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the provisions of the laws as they now are, 

 regulating the partition of real estate, and the 

 allowing of aliens to hold real estate. The 

 law which, in 1819, put a final stop to the local 

 slave-trade, originated with him. 



April 4. SMYTHE. Prof. WILLIAM E., an 

 accomplished scholar and teacher, Professor at 

 Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., died sud- 

 denly in Brunswick. 



April 5. HOWELL, Eev. ROBEBT BOTLE 0., 

 D. D., an eminent Baptist clergyman and au- 

 thor, died at Nashville, Tenn., aged 67 years. 



April 5. MAGEE, JOHN, a wealthy and 

 prominent citizen of Watkins, N. Y., died there, 

 aged 74 years. He was a native of New York, 

 and was a Representative from that State in Con- 

 gress from 1827 to 1831, as a Jacksonian Dem- 

 ocrat. He was one of the chief promoters 

 of the Conhocton Valley Railroad, and a large 

 owner of coal-mines in Pennsylvania. His 

 fortune was estimated at $40,000,000. 



April 5. STACY, Rev. NATHANIEL, an emi- 

 nent and veteran Universalist minister, died in 

 Columbus, Pa., aged 90 years. He was born 

 in Massachusetts in 1778, studied theology with 

 Rev. Hosea Ballou, at Dana, Mass., and com- 

 menced preaching in 1802. In 1805 he re- 

 moved to New York State, and, after laboring 

 there some years, preached in Pennsylvania, 

 Michigan, and other parts of the country, much 

 of the time being a pioneer in his denomina- 

 tion. 



April 8. BATOHELDEE, JOHN PUTNAM, M. 

 D., an eminent physician of New York City, 

 President of the New York Academy of Medi- 

 cine ; died inNew York. He was born in Mil- 

 ton, N. H., August 6, 1784, and was a great- 

 nephew of General Israel Putnam. After a 

 very thorough academical education, he com- 

 menced 'the study of medicine, and in 1807 was 

 licensed to practise. He did not graduate and 

 receive the degree of M. D., however, until 

 1815, when, after attendance on the lectures 

 of Harvard University Medical School, he re- 

 ceived his diploma. He commenced practice 

 in Charlestown, N. H., removed thence to 

 Pittsfield, Mass. ; afterward to Utica, N. Y., 

 and in 1843 to New York City. He was ap- 

 pointed Professor of Anatomy in Castleton 

 College, Vt., in 1817, and soon after Pro- 

 fessor of Surgical Anatomy in the Berkshire 

 Medical Institution at Pittsfield. He was a 

 successful surgeon, and performed many opera- 

 tions of great extent, and requiring extraordi- 

 nary skill and daring. For many years he 

 made the treatment of diseases of the eye a 

 specialty. He published four small medical 

 treatises, besides numerous essays, etc., in med- 

 ical periodicals. He was President of the 

 Academy of Medicine and of the New York 

 Medical Association in 1858. 



April 8. LTJNDT, Rev. FEANCIS JAMES, D. 

 C. L., an Episcopal clergyman, died suddenly 

 while engaged in his ministerial duties at St. 

 Paul's Church, Newburg. He was a native 

 of England, and graduated at Oxford, where he 



received the degree of D. C. L. In 1836 he 

 emigrated to Canada, and, having held several 

 distinguished appointments in that country, 

 went to New York in 1865 for the purpose 

 of engaging in literary pursuits. Subsequently 

 he took charge of Christ Church in Elizabeth, 

 N. J., and had been but a short time in charge 

 of the church at Newburg. 



April 8. PEENTISS, Commodore GEOEGE 

 ALDEIOH, U. S. Navy, died near Charleston, 

 S. 0., aged nearly 60 years. He was a native 

 of New Hampshire (second son of John Pren- 

 tiss, of Keene, formerly editor of the New 

 Hampshire Sentinel, now the oldest living edi- 

 tor in the United States), and entered the ser- 

 vice as midshipman, March 1, 1825, from that 

 State, and was first on duty at the Portsmouth 

 Navy Yard. In 1827 he served in the sloop-of- 

 war Lexington. After a three years' cruise he 

 returned to the United States, and enjoyed a 

 brief leave of absence, meanwhile being made 

 a passed midshipman, June 4, 1831. The same 

 year he was ordered to the sloop-of-war Bos- 

 ton, in the Mediterranean. He was promoted 

 to a lieutenancy, February 9, 1837; was at- 

 tached to the receiving-ship Ohio, at Boston, 

 in 1843 ; was made commander September 14, 

 1845, and was made commodore on the retired 

 list July 16, 1860. 



April 9. BAETLETT, GEOEGE, an eminent 

 scholar and scientific journalist of New York, 

 died in Providence, R. I. He was a gentleman 

 of rare accomplishments and his scientific ar- 

 ticles were copied in the first scientific journals 

 of Europe. In the variety of his learning he 

 had few equals. 



April 11. DOESHEIMEE, PHILIP, formerly 

 State Treasurer of New York, died in Buffalo, 

 N. Y., aged 71 years. He had been a resident of 

 Buffalo for nearly forty years, and had acquired 

 a wide reputation as the proprietor of one of 

 the leading hotels in that city. In politics -he 

 was a Democrat, until the organization of the 

 Republican party, with which he at once identi- 

 fied himself, and became an active and influen- 

 tial member of that party. For many years 

 he held the office of postmaster, and latterly 

 that of collector of internal revenue for his 

 district. 



April 12. COOK, JAMES M., formerly State 

 Comptroller for New York, died in Sarato- 

 ga, aged 60 years. He had for many years 

 borne an active and honorable part in the po- 

 litical history of the State. After filling sev- 

 eral important positions, he was elected to the 

 State Senate in 1848 ; was reflected in 1850, 

 and subsequently was chosen Comptroller, in 

 which responsible position he exhibited the 

 same capacity that had elsewhere won for him 

 the highest respect and commendation. Upon 

 the disorganization of the Whig party, with 

 which he had always been identified, he united 

 with the Republican party, in whose conven- 

 tions and public movements he bore a con- 

 spicuous part. In 1864 he was again in the 

 Senate. 



