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EICE, JAMES C. 



EIVES, JOHN C. 



An election for Governor was held ia March. 

 The candidates were James Y. Smith, Repub- 

 lican ; Geo. H. Brown, Democrat ; and Amos 

 0. Barstow, Conservative. The vote was as 

 follows: Smith, 8,840; Brown, 7;302; Bar- 

 stow, 1,339 ; majority for Smith over Brown, 

 1,538; ditto over Brown and Barstow 199. 



The legislature elected was divided as fol- 

 lows: 



Senate. House. 



Republicans 23 5o 



Democrats 9 13 



Republican maj ority 14 3T 



The vote at the Presidential election was as 

 follows: Lincoln, 13,G92; McClellan, 8,470. 

 Majority for Mr. Lincoln, 5,222. 



The finances of the State are represented by 

 the Governor as " in a satisfactory condition." 

 All the loans authorized by the legislature, 

 amounting to $4,000,000, had been negotiated 

 on favorable terms. The State had ample 

 means to meet all immediate claims upon her, 

 through the considerable sums due from the 

 Federal Government, which it was expected 

 soon to realize. The expenses attending the 

 call for troops in December were not included 

 in this estimate. 



The Governor recommended to the legislature 

 to enact some measures which should secure to 

 the banks of the State additional privileges iu 

 their exchanges, as under the new burdens im- 

 posed by taxes upon circulation and deposits the 

 business of banking was scarcely remunerative. 

 He recommended the privilege should be granted 

 to such as became National banks, to resume 

 their chartered rights under their old organiza- 

 tion at any period they might elect. 



On Dec. 8th some wealthy citizens were ar- 

 rested by order of the Federal commander of 

 the Military Department, under charges of hav- 

 ing furnished supplies to the enemy. The pro- 

 ceedings of the Governor relative thereto ho 

 thus states : 



On the 8th of December, 1SG4, by order of Major- 

 Gen. Dix, commanding the Department of the East, 

 several of our citizens were arrested and removed 

 beyond the limits of the State. It became the duty 

 of the Executive to inquire into the authority and 

 reasons justifying such a procedure ; this was done 

 personally. As the result of the inquiry, it appeared 

 that the offence charged was within the exclusive 

 cognizance of the officers of the General Govern- 

 ment, and nothing further could be effected than to 

 secure the assurance of an early investigation, which 

 it is to be hoped will result in establishing the inno- 

 cence of the parties charged. 



The apparent commercial prosperity of the 

 State continues as favorable as during any pre- 

 vious period of her history. 



EICE, JAMES CLAY, a brigadier-general of 

 United States volunteers, born at "Worthington, 

 Mass., Dec. 27, 1829, died from wounds received 

 at the battle near Spottsylvania Court House, 

 May llth, 1864. His early life was spent in a 

 struggle to obtain an education, and in 1854 he 

 graduated at Yale College, with high honors. 

 Shortly afterwards he went to Natchez, Miss., 

 where he engaged in teaching, and edited the lit- 



erary department of one of the local newspapers. 

 He also pursued the study of law, and was admit- 

 ted to the bar in that State. Returning to the 

 North he continued his legal studies in New 

 York, and in 1856 entered upon the practise of 

 his profession, in which he was rapidly rising to 

 distinction. At the outbreak of the war he 

 entered the ranks as a private soldier in the 

 New York Garibaldi Guard, and subsequently 

 by distinguished merit, attained the colonelcy 

 of the 44th New York volunteers, or Ells- 

 worth's regiment. He led this regiment through 

 the battles of Yorktown, Hanover Court House, 

 Gaines's Mill, Malvern Hill, and Manassas, and 

 was only absent from Antietam because on a 

 sick-bed with typhoid fever. He was also at 

 Fredericksburg under Gen. Burnside, at Chan- 

 cellorsville under Gen. Hooker, where he was 

 temporarily in command of a brigade, and at 

 Gettysburg, where he greatly distinguished 

 himself by his skill and gallantry. It was his 

 brigade which, on the second day of the battle, 

 held the extreme left of the line successfully 

 under the repeated and desperate onsets of the 

 enemy. For three hours Col. Eice fought in- 

 cessantly, receiving no orders from any superior 

 officer, arranging and disposing of his men with 

 such skill and judgment that at the close of the 

 day's fight he had extended his line so as to 

 cover Eound-Top Mountain, thus securing it 

 against any flanking movement. For this and 

 other gallant deeds he was warmly commended 

 by Gen. Meade, and earnestly recommended by 

 him and Generals Hooker and Butterneld, for 

 the appointment of brigadier-general of volun- 

 teers. The President acquiesced in the wishes 

 of these officers, the Senate confirming the ap- 

 pointment, and dating his commission from 

 Aug. 17, 1863. In this position he took part in 

 the operations of Mine Run, passed through the 

 terrible battles of the Wilderness, and met his 

 death, at the head of his command, on the banks 

 of the Po. He died shortly after amputation 

 had been performed, his last words being, 

 " Turn me over that I may die with my face to 

 the enemy." Gen. Eice was a man of deep re- 

 ligious principle, a brave and skilful officer, and 

 thoroughly devoted to his country. 



EIVES, JOHN C., an American editor, born 

 in Kentucky about the year 1796, died near 

 Georgetown, D. C., April 10, 1864. His early 

 opportunities for an education were very limit- 

 ed, and he was thoroughly a self-made man. 

 In 1824 he removed to "Washington from Ed- 

 wardsville, Illinois, where he was a bank cash- 

 ier, and entered upon a clerkship in lie Fourth 

 Auditor's office. During the early part of Gen. 

 Jackson's administration, Mr. Eives, in connec- 

 tion with Frank Blair, sen., founded " The Con- 

 gressional Globe," of which he had been sole 

 proprietor for three years previous to his death. 

 He was never a partisan, and although on im- 

 portant national questions agreeing in the main 

 with Jackson's policy, he recognized the merit 

 of that urged by the opposite party. In his 

 public and private benefactions he was noble 



