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considered one of the best baritone singers in 

 this country. 



Aug. 3. BREWSTER, CHARLES W., editor 

 and publisher, died in Portsmouth, N. H., aged 

 67 years. Ho commenced life as an appren- 

 tice in the office of the Portsmouth Journal, 

 to which paper he devoted his attention for 

 more than half a century, thirty-five years of 

 which he was its proprietor. He served 

 several terms in the State Legislature, and 

 was a member of the last Constitutional Con- 

 vention. Mr. Brewster was the author of an 

 interesting volume entitled "Fifty Years in a 

 Printing-Office." 



Aug. 3. WILSON, JOHN, an eminent Ameri- 

 can printer, died in Cambridge, Mass., aged 66 

 years. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, 

 where he learned his trade. He was the 

 author of a very useful work on punctuation, 

 and published several treatises on Unitarian- 

 ism. His taste and the execution of his work 

 were admirable, and he ranked as one of the 

 very best printers in the U. S. He was also a 

 remarkably accurate and critical proof-reader, 

 and authors of important historical, classical, or 

 scientific works often stipulated that their books 

 should be set up and printed by him, that they 

 might have the advantage of his critical ex- 

 amination. The degree of A. B. was conferred 

 upon him by Harvard College. 



Aug. 4. WATT-NE-PE-WINK-A (Pretty Bird), 

 an Indian princess, daughter of the Win- 

 nebago chief, Dandy, died at Tunnel City, 

 Wis., from injuries received by being run over 

 by the cars at La Crosse. Seeing one of her 

 children in imminent danger of being crushed 

 by a locomotive, she sprang, with a mother's 

 instinct, and saved it by the sacrifice of her 

 own life. 



Aug.- 5. GELSTON, Captain ROLAND, died in 

 San Francisco, Cal., aged 67 years. He com- 

 manded the first square-rigged craft that ever 

 ascended the Sacramento River, and upon ar- 

 riving at Sacramento, in April, 1849, he 

 gathered together what books and tracts he 

 had on shipboard, and, collecting the few 

 children he saw, held the first Sunday-school 

 in that region. Soon afterward he established 

 a commercial house, and in the course of a 

 few years acquired a large fortune, with which 

 he returned to New York. Meeting with re- 

 verses, he returned to California in 1860, but 

 soon after lost his health, which he never 

 fully regained. 



Aug. 5. KING-, YELVERTON P., formerly 

 minister to New Grenada, died in Greene 

 County, Ga. He was born in that county, 

 in 1794, and, after receiving a law course, 

 was admitted to the Ocmulgee bar. He was 

 State Superintendent of the public lands in 

 1830, during the controversy between the 

 State and Federal Governments, as to the 

 right of jurisdiction over the Cherokees then 

 occupying those lands ; was frequently a mem- 

 ber of the Legislature, was one of the electors 

 who cast the vote of Georgia for Taylor and 



Fillmore in 1848, and was, in 1850, appointed 

 by President Fillmore minister to New Grena- 

 da, where he represented the United States ac- 

 ceptably for two years, resigning at the end of 

 that time on account of his ill -health. His 

 last public service was as a member of the 

 Georgia Constitutional Convention in 1865. 



Aug. 11. MENKEN, ADAH ISAACS, a noted 

 actress, died in Paris, aged 36 years. She 

 was a native of New Orleans ; her father, Ri- 

 cardo Fuertos, being a Spanish Jew, and her 

 mother, a native of Bordeaux. Her maiden 

 name was Dolores Adios Fuertos. About the 

 year 1856 she married Mr. John Isaacs Men- 

 ken. Subsequently, she married Mr. Robert 

 H. Newell, of the New York Sunday Mercury, 

 which alliance, like several others, was speedily 

 followed by a separation. In 1860 she was 

 introduced to the New York stage, and during 

 the early part of the late civil war filled sever- 

 al engagements in the Southern States. Sub- 

 sequently she went to London, and accepted 

 an engagement at Astley's. She also played 

 in Paris, to crowded houses. She was the au- 

 ther of a volume of poems entitled " Infelicia." 



Aug. 11. WADE, General MELANCTHON, a 

 brigadier-general of volunteers in the late war, 

 died at Avondale, Mo., aged 66 years. He was 

 of Revolutionary stock, his father having been 

 imprisoned in the Jersey Prison-ship and the 

 old Sugar-house in New York. He had taken 

 a deep interest in military affairs from early 

 youth, and had risen to a brigadier-generalship 

 in the Ohio militia about 1840, and continued 

 in command till 1849. He offered his services 

 to the Government in 1861, was commissioned 

 as brigadier-general of volunteers by President 

 Lincoln, and was for some time in command of 

 Camp Dennison. He was also a prominent 

 member of the Pioneer Association. 



Aug. 13. GLOINE, Count DE LA, a colonel 

 of the National Guard, under the first Napo- 

 leon, died in New York, aged 84 years. 'He 

 was a descendant of one of the noblest 

 families of France, but was driven from his 

 native country during the first French Revolu- 

 tion, and -resided for a long time in Austria. 

 Returning to France early in the- consulship 

 of the Emperor Napoleon, he entered the Na- 

 tional Guard, and attained the rank of colonel, 

 and continued in the service until the over- 

 throw of the empire. Having become in- 

 volved in some difficulties, which resulted in a 

 duel, he was -forced to leave France, and, after 

 a short residence in England, migrated to 

 America, and subsequently lived in New York, 

 upon an annuity which was left him from the 

 estates of his mother. 



Aug. 16. CARHART, JEREMIAH, of the firm 

 of Carhart & Needham, New York. Born in 

 Dutchess County, N. Y., in September, 1813, 

 his first years were spent upon a farm. A 

 mechanic, however, by nature, he, at the age 

 of fifteen years, left the farm, and learned 

 cabinet-making, becoming a skilful workman, 

 and especially an adept in the use of the lathe. 



