OIJHTAUIKS, I Nil K!) STATES. 





age-! i" tin- lumber business, and r. 

 a ha lime. In lsr,n niiil lsr,i 1,,. 



. in tin- Stnto Legislature. 

 1 John G. Saxe, the poet. 

 , Hdii. Tii'>\i \s K., died in St. 

 II.- was horn in Perry ville, Mo., 

 ived a good English . du- 

 i. :ui(l when nineteen years of age was 



li:ir. He prat (Ned law Illlt'll 



>vhe;i he was appointed a military com- 

 :HT tor arrest of disloyal persons; subse- 

 !y ho went into the ranks of the State 

 militia, and was promoted to be major, which 

 n he held until 1802, when ho was ap- 

 .ai'tain in the Nineteenth regiment 

 Infantry. Subsequently he was elect. -1 a 

 from Missouri to the Thirty- 

 ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on 

 Private Land Claims, the Militia, and Mines and 

 Mining. 



. 4. BROOKE, Mrs. AVOXIA JONES, a 

 popular actress, died in New York City, aged 

 29 years. She was a native of Richmond, Va., 

 and daughter of Count Joannes, and Mrs. Me- 

 linda Junes, his wife. Her first appearance 

 upon the stage was about 1857, at the Boston 

 Theatre. Since that time she has played in 

 part of this country, and in Great Britain. 

 She married Gustavus Brooke, the tragedian, 

 who was lost in the disaster of the steamship 

 "London," two years since. Mrs. B. was 

 about to sail for Cuba for the benefit of her 

 health, but her disease, consumption, was too 

 rapid in its progress. 



Oct. 5. RIDGE, Jonx R., a journalist and 

 died at Grass Valley, Cal. He was a son 

 of John Ridge, chief of the Cherokee nation, 

 and was a writer of much ability, and had 

 been connected with several of the California 

 journals as editor. His poetic talent was of 

 a high order. 



Oct. 6. LORILLARD, PETER, a wealthy tobac- 

 conist of New York, died at Saratoga, N. Y., 

 in the 7_d year of his age. About 1817 he snc- 

 1 his father in a well-established tobacco 

 business, and after many years of strict frugality 

 and untiring industry in the manufacture and 

 sale of that article, became the wealthiest per- 

 son in the trade in the United States. 



Oct. 7. LATIIROP, Captain and Brevet-Major 

 11., Thirty-fifth U. S. Infantry, died at 

 Victoria, Texas, of yellow fever. He was born at 

 Lebanon, N. II., in 1822. Removing in early life 

 to Buffalo, N. Y., he became associated with 

 the Commercial Advertiser, and in 1853 was 

 one of the proprietors, and was greatly pros- 

 I until the financial crisis of 1857 reduced 

 the. linn to hankruptcy. He then accepted the 

 responsible position of treasurer of the Heint- 

 zelinan Mining Company in Arizona, and spent 

 three years on the frontier, in the interests of that 

 company. In the summer of 1861 he accepted 

 a commission as captain in the Seventeenth U. 

 S. Infantry, a regiircnt. in the organization of 

 which ho assisted as adjutant at Fort Preble, 

 Maine. After the peninsular campaign ho was 



appointed an assistant inspector-general with 



the rank of lieutenant-colonel of volunt. 

 position which ho held successively on th 

 feivnt <talls of General IIeint/.<-lman, command- 

 ing the defences of Washington, TV 



! Army Corps, and subsequently tin- 

 Northern Department; General Hooker.com- 

 niandin^ the Northern Department; and 

 era! < >:-d, commanding the Department of the 

 Lakes. During a considerable part of this tonr 

 of duty, he was the president of an inspection 

 board, visiting the various hospitals, and cor- 

 recting the serious abuse of the detention of 

 able-bodied men as attendants. At the close 

 of the war he was returned to his company, 

 with the rank of brevet-major. Ii the break- 

 ing up of the " three-battalion regiments," the 

 Seventeenth Infantry was divided and he was 

 assigned to the Thirty-fifth Infantry. Ho was 

 stationed at Hart Island, New York Harbor, 

 serving as judge-advocate on a court-martial. 

 Ho was thence ordered to Texas, with his 

 regiment. For a time he commanded the post 

 of Houston, was then appointed acting inspect- 

 or-general of the district of Texas, from which 

 he was relieved in January, 1867, since which 

 time he had served with his immediate command. 

 Major Lathrop was with his company on his 

 way from San Antonio to Indianola, when 

 he received orders to halt at Victoria, and 

 await the cessation of the fever at the place 

 of his destination, but it found him even here. 

 In all the various positions held by Major L., 

 he was distinguished for his entire devotion 

 to the service. 



Oct. 8. HERDING, JAMES, a portrait-painter, 

 died in Paris, aged 74 years. He was Past 

 Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Free 

 and Accepted Masons in the United States, and 

 had been Grand Secretary for 27 years. He 

 was remarkable for his familiarity with all Ma- 

 sonic laws and usages; and at a time when 

 there was a division in the Grand Lodge which 

 had well-nigh caused its ruin, his knowledge, 

 skill, and tact carried them safely through. 

 His reputation as a portrait-painter was excel- 

 lent, and he had painted the portraits of most 

 of the New York notabilities. 



Oct. 8. LORING, CHARLES GREELET, an emi- 

 nent lawyer and orator of Massachusetts, died 

 near Boston. He was born in Boston, May 2, 

 1794, and completed his education nt Harvard 

 College, where he graduated in 1812, and sub- 

 sequently pronounced the Latin oration for the 

 same year. Having studied law under the 

 Hon. Charles Jackson and the Hon. Samuel 

 Hubbard, he was in due course called to the 

 bar, and won the confidence of the public by 

 his unswerving fidelity to the interests of his 

 clients. He represented Suffolk County in the 

 State Senate in 1862, which was the only 

 political office he ever held. In his more youth- 

 ful days ho commanded the New England 

 Guards. He succeeded Mr. Everett in the 

 presidency of the Union Club, of which he 

 was the first vice-president. During the 



