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laer Institute, at Hightstown, N. J. The pri- 

 mary object of this institution was the education 

 of the children of missionaries. Dr. "Wood had 

 entered upon his new duties with great zeal, 

 and was making vigorous efforts toward a com- 

 plete endowment, when interrupted by death. 

 Dr. Wood was the author of an able work en- 

 titled "Old and New Theology," setting forth 

 the reasons which led to the division of the 

 Presbyterian Church ; a work entitled " Call 

 to the Ministry," and several other books. 



April 8. ROANE, JOHN SELDEN, formerly 

 Governor of Arkansas, died at Pine Bluff. He 

 succeeded Colonel Yell in command of the Ar- 

 kansas cavalry in the Mexican War, was elected 

 Governor of the State in 1848, and in the late 

 war held the rank of brigadier-general in the 

 Confederate army. 



April 9. STEAENS, Major GEORGE L., an 

 American patriot and reformer, died in New 

 York. He was a native of Medford, Mass., and 

 the son of a teacher of high reputation. In early 

 life he took up the business of ship-chandlery, 

 and after a prosperous career entered into the 

 manufacture of sheet and pipe lead, in which 

 he also attained eminent success. He early 

 became identified with the antislavery cause, 

 in the faithful and generous advocacy of which 

 he won perhaps his greatest eminence. Being 

 a member of the Whig party, he became a Free- 

 Soiler in 1848, and since that period has been 

 thoroughly devoted to the cause of freedom and 

 justice. He was a warm friend of John Brown, 

 aided him in Kansas, and stood by him un- 

 flinchingly until his death. Soon after the 

 breaking out of the late war, Mr. Stearns turned 

 his attention to the necessity of enlisting the 

 black man in the national cause, having pre- 

 viously labored assiduously.in the emancipation 

 movement. The Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth 

 Massachusetts regiments, and the Fifth cavalry, 

 were largely recruited through his instrumen- 

 tality. In Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Ten- 

 nessee, being commissioned as major, through 

 the recommendation of Secretary Stanton, he 

 was of untold service to the national cause by 

 enlisting regiment after regiment of black men 

 in the volunteer army. He was the founder of 

 The Commonwealth and Right Way newspa- 

 pers for the dissemination of his ideas and he 

 bestowed upon these two papers what to many 

 men would be independent fortunes. 



April 11. TAILOR, JOHN MCCABTNEY, an 

 editor and State Senator of Louisiana, died at 

 Baton Rouge, aged 37 years. He was a native 

 of Madison County, Ala. During the late war 

 he entered the Confederate service as captain 

 of the First Louisiana cavalry, and participated 

 in all the campaigns of the Army of the Tennes- 

 see. At the time of his death he was a State 

 Senator from the parish of Baton Rouge to the 

 Louisiana Legislature. He was the proprietor 

 and editor of the Baton Rouge Advocate. 



April 12. BULLOCK, WILLIAM, died in Phil- 

 adelphia, aged 53 years. He was the inventor 

 of an improved printing-press, by which both 



sides of a newspaper could be printed at the 

 same time. His death was the result of an in- 

 jury received while testing a new printing- 

 machine. 



April 14. ABRAHAMS, SIMEON, M. D., an 

 eminent physician and philanthropist, of New 

 York, died there, aged 58 years. He was a 

 native of New York, a man of fine scholarly 

 attainments, and thoroughly acquainted with 

 his profession. Having accumulated some prop- 

 erty, he travelled throughout the United States 

 and Europe, and the entire Holy Land. After 

 spending a life of the greatest frugality, tem- 

 perance, and industry, and nobly contributing 

 to private as well as public charities, he be- 

 queathed nearly the whole of his large property 

 to various benevolent institutions in the city. 

 Though of the Jewish persuasion, he was never 

 sectarian in his charities, giving to Jew and 

 Gentile alike. 



April 16. BOWEN, Hon. HENEY, died in 

 Providence, R. I. He was Secretary of State for 

 Rhode Island from 1819 to 1849, and previously 

 for two years Attorney-General of the State. 



April 16. COIT, BENJAMIN BILLINGS, M. D., 

 an eminent physician, died in San Francisco, 

 Cal. He was born in Norwich, Conn., Septem- 

 ber 10, 1801, graduated at Yale College in 1822, 

 and at the Jefferson Medical College, Pa., in 

 1826. He was engaged in the practice of his 

 profession in Buffalo, N. Y., Pittstiekl, Mass., 

 and in New York City, until 1849, when he re- 

 moved to San Francisco, where his medical 

 career was a brilliant one. His death occurred 

 suddenly from disease of the heart, while walk- 

 ing in the street. 



April 16. PENNOCK, CASPAR WISTAE, M. D., 

 an eminent physician, professor, and medical 

 writer, died at Howellville, Delaware County, 

 Pa., aged 67 years. His attainments in medical 

 science were held in high estimation in Europe 

 as well as in this country. For some time he 

 was a physician to the Philadelphia Hospital, 

 but a few years since an incurable disease of 

 the spine compelled him to abandon the active 

 duties of his profession, and in its irresistible 

 progress destroyed all power of motion, leaving 

 his mind only entirely unaffected. He was the 

 author of a valuable work on diseases of the 

 heart. 



April 19. HEDGE, Hon. ISAAC LOTIIROP, died 

 in Plymouth, Mass. He was born in that town 

 December 7, 1798. graduated at Harvard Univer- 

 sity in the class of 1820, and was a merchant 

 in Plymouth in partnership with his brother 

 Thomas until 1837. He was chosen a Repre- 

 sentative to the State Legislature in 1829, and 

 was elected a Senator from Plymouth district 

 in 1834 and 1835. He was chosen a director 

 of the Plymouth Bank in October, 1826, and in 

 July, 1848, was elected its president, continu- 

 ing at the head of the institution until July, 

 1859, when he resigned on account of partial 

 loss of eyesight. In 1860 he became totally 

 blind, but his health continued good until a 

 short time before his death. 



