(MilTC ARIES, UNITED STATES. 



. He was a native of Now York city, ami 

 than thirty years waa wi.h-h known 



throughout tin- Stnt. as iin earnest mid influential 

 men i her of the Whig ;nid IJepuhlican part it-. In 



is i* h-- \va-u-lccted a Representatl?etoOoo0Mi 



from llerkimcr County, and was upon tin- Cuin- 

 mittr 'iditurcs in tin- State Depart- 



ment. Hi- was universally esteemed for his 

 commercial intcirrity and social virtue*. 



1 )j.\ i is. I > A MEL, a prominent mer- 

 chant dt' N\-w York, died there aired 58 years, 

 lie was a native of County Donegal, Ireland, and 

 emigrated to this country at eighteen years of 

 After a clerkship of a tow years, ho estab- 

 lish^! himself in the clothing Business, first in 

 Louisville, Ky., and finally in New York, where 

 lie built up a heavy trade and amassed a large 

 property. In 1860 he was appointed City 

 Chamberlain, which post he filled until his 

 deat h. Ho was also a director of the Broadway 

 Bank, and a trustee of the Institution for the 

 Protection of Destitute Catholic Children. 



Feb. 23. McOARRON, MICHAEL, D. D., a Ro- 

 man Catholic clergyman, Archdeacon of the 

 Archdiocese of New York, died in that city, 

 nu'ed 03 years. He was a native of County 

 'nil. Ireland, where he received his early 

 education, after the completion of which he was 

 sent to Maynooth College, in Kildare, to finish 

 his theological studies. Here he remained until 

 he had completed his ecclesiastical course, and 

 was ordained a priest. Shortly after his ordi- 

 nation he came to the United States, nearly 

 thirty years ago, and was first assigned to 

 St. James's Church (the present cathedral) in 

 Brooklyn, where he remained for about one 

 year. Subsequently he was transferred to the 

 pastorate of St. James's Church, New York, 

 and shortly afterward was appointed pastor of 

 St. Joseph's Church in the Sixth Avenue, where 

 he remained until about twelve years since, 

 when the late Archbishop Hughes placed him 

 in charge of the large, congregation worshipping 

 in St. Mary's Church, corner of Grand and Ridge 

 Streets, the pastorate of which he held at the 

 time of his decease. Upon his arrival here, 

 the Catholic community was greatly interested 

 in the subject of education, through the zed of 

 Archbishop Hughes. Father McCarron, then 

 in his vigor and prime, entered with his whole 

 heart and soul into this field of labor, and the 

 results of his efforts have long been witnessed. 



Feb. 24. MALI, HENRY W. T., consul-general 

 of Belgium at the port of New York, died at 

 his residence in Fordham, N. Y., aged 63 years. 

 Ho was born at Vervicrs, Belgium, and came to 

 this country at the age of twenty-two, engaging 

 in mercantile pursuits in the city of New York, 

 and building up in time a very extensive busi- 

 ness. He was consul and consul-general for 

 over thirty-five successive years, his appoint- 

 ment having been the first made for the United 

 States after the organization of the kingdom of 

 Delirium. Thoroughly identified, through mar- 

 riage, business connections, and long residence, 

 with the interests of his adopted country, 



Mr. Mali was a Republican in politic, and 



his fidelity to the Federal (JoM-rm,. 

 tli.- war, and sympathy with five in-ii> 

 illumed all the intensity of u religious faith. 

 II.- u a- a gentleman of liberal education, with 

 a strong inclination to scientific studies, and a 

 wide ranire of general information. 



Feb..25. HIM.MKS |ji, u. IBAAO E., formerly 

 member of Congress from South Carolina, died 

 in Charleston, S. C., aged 71 year-. He was a 

 natue of Charleston, graduated with honor at 

 Yale College in 1815, studied law, and was ad- 

 mitted to the bar of his native city in 1818. 

 He was one of the originators of the "Sonth 

 Carolina Association," and was elected to the 

 State Legislature in 1826. From 1839 to 1851 

 he was a Representative in Congress, during 

 which period he served with ability at the head 

 of the Committees of Commerce and the Navy, 

 and also on that for Foreign Affairs. Subse- 

 quently he took up his residence in California. 



Feb. 25. TIPPETT, Rev. CHARLES B., D. D., 

 an eminent Methodist clergyman, died in Hook- 

 erstown, Baltimore County, Md., aged 65 years. 

 He was born in Prince George County, Md., 

 and began his pulpit ministrations in 1819. The 

 following year he entered the Baltimore Annual 

 Conference, and was subsequently connected, 

 either directly or indirectly, with almost every 

 charge in the city and surrounding territory. 

 During his ministry of forty -seven years he filled 

 the office of presiding elder sixteen years ; was 

 book agent at New York four years; several 

 times represented his conference in the Gen- 

 eral Conference, and was a member of the Gen- 

 eral Book Committee for nearly nineteen years. 



Feb. 28. PERELLI, Signer NATALE, a tenor 

 singer and opera composer, died in Philadelphia. 

 Ho was an Italian, and thoroughly educated as 

 a musician. For several years he had been a 

 popular teacher of music in Philadelphia. 



Feb. 28. WILLIAMSON, AMOR J., a New York 

 politician and editor, died in New Orleans, aged 

 44 years. He was a native of Lancaster County, 

 Pa., and, after receiving a limited school educa- 

 tion, was apprenticed to a printer in Lancaster, 

 where he remained some three years, and then 

 found employment in the Book Concern of the 

 German Reformed Church in Chambersburg. At 

 the age of eighteen or nineteen he went to Phila- 

 delphia, and thence to New York, working at his 

 trade for about three years. In 1845 he founded 

 The Star newspaper in this city, but it lived only 

 three months, and in December of the same 

 year he joined with Messrs. Burns and Watson 

 in the establishment of The Neio York Dipatch. 

 Mr. Watson retired after the first year, and Mr. 

 Burns died in 1850, leaving the business in the 

 hands of Mr. Williamson alone, who managed 

 it with ability and success up to the time of his 

 death. He was also proprietor for a time of a 

 weekly paper called The Universe, which was 

 prosperous in his hands, though it declined after 

 he sold it. In 1848 he was a delegate to the 

 Buffalo Convention, which formed the Free- 

 Soil party, and nominated Martin Van Buren, 



