OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 





ordinance. Having done what ho could to 

 avert the net, he announced with much feeling 

 t.-ntion to p) with liis St:itc. Having 

 taken his -occivod immediately from 



i-iiiiiont, at Montgomery, a 

 i with tho Hon. John Forsyth and 

 Martin ,!. Craw lord, of Georgia, to proceed to 

 :i and MJH-M conference with theGov- 

 f tin- I'niicd States. The object was 

 frustrated by tho refusal of Mr. Seward to re- 

 ; hem. From that time he resided in Loui- 

 . and took no part in public affairs. 

 . 1 . GREENE, Mrs. ELIZABETH 0., daugh- 

 ter of John Singleton Copley, tho celebrated 

 painter, died in Boston, aged 95 years. She was 

 a native of Boston, and sister of the lato Lord 

 Lyrnlhiirst, and the widow of Gardner Greene. 



Feb. 4. BURCHARD, Rev. EtT, a Presbyterian 

 clergyman and teacher, died at Clinton, Oneida 

 !y, N. Y., aged 78 years. He was a native 

 <M West Springfield, Mass., but early removed 

 with his parents to Oneida County, was edu- 

 cated at Hamilton Academy, and graduated at 

 Yale College, with the highest honors. Soon 

 after leaving college, he had for a time charge 

 of the academy at Onondaga, but subsequently 

 devoted his attention to the study of theology, 

 and in 1817 was licensed to preach by the 

 Oneida Association. Ilis first pastorate was 

 over the church in Augusta, N. Y., where he 

 labored with great success for several years. 

 The larger portion of his life, however, was 

 devoted to teaching, for which he was eminent- 

 ly fitted, being a fine scholar, especially in the 

 ancient classics. 



Feb. 5. SAMPSON, WILLIAM M., Chief Justice 

 of Kentucky, died at Glasgow, Ky. He was 

 an able lawyer, and admirably fitted for the 

 exalted judicial station to which he had recently 

 been called. 



Feb. 7. EDWARDS, Rev. JESSE, a Presbyterian 

 clergyman, died at Plover, Wisconsin, aged 47 

 years. He was a native of Bath, N. Y., grad- 

 uated at Nassau Hall College, Princeton, in 

 1842, and subsequently became a tutor there. 

 After a few years he settled as a pastor in West- 

 ern New York, and subsequently removed to 

 the West and became a domestic missionary. 

 From thence ho was called to the professorship 

 of tho Latin and Greek languages in Carroll Col- 

 lege, Wisconsin, and afterward to the pastorate 

 once more. He was distinguished for thorough 

 and profound scholarship, and especially for his 

 knowledge of biblical literature. 



Feb. 9. HIXKI.ET, HOLMES, a pioneer locomo- 

 tive builder, died in Boston, aged 75 years. 

 Upon the completion of his first locomotive ho 

 found difficulty in obtaining a purchaser, as at 

 that time railroads themselves were an unsolved 

 problem ; but his faith in tho future wants of the 

 country was so great, that he undertook tho 

 construction of four more, and before their com- 

 pletion railroads were felt to be a necessity, and 

 his Hinkley " online was among the foremost 

 in the country. Subsequently seven hundred 

 and thirty-seven were delivered from his works. 



Feb. 11. CART, ROBERT, father of Alice and 

 Phoebe Gary, died at Clovernook, near Cincin- 

 nati, aged 80 years. Ho was one of the first 

 settlers of Cincinnati. 



Feb. 11. MORSE, Hon. ISAAC E., formerly 

 Attorney-General of Louisiana, died in New 

 Orleans, aged 57 years. Ho waa born at Atta- 

 kapas, Louisiana, first went to school in New 

 Orleans, afterward in New Jersey, and still 

 later joined the Military Academy at Norwich, 

 Vermont, under the direction of Captain Par- 

 tridge. He removed with the school and its 

 instructor to Middletown, Connecticut, and in 

 the autumn of 1828 entered the senior class at 

 Harvard College. Graduating with high honors 

 in tho class of 1829, he engaged in the study of 

 law in New Orleans, and subsequently travelled 

 in Europe. On his return he soon emerged in 

 political life, first as a member of the State Sen- 

 ate, then in the Congress of the United States. 

 He was in his earlier time " a firm and consist- 

 ent Jackson man," and always a Democrat, 

 strong in his belief, but never bitter in its ex- 

 pression. Having failed of reflection after 

 serving during two sessions of Congress, he re- 

 ceived the appointment of Attorney-General of 

 his native State. During the administration of 

 President Pierce, he was a minister to one of 

 the South American states. 



Feb. 12. MURRAY, Col. JAMES B., an emi- 

 nent New York merchant and politician, died 

 in that city, aged 76 years. He was the last of 

 those who welcomed Gen. Jackson in Tammany 

 Hall after the battle of New Orleans ; and he 

 was not the least eloquent or enthusiastic of 

 those who celebrated the semi-centennial of 

 that event among the sachems of Tammany in 

 January last. Col. Murray was one of the 

 oldest members of the Chamber of Commerce, 

 and held during his life many offices of trust 

 ' and responsibility. 



Feb. 18. HATCH, GEORGE W., President of 

 tho American Bank Note Company, died at 

 Dobb's Ferry, N. Y., aged 62 years. His talent 

 as an artist, taste as a critic, and judgment in 

 tho business of which he was thp head, rendered 

 his services peculiarly valuable in the adminis- 

 tration of its affairs, while his genial, cordial na- 

 ture held the esteem of the community at large. 



Feb. 20. ADAMS, WILLIAM JOSEPH, an emi- 

 nent teacher, died in Boston, aged 64 years. 

 He was a native of Castine, Me., where he was 

 fitted for college, and in 1822 graduated from 

 Harvard. After leaving college, he tanght 

 a private school in New York for several years, 

 and in 1829 was appointed principal of tho 

 Frankjin School, where he remained two years. 

 He was afterward principal of the Hancock 

 School from 1843 to 1848. He then kept a pri- 

 vate school in Boston until 1856. In October 

 of that year he was appointed assistant libra- 

 rian of the Boston Athenamm, which office he 

 held until his death. 



Feb. 21. BCELL, Rev. RCETS F., missionary 

 of the American Bap. Miss. Union in Greece, 

 died in Washington, D. C, aged 53 years. He 



