ANTIION, QHABLE8, 



AKCKNTINT. UKIM 1M.IC. 



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till IM'.I, and ivtahu-d his connection with the 



till hi* il. ulli. His lu-alth h:id Uvn much 

 .od from di->';isi- of the In-art, which, at 



i-aii-'-d int. -use siiltVriiiu'. Since- 1801 ho 



Diablo to tMi::a_v iii continuous or sc- 



.MtclU-ctiial lalior, but had written when 



al'lo, and iK-votcd his time generally to the ivli- 



instrn.-lioii of tlu- colored people in tho 

 vicinity of his plantation, at West River, Mary- 

 land. 



ANTlloN", CHARLES, LL. D., an American 



c-la--iral scliolar, teacher, and author, born in 



New York City, in 17'.7; died there July 29, 



I!.- \vas one of a family, many of whose 



members achieved distinction. His father, Dr. 



Anthon, a German by birth, rose to the 

 rank of surgeon-general in the British Army, 

 in which he served during tho greater part of 

 the old Anglo-French War, and before resign- 

 ing his commission married the orphan daugh- 

 ter of a French officer, and settled in New York. 



si .John Anthon, an eminent lawyer of 

 New York, was one of his sons, Rev. William 

 11. Anthon, D. D., another, and Professor Charles 

 Anthon, the subject of the present sketch, an- 

 other, lie was the fourth son of the veteran 

 Burgeon-general, and after a thorough prelimi- 

 nary training entered Columbia College, where 

 he graduated with honor in 1815. On leaving 

 college, he commenced the study of the law in 

 the office of his brother, Mr. John Anthon, and 

 in 1819 was admitted to the bar of the Supreme . 

 Court. The study of the law did not wean him 

 from the study of the classics, in which his 

 proficiency became so great that at the early 

 age of twenty-three he was appointed adjunct 

 --or of languages in his alma mater. In 

 1830 he was made rector of the grammar-school 

 attached to the college ; and in 1835, on the 

 r.-siirnation of Professor Moore, he was placed 

 at the head of tho classical department of that 

 institution. As an instructor of youth, Dr. 

 Anthon had few superiors. Ills deportment to 

 his pupils was uniformly kind and indulgent, 

 and when appointed rector of tho grammar- 

 school he conferred on the public schools of his 

 native city six free scholarships. His genial 

 humor and keen wit are still vivid in the mem- 

 ories of his numerous pupils ; and though he 

 was inclined to greater severity of discipline 

 than some modern teachers would approve, he 

 was never vindictive or unjust. He was always 

 greatly delighted when any of his pupils dis- 

 covered any fact in relation to their classical 

 studies which had hitherto escaped observation, 

 and rewarded their diligence by extra indul- 

 gence. He v, as an early riser and an indefati- 

 gable worker. Very soon after his appointment 

 aa adjunct professor he became convinced of the 

 imperfection of the text-books in general use in 

 colleges and preparatory schools, and set about 

 remedying the defect with his characteristic 

 zeal, energy, and perseverance. In 1822 he 

 published a new and most valuable edition of 

 Lempriero's "Classical Dictionary ; " in 1830 a 

 largo edition of tho Odes of Horace, with copi- 



ous notes and a learned commentary ; and he 

 did not relax his labors until IM- h:nl iwi-..-dand 

 annotated nearly all the (J ruck and Latin daMJca 

 used in any of the collegiate institutions of tin- 

 country, together with several excellent gram- 

 matical treatises in both languages, a conveni- 

 ent Latin lexicon, and a valuable dictionary of 

 ( I reck and Roman antiquities. In all, there were 

 nearly fifty volumes of these excellent text- 

 books, all of which have been republished in 

 Europe. 



ARGENTINE REPUBLIC, a republic in 

 South America. President, from 1862 to 1808, 

 Bartholome" Mitre; Vice-President, Dr. Marcos 

 Paz. Ambassador of tho Argentine Republic 

 in Washington, Domingo Sarmiento ; ambassa- 

 dor of tho United States to the Argentine Re- 

 public, General Alexander Asbotli. 



The area of the republic, according to the 

 recent work of Mr. Ford,* Secretary of the 

 British Legation at Buenos Ayres, amounted to 

 515,700 English square miles, or 24,257 ;_ r .-o- 

 graphical square miles. As the frontiers of the 

 republic are not definitely fixed, the statements 

 of the area in different writers greatly vary. 

 Martin de Moussy ("Description do la Confe'de'- 

 ration Argentine," Paris, 1864), by counting in 

 the whole of the Gran Chaco and of Patagonia, 

 makes it 42,188 geographical square miles, 

 while the Gotha Almanac for 1868 gives 25,531 

 geographical square miles. The Registro Esta- 

 distico, of the State of Buenos Ayres, for the 

 year 1867, edited by Manuel Ricardo Trelles, 

 gives, according to article 2 of the Constitution 

 of 1853, the thirty-third and fifty-sixth degree 

 latitude south, and the fifty-ninth and seventy- 

 sixth degree longitude west (of Paris), as ap- 

 proximative frontiers, and estimates the area at 

 30,000 leguas cuadradas (=16,875 geographical 

 square miles), of which only 5,362 are inhabited. 



The population, in 1867, was, according to 

 the above work of Mr. Ford, as follows : 



The number of foreigners is considerable; 

 among them were, according to the latest state- 

 ments, 70,000 Italians, 32,000 Spaniards, 32,000 

 English, 25,000 Frenchmen, 5,000 Germans and 



*T. C. Ford, "La Renublique Argentine." R*pprt 

 adresse au Gouvernement de S. M. Britannique (Paris, 1867). 



