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GEOGRAPHICAL EXPLORATIONS AND DISCOVERIES. 



Union, Louisiana, Mo., destroyed March 6, 1864. 



tit. Mary's Gazette, Leonardtown, Ind., warned 

 April 12, 1862. 



Picayune, New Orleans. 



Courier, New Orleans, suppressed May 23, 1864, 

 and editors banished for republishing the bogus 

 proclamation received via Cairo. The order was 

 never revoked. 



Metropolitan Record, New Yofk, circulation for- 

 bidden at the West, March 26, 1864. 



Transcript, Baltimore, Md., suppressed May 18, 

 1864, for publishing a despatch saying the loss o'f the 

 Army of the Potomac was not less than seventy 

 thousand, and crediting it to the Associated Press. 



Democrat, Cambridge, Md., suppressed September 

 9, 1864. 



Metropolitan Record. 



Freeman* 's Journal, burned at Nashville, September 

 12, 1864. 



Democrat, Gallatin County, 111., editors seized and 

 imprisoned August 19, 1864. 



Crisis, Columbus, 0., editor seized and imprisoned 

 May 10, 1864. 



Register, Wheeling, Va., editors seized, paper sup- 



pressed July 20, 1864. 

 Journal, Be 



Jelfast, Me., editor seized August, 1864. 



News, Memphis, Tenu., suppressed July, 1864. 



Bulletin, Baltimore, Md., suppressed July, 1864. 



Gazette, Parkersburg, Va., editor seized by Gen. 

 Hunter, July 27, 1864. 



Kentucky, June, 1864, all Democratic papers ex- 

 cluded the State. 



All Democratic newspapers excluded from Mem- 

 phis (except the Missouri Republican) September 16, 

 1864. 



On September 30th, the "Loyalist" at Baltimore 

 was discontinued by order of Gen. Wallace, and on 

 November 29th, the " True Presbyterian" at Louis- 

 ville, by order of Gen. Burbridge. 



FRY, WILLIAM HENRY, an American musi- 

 cal composer and editor, born in Philadelphia 

 in August, 1815, died at Santa Cruz, "W. L, 

 December 21, 1864. He received his early 

 education partly at the schools of his native 

 city and partly at the Roman Catholic College 

 of Mount St. Mary's at Emmittsburg, Md. His 

 first orchestral compositions were four over- 



tures performed by the Philharmonic Societj 

 of -Philadelphia, for which he was complimented 

 with an honorary medal. In 1845 he wrote the 

 opera of "Leonora," which was produced by 

 the Seguin company at the Chestnut Street 

 Theatre in the month of June of that year, and 

 an Italian version was performed at the Acad- 

 emy of Music in New York in the spring of 

 1858. After a connection of several years with 

 the Philadelphia press, in 1846 Mr. Fry visited 

 Paris and other European capitals, where he 

 remained for six years. His correspondence 

 from the former city with the " N. Y. Tribune " 

 attracted not a little attention. After his re- 

 turn to this country in 1852, he delivered in 

 New York a remarkable series of lectures on 

 the history of music, illustrated by two new 

 symphonies of his own composition, which, 

 with two other symphonies, "Santa Glaus" 

 and " Childe Harold," were soon after played 

 by M. Jullien's orchestra in many of the prin- 

 cipal cities of the United States. His next orig- 

 inal work was the music to an ode written for 

 the opening of the Crystal Palace in New York 

 in 1853. In 1855 he composed a " Stabat 

 Mater " with full orchestral and vocal score for 

 performance at the New York Academy. Dur- 

 ing the past year, his "Leonora" was pro- 

 duced with great splendor in Philadelphia for 

 the benefit of the Fair of the Sanitary Com- 

 mission. For the last twelve years Mr. Fry had 

 been attached to the editorial corps of the 

 " Tribune," and its columns richly attest his 

 rare abilities as a critic. For several years he 

 had been the victim of consumption, and had 

 gone to Santa Cruz early in the autumn for the 

 alleviation of his disease, though himself re- 

 garding his case as hopeless; but soon after 

 arriving there his symptoms became alarmingly 

 worse, and he finally succumbed to the fatal 

 disease. 



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GEOGRAPHICAL EXPLORATIONS AND 

 DISCOVERIES. The year 1864 has added less 

 than some of the years which preceded it to our 

 knowledge of the surface and productions of the 

 earth. No great and long-concealed discovery 

 has been made, no problem which had tasked the 

 wisdom and research of ages has been solved ; yet 

 while so many active and enterprising students 

 have been engaged in all parts of the world in 

 investigating natural phenomena, in exploring 

 unknown regions, and in examining carefully for 

 new facts and new theories the already beaten 

 paths of topographical research, many new facts 

 have been gleaned, some new discoveries made, 

 and the way opened for more. 



Beginning, as usual, with OUR OWN CONTI- 

 NENT, we notice the publication of Captain C. 

 F. Hall 3 interesting narrative of his Arctic 

 explorations. Allusion was made to some items 

 of his discoveries in the volume of the ANNUAL 



CYCLOP JEDIA for 1863. He estimates the moral 

 character and the intelligence of the Innuits or 

 Esquimaux much higher than previous explorers 

 have done, giving them credit for honesty, 

 affection, quickness of perception, and docility. 

 His experiences of arctic life were deeply in- 

 teresting. In June, 1864, Captain Hall sailed 

 again, and this time much better provided, for 

 a further voyage and journey of exploration in 

 the arctic regions. He has still strong hope of 

 finding some of Franklin's men alive, believing 

 that if they adopted the Innuit mode of life, 

 they might prolong their existence and even 

 live in tolerable comfort for many years. 



In BRITISH AMERICA there lias been little of 

 geographical exploration to chronicle. 



The British survey of Vancouver Island has 

 been completed, and that of the coast of British 

 Columbia vigorously prosecuted, and charts of 

 the island survey published. Memoirs on both 



