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chief iiisp.-cior dl' the Fniled Mat. - Sani- 



'..mmUsjoii, Army of the . il'n-il 



>ii \i\^ way home from Havana, aired '<<< 



His intense and protracted labor, ui tin- -ersice 



".'II, especially (hiring tin- catn- 



.1 (iranl in 1st 1 , l-TiTi. hail broken 



d.ixMi a naturally vigorous constitution, ami 



compelled liim, nt'liT a brief attempt to practise 



liis profcs-i.,!! in l!itin, to seek a milder 



climate, in tin.- vain liope of recovering from 



pulmonary consumption. 



'7. HANKIIICAD, Captain .Joii.v P., 

 United States Navy, died on hoard a Mcamer at 

 the mouth of the Red Sea. He was a native of 

 Carolina, and filtered the naval service 

 from Virginia, August, 10, 1838. During the 

 war In- was on duty on tho Susquehanna ; 

 at the capture of Port Royal la- commanded 

 the Pembina, and at the capture of Fernandina, 

 Fla.. commanded the Florida. After the war 

 he commanded the Wyoming, of the Fast 

 India Squadron, until March, when ill-health 

 compelled him to resign. 



April '11. SAYUKS, Rev. GILBERT II., D. D., 

 an Fpiscopal clergyman, died at Jamaica, L. I., 

 a:red .SO years. He was rector of Grace Church, 

 Jamaica, from May 1, 1810, to May 1, 1830, 

 when his constitution having become shattered, 

 i his charge. He was a resident of 

 that town tidy-seven years. 



April 28. BENEDICT, ADIN W., a prominent 

 citizen of Pennsylvania, died at Iluntington. 

 lie was at one time clerk in the Pennsylvania 

 Hou>e of Representatives, and was also secre- 

 tary of the Republican State Central Committee. 

 He started the first penny paper in the United 

 States. 



April 28. MARSHALL, lion. SAMUEL S., an 

 American statesman, died at McLeansboro, 111. 

 !! was a native of Illinois, was educated at 

 Cumberland College, Ky., studied law, and de- 

 voted himself to its practice in his native State. 

 In 184-ii he was elected to the State Legislature; 

 served as State Attorney two years, and in 1851 

 was elected Judge of the Circuit Court, in which 

 position he remained until 1854. He was 

 elected to the Thirty-fourth Congiv-s f rom 

 Illinois, was reflected to the Thirty-fifth, and 

 was chairman of the Committee on Claims, 

 lie was also a delegate to the Chicago Conven- 

 tion of 1864, and was reflected to tho Thirty- 

 ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on 

 Flections and on Freedmen. 



April 29. PAULDING, Commander L::ON.\I:I>, 

 I'nitcd States Navy, died on board his ship, the 

 . e, in the May of Panama. He was a 

 native of New York, and grandson of John 

 I'aulding, the Revolutionary patriot. lie was 

 born I'V'uniary 16, 1826, and appointed a mid- 

 shipman in 1840, promoted to passed midship- 

 man in 1846, to master in 1855, to lieutenant 

 the samoyear, to lieutenant-commander in 1862, 

 and to commander in 1866. lie was twenty- 

 four years in the Navy, out of which he was le-s 

 than two years unemployed. He served on the 



ey, on tho coast of Africa, in the 

 Mediterranean, on the lake*, in th; Ob.serva- 

 tory, on tho Paraguay expedition, and o 



lo. At the breaking out <! the war 

 : , ordered to St. Louis to superintend t!;.- 

 construction of iron-dads, and commanded the 

 first iron-dad ever built in America, tho St. 

 I. "iii-, which was the flag-ship of Admiral 

 L and did splendid service at Fort Henry. 

 Fort |)onelsoii, Island No. 10, Fort Pillow, and 

 in many skirmishes with Confederate gunboat-. 

 While thus employed, he was stricken with 

 acute dysentery, but still continued at his post. 

 At Fort Donelson ho was wounded, and at Island 

 No. 10 was airain wounded by the explosion of 

 a one-hundred-pound rifle-gun, \vhich threw 

 him fifteen feet in tho air, and killed and 

 wounded about fifteen pcr-ons. He was then 

 taken from his command to Alton, Illinois, for 

 medical treatment, but resumed duty in a few 

 months, as executive officer, at the Brooklyn 

 Navy Yard, where he remained but a short time, 

 but was ordered to command the Galena in the 

 Jame^ River Squadron. At the close of the 

 war he commanded successively the Monocacy 

 and Eutaw ; was then ordered to the Pacific 

 Squadron, where he commanded the Cyane till 

 about a year ago ; was then ordered to the 

 Wateree, which he commanded till his death. 



April 30. JACKSON, Mrs., an aged colored 

 woman, nurse to General T. J. (Stonewall; 

 Jackson, died in Jackson, Tenn., aged 114 years. 



April 30. McCoRMicK, Mrs. RICHARD ( '.. 

 wife of the Governor of Arizona, died at Pres- 

 cott in that State, aged 24 years. She was a 

 daughter of Isaac L. Hunt, of New Jersey, and 

 a woman of fine education and rare accomplish- 

 ments of mind and person. She was an intrepid 

 traveller, and had accompanied her husband 

 in all his explorations of the Territory, having 

 but. recently returned with him from a trip to 

 San Franciscoj which had occupied some four 

 months and embraced nearly 1,500 miles, much 

 of it over the dreariest deserts and roughest 

 roads upon the Pacific slope. 



April 30. SAXFORD, THADDEUS, an editor, 

 died in Mobile, Ala., aged 76 years. He was a 

 native of Connecticut, but had resided in Mo- 

 bile since 1822. He became editor and propri- 

 etor of the Mobile Register in 1828, and con- 

 tinued to conduct that journal for twenty-six 

 years, with the exception of the four years from 

 1837 to 1841, during which it was in the hands 

 of one of the present editors and proprietors of 

 the united Advertiser and Register. In 1833 he 

 \\as elected president of the Bank of Mobile. 

 lie was appointed collector of Mobile by Presi- 

 dent Pierce, and held the office through Mr. 

 Uuchanan's term. On the organization of the 

 Confederate government ho was continued in 

 the same position, to the duties of which were 

 afterward added those of "depositary" for the 

 Treasury. These he continued to discharge 

 until the close of the war. 



I/,,,/ i._ CHASE, Hon. GEORGE W., formerly 

 member of Congress, died in Maryland, Otsego 



