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WALDECK. 



WARD, AARON. 



pie of Virginia will sincerely cooperate with all men 

 throughout the Union, of whatever name or party, 

 who will labor to restore the constitutional union of 

 the States, and to continue its government and those 

 of the States under the control of the white race. 



Before adjournment the assembly was ad- 

 dressed by B. M. T. Hunter, who deplored the 

 political condition of the State and the dangers 

 of negro suffrage, but alluded with hope and 

 confidence to the future. 



On the 17th of April, 1861, the date at which 

 Virginia adopted the ordinance of secession, 

 the debt of the State amounted to $24,977,298. 

 38. Deducting from this sum the amount to 

 be extinguished by the sale of the State's inter- 

 est in certain railroads, and $2,000.000 of the 

 sinking fund invested in the State bonds, and 



the indebtedness of the Commonwealth at 

 present unprovided for is $21,691,579.84. The 

 last Legislature provided for the payment of 

 interest on this debt at the rate of four per 

 cent, per annum, so that the annual interest 

 will amount to $867,663.10. This, with the 

 sum necessary for the operation of the govern- 

 ment according to the estimate of the auditor, 

 will make the annual liabilities $1,367,663.16, 

 while the same officer estimates the annual rev- 

 enue at $2,000,000, giving a liberal surplus to 

 be applied to sinking the principal of the State 

 debt. After the reduction of the debt of 1861 

 by the means proposed, the State will still 

 hold property in other railroads and canals 

 to the amount of upward of $16,667,580. 



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WALDECK, a principality belonging to the 

 North-German Confederation. Prince, Georg, 

 born January 14, 1831 ; succeeded his father, 

 May 15, 1845. Area, 466 square miles. Popu- 

 lation, in 1864, 59,143. Contingent to the 

 army of the Old German Confederation, 866 

 men. The revenue, in the budget for 1867, 

 is estimated at 523,612, and the expenditures 

 at 521.201 thalers. Public debt, in 1861, 

 1,500,000. The Diet of Waldeck, on October 

 22, 1867, approved a treaty concluded on July 

 17th, by the Prince with Prussia, in virtue of 

 which the administration of the principality 

 was, on January 1st, 1868, to be transferred to 

 Prussia. 



WALWORTII, REUBEN- HYDE, LL. D., born 

 at Bozrah, Ct., October 26, 1789; died at Sara- 

 toga, November 28, 1867. Soon after his birth 

 his parents removed to Rensselaer County, 

 N. Y., and engaged in farming, and he spent, 

 his summers in assisting his father in the labors 

 of the field, and devoted the winters to acquir- 

 ing a common school education. At the age 

 of seventeen he commenced the study ( of law, 

 and after three years was admitted to 'the bar 

 in the village of Plattsburg. Here he pursued 

 his profession with success until he was elevated 

 to the bench. In 1811 he was appointed a 

 master in chancery, and one of the county 

 judges. lie was an officer of volunteers in the 

 War of 1812, and at the siege of Plattsburg in 

 1814 was acting adjutant-general of the United 

 States forces, and participated in the battles of 

 Beekmanstown and Pike's Cantonment. He 

 was a member of the Seventeenth Congress 

 from 1821 to 1823, but declined a reelection, and 

 was appointed a circuit judge in the latter year. 

 He was appointed chancellor, the highest judi- 

 cial office in -the State, in 1828, and held the 

 office during twenty years, until the Court of 

 Chancery was abolished by the constitution, 

 framed by the Convention of 1846. His opin- 

 ions as chancellor were published in 14 vol- 

 umes, while his other opinions, delivered in the 

 Court for the Correction of Errors, of which 



he was a member ex-officio, are contained in 

 Wendell's Reports, -26 volumes; Hill's, 7 vol- 

 umes, and Denio's, 5 volumes.. After his retire- 

 ment from the chancellorship, Mr. Walworth 

 occupied himself with the investigation of such 

 legal questions as were referred to him, and ns 

 an advising attorney. He no longer mingled 

 in politics, being always, however, an extreme 

 conservative, and in these latter years opposed 

 to coercion as a means of preserving the Union. 

 His legal publications are voluminous and im- 

 portant, and his connection with the bar as ad- 

 vising counsel, after his retirement from the 

 bench, was conspicuous and influential. Mr. 

 Walworth was a conscientious and active 

 Christian, being for more than thir'y years in 

 energetic and active connection with several 

 religious and benevolent associations, lie was 

 for years president of the State Temperance 

 Society, and of the American Tract and Bible 

 Societies, as well as a member of the Board of 

 Commissioners for Foreign Missions. His per- 

 sonal character was one of great integrity and 

 nobleness of disposition. Beloved in private 

 life, and publicly honored, he died after many 

 years of usefulness, and will be long remem- 

 bered as one of New York's worthiest sons. 



WARD, General AAEOX, a prominent lawyer, 

 politician, member of Congress, and military 

 man of Westchestcr County, N. Y.; born at 

 Sing Sing, Westchester County, N. Y., about 

 1780; died at Georgetown, D. C., February 27, 

 1867. He was educated at Mount Pleasant 

 Academy, and studied law at Sing Sing, where 

 he was admitted to the Westchester County 

 bar. The events Avhich culminated in the War 

 of 1812 turned his attention to military studies, 

 and lie joined the regular army, and in 1813 

 was promoted to a captaincy. After the close 

 of the war, he resigned his position in the 

 army, but took great interest in the militia, and 

 finally became major-general of the New York 

 State militia. Subsequently to the war he was 

 for several years district-attorney of West- 

 Chester County. In 1825 he was elected to 



