SKI Mi WICK, CATIIIIKIM: M. 



80ULE, JOSHUA. 



lelid-'d l<> inculcate (loin. 



jilid ili-Inirt ill.' young ill the duties of the 

 home ainl familv. A \\ liich ap; 



. t.. 1888, \\ith tin- titles of "Tin- 



Man :iinl the i:ich 1'in.r Man," 



l.i\e :inil l.rt Live," "Moans ami I 



"Home." were very |i(ii>iil:ir iiml ii-eful. Kver 



mindful of tho young, win.- id.so published in 



. M for Chililivii," and the 



Memoir of that wonder- 



fully gifted child, Lueretia Maria I>avid-ou, ap- 



! in Sparks's collection of American Bi- 



ographies. In 1841, on her return from a tour 



in Kill-ope, she published that charming vol- 



ume of travels, " Letters from Abroad to Kin- 



dred at Home." In 1845 another volume of 



Milton Harvey and other Tales," ap- 



!. and not long after her " Morals of Man- 



intended for very young per-ons. For 



she also published from time to time sev- 



'mple hut pleasant 'stories, brief but 



instructive. In IS.'.T sheairain returned to the 



ranks of the novelists, with her "Married or 



Single?" which, in freshness, piquancy, and 



>f st\le, was certainly fully equal to her 

 earlier works. In IMS she prepared, a life of 

 .Joseph Curtis, an eminent promoter of educa- 

 tion in New York City, and one of its most 

 honored philanthropists. During all these 

 years, and even to a still later period, she was 

 an almost constant contributor of essays and 



- to the magazines of light literature, all 

 of them marked by her peculiar graces of style. 

 Her latest published volume was, \ve believe, 

 her "Letters to my Pupils," issued iu 1862, a 



,ud precious treasure of instruction and 

 suggestion to the hundreds who had been under 

 her care as an instructor. Miss Sedgwick's 

 novels do not, perhaps, display as much cre- 

 ative power as those of two 6r three other 

 novelists of the present century, but the purity 

 and gracefulness of her style, the high moral 

 tone, and the evident purpose of usefulness 

 which pervades her works, render them the 



desirable books of their class to place in 

 the bands of the young. They are, indeed, a 

 " well of Knglish, undeliled." Miss Sedgwick 

 was as remarkable for her unostentatious phi- 

 lanthropy as for her literary position. The 

 daughter of the great jurist who in the first 

 decade of the present century, on the bench of 

 the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, pro- 

 nounced the elaborate opinion that, "by the 

 lasv of nauire, which in that case remained the 

 law of Massachusetts, one man could not have 

 a legitimate property in another," she was a 

 life-long opponent of slavery, and did much in 

 her quiet way to aid the slave, and help the 

 cause of freedom. But the suffering and erring 

 everywhere were the objects of her care and 

 regard. The poor never sought relief from her 

 in vain; and although resident in Berkshire 

 County, Mass., she consented to give the 

 benefit of her name and influence, with a 

 largo amount of pcr-onal etlort, to the estab- 

 lishment in New York City of a refuge for 

 VOL. vii.^-44 



di-cl; :do prisoner.-, which, under the 



name "f Th.- I-anr T. Hopper Hon. 

 gaiii/cd in IH|C, and of which till within the 

 tWO vears >hc had been lir-t di 



BLOAT, l:.-;ii-Adiiiiral.loii-, D S.N., 



!i naval ofliccr, horn in New York in ITso; died 

 at New Brighton, Staten I-laud, November 28, 

 1867. He enlisted iii the Navy as sailing-master, 



.:rs 12, 1800, but after serving a year was 

 honorably discharged under a reduction of the 

 fon-e-. He was reappointed as ma-t-T in the 

 commencement of the War of 1812, and re- 



: his commission as lieutenant on the 24th 

 of July, isi."), and saw some active service in 

 the war with (Ireat Britain. In 1S-JU lie made 

 a cruise to the Bra/iN, in the Franklin, and re- 

 turned in 1822 in the Congress. During 1824- 

 '25 he commanded the Grampus, one of the 

 fleet engaged in exterminating the pira: 

 the West Indies. He received his commission as 

 master-commandant in 1826, and was placed in 

 command of the sloop St. Louis, on the Pacific 

 station, where he served two years. In 1837 

 he was made full captain, and placed on waiting 

 orders. The last active service he saw was as 

 commander of the Pacific squadron, in 1846, 

 flying his pennant on the frigate Savannah. His 

 sea service in this his last cruise continued till 

 December, 1852. At the advanced age of seven- 

 ty-two he was made commandant of the Norfolk 

 Navy Yard, and next employed as superintend- 

 ent of the construction of the Stevens battery, 

 at Hoboken, and superintendent of the United 

 States mail-steamships sailing from this port. In 

 1856 he was placed on the reserve list, and grant- 

 ed indefinite leave. He was made commodore 

 on the retired list in 1862, and in July, 1866, was 

 promoted to tho rank of rear-admiral on the re- 

 tired list. The admiral's entire term of service 

 is stated by the Navy Department at sixty-seven 

 years, nine months, and sixteen days. This in- 

 cludes the period between his discharge and 

 reappointment about ten or eleven years ; de- 

 ducting this from his unemployed time (thirty 

 years), and he had seen about the usual propor- 

 tion of active service, viz., seventeen and a half 

 years of sea service, and twenty years aud three 

 months of shore duty. 



. SOULE, Kev. JOSHUA, D. D., senior Bishop 

 of the Southern Methodist Church, born in 

 Bristol, Maine, August 1, 1781 ; died at Nash- 

 ville, Tennessee, March 6, 1867. He joined 

 the Methodist Church in 1797, and the next 

 year was licensed to preach as an itinerant, 

 travelling under the presiding elder, till the 

 session of the Annual Conference in June, 

 IT'.' 1 .'. A hid, now, of only seventeen years, he 

 excited general interest in the district by his 

 powerful exhortations after Taylor's sermons, 

 lie was received on probation at the next 

 Annual Conference, and was appointed to the 

 Portland city circuit. He remained an addi- 

 tional year in Maine, on Union circuit, when he 

 passed intoMassachu.-etts, and labored on Sand- 

 wich and Needham circuits, and Xantucket 

 Island, in 1801-'3, respectively. In 1804 he 



