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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



Madison, to the Mississippi river. In 1888 he 

 entered the army as a first lieutenant of topo- 

 graphical engineers. In 1841 he was engaged 

 under the command of the late Captain "Wil- 

 liams, on a survey of the lakes. From 1842 to 

 1845 he was in command of the survey of the 

 harbor of Portsmouth, N. II. a work which, 

 for minute accuracy of detail, is unsurpassed by 

 anything of the kind ever produced in this 

 country. In 1847 he was charged with the 

 construction of an iron light-house on Carys- 

 fort Reef, Florida, the largest iron light-house 

 on our coast. In 1849 he entered upon the 

 Great Salt Lake expedition, from which he re- 

 turned in 1851, and his report of which has 

 given him a wide reputation. In 1852 he made 

 a survey of the harbor of St. Vincent's, on Lake 

 Ontario, and the following year was charged 

 with the superintendence of the lake harbors 

 from Conneaut to Sandusky. In 1856 he was 

 assigned to the charge of the military roads in 

 Minnesota, and in 1861 was ordered as muster- 

 ing officer to Columbus, Ohio. At the time of 

 his death he was mustering and disbursing offi- 

 cer at Madison, Wisconsin. 



April 18. McDERMOTT, Lieut. Com. of the 

 U. S. gunboat Cayuga, was killed at Sabine 

 Pass, while making a reconnoissance in com- 

 pany with Capt. Reed, of the gunboat New 

 London. He was a brave man, a gallant officer, 

 . and a true patriot. 



April 28. DARLINGTON, Dr. WILLIAM, died 

 in West Chester, Pa., aged 81 years. He was 

 well known for his services in public life, as 

 well as for his botanical and historical writings. 



April 23. OTEY, Right Rev. JAMES HEEVEY, 

 bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 

 the diocese of Tennessee, died at Memphis in 

 the 64th year of his age, and the 30th of his 

 episcopate. He was born in Virginia in 1799. 

 He was a man who stood high in the reverence 

 and affection of all who knew him, and through- 

 out the South and Southwest won the title of 

 " the good bishop." He had never mingled in 

 partisan strife, but was thoroughly attached to 

 his country. On the day before the passage of the 

 secession ordinance in Tennessee, he published 

 in the papers of Memphis a communication as- 

 serting the duty of using the " Prayer for the 

 President of the United States." When the 

 meeting of the Southern dioceses was held at 

 Montgomery, Alabama, he attended, and though 

 strongly opposed to secession, he was success- 

 fully persuaded to address his famous letter 

 to the Secretary of State, remonstrating against 

 any coercive measures on the part of the Fed- 

 eral Government. An able reply to this letter, 

 which was published soon after, changed the 

 views of the bishop as to his position, and he 

 thenceforth quietly withdrew from everything 

 which would seem like opposition to the Na- 

 tional Government. He acted with the North- 

 ern dioceses, declined on his own part and 

 caused the clergy and laity of his diocese to 

 decline to attend the convention of delegates 

 from the Confederate States held in Georgia, 



and in his whole demeanor comported himself 

 as a faithful citizen of the United States. 



April 24. ADAMS, JOHN, LL.D., died in 

 Jacksonville, Illinois, aged 90 years. He was 

 a son of John Adams, an officer of the Revolu- 

 tion, and was born in Canterbury, Conn., gradu- 

 ated at Yale College in 1795, and taught the 

 academy in his native town for three years. 

 In 1800 he was appointed rector of Plainfield 

 Academy, and in 1803 preceptor of Bacon 

 Academy in Colchester, Conn. In June, 1810, 

 he was chosen principal of Phillips Academy, 

 Andover, Mass., in which office he continued 

 twenty-three years. In 1833 he resigned this 

 position, and removed to Illinois, where he in- 

 vested his property in the new lands. Always 

 interested in the young, he volunteered his 

 services to their advantage, and although more 

 than three score and ten years of age, he or- 

 ganized in the State of his adoption several 

 hundred Sabbath schools, many of which have 

 grown into churches. He has left copious 

 manuscripts illustrative of his views of mental 

 management in educating and governing the 

 young. When resident in Andover he took 

 part in the organization of several of the great 

 national charities of the country. The degree 

 of LL.D. was conferred on him by his alma 

 mater in 1854. His three sons are graduates 

 of Yale College, and one of them, William 

 Adams, D.D., is an eminent clergyman of New 

 York city. 



April 24. SMITH, Rev. ALBERT, D. D., died 

 in Monticello, Illinois, aged 59 years. He was 

 horn at Milton, Vt., and was clerk in a store at 

 Vergennes, till he arrived at the age of majority. 

 Finding no satisfactory opening in the mercan- 

 tile business, he went to Hartford, Ct., and com- 

 menced the study of law. When about twenty- 

 three years of age he experienced a change of 

 religious views and turned his attention to the 

 ministry. He graduated at Middlebnry, Vt., in 

 1831, taught school a year in Hartford, Ct., and 

 Medford, Mass., and in 1835 graduated at the 

 Andover Seminary. He was ordained pastor 

 of the Congregational church in Williamstown, 

 Mass., in 1836, and in 1838 was elected profes- 

 sor of languages and belles lettres in Marshall 

 College, at Mercersburg, Pa. In 1840 he was 

 called to the professorship of rhetoric and 

 English literature in Middleburg College, where 

 he remained about four years. In May, 1845, 

 he was installed pastor of the Congregational 

 church in Vernon, Ct., but in 1854 was obliged 

 to resign on account of declining health, 

 and went to Illinois. In 1855 he was for a 

 time in the service of the Home Missionary So- 

 ciety, and in the fall of that year was settled 

 at Monticello, where he remained until his 

 death. He received the degree of D. D. from 

 Shurtleff College in 1860. 



April 25. BAILEY, Rev. RUFFS WILLIAJT, 

 D. D., died in Huntsville, Texas, aged 70 years. 

 He was born in Yarmouth, Me., graduated at 

 Dartmouth College in 1813, and after teaching 

 the academies in Salisbury, N. H., and Blue 



