MONTEAGLE. THOMAS 3. 



MORISON, ALEXANDER. 527 



-.I/ing circumstances the rate of taxation 

 has i <! from nine mill.-*, in l v 



mills l..r i 



.ad im.Ti ~!:ito are of great 



irnp.'rtaiuv, and ocrupv a ron-iderable Space in 

 ia-t iiiuiu:i : 1'inli-r the 



Legislature, tlio Southwest Pacific 

 Iiailr..ii.l was sold for $1,800,000, of which 

 amount tlio purchaser has paid into tho State 

 >inco tho sale of tho road 

 it h:n become incorporated witli tho Atlantic 

 an- 1 Pudtio Railroad. The Platte County 

 Railroad was duly advertised for sole; but 

 e tho day of sale arrived, the Western 

 and At. lil>on, nnd Atchison and St. Joseph 

 Railroad Companies, which, by tho act of Feb- 

 ruary, 1 so,"), lii-ld the relation and rights of mort- 

 gagors to tho road, paid into the State treasury 

 un of $100,000, due by the first section of 

 that act on January 1, 1866, together with the 

 st due on the debt of the road to the 

 State. Being advised that the other debt men- 

 tioned in tho act was not so secured as to em- 

 power him to sell, tho Governor gave up the 

 -sion of the road to the mortgagors, and 

 they have entered upon the work of extending 

 it. Further legislation will be required to en- 

 able the State to foreclose the mortgage, and 

 sell the road for the payment of the existing 

 debt. The Iron Mountain and Cairo and Fulton 

 Railroads were sold for the aggregate sum of 

 $900,000, the purchasers agreeing to expend 

 faithfully $500,000 in the extension of the road 

 within twelve months from the date of tho pur- 

 chase. The North Missouri Railroad, the Kan- 

 sas City, Fort Scott, and Galveston Railroad, 

 the Kansas City and Cameron Railroad, and the 

 Osage Valley and Southern Kansas Railroad, 

 are in various stages of progress, and, judging 

 from present indications, will bo energetically 

 pushed to completion. 



Tho national constitutional amendment was 

 adopted by the Legislature early in January, 

 1867. In the House the vote stood, 85 to 34 ; 

 and in the Senate, 17 to 7. 



MONACO. (Ste EUROPE.) 



MONTEAGLE, Rt. Hon. THOMAS SPRING- 

 RICB, Lord, F. R. 8., formerly Chancellor of tho 

 Exchequer, an eminent savant, born at Limerick, 

 February 8, 1790 ; died at his seat, Mount 

 Trenchard, near Limerick, February 7, 1886. 

 Ho was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 where ho graduated in 1833 ; studied law, and 

 in 1820 represented his native city in Parlia- 

 ment, in tho Whig interest, until 1832, when 

 he was chosen for Cambridge, and sat for that 

 borough until his elevation to tho peerage, in 

 1839. He was Under Secretary for the Home 

 1 >. partment in 1827, and held the Secretaryship 

 of tho Treasury from 1830 to 1834, when ho 

 was for a short time Secretary of State for the 

 Colonies. The same year he was made a mem- 

 ber of tho Privy Council. On tho return o^f 

 Lord Melbourne's administration to office, m 

 April, 1835, he was appointed Chancellor of 

 the Exchequer, but resigned in 1839, and be- 



< 'omptroller-Gencral of that department, 

 and tho wunu year was raised to the peerage. 

 II.' frequently acted as a member of royal com- 

 missions on matters of taste and art, and bc- 

 1 much time and labor on tho work of 

 examining and reporting upon tho decimal 

 coinage question. He was a commissioner of 

 the State Paper Office, a trnsteo of the National 

 (iallery, a member of the Senate of tho London 

 University, and of tho Queen's University in 

 In. land. 



MOREIIEAD, Hon. CHARLES S., formerly 

 Governor of Kentucky, born in Nelson County, 

 Ky., in 1802 ; died in Louisville, Ky., October 

 1, 1866. He was educated for the law, and 

 after practising his profession for a few years, 

 was elected to the State Legislature, serving 

 through several terms, when, in 1832, he was 

 appointed Attorney-General of the State, which 

 office he held five years. In 1838 he was again 

 returned to the Legislature, serving six terms, 

 during three of which ho was Speaker. From 

 1847 to 1851 he was a representative in Con- 

 gress ; was again chosen to the State Legislature 

 in 1853, and in 1855 was elected Governor of 

 Kentucky. After serving four years, he retired 

 from public life until 1861, when ho was a 

 delegate to the Peace Convention held in 

 Washington. 



MOREHEAD, Hon. JOHN M., formerly Gov- 

 ernor of North Carolina, born in that State 

 about 1796 ; died at Rockbridge AJum Springs, 

 Va., August 28, 1866. He was educated for 

 the law, and was a successful and able advo- 

 cate. Ho had early identified himself with the 

 AVhig party, and followed its noble and elo- 

 quent leader, Henry Clay. In 1840, he was the 

 candidate of his party for Governor of North 

 Carolina, and was elected by a handsome ma- 

 jority. He served as Governor from 1841 to 

 1846, but he was averse to public life, and held 

 no other prominent appointment except that of 

 President of the National Whig Convention in 

 1848, when General Zachary Taylor was nom- 

 inated for the Presidency. For some years past 

 he has been in failing health, and his death oc- 

 curred at the Rockbridge Alum Springs, to 

 which ho had resorted in the vain hope of 

 benefit. 



MORISON, Sir ALEXANDER, K'n't, M. D., an 

 eminent English physician, medical lecturer, 

 and author, born at Anchorfield, May 1, 1779; 

 died at Midlothian, N. B., March 14, 1866. Ho 

 was educated at the High School of Edinburgh, 

 and at the age of fifteen entered the University 

 of Edinburgh. In 1798 he took the diploma 

 of surgeon, and the following year obtained the 

 degree of M. D. from that University. In 

 1801 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Col- 

 lege of Physicians of Edinburgh, and in 1808, a 

 licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of 

 London, but did not obtain the rank of Fellow 

 thereof until 1841. In 1809 he was appointed 

 medical superintendent of a private asylum for 

 the insane in the county of Surrey. In 1816 

 he was Physician-in-Ordinary to her UoyaJ 



