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OBITUAEIES, UNITED STATES. 



ing squadron, where he was in active service 

 on board the United States sloop Mississippi for 

 more than a year. He held an important post 

 as an officer of that ship, and in her last engage- 

 ment fought his division nobly and courageous- 

 ly amid the shower of shot and shell until he 

 fell lifeless upon the deck. 



March 21. SCMNEB, Maj.-Gen. E. V. (See 

 SI-MXER, E.V.) 



March 12. HAWS, Hon. ROBERT T., ex-comp- 

 troller of New York city, died at his residence 

 there. He was a man of strict integrity and 

 great firmness of character. During the last 

 ten years of his life he gave much time and at- 

 tention to local politics, at first as a whig, and 

 subsequently as a republican. He was a mem- 

 ber of the Board of Aldermen for four years, 

 and was never known to be absent from their 

 sessions. While actiug in that capacity, his en- 

 larged mercantile experience, sound financial 

 judgment, and honorable integrity, proved of 

 the highest value to his constituency and the 

 city at large. He was elected comptroller in 

 1860, and by his inflexible honesty and business 

 ability succeeded in preventing the consum- 

 mation of many schemes of fraud. 



March 25. WILCOX, PHINEAS BACON, died in 

 Columbus, Ohio, aged 67 years ; graduated at 

 Yale College in 1821, studied law, and was en- 

 gaged in successful practice in Columbus nearly 

 forty years. He was the author of several im- 

 portant professional volumes, among them the 

 tenth volume of the " Ohio Reports " (Colum- 

 bus, 1840), and several volumes of condensed 

 and digested " Ohio Reports." He was the 

 author also of a brief essay entitled " A Few 

 Thoughts by a Member of the Bar " (Columbus, 

 1836). 



March 28. CARLETON, Hon. HENRY, Judge of 

 the Supreme Court of Louisiana, died in Phila- 

 delphia in his 80th year. He was born in Vir- 

 ginia ; graduated from Yale College, Conn., in 

 1806; removed to Mississippi, and finally estab- 

 lished himself in New Orleans in 1814. He 

 served as a lieutenant of infantry under Gen. 

 Jackson, in the campaign which terminated 

 Jan. 8th, 1815 ; he then actively engaged in the 

 profession of law, and soon after, in connection 

 with Mr. L. Moreau, he began the translation 

 of those portions of Las Siete Partidas, a cele- 

 brated Spanish code of laws, which were ob- 

 served in Louisiana. In 1832 he was appointed 

 U. 8. district attorney for the Eastern District 

 of Louisiana, and was subsequently appointed a 

 judge of the Supreme Court of the same State, 

 which post he resigned on account of ill health 

 in 1839. He visited Europe several times, and 

 travelled extensively through this country, 

 finally locating himself in Philadelphia. He 

 devoted much attention to biblical, theological, 

 and metaphysical studies, and published in 

 1857 a volume on " Liberty and Necessity." A 

 few days before his death he read " An Essay 

 on the Will " before the American Philosoph- 

 ical Society. Notwithstanding his early life 

 in the South, and the exposure of his proper- 



ty to confiscation by the Confederates, he ad- 

 hered steadily to the Constitution and the 

 Union. 



March 28. COOPER, Brig.-Gen. JAMES, an 

 officer of the U. S. volunteers, died at Colum- 

 bus, Ohio, aged about 60 years. He was a na- 

 tive of Frederick county, Maryland, but remov- 

 ed many years ago to Pennsylvania, where he 

 became a prominent whig politician, and was 

 known as one of the leading advocates of the 

 tariff of 1842. He was elected to the United 

 States Senate, and served two terms with much 

 ability, taking a prominent part in all the im- 

 portant questions that at that time agitated the 

 country. A few years ago he took up his resi- 

 dence in Frederick city, Maryland, and after 

 the breaking out of the war he was appointed 

 the first brigadier-general ; took command of 

 all the volunteers in Maryland, and organized 

 them into regiments. Subsequently he was ap- 

 pointed to the command of Camp Chase, near 

 Columbus, Ohio, where he remained in the dis- 

 charge of his duties until attacked with fatal 

 illness. 



MarchW. DUYCKINCK, GEOUG; L. (-SccDuY- 

 CKINCK.) 



April 7. FRANCIS, Rev. CONVERS, D. D., 

 died in Cambridge, Mass., aged 67 years. He 

 was born in West Cambridge, studied at the 

 Medford Academy, and graduated at Harvard 

 College in the class of 1815. After graduating 

 he studied theology in the Cambridge Divinity 

 School, and was ordained pastor of the Uni- 

 tarian church in Watertown, Mass., June 23d, 

 1819, where he remained twenty-three years. 

 In 1842 he was appointed "Parkman Professor 

 of Pulpit Eloquence and the Pastoral Care," in 

 Harvard College, which appointment he accept- 

 ed, and entered immediately upon the duties of 

 his professorship, which he continued to the 

 end of his life. Among his publications were : 

 " Errors of Education," a discourse at the an- 

 niversary of the Derby Academy in Hingham 

 (May, 1828) ; An Historical Sketch of Water- 

 town from the first settlement of the Town to 

 the close of the Second Century (1830); A 

 Discourse at Plymouth, December 22d (1832); 

 A Dudlean Lecture at Cambridge (1833); The 

 Life of Rev. John Eliot, the Apostle to the 

 Indians, in the fifth volume of Sparks's Ameri- 

 can Biography (1836); Memoir of Rev. John 

 Allyn, D. D., of Duxbury (1836); Memoir of 

 Dr. Gamaliel Bradford (1846); Memoir of 

 Judge Davis (1849). The last three were pub- 

 lished in the Collections of the Massachusetts 

 Historical Society. He was also the author 

 of many valuable articles in different religious 

 papers and periodicals. In 1837 the honorary 

 degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred 

 upon him by Harvard College. 



April 10. WARE, Dr. ROBERT, died in 

 Washington, N. C., aged 29 years. He was a 

 native of Boston, Mass., studied at the Latin 

 school in that city, graduated at Harvard Col- 

 lege in 1852, and studied medicine with his 

 father, Dr. John Ware, until May, 1854, when 



