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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



an earnest and persevering student, disciplining 

 his mental powers with extraordinary diligence 

 and success ; but in early manhood, owing, it 

 was said, to a disappointment which deeply 

 affected him, he became addicted to occasional 

 habits of intoxication. He repeatedly attempt- 

 ed to reform ; and such was his remarkable 

 eloquence, logical and rhetorical power, and so 

 extensive his attainments, that in spite of his 

 occasional lapses, he attained to high distinction. 

 He entered upon the practice of law at an 

 early age, and in 1831 removed to Louisville, 

 where he acquired a reputation for forensic 

 power which brought him an extensive prac- 

 tice. In 1834, and for several years subse- 

 quently, he was a member of the State Legisla- 

 ture, and electrified that body by his brilliant 

 speeches. In 1840, having removed to "Wood- 

 ford County, he was elected to Congress from 

 the Ashland District, and while there added 

 to his high reputation by the remarkable elo- 

 quence of some of his speeches. Of one of 

 them, that against John Quincy Adams, in the 

 Haverhill petition case, Mr. Adams himself 

 said that "it united the eloquence of Burke 

 and Sheridan." While in Congress he again 

 attempted to abandon the use of intoxicating 

 liquors, taking the Washingtonian pledge, and 

 adhering to it for two or three years ; and giv- 

 ing evidence of his intellectual vigor in several 

 temperance addresses, which brought great 

 numbers to sign the pledge. In 1845 he was 

 a candidate for Congress as a Democrat (he 

 had previously been a Whig), in the Scott, 

 Harrison, and Bourbon Cos. District, but was 

 defeated by Hon. Garrett Davis, and lapsing 

 into his previous unfortunate habits, never 

 entered upon public life again. 



Sept. 22. WELLS, Hon. EGBERT W., Judge 

 of the U. S. District Court for the western dis- 

 trict of Missouri, died in Bowling Green, Ken- 

 tucky. He was a resident of Jefferson City, 

 and had been for nearly thirty years on the 

 United States Bench of Missouri, never missing 

 a term of either the Circuit or District Court 

 until two months previous to his death. As a 

 jurist he had few superiors. It was his fortune 

 to decide upon many of the most complicated 

 questions presented to a judicial tribunal for 

 solution, and his views were always highly re- 

 spected by the Supreme Court of the United 

 States. 



Sept 24. BATES, JOSHUA. (See BATES, 

 JOSHTTA.) 



Sept. 24. CONOVER, Commodore THOMAS A., 

 U. S. Navy, died at South Amboy, N". J., aged 

 73 years. He entered the navy in January, 

 1812, his first cruise being on the Essex, com- 

 manded by Captain David Porter, during the 

 war with England. His next service was un- 

 der Commodore McDonough, on Lake Cham- 

 plain. Promoted to a lieutenancy shortly after, 

 he served on board the Guerriere in the Medi- 

 terranean, and subsequently in other vessels in 

 various portions of the world until his promo- 

 tion to the position of commander about 1835, 



in which capacity he commanded the John 

 Adams sloop-of-war some years. In 1848 he 

 was promoted to the rank of captain, and in 

 the years 1857-'8 commanded the squadron on 

 the coast of Africa, the old Constitution being 

 his flagship. In July, 1862, on the creation by 

 law of the grade of commodores in the navy, 

 he received a commission as such. He had 

 been in the service fifty-three years. 



Sept. 29. BURXHAM, Brig.-Gen. HIRAM, an 

 officer of U. S. volunteers, killed in battle at 

 Chaffin's Farm. He entered the service as 

 colonel of the 6th Maine volunteers, leading 

 them with skill and gallantry through the Penin- 

 sular campaign, at Antietam, and subsequently. 

 At the second battle of Fredericksburg he dis- 

 tinguished himself for bravery and courage, and 

 again at Gettysburg. In April, 1864, he was 

 made brigadier-general, and during the cam- 

 paign from the Wilderness to Petersburg, he 

 bore a conspicuous part. A few weeks previous 

 to his death he was assigned to a brigade in 

 Stannard's division 18th corps. 



Sept. 29. WELCH, Col. N. E., an officer of 

 U. S. volunteers, killed in battle near Chaffin's 

 Farm. He was commissioned colonel in 1863, 

 and was placed in command of the 16th Michi- 

 gan regiment, at the head of which he was gal- 

 lantly fighting when he met his death. He 

 was regarded as one of the bravest and most 

 skilful officers of the volunteer service. 



Sept. 29. WILLIAMS, Hon. JARED W., ex- 

 Governor of New Hampshire, died at Lancas- 

 ter, N". H. He was long in public life, and be- 

 sides holding the office of governor for one year, 

 had served two terms in Congress, and several 

 terms in the State Legislature. 



Sept. 30. BALDWIN", Hon JOSEPH G., ex- 

 Chief Justice of California, died at San Fran- 

 cisco. He was elected one of the judges of the 

 Supreme Court of California in 1857, and was 

 Chief Justice from January, 1863, to January, 

 1864. 



Sept. 30. GREENHOW, Mrs. EOSE A., a 

 spy of the Confederates, drowned in Wilming- 

 ton Harbor, N. C., in attempting to land from 

 a blockade runner in which she had come from 

 Europe. She was the widow of a Mr. Green- 

 how, for many years translator of the State 

 Department at Washington, and at the com- 

 mencement of the Avar resided in that city, and 

 was arrested for communicating information to 

 the officers of the Confederate army relative to 

 the position and movements of the United 

 States armies. She was imprisoned for some 

 time in her own house, and afterwards in the 

 Old Capitol Prison, but was finally discharged, 

 when she went to England, and there published 

 an account of her imprisonment. It was on her 

 return from that country that she lost her life. 



October 1. BELLAMY, Eev. DAVID, a Baptist 

 clergyman, died at his residence in Eome, N. Y., 

 in the 60th year of his age. In 1833 he was 

 pastor of a church in Skeneateles, Onondaga 

 County, N. Y., and from thence was called to. 

 Manlius, where he labored -until 1839, when HI 



