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SAXONY. 



SEDGWICK, CATHARINE M. 



8, 1853 ; Duke George II., of S.-Meiningen, 

 born April 2, 1826, succeeded his father Sep- 

 tember 20, 1866 ; Duke Ernst I., of S.-Alten- 

 burg, born September 16, 1826, succeeded his 

 father August 3, 1853 ; Duke Ernst II., of S.- 

 Coburg-Gotha, born June 21, 1844, succeeded 

 his father January 29, 1864. Area, population, 

 and contingent to the army of the Old German 

 Confederation, are as follows : 



According to a military convention concluded 

 on June 26th, by Prussia, with Saxe-Weimar, 

 Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Coburg- 

 Gotha, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Eeuss-Greitz, 

 and Keuss-Schleitz, the troops of these states 

 are organized by Prussia into three infantry 

 regiments of Thuringia, of three battalions each. 



SAXONY, a kingdom belonging to the North- 

 German Confederation. King, Johann I., born 

 December 12, 1801 ; succeeded his brother 

 Friedrich August II. on August 9, 1854. Area, 

 6,777 square miles; population in 1864, 2,343,- 

 994. The annual revenue and expenditures 

 are estimated in the budget, for the financial 

 period of 1864 to 1866, at 13,658,984 thalers 

 each. The Saxon army, which now constitutes 

 the 12th army corps of the North-German 

 Confederation, numbers 24,143 men. 



SCHAUMBURG-LIPPE, a principality be- 

 longing to the North-German Confederation. 

 Prince, Adolf, born August 1, 1817 ; succeeded 

 his father November 21, 1866. Area, 212 square 

 miles ; population, in 1864, 31,382. The contin- 

 gent of the principality to the Old German Con- 

 federation was 516 men. In virtue of a mili- 

 tary convention with Prussia, the troops, since 

 October 1, 1867, serve in the Prussian army. 



SCHWARZBURG, the name of two princi- 

 palities belonging to the North-German Con- 

 federation. Eeigning princes, Gilnther, Prince 

 of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, born Septem- 

 ber 24, 1801, succeeded his father August 19, 

 1835; and Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg- 

 Eudolstadt, born April 30, 1798, succeeded his 

 brother June 28, 1867. The area, population, 

 and contingent to the army of the Old German 

 Confederation were, in 1866, as follows : 



The troops of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, 

 in consequence of a military convention with 

 Prussia, serve, since October 1, 1867, in the 

 Prussian army; those of Schwarzburg-Eudol- 

 stadt form, together with those of the two prin- 

 cipalities of Reuss and Saxe-Altenburg, one of 

 the infantry regiments of Thuringia. (See SAXE.) 



SCOTT, Eight Eev. THOMAS FIELDING, D. D., 

 Missionary Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal 



Church for the Diocese of Oregon and Wash- 

 ington Territory, born in 1805 ; died in New 

 York City, of Panama fever, July 14, 1867. 

 Bishop Scott was a native of the South, and 

 had been for many years a clergyman of the 

 Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of 

 Georgia. He was appointed Missionary Bishop 

 from that diocese in 1854, and was consecrated 

 at Savannah. He had devoted himself to his 

 work on the Pacific coast with great assiduity 

 and zeal, and was much esteemed in Oregon. 

 He had not visited the Eastern States before 

 for several years, and was accompanied at this 

 time by his wife. He contracted the Panama 

 fever in crossing the Isthmus, but was not re- 

 garded as seriously ill. The disease assumed an 

 unfavorable character soon after his landing, 

 and resulted in his death on the third day. 



SEDGWICK, CATHARINE MARIA, an Ameri- 

 can novelist and essayist, born in Stockbridge, 

 Massachusetts, in 1789 ; died near Eoxbury, 

 Mass., July 31, 1867. She was a daughter of 

 the eminent statesman and jurist Judge Theo- 

 dore Sedgwick, and enjoyed advantages of in- 

 tellectual culture such as at that time fell to 

 the lot of few American women. These she 

 diligently improved, and after the death of her 

 father in 1813, at the urgent request of some 

 intimate friends, she undertook to superintend 

 the education of their daughters, and the work 

 thus begun was continued with but brief oc- 

 casional intermissions, in a quiet way, for 

 nearly fifty years. She was an admirable 

 teacher, winning the love of her pupils, and con- 

 trolling and influencing them without apparent 

 effort, inciting them both by example and pre- 

 cept to intellectual activity and usefulness, and 

 to moral excellence and philanthropic effort. 

 But her labors as a teacher did not fully oc- 

 cupy her time, and like Miss Bremer, whom she 

 resembled in many particulars, she devoted her 

 leisure to authorship, with high aims of useful- 

 ness. Her first work, " A New England Tale," 

 was published anonymously in 1822, and only 

 on the earnest solicitation of her brother Henry. 

 It had a speedy and great success, owing in 

 part perhaps to its novel and skilful portraiture 

 of New England life, and its numerous local 

 allusions, but still more probably from its real 

 merit. In 1824, her "Redwood" appeared, 

 and was almost immediately republished iu 

 England (then a very rare success for an 

 American novel), and translated soon after into 

 French, Italian, and Swedish. In 1827 ap- 

 peared her "Hope Leslie; or, Early Times in 

 America," which, from its originality, freshness, 

 and beauty of style, increased her already great 

 popularity as a writer. In 1830 this was fol- 

 lowed by " Clarence ; a Tale of our own Times," 

 which also met with great success. In 1832 

 she published "Le Bossu," a shorter story for 

 young people. In 1835 " The Linwoods," a 

 romance of the Revolution, was published as 

 well as a volume of shorter tales. For the 

 twenty years following she produced no novel 

 proper, but prepared several works for popular 



