OIUTUARUB, UNITED STATES. 



:\MI:I:, I l<ni. CIIM:\D. a 

 prominent Democratic |'i.!iliciaii, died ii. 



II, \\a-i tit' (i.Tinan extraction, l>orn in 

 llmitcrdoti ('.unity, N. .1.. in ls| 1, and u h< 

 a lad removed t" New York, mid obtained em- 



i:i a irrocer\-<torc. After 



of labor in a subordinate capacity, lie 



,1 into imMin 83 upon his own account 



Moderate MICIVSS. Ho was always a friend 



working-daises. In 1846 ho was a dele- 



. tin- Constitutional Convention. He also 



I in tin- Stat" Legislature, andatono time 



was named as a representative for the Fourth 



:ial District, but withdrew in favor 



I' Mr. Tweed, tinder the administration of 



President Pierce he was Navy Agent for the 



w York. Mr. S. was atone time the 



publisher of a German newspaper. 



Nov. 8. STAFFORD, Dr. .1 \MKS UOMKYX, a 

 physician, and inventor, died in Brooklyn, L. I. 

 IK- was born in Albany, N. Y., in 1808*, and in 

 Kill removed to Brooklyn, where he r 

 until his death. Ho was widely known as an 

 5n\viit<r of astove, olive-tar, olive-tar ointment, 

 imii sulphur powders, and a process for refining 

 oi!-. His doath was tin- result of an accidental 

 injury. 



Nov. 8. WICKS, F. M. A., a prominent citizen 

 i'.)lk (.'ounty. died at Islip, L. I., aged 52 

 He was the first settler in that neigh- 

 borhood, and assisted in building the Long 

 Island Ilailroad. He held various public offices 

 at different periods ; was county treasurer, 

 justice of the peace, postmaster, and, at the 

 time of his death, one of the associate justices 

 Court of Sessions of Suffolk County. He 

 was also an active supporter of the temperance 



Noo. 11. PACKARD, FREDERICK A., an able 

 scholar and writer, and for more than 1'orty 

 years the Editorial Secretary of the American 

 Sunday School Union, died in Philadelphia, Pa. 

 A native of Springfield, Mass., and educated 

 for the bar, he abandoned that profession for 

 the department which he so long and so suc- 

 cessfully filleck When he entered upon his 

 duties the Society was in its infancy, and during 

 his connection with it he edited and superin- 

 tended generally the publication of more than 

 il.noo works, from the primer to the duodecimo 

 volume. He also edited the Sunday School 

 J" a nial (now the Sunday School World}, es- 

 tablished in 1832, and projected the first child's 

 paper ever issued in this country. He was also 

 a frequent contributor to educational and other 

 journals, and few persons were more familiar 

 with the workings of our common and higher 

 schools than he. Of singularly unobtrusive 

 manners, his name was never allowed to appear 

 in connection with his published writings, for 

 he was content to prosecute with great earnest- 

 atid singleness of purpose the work to 

 which he had devoted his peculiar abilities. No 

 one exerted .-, larger or more li-'iieticial influence 

 on the juvenile literature and the children of 

 the country than Mr. Packard. 



Nov. i4. BULLOCK, Hon. NATHAXIEL, died 



in Bristol, Ii. I., agl -. Ho wa* the 



oldest member of the lihode l-latnl bar, the old- 

 id uate of Brown University, and the laat 

 I.iciiteiiant-(Jovernor of the State under the 

 charter of Cliarl- 



Nor. I"). ^ \\-.T\\\.\\. II HI:, M. D.. 



I'll. D., an eminent scientist, died at IVnn Yan, 

 N. V. He was horn at I'itMi.-ld. Ma--., April 1H, 

 IT'.i-, and entered upon the practice of medicine 

 at nineteen years of age. In the War of 1812 he 

 served as surgeon in the U. S. Army, and in 

 1821 settled at Bethel, Ontario County, N. Y., 

 and began the study of botany, which in after- 

 life gave him great renown. In 1832 he re- 

 moved to Penn Yan, N. Y., where he continued 



ide until his death. His protracted botan- 

 ical labors extended over a period of forty-six 



. and his collections of American plants 

 are found in nearly every herbarium both in 

 Europe and America. About 1846 he gave his 

 entire attention to the study of the genus Carex, 

 one of the most extensive and the most difficult 

 in the vegetable kingdom. He then conceived the 

 idea of gathering and grouping all the indi- 

 genous species of Carex in North America, and 

 in 1848 he brought out his work entitled 

 "Carices. Americana? Septentrionalis Exsic- 

 catffl " in two volumes, containing one hundred 

 and fifty-eight reliably-named species. Over 

 thirty sets of this great work were, with a lib- 

 eral generosity, gratuitously distributed among 

 his fellow-botanists in various parts of the 

 world. "Part Third" of his " Exsiccatas," to 

 include fifty new species, was begun, and over 

 forty species collected for it, mostly from the 

 Rocky Mountain region, and British America, 

 when he died. His herbarium, the labor of 

 forty years, containing about eight thousand 

 species, is now in Hamilton College, Clinton, 

 N. Y. Dr. S. was also a meteorologist of 

 distinction, having kept records of the weather 

 for stated hours every day for the last forty 

 years, which were published at home and sent 

 to the Smithsonian Institute. Dr. S. was a 

 corresponding member of the Academy of 

 Science at St. Louis, and a member of several 

 other scientific bodies. He received the degree 

 of Doctor of Philosophy from Hamilton College, 

 N. Y., and the honorary degree of Doctor of 

 Medicine from St. Mary's College, Baltimore, 

 Md. t 



Nov. 17. HILLS, Colonel ALFRED CLARK, 

 U. S. Volunteers, died in Chicago, aged 86 

 years. He was educated as a printer, but in 

 ear!^ manhood studied law, and was admitted 

 to the bar. Ho practised law in New York 

 for a short time, and then became local editor 

 of The New York Evening Post, a position he 

 filled until 1861, when he joined a New York 

 regiment as lieutenant, and went to New Or- 

 leans. While there he served on General 

 Banks's stalV, was editor of The Delta, a member 

 of the Constitutional Convention, and practised 

 law. In 1865 he moved to Winona, Minn., 

 and in September, 1866, returned to New York 



