 15th, 

 1779, and was a son of the late Bishop Moore; 

 graduated at Columbia College in 1798, was 

 appointed professor of Biblical learning in the 

 General Protestant Episcopal Seminary in 

 1821, and subsequently of Oriental and Greek 

 Literature in the same institution, to which he 

 afterward made a gift from his family inherit- 

 ance of the large plot of ground on which it 

 stands. He retired with the title of Emeritus 

 Professor in June, 1850. llis published works 

 are: a collection of Bishop Moore's Sermons 

 (2 vols. 8vo, New York) ; a Hebrew and Greek 

 Lexicon (1809); a collection of "Poems" in 

 (1844K and " George Castriot," surnamed Scan- 

 derbelfe, King of Albania (1850). Among his 

 poems, the one which is most generally known 

 is the famous Christian ballad commencing 

 '"Twas the night before Christmas, and all 

 through the house." His remains were brought 

 to New York and interred in the family vault 

 at St. Luke's church, on the 14th of July, 1863. 



MOUNTAIN, Right Rev. GEORGE JEHOSHA.- 

 PHAT, D.D., D.C.L., Lord Bishop of Quebec, was 

 the second son of Bishop Jacob Mountain, the 

 first Anglican bishop of Quebec. He was born at 

 Norwich, England, on the 27th July, 1789, and 

 died at his seat, Bradfield, near Quebec, on the 

 morning of the 6th of January, 1863. He came 

 to Canada with his father in 1793. In 1805 he 

 returned to England, and was placed, together 

 with his three other brothers, with Rev. T. 

 Monro, rector of Little Easton, in Essex, a fa- 

 v..rire pupil of Dr. Parr, and a scholar of repute. 

 In duo time he was sent to Cambridge, whore he 

 graduated at Trinity College, in the year 1810. 

 In the same year he returned to Canada, and 

 pursued his studies with his father ; and at the 

 canonical age was by him ordained deacon, 

 August 2d, 1812, and priest in 1813. Im- 

 uediately upon his admission he began liis 



MOUNTAIN, GEORGE J. 



labors in the parish of Quebec, in which, 

 with a short interruption, to be noticed pres- 

 ently, he continued to minister till his death. 

 His first appointment was that of evening 

 lecturer at the Cathedral, which he held till 

 the year 1814. In that year he was appointed 

 rector of Fredericton, in New Brunswick, and 

 continued laboring there with great acceptance 

 until the year 1817, when, to the universal re- 

 gret of the community of Fredericton, he was 

 made rector of Quebec and bishop's official, 

 and removed to that city again. The deep and 

 lasting hold which he obtained upon the affec- 

 tions of his first independent charge, by the 

 labors of those three years, was very strikingly 

 shown in the great feeling manifested by those 

 of them that remained alive on his visiting 

 Fredericton for the first time, thirty years af- 

 terward, in 1847. He was nineteen years rec- 

 tor of Quebec, before he was consecrated bish- 

 op ; his zeal and devotion to his work during 

 these years nothing could exceed, and his suc- 

 cess was correspondingly great. In the midst 

 of those useful labors came that dreadful 

 scourge, the cholera, in 1832, and again in 

 1834. Then was his ministry put to the full 

 proof, and he literally lived night and day 

 among the dying and the dead. In 1821 he was 

 made archdeacon of Quebec, and in 1825 was 

 deputed to proceed to England on church busi- 

 ness, especially in the hope of inducing the Gov- 

 ernment to appoint the Hon. Dr. Stewart, a 

 son of the Earl of Galloway, as suffragan 

 bishop. In this he succeeded. Dr. Stewart was 

 consecrated Bishop of Quebec the following 

 year. In the year 1835 Archdeacon Moun- 

 tain was again deputed to proceed to Eng- 

 land on the Clergy Reserve question. On the 

 14th of February, 1836, he was consecrated 

 bishop, with the title of Bishop of Montreal, 

 but in reality to be coadjutor to Bishop Stew- 

 art, and entered upon his duties in the latter 

 half of that year. He had been only some ten 

 days in Quebec when Bishop Stewart was ob- 

 liged altogether to retire from Canada, devolv- 

 ing the charge of the whole province upon 

 Bishop Mountain. He continued, under the title 

 of Bishop of Montreal, to administer this enor- 

 mous diocese (which has since been divided into 

 six), travelling over the whole length and 

 breadth of the province, until 1839, when Up- 

 per Canada was made a separate see. The 

 whole of Lower Canada remained under his 

 supervision until 1850. In that year the diocese 

 of Montreal was, entirely through his exertions, 

 erected ; and Bishop Mountain elected to con- 

 tinue in charge of the poorer and by far more 

 laborious portion of his late diocese, the present 

 diocese of Quebec. Previously, however, in 

 1844, at the request of the Church Missionary 

 Society, he visited the Red River settlement, 

 where there were mission stations, and several 

 missionaries of that society. The visit occupied 

 three months. On his return the bishop's jour- 

 nal was published by the Church Missionary 

 Society, and through the facts thus brought 



