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at Montgomery foi many years. He was a 

 graduate of West Point. 



April 2. HARRIS, Maj. ARNOLD, late of the 

 seventh infantry, U. S. Army, died at Midway, 

 Ky. He was appointed to West Point from 

 Montgomery County, N. Y., graduated in 1834, 

 and was assigned to the seventh infantry, 

 stationed at Fort Gibson, Cherokee Nation. He 

 resigned in 1837, and was appointed post sut- 

 ler ; in 1847 he contracted to carry the United 

 States mail from Panama to San Francisco for 

 ten years, at one hundred and ninety-nine thou- 

 sand dollars per annum. This contract he as- 

 signed to Mr. William H. Aspinwall, taking 

 ptock therefor in the Pacific Mail Steamship 

 Company, and the New Orleans agency. He 

 removed to Washington with his father-in-law, 

 the late Gen. Robert Armstrong, when the lat- 

 ter was elected Government printer. Ma). Har- 

 ris was a warm supporter of Douglas, and spent 

 thousands on the Washington papers, advoca- 

 ting his election. When Col. Cameron was 

 killed during the first battle of Bull Run, Major 

 Harris went out to aid in recovering his body, 

 was taken a prisoner to Richmond, and con- 

 fined six months in the Libby prison. 



April 3. FORD, Rev. J. EDWARDS, missionary 

 of the American Board in Syria, died at Gen- 

 eseo, El., aged 41 years. He was a native of 

 Ogdensburg, N. Y., graduated at Williams 

 College in 1844, and at the Union Theological 

 Seminary in 1847, and in the spring of 1848 

 reached his chosen field of labor in Syria. For 

 different periods he was engaged in the mis- 

 sionary work at Aleppo, Mosul, Beirut, and 

 Sidon, as directed by the mission, and every- 

 where he gave himself with untiring diligence 

 and eminent ability to the work. 



April 5. DELANEY, MICHAEL G., a surgeon 

 in the United States Navy, died at Geneva, 

 N. Y. He was a native of Ireland, but came 

 to this country at a very early age. After a 

 good preparatory education, he applied himself 

 to the study of medicine, and received the usual 

 degree at Bowdoin College. Subsequently he 

 obtained a commission as assistant surgeon, and 

 in due course, as surgeon in the United States 

 Navy. He made several cruises to different 

 parts of the world, and in the year 1852 was 

 appointed fleet surgeon of the African squad- 

 ron, in the frigate Constitution, the flag-ship of 

 Commodore Mayo. Returning from the coast 

 of Africa in 1855, he was ordered to the navy- 

 yard at Portsmouth, N. H., where he remained 

 three years. In 1861 he received orders for 

 duty on board the frigate Sabine, of the home 

 squadron, in the Gulf of Mexico. During this 

 cruise in the early part of the war, his health, 

 already impaired by the climate of Africa, suf- 

 fered so much from the diseases of the Gulf 

 station, that he never recovered from their at- 

 tacks. On his return to the North, he was 

 again ordered to the Portsmouth yard, where 

 he continued for a long time, well nigh pros- 

 trated in health and strength, but zealously 

 devoting himself to the discharge of his la- 



borious duties, with the most unwearied as 

 siduity. 



April 8. THORNTON, Brevet Brig.-Gen. WIL- 

 LIAM A., United States Army, died at Governor's 

 Island, aged 68 years. He was a native of New- 

 York, graduated at West Point in 1825, and 

 the same year was appointed brevet second lieu- 

 tenant First artillery. In July, 1838, he was 

 transferred to the Ordnance Department, hold- 

 ing the rank of captain, gradually winning his 

 way up to a full lieutenant-colonelcy, and a 

 brevet brigadier-generalship. 



April 10. DOWNING, THOMAS, a well-known 

 and philanthropic colored citizen of New York, 

 died there, aged 75 years. He was a native of 

 Accomac County, Va. During the war of 1812 

 he came North and joined the army. In 1819 

 he removed to New York and established an 

 eating-house in Broad Street, manifesting so 

 much energy in his business that he accumu- 

 lated a large fortune, gave a liberal education 

 to his numerous children, some of whom he 

 sent to Europe for that purpose, and devoted 

 freely of his means for the elevation of his own 

 people, as well as to . benevolent objects in 

 general. 



April 11. JONES, Lieutenant-commander M. 

 PATTERSON, United States Navy, died at Fair- 

 fax, Va. He was the son of Commodore 

 Thomas Ap Catesby Jones ; entered the naval 

 service in September, 1841, and after several 

 years of active service at sea, passed with high 

 honors, in 1847, the examination at the acad- 

 emy at Annapolis, then recently established. 

 When the civil war broke out he held the com- 

 mission of a lieutenant. Being a native of the 

 State of Virginia, with near relatives and friends 

 arrayed on the side of the Confederacy, he 

 found himself, as it were, alone; but he did not 

 hesitate a moment as to where his allegiance 

 belonged. He remained true to the flag, and 

 tendered his services for the maintenance of 

 its integrity. He served with honor during the 

 whole war ; his last duty at sea being in com- 

 mand of the United States steamer Pocahontas, 

 attached to the West Gulf blockading squadron, 

 and when he died he was connected with the 

 navy-yard at the city of Washington. During 

 his naval career he had performed nearly nine- 

 teen years of actual service afloat, besides sev- 

 eral years in which he was engaged in impor- 

 tant duties appertaining to his profession on 

 shore. 



April 13. VAN BUREN, Brevet Brig.-Gen. 

 JAMES LYMAN, United States volunteers, died in 

 New York City, aged 29 years. He was a 

 native of the State of New York, graduated at 

 the New York Free Academy in 1856, studied 

 law, and in June, 1860, visited Europe, travel- 

 ling extensively, and returned in January, 1861. 

 At the outbreak of the war he entered the army 

 as second lieutenant in the Fifty-third New York 

 Volunteers ; and subsequently was transferred 

 to the United States signal corps. At Roanoke 

 Island and at the battle of Newbernhe acted as 

 aide on Gen. Foster's staff. After the victory 



