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gislature. In 1864 lie received from Governor 

 Seymour the appointment of Commissioner of 

 the Board of Metropolitan Police, and Treasurer 

 of that Board, until 1866. 



June 3. SILLIMAN, GOLD SELLECK, an emi- 

 nent lawyer and citizen of Brooklyn, L. I., died 

 in that city, aged 91 years. He was a son of 

 Gold Selleck Silliman, and an elder brother of 

 Professor Benjamin Silliman, and was born in 

 Fairfield, Conn., October 26, 1777, graduated 

 with high honors at Yale College in the class of 

 1766 ; studied law, and entered upon the prac- 

 tice of his profession in Newport, E. I. In 

 1815 he removed to New York City, and en- 

 tered into commercial business. On retiring 

 from this, at an advanced age, he was appointed 

 postmaster of Brooklyn, which office he re- 

 tained several years. 



June 6. BULLITT, ALEXANDER 0., a Ken- 

 tuckian journalist, died at Louisville, Ky., aged 

 60 years. He was a native of Louisville, but 

 removed to New Orleans about 1833, and soon 

 after became editor of the New Orleans Bee, 

 which under his management became an able 

 and influential organ of the Whig party. In 

 1844 he assumed the proprietorship of the 

 Delta. In 1848, in the struggle for the elec- 

 tion of General Taylor, he took a leading po- 

 sition in the field of politics, and contributed 

 with his pen to the success of General Taylor. 

 He went to "Washington with the incoming 

 administration and took the editorial charge of 

 the Republic, the organ of the Whig policy. 

 On the death of General Taylor, Mr. Bullitt re- 

 tired from the active duties of the press, and 

 spent four years in European travel. From 

 that period his contributions to the press were 

 few. 



June 8. GUSHING, General STEPHEN B., for- 

 merly Attorney-General of the State of New 

 York, died in New York, aged 55 years. He 

 was educated for the law, and practised his 

 profession in Ithaca, Tompkins County, N. Y., 

 which county he represented in the State As- 

 sembly in 1852. In 1855 he was elected At- 

 torney-General by the American party, and af- 

 ter the completion of his term resumed the 

 practice of law in New York. He was an able 

 jurist, and gifted with fine oratorical powers. 



June 9. MARSH, MARVIN M., M. D., a dis- 

 tinguished teacher and philanthropist, died at 

 Carson, Ohio, aged 56 years. He was born in 

 Pompey, N. Y., graduated at Hamilton Col- 

 lege, Clinton, in 1836, with honor, and imme- 

 diately commenced teaching in the Academy at 

 Manlius, and afterward at Eaton, N. Y. Turn- 

 ing his attention to the study of medicine, he 

 graduated honorably at the Albany Medical 

 College in 1841, and entered upon his profes- 

 sion with so much zeal and devotion that he 

 was prostrated by a dangerous attack of sick- 

 ness in 1843, from the effects of which his con- 

 stitution never fully rallied. During the late 

 war he accepted from the U. S. Sanitary Com- 

 mission the position of chief agent and general 

 inspector in the department of the South. Into 



this work he threw all his energies, and for 

 more than two years, though broken in health, 

 labored with unflagging zeal. At the close of 

 the war, he was directed by the Commission to 

 take charge of the newly-organized " Lincoln 

 Home," in New York City, a position for which 

 he was eminently qualified. In the spring of 

 1867, Dr. Marsh was appointed professor in the 

 newly-organized Eutgers Female College of 

 New York, but declined the position. His death 

 was indirectly the result of being thrown from 

 his carriage, which, in his enfeebled condition, 

 gave a shock to his system from which he could 

 not rally. 



June 10. CASE, Eev. JOEL TITUS, a Presby- 

 terian clergyman, and editor ; died at Victoria, 

 Texas, aged 65 years. He was born in Ohio. 

 After leaving college, he was an editor in Mo- 

 bile, Ala., and .subsequently in Galveston, 

 Texas. In 1841 he accompanied the famous 

 Santa F6 Expedition as geological journalist ; 

 but, through the treachery of the officers in 

 command of his company, he was captured by 

 the Mexicans and carried to Mexico, where he 

 was imprisoned three months in chains. He 

 effected his escape, and, returning to Mobile, 

 resumed his editorial labors. In 1848 he re- 

 turned to his native State, and, having pursued 

 a course of theological study, received ordina- 

 tion in the Presbyterian Church (O. S.). He 

 began his ministry in Texas, but, his health 

 failing, he engaged in teaching, and was so oc- 

 cupied until his death. 



June 11. THOMAS, Eev. BENJAMIN O., a 

 Baptist clergyman, and missionary to Burmah, 

 died in New York City. He was a native of 

 New Hampshire, and was by trade a carpen- 

 ter, but upon his conversion decided to study 

 for the ministry, and entered the academy at 

 Worcester, Mass., graduated at Brown Uni- 

 versity, in 1847, and completed his theologi- 

 cal course at Newton. Having been desig- 

 nated for the Karen mission at Tavoy, he was 

 ordained in October, 1850, and sailed, with 

 his wife, for Calcutta. His labors were con- 

 stant, and extended over a period of eighteen 

 years. In October, 1866, the missionary con- 

 vention, at Eangoon, assigned him a new field 

 of labor, the charge of the churches at Bas- 

 sein ; but, after a year of severe toil, his health 

 demanded his immediate return to the Uni- 

 ted States, and he died the week of his arrival 

 in New York. 



June 12. GARNER, PETER M., a pioneer in 

 the antislavery movement, died in Colum- 

 bus, Ohio, aged 58 years. In 1845, with two 

 other citizens, he was seized by Virginians and 

 taken to Eichmond, and held in close con- 

 finement six months, on a charge of assisting 

 slaves to escape from their bondage, at the end 

 of which time he was released on his own re- 

 cognizance. 



June 15. BRADLEY, WARREN IVES, better 

 known as " Glance Gaylord," a gifted young 

 author, died at Bristol, Conn., aged 21 years. 

 His education was conducted by his uncle, 



