MAY, HKNIIY.. 



pledged a cordial support to tin- Stato ticket 

 . it.-.l |,y tlu- National Union Convention. 

 election took place on November Cth, 

 with the following result lor Governor: 



Alexander II. Bollock, Republican 91,980 



Ttoodon H. Swcoticr, Nut. Uuion ami Dem. . 



Majority for Bullock 65,809 



The other candidates on the Republican 

 e elected by majorities about as large 

 JIM this. The following was the result of the 

 a lor members of the Legislature: 



Senate. IIose. Joint Ballot 



Republicans 40 ^J 209 



Democrats 



MKGAfla 



479 



11 



218 



11 

 258 



Majority 40 



Among the Republican members elected were 

 two colored men, Edward Garrison Walker, 

 from Charlestowu, and Charles L. Mitchell, 

 Boston. The latter had been a lieutenant 

 in tho 55th Massachusetts (colored) Regiment 

 daring the war. 



The election for members of Congress re- 

 sulted in the choice of all the Republican can- 

 didates ten in number. 



M AY, lion. HEXEY, member of Congress from 



Maryland, born in the District of Columbia; 



died in Baltimore, September 24. 1866. He 



ivc.ived a liberal education, and adopted the 



-sion of law. From 1853 to 1855 he 



-ented Maryland in Congress, and was 



afterward reflected, being tho immediate pre- 



~or of Henry Winter Davis. Mr. May 



\va-s able, upright, and honorable, and distin- 



guished himself by the extent of his legal 



knowledge, and the eloquence and force of his 



arguments. His literary abilities were of a 



hiirli order. For the past five years he had 



hecii withdrawn, from his profession and public 



life by illness. 



McELLIGOTT, JAMBS N., LL. D., an Amer- 

 ican educator and author of school text-books, 

 burn in Richmond, Va., October, 3, 1812 ; died 

 in New York City, October 22, 1866. His 

 early years were passed in his native city until 

 the age of twelve, when he removed to New 

 York, and entered the celebrated school of Mr. 

 Forrest, and subsequently the New York Uni- 

 versity. He did not graduate, however, having 

 accepted the position of classical teacher, from 

 which ho rose to that of vice-principal, and 

 later still, became associate principal. Shortly 

 after, he was tendered the control of the Me- 

 chanics' Society School, which ho conducted 

 with great success until ho resigned, with tho 

 view of establishing " McElligott's Collegiate 

 and Classical School," which he continued till 

 liis death. Thoroughly devoted to the interests 

 of education, Dr. McEUigott spent his leisure 

 time in the compilation of works calculated to 

 assist the student in his search for knowledge, 

 among which may be mentioned, " The Amer- 

 ican Debater," "Analytical Manual," "The 

 Yountr Analyzer," " The Humorous Speaker," 

 and " The Humorous Reader," tho two latter 



under the nom deplume of "Oliver Oldham." 

 Ho was also the author of various lectures, ad- 

 dresAes, and essays, and was for a time editor 

 of tho "Teachers' Advocate," a journal de- 

 voted to literature and science. For several 

 years previous to his death he had been en- 

 gaged upon a Latin grammar, and was also 

 preparing a rhetoric, for tho press. He had 

 some merit also as a poet. In 1839 he WHS 

 chosen president of the New York State Teach- 

 ers' Association, and he had been for several 

 years Corresponding Secretary of tho New 

 York Sunday School Union. Dr. McEUigott 

 was well qualified for the responsible position 

 of an educator of youth. His scholarship wa* 

 thorough, his address elegant, and his nature 

 a happy union of gentleness and firmness, which, 

 together with his deep-toned piety, gave him an 

 unbounded influence over all with whom he 

 was brought in contact. 



MECKLENBURG, tho name of two grand- 

 duchies in Germany, both of which, during the 

 German-Italian war sided with Prussia, and af- 

 ter the war joined the North German Confedera- 

 tion. The imports of the two duchies are valued 

 at about 1,400,000 thalors. I. Mecklenburg- 

 Schwerin. Grand-duke, Frederick Francis II., 

 born in 1823 ; succeeded his father in 1842. Area, 

 4,701 square miles; population, in 1864, 652,- 

 612 (Roman Catholics 850, Reformed 184, Jews 

 3,100, the others are Lutherans). The capital, 

 Schwerin, has 23,265 inhabitants. Public debt, 

 in 1865, 7,849,950 thalers. The army consists 

 of 5,386 men. The number of vessels enter- 

 ing tho ports of Warnemiinde (Rostock) and 

 Wismar, in 1865, was 996; the number of clear- 

 ances 992. In 1865 Mecklenburg-Schwerin pos- 

 sessed 424 vessels (among them seven steamers) 

 with 51,338 lasts. II. Mecklenburg-Strelitz. 

 Grand-duke Frederick William, bora in 1819; 

 succeeded his father in 1860. Area, 997 square 

 miles; population, in 1860,99,060. The capital, 

 Strelitz, had, in 1865, 7,902 inhabitants. The 

 army consisted of 1,317 men. 



MEGASS, PREPARATION OF FUEL FROM. Dr. 

 H. Mitchell, of Trinidad, in an article in the 

 Journal of the Society of Arts, November 

 11, 1864, calls attention to tho subject of the 

 most economical curing and use of tho cane- 

 stalks or trash from the mills for expressing 

 cane-juice, which is known also as megass, or 

 "bagasse; and which, besides being the chief 

 fuel actually used in the sugar-manufacture, has 

 been declared the best form of fuel for the pur- 

 pose intended ; and he describes also a machine 

 for tho rapid drying, preparatorily, of the cane- 

 trash. 



The crushed canes, usually containing still 

 some 85 per cent, of juice, equivalent to at 

 least 5 per cent, of sugar, along with the origi- 

 nal 10 per "cent, of woody fibre, when packed 

 a\vay in tho immense sheds known as "logies," 

 and left to the natural course, undergo fermen- 

 tation, the sugar giving place to acetic acid and 

 water, and which, unless a long time is allowed 

 to dry them out, have the effect of retarding 



