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fanatic Akali Sikh, and without the slightest 

 provocation felled to the ground with a club. 

 He lingered till morning, but was insensible. 

 The murderer was arrested, tried, and hanged. 



March 25. LOTEJOT, lion. OWEX. (See 

 LOVEJOT, OWEX.) 



March 26. GOODERSOX, MATHIAS, X., died 

 in Xew York, aged 44 years. lie was a native 

 of Philadelphia, but early in life moved to Xew 

 York City, was a prominent politician, and from 

 a position in the Custom House was appointed 

 Commissioner of Repairs and Supplies, and 

 afterwards Superintendent of Mark 



March 26. MARMADTTKE, M. M., died in Sa- 

 line County, Missouri, aged 73 years. He was 

 formerly Lieutenant-Governor and ex-ofRcio 

 Governor of Missouri, was a thoroughly up- 

 right and loyal man, though his three sons 

 espoused the Confederate cause. 



March 26. WOOD, FEAXK, died at Haver- 

 straw. Though but a young man he had al- 

 ready made his mark in literature, having been 

 the editor of "Vanity Fair" for a considerable 

 period, and afterwards the dramatic critic of 

 " Wilkes' Spirit of the Times." He assisted also 

 in the authorship of "The Taming of a Butter- 

 fly." 



March 27. CAMPBELL, Jonx X., D.D. (See 

 CAMPBELL, J. X.) 



March 27. SCHEXKL, Jonx P., the inventor 

 of the Schenkl projectile, died in Xuremburg, 

 Germany, whither he had gone for his health. 

 He was a native of Prussia, but had resided 

 many years in the United States. His age was 

 about 42 years. 



April 2. CROMWELL, HEXET BOWMAN, died 

 at his residence in Brooklyn, L. I., aged 36 

 years. At an early age he exhibited peculiar 

 mercantile abilities, being a member of the firm 

 of Cromwell, Haight & Co., before he was 

 twenty years of age. In 1850 he took a part- 

 nership in the firm of John Haight & Co., in 

 Huddersfield, England, a large and prominent 

 commission house, and resided there until 1854, 

 when he returned to his native city, and soon 

 entered into the shipping business, running a 

 line of screw propellers in connection with the 

 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, his business in- 

 creasing until he had connection with nearly 

 all the important domestic seacoast ports. 

 During the few years previous to 1861, he had 

 in successful operation steam lines from Xew 

 York to Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, 

 Xorfolk, Alexandria, and Washington, Port- 

 land, and Baltimore; also from Baltimore to 

 Charleston and Savannah, which connected 

 with all the principal railroad lines leading 

 from the seaboard into the interior. When 

 the war broke out he sold nearly all his ves- 

 sels to the Government, and immediately pro- 

 ceeded with the construction of two fine steam- 

 ers, the George Washington and Oliver Crom- 

 icell, which for the last two years have been 

 plying between Xew York and Xew Orleans. 

 Although Mr. Cromwell's commercial interests 

 were so largely connected with the South, he 



was a true patriot, and firmly upheld the cause 

 of the Government. 



April 2. TAYLOR, Hon. JOSEPH X., died at 

 his residence in Paterson, X. J., of congestion 

 of the brain. At the time of his death he was 

 Speaker of the Xew Jersey House of Assembly. 



April 3. BAXKS, Hon. Jonx, died at Pitts- 

 burg, Pa., aged 71 years of age. He was born 

 in Juniata County of that State, his father being 

 a Scottish immigrant to this country; in 1819 

 was admitted to the bar in his native county, and 

 soon after removed to the western part of the 

 State, where he speedily attained to eminence 

 in his profession. Fourteen years afterwards 

 he was sent to Congress, where his opinions, 

 legal and otherwise, always commanded re- 

 spect. In 1836 he was appointed President 

 Judge of the Third Judicial District of the State. 

 In 1841 he was the Whig candidate for gov- 

 ernor, but was unsuccessful, and in 1847 he 

 became State treasurer, retiring from the 

 bench and returning to the bar, where he con- 

 tinued in a large and lucrative practice until 

 his death. 



April 4. DEVLIX, HEXET J., 31. D., died in 

 Xew York City of typhus fever contracted in 

 the discharge of his duties as one of the resi- 

 dent physicians of Bellevue Hospital. He was 

 a young man of great promise and decided 

 moral worth. 



April^ RrxoGOLD, Lieut.-Col. GEORGE H., 

 an oflicer of the United States Army, died at 

 San Francisco, California, aged 50 years. Ho 

 was a native of Hagerstown, Maryland, gradu- 

 ated at West Point Military Academy, July, 

 1833, as brevet second lieutenant in the 6th 

 infantry, but resigned in 1837. During the 

 Mexican war he was reappointed to the army 

 as major and paymaster, and in 1862 was pro- 

 moted to deputy paymaster-general, with the 

 rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was truly loyal 

 to his country; and although of southern birth, 

 firmly withstood all influences exerted to draw 

 him from her allegiance. As a scholar he was 

 endowed with rare attainments, was possessed 

 of a decided poetic talent, an accomplished 

 draughtsman, and amateur painter. He was 

 the author of a book of poems, entitled "Foun- 

 tain Rock, Amy Weir, and other Metrical Pas- 

 times," published in 1863, and dedicated " To 

 my Children." 



April 6. BRAXDEGEE, Jonx JACOB, D. D., 

 a clergyman of the Episcopal Church, died in 

 Utica, X. Y.. aged 41 years. He was a native 

 of Xew London, Conn., graduated at Yale Col- 

 lege in 1843 5 pursued a course of study in the 

 General Theological Seminary in Xew York, 

 and was ordained deacon by Bishop Brownell, 

 in Hartford, July, 1846. The following autumn 

 he accompanied" an invalid brother to the West 

 Indies, and for a time was associated with one 

 of the ministers of the English Church in St. 

 Croix in his pastoral work. Thence he went 

 to St. Thomas, where he labored awhile, and 

 upon his return to this country in 1849, waa 

 ordained priest, and became rector of St 



