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bio was heartily loyal ; and, while his adminis- 

 tration was not satisfactory to the ultra-radical 

 party, he was very generally esteemed, and his 

 death greatly lamented. 



Jan. 31. HOPPIN, Hon. CHARLES A., died at 

 Los Graces, New Mexico. He was born in 

 Providence, R. I., about 1820, and was a son 

 of Gov. Hoppin of that city. For some time 

 he had filled a Government appointment in 

 Now Mexico. 



Jan. 31. LAWSOX, L. M., M. D., a physi- 

 cian, and medical professor and author, died at 

 Leavenworth, Kansas. He had been successively 

 professor in the medical school of the Univer- 

 sity of Louisville, in that of Transylvania Uni- 

 versity, in the Cincinnati Medical College, and 

 in the New Orleans Medical College. Transyl- 

 vania University sent him to Europe in 1849 

 to investigate the progress of medical science 

 in England, France, and Germany. He edited, 

 from 1842 to 1850, the "Western Lancet," a 

 medical periodical of decided ability. He also 

 edited an American edition of " Hope's Anat- 

 omy," and published a treatise on pulmonary 

 diseases, of high reputation among the profes- 

 sion. He removed to Kansas on account of a 

 tendency to pulmonic disease. 



Feb. 1. GODDARD, Hon. CHARLES BACKUS, 

 died in Zanesville, Ohio, aged 67 years. He 

 was a native of Plainfield, Conn. ; graduated at 

 Yale College, in the class of 1814; studied law 

 with his father, Hon. Calvin Goddard, in Nor- 

 wich, and Judge Griswold, of Lyme ; was ad- 

 mitted to the Connecticut bar, and in 1817 to 

 the bar in Ohio, making his residence in Zanes- 

 ville, where he continued in the practice of his 

 profession until his death. He was twice 

 elected to the House of Representatives of the 

 State, and twice to the State Senate, and was 

 Speaker of the latter during one term. 



Feb. 1. BIBB, LOTUS, died in Tippecanoe 

 County, Indiana, at the advanced age of 107 

 years. 



Feb. 1. STAKE, CALEB, died in Dunbarton, 

 N. H., aged 59 years. He was a native of Now 

 Hampshire, and grandson of General John 

 Stark, of Revolutionary memory; graduated 

 at Harvard College in the class of 1823 ; studied 

 law in Litchfield, Conn., and afterwards in 

 New York City, and from thence removed to 

 Cincinnati and entered upon the practice of 

 his profession. The climate proving unfavora- 

 ble to his health, he returned to his native 

 State and opened an office in Concord, and 

 subsequently retired from -public life and re- 

 moved to Dunbarton. He was the author of 

 a history of Dunbarton, and Memoirs of Gen- 

 eral John Stark. 



Feb. 2. MEIER, Dr. KARL THEODORE, died 

 in New York City of congestion of the brain. 

 He was born in Konigsberg, Prussia, in 1810, 

 and studied at the Universities of Greifswald, 

 Jena, Gottingen, Halle, and Berlin. He was 

 then for some years assistant physician to the 

 renowned Dr. Dieffenbach, and published seve- 

 ral essays on surgery. In 1848 he emigrated 

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to this country, on account of the unsatisfactory 

 condition of Germany. In 1859 he was chosen 

 surgeon of the Bellevne Hospital, and in the 

 same year appointed a Professor of the New 

 York Medical College. 



Feb. 5. STAPLES, Rev. IS. A., a Unitarian 

 clergyman, died in Brooklyn, in the 34th year 

 of his age. He was a native of Mendon, Mass. ; 

 studied theology at the Meadville Seminary, un- 

 der Dr. Stebbins ; was for a time pastor of a 

 church in Lexington, Mass., and subsequently of 

 a church in Milwaukie. At the beginning of the 

 war he was appointed chaplain to one of the 

 "Wisconsin regiments, resigning his pastorate to 

 accept the post. Here, as ever, he was earnest 

 and faithful in the discharge of his duties, and 

 contracted the disease which finally terminated 

 in death. He suceeeded the Rev. Mr. Long- 

 fellow in the Second Unitarian Church of 

 Brooklyn, where he discharged his duties as a 

 pastor as long as his failing strength allowed. 



Feb. 6. MORTON, Hon. MASCUS, Sr. (Seo 

 MORTON, MARCUS.) 



Feb. 8. ASCHWANDEN, Rev. JOSEPH, died 

 in Georgetown, D. C., aged 49 years. He was 

 for many years pastor of Trinity Church, 

 Georgetown, and alternately Professor of The- 

 ology, Philosophy, Scripture, and Hebrew in 

 Georgetown College. He was doubtless one 

 of the most erudite Greek and Hebrew scholars 

 in the country. 



Feb. 8. WILCOX, Hon. JOHN A., member of 

 the Confederate Congress from Texas, died in 

 Richmond. 



Feb. 10. EMBURY, DANIEL, President of the 

 Atlantic Bank of Brooklyn, died in that city, in 

 the 70th year of his age. 



Fel). 11. BUTLER, Col. ALBERT J., died in 

 New York City, of consumption, aged 49 

 years. He was an only brother of Major- 

 General Butler. 



Feb 11. MCCLUNEY, Commodore Wir. J., of 

 the U. S. Navy, died at his residence in Brook- 

 lyn, of dropsy of the heart, in the 69th year of 

 his age. He had been in the service of his 

 country over half a century, having entered 

 the navy Jan. 1, 1812. He participated both 

 in the war of 1812 and the Mexican war; was 

 commissioned as a lieutenant in 1818, and at- 

 tached to the United brig Saranac; was de- 

 tached the same year and ordered upon duty at 

 the New York Navy Yard. In 1821 he served 

 upon the Dolphin, and returning to New York 

 in 1825, was subsequently ordered to the Con- 

 stellation frigate for a two years' cruise in the 

 West Indies and Gulf of Mexico. In 1832 he 

 was again stationed at the N 1 . Y. Navy Yard 

 as lieutenant on board the Receiving ship at 

 that place. In 1839 he was commissioned as 

 a commander, and was employed on shore 

 duty until 1846, when he was ordered to com- 

 mand the John Adams sloop. In 1850 he was 

 placed in command of the Naval Rendezvous 

 at New York, until ordered a few months later 

 to the Navy Yard at Washington. Receiving 

 his commission as captain in 1851, he tras de- 



